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5	[[WMG: The entire game is Purple Guy's last stand.]]
6	Most of Springtrap and his earthly remains are destroyed, he's beginning to break down and can't keep going, unlike the kids who were intact and rotted into the suits, essentially merging with them. Even worse, though, he is aware of this and getting very desperate. So at auction a few of the previous characters, specifically the victim of the bite of 87' along with all four of the previous security guards, show up to see the show and make sure nothing survived enough to be a threat even if nobody will believe them. Why those specific people? Simple, there are five of them and they would be most vulnerable to an attack from the purple guy. He literally invades there minds one by one, using the memories to try and destroy them, take over, and thus extend his own life. The only goal is to resist him the same way as always and hold him off until he weakens and dissipates.
7	* Jossed -- The game is suggested to be [[spoiler:one long coma-induced dream of the victim of the Bite of '87]], or at the very least [[spoiler:the hallucinations of him/her]]. It also takes place at the kid's ''house'', so I guess Double Jossed.
8	* Though then again, [[spoiler:we don't know ''which'' bite the game centers around. ''If'' there's even multiple bites.]]
9
10	[[WMG: All of the protagonists, barring the child from 4, are Purple Guys, but not ''the'' Purple Guy.]]
11	Most chain stores or restaurants have a color scheme to help you distinguish staff from customers -- Target employees wear red polo shirts, Best Buy employees wear blue polo shirts, etc. Fredbear's Pizza/Freddy Fazbear's Pizza employees wore purple shirts to easily locate them among a sea of hyperactive children. Mike Schmidt, the other protagonists, and both Phone Guys all wore purple. But none of them are Purple Guy -- he was an unrelated employee.
12
13	[[WMG: The miniature Freddys crawling out of Nightmare Freddy are toys.]]
14	They were created by Fazbear Entertainment, presumably to be sold in either the Prize Corner, or somewhere else. However, they later proved to be defective and dangerous, causing them to be canceled and locked away.
15	* Jossed. [[spoiler:They and Nightmare Freddy are literally nightmares.]]
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17	[[WMG: The entire game is AllJustADream.]]
18	* Note the hidden word "NIGHTMARE" in the first teaser. It appears to imply that the new animatronic is not actually real, but merely another, far more deadly hallucination. It suddenly makes sense as to why the new animatronic looks so scary: it's only part of your terrified mind. The Fazbear management [[EvenEvilHasStandards would probably cross the line at making such an unsettling robot]].
19	** Even better: what if it's Mike or Jeremy, but the experience has scarred them psychologically and they're in an asylum? And these new 'five nights' are actually them reliving truly larger-than-life nightmares of their experiences as night watchmen, amplified a hundredfold by their own insanity?
20	** In fact, it's possible that all the games have been nightmares. It would certainly explain physical inconsistencies in the pizzeria, [[spoiler:such as the door on the ceiling in the first game]], as well as the strange behavior of the animatronics -- though this would mean that the player characters have never actually been in danger. [[spoiler:It would also give new meaning to the endgame of the previous installment -- rather than being punished by the ghosts, the Purple Guy hallucinated them, tore apart the animatronics to "free" them, then climbed into Springtrap to hide from his own phantoms.]]
21	** Even better, maybe it's a nightmare being suffered by the victim of the Bite of '87; imagine being in a coma just kind of locked into the traumatic memory or coma dream that caused your mental impairement.
22	** That's not to say that the threats [[YourMindMakesItReal are any less real]]... I recall another [[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet "Nightmare" with a "Freddy" in it]] doing something similar.
23	** It could be that these are the nightmares of the Purple Guy due to the guilt of/paranoia of being caught because of the murders that he has committed. This causes him to go back to the Freddy Fazbear's and destroy the animatronics to erase all evidence and put an end to the threat of the animatronics which would inevitably end in his death by Springtrap.
24	* Confirmed, sort of...
25
26	[[WMG: The new animatronic's name is Nightmare.]]
27	Just like how Golden Bonnie's name ended up being Springtrap, Nightmare Freddy's name is Nightmare.
28	* I doubt this. The word is still present in the second teaser image, which shows a new Nightmare Bonnie.
29	* Currently Jossed, since the Indie DB page calls these animatronics as "Nightmare Animatronics"
30	** Actually, confirmed. [[spoiler:The last phantom you can face ''is'' named Nightmare, and, like Golden Freddy in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game]], he has a weird little effect on the player's game. Namely, that the ''whole thing resets''.]]
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32	[[WMG: There were more than the five/six murdered children.]]
33	An old WMG was that there was a total of 11 murdered children (one murdered on the street outside the restaurant, five more murdered at an unknown time later, and another five murdered during the events of [=FNaF=] 2, the last of which resulted in the restaurant being shut down. However, the end of the third game implied that there were only five murdered children after all (or possibly six, depending on how you want to interpret The Marionette's 8-bit scenes from the second and third game), and they got their vengeance on the Purple Man at some point when they forced him into Springtrap.
34	But my new theory is that both of these theories are true. The five/six murdered children were as they appeared in the game, and they got their rest in the end.
35	But there are more children, more victims of the Purple Man, who are still stuck in this world, still rendered insane by the tragedy that occurred.
36	** There might be more merit to this theory, though- during the "Happiest Day" minigame, the crying child goes through a colorful room passing by at least five other kids with animal masks before finally coming to the five inhabiting the original animatronics. This could indicate that there were indeed 10 or so murdered children who were killed. I would assume that the reason that the five in full color were killed during ''2'' (with the other kids killed before those events), which I would assume is taking place during a [[ABirthdayNotABreak birthday party]] from the amount of cakes everywhere. This would probably be that ever ominous "Bite of '87".
37	** Well, now that the game's finally out, we ''could'' surmise that the colorful children are instead [[spoiler:the Victim, his/her Brother, and the Brother's Friends from the Bite of '87 incident. The reason why they're so colorful now is because nothing has really happened to them ''yet''.]]
38	*** Actually, there's a child who mentions the murders at one point. [[spoiler: Before the bite.]] Also, the animatronics were already haunted [[spoiler: prior to the bite.]]
