Axel is a character from Twisted Metal: Small Brawl.
Appearance[]
He uses a wheelchair, and wears a helmet and goggles.
Bio[]
Axel enters Calypso's contest wanting one thing: to his display his skills as a master of two-wheeled RC combat!
Deleted Ending[]
Unveiled in a deleted ending, Axel is the kid in the wheelchair that Calypso kicks down the hill in the intro cutscene of TM:SB. His wish at the end was to walk again.
Quotes (Unused)[]
- "Pay up, Calypso! You said you could make me walk!"
- "Whoa..."
- "So, how do I make 'em go?"
Trivia[]
- Axel was supposed to be a character that was unlocked from the start with a proper bio and ending, but had to be changed to a secret character around two months before the game's release[1] due to Sony demanding the Small Brawl team to remove his ending as they considered it problematic, because of the line "You said you could make me walk!"[2]. In the ending, which was found in the samples section from the Argonaut CG Films website,[3] Axel is in a wheelchair and asks Calypso to make him legs. Calypso does build him a pair of robotic legs, but Calypso has a remote that is able to control them, making him walk into garden rakes, hurting him. Axel's driver can still be seen in the game's introduction cutscene being kicked down a road by Calypso, and with the other kids at the playground.
Gallery[]
Early concept art of Axel.
| Twisted Metal: Small Brawl Characters | |
|---|---|
| Host | Billy Calypso |
| Contestants | Agent Stone • Jimmy Ash • Hammerhead • Mime • Mr. Grimm • Slam • Officer Roberts • Piecemeal • Mortimer • Spectre • Sweet Tooth • Vinnie & Bruce • Trapper • Twister • Warthog • Axel |
| Others | Goulber the Frog |
| Scrapped | Grasshopper • Minion • Yellow Jacket |