History Fridge / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

** Alternatively, Golden Freddy from [=FNaF1=] and Golden Freddy from [=FNaF2=] are ''different entities altogether.'' It would make sense as to why one is busted and the other is well kempt and yet not in use (and seemingly not having an endoskeleton.) One caused the Bite of '87 and wound up in the dishevelled appearance we see in [=FNaF2=], whereas the other one was in use during the time of [=FNaF3=]'s Phone Guy tapes when the springlocked suits were employed until the springlocked incident.

** Alternatively, Golden Freddy from [=FNaF1=] and Golden Freddy from [=FNaF2=] are ''different entities altogether.'' It would make sense as to why one is busted and the other is well kempt and yet not in use (and seemingly not having an endoskeleton.) One caused the Bite of '87 and wound up in the dishevelled appearance we see in FNaF2, whereas the other one was in use during the time of [=FNaF3=]'s Phone Guy tapes when the springlocked suits were employed until the springlocked incident.

** Alternatively, Golden Freddy from [=FNaF1=] and Golden Freddy from [=FNaF2=] are ''different entities altogether.'' It would make sense as to why one is busted and the other is well kempt and yet not in use (and seemingly not having an endoskeleton.) One caused the Bite of '87 and wound up in the dishevelled appearance we see in FNaF 2, whereas the other one was in use during the time of [=FNaF3=]'s Phone Guy tapes when the springlocked suits were employed until the springlocked incident.

** And, naturally, seeing how badly almost all prisoners will react to child murderers...

* In [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150728043120/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/f/fc/Fnaf4_jumpscare_freddyonbed.gif Nightmare Freddy's jumpscare]], watch the background closely. It almost looks as if Freddy is lifting you into the air before attacking you, right? Considering how [[spoiler: the kid's brother and his friends lifted the poor kid into the animatronic's mouth]], it's no wonder the kid would [[spoiler: have nightmares about Freddy doing the same thing]].

* It was pretty easy to guess that [[spoiler:Golden Freddy]] was the one who did the Bite from the very beginning. In addition to the above, this game had teasers that said "Was it me?" as in "Was I the one who caused the Bite?". It's also a reference to "IT'S ME". Now think about it. What animatronic do we most often associate with "IT'S ME", aside from The Puppet? [[spoiler:GOLDEN FREDDY.]]

** The change in gameplay could be interpreted as part of Plush Fredbear's attempts to help the child in a sort of tough love way. In the minigames he's always encouraging the child to move forward even when they both know that something bad is about to happen, because they both know that cowering in terror will only make things worse and prolong the fear. Gameplay wise this is the game most oriented with directly facing your fears. There's no cameras to see things from far away, you can't seal all the entrances for saftey, you can't wear a protective mask, and you can't create distractions. If you try to hide in your room or panic and spam the lights/close the doors you'll only speed up the attacks. The only way to be successful is to frequently and actively put your face right next to a door where an animatronic could be waiting to attack, stop and listen carefully for a good 3-4 seconds, then make a judgement call on how to respond all while being aware of the constantly building threats of Foxy and Freddy inside the room but while only addressing them when you have to. So the whole game is not just about a nightmare, but about controlling your fear and not panicking during the whole thing.

* The design of the room itself is brilliance on Scott's part to ramp up the fear factor. Think about it. Your starting location is in the middle of the room facing the closet, and each possible point of attack--the bed, the closet, and the hallways--has to be moved to be interacted with. Moving to intercept one animatronic ''exposes your back to the other three,'' whether you realize it or not. If you didn't feel vulnerable enough in past ''Five Nights'' games, you probably do now. This becomes even worse by Night 5 because [[spoiler:Nightmare Fredbear can use ''any'' of those approaches to attack you, and he's ''much'' faster than the other Nightmare animatronics.]]
* At first, it's odd that Bonnie is blue instead of purple, and Chica is holding her cupcake everywhere for no reason. However, take this into consideration: This takes place in 1987, as in, the year the second game was in. So the nightmares are based on their toy counterparts! As for why Foxy is perfectly normal, The kid has a plushie of the old Foxy, and his brother wears a Foxy mask, so he associates him more with the original Foxy than with Mangle.
** Or old is mixing with the new. Chica's bib ''does'' say, "Let's Eat!!!" instead of "Let's Party!" after all. So it's likely that [[spoiler:The Child remembers the original Bonnie's design, but the existence of Toy Bonnie and the fact that he got his frontal lobe bitten off means that some details are off. Same with Toy Chica and permanently holding her cupcake.]]

