Dark Tooth (Head-On)

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Dark Tooth
Information
Driver(s)	Marcus & Needles Kane
Vehicle Type	Giant Ice Cream Truck
Radar Name	DarkTooth
Blip Color	White
License Plate	None
Icon
File Name	DARK1
Menu Statistics ( * )
Handling
Armor
Special Weapon
Speed

Dark Tooth is a unlockable vehicle from Twisted Metal: Head-On. It appears as the first phase of the final battle, before fighting Tower Tooth. It is is driven by Marcus and Needles Kane.

Design

It is a massive six-wheeled black ice cream truck with dark purple polka dots. It has a set of large opening and closing mechanical jaws on the front of the truck, which are used in Dark Tooth's special. Its machine guns also shoot the same Napalm Cone projectiles that Sweet Tooth's special attack uses.

Bio

Terrible things can happen when a man comes to grips with his dark side. Marcus has spent his life running from his nightmares. Needles has devoted his life to making his nightmares come true. When Marcus surrenders to Needles the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, Marcus' rational mind and Needles' fevered insanity descend into a vortex of sinister chaos. The only possible outcome is the total annihilation of anything that stands in their path.

General Stats

Stat	Value
Armor	150
Turbo Length	20 secs (PSP) 10 secs (PS2)
Energy Recharge Rate	60 secs (PSP) 80 secs (PS2)
Special Recharge Rate	30 secs

Special Weapon

Special	Damage (Normal)	Damage (Upgraded)	Description
Teeth	20 pts	30 pts	Using the jaws attached to it, Dark Tooth grabs, chews, and throws away opponents, similar to Mr. Slam's special. Unlike Mr. Slam's special however, it won't activate automatically upon colliding with an enemy.

How to Unlock

Dark Tooth can be unlocked by beating Story Mode once with any character on any difficulty, but is not playable online. When a player selects Dark Tooth as an opponent, it will still be the same size as when they're playing it, so the only way to fight the larger Dark Tooth is in Story Mode.

Ending

Marcus Kane was running away from something in a field, until he comes across Tower Tooth. He also discovered that Needles Kane was with him. After a brief talk if it was a dream or not, and whom Needles was and what was the vehicle they saw. Needles decides:

"Too many questions. I think the best thing is to climb inside and look around...."

We later see Marcus and Needles climb into Tower Tooth and start up the vehicle.

Trivia

• An early concept design of Dark Tooth showed that the vehicle was also considered to be depicted as a half-tracked vehicle. The half-track concept also had a hatch on the side, which, when opened, would unleash homing ice cream carts that pursue opponents. Another early concept design for Dark Tooth had six wheels, just like in the final design, which was originally to use continuous tracks but was given six wheels instead.

Gallery

• Concept Art
• Textures

Concept Art

Dark Tooth concept art by Donald Yatomi.

Sketch of Dark Tooth found in the Sweet Tour Mode.

Previous sketch of Dark Tooth from the Art of Twisted Metal booklet.

Early sketch of a different design for Dark Tooth.

Early sketch of another different design for Dark Tooth.

Textures

Dark Tooth PSP textures #1.

Dark Tooth PSP textures #2.

Dark Tooth PSP textures #3.

Dark Tooth wheel textures.

Dark Tooth PS2 textures #1.

Dark Tooth PS2 textures #2.

Dark Tooth PS2 textures #3.