History Headscratchers / FiveNightsAtFreddys

* With the fourth game being out, it shows that [[spoiler: The bite of '87 WASN'T the first time it happened. The first time something like that happened was in 1983, and the kid died, with his soul implied to have been "repaired" ala being put inside the original Fred Fazbear animatronic]], aka Golden Freddy. That's one death counted for. Then, in the second game, through the mini-games, we see one kid get murdered outside of the fast food building, which presumably became the Puppet. Than the Murderer killed five children and stuffed four of their bodies in the main animatronics. In total, that's ''seven'' children murdered. One in Golden Freddy, one in (presumably) the Puppet, and four in Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy. [[FridgeHorror WHERE'S THE SEVENTH KID'S SOUL?]]

Most things in the FNAF lore aren't exactly explained into great detail. Its all left to interpretation. nothing should be taken as 'Matter of fact' Unless the creator officially states so. So keep in mind there are MANY questions to be asked.

*** Clever (from both the above troper and the management themselves}, but in such a small building?

*** That wouldn't work if you ran out of power a little after 5 AM and Freddy's in your room when the clock strikes 6, would it?

*** Clever (from both the above troper and the management themselves}, but in such a small building?

** It's a place for children. The different colored rooms are likely to make it easy for children not to get lost.

* What's with the different colored floors in each room?

* And on that note, why are Freddy and Bonnie's endoskeletons so different from Chica's?

****** The Puppet is the ghost of a child that was killed by the same murderer of the five children ([[spoiler: likely]]). It's been widely theorized that they put the other five into the suits in either a mixed attempt to revive them or to create more haunted animatronics to get revenge on their murderer. Remember that it's been implied that the animatronics themselves (before the hauntings) loved children and would do anything to protect them.

***** If the Puppet didn't have free will, how could the Puppet know how to bind them? And why would they NOT have free will? That's an assumption based on nothing. There's never been a single film where a soul inhabiting an object DIDN'T have free will of some kind. And yeah, the tablets, hybrid suits and the like don't make sense either, but I can forgive that to an extent. I CAN'T forgive the nonsensical reasons for why they want you dead when there's no logical explanation for it. Especially given all the evidence listed.

**** I never said that the Puppet had free will, I said the souls didn't have free will because they were bound to the animatronics by the Puppet, and I also don't see why you question (crappy) facial recognition systems when touch screen tablets, hybrid suits and mobile animatronics exist in that same time period.

** Or Mike Schmidt (from the first game) and the others all have an overabundance of determination as a personality flaw. There are some situations where a person can be overdetermined can be a good thing, as it leads to being able to accomplish tasks they set their mind to and even some success in a career. In Mike's case (as well as the other guards that turn up in the sequels), it's being overdetermined that is a flaw, as it keeps bringing Mike and the others back to go this place where they could be killed at any time during the week. They made the promise to work there and they're so determined to make it work that they're willing to keep coming back and risking their lives. They don't have the listing for [[Determinator]] in all three games as a part of each of the game's pages for nothing.

** In the second game, the Phone Guy mentions Safe Rooms that are not on the map and are "blind to the animatronic characters." This means the map in the first game isn't showing everything, as it's purpose was to show the layout of the restaurant and the cameras in relation to the view for the security guard. So, that means the entrances and exits wouldn't be listed for a security camera system map.

** Another possibility is that they did hire someone to try to fix the animatronics. However, due to the reveal of the backstory of the spirits of the children possessing them animatronics, it's possible the engineer they hired couldn't find anything wrong with them and that their programming wasn't altered. This could have lead the company to realize that the suits could be possessed by the spirits of the children who died there and that there was nothing they could do to in order to prevent the suits and animatronics from causing harm to the guards.

**** I never said that the Puppet had free will, I said the souls didn't have free will because they were bound to the animatronics by the Puppet, and I also don't see why you question (crappy) facial recognition systems when touch screen tablets, hybrid suits and mobile animatronics exist in the first place.