* Foxy, Freddy, Chica and Bonnie all have five fingers on each hand. Which is strange of course until you get the post-Night 5 minigame. [[spoiler:The child's big brother and his friends were each wearing a mask representing the animatronics, and each of them lifted the child up into Fredbear's mouth.]] Of course with the Nightmare Animatronics being [[spoiler:literally Nightmares]], its easy to see Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica and Bonnie as [[spoiler:representations of the big brother and his friends]]. May double as FridgeHorror, as the child will always remember [[spoiler:his big brother as a monster who (seemingly) tried to kill him.]]
** Of course the above brilliance becomes even more brilliant when you pay close attention to where Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica and Bonnie attack you from and the positions of the [[spoiler:the big brother and his friends were in when they lifted the child into Fredbear's mouth.]]

* After the Bite of '87, [[spoiler: Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!]]
* The Puppet has always been the odd man out among the cast.. and now we might know why. [[spoiler: The Bite Victim's spirit didn't go into Golden Freddy, as Golden Freddy was ''already'' haunted. The Bite Victim could have gone into ''the Puppet''. Of ''course'', he fits quite well in the Puppet's role. What better way to reject his own traumatic birthday party than to spend his afterlife giving gifts to other kids instead of receiving them himself?]]
** [[spoiler: The implication we got of the Puppet's origins we saw in FNAF2 doesn't match up at all with what's happening in 4. It's more obvious that the Bite Victim IS Golden Freddy, with the Puppet having preceded them all back at Fredbear's]]

** This could be one of the reasons why the brother was so apologetic on Night 6-he was seriously injured in the ensuing bloodbath. And he could have suffered from the realization that by being an absolute douchebag to his little brother, his actions lead to not only [[spoiler:the near-death]] of his sibling, but the severe wounds or even ''deaths'' of his friends, his parents' eternal grief and anger at him and the closing of the pizzeria. Basically, he would be the one responsible for ruining so many lives, and it would haunt him ''forever.''

* Throughout the nights, if you look closely, [[spoiler:sometimes a medical IV bag, a vase of flowers, or a pill bottle may appear on the nightstand next to the bed.]] These are early hints to [[spoiler:the medical condition of the Child, but it also makes you wonder just how long it has been since the Bite for him to still be hooked to an IV bag - and ''how often'' he suffers these hallucinations and dreams to require the equivalent of home hospice?]]

* Consider that the game gets more difficult as the nights go on. In the other games it was a gameplay staple so one might not bat an eye, but here [[spoiler:the nights are nightmares that the child is going through.]] And they get even WORSE with each passing night. The child may have [[spoiler:survived getting bitten and no longer having his frontal lobe, but chances are the [[{{Tearjerker}} nightmares are going to take its toll if not eventually kill him]].]]

* Nightmare is horrifying enough, but looking at brightened pictures of him (Or just being very attentive with unedited ones), in some angles you can see that part of his skull is missing, leaving a floating hat and ears...''and an extremely visible, very human-looking brain in the center.''

* When the child's brother (and the brother's friends) are about to throw him head-first in the mouth of [[spoiler:Fredbear]], it seems like everything in the pizzeria is going like usual...but then there's the fact that it's all but stated that the game takes place in [[spoiler:1987, as in, the year someone got their frontal lobe bitten off]] and that means that animatronics already HAVE the technology to read faces; but if you go back to Fnaf2, the Phone Guy mentions that even the OLD animatronics have the facial scanners installed, but that something as simple as a Freddy mask is more than enough to fool the scanners, now, think about it, the brother and his friends ARE wearing masks of all the other animatronics; if the retro-fitting part is true, then it means that [[spoiler:Fredbear]] also had scanners that don't pick up on humans wearing masks, and therefore, could only watch as the other animatronics picked up a child and brought it to him, and, even if he could tell the child was NOT in any possible way happy, the simple fact his scanners kept on picking up that he was with the other animatronics could've blocked him from doing ANYTHING about it.

