History WMG / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

** The text apologizing to CC is in same color used when FoxyBro talks in the night 5 minigame. And we SEE Purple Guy in one of the mini games.

Bonnie comes in from the left, Chica from the right. Foxy stays hidden away for a while before coming after you. You have to check on him frequently or flash your light at him to keep him away. When he jumpscares you, he’s either peeking out from the door, or pouncing at you. Freddy could appear in your room even if both doors were closed, [[spoiler:and he has a tendency to laugh maniacally. Fredbear can appear anywhere at any time. Sometimes, all you can see of him is his disembodied head.]] In addition, most of the animatronics try to sneak up on you while you’re not looking or can’t see them, and they always stop attacking at 6:00 am. Why do they have these particular behaviors? It’s because they were [[spoiler:influenced by the FNAF 4 protagonist’s nightmares.]]

The Puppet, already furious at his death and the deaths of the 5 other children who were going to attend the day’s party, could not bear to see another child get hurt. He angrily climbed out of his box and headed into the stage room. While everyone was distracted, the child inside him used his spectral powers to fiddle with the Toys’s programming, and Fredbear’s, until all hell broke loose.

They can’t.

As in, this wasn't a nightmare the Child had. All of it really happened, because the Child ''wasn't home''. The room in the minigames is shown to be in a house proper, so it's safe to assume that's what the Child's room really looks like- a window, a single door, the bed pushed into one corner, his dresser into one on the same wall (a wall with the door), a pile of plush toys in a third corner. Oddly, none of those things apply in the room you play the actual game in. That room has two doors, the bed is in the middle of a wall where there are no doors, there are no windows, the dresser is pushed into a corner across the room and still not on a wall with a door, and this room has a closet. There's also no pile of plush toys. The room you play in is NOT the Child's room. It's a room in Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which is why the room appears in that game. The "nightmares" the Child sees are actually caused by his plush toys not being in the room with him. The exceptions being Fredbear, whom doesn't show up until later after the Child has had several nights of the others getting to him, and possibly Nightmare, who is just a dark PalletSwap of Fredbear. They're referred to as "nightmares" not because they were born from a child's nightmare, but from being "nightmarish" mutations caused by fear. The Child wasn't in any real danger the entire time, aside from his own fears. Fears that weren't helped by being locked up in a building filled with that which he fears. It's possible that Circus Baby's is actually part of a theme park and sits under a hotel.

When the other animatronics got a redesign, so did he into something a little less UncannyValley.

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All Wild Mass Guesses from before the game's release have been moved [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddys4PreReleaseTheories here.]]

** That'd be easier to believe if he ''couldn't look it up''. ''On Wiki/ThisVeryWiki'', no less.

They're actually the normal animatronics as seen from the child's point of view. Whoever his parents are, they must be important to Fazbear's given we see what looks like an unbuilt Mangle in his house and he ends up in the storage room. The kid's parents, [[AdultFear terrified of what happened]], got the animatronics to look after and guard him. However since he was traumatized, the child envisioned them as horrifying monsters than only increased his trauma. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero His parents should've thought of that]].

*** Where does it say the game is in June of '87? At the very least, I succeeded in proving the game ''cannot run concurrent'' with the second game. Which is mostly what I wanted to point out, and I placed it under here because doing so lends to the above theory. There are a lot of timeline issues, since all three stages of the animatronics are represented -- the Spring suits are clearly shown to be in use, the brother and his friends wear masks of the designs that theoretically came up when the Diner was bought and made into a pizzeria, the Child has plush toys of them like that, and the Girl Who Would Be Chica (supposedly) has figurines of the Toy animatronics. Even to be in June of that year, the girl shouldn't have those toy as the grand re-opening where they were introduced was in November. Scott claims the game isn't a prequel (though he's a LyingCreator), but since it cannot run the same circles as [=FNAF2=], you can actually make a good argument that this game ''is actually a sequel to the first or second games'', and the idiots who run the joint decided to use the Spring suits for a while, possibly while they repaired the old suits for use in FNAF1, but scrapped the Toy bots (we know they were scrapped for some reason, after all). That would explain why all three variations of the Animatronics are shown, and we don't know if the place was closed down immediately after this incident. So it could fall between the second and first games, taking place after it re-opened for the first game, but before Mike took the shift- something made the place close down when Mike's turn was over, after all. I'll say here that I make theories, and I submit evidence, but I don't always believe what I write. I just like to examine all angles, but I can't make the game fit into FNAF 2's timeline. I originally did suggest the game took place earlier in the year, but I cut it when I was shortening my comment (apparently. I thought I left it in but...), since it was three times as long before I did.

Are [[FiveNightsAtFreddys Mike Schmidt]], [[FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Jeremy Fitzgerald and Fritz Smith]]. The Characters you play in FiveNightsAtFreddys and FiveNightsAtFreddys2.

* Phone Guy is the father, who presumably works at the establishment due to their proximity, using the place for a party the kid doesn't like, and bringing home things like the Foxy mask, and would be the right age if this is concurrent with FNAF2.

One thing for certain is that the animatronics were rather jumpy around adults while the murders were taking place in FnaF 2. If it were the children possessing them [[spoiler:and the very brief cameo showing the Purple Guy worked the Day Shift]], wouldn't they have attacked the security and pizzeria workers in broad daylight? Another thing is how the extra nights allow you to control the AI of the Animatronics, making it easier to fend them off. If they were fully haunted, then things like AIs shouldn't matter, right? Finally, the [[spoiler:[[HellIsThatNoise gibberish message given on Night 5 of Five Nights at Freddy's 1]] is a backwards masked and pitched down excerpt from Autobiography of a Yogi]], which is a demonstration that metal is alive. Dead children possessing things cannot be called "alive". One final note is the IV bag by the bed, indicating that this game takes place after the Bite of 87, and all animatronics would be shut down for the time being, allowing the AI some off time while the children were trapped at the Diner.

On another note, this WMG could also explain the existence of Shadow Freddy/Shadow Fredbear and Shadow Bonnie. Fearbear's AI could've been permanently kicked out by the possessing dead child (which also explains why Golden Freddy's AI is so high from the get go in FnaF2, nothing is holding back the possessing child), thus only letting it manifest as Shadow Freddy. As for Shadow Bonnie, why does it appear? Spring Bonnie is inactive, [[spoiler: being seen in the brief cameo of the Purple Guy helping another worker or stuffing a child into the suit. And if this game does take place at the same time as Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Springtrap wasn't one of the active animatronics in that game, therefore letting its spirit leave and manifest as Shadow Bonnie.]]

Considering you never see any of the Toys or Old Animatronics in the Restaurant within 4, it can imply that Fazbear Entertainment is too cheap to make more than one copy of the animatronics, which means the FNAF2 Area has the Toys while what could be the sister location has the Spring Animatronics which is why we don't see them in the FNAF2 location.

To Re-illeterate what i mean. When i said there was only one of each Animatronic i mean only one of each '''SET''' meaning there are only one set of Spring Animatronics (unless you count the supply suits mentioned in night 5 in FNAF3), One Set of Toy Animatronics and One set of the Withered Animatronics.

** Yes i have because how would i know about the Sister location, the spring animatronics, and the fact in FNAF4 you see what appear to be Mangle in one room, and a child with little toys of the Toy animatronics, ask yourself this if this was in 83 why would there be merchandise of the Toy Animatronics which would allegedly mean that if this was 83 that they wouldnt exist. Plus again this could be the sister location mentioned in two, note you dont see the Spring animatronics (except for the ghostly Golden Freddy) on the stage where they would probably be deactivated on. in FNAF2, You also do not see any of the Toy Animatronics in 4's establishment if this IS 87 they would be in service. The players brother and friends also wear masks of Freddy and Friends which imply they must of existed for some time too. so yes i have played the games and done enough research to come up with this theory so there is no need to be Rude.

* I just illiterated what i meant. I meant that there were only one of each set. meaning that there could of been only one set of the Withered animatronics and One set of the Toy animatronics. Meaning while yes the two sets appeared side by side in FNAF2 these could be the only sets in existance meaning their might not be copies of the same sets in other locations.

[[WMG: The protagonist of FNAF4 is actually the brother.]]

* The child has one particular distinction from the other children: he has ACTUALLY SEEN the Purple Man face to face. This is a very important detail that explains Shadow Freddy's role throughout the series. When the kid dies, he becomes a spirit in the form of his favorite character. Having gotten over his fears over the course of FNAF4, he now watches over the various Fazbear estabishments. Eventually, he witnesses the Purple Man murder the children in the FNAF2 location, but is unable to do anything besides beckon Freddy to S-A-V-E T-H-E-M. The Purple Man stops Freddy and leaves the establishment, never to return. Eventually, Shadow Freddy moves with the others to the FNAF1 location. One night, long after the franchise has gone bankrupt, he spots the Purple Man in the sealed off room, preparing to finish off the animatronics. Realizing that destroying the machines would free the children's ghosts, he beckons the animatronics to follow him so that they can get their vengeance.