39	*** Or at the very least had their "naked endoskeleton" glitch.
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41	[[WMG: The Mini Freddys on the new animatronics body represent or ARE murdered children]]
42	Continuing from the above WMG, the last murdered children were never able to reach eternal peace, /because they are trapped in Nightmare Freddy's body, forever slaves to his will.
43
44	[[WMG: The new animatronic will kill you/jumpscare you at the end of the game.]]
45	Right when the clock hits 6:00 AM on Night 6, Nightmare Freddy will teleport to your office and get you, treating you to a nice unique jumpscare and segue into the final scene of the game, which will give some big revelation, like that Nightmare Freddy is the zombie of the Phone Guy or something.
46	* As far as I know, there ''is'' a big revelation at the end of the game -- [[spoiler:that the child you've been playing as is the Bite of '87 victim, it was all a DeadlyPrank on the part of the kid's brother and his friends, and that Foxy ''wasn't'' the perpetrator (rather, it was Golden Freddy/Fredbear).]]
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48	[[WMG: Phone Guy will speak to you again, but there will be a twist.]]
49	Scott voicing the Phone Guy is so convenient, that he has to put him in again. This time, the twist will be either:
50	* A) Phone Guy will be in the game in the flesh, instead of just a voice.
51	* B) Phone Guy will speak to you through a method other than the phone.
52	* C) Phone Guy will be revealed towards the end to be the new animatronic, which contains his corpse or something.
53	** Alternatively, as someone said on the [[http://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys subreddit]], Phone Guy will be hateful to your progress instead of cheerful.
54	*** Jossed. There is no Phone Guy to speak of.
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56	[[WMG: The Phone Guy twist will be that you ''are'' him.]]
57	* Instead of listening to a recording at the beginning of each night, you'll be ''making'' one.
58	** Jossed -- [[spoiler:The 4th game's events are nearly concurrent with the events of ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 2]]'', up to and including the timing of the Bite and the children's murders. Phone Guy was at least a confirmed adult at the time, while the player character is a child.]]
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60	[[WMG: Phone Guy is not the killer.]]
61	And the fact that he is not the killer will be relevant to the plot somehow. He was an innocent victim of the insane spirits of the murdered children, and now he is cursed because of it or something.
62	** Probably confirmed. [[spoiler:Though we only get to see the Purple Man in an easter egg.]]
63
64	[[WMG: Phone Guy IS the killer.]]
65	It'll turn out that there were multiple Purple Men, and Phone Guy was one of them. The guy who became Springtrap wasn't him. Or maybe it was.
66
67	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is actually the Purple Man's spirit]]
68	* The Springtrap suit being badly damaged in the fire released his soul, which is now tormenting the final Night Guard that burned him, taking on the form of Nightmare Freddy. Alternatively, the Nightmare Freddy Suit is the result of him using the bits and pieces of the other animatronics salvaged from the fire to rebuild himself, or someone ''else'' rebuilt him that way.
69	** Jossed.
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71	[[WMG: The game will give a more in-depth look at the Bite of '87, the Missing Children Incident, and other mysteries]]
72	* Being the GrandFinale of the series, the game will finally give us a closer look at the enigmatic incidents that led to the restaurant's dark descent, probably through a flashback of sorts.
73	** Confirmed. The game showcases the events leading up to [[spoiler:the Bite, and the ''protagonist'' is the victim]].
74
75	[[WMG: Springtrap will return, and will team up with Nightmare Freddy to kill you]]
76	* He manages to survive the fire at the end of the third game, so there's a possibility that, one way or another, he'll make a vengeful comeback.
77	** Implied in the recent teaser, which confirms Springtrap will return.
78	** Sort of Jossed. Springtrap as we know him wasn't in the game, but [[spoiler:the Purple Man was, and he... helped a man into a Spring Bonnie suit.]]
79
80	[[WMG: Bonnie will play a larger role here than in the third game]]
81	* To make up for his DemotedToExtra status in the last installment.
82	** Adding to this, this troper (not the OP) posted the theory on 3's WMG page where Bonnie's appearances in the original three games' trailers hinted to him knowing more than what was let on, as well as tying his purple color to other events in the game (and that his Toy version was the only one with a drastic change, likely to keep him unique). Since it's the final game, this would be the best time for Scott to FINALLY cash in on all that teasing/foreshadowing.
83	** Jossed. Bonnie is a regular threat.
84
85	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is [[spoiler:Phone Guy.]]]]
86	Mostly because sooner or later, this WMG was going to come up, but we never really ''did'' find out what happened to him. Possibly more to add when more information is given.
87	* A direct result: All the mini-Freddys we see on Nightmare Freddy will say [[spoiler:Phone Guy's trademark "Hello Hello"]] as they move around or get closer to you.
88	** Jossed. [[spoiler: The nightmares are just that, the nightmares of the Bite of 83/87 victim. We don't even see Phone Guy in this game.]]
89
90	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is Fredbear.]]
91	Or at least, part of him.
92
93	The biggest mystery left unsolved was what exactly happened at the original diner. We have the one "Cake" mini-game in 2 that hints what happened to the child possessing the Marionette. And with all the decayed and rotting parts left around various locations, he's trying to make a comeback.
94	** Currently jossed by the newest teaser. Fredbear is still in the game, but is not Nightmare Freddy. However, he could be Shadow Freddy and/or Purple Freddy.
95	*** Ultimately, jossed. [[spoiler:''Golden'' Freddy is Fredbear.]]
96
97	[[WMG: The fourth installment will make more use of the phrase, "What can we use?"]]
98	While we got that teaser image for the third game, not much was really done with it except to tease and introduce Springtrap hidden in the dark. All that happened with the toy box was it was eye-candy in the office and the toy models were stars of the mini-games, but Nightmare Freddy looks like he's built from other parts and pieces of dolls. That teaser wasn't really for the third game. It was for this one, and as they say, [[Franchise/ToyStory the Toys are back in town]]!
