History Literature / FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights

* RecursiveCanon: After ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Help Wanted]]'' hinted at the idea, "In the Flesh" officially confirms that a game series known as ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' exists in-universe, with main character Matt being part of the team tasked with designing ''Springtrap's Revenge'', the next game in the series.
** And "The Scoop" shows that, as in real life, ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' has a thriving fandom, with fanfiction and fan theories abound.

** "The Man in Room 1280" turns out to be [[spoiler:a Stealth Prequel to ''almost all the other stories'', showing us how the various Fazbear products throughout the series became infected; by extension, it also serves as a possible Stealth Sequel to ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'', as it's all but confirmed that the titular man is either William Afton or his son Michael (at least assuming the books are canon).]]

The canonicity of the series is highly ambiguous: [[WordofGod according to Cawthon]], various stories within the books are [[LooseCanon loosely tied]] into either the games' continuity or that of the [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes other novel series]], but none have explicitly confirmed to fall within one or the other. The series consists of eleven books, with a twelfth bonus book of stories that didn't make the cut for the main books included in the complete box set. A graphic novel adaptation of the series has been confirmed, with the first volume (covering two stories from Book 1[[labelnote:*]]"Into the Pit" and "To Be Beautiful"[[/labelnote]] [[OutOfOrder and one from Book 2]][[labelnote:*]]"Out of Stock"[[/labelnote]]) released in summer of 2022, the second volume (covering one story from Book 2[[labelnote:*]]" Fetch"[[/labelnote]] and two from Book 3[[labelnote:*]] "Room For One More" and "The New Kid"[[/labelnote]] released on March 7th, 2023.

The canonicity of the series is highly ambiguous: [[WordofGod according to Cawthon]], various stories within the books are [[LooseCanon loosely tied]] into either the games' continuity or that of the [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes other novel series]], but none have explicitly confirmed to fall within one or the other. The series consists of eleven books, with a twelfth bonus book of stories that didn't make the cut for the main books included in the complete box set. A graphic novel adaptation of the series has been confirmed, with the first volume (covering two stories from Book 1[[labelnote:*]]"Into the Pit" and "To Be Beautiful"[[/labelnote]] [[OutOfOrder and one from Book 2]][[labelnote:*]]"Out of Stock"[[/labelnote]]) released in summer of 2022.

** Fetch. It goes well beyond its original function as a phone-connected assistant to [[ParanoiaFuel track Greg's every activity]] and pulls off some highly improbable feats, such as killing a real dog [[spoiler: and later Kimberly.]] It proves to be fast enough to the point of implied [[OffscreenTeleportation teleportation]]: [[spoiler:Greg burying it does little to slow it down, and afterwards it's able to kill Kimberly and leave her at Greg's house in a carpet without detection in the span of time that it takes for him to visit Kimberly's parents, talk to the cops, get back home and take a shower.]] ''[[NothingIsScarier None of this is explained at any point in the story.]]'' [[spoiler:The ''1:35 AM'' epilogue only raises further questions, showing that Fetch has somehow accumulated strong enough "agony" to become the most threatening item in Phineas's collection, with its battery seemingly giving the Stitchwraith its lethality.]] It is implied that Fetch may be a [[https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/random-event-generator-reg random event generator]] influenced by Greg's consciousness, but such an idea fails to explain its particular capabilities.

** ''Submechanophobia'': While the Fantasy Water Park animatronics of ''Submechanophobia'' serve as threats, the waterpark's owner Martin Copper is the reason they're haunted in the first place...and he'll do anything to cover it up while wearing a scuba suit under the guise "Frank the Diver". ''Animatronic Apocalypse'' has the school's principal Mr Renner, though it's implied something else may have corrupted him. ''Bobbiedots, Part 1'' features the First Generation Bobbiedots, robotic versions of the current holographic assistants, who are a wee bit bitter about being replaced.

