All Time", remarking he "has become one of the most recognizable figures in the Playstation portion of the video game world", while GamesRadar listed him as one of the scariest clowns in videogames, stating he is "[p]erhaps the only other whiteface to rival Kefka in terms of fame, the rampaging maniac of Twisted Metal has become the franchise's principal icon", and PlayStation Official Magazine ranked him as the seventh best clown on PlayStation. He was listed second in the Cheat Code Central list of "Top 10 Psychopaths Of This Gaming Generation". IGN called him one of the most notorious anti-heroes in gaming, saying "there's no real good guy in the Twisted Metal series" but that "Sweet Tooth ... stands out as a figurehead amongst this crew". GameSpy placed him third in their 2001 list of top villains in games. He was included in GameSpot's "All Time Greatest Video Game Villain" contest and reached the "Sinister Sixteen" round before losing to Sarah Kerrigan. Sweet Tooth was elected the 25th coolest videogame character by Entertainment Weekly. UGO Networks ranked him as the second "Best Twisted Metal Characters and Their End Game Videos", adding "[i]f there was a psychopathic clown college, the Joker would be the dean and Sweet Tooth would be its top professor". In 2013, Complex included him among the 25 greatest video game mascots at the number 21, saying that "inhabiting our nightmares is certainly one way to become an effective mascot". Legal issues In 2005, Frosty Treats, Inc., filed a lawsuit against Sony contending that Sweet Tooth infringed on the company's trademarks for their "Safety Clown". The Safety Clown is a set of decals on their ice cream trucks and directs children to cross the street behind the van so that passing cars are more likely to see them. Frosty Treats' CEO, Carl Long, stated in testimony that "they don't look the same way, but if the Safety Clown had a brother who was nasty and mean, it would look somewhat like Sweet Tooth". In Frosty Treats, Inc. v. Sony Computer Entertainment America, Inc.'', the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled against the trademark claim because, even if Sweet Tooth was derivative, it was unlikely to cause confusion among consumers. References Fictional characters with dissociative identity disorder Fictional clowns Fictional drivers Fictional mass murderers Fictional serial killers Fighting game characters Male characters in video games Male