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101	Nightmare Freddy is also unlikely to be the only one coming back, so to speak. Whatever was left in that box (and not burned down), as well as around the other locations, may be coming back together to create bigger, badder monster versions of each animatronic. It could be ''because'' Springtrap is still up and kicking: they've reformed to take him down once and for all. And they're going to use whatever they have available.
102	* Jossed. [[spoiler: The game is set years before they should've existed. Though '''''NIGHTMARE BALLOON BOY''''' was added to the game on Halloween and has been confirmed to be '''CANON!''']]
103
104	[[WMG: The last game will take place in the current timeline's present day, but still wrap up mysteries of the past.]]
105	Springtrap's out and about. Fazbear's Fright has burned down. We have Nightmare Freddy coming, for whatever reason. Seeing how Scott's used non-linear storytelling before, it's possible that whatever happens, the next game takes place right after the fire, but either through between-night cut scenes, minigames, or clues hidden around the new location (like the changing posters in the first game), we will get the story of what originally happened at Fredbear's Family Diner, we will get more details on the Bite of '87 (like whodunnit for certain), we ''might'' learn more about the fates of Jeremy, Fritz, Mike, and the Fazbear Fright guard (or even in some way see them again), we'll have more definitive answers about Phone Guy, and we will probably learn more about the series' more core characters, like the Puppet, (Golden) Freddy, Fredbear (if they aren't one in the same), Springtrap, and the original Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.
106
107	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is the mother of all the animatronics.]]
108	Those little Freddys crawling out of it? Those are its babies. The reason why nobody has been able to get rid of Freddy's for all this time is because Nightmare Freddy has been giving birth to more animatronics, and until she's destroyed, the world will continue to be plagued by them.
109	* Jossed for all the [[AllJustADream real]] animatronics, though the rest of the Nightmares could very well be Freddles that underwent some form of metamorphosis.
110
111	[[WMG: The game will be released before 10/31/15]]
112	Scott ''does'' have a habit of releasing games early. Also, the teasers for Five Night's at Freddy's 2 said it would be released in 2015, and it ended up coming out earlier than that.
113	** That would ruin the Halloween release date, though, so I don't think that will happen.
114	** I also have heard that Dawko is doing a Five Nights At St Jude's stream ON Halloween.
115	** This is probably true; 10/31/2015 is on a Saturday, and Steam does not allow games to be published on weekends. Therefore, the game would most likely be released a day earlier provided that Scott knows about that.
116	** Confirmed. The game itself will be released on 8/8/15, the one year anniversary of the series. The Halloween release date is for DLC.
117	** Double confirmed. It was released 7/23/15.
118
119	[[WMG: The game is going to have drastic gameplay changes from the previous games]]
120	Most of the previous games only took a few months to finish, while this one is apparently going to be released much later. This is because Scott is working on a new engine to make a completely different kind of game, whereas the previous entries were all based on the same engine, and therefore didn't need as much time.
121	** Partially confirmed? You're no longer inside an office looking through camera feeds. You walk around the house with a flashlight instead. Not certain it's with a different engine, but it is different gameplay from the previous three games.
122
123	[[WMG: Before Nightmare Freddy pops up on screen, a demonic rendition of "Freddy's Theme" will play]]
124	If Freddy is going to undergo a monstrous makeover, his theme song should definitely follow suit. It would also be a nice CallBack to the original game.
125	** Sadly, jossed.
126
127	[[WMG:The game will take place on a horror film set.]]
128	The third game took place in a horror attraction, and an upcoming film is coming out, and Freddy looks absolutely DEMONIC. It'd be an interesting idea for it taking place on a film set and give a good reason this animatronic got such a terrifying look.
129	* By that token, because it's a busy movie set, the props and set pieces will be in different places after each day of filming, making it harder to track the animatronic(s), as they'll be able to use the props as camouflage or give them different ways to hide each night.
130	** Somewhat hinted at by the Springtrap teaser.
131	*** Jossed.
132	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is Golden Freddy.]]
133	This game will explain one of the largest unanswered questions in the franchise so far: Golden Freddy and all of his business. Nightmare Freddy is his true form, or a later form of some sort.
134	* Adding onto this, look at Golden Freddy in all of his appearances. He only has four fingers. Look at Phantom Freddy in the third game, specifically, his lack of a right ear and how his top hat is tilted to the right; it's Golden Freddy. It also only has four fingers. As such, he can't be a spring suit, making him one of the most enigmatic things in the series so far. This game will hopefully give us some answers about what he is.
135	** We already know much about Golden Freddy, though. He was confirmed to be the 5th child and to work with Springtrap at the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (Not Fredbear) before the creation of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.
136	** Jossed. [[spoiler:Nightmare ''Fredbear'' is Golden Freddy.]]
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138	[[WMG: The game takes place between the first and third games.]]
139	Yeah, Springtrap is shown to have survived the third game, but it seems with the story of the children's spirits wrapped up, there can't be much else to do. Perhaps the newest night guard will be one who was present while the pizzeria was under renovation.
140	** Confirmed. It takes place around the same time as the second game, officially making it a prequel.
141	*** Actually, [[spoiler: it's set ''before'' the first and third games, and maybe even the second one as well.]]
142
143	[[WMG: The Marionette/Puppet will return.]]
144	Hey, he was in the background in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' after all, and there's no real proof that he perished in the fire.
145
146	[[WMG: There is a GreaterScopeVillain... There has ALWAYS been a GreaterScopeVillain]]
147	* The monstrosity posted on Scott's page confirms there is at least one monster left to face. So we've now dealt with incompetent AI, vengeful spirits, and a child murderer. What's left? Very possibly a demon, and probably the one who made Purple Guy what he became.
148	** Jossed with the last part, but there is in fact one last enemy to face, and it's [[spoiler:Nightmare.]]
149
150	[[WMG: Someone's either going to try and bring back Fazbear's Fright, or this abomination is purely nonexistent, or even just only slightly real.]]
151
152	[[WMG: The Five Nights will not be consecutive]]
153	* Instead, we'll get nights with different locations and different rules from throughout the history of the restaurant chain in order to tie off loose ends, with the new Freddy as part of a nightmarish framing story.