In the beginning, there was Fredbear's Family Diner. There was only Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. The Night 5 call from FNAF2 implies this was the first location, and early enough that Phone Guy isn't really familiar with it.

By 1983, Fredbear and Friends had become a thing. This was a TV show that showed Fredbear along with the familiar characters from FNAF1.

In FNAF 4, while the TV show can be seen, and the FNAF1 characters can be seen as plushies, masks, and toys, they are never seen at the actual location except as masks brought in from outside. The location itself only features [[spoiler:Fredbear, Spring Bonnie, their parts, and other depictions of Fredbear]] (it should be noted that the only animatronics we see in the gameplay are [[spoiler:part of a nightmare and are implied to be inspired by the plushies, with no corresponding animatronic seen in the real world aside from Fredbear]]).

* However, Jeremy and the FNaF 3 protagonist come back every night, too.
* Jeremy might be excused if you side with the theories that he's the Purple man and as for the FNAF3 Protaganist I'm not sure outside of him wanting to help the children's restless spirits.

In one of the minigames, the Child has to run for the exit, but fails when a (teenage?) employee in the Fredbear suit approaches him. FNAF4 isn't from the Child's perspective. It's the imagination and nightmares of an employee who felt bad for the kid and tried (yet failed) to comfort him while wearing the suit. The Employee happened to witness the Child's death. Fortunately, he didn't have to wear the Fredbear suit ''that'' day. With Fazbear Entertainment being as callous and idiotic as it is, the Employee was later forced to wear the suit... and of course, had a panic attack remembering the events. His breath triggered the springlocks, and the suit crushed him. The Employee manages to hang on for a year, and in his final eight days, begins to remember what he knew of the Child's life (considering the Child and his brother were apparently regulars there). In the Employee's damaged brain, the animatronics are all warped and he is a helpless child who must fend them off. After Night 6, Nightmare arrives. Nightmare is the personification of Death, created by the traumatized mind of a dying teenager. The Puppet, who is already active, is attempting to communicate with the Employee, and we see them promising to put the Child "back together". The Child starts to haunt Fredbear and becomes the infamous Golden Freddy, while the Employee becomes the nightmarish but ultimately harmless specter we know as Shadow Freddy.

This is pretty straight forward, I'd imagine. FNAF4 takes place alongside FNAF2, or at least incredibly close to it, and the came seems to give plenty of hints at this. The biggest one is that Mangle is clearly visible in the brother's room, and another hint is that one girl seems to have figures of the Toy Animatronics in a minigame. As 2 established the Toys were introduced massively recently, it's impossible for them to be present if the game took place much earlier than that. As for the commercial, this company is known for being criminally cheap, so why does keeping an outdated commercial around seem so strange?

That's why, in [[FiveNightsAtFreddys2 2]], Phone guy says the Company is calling ''Fredbears'' instead of the previous Freddy's; not just because they had the Golden Suits you could wear, but because ''it was the previous Freddy's establishment that the new one had to distance itself from!''

* Because he wasn't in the FNAF4 main game anywhere

* As of 15/06/15 FNAF1 Foxy has changed to a chibi version.

Phone Guy knew about the yellow suits, but wasn't familiar with the original Fredbear location. This is the original, ''original'' Fredbear. After the child was killed outside the original Fredbear location, he began haunting the sole animatronic. With a small location and only a single animatronic, they couldn't hide that he was haunted, so they decided to seal him away in a double-padlocked box instead. Little did they know, his spirit could still project outside, and interacted with the child from FNAF4.

One of the updates to Scottgames.com during Game Theories stream is about the Toy Chica action figure belonging to the little girl on Fnaf4's Night 3 Minigame; the text is asking why its missing its beak. This troper has come to three conclusions.

* There are a few for's and against this theory, for it would explain why Fredbear isn't called Spring Freddy, and if he is Golden Freddy, it would explain why he has three fingers instead of four; however, it's specifically stated in FNAF3 that there are 2 suits and in night 2's minigame of [=FNAF4=], someone is shown wearing a Fredbear costume.

Mangle is the only toy animatronic to have a phantom in [[FiveNightsatFreddys3 FNAF3]], and they're also the only toy animatronic to be seen in the Child's house. As 3 had hidden stuff to do to even find the minigames, that were oddly specific, it may not be too far of a leap to assume that there are hidden things to do to trigger a way to unlock the box in 4. After all, from the FNAF wiki, on getting Mangle's Quest: Mangle's Quest can only be accessed on Night 2 by going to CAM 7 and clicking on the top-left, then bottom-left, then top-right, then bottom-right buttons on the left (P1) side of the arcade machine.

In the FNAF4 Night 4 minigame, we see a torn apart Fredbear suit in the room with the boy. What if that was the Sprint Fredbear suit? And the boy saw it malfunction? This might explain the teeth on Nightmare Fredbear's stomach. The boy saw an employee get into the suit... and it malfunctioned... which was why the Spring Suits were banned. The boy was not capable of comprehending that he saw Fredbear eating a person... with his stomach. The room from Night 4 was where the suits were stored after being dumped.

So he punished us with FNAF4.

That’s right! FNAF4 was never meant to be. Scott was going to end it with FNAF3, The End, anyone?

That’s why FNAF4 makes no sense. It’s not supposed to make sense. The Child represents BB facing the Nightmare Animatronics, which represent us. The bite represents when the fandom went too far. The Good Ending for FNAF4 represents his fondest hope. He himself is Fredbear.

Nightmare BB is canon in the sense that he is the reason that FNAF4 exists.

Thus a child died, and a puppet was born. But he wasn’t satisfied holed up in a prize box, oh, no. He took control of Bonnie-and then permanently relocated to him when the puppet was put away just before FNAF1.
** Notice how in FNAF2, Bonnie is missing his face. What does this mean? Since his first fateful appearance on the Brady Bunch, we have dehumanized Cousin Oliver-his face is not his own anymore-it is a symbol-a plague. And now he’s come to make you pay.
FNAF3

Springtrap, the perpetrator, the conscience, serves to remind us of that throughout the FNAF3.

** For me, personally this makes much more sense. If Help Wanted and UCN are anything to imply then the animatronics that weren't present in this game, but ''were'' present in the Help Wanted version of FNAF 4 (Nightmarionne's tentacles, Scrap Baby escaping the facility etc.) then those are events that transpired before ''this'' game. The last few days was about the child finally giving in due to the amount of stress building up and/or the animatronics finally getting them.

It was thought to have been implied in the second game that the Purple Guy had already murdered the kids when the Bite of '87 occurred, seeing as strange things were happening and the Animatronics were starting to grow wary and stare strangely at adults. Here, we see Purple Guy dressing what seems like another employee with a Springtrap suit, although it could've also been a hapless victim for all we know. However, the fact that the victims following these series of events are similar to The Child's brother and his friends, plus other potential victims in the whole mess, make it seem like the Purple Guy hadn't begun his murdering sprees yet -- and then decided to start in full after the Bite happened. Especially with the implication that he killed a child already outside one of the Fredbear diners that would create the Marionette, who then haunts ''FNAF 2''[='=]s location. [[BiggerBad He's still responsible for a lot of shit in this series,]] but the Bite of '87 was very much out of his hands.

* First off, Purple Guy's cameo was completely optional. It's not required to unlock anything and was probably just there to confirm how long he's worked for Freddy's ([[spoiler:since 1983]]). Second, how the fuck did he have ANY control over the brother? [[CaptainObvious He's not something that can be reprogrammed]] and, [[spoiler:regardless of which bite is shown]], it's made obvious the child lives.

** Another video by a YouTube user named Binton Gaming also has the same theory as far as "you're playing as the brother" goes. You can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYKqFxguJo right here]].

** And if the animatronics still have their facial recognition scanners, they would certainly be [[{{Understatement}} unfriendly]] to anyone with a criminal record...

** The Puppet has appeared in one of the pictures...somehow though, 'Nightmare' seems too ''[[{{Understatement}} light]]'' a word.

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** That'd be easier to believe if he ''couldn't look it up''. ''On ThisVeryWiki'', no less.

[[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddys Five Nights At Freddy's 1]] | [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 Five Nights At Freddy's 2]] | [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 Five Nights At Freddy's 3]] | Five Nights At Freddy's 4 | [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld Five Nights At Freddy's World]] | [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes]] | [[WMG/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location]]

Fredbear/Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie were the only two animatronics that could be worn by someone and manipulated from inside. Earlier we see Purple Man helping a fellow employee into Spring Bonnie. So what if Purple Man or someone else was wearing the suit when the teens shoved the Child's head into Golden Freddy's mouth? That would raise a whole other slew of questions: was the bite intentional by whoever was controlling the suit? Or was it an accident and the reason the suits were taken out of commission - notably, that the Child's scared breathing might have weakened the spring locks? For that matter, if someone was wearing the suit and the locks failed, thereby crushing the Child's head, what if the person inside the suit died too? That could be the "incident with an employee" that got the spring suits banned.