** The Friendly Face that Edward gets, while creepy due to Edward sending in human hairs by mistake to make the face with, turns out to be simply playful and is not supernatural at all. Unfortunately, Edward never finds this out.

** "1:35 a.m.": Both Delilah's parents died when she was 11 years old.

** "GGY" is revealed to be [[spoiler:a prequel to ''Security Breach'' since Gregory is revealed at the end of the story with the implications that he was patient 46 and that he killed all five of his therapists because he was still under Glitchtrap's control.]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:At the end of the final epilogue for the original Fazbear Frights series, Eleanor had been defeated, Renelle Talbert has been rescued and reunited with her father, Jake decides to help the spirits of Eleanor's victims trapped in the ball pit rest in peace before seemingly moving on to the afterlife himself as the Stitchwraith seemingly shuts down for good in the ball pit, and Detective Everette Larson has decided to start spending more time with his family after the incident while taking Eleanor's heart-shaped pendant with him after Dr. Talbert gave it to him. As he leaves however, detective Larson begins to hear what appears to be singing coming from the pendant, implying that Eleanor may not truly by gone, before seemingly brushing it off and heading home.]]

* ''#7: Tiger Rock'' (Releasing July 4, 2023)

* DecoyProtagonist: ''Tales From the Pizzaplex'' epilogue storyline starts with a team of Fazbear Entertainment workers sent to try and renovate the Fnaf 6 location and focuses on two, a disgruntled technician named Gil who believes he should be on the company's technical team, and Danny, a member of the team who is excited to be there. [[spoiler:While it seems that these two are set up to be the main characters of the epilogue storyline, Gil and almost everyone on the team ends up being killed by The Mimic after Gil reprogrammed it to tear off the limbs of the endoskeletons at the location and Danny escapes and begs other members of the company to seal off the entrance so it couldn't escape. The actual protagonist of the epilogue storyline is Lucia, a high schooler, and her friends who decided to check out the ruins of the Fnaf 6 location with them all being killed by The Mimic throughout until Lucia is the only one left alive by the end of the 7th epilogue.]]

* MetaTwist: For pretty much the series' entire run, [[SerialKiller William]] [[WouldHurtAChild Afton]] has been '''the''' definitive BigBad of the series; even before his name was known — even when he was just a nameless, faceless figure mentioned in some newspaper articles — his evil has cast a shadow over the franchise and cemented him as the source (directly or otherwise) of pretty much all the evil in the franchise. So when it starts to become clear that the episodic stories [[ArcWelding aren't so episodic as they seem]], and that everything seems to originate from [[spoiler:a heavily-burned man alive against all odds]], many fans smelled his fingerprints all over the series; and sure enough, [[spoiler:Epilogue 6 has him cement himself as TheManBehindTheMan for the infected items, forming a vast mechanical body for himself out of infected junk]]. Case close, right? [[spoiler:'''''Wrong.''''' The very next Epilogue has Afton and his Amalgamation KilledOffForReal by [[BigGood the Puppet]], and it becomes clear that — as evil as Afton was — the only reason he had the strength to do ''anything'' after years of torment by [[GoodIsNotNice Andrew]] was because [[GreaterScopeVillain Eleanor]] was feeding him power.]]

** Played with for [[spoiler:the Stitchwraith]]: [[spoiler:while the two children's souls inside of it turn out to be non-malicious (albeit one of them is something of a {{Jerkass}}), and while its goals in collecting animatronic parts turn out to be benevolent, it's heavily implied that there is something ''else'' in there as well, something which is a whole lot more malevolent and which causes the entity's electrical shocks to become fatal. It's later confirmed that the soul of the man in room 1280, the Fazbear Frights version of series BigBad William Afton, was inside the stichwraith as well]].

* OffScreenMomentOfAwesome: [[spoiler: Fetch's presence in Phineas' collection implies that Greg, or at least ''someone'', managed to somehow trap and disable the damn thing. Even more impressive when you remember Fetch managed to come back from being smashed to pieces and buried in it's original story.]]