154
155	[[WMG: You're playing from the Bite of '87 victim's perspective, not a security guard's.]]
156	* And he or she is having nightmares about what happened to him/her. Of course someone with their frontal lobe missing may have messed up memory among other things, so the victim may as well change the layout every 'night' as well.
157	** OP with update on the frontal lobe according to Google research: I never knew, but one site states we have more than one frontal lobe(?) Research states that our frontal lobes are involved in motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior. The frontal lobe is extremely vulnerable to injury due to their location at the front of our cranium, proximity to the sphenoid wing and their big size. Some MRI studies studies have shown that the frontal area is the most common region of injury following mild to moderate traumatic brain injury. All in all, some could become vegetables and not aware of the world around them.
158	** [[spoiler:Semi-confirmed. You're playing as the victim of the Bite of Eighty-''Three''.]]
159
160	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is Springtrap]]
161	* Springtrap [[spoiler:survived the fire, was sold at the auction]], and made into Nightmare Freddy for whatever poor reason the buyer had.
162	* Jossed.
163
164	[[WMG: Five Nights at Freddy's 4 isn't a Game]]
165	But perhaps the Film in the story of Five Nights at Freddy's 4 maybe? We don't have any evidence that it's truly going to be a game and not a teaser for the movie besides the 4, and we know how Mr. Cawthon is of course.
166	** A movie can't be done in 6 months... it requires years.
167	** Jossed by the Indie DB page, as it confirms IT is a game
168
169	[[WMG: The new Freddy's name...]]
170	* ...is the [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls MultiFazBear.]]
171	* Jossed.
172
173	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is an independent project created by the auction winner... for some demented reason.]]
174	He's stitched together from the remains of Springtrap, Freddy, and the Prize Corner Freddy plushies, with some scary teeth and screws added to make him scarier.
175	* Jossed.
176
177	[[WMG: The mini Freddys will come out of Nightmare Freddy's body and will be individual threats.]]
178	Upon closer look at Nightmare Freddy's body, the small Freddy heads are actually small big-headed dolls that are climbing on or in his body. My guess is that they're individually animate, and will at some point come off of his body and crawl around the map on their own. Possibly as the nights go on, more Doll Freddys will come out of his body, or they'll come out of his body as he gets closer to your office.
179	** Confirmed by the trailer.
180
181	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is an amalgamation of the [[spoiler:WMG page.]]]]
182	[[spoiler: It has only been a day as of this writing, and this page has already filed up with [=WMGs=]. Eventually, this page will collapse under its own [[EpilepticTrees epilepsy]] and become a nebulous EldritchAbomination, which will coalesce together and form Nightmare Freddy.]]
183	* And with every WMG someone makes , Nightmare Freddy's Difficulty increases!A HH!!!
184	* So all we can do is wait for us to be [[HiveMind consumed]]...I'm scared.
185
186	[[WMG: There will be at least one more game after [=FNaF=] 4.]]
187	Five nights, five games....c'mon, you didn't think Scott Cawthon would miss out on that, did you?
188	* Well, [[WordOfGod he insists it's the last game]], but [[TrollingCreator considering who we're talking about...]]
189	* Jossed. The Indie DB pages confirms that this is the last game, but there is a film coming out.
190	** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Until now.]]
191
192	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy contains the spirit of the Purple Man.]]
193	If it's made of salvaged pieces of Freddy and Springtrap, it's possible the Purple Man's spirit was still trapped inside (since the same was true for the children), and now haunts this abomination.
194	* Jossed. It's AllJustADream in the head of [[spoiler:what is most likely his son.]]
195
196	[[WMG: This game will be the "final chapter" chronologically...]]
197	...but a fifth game will tie up loose ends from the early history of Fazbear Entertainment.
198	* Of course there will be a fifth game. Five is the series' [[ArcNumber arc number]], after all.
199	* Jossed. The Indie DB page confirms this is the last game.....but there is a movie so, five installaments after all.
200	** However, the movie may not be canon.
201	*** Ultimately, partially confirmed. [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation There will be a fifth game]], though [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 the third game]] still stands as the chronological finale.
202	*** ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'' and ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' come after 3, so yeah.
203
204	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is possessed by the ghost of Fredbear's Family Diners' original owner]]
205	He lost his dream because of the company that bought him out. Finding out what happened to the kids, he commits suicide by stuffing himself into a suit to ensure that he survives long enough to get his revenge. As Nightmare, he convinced the kids that the night watchman was the killer in order to get them killed as a distraction from himself. The night Purple Guy showed up again? Nightmare called him and told him about the evidence, convincing PG to come back -- [[XanatosGambit knowing full well that the kids will kill him, either directly as animatronics or as ghosts by proxy]], potentially freeing their spirits and leaving him with full freedom. Then he locked himself away, waiting for his chance to draw the company that ruined him back. All those hallucinations in the third game? That was Nightmare, using abilities we'd only see from the two other Freddy Fazbears. The Purple Freddy from the flashback minigame in 3? That was him leading the kids to get their freedom.
206	* Jossed. [[spoiler: The game is set before 1, 2 and 3.]] [[spoiler:It's also not real outside of the 8-bit cutscenes.]]
207
208	[[WMG: Going off the above. There were two purple guys.]]
209	The original Purple Guy killed the crying child. The second one killed the 5 missing children. It's entirely possible that the one we see in 3 was the second one and the original Fredbear owner, as that would certainly explain why he bothered going after the security guard in that game; otherwise it doesn't fit the MO. The original Purple Guy is/was still at large. Heck, he could even be the second owner; killing a child to ruin the reputation of a place you want to buy would certainly fit with such Nightmarish monstrosities.
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211	[[WMG: The game will be based around the deaths of the previous security guards.]]