Alternatively to the above, Mike is the child's brother [[spoiler:and blacks out due to the truama of remembering the day he damaged his brother for life seeing the animatronic that did the deed.]]

[[spoiler: After getting his frontal lobe bitten off, he's suffering from hallucinations. The attacking animatronics are his own nightmares. The reason they're fatal is because the kid's in a very delicate state, so seeing his nightmares attack his triggers a stroke.]]
* Alternatively, the ''entire'" game is set in his head. [[spoiler:The bite did not happen at Fredbear's; rather, the kid knew about the place and the bite messed with his mind, giving him fake memories which exaggerated his relationship with his brother and similar things.]]

Obviously, the big problem with this WMG is that it's implied that the fourth game [[spoiler:and the second game are happening simultaneously]] (as it is implied that the second game [[spoiler:also ends with the Bite of '87 at a birthday party]]), so you'd have to COMPLETELY disregard this, pretend the fourth game [[spoiler:happened prior]], and that the second game's [[spoiler:ominous mention of a birthday party]] turned out to be nothing to make it all work, but eh. This ''is'' WILD Mass Guessing.

* Alternatively, the ENTIRE game is set in his head. [[spoiler:The bite did not happen at Fredbear's; rather, the kid knew about the place and the bite messed with his mind, giving him fake memories which exaggerated his relationship with his brother and similar things.]]

* Not possible - [[spoiler:The fourth game and the second game take place at the exact same time. The Asshole is a teenager while Phone Guy is an adult.]]

This puts his motives in perspective. When his son's frontal lobe was bitten off, he took leave of senses, killed the bullies, and stuffed their bodies in the Withered Animatronics (who by this time had been repaired and supplanted the Toy Animatronics). The kids, though, came back as spirits, believing Purple Guy to be a psychopath and not the father of their bullying victim (who, by this time, had had his frontal lobe regenerated by highly-top secret government technology), so they tormented him, driving Purple Guy to take refuge in Springtrap. And the rest is history.

[[WMG:Fun with Plushtrap involves the little girl from Night 2's mini game]]

[[spoiler: in one of the mini-games, the kid refuses to go in a direction because "of what he saw." This could have been one of the murders and he was so scared he couldn't do anything. Also, at the end you'll see a locked box which could be a mental representation of a repressed memory.]]

Also remember the bite of 87 was what caused them to take away the animatronics' ability to walk around freely during the day, [[spoiler:but the bite we see happening to the main character takes place when Golden Freddy is just standing around on stage,]] exactly the same way that the robots are shown doing in the first game when they have their freeroaming mode turned off. [[spoiler:Aince the bite we see in this game]] had nothing at all to do with freeroaming mode, why would they disable it? Well Freeroaming didn't come around until the second game.

In fact, considering the way he and his gang treated his little brother, his fondness for the animal masks and what he ultimately did to his own little brother, the chances are pretty good that he'll grow up to be the next Purple Guy.

** The animation isn't necessarily something to go by either. The 8 bit style animations aren't exactly meant to show an accurate model of how the kid's head was positioned.

[[spoiler: The Bite of '87 effectively lobotomized the protagonist, leading to Fredbear's spirit trying to fix him. In keeping with the Puppet's [[BlueAndOrangeMorality inability to 'get it' in regards to helping people despite its best efforts,]] Fredbear attempted to rewire the child's mind to account for the loss of his frontal lobe. Unfortunately, in doing so, he also caused the nightmares to occur, and vivid hallucinations. The events of the game proper are the result of Fredbear's attempts to help the protagonist separate the horror and trauma of the Bite of '87 from the animatronics, leading the protagonist to visualize Nightmare as a last-ditch effort on his subconscious's behalf to localize his trauma without irreparably damaging his relationship with the other animatronics, who were innocent of wrongdoing.]]

The Child trying to separate the [[spoiler:bite incident]] from the animatronics, or rather, from his plush friends. So, rather than fully associate the fault with his favorite characters (even if the bots themselves scare him) as the nights go on he is trying to preserve the 'friendship' he has by imagining a monster worse than any of the Nightmare Animatronics.

To me, it seems that it ''has'' to be him; as he'd be in uniform, he wouldn't be inside a spring lock suit with badges, a walkie talkie and maybe even a gun, because if he moved wrong, the spring locks would go off and kill him... so that rules out the person chasing you and the person that Purple Guy is helping into a suit. Thus, as we ''know'' Jeremy was on duty on the day of the Party (he was shifted over to the day shift and Phone Guy took nights!) and was in uniform, the only other person he could be ''is'' Purple Guy. He witnessed the Bite of 87 and got off scot free for his murderers because the animatronics were blamed for it instead. As he was helping someone into a suit, he'd know how the spring locks worked, so that fills in that detail and he just got cocky... or careless... when around the ghosts.

[[spoiler: He does see hallucinations that are BURNT of all things, and also and HOW exactly does he bring down Fazbear's Fright?]]

[[WMG: The nightmares are [[spoiler: the missing kid's spirits either possessing the protagonist's toys or somehow entering his mind]]]]
[[spoiler: Regardless of which is true, they actually don't mean any harm. Like it was speculated back in the first game, the jumpscares are him hallucinating and their monstrous forms are either "accidental" or again, him hallucinating. Nightmare HIMSELF on the other hand is purely imaginary.]]

Ok so this is gonna get pretty deep and involve small details from all four games while glossing over some inconsistencies (and maybe explaining why there are inconsistencies) but this may explain some parts of the series as a whole: All four games are part of the Protagonist's coma dream. Also, there will be a lot of spoilers but if the spoiler tag is used, there would be half a page of nothing but white. So, you are warned.

There’s a pretty clear correlation, what with the four of them wearing the Bonny, Chica, Foxy and Freddy masks in the penultimate cutscene. Whether their murders were simple karma or instigated by Fredbear as vengeance for “breaking” his friend, remains to be seen.

Throughout the game, he tries to help the protagonist, and seems to be the only real friend he has. [[spoiler: He's everywhere in the minigames, even places he shouldn't be, so he's always watching.]] Some of his advice isn't the best, but it could be taken as trying to help the child find the confidence to face his brother. "You know he won't stop until you find him." Eventually, the child would have to face his fears. Furthermore, [[spoiler: after Night 6, we hear a flatline, and Fredbear Plush promises to fix him because he's broken. This could symbolically be him taking the child to heaven, where he'll be made whole again, and freed from his nightmares.]]

[[WMG: The reason (or one of them) why the child is scared of the animatronics was due to witnessing [[spoiler: a spring-lock failure.]]]]
Think about it. Imagine this: You're a child at everyone's favorite neighborhood family diner, hiding somewhere because of your fear of the animatrons that inhabit the diner. Anyway, you're over here, in your little corner when all of a sudden, [[spoiler: a man in a golden Bonnie costume quickly approaches you. Being scared of the animatronics, your first instinct is to back away, in the case of which the man picks up his pace, and then he stumbles, setting off the faulty spring-locks. Just imagine the poor kid witnessing this, and if he didn't know that there was a human in the costume, that would have all the more horrifying. Seeing a cartoon mascot's eyes roll into their sockets as blood pours out of them every which way and they fall onto the floor, screaming in pain and begging you to help them]]. No wonder these these look so outright horrific.

One thing for certain is that the animatronics were rather jumpy around adults while the murders were taking place in FnaF 2. If it were the children possessing them [[spoiler: and the very brief cameo showing the Purple Guy worked the Day Shift]], wouldn't they have attacked the security and pizzaria works in broad daylight? Another thing is how the extra nights allow you to control the AI of the Animatronics, making it easier to fend them off. If they were fully haunted, then things like AIs shouldn't matter, right? Finally, the [[spoiler: [[HellIsThatNoise gibberish message given on Night 5 of Five Nights at Freddy's 1 is a backwards masked and pitched down excerpt from Autobiography of a Yogi]]]] which is a demonstration that metal is alive. Dead children possessing things cannot be called "alive". One final note is the IV bag by the bed, indicating that this game takes place after the Bite of 87, and all animatronics would be shut down for the time being, allowing the AI some off time while the children were trapped at the Diner.

Therefore, what if the Nightmare Animatronics weren't actually hallucinations, but the disembodied AI of the Animatronics? What if they were trying to reach out to [[spoiler: the child, AKA the victim of the Bite of '87]] but his heavily bad memories of the event had warped their forms? And it's only after getting through Night 6 when they finally get through to him and state that they're still friends? That Fredbear still cares about the child?

On another note, this WMG could also explain the existence of Shadow Freddy/Shadow Fredbear and Shadow Bonnie. Fearbear's AI could've been permanently kicked out by the possessing dead child (which also explains why Golden Freddy's AI is so high from the get go in FnaF2, nothing is holding back the possessing child), thus only letting it manifest as Shadow Freddy. As for Shadow Bonnie, why does it appear? Spring Bonnie is inactive, [[spoiler: being seen in the brief cameo of the Purple Guy helping another worker or stuffing a child into the suit. And if this game does take place at the same time as Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Springtrap wasn't one of the active animatronics in that game, therefore letting it's spirit leave and manifest as Shadow Bonnie.]]

