History Fridge / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

** Alternatively, Golden Freddy from [=FNaF1=] and Golden Freddy from [=FNaF2=] are ''different entities altogether.'' It would explain 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.
* Why does the child's brother scare him with, of all things, a Foxy mask? Well, Foxy was out of order during the first game, right? And WHAT conclusion did we draw from that.…?

** One last note to tie this all together. The previous prime suspect, Foxy, has the same problem all the others do: they would ''never hurt a child.'' Even after the murderer did his work and they were acting hostile towards adults, they still cherished children. [[spoiler: Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, however, work differently. They have no "AI", they're primitive as it gets. In fact, Phone Guy explicitly states in the third game's training tapes that the only input they react to is sound. This is why only Fredbear, the Golden Freddy, could have ever done the deed. He heard a child screaming and ''tried to look in his direction, '''forcing his jaw shut on the Child's head.''''']]

* Probably the saddest piece of fridge horror centers around the sequence where the child runs from the guy in the Fredbear costume. His plush says "Don't you remember what you saw? You know what will happen if he catches you." The plush seems oddly panicked for someone who is normally the calmer of the two. There's a very real possibility that this poor kid witnessed someone in one of those suits "catching" a child, and who do we know who [[PurpleIsPowerful wears]] [[KillerRabbit suits]] and [[SerialKiller catches children?]] [[spoiler: What's worse, there doesn't seem to be [[CassandraTruth anyone who would believe him,]] so it's just this kid and his Fredbear plushie against a horror that no kid should have to face. But, it gets [[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE!]] Remember Nightmare? He only appears after the child has faced all of his other fears. Each Nightmare animatronic represents something or someone from the real world, so who represents Nightmare? The Purple Man. The brain in a suit. The biggest monster behind all the other monsters, [[AndIMustScreamand the one person who is still a threat that must be faced even after the child dies.]]]]

* If it was all just a dream, and if the Purple Man was guilty of murdering the children and the protagonist witnessed him murdering the children, this could mean that the Purple Man was never caught...

* If it was all just a dream, and if the Purple Man was guilty of murdering the children and the protagonist witnessed him murdering the children, this could mean that the Purple Man was never caught...

* The "Fredbear And Friends! 1983" easter egg might not be a television show ''at all.'' It may be ''a video game!'' Take for instance the F&F 1983 screen. It was quite common for Atari 2600 games to feature the dates in which they were made. Also, the shots with the gang? '''THE FIRST VIDEO GAME CUTSCENES.'''

* The "Fredbear And Friends! 1983" easter egg might not be a television show ''at all.'' It may be ''''a video game!'''' Take for instance the F&F 1983 screen. It was quite common for Atari 2600 games to feature the dates in which they were made. Also, the shots with the gang? '''THE FIRST VIDEO GAME CUTSCENES.'''

*** Or that there are multiple puppets...
* The Don't Wake the Baby teaser features a small Freddy plush sitting on a bed. Aw, how cute! And then you brighten it, and the plushie turns ''golden''. [[spoiler: And that's not the [[HumanoidAbomination only]] [[PerversePuppet thing]] you can find when brightening the image.]]

* The Bite debate can easily be ended by just one thing. Nightmare BB is in ''both'' Halloween updates of the game. And considering that there's nothing hinting that BB was in 1983...

* The Bite debate can easily be ended by just one thing. Nightmare BB is in both Halloween updates of the game. And considering that there's nothing hinting that BB was in 1983...

** Considering one of the hallucinations from the first game - ''three'' crying faces ala the Puppet or the Crying Child - and its inexplicable ability to manipulate the souls of the other children, it's not out of the question that the Puppet is haunted by multiple children.

* While the ''FNAF'' series as a whole has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and has never been shy about ramping up the creepiness factors of said teeth, this game really took it to an [[UpToEleven exaggerated level]]. And that make a lot of sense when you realize [[spoiler:the animatronics in this game are actually the nightmares of a kid who was seriously injured by an animatronic biting him. Of course his nightmares would be filled with terrifying teeth and enormous wide-open mouths.]]