212
213	There's a lot implied and insinuated in the FNAF series, but we honestly don't know for sure if Mike and Jeremy both had a very bad and scary week (and Fritz one day), but just that after everyone before them quit...or if they were really were the latest replacements of a series of ''murdered'' security guards and who happened to be the ones that survived. With the children having moved on, what's left? How about the innocent people who died because angry, vengeful child-ghosts couldn't tell them apart from their killer? With the Murderer/Springtrap still possibly free, where's THEIR justice? Number 4 will deal with one last security guard guarding SOMETHING that somehow ties back to the Fazbears' chain (maybe whatever was built on the sites of the old buildings?) having to deal with these last vengeful ghosts who have manifested as this nightmare Fazbear THING (and perhaps Spring Trap and others will also be involved). After all, what could be more fitting opponents for a final game then all those who came before you, and failed? Can you give them peace? Or will you join them?
214
215	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is made up of the animatronics from all the restaurants.]]
216	Remmeber, Phone Guy said in the third game that it's a chain of restaurants. Who knows what horrors occurred at the other locations...?
217
218	[[WMG: Every single animatronic from the last three games will make appearances]]
219	If this is truly the final installment, the ''entire'' gallery of animatronics, from the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys original four]] to the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 toys]] to the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 phantoms]], should be around for the party. At the very least, they should get cameo appearances, since making every single one of them a hostile enemy may be a bit of an overkill (unless they make a [[HarderThanHard "Super Hard Nightmare Mode"]] or a BossRush of some sort).
220	* Jossed, though Scott did [[VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight do something similar]] later down the line...
221
222	[[WMG: Nightbear is female and the mother of the Shadows]]
223	This one is mostly due to the Mini-Freddies attached to her body and how they could bud off her. Remember "The Joy of Creation"?
224	* Joy of creation was just some stupid mistake, it was really an excerpt from "autobiography of a yogi" about metal having life.
225
226	[[WMG: The Mini-Freddies will attempt to revive the horrors of Fazbear]]
227	When said horrors have been put to rest in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3''. This could also lead to you needing to trap the Mini-Freddies while keeping an eye on Nightbear.
228
229	[[WMG: The murderer's name.]]
230
231	It's [[Film/FreddyVsJason Jason]].
232	* Jossed, it's William and he doesn't have much to do with this game anyways.
233
234	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is Satan.]]
235	Think about it. Heads all over the torso, red tones, sharp teeth all over...combine this with the fact that Scott Cawthon is a Christian, and it all makes sense. The Biggest Bad of the franchise might be '''the Devil himself.'''
236
237	[[WMG:The game will end with a ThisLoserIsYou and/or BitingTheHandHumor message.]]
238	This thing is way too {{Narm}}y to be taken at face value.
239
240	[[WMG:The Freddy Heads are a separate animatronic]]
241	It'll be like Mangle; 3 small Freddy heads on a weird, distorted body that's very naked. Unlike Mangle, however, it'll be much, much, '''MUCH''' more difficult to survive it, and much more ''terrifying''.
242
243	[[WMG: This isn't referring to the Bite of '87.]]
244	It's referring to the year of 1987 [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 IN ITS ENTIRETY]].
245	* Sorta-jossed. [[spoiler: It's about the bite... more likely a different one.]]
246
247	[[WMG: Nightmare/Giygas Freddy is the demon/ghost behind the hauntings]]
248	There's no way someone would want to make that abomination, not even the [[IncompetenceInc insanely incompetent]] [[EveryoneHasStandards Fazbear Co.]], so it will most likely be a supernatural force.
249	* It's actually a nightmare in the head of a little kid.
250
251	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is the Purple Man's attempt to rebuild himself]]
252	We saw the picture of Springtrap standing beside the Freddy plush that hinted that he survived the fire, so he rebuilt himself as Nightmare Freddy, probably using the items found at the auction.
253	* Jossed in that Nightmare Freddy is AllJustADream, but William [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator did do almost exactly what you said.]]
254
255	[[WMG: Eventually, someone will finally just take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.]]
256	[[Film/{{Aliens}} It's the only way to be sure.]]
257	* [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator Basically confirmed.]]]]
258
259	[[WMG: Scott will release exclusive deluxe editions of the game that only big [=YouTubers=] like Markiplier, WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety, and ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' will be able to get their hands on.]]
260	Scott owes a lot of his success to Markiplier, and while this troper doesn't believe that he will have them cameo in the game, he might give them a small favor in return for what they did for him, and send them a copy that only they exclusively can view.
261	* I don't really believe an exclusive deluxe version of the game, but maybe they'll get a demo, or even the full game, before he releases it to the public.
262
263	[[WMG: David Near and the Midnight Society will provide voices for whatever horrors are in the game.]]
264	If they don't make the movie, they have to make it in this. David's just too damn good to be tossed aside, and [=MrCreepyPasta=] isn't that bad of a voice actor either. This troper has his fingers crossed for the time being.
265
266	[[WMG: The Nose Honk EasterEgg will return once again.]]
267	It seems to be the RunningGag Of the series, so why wouldn't it?
268	* Going off the above, this time the honk sound will play when you honk Nightmare Freddy's nose. Honking it will make Nightmare Freddy go away, which will allow the honk to be a last second way for you to stave off death.
269	** Confirmed. This time around, you get to honk [[spoiler:Plush Fredbear's]] nose.
270
271	[[WMG: The Murdered Children were sent to Hell.]]
272	While many may sympathize with the murdered children, they have been known to kill innocent security guards in their quest for what may have not been justice, but revenge, given the fact they tended to kill painfully by stuffing the victims of their own killings into animatronic suits. Even with the justification of going after a murderer, they may have been rejected from Heaven due to killing innocents and became the demon(s) that we are going up against now.
273	* I have ALWAYS considered The Puppet a monster, no matter what his motivations were for how much blood was on his hands, since he appears to know what he's doing more than the others. I don't know if Scott has a twist as dark as children from hell in him, but it would be a brilliant response to the way the game seemingly excuses CycleOfRevenge.
274
275	[[WMG: You'll play as the Purple Guy in the afterlife.]]