....but then again [[spoiler: the purple guy fully kicks it out perhaps when he died.]]

Bonnie comes in from the left, Chica from the right. Foxy stays hidden away for a while before coming after you. You have to check on him frequently or flash your light at him to keep him away. When he jumpscares you, he’s either peeking out from the door, or pouncing at you. Freddy could appear in your room even if both doors were closed, [[spoiler: and he has a tendency to laugh maniacally. Fredbear can appear anywhere at any time. Sometimes, all you can see of him is his disembodied head.]] In addition, most of the animatronics try to sneak up on you while you’re not looking or can’t see them, and they always stop attacking at 6:00 am. Why do they have these particular behaviors? It’s because they were [[spoiler: influenced by the FNAF 4 protagonist’s nightmares.]]

* And, it would add a nice bit of happiness to what is probably the darkest, scariest and saddest game in the entire franchise.
* This is true, the Child probably only clinically died, and then was brought back to life,clinical death is when someone is pronounced dead for several hours, and then comes back to life.

Two factors make the situation probable: the first simply being that the springlock suits become dangerous when exposed to moisture, which would explain why Fredbear bit down after stalling for a few seconds: the child in his mouth was crying. The tears theoretically could have broken the locks and sent the jaw down on the poor kid's head. The second factor is the the fact that the victim of the bite was a child. The management has consistently displayed no regard for their own employee's safety. Even with the springlocks, the only solution offered by the management was to escape to a saferoom to painfully die away from public eyes. Obviously, the idea is to have a ready-made cover up. So, with all that in mind, why would they suddenly have a change of heart and hide the suits rather than continue with their corrupt practice? Simple: they couldn't cover up the incident in question, nor could they justify it to the public eye, because the victim was a child! It all makes sense that, since the Bite happened the week of the murders, the lawsuits would start flying, and the management would be desperately trying to prevent more. Thus, we have the hasty stowing away of any remaining suits so that insurance companies (or perhaps the legal system) didn't find out that these things were built capable of maiming anyone who handled them the wrong way.

[[WMG: The Child dies, and becomes Golden Freddy]].

On the day of the Bite, Jeremy Fitzgerald was guarding the Toy Animatronics, who seemed to be going haywire, glaring at anyone who wasn't a child and looking like they were ready to attack anyone who seemed hostile to kids. However, the party seemed to be going fine, even if the birthday boy was, for some reason, quite upset.

The Puppet, already furious at his death and the deaths of the 5 other children who were going to attend the day’s party, could not bear to see another child get hurt. He angrily climbed out of its box and headed into the stage room. While everyone was distracted, the child inside him used his spectral powers to fiddle with the Toys’s programming, and Fredbear’s, until all hell broke loose.

After the violence ended, the completely homicidal Toys searched for the remaining staff-any kitchen workers had barricaded themselves in the Kitchen, while everyone else had fled into the Parts and Service room. The Puppet, unfortunately, was already quite mad with rage and began to rouse the Withered Animatronics awake to kill the others, who were looking for anything they could use to beat off the Toys that were trying to smash open the door.

Thankfully, before any further carnage ensued, the police stormed the building, scaring the Puppet and causing him to flee into his Prize Corner, so he could try and control the Toys from there. Although the Toys were extremely well-constructed and injured several cops in the furious gun battle, heavy gunfire annihilated the robots. However, the brother’s friends had been horrifically maimed, and so were any workers in the stage room. They were sent to the morgue, while the child, the brother and Jeremy headed to hospital. Fazbear Entertainment immediately did their usual cover up, and it almost worked-the Bite was known to the public, while the dead victims were turned into heroes for supposedly sacrificing themselves in order to stop the rampaging animatronics.

The police later interrogated any remaining employees to what caused the Bite. As all fingers pointed towards the kid’s brother and Jeremy's eyewitness account backed this up, the teenager was pulled in. He confessed to the deadly prank, to the outrage and horror of everyone, and handed over his bloodstained Foxy mask as well. Things, however, got worse from there-Purple Guy decided to claim that the teenager was responsible for the murders, as he thought it would be hilarious and was itching to hurt another child, and the Bite was evidence enough already that the brother 'hated' children. As a result, the murders were very briefly pinned on the brother, until the day shift guard was found the next day and arrested. The murders were then pinned on the latter, but wild rumours spread that the brother helped the guard commit the crimes, and practiced on his little brother to see if their sadistic plans would work.

The extensive media coverage and national outcry lead to Fazbear Entertainment being swarmed with even more lawsuits than before, and lead to the demolition of both the pizzeria and Toy animatronics, although Fredbear was simply taken out of commission instead. As the Toy animatronics's parts were now in Fazbear's 3rd generation of robots, the company dropped the 'mask disguise', guessing that it would not work after the bloodbath. They also forbid any old employees to speak about the true events behind the deaths on the birthday, which was why Phone Guy only told Mike about the Bite. The costs of the massive property damage and lawsuits tore away at the company's money until they were reduced to the state they were in during the first game.

** Depends on how corrupt the police department is. If the Purple Man was from a well off family who was working at the pizzeria for 'experience', I could see them rather blame some poor (in both the financial and emotional terms) kid rather than piss off the family.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: The event ''is'' the canon Bite of '87, but is set in Fredbear's because of Scott's pandering to the people who wanted to see Fredbear after his first mention in 2.]]]]

* Jossed in SOOOO many ways. For starters, the withered animatronics in the second. Then THE ENTIRETY OF FAZBEAR'S FRIGHT (which, for example, had a destroyed Bonnie, Toy Bonnie's face and Springtrap all clearly separate from each other). Then take into account the fact [[spoiler: that this game takes place in 1983, BEFORE ANY OF THE ANIMATRONICS (save Goldie and Springtrap) COULD BE MADE.]] ...have you even played these games?

[[spoiler: According to [=MatPat=]'s theory(link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMJ2jZtW7cw), it would be impossible for the protagonist to have the nightmares. Without the frontal lobe, a person couldn't care less about most inhibitions, including life-threatening scenarios, fake or otherwise. So perhaps, the brother is the one with the nightmares, traumatized by his prank gone horribly wrong. Now, because he's seen what the animatronics can do, he's scared rightfully shitless of them, and probably feels all sorts of survivor's guilt. Perhaps the medical equipment near the bed shows this, and he thinks it should have been him instead of his little brother.]]
* Additionally, this would make more sense for why the animatronics are attacking you. [[spoiler: At the end of the game, the Golden Freddy plush promises to 'fix' the bite victim. Except the animatronics have a history of thinking that [[MurderIsTheBestSolution murder is the best solution]], and are going about 'fixing' the child by getting vengeance on his brother. This is also why Foxy reverts to a plushie- the spirits are using the victim's toys as a way to get to his brother.]]
** Another video by a YouTube user named Binton Gaming also has the same theory as far as "you're playing as the brother" goes. You can watch it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vYKqFxguJo right here]]
** It also becomes sort of funny seeing as how [[spoiler: the protagonist seems to be able to stop Foxy mid-jumpscare and who likes Foxy? The brother!]]

[[WMG: The nights take place before [[spoiler: the bite actually happens.]]]]
Once again mentioned by [=MatPat=], [[spoiler: You wouldn't be able to dream without a frontal lobe.]] And before every night, it says "X days before the party", [[spoiler: Which is when the bite presumably takes place]]. The reason the kid has nightmares about them is because he hates the idea of being in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. As for why the IV Bag is there, maybe [[spoiler: the kid had an injury that required him to need that, and his parents forgot to take it back after it got healed.]]

[[spoiler: First, let's get something annoying out of the way. This game DOESN'T take place in 1987. It takes place in 1983 (or atleast in-between that and 1986). How do I know this? Well, for one thing, Fredbear's was established as closed in 2 for "years", so unless the bite happened in early January and Phone Guy was off by a year, this couldn't be the same bite. Also, the random appearance of Fredbear and Friends. Yes, I know it could've been a rerun but think of this. Why does it NEED to be in the game? It only shows up once for the sake of an Easter egg. One that means nothing if this theory if false. And why does it need to specifically say 1983?]]

[[spoiler: Then remember the original Golden Freddy and Phantom hallucinations. What do they share in common? GOLD AND YELLOW COLOR SCHEMES. The kid was bitten by GOLDEN Freddy. Yes, the minigame makes it look like he's killed but remember, the normal gameplay most likely takes place after it and as mentioned above, the good ending implies he survived and left. Plus, how else could Scott animate a kid getting bitten? Especially considering HOW he gets bitten.]]

