History Fridge / FiveNightsAtFreddys2

** This shows that most, if not all, of the bots are good. When you play the death mini games, you are basically seeing what the animatronics see and think. Notice how the only time a security guard or adult shows up, at least one child dies. This means that that the animatronics cannot distinguish you from the killer and do not try to kill you because they're evil, but kill you to protect the children.

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'''Main Series:'''\\
''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 1]]'' | '''''2''''' | ''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 3]]'' | ''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 4]]'' | ''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]]'' | ''[[Fridge/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator Pizzeria Simulator]]'' | ''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Help Wanted]]'' | ''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach Security Breach]]''\\
'''Spinoffs:'''\\
''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld FNaF World]]'' | ''Fridge/UltimateCustomNight''\\
'''Books:'''\\
''[[Fridge/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes The Silver Eyes]]''-]]]

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* Why doesn't the [[https://pm1.narvii.com/6623/38d264eb2722def0309b0bdf05b2573de6f31c54_hq.jpg naked endoskeleton]] you sometimes see wandering around try to attack you? Remember, an endoskeleton being outside of its costume in the main part of the restaurant is against the rules -- it's anyone's guess why it's walking around after hours, but that rule probably overrides any reason it might have to try and hurt you. For obvious reasons, it's also probably not possessed by anything.

* Yet another clue to the game's true nature! Notice how in the first game, Phone Guy mentions the Bite of '87 on the very first night but doesn't do the same in the sequel. In fact, he never brings it up at all! It's almost as if the event hadn't happened yet...
* The managements probably knew all the crap the night guards have to gone through, so in the new (or technically the original) Freddy Fazbear they gave the new security room a pair of powered blast doors.

* Why do Foxy (and Mangle if they enter the office) NOT fall for the Freddy mask? Well, foxes are always thought of as smart and cunning — besides, Foxy already proved his wits in the first game when he was the only one who tried to catch you off guard by approaching quickly enough that only the fastest reflexes would save you, and didn't just leave when he couldn't get in but actually banged on the door, signalling "I know you are in there, open up!"

** In a similar vein, in the characters page, it's noted that Bonnie's head shape in the first game resembles a recolored Freddy head and attributes it to budget cuts. But as it says above, the old Bonnie was refurbished in favor of Toy Bonnie...and old Bonnie's head had been completely scrapped, so they probably needed a quick, cheap fix for it.

* Given that the enormous size of the animatronics has already been established in the previous game, making them try and pull an AirVentPassageway would actually cause them to collapse awkwardly. Then again, it might be the case that the management fortified the passageways specifically for this purpose...

** This shows that most, if not all, the bots are good. When you play the death mini games, you are basically seeing what the animatronics see and think. Notice how the only time a security guard or adult shows up at least one child dies. This means that that the animatronics cannot distinguish you from the killer and do not try to kill you because they're evil, but kill you to protect the children.

*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}. Also, ''Sister Location'' implied that absolutely none of their employees were particularly "normal"...

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*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}. Also, ''Sister Location'' implied that absolutely none of their employees were particularly "normal"...

* The game goes out of its way from the very beginning to make you think its a sequel. Language and evidence show that, using phrases like "Vintage pizzeria" and "new...". When you find out it's a prequel, you go over in your head how it could be possible. As you think, things start to make sense, but so many questions still arise, things that could only make sense if they happened in the first game. The game, when you think about, is a brilliantly coordinated mindscrew, and you cannot help but love it.

* Why do Foxy (and Mangle if they enter the office) NOT fall for the Freddy mask? Well, foxes are always thought of as smart and cunning -- besides, Foxy already proved his wits in the first game when he was the only one who tried to catch you off guard by approaching quickly enough that only the fastest reflexes would save you, and didn't just leave when he couldn't get in but actually banged on the door, signalling "I know you are in there, open up!"
** Alternatively, it's because most of the other animatronics take the time to look around the room before entering and attacking you, so they get the opportunity to see the Freddy mask and think "OK, he's one of us, so he's cool." Foxy doesn't do this--he just charges right for the room from too far down the hallway to tell who or what you are.
* In the Atari-esque death mini-games you control Freddy, as he wanders the pizzeria. This Troper thinks they also show what the animatronics see. Fazbear Entertainment has always been stingy, even going so low as to pay their workers minimum wage, so why would they pay thousands of dollars for the best facial recognition for the animatronics? In the mini games, the purple man and the security guard (the purple guy with the badge) look almost exactly alike. What if that's because the cheap facial recognition can't differentiate between two adult males of similar skin color?

** In a similar vein, in the characters page it's noted that Bonnie's head shape in the first game resembles a recolored Freddy head and attributes it to budget cuts. But as it says above, the old Bonnie was refurbished in favor of Toy Bonnie...and old Bonnie's head had been completely scrapped, so they probably needed a quick, cheap fix for it.

* Foxy's new kill screen involves lunging at the player face first. It's NightmareFuel enough, but then you remember that Foxy is the primary suspect for the Bite of '87, and then notice that his mouth is wide open -- almost as if he wants to bite you.