276	While Springtrap is still around, the Purple Guy has lost most control because of damage from the fire. He attempts to move on, but the nightmare Freddy doesn't let him and makes him work in dream versions of Freddy's. You'll have to use your limited control of Springtrap (who also wants to kill you now) to attack and make Nightmare leave. You'll also have a new map for each night with an optional objective (like maybe punish one of your partners in crime if the multiple Purple Guy theory is true or protect and free one of the child spirits) for each night to get the good ending and the option to change the difficulty for each night. Which ending you're going for will lead to two different versions of the final night, with one being an open outside area with no gates or walls and [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption just has you surviving as long as you can]] and the other being [[AllTheWorldsAreAStage a twisted combination of all the maps put together.]]
277	* So, [[BolivianArmyEnding the open outdoor area]] is [[HeelFaceDoorSlam the bad ending]] and [[AllTheWorldsAreAStage the conglomeration of the previous maps]] is [[DeathEqualsRedemption the good ending]]?
278	* The Nightmare versions could also be the souls of past murderers or partners who want to keep being spirits and killing people in the living world while the player character Purple Guy could be trying to move on. Completing the optional objectives will cause the other Nightmare versions to appear and try to stop him from ending their fun.
279	** Unfortunately, Jossed.
280
281	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is the remaining children]]
282	On the good ending for the third game, there were 11 children at the tables with cake, but there were only 6 shown passing on. The ones that didn't leave came together to form this [[AnimalisticAbomination abomination]].
283	* Jossed, though it does come from the mind of ''a'' child.
284
285	[[WMG: The game actually takes place on a movie set.]]
286	In-universe, someone in Hollywood decided to make a horror movie based on the old legends of Freddy Fazbear's (think Fazbear's Frights on the big screen). Nightmare Freddy is actually a prop for that movie, which is why it's tattered, ruined, and [[NightmareFuel made of horror]]: It's ''supposed'' to be. The player character is either an actual night guard for the FNAF set, or else an actor playing the role of the night guard. The game itself would end up being something similar to ''Film/ShadowOfTheVampire'' or ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', where Freddy would actually come to life and attempt to kill you.
287
288	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is the other spring suit.]]
289	It was mentioned that there were two spring suits; Springtrap is one, and Nightmare Freddy is the other one, which has also rotted after thirty years and contains someone who worked with Springtrap/Purple guy to do the murders.
290	** Golden Freddy was all but confirmed to be the other suit in FNAF 3.
291	** Nightmare Freddy is the Golden Freddy suit after thirty years, and one of the Golden Freddy animatronics was made to cover up the actions of the person using the Golden Freddy/Nightmare Freddy Springsuit.
292	*** All jossed. [[spoiler: Golden Freddy was the other suit, and the game is set before the second game, while Fredbear was still up and running.]]
293
294	[[WMG: There will be a Nightmare Chica...]]
295	With an even more horrifying maw than the decrepit Chica in FNAF 2.
296	* Confirmed... with 3 rows of razor sharp teeth to boot.
297
298	[[WMG: In-universe, Nightmare Bonnie's design was influenced by the Purple Guy.]]
299	The color and cleft chin certainly match, as does the rabbit species. Perhaps whoever designed it made it look like the killer on purpose.
300	* The game takes place in the dreams of what is probably the Purple Guy's son, so this is certainly likely.
301
302	[[WMG: The game mechanics in this one are going to involve keeping this new Freddy from leaving a certain location.]]
303	Well, this is just going off the patterns of the previous games. In the first one, you could block off two of your assailants without much of a penalty... just a power drop. In the second one, the game was set up so that you could focus on keeping either the Marionette, Foxy, or everyone else from getting to you at any given time, with no means of negating more than one threat at a time. In the third, you can't even let Springtrap get to the office, since you have no means of driving him away once he's there. The only scale up I can think of is not allowing this new threat to even get away from the starting point. Plus, this would give us a nice CallBack to the Marionette from ''2'', who behaved in a similar fashion.
304
305	But if the new animatronic can't get away from start, what's going to give the game its challenge? Can't be as simple as "switch between these cameras and make sure these switches stay flipped", now, can it?
306
307	The answer? Those little Freddys. They're probably detachable, and while they're not big enough to present much of a threat to the night watch, is it too big of a leap to say they might be able to, say, cross a few wires and let the big guy loose? Your goal is going to be keeping them from breaking the bigger and far more threatening Freddy free.
308
309	Need more to convince you? This style of gameplay would keep up the tradition of a HopeSpot / ControllableHelplessness segment between actually losing the game and getting jump-scared.
310
311	In the first, you have the power going out, and Freddy's music box.<br/>
312	In the second, the Puppet coming after you, with "Pop Goes the Weasel" playing in the background (or alternatively, Balloon Boy laughing at you after disabling your flashlight, leaving you wide open to be nommed by Foxy).<br/>
313	In the third, Springtrap waiting outside your door.<br/>
314	And now, in the fourth, after big Freddy is free, he heads toward your office, and there's not a thing you can do to stop him. All you can do is track his progress through the cameras as he gets closer and closer to your office.
315
316	* Tying into this, Nightmare Bonnie will most likely be there as a second legitimate threat to keep you from being on your cameras all the time... you really can't do that if there's a chance of a demonic rabbit ambushing you if you're not paying attention, now, can you? (If any of the other animatronics show up nightmare-ified, they'll probably hold similar roles, as well.) Alternatively, they'll be trapped, like Freddy, but released more easily, to help take your attention away from the big guy.
317	** Confirmed, sort of. You need to keep the little guys from coalescing on the bed and [[AmbiguousSituation summoning/fusing into]] Nightmare Freddy.
318
319	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is a regular, if somewhat pointy, endoskeleton.]]
320	His multiple heads are because he is an unpossessed endo, and therefore needs a suit. However, the only parts of suits that he can find are the heads for some reason, so he fashions himself a suit from those.
321
322	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is made from the toy endoskeletons.]]
323	After being scrapped, the children possessing the toy animatronics banded together to survive, creating a mashup of the few still-working parts and using discarded character heads to create a costume. FNAF 4 is set in 1987, weeks after the second game, either in the scrapyard where they were dumped, or the pizzeria from FNAF 2.
324
325	Due to the chimeric nature of Nightmare Freddy, they will be barely functional at first, but maybe as the nights progress, they will begin to rebuild themselves, becoming deadlier each night. Maybe they'll even rebuild while you watch, so if you do badly in the first few days, they have more options to attack you later on.