[[spoiler: Now, if this game takes place in 1983 (and as I proved above, it most likely does) the kid would most certainly be old enough to get a job in 1993 (which is most likely when the first game takes place). Speaking about 1, remember what Phone Guy said was what caused the bite of 87? The animatronics moving around during the day. Fredbear was on a stage at the time and could've been in suit mode, again, meaning he couldn't have caused the bite of 87. ]]

[[WMG: The child dies and becomes Shadow Freddy or rather [[spoiler: Shadow FREDBEAR]]]]
* The child has one particular distinction from the other children: he as ACTUALLY SEEN the Purple Man face to face. This is a very important detail that explains Shadow Freddy's role throughout the series. When the kid dies, he becomes a spirit in the form of his favorite character. Having gotten over his fears over the course of FNAF4, he now watches over the various Fazbear estabishments. Eventually, he witnesses the Purple Man murder the children in the FNAF2 location, but is unable to do anything besides beckon Freddy to S-A-V-E T-H-E-M. The Purple Man stops Freddy and leaves the establishment, never to return. Eventually, Shadow Freddy moves with the others to the FNAF1 location. One night, long after the franchise has gone bankrupt, he spots the Purple Man in the sealed off room, preparing to finish off the animatronics. Realizing that destroying the machines would free the children's ghosts, he beckons the animatronics to follow him so that they can get their vengeance.

[[WMG: Phone Guy, is [[spoiler:the child's]] father.]]

He appears on the final night, where it's hinted the child died. He is deep black, skeletal and has a brain in his head. Nightmare is Death, and takes a form relevant to how you died. A more optimistic view is that the child survived, and you're experiencing a near-death encounter. A more pessimistic view is that the Reaper has come for you. You fighting against him symbolizes that you're in a life-or-death scenario

The reason why winning the mini-game allows you to skip few hours is because it is a recurring nightmare he has. If you fail at it, the Child has a CatapultNightmare, and stay the night awake. However, if he wins, he is able to sleep few hours before his fears wake him up.

* Doubtful. They played a central role in the minigames and were seen by 3 separate people. He probably either forgot, didn't know how to (they were non-moving sprites), didn't have enough room or thought if he put them there it would give people ideas.

Nightmare was an experiment at creating a ''cyborg'', [[spoiler: using the child's organs. Granted, the real life Nightmare probably isn't as terrifying and probably isn't called Nightmare, but think of it from the child's perspective. YouAreWhatYouHate now. His appearances in Nights 7 and 8 were foretelling the experiment, much like Fredbear foretold the Bite of '87]]

[[spoiler: Not a ghost]], but an Eldritch Abomination. Just his sheer power is NOT suitable for a mere ghost. He must be something more. Perhaps related to to the shadows, or even one of them.

* Doubly nice if he's Mike Schmidt-if he did do 4/20 mode on Night 7, it was so he could get the newest plushies for his brother, and went to work for the Pizzeria not only out of guilt, but to find out what truly happened. Oh, and his younger brother could give Mike tips based on his nightmares and how he managed to stop the animatronics, particularly Nightmare Foxy.

[[spoiler: The child's family, desperate to have him live, insisted that he be put on life support after he was bitten despite his poor prognosis. (This would--partially, but still--justify Phone Guy's statement in [=FNAF1=] that someone can live without their frontal lobe, unless you believe the theory that this wasn't the bite of '87 and he was referring to someone else.) Unfortunately, he'd lost enough of his brain(as well as enough blood) that he would never recover and wake up. The levels are his comatose {{Dying Dream}}s; that's all his damaged brain can still do. Eventually, his parents are forced to accept that their child is gone, and allow him to be taken off the life support, hence the flatline at the end of the final cutscene. The brother's apology is his final goodbye. The plushies in the cutscene are the spirits of the children that had been murdered and stuffed into their respective suits prior to this, welcoming him to the afterlife.(This goes double if they were the same children you can interact with in one of the cutscenes, who could also be the child's friends.) They do it in plushie form because they know [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith he's more comfortable with them than the animatronics.]]]]

[[spoiler: The Crying Child]] died first. There are two big reasons for this deduction:

What we saw was [[spoiler: NOT the Bite of '87, but rather the FIRST incident that decommissioned the spring suits]]. Fazbear Entertainment can get away with [[spoiler: hiding their own employees, but a ''customer'', with several witnesses to the event?]]

One other thing this explains is how there could be [[spoiler: a Golden Bonnie suit available]] for the murderer to use when the faulty one was already locked behind the wall: it was a safer, updated replacement. This further seals why the murderer was able to safely use [[spoiler: the Spring Bonnie costume]] without an incident: he wasn't using the ''original'' one, but the replacement.

Now we [[spoiler: skip ahead four years, to 1987.]]

The [[spoiler: time skip]] is easy enough to explain: Fazbear Entertainment has actually been doing well. [[spoiler: The murders hadn't happened yet, and the 1983 incident was probably explained as a combination of a faulty animatronic, and guest stupidity (it's obvious the teens were traumatized, and likely confessed to what they did). Since this was partially the fault of the guests, it was easy to just be rid of the original spring suits for good publicity, sweep the matter under the rug, and move on]]. Remember, this is BEFORE Fazbear Entertainment was better known for their shitty policies and had more than a few incidents under their belt. [[spoiler: Also remember at this point, the first incident happened under a different company name, the second one was easily written off as a freak accident due to the guests mishandling their property, and there were years between them]].

Now we're moving on to [[spoiler: the location in the second game]]. That unfortunate incident [[spoiler: in 1983]] seems like an isolated and one-time-only thing, business is booming, and with [[spoiler: four years of profits]], good business, and no further incidents, Fazbear Entertainment decides it's time to upgrade, get a bigger building, newer robots, etc. And that's ''exactly'' what they do: they pack up everything at the old location and move to the new one. They have [[spoiler: also, in four years' time,]] realized [[spoiler: the new spring characters]] aren't as popular as the other ones, and mostly keep them on hand for emergencies and special events, hence why they never got Toy versions made of them.

Things are fine, until the night guard starts complaining about the animatronics trying to get into his office. There's also a reason he didn't need the music box: because he did something at night to ''warrant'' its use by the time Jeremy Fitzgerald took the position. It's possible he had the flashlight (standard security gear) and the mask [[spoiler: (because he has a criminal record)]]. But the main reason the Puppet isn't happy is because it saw a night guard do ''something'' while on the night shift to warrant its suspicion. ''This'' is what sets off the overzealous Toys and the old bots: they know the night security is responsible for ''something'' happening at night.

[[spoiler: The murders happened that week. The Puppet gets Freddy--whom it remembers came from the original diner, knows he has experience with children in peril, and may know what to do--to try to stop it from happening.]]

One other thing to keep in mind is [[spoiler: the bodies of the children are scattered on the map: there ''is no back room'', because it's ''already'' been boarded up. However, every child's body is discovered in a camera blind spot on the map.]]

Because [[spoiler: the murders happened when the last guard (who switched over to day) was on shift. He knew the blind spots, and where to commit his murders. He also knew how to get to the (new) spring suits, which were likely hidden in the parts and service room, in a corner that couldn't be seen. ''That'' was "the spare suit in the back. A yellow one." As mentioned, the Puppet got Freddy and tried to stop the murderer, but failed. With nothing else it ''could'' do, the Puppet hid the bodies inside of the old bots, because it remembered it was given new life in a similar manner. The murders are then discovered the week of Jeremy’s shift.]]

Notably, when [[spoiler: the murders are discovered at the end of the week, Fredbear/Golden Freddy joins in. Fredbear, as we know, is haunted by a child who was (accidentally) hurt by the animatronics, as well as someone he should have been able to trust (his older brother). This is a similar pattern that ''sets him off'' and he joins the others in vengeance]].

This climaxes [[spoiler: to the ''actual'' Bite of '87: poor Jeremy Fitzgerald, stressed to the max from the previous night, unable to keep properly alert, and made to linger around the Toy animatronics to ensure guest safety, was the victim]]. It doesn't matter [[spoiler: who took him out]], only that [[spoiler: this ends with the Toy line dismantled, the new location shut down, and the old bots brought to the previous location to save both money and face. The new spring suits are destroyed with the Toy models (because this is the SECOND incident the company's had with them, and wanted to be rid of any and all liability), the spring Fredbear only escaping its fate due to being haunted...either that, or it ''was'' destroyed, and the Golden Freddy we see in the first game is a ghostly form (which also explains its absence in the third game's between night minigames)]].

Cue the events of the first game. Phone Guy dies, Mike survives and gets fired, the place shuts down at the end of the month, and the place lies in rot until [[spoiler: the Purple Man dismantles the bots, is chased into the back, and killed. Remember, the original spring suits were the ones that got buried behind the wall. Purple Man might have forgotten ''just'' how dangerous the original suit was, because he had been using the ''replacement'' suit before. Add in his panic at the ghosts, the running around in a decrepit building with a leaky roof and rain puddles, and you have the perfect formula to cause the spring locks to go off]].

[[spoiler: Purple Man dies, is discovered thirty years later, and eventually (presumably) perishes in the Fazbear Frights fire]]. If there is anything left, it's either not enough to do any real damage anymore, or it's the "It's Still Out There" horror ending.