* If you believe in the "Child=Golden Freddy" theory, consider this.[[spoiler: Nightmare's brain? The victim's. It's killscreen? Not just a reference.]] It comes only after [[spoiler: the child ''flatlines'']] in the night [[spoiler: 6]] mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence [[spoiler: as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. ''A ghost in the machine''.]]

* The Night 3 Easter Egg implies that Purple Guy framed somebody for the murders and that's who got convicted. Leaving aside that that means Purple Guy got away with it scot-free until he accidentally killed himself, but it means somebody out there is either serving a very long sentence for five counts of felony kidnapping that they didn't commit, or they died in prison.

* Considering the fact that the Nightmares [[spoiler:are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Tin]], Scott was essentially giving others [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]] by ''showing someone else's nightmares.'' What if they spread, haunting [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou others?]]]]

* In [[http://freddy-fazbears-pizza.wikia.com/wiki/File:Fnaf4_jumpscare_freddyonbed.gif Nightmare Freddy's jumpscare]], watch the background closely. It almost looks as if Freddy is lifting you into the air before attacking you, right? Considering how [[spoiler: the kid's brother and his friends lifted the poor kid into the animatronic's mouth]], it's no wonder the kid would [[spoiler: have nightmares about Freddy doing the same thing]].

* The Puppet has always been the odd man out among the cast.. and now we know why. [[spoiler: The Bite Victim's spirit didn't go into Golden Freddy, Golden Freddy was ''already'' haunted. The Bite Victim went into ''the Puppet''. Of ''course'' he fits well in the Puppet's role. What better way to reject his own traumatic birthday party than to spend his afterlife giving gifts to other kids instead of receiving them himself?]]

* The Puppet has always been the odd man out among the cast.. and now we know why. [[spoiler: The Bite Victim's spirit didn't go into Golden Freddy, Golden Freddy was ''already'' haunted. The Bite Victim went into ''the Puppet''. Of ''course'' he fits well in the Puppet's role. What better way to reject his own traumatic birthday party than to spend his afterlife giving gifts to other kids instead of receiving them himself?]

** After the Bite of '87, [[spoiler: Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!]]

* ... but wait.
** [[spoiler: The TV sometimes shows a commercial for a ''1983'' Fredbear and friends TV show... Most commercials don't air for more than a year without being updated. This means this ''isn't'' the bite of '87! It has to be something else! After all, the child's [[CruelAndUnusualDeath ENTIRE HEAD WAS CRUSHED,]] not just the frontal lobe! And in the final minigame, the child fades out, as do the other animatronics. His brother comes in just before his death to apologize, as the child dies from the sustained injury.]] [[WebVideo/GameTheory Mattpat, you've got some serious explaining to do.]]

* Also counts as fridge [[{{Tearjerker}} sadness]]. Listen closely to the sound at the end of the 6th night. [[spoiler:'''The kid is dead.''']]

* [[spoiler: Nightmare. Its brain? The victim's. Its kill? Not a reference.]] It comes only after [[spoiler: he ''flatlines'']] in the night [[spoiler: 6]] mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence [[spoiler: as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. A ghost in the machine.]]

** The change in gameplay could be interpreted as part of Plush Fredbear's attempts to help the child in a sort of tough love way. In the minigames he's always encouraging the child to move forward even when they both know that something bad is about to happen, because they both know that cowering in terror will only make things worse and prolong the fear. Gameplay wise this is the game most oriented with directly facing your fears. There's no cameras to see things from far away, you can't seal all the entrances for saftey, you can't wear a protective mask, and you can't create distractions. If you try to hide in your room or panic and spam the lights/close the doors you'll only speed up the attacks. The only way to be successful is to frequently and actively put your face right next to a door where an animation could be waiting to attack, stop and listen carefully for a good 3-4 seconds, then make a judgement call on how to respond all while being aware of the constantly building threats of Foxy and Freddy inside the room but while only addressing them when you have to. So the whole game is not just about a nightmare, but about controlling your fear and not panicking during the whole thing.

* [[spoiler: Nightmare. Its brain? The victim's. Its kill? Not a reference.]] It comes only after [[spoiler: he ''flatlines'']] in the night [[spoiler: 6]] mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence [[spoiler: as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. A ghost in the machine.]]