* While the ''FNAF'' series as a whole has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and has never been shy about ramping up the creepiness factors of said teeth, this game really took it to an [[UpToEleven exaggerated level]]. And that make a lot of sense when you realize [[spoiler:the animatronics in this game are actually the nightmares of the Bite of '87 victim himself. Of course his nightmares would be filled with terrifying teeth and enormous wide-open mouths.]]

* Imagine one day you go to look at Scott's website and see that the endo skeletons have been changed to adorable versions of themselves, awww. Then to go back the next day and see what appears to be ''Toy Golden Freddy, AND HE'S THE SAME HEIGHT AS A CHILD.''

* Imagine one day you go to look at Scott's website and see that the endo skeletons have been changed to adorable versions of themselves, awww. Then to go back the next day and see what appears to be ''toy golden freddy, AND HE'S THE SAME HEIGHT AS A CHILD.''

* If you believe in the "Child=Golden Freddy" theory, consider this .[[spoiler:Nightmare's brain? The victim's. Its 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''.]]

** To sink it further, it's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Dinner, so it means [[spoiler:Fredbear]] already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in [[spoiler:Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]]], how can he thrust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suitless" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the [[spoiler:Bite of '87]], after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.

* 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 their toll if not eventually kill him]].]]
* Also counts as fridge [[{{Tearjerker}} sadness]]. Listen closely to the sound at the end of the 6th night. [[spoiler:'''The kid could have just died.''']]

** [[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.]]

* In the first 3 FNAF, players could turn down the volume so they wont hear the screech. The fourth one uses sounds since there's no camera. Scott was very smart about that one.

** Also, remember Phone Guy's line from the first night of the first game: "If I spent twenty years singing the same stupid songs". ''[=FNAF1=]'' is set in 1993. The Fazbear Four have been around for twenty years, and for at least a decade were side-by-side with Fredbear and Golden Bonnie. That explains why we see the plushies and masks of them as well as them on the TV show with Fredbear. So the child also knows what they look like in person, and also explains why the Nightmare versions are most heavily based on their Withered/pre-''2'' versions

** Also, remember Phone Guy's line from the first night of the first game: "If I spent twenty years singing the same stupid songs". ''FNAF1'' is set in 1993. The Fazbear Four have been around for twenty years, and for at least a decade were side-by-side with Fredbear and Golden Bonnie. That explains why we see the plushies and masks of them as well as them on the TV show with Fredbear. So the child also knows what they look like in person, and also explains why the Nightmare versions are most heavily based on their Withered/pre-''2'' versions

* Why doesn't the scottgames logo glow after the purple hat teaser? Because none of the new teaser's eyes glow, so neither does the logo.

** Even better: at one point in the minigames, the Child is accidentally [[spoiler:or intentionally, by his brother]] locked ''in the Spare Parts room'', where the animatronics that ''already'' horrified him are in bits and pieces. No wonder what he sees is so monstrous; it reflects what he thinks they truly are after that trauma!

* Remember how Golden Freddy/Fredbear had an unexplained recovery in [=FNaF1=] (i.e. no loose wires, both ears, cleaner and brighter) and how it didn't make sense since he wasn't in commission? Well, now we know! They had to fix him up so they could use him for a birthday party. After the Bite took place, they took him out of commission again and put him somewhere else. Long story short, Fredbear got a makeover at the end of [=FNaF2=].

* In the first 3 FNAF, players could turn down the volume so they wont hear the screech. The fourth one uses sounds since theres no camera. Scott was very smart about that one.

* In the first 3 players could turn down the volume so they wont hear the screech. The fourth one uses sounds since theres no camera. Scott was very smart about that one.

** The logo stopped glowing with Nightmare!Foxy.

* While the scream made by Nightmare!Bonnie may be an amalgamation of the screams of the previous three FNAF games, think about some of the other fridge horror on this page. A lot of it speculates that the protagonist this time around is a child (thanks to things like the view height and the design of the room). What if the scream heard at the very end of Nightmare!Bonnie's is not Bonnie's, but the protagonist's?