* This theory is actually really deep and well observed. Are you secretly Mr Cawthon in disguise?
** Agreed - this is a very well thought out theory. Everything's so nicely slotted into place, even the discrepancies in 4 in regards to the Springlock, Classic, and Toys all being present. Well done!

My brother pointed out that one thing that got overlooked is the presence of [[spoiler: the broken Mangle toy in the minigames, which suggests the 1987 date instead of 1983 (and that the show could be a re-run)]]. My explanation for that is [[spoiler: first, Scott generally puts in details for a reason. Second, the TV show itself, as well as the Fredbear/Fazbear conversion, are enough explanation for Mangle's existence. It's possible Fazbear Entertainment started out with Foxy as a new introduced character (and animatronic) as part of the franchise merger, and parental complaints lead to Mangle's creation on the TV show. Then when the new place was built in 1987, she replaced Foxy entirely for further appeasement.]]

[[spoiler: This is also TheEighties. Cartoons were practically made for the ''sole'' purpose of selling toys back then, which means the ''characters'' exist, but the ''animatronics'' themselves might not have until later, when Fazbear Entertainment made enough money to invest in them (and animatronics that walk on their own and have facial recognition technology would cost a fortune. They had four years to ''build'' that fortune before opening a new place). The fact that the Mangle toy is broken simply shows the older brother will do ''anything'' to taunt his younger siblings. Remember: the Foxy plushie was missing its head, and it's unlikely the protagonist did that--especially when his brother's mask of choice is Foxy. It's just coincidence that the Mangle animatronic gets disassembled later.]]

* You're forgetting the Foxy minigame in 2. [[spoiler: If Foxy had an unfortunate run-in with recently deceased children, then that would imply that at least five of the children's deaths had happened before the game's location, since Foxy would be out of commission. This also explains the beefed-up security measures with the Toys. Those five deaths were the first incidents to really rock Freddy Fazbear's credibility as a safe family establishment.Another thing to consider: was Foxy's retirement because he was too scary (as he'd been around for years), or was it because some suspected HIM of malfunctioning and killing the kids? After all, he'd been the first one seen with the bodies upon discovery, and if Foxy wasn't haunted yet, then who's to say that his A.I. didn't "snap" like Freddy's did, only in a different way to explain his "twitchy" behavior later on? He seems to have a much more...psychotically driven disposition that would explain why he was never brought back. ]]
** OP here. Thank you for pointing this out. [[spoiler: This still fits into the above, and now that I think on it, Phone Guy ''did'' have this to say in the first call of the second game:]]

[[spoiler: Even if it was left to rot only for a few months - a year before 2's location opens, it ''still'' leaves room for Fazbear Entertainment to have made some money to fund the new building and robots. As you pointed out, Foxy discovered the murders. Seeing as there were dead children on the map in both locations, you are also correct in that there was another incident before the one in the second game. This would also explain why the Toy models had the facial recognition, and why the old models were being retro-fitted: the murders in the old location that also caused Foxy's "twitchiness" were the REASON it was needed to begin with!]]

** I really like this one, and it's supported by a small detail I noticed: The Fredbear in four always has a purple set of bowtie and hat. Whether he's being shown in a minigame, plush form, or nightmare form in 4 he has Purple hat and tie. But in 1,2,and possibly 3 he doesn't have a purple set. He has a BLACK set instead, therefore supporting the theory that the one in 2 and on was an improved suit rather than the original.

[[WMG: The Child is Mike ]]

Also, the hallucination of Golden Freddy/Fredbear adds to this. Perhaps when it says "It's me" it's the same soul as the Golden Freddy plush that he had as a child trying to contact him.
Its condition is also the way it is because that's how Mike remembers Fredbear on that day.

Night 7 is his brain slowly running out of it's ability to comprehend his own personal purgatory of sorts. Nightmare can't even be processed as something original; it's Nightmare Fredbear, but with a different color. He can't render anything new; it's just the same nightmare... but it's different.

We've all been assuming that because of the age and apparent height of the player character that we are literally playing as the kid. However the dreams continue even after the bite. This is physically impossible, without the frontal lobe people are physically unable to have nightmares. They are still capable of dreaming but are unable to experience fear within those dreams, infact at one point in time a partial frontal lobotomy was considered a viable treatment for chronic nightmares.

So it isn't possible we are the kid but who else would be dreaming of horrific disfigured anamatronics coming for a child every night, assorted hospital equipment peppered in the background, and of all the torment showered on him by an evil older sibling? Who else would have good reason to have these specific dreams?

Simple, you are playing as the traumatized guilt stricken older brother. We do see him tormenting this kid but despite all of that we never seen any indication of physical violence between the two. The bite also surprised him and his friends enough that they immediately stopped laughing. It's entirely possible that while he was emotionally abusive, perhaps only so when viewed from the bias of the younger sibling, he never actually intended to hurt his kid brother and is now reliving all those horrible things he did ramped up by the guilt of what happened to his sibling. Now every night he is the one being tormented by those anamatronics.

Why else would his ending sound like muffled but undistorted human screaming rather then the usual heavily distorted child screaming? At some point after his brother got bitten he had to wear the springlock fredbear suit and either from sweating at the memory or crying because his kid brother is basically dead and it's entirely his fault the spring locks failed. Now he's haunting the suit just like the kids and the purple guy long after.

* [[{{Jossed Darn it.]] It's more based around the Puppet.

Seeing as it's implied [[spoiler: he kicks the bucket]] in the night six cutscene, but there's still a night seven and night eight. Given Nightmare's presence in the those nights, I came up with two ways, that conclude that we are playing as [[spoiler: the child's brother, who despite his regrets, is not easily forgiven by his comatose brother]].

1. [[spoiler: Following the child's death, the child meets the ghosts of the children who are the Fazbear gang, who "fix" him by manifesting his ghost as Nightmare. The child and his new friends set their sights on the child's brother as part of their RoaringRampageOfRevenge before moving onto the killer]].

2. [[spoiler: Going with the theory that Nightmare is a manifestation of the Grim Reaper, the child, not wanting to die and desiring revenge makes a bargin with death to spare him. Death agrees but has specific terms; a life for a life. The child, wanting justice, sics the reaper onto his brother]].

In one of the minigames, the Child has to run for the exit, but fails when a (teenage?) employee in the Fredbear suit approaches him. FNAF4 isn't from the Child's perspective. It's the imagination and nightmares of an employee who felt bad for the kid and tried (yet failed) to comfort him while wearing the suit. The Employee happened to witness the Child's death. Fortunately he didn't have to wear the Fredbear suit that day. With Fazbear Entertainment being as callous and idiotic as it is, the Employee was forced to wear the suit... and of course, had a panic attack remembering the events. His breath triggered the springlocks, and the suit crushed him. The Employee manages to hang on for a year, and in his final eight days, begins to remember what he knew of the Child's life (considering the Child and his brother were apparently regulars there). In the Employee's damaged brain, the animatronics are all warped and he is a helpless child who must fend them off. After Night 6, Nightmare arrives. Nightmare is the personification of Death, created by the traumatized mind of a dying teenager. The Puppet, who is already active, is attempting to communicate with the Employee, and we see them promising to put the Child "back together". The Child starts to haunt Fredbear and becomes the infamous Golden Freddy, while the Employee becomes the nightmarish but ultimately harmless specter we know as Shadow Freddy.

[[WMG: The kid [[spoiler: didn't get his frontal lobe bitten off]]]]

The kid [[spoiler: ''was'' hurt when Fredbear bit down. However, he didn't lose his frontal lobe. Not yet, anyway.]] What happened was [[spoiler: he was lobotomized ''because'' of the nightmares to help him cope. His parents were desperate to do anything to help him, and medicine and other treatments weren't working. The lobotomy was last resort to help their son find peace.]]
* This is my canon. My guess is that the bite messed with his brain that increased his fear sensors and nightmare causers and they had to give him a real lobotomy. [[spoiler:The flat-lining noise you hear if Nightmare gets you on night 6 or 7? That's if the Doctors mess up and '''Kill you!''']]

[[WMG: Phone Guy [[BigBadFriend is]] ''[[MaskOfSanity still]]'' [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the Murderer]]... and [[LukeIAmYourFather the Child's father]]]]

If Phone Guy was a sane human being and genuinely cared about his children, especially the Child, who was seemingly much, much more likable than his brother... wouldn't he have had a major breakdown after all that? He'd be rendered incapable of going to work. He could have helped, he could have [[IronicEcho saved him]].. but he didn't. He could have done ''anything.''

There's something else; Phone Guy is ''never shown to be'' (well, at least ''very'') ''scared of anything that happens in the restaurant,'' so, if he's the Murderer why would he be scared of the dead children when they attack him at the end of [=FNaF3=]? Simple... his own son is the one chasing him.