*** If the Mangle is able to come after you during the night hours, what's to say that it isn't functional during the day shift, too? Also, look at how the Mangle attacks you: mouth wide open. Also note that the Mangle was hated by the children and was constantly torn apart and put back together- giving a reason to attack someone. Ladies and Gentlemen, our bite of '87.

*** If the implication in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 3'' is accurate Springtrap and, by implication, Golden Freddy, are hybrid suits that can have the animatronic parts wound in to allow them to be worn by humans as suits.

* A bit of Fridge [[Tearjerker/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Sadness]] to go with the horror, but [[Music/TheLivingTombstone The Living Tombstone's]] [=FNAF2=] song [[http://youtu.be/gk-aCL6eyGc It's Been So Long]] seems to be told from the point of view of one of the mothers of the murdered children. It was mentioned on the [[NightmareFuel/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Nightmare Fuel]] page that the Death minigames imply that there have been many more murders than just the five who were turned into the original Fazbear gang (plus Golden Freddy), so just how many sets of parents are out there wondering what became of their children, not knowing they were slain at the establishment that they loved so much. Given the company's history of covering things up to save face "for the children", it is pretty likely that the parents were never given a straight answer about these murders.

*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}. Also, Sister Location implied that absolutely none of their employees were particularly "normal"...

** At first, this seems pretty flimsy, almost on the level of FridgeLogic. [[ImprovisedWeapon Random objects can be used to do plenty of damage.]] But the objects Balloon Boy carries -- a bunch of balloons and a (presumably plastic and child-safe) sign -- would be very, very difficult to cause severe injury to an adult human being with.
** When BB laughs, he doesn't sound evil-he sounds like he's just playing a game.

* The unrealistic sliding and flying motions of the killscreens have been noted by more than a few fans. The minigame's information that the Marionette stuffed the suits may explain this, however -- it's very hard to make a puppet walk realistically. Until the puppeteer masters the skill, the puppets tend to fly and glide when they move.

*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}. Also, Help Wanted implied that absolutely none of their employees were particularly "normal"...

*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}. Als, Help Wanted implied that absolutely none of their employees were particularly "normal"...

*** By "evil by association" I mean the animatronics view the employees as criminals since they're, in essence, working for the evil company and to them are {{Mooks}}.

** Only the ones running the company are corrupt assholes. The normal employees are normal guys from what we know.

** Ultimate Custom Night revealed that she was made to keep [[{{Fanservice}} adults/parents busy and distracted]]. However, the FridgeHorror to ''this'' fact kicks in once you realize that '''that's exactly what someone like Purple Guy would want to happen'''.

** Ultimate Custom Night revealed that she was made to keep [[{{Fanservice}} adults busy and distracted]]. However, the FridgeHorror to ''this'' fact kicks in once you realize that '''that's exactly what someone like Purple Guy would want to happen'''.

* Why does Mangle have two genders? The answer is quite simple: Two heads, two genders. The female voice belongs to the one with the Foxy head, as it appears to be the "dominant" voice, and the one with the Foxy head appears to be the dominant one appears to be feminine. The male one belongs to the "maskless" side, as it is the less dominant one.

* The managements probably knew all the crap the night guards have to gone through, so in the new (or technically the original) Freddy Fazebear they gave the new security room a pair of powered blast doors.
* The game goes out of its way from the very beginning to make you think its a sequel. Language and evidence show that, using phrases like "Vintage pizzeria" and "new...". When you find out it's a prequel, you go over in your head how it could be possible. As you think, things start to make sense, but so many questions still arise, things that could only make sense if they happened in the first game. The game, when you think about, is a brilliantly coordinated mindscrew, and you cannot help but love it.
* Why do Foxy (and Mangle) NOT fall for the Freddy mask? Well, foxes are always thought of as smart and cunning -- besides, Foxy already proved his wits in the first game when he was the only one who tried to catch you off guard by approaching quickly enough that only the fastest reflexes would save you, and didn't just leave when he couldn't get in but actually banged on the door, signalling "I know you are in there, open up!"

* Who's to say the person we play as ''isn't'' a criminal, and everyone else who works with Fazbear Entertainment? They are, after all, a CorruptCorporateExecutive. So in the eyes of the animatronics with facial recognition software, every employee would be evil by association.

* A bit of Fridge [[Tearjerker/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Sadness]] to go with the horror, but [[Music/TheLivingTombstone The Living Tombstone's]] FN@F2 song [[http://youtu.be/gk-aCL6eyGc It's Been So Long]] seems to be told from the point of view of one of the mothers of the murdered children. It was mentioned on the [[NightmareFuel/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Nightmare Fuel]] page that the Death minigames imply that there have been many more murders than just the five who were turned into the original Fazbear gang (plus Golden Freddy), so just how many sets of parents are out there wondering what became of their children, not knowing they were slain at the establishment that they loved so much. Given the company's history of covering things up to save face "for the children", it is pretty likely that the parents were never given a straight answer about these murders.