** Played straight in Epilogue 5, as [[spoiler:Jake and Andrew have successfully captured and recontained several of the infected items...including ''Ella'', who was almost as implacable as Fetch in her story.]]

* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:At the end of the final epilogue for the original Fazbear Frights series, Eleanor had been defeated, Renelle Talbert has been rescued and reunited with her father, Jake decides to help the spirits of Eleanor's victims trapped in the ball pit rest in peace before seemingly moving on to the afterlife himself as the stitchwraith seemingly shuts down for good in the ball pit, and Detective Everette Larson has decided to start spending more time with his family after the incident while taking Eleanor's heart-shaped pendant with him after Dr. Talbert gave it to him. As he leaves however, detective Larson begins to hear what appears to be singing coming from the pendant, implying that Eleanor may not truly by gone, before seemingly brushing it off and heading home.]]

* TimeTravel: The main character of the first story, "Into the Pit", jumps into a Ball Pit located in an old Freddy Fazbear's location. When he emerges, he is sent to the past, to when Freddy's was still open.

** Played with for [[spoiler:the Stitchwraith]]: [[spoiler:while the two children's souls inside of it turn out to be non-malicious (albeit one of them is something of a {{Jerkass}}), and while its goals in collecting animatronic parts turn out to be benevolent, it's heavily implied that there is something ''else'' in there as well, something which is a whole lot more malevolent and which causes the entity's electrical shocks to become fatal]].

* GreaterScopeVillain: The fourth epilogue reveals that [[spoiler:Andrew]] is the one behind most of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Animatronics of the Week]]. ''Bunny Call'' reveals that this happened because of [[spoiler:the Man in Room 1280]], who himself is implied to be [[spoiler:the franchise-wide BigBad, William Afton]]. Until ''The Cliffs'' reveals [[spoiler:there is ''another, even bigger one'' residing inside the Amalgamation – whoever they are]].

* HijackedByGanon: [[spoiler:Subverted.]] The series initially seems to have no true BigBad, with each story featuring a different antagonist; however, the Epilogues reveal the existence of the Stitchwraith, which is [[spoiler:inadvertently responsible for causing the items in many of the other stories to become infected and turn evil]]. However, it's not until Epilogue 6 that we learn the true source of the infection itself: [[spoiler:[[SerialKiller William]] [[WouldHurtAChild Afton]], who came back after the events of "The Man in Room 1280", and assembles a new body for himself out of the compacted remains of the infected items – only to be [[CurbStompBattle utterly curb-stomped]] by [[TheBusCameBack the Puppet]] in the very next epilogue, revealing him as nothing more than a BigBadWannabe, not helped by how the epilogue closed on the ominous revelation that he was extremely weak and only as dangerous as he was because [[GreaterScopeVillain something]] ''[[GreaterScopeVillain else]]'' was helping him. This mysterious entity likely escaped as the Puppet began to tear apart the Amalgamation, abandoning its "puppet" to seemingly die in the process, and seems set to become the ''true'' Big Bad of the series]].

The canonicity of the series is highly ambiguous: [[WordofGod according to Cawthon]], various stories within the books are [[LooseCanon loosely tied]] into either the games' continuity or that of the [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes other novel series]], but none have explicitly confirmed to fall within one or the other. Currently, eleven books within the series have been released, with a twelfth bonus book of stories that didn't make the cut for the main books. A graphic novel adaptation of the series has been confirmed, with the first volume (covering two stories from Book 1[[labelnote:*]]"Into the Pit" and "To Be Beautiful"[[/labelnote]] [[OutOfOrder and one from Book 2]][[labelnote:*]]"Out of Stock"[[/labelnote]]) released in summer of 2022.

The series was followed by ''Tales from the Pizzaplex'', a SpiritualSuccessor series more closely tied to the recent video games, in 2022. Eight books have been confirmed, with seven released so far.