** Whelp, I think you've made this a bit too difficult for us tropers, but I'll try to explain my best. Any others are free to back me up at will. The current (90s) animatronics either have faulty A.I. that makes it hard to differentiate between humans, or have had their facial recognition system removed completely, either way making it hard or impossible to even see who or what you are. The toys definitely do have the former, though, as they were tampered by someone, according to Phone Guy, and have even been speculated to have been tampered with by the murderer. The souls don't have free will, they were bound to the animatronics by [[spoiler: the sixth child, the Puppet]]. Now, how they got stuck there themselves, I have no answer, but they got the kids stuck and trapped in there, which makes them and the animatronics' A.I. one and the same (evidence for this are the Custom Nights in the first two games). As for murdering multiple guards, only two have been likely killed and one of those explicitly confirmed to have died at their hand: Phone Guy himself. It's even been theorized that they were stuck in Purgatory or the like for killing all of the innocent guards, however many there are. Why they've murdered the supposed same person is, well what's a [[spoiler: Golden Freddy suit]] for? The sheer fact that they've killed so many is because the bastard just keeps coming back! Well, that's all I have for now, so feel free to look into it more and see some fan-made videos that present these same questions and maybe have a few answered, but for the rest of the storyline and a few unanswered questions, that is left up to you, my friend.

** Whelp, I think you've made this a bit too difficult for us tropers, but I'll try to explain my best. Any others are free to back me up at will. The current (90s) animatronics either have faulty A.I. that makes it hard to differentiate between humans, or have had their facial recognition system removed completely, either way making it hard or impossible to even see who or what you are. The toys definitely do have the former, though, as they were tampered by someone, according to Phone Guy, and have even been speculated to have been tampered with by the murderer. The souls don't have free will, they were bound to the animatronics by [[spoiler: the sixth child, the Puppet]]. Now, how they got stuck there themselves, I have no answer, but they got the kids stuck and trapped in there, which makes them and the animatronics' A.I. one and the same (evidence for this are the Custom Nights in the first two games). As for murdering multiple guards, only two have been likely killed and one of those explicitly confirmed to have died at their hand: Phone Guy himself. It's even been theorized that they were stuck in Purgatory or the like for killing all of the innocent guards, however many there are, but the rest is left up to you, my friend.

* Why are the animatronics trying to kill you? The reasoning why makes '''no sense''' when you actually stop and think about it. Look at it like this. The whole "they're malfunctioning robots" only works if they actually were malfunctioning robots, but they're not! They're haunted souls stuck inside animatronics trying to kill the night guard cuz a night guard killed them. Which means, as souls, they have free will. They should be perfectly capable of realizing "Oh, hey, this guy or girl who's the new night guard can't possibly be the same dude that killed me, he doesn't look or sound anything like him!" I would think you'd recognize the voice or face of the man that killed you, that it would haunt your very being for eternity and you'd never forget! They can't possibly think every single night guard who signs up is the one that killed them! And keep in mind, they've been dead for years and most guards don't last longer than a week, which means they've no doubt killed HUNDREDS of night guards. Why? They're not the ones that killed you! It would make some sense if the whole "criminal database" thing was real and maybe, in FNAF2, you actually are a criminal, because then they might think "Oh, this guy's a former crook? KILL HIM TO KEEP HIM FROM THE KIDDIES"! But there's no way every single night guard would be a criminal. Not to mention those models are done away with by the time the original FNAF rolls around. And you can't tell me that the reason they want you dead is cuz you're Purple Guy. If so, then why did they kill Phone Guy? You can't both be the guy that killed them. If Phone Guy was Purple Guy, it would make sense to kill him off, but that's very unlikely given how he behaves, and the fact they STILL try to kill you by Night 5, after he's already been killed. FNAF3's setup is the only one that makes sense. The soul in the animatronic is a murderer who doesn't give two craps about you. So of course he'll kill you. But the others? They have no reason to do so. You're not a murderer. So then, plain and simple...WHY are they doing this when you've done nothing wrong, and they have no excuse to not realize you're not the guy that killed them? It makes no sense! MAKES! NO! '''SENSE'''!