Sweet Tooth (Twisted Metal)

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Needles Kane—commonly known as Sweet Tooth—is a fictional character from the Twisted Metal video game series.^[1] Sweet Tooth is designed around the premise of a killer clown that drives a combat ice cream truck, and his face has been featured on the cover of every Twisted Metal game, making him the series' mascot.^[2][3] He is the only character besides Marcus Kane (who makes up his split personality) to drive more than one vehicle in any of the games, being the driver of "Dark Tooth", "Tower Tooth", and as of Twisted Metal: Lost, "Gold Tooth".

The character has gone through several redesigns differing from game to game, similar to fellow character Calypso, and his personality has grown progressively darker along the way. Despite the changes some factors remained uniform, notably the perpetual flame on his head introduced in the second game. Starting with Twisted Metal: Black, his design became a large, somewhat overweight bare chested clown with a mask featuring a maniacal smile. Twisted Metal: Head-On expanded on this idea, changing the mask to face paint and the smile to his own.^[4]