* ''#9'' (Releasing January 2024)
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** The Pizzaplex Ballora is an interesting case. Unlike Happs, she was in no way damaged or even malfunctioning during the story, or before it for that matter. It's possible she just [[spoiler:[[DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength didn't know her own strength]], and ripped Grady apart while trying to pull him out of the tunnel.]]

** Story #2
** Story #3

The series was followed by ''Tales from the Pizzaplex'', a SpiritualSuccessor series more closely tied to the recent video games, in 2022.

** Gil reprogramming [[spoiler:The Mimic]] to tear off the limbs of the animatronic endoskeletons [[spoiler:at the remains of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place from FFPS leads to it eventually turning on the Fazbear team their and kills almost the entire crew including Gil. The only survivor, Danny, tells the team building the Mega Pizzaplex over the sinkhole it's located in to deal it off as a result. Downplayed, due to later revelations the Mimic was already murderous, though Gil still reactivated it and programmed those particularly brutal methods,]]

** Edwin Murray creating [[spoiler:The Mimic]] to entertain his son while he worked eventually led to events where [[spoiler:Edwin took his grief from his son's death out on The Mimic and infused it with his agony while teaching it's AI about violence. Because of this, when a Fazbear team sent to retrieve everything Edwin abandoned tried to find it, The Mimic started it's killing spree.]]
** Gil reprogramming [[spoiler:The Mimic]] to tear off the limbs of the animatronic endoskeletons [[spoiler:at the remains of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place from FFPS leads to it eventually turning on the Fazbear team their and kills almost the entire crew including Gil. The only survivor, Danny, tells the team building the Mega Pizzaplex over the sinkhole it's located in to deal it off as a result.]]
** Mr Burrows decision to replace the entire Pizzaplex creative team with an AI known as "The Storyteller", [[spoiler:who is actually known as Mimic01, the Mimic's AI]], leads to the animatronics starting to act stranger than before. [[spoiler:While he originally believed that it was because Edwin had messed with the AI and trapped him in the Storyteller's Baobab tree in the Pizzaplex which leads to Edwin suffocating and dying, the Mimic was the one that was actually behind it and kills Mr. Burrows as well. While the giant tree the AI was in was later removed from the Pizzaplex, the AI had already infected the animatronics with the implications that it still had some effect on them by the time of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach''.]]

The canonicity of the series is highly ambiguous: [[WordofGod according to Cawthon]], various stories within the books are [[LooseCanon loosely tied]] into either the games' continuity or that of the [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes other novel series]], but none have explicitly confirmed to fall within one or the other. Currently, nine books within the series have been released, with two more slated for sequential release through 2021 and a twelfth bonus book of stories that didn't make the cut for the main books. A graphic novel adaptation of the series has been confirmed, with the first volume (covering two stories from Book 1[[labelnote:*]]"Into the Pit" and "To Be Beautiful"[[/labelnote]] [[OutOfOrder and one from Book 2]][[labelnote:*]]"Out of Stock"[[/labelnote]]) scheduled for release in summer of 2022.

** Mr Burrows decision to replace the entire Pizzaplex creative team with an AI known as "The Storyteller", [[spoiler:who is actually known as Mimic01, the Mimic's AI]], leads to the animatronics starting to act stranger than before. [[spoiler:While he originally believed that it was because Edwin had messed with the AI and trapped him in the Storyteller's Baobab tree in the Pizzaplex which leads to Edwin suffocating and dying, the Mimic was the one that was actually behind it and kills Mr. Burrows as well. While the giant tree the AI was in was later removed from the Pizzaplex, the AI had already infected the animatronics with the implications that it still had some effect on the!m by the time of ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach''.]]

* ToBeContinued: "Bobbiedots, Part 1" ends with this.

** [[spoiler: Millie]]'s ultimate fate remains unknown. [[spoiler:Epilogue 11 seems to confirm that she died]].

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Arthur brings [[spoiler:William Afton's undying body]] to a Fazbear Entertainment facility, fulfilling [[spoiler:his]] LastRequest, which leads to infection of a lot of various items stored there.