The Killer is all but confirmed to be a drooling sadist. So let's say he saw the KidHero of the fourth game, but didn't get to kill him since there would be witnesses. What's his alternative? Cause Fredbear to malfunction and take a chomp out of the kid's head when the oppertunity reveala itself.
* Actually, http://steamcommunity.com/app/388090/discussions/0/527273452869422224/#p2 In-case you didn't see it, Scott jossed the Purple guy being phone guy theory. And Fritz was fired on his first day, despite Phone Guy working as a security guard 4 years prior, so he wouldn't be so in-experienced. And Fredbear didn't seem to be malfunctioning. It should be perfectly normal for him to close his mouth during the middle of a song, and how did he (purple guy) just happen to know a bunch of teenagers would should shove this one child into Fredbear's mouth to the point of sabotaging an animatronic!? What, is he a time traveler and the child is someone who stopped him in the future!?

[[WMG: Fine. I'll say it. Purple Man molested the child.]]
What is something so heinous that it's best left forgotten? Rape and molestation. And that was what Purple Man did to his victims before he murdered them. The child? Got away before he could be murdered, but it still traumatized him enough that it left him with a fear of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, and amnesia of the events that caused his fear, only manifesting as nightmares. Hell, I'll eve go so far as to guess that Purple Man was wearing a costume during the molestation. A costume of what, you may ask? Well [[spoiler: you ever wonder why Nightmare has a human brain?]] As for the Bite, Purple Man probably subtly or not so subtly encouraged the brother and his friends to do it. It'd kill two birds with one stone: he'd get rid of a possible witness if the kid ever got his memories back, and it'd frame the brother for his crimes.

[[WMG: This IS about the Purple Man's StartOfDarkness...he's the teen brother.]]
We don't have conclusive proof that the brother was the one apologizing for the Bite, it could be one of the other bullies. For all we know, the brother realized he LIKED it. And if this does take place in '83, that means he only has to be fourteen ''then'' to be old enough to work at the reopening in '87...he'd be eighteen then. Which would give him the opportunity to torture/kill more victims, culminating in him tampering with the animatronics to recreate 'his masterpiece', which becomes the Bite of '87.

[[WMG: Alternately, this IS about the Purple Man's start of darkness...he's the ''child''.]]
This does take place in the original Fredbear's diner, the '83 in the tv show was a RedHerring (probably a story that takes place in the future) and this kid does survive his frontal lobe being chomped up...but it irreversibly changed his personality from a timid kid who hatedthe animatronics to a sociopath that reveres them.
* Addding onto this, the 11 missing children were the children of [[spoiler: the brother and his friends and died on the anniversary of the bite.]]

* Thought 2: the odd static that plays occasionally [[spoiler: is the first game's first phone call. Done by Phone Guy.]]

** the tv. Given the limitations of 8-bit, isn't it possible that the tv actually says 'Fredbear and Friends [[spoiler: 19'''6'''3]]' instead?.
** What about his love of the Golden Freddy plushie and the flatline? Well, [[spoiler: the flatline actually symbolized ''Golden Freddy's'' metaphoric death. GF decided the best way for the child to cope was to forget everything about him and so he erased himself from the child's memory, hence, he 'died'. The 'oh no' that was Phone Guy's famous last words? He saw Golden Freddy and got his memories back, triggering cardiac arrest. And before you ask, the yellow suit Phone Guy mentioned in 2 was Springtrap, and after the bite the pizzeria tried to retcon all traces of Fredbear's existence, hence why he didn't get his memories back before then.]]

** Technically it doesn't. There's a line running through the date cause of the stylistic choice,and crucially it's running through the date at the part where the top half joins the bottom half, so conceivably it could say 1983 or 1963.

*** Or, another thought. Maybe, like Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which ''kept the same title'' even when Sabrina ''became an adult'', the TV show did the same and it's title was ''"Fredbear and Friends 1983"'', even though it was on it's fourth season and was being broadcast in 1987. Ever consider that?

...is because if [[spoiler: the animatronics did attack the jerk kids for their line-crossing prank, the older brother's tongue may have gotten torn out]]. That, or something else related to [[spoiler: the brother talking]].

Thus making it a pizza box. In addition to being scared of the animatronics, the child caught on much earlier than his peers to the generally crappy, cardboardy taste of a standard SuckECheese restaurant. The horror he refuses to see again on Night 2? The dining area. But why make pizza so reviled and sinister?
... I don't know, but isn't it weird that across five games all based around a restaurant chain, pizza never came into play? Sure Fazbear's Fright was being renovated, so I GUESS it gets a pass, but the kitchen was always pitch black in the first game and there was no sign of one in the second! "Some things are best left forgotten" indeed, they forgot to add any pizza to the pizzerias!

I mean, in the minigame, her remains are ''lying on the floor'', how come nobody suggested that? I theorize that the Child's brother and his pals
divided her body parts between themselves... and returned them back to do it again later.
* Probably jossed. There's evidence this game is set in 1983 (her cameo could be explained as another character from Fredbear and friends or simply another white fox) and she appeared during the night. If the game is [[spoiler: set during the bite of 87]] she should've been at her location. Also, we never hear mention of said location anywhere in the game, and how could a couple of teenagers steal her unnoticed?

As we've seen at this point, Nightmare a severely messed up character even by the standards of the other animatronics. We know almost nothing about him, except that he might be Shadow Freddy. I'm proposing Nightmare/Shadow Freddy is not an animatronic, not a ghost, but a demon. A demon intent on causing misery and death.

There are three notable appearances by Shadow Freddy, and each precedes an important plot detail: Nightmare obvious haunts the child in the forth game, he appears in the pizzeria in 2 just before Purple Guy butchers some kids and shows up in 3 to lead the animatronics to Purple Guy. He never appears in the first game, because the first game is very much "business as usual".

In 1987, Nightmare possesses another employee (or maybe the same one) and slaughters more children, leading the that pizzeria's closure. At this point, with the animatronics seeking vengeance, Nightmare takes some time out of the spotlight and lets the madness commence. The spirit possessed kids kill many security guards, but can never have their revenge, because Nightmare is the one truly responsible.

Finally, when Freddy Fazbear's Pizza goes under, Nightmare attempts one last shot at sticking around. He possesses some else (or, again, maybe the same guy), leading him to destroy the animatronics and create the more viscous Springtrap.

The true villain was never Purple Guy. There could have been many Purple Guys. Everything, was Nightmare.

After the events of 3, someone bought the remains of Fazbear's fright and, rather than remaking that, tried to restore Freddy's to it's former glory. The nightmares aren't actually the child's nightmares. They're the spirits trying to get help via the remains of their previous bodies. The mini-Freddies, Fredbear, Nightmare, Plushtrap and the jumpscares are entirely his imagination though. As for Purple Guy's cameo, that could just be a red herring or maybe Phone Guy.

[[WMG: Shadow Freddy/Nightmare is not a ghost/demon but an EldritchAbomination behind everything along with Shadow Bonnie]]

They thought it would [[ItAmusedMe be fun. For them, that is]]

Something I noticed about the new endoskeleton is that it looks an awful lot like it should be Balloon Boy's animatronic. Smaller frame, giantass creepy eyes, even the teeth look like his. We all just assumed he wasn't an animatronic because none of the endoskeletons fit him, but I don't think we ever considered that BB might have a custom endoskeleton. Plus, the box would fit B.B. more than it would the Puppet. PLUS, remember how on the NightmareFuel page someone said you could see eyes that look like B.B.'s inside Fredbear's promotional image? Well that would make some sense: [[spoiler: Fredbear caused the bite, and the boy becomes B.B., so it's like Fredbear bit Balloon Boy. Or, metaphorically speaking (And I am EXTREMELY sorry for the mental images that will ensue) Fredbear gave birth to B.B.]]
* You can actually fold up the puppet and fit it in a box. It still doesn't disprove your theory but I'm saying that it's possible to fit a puppet that can fold up just right.
* Some more food for thought. The other animatronics can get pretty close to you before the Freddy mask wards them off. B.B,however, doesn't even need to be in the room, just the edge of it inside the vent before he's warded off. It's almost like he's ''afraid'' of a human in an animatronic mask. True, the one used in FNAF 2 was Freddy and not Foxy, but B.B. might not be able to tell the difference anymore, or his fear extends to the other bullies, one who I'm pretty sure wore a Freddy mask. Also, what is B.B.'s M.O.? Killing the flashlight, What was the child's only other defense other than his reflexes? The flashlight. B.B. deliberately took away what he believes is Jeremy's only weapon to ensure Jeremy gets killed. Why do this though? Maybe he just blames all Fazbear employees for not stopping what happened to him. Maybe he believes Jeremy is the Purple Man. Or, perhaps, Jeremy is the older brother. (Though I think labor laws will joss me on that one, 18 year olds are unlikely to be security guards, and for him to be old enough to be a security guard in '87, in '83 he'd either have to be a ''really'' late bloomer teen or Joe Pesci short adult.)

* As of 15/06/15 FNAF1 Foxy has changed to a chibi version

[[WMG: Everything's being chibified because their being viewed in Pyrovision]]

* Confirmed, the game is a role playing game called FNAF World

One of the updates to Scottgames.com during Game Theories stream is about the Toy Chica action figure belonging to the little girl on Fnaf4's Night 3 Minigame, the text is asking why its missing its beak, This troper has come to three conclusions.

3. Toy Chica did the bite. (And before anyone tries to correct me im with the side who believe what Night 4 shows us is a Spring Lock Failure not the bite of 87)


Another possible theory is the "The series is all a fabrication by the child" but id much rather not believe that theory until more evidence comes.
* Fabrication is such a dirty word though, it makes it sound like the child lied when what's more likely is he was mistaken.

* There are a few for's and against this theory, for it it would explain why Fredbear isnt called Spring Freddy, and if he is Golden Freddy it would explain why he has three fingers instead of four, however its specifically stated in FNAF3 that there are 2 suits and in night 2's minigame of FNAF4 someone is shown wearing a Fredbear costume.
** Couldn't the Fredbear costume possibly have been one of those temporary costumes Phone Guy told everyone to stop bitching about though?

*** Something else to consider. In one of the phone calls Phone Guy ''specifically'' warned the employees that customers aren't supposed to be in the safe room. Why would he warn about it unless someone was found in the safe room? Someone like the child.

** The Puppet has appeared in one of the pictures...somehow though, 'Nightmare' seems too ''light'' a word.

* First off, Purple Guy's cameo was completely optional. It's not required to unlock anything and was probably just there to confirm how long he's worked for Freddy's ([[spoiler: since 1983]]). Second, how the fuck did he have ANY control over the brother? [[CaptainObvious He's not something that can be reprogrammed]] and, [[spoiler: regardless of which bite is shown]], it's made obvious the child lives.
** "Hey mate, wouldn't it be funny to put your brother's head [[spoiler: in Fredbear's mouth]]?" That's all he'd have to say and the boys would run with it. The child living he didn't foresee but if I had to guess [[spoiler: he's probably so brain damaged that he wouldn't remember anyway.]]

[[WMG: The nightmare's are the older brother's, not the child's.]]
Rather than being the comatose child's DyingDream, the nightly levels are the end result of the older brother's tormented conscience forcing him to go through the fear he put his brother through. Toys and decreased size(note that Nightmare Bonnie still picks him up, even though big brother wouldn't be too much shorter than eye level)? He's being forced to experience it from the perspective of his brother to increase the feeling of helplessness when confronted. Occasional hospital paraphernalia? Reminders of what he did to deserve the torment. The nightmares end when he finally goes to his younger brother to apologize and try to make peace.

Going by Spring Bonnie's FNAF world design he looks very Easter Bunny esc, it would not be a stretch to think that originally Fredbear/Fazbear wanted to bring an Easter Themed Bonnie out on Easter events, Also what season does Easter take place? Spring which doubles as an IncrediblyLamePun between the springlock mechanisms and the Easter theme

The child died and possessed Fredbear. His murderers were killed to hide the fact that a murder happened at their pizzeria and they possessed the original four. The five witnesses-those kids that made fun of him-were killed to get rid of witnesses and possessed the toys. And who did they get to do the murders? Well, the Purple Man, of course. They already knew he was capable and happy to do it after covering up his first murder.

[[WMG: Mangle is connected to the box; alternately, hints to unlocking the box may be found in 3]]

There's a full animation Fredbear suit and a wearable costume version... now either of these can be the Spring Fredbear suit but...
In the FNAF4 Night 4 minigame we see a torn apart Fredbear suit in the room with the boy. What if that was the Sprint Fredbear suit? And the boy saw it malfunction? This might explain the teeth on Nightmare Fredbear's stomach. The boy saw an employee get into the suit... and it malfunctioned... which was why the Spring Suits were banned. The boy not capable of comprehending what he saw Fredbear eating a person... with his stomach. The room from Night 4 was where the suits were stored after being dumped.

But, when he saw how the fandom treated him, he did everything in his power to salvage the character. He had the laugh and the voices save our lives in an attempt to feed us humble pie, gave him a minigame so we could maybe stand in his shoes and play as him for a bit, and gave him a jumpscare and made his mechanics the same as the rest.

That’s right! FNAF4 was never meant to be. Scott was going to end it with FNAF3, The End, anyone?
That’s why FNAF4 makes no sense. It’s not supposed to make sense. The Child represents BB facing the Nightmare Animatronics, which represent us. The bite represents when the fandom went too far. The Good Ending for FNAF4 represents his fondest hope. He himself is Fredbear.
The 1983 commercial?
Our punishment. The story will never be found because...well...because we were cruel. We made BB a scapegoat, and it backfired.
The Box is the answer that Scott will never give us.

Somethings are best left forgotten...at least for now...

[[WMG:Fredbear plush isnt another child's soul, he is instead a portrayal and persona placed on the childs toy through his imagination]]
Anyone who grew up with a Teddy bear (or any plush animal of your choosing) would understand what im getting at here, A child is most likely to give his/her toy's their own personalities and quirks when playing with them or cherishing them, It is clear FNAF 4's protaganist lacks many friends (if he has any at all) So he has to turn to his Fredbear plush to feel some company, the Fredbear plush is most likely a catalyst of his many thoughts and fears in the form of something he can call a friend.

I cant explain why he appears everywhere and his paranormal activity unless he is just always on the child's mind because he was Lost/Sold/Thrown away, which can probably be supported by Spring bonnie girl saying "Where is your plush toy?"

I mean this folder to be for all-encompassing timeline WMG's if '''"Spoilers"''' doesn't warn you off what will?

Things go good for Fazbear Entertainment until 1983(FNAF 4) when a little boy who is often terrorized by his brother sees Something that gives him a dreaded fear of the animatronics. Earlier mentioned older-brother and co. shove the child into the mouth of Golden-Freddy/Fredbear which because it's an animatronic and follows a set of predetermaned movements bites down, Child or no Child Breaking the Childs Neck. Because Fredbear was the the Cause of death so the child's soul eventually ends up there along with the limp body a broken neck creates.(The FNAF 4 minigames would be akin to the child's life Flashing before his eyes while he is in a coma, it is also why Golden Freddy appears without the aid of the puppet in the give life minigame.) This also Explains Why he and The Puppet are different from the rest, They both began to haunt their particular Suits without direct interference. This would explain why in FNAF 1 Golden freddy acts completely seperate from the other animatronics and doesn't show up to the Purple Guy's death it was not actually purple man who killed him (as seen in the purple guys death minigames.)

While the child is in a coma the older brother and his friends are killed by the purple guy. The Puppet Stuffs them into the suits based on the masks they were wearing. This explains why Foxy is so different from the rest he feels especially guilty for his little brother. Although he does work with the rest of the animatronics.

The Bite of 83 was seen by the media and the public as being the acts of stupid children for the most part and is mostly forgotten. Also the Springlock suits fail Killing two employees Causing the Springlock suits to be discontinued. This is where shadow Bonnie and Freddy come from. They were entertainers and While their souls did bind to the suits both the suits and the bodies were presumably destroid limiting the things that they could do. When they appear in the office in FNAF 2 and shut down the game they are actually getting the night guard to quit. They know that you are not the murderer but can't communicate that to the Children.

All of the Tragedy above causes Fazbear Entertainment decide it is time for an overhaul and decommissions the evidently faulty animatronics using them for spare parts.(FNAF 2) The restaurant reopens for a few weeks before Closing because of another set of murders. Adding the cherry to the top of all the tragedy the bite of '87 Occurs.Massive Negative Backlash. skip to 1990

(FNAF 1)Freddy Fazbear's has been open long enough for the Murderer to strike once again. with the blame falling at least partialy on Foxy.(Who found the bodies in the minigame causing the out of order sign) The place eventually closes down for health violations. some time later the Purple guy returns to dismantle the suits once and for all. Ends up allowing the spirits of the children to follow him into the secret room scaring him into putting on the already damp and old Springtrap suit, the springlocks fail. Then years later FNAF 3 happens.

What happens next is either an accident as the necromancers thought the souls would have burned out by then, or in a case of [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]], [[spoiler:they knew the souls of the children would murder him, eliminating another witness.]]

For further evidence of the dream physics at work, consider the disappearing/reappearing props of Bonnie (guitar), Chica (cupcake) and Balloon Boy (balloon). Joined to the physical impossibilities -- which [[WordOfGod are intentional]] -- they indicate that we're not seeing reality in the main game at any time.

[[spoiler: If you want a more horrific take on matters, consider this: Children who are so badly bullied and damaged as to create imaginary friends that tell them what to do have been known to grow up into serial killers. There may be a reason the first game's animatronics all show evidence of trying to get out of their costumes -- Foxy even having ripped his open with his hook. Of course, they insist they're not endoskeletons, but Fredbear knows better... and he wouldn't lie, would he?]]

1973: Fredbear's Family Diner opens and with it come the original animatronics. Phone Guy states in FNAF 1 that they've been "singing the same stupid song for twenty years" so at earliest they started here (The year may seem oddly specific but I'll come back to that later.)