326
327	[[WMG: Nightmare Bonnie is a reconstructed Springtrap]]
328
329	If it's a movie set as per other guesses, he was recovered from the ruins of the fire and rebuilt into a more classic Bonnie appearance but with the frightening twist on it as with Nightmare Freddy.
330	* Jossed, Springtrap will be a separate character.
331	** Springtrap is a little plushie in this game, and he's frankly [[CreepyCute kind of cute.]]
332
333	[[WMG: The game will finally explain "It's Me"]]
334	And whoever "me" is was the culprit of the Bite of '87.
335	* To add to this theory, "It's me" and the bite of 87 are connected. And the "Was it me?" on Nightmare Bonnie's teaser image could quite possibly prove that Bonnie was the culprit to the bite.
336	** Or at least that the players will finally find out more about the incident. [[spoiler:Looking at the source code reveals a couple of hidden 87s, so it's certainly possible...]]
337	*** Jossed. [[spoiler: The bite we see is more likely separate from the bite of 87. Note, Golden Freddy is still in use, yet in 2 he was in despair and we never hear mention of that game's location having any sister locations.]]
338
339	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics are:]]
340
341	The [[OneWingedAngel true forms]] of Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie.
342	* Jossed unless there was also a Shadow Chica and Shadow Foxy that never made appearances in either of the three previous games.
343	** Now even more jossed. [[spoiler: The nightmares were just the figments of the Bite of 83's victim's imagination.]]
344	*** [[spiler:Nightmare]] may be the counterpart of Shadow Freddy, though.
345
346	[[WMG: The Nightmares are the embodiment of Fazbear's sins.]]
347	Rather than be the victims of the Purple Guy, they're the angry spirits of people who's lives were ruined/ended by the organization. The victim of the bite of '87, [[DoomedProtagonist previous protagonists]], possible victims of the other "Springtrap" suits, and of course Phone Guy alongside who else [[BadBoss Fazbear's screwed over]]. Nightmare Freddy? He's none other than [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the embodiment of Freddy Fazbear itself.]] That's why Nightmare Freddy [[BodyOfBodies is made of smaller Freddy's]]-it's symbolic of how he is the spirit of Fnaf. While Fnaf 3 concluded the story of [[GreaterScopeVillain the man who made the restaurant twisted]] and ended the story of the victims who started it all, Fnaf 4 will be about the legacy he's left. The last game ended the pain of the original victims. Fnaf 4 will conclude with the final destruction of the grotesque legacy that they and the organization left behind, ending the series once and for all.
348
349	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is FauxAffablyEvil]]
350	This is really JustForFun, but looking at the way Freddy's holding his hat with that downcast glare gives the look to me.
351
352	[[WMG: There will be Nightmare versions of all the animatronics from the first game]]
353	The series will end the way it began, with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy vs the player. Chica and Foxy may be surprises that show up on later nights depending on when the game takes place.
354	* All but confirmed. We just need a Nightmare Golden Freddy.
355	** [[spoiler:And we have one.]]
356	*** [[spoiler:Don't forget the cute widdle plushie Springtrap!.]]
357
358	[[WMG: Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy were the GreaterScopeVillain all along]]
359	They were the ones pulling the strings behind the Purple Guy the entire time
360
361	[[WMG: The meaning behind "Was it me?"]]
362	It's the killer coming to terms with what he's done, all the while trapped in an endless nightmare where he's tormented by the spirits of those he's killed.
363
364	[[WMG: Nightmare Bonnie is not Springtrap/Purple guy, he's the man he framed.]]
365	If we are going by "The Nightmares are the embodiment of Fazbear's sins" up top, it would make sense that one of them would be the person who was framed by the purple man and going through Memphis 3 style trial with a much more horrific ending with people calling him a monster and him being put on death row with very little evidence and going insane from it to the point where he actually wonders if you really did it hence the "was it me?" line in the teaser and when he was executed this soul join the others victims of Fazbear's establishment to get their revenge
366
367	[[WMG: Yet another "you're playing from this persons perspective" theory]]
368	Credits to Fauxreguard from Reddit!
369
370	The fourth game is from the perspective of one of the kids who was at the birthday party when the Bite of '87 happened. Utterly traumatized, they now have nightmares about the animatronics.
371
372	Every night, when they go to sleep, Freddy and his friends haunt their dreams, turning into twisted abominations. In between nights, we'll see flashbacks to the birthday party. The animatronics happy, singing songs. Giving cake to the children. Until, just before Night 5... It happens.
373
374	* Wow, you're close! It's a different bite, but other than that, you got it pretty much on the nose!
375
376	[[WMG: More Spirits]]
377	Freddy and Bonnie "nightmare" animatronics are really evil spirits of other child murderers, they are now back to kill again. Also, this takes place far after FNAF 3.
378	* Jossed.
379
380	[[WMG: The person who got bit during the Bite of '87 truly is....... [[spoiler:Jeremy Fitzgerald]]]]
381	FNAF 2 spoilers inbound, but for the sake of posting this theory I'll use the spoiler tag. Excuse my lack of remembering exact details.
382
383	[[spoiler:Jeremy gets moved to the day shift, but he had still been wearing his guard's outfit(assuming they don't have regular employee ones), the animatronics would still recognize him well due to that night shift he had worked prior. There's not a chance he brought an extra pair of clothing to 'switch' into since he wouldn't have known Phone Guy was gonna ask/tell him to stay during the day time for the party the night before, right? He had to work the next day, so he presumably worked a double. The Phone Guy did say for Jeremy to stay close to the animatronics.... The likely culprit according to fan theories is between The Mangle or Foxy.]]
384	* [[spoiler: Never confirmed in-game since but since we don't see the bite of 87 it's still possible.]]
385
386	[[WMG: Springtrap will be on your side]]
387	He might do the tutorial voiceover for the first night(s) or be involved in keeping the Nightmare Animatronics away, somehow.
388
389	As for why, maybe the nightmares are after him as well.
390
391	* Confirmed! The new FunSize "Plushtrap" will let you sleep in peace and fend off the others for three hours if you manage to win his minigame.
392
393	[[WMG: Nightmare Bonnie is a ManipulativeBastard.]]
394
395	He could be [[ManipulativeBastard manipulating the]] [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou viewer]] into thinking he was the culprit for the Bite of 87. He'll pull this off if Scott posts another teaser showing another Nightmare animatronic, saying "No. It was me.".
396
397	[[WMG: Following the above theory, It will be [[spoiler: Foxy's teaser image]] that says it.]]
398	We've already seen [[spoiler: the first three]], so they're the only one [[spoiler: of the two]] left.
399	[[http://i.imgur.com/P0Y1Kdu.jpg Late, but confirmed.]] It says ''Or me?''.
400
401	[[WMG: All the Nightmare Animatronics are manifestations of The Puppet]]
402	And he's suffering from a truly twisted version of NowWhat. By all rights, he should have disappeared. With some assistance, he killed Purple Man and we saw the spirits fade away. If you completed Happiest Day, his soul seemingly moves on. But he's still in Fazbear's Fright and unlike the others, he's presumably real. So what's my answer? Springtrap was killed in the Fazbear's Fright Fire. Some of him remains like we saw in the newspaper clipping, but his spirit is gone. And The Puppet, having long gone KnightTemplar in his hunt for his killer, snaps when he's without him. Unable to comprehend the idea it's finally over, he possesses Nightmare Freddy and the miniature Freddys. And, in growing madness, has forgotten what "It's Me" was supposed to refer to. He has grown to associate Purple Man with Bonnie thanks to Springtrap, so he considers Bonnie a killer... But upon possessing Bonnie and realizing he himself is a killer, The Puppet truly doesn't know what's what anymore.
403	It's not just our nightmare, it's his -- realizing he and his enemy are not so .
404	* Jossed, the Puppet doesn't even show up until the Halloween DLC.
405
406	[[WMG: The game will be located/deal with the ''original'' Fazbear Family Diner.]]
407	I don't know if it'll be a {{Prequel}} set before the second game or if someone is crazy enough to try and do something with the property, but somehow it'll involve the original location mentioned briefly in the second game. We'll finally find out how the entire nightmare started since the company apparently already had a reputation of problems before the events of '87.
408	** Sort of Confirmed, as most of the cutscenes [[spoiler: including the Bite of '83]] take place in the diner, but 2 most likely never existed.
409
410	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy and Nightmare Bonnie are the Supply suits mentioned in [=FNAF3=]]]
411	Going by this line of dialog from Night 4:
412	"Until replacements arrive, you'll be expected to wear the temporary costumes provided to you. Keep in mind that they were found on very short notice, so questions about appropriateness/relevance should be deflected"
413
414	These suits look like they could have been built fairly quickly and had little time to be modified to be safe and usable. Plus with the line about "Appropriateness" also springs (no pun intended) to mind looking at these things. Plus more evidence is that its a Freddy and a Bonnie suit and both have four fingered hands.
415	* This Troper can say his own theory is Jossed due to the inclusion of Nightmare Chica
416	** The old supply suits do have Nightmare forms, in the form of [[BigBad Nightmare Fredbear]] and [[FunSize Plushtrap]].
417
418	[[WMG: This game is not going to be about the Dead Children. It's going to be about the creator of the Animatronics]]
419
420	This came to me after the moment of FridgeBrilliance I got about the Number 4. Just think about this. The real, unsolved mystery that nobody had paid attention to because we had almost zero clues about it: The fact those animatronics are way too advanced for the dates. They are way too advanced for even today. Remember that it's unclear if the Toy animatronics were even haunted and it's canon that the animatronics are expected to be able to interact with guests but they are not doing it during the games for safety reasons. Maybe there's a separation between animatronic AI and child spirit, and the animatronic [=AIs=] are the murderous ones, inspired by the childrens' spirits inhabiting them. But, since the story of the childrens' spirits is complete and they are already resting in peace (After all, the Number 3 is about Completeness) the last thread of story is about the animatronics themselves, if they are super advanced technology or something else entirely.
421
422	It would also explain the relationship between the Phone Guy, the Purple Guy and the Creator of the Animatronics: The first two people have been there since the beginning of the franchise, never entirely moving on and knowing a lot about the inner workings of the animatronics themselves. As [=MatPat=] from ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' said, Phone Guy displays a lot of knowledge the Purple Guy must have had in order to commit the killings and both have been there since the first two restaurants (Confirmed for Purple Guy and the first restaurant in [=FNaF2=] and the Phone Guy/Second Restaurant in [=FNaF3=]), but, incredible enough, neither of the two is expecting to the animatronics to ''actually'' be haunted (Purple Guy is surprised during their apparition in the final Mini Game in [=FNaF3=] and the Phone Guy has trouble with that explanation on [=FNaF=]). Are Purple Guy and Phone Guy the same? Are either of the two the creator of the animatronics? Or are these people three separate entities that related somehow? Is the creator of the animatronics Nighmare Freddy?
423
424	[[WMG: The game will have nothing, or very little, to do with the 5 murdered children.]]
425	That storyline has been officially closed in Five Nights At Freddy's 3. Opening it up again would just be too much. Instead, this game will focus on plot threads that have yet to be explored, such as the story behind the Marionette and the 'rumours' that stirred up around that 'last location' (Fred-Bear's Family Diner) mentioned in Five Nights At Freddy's 2.
426
427	[[WMG: Markiplier will provide the voice of a character in the game]]
428	The guy has played through the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys last]] [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 three]] [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 games]] in their entirety, and practically deserves some sort of compensation for it. He'll voice another character besides Phone Guy who'll communicate through the phone (possibly a police officer who is suspicious of what's occurring there while your shift is on).
429	* Or, he'll be a reporter interviewing staff in the guise of Wilford Warfstache.
430
431	[[WMG: The Game will be revealed to be the murdered children's purgatory, and the "nightmare" characters ironically their own enraged victims]]
432	* If you think about it, it'd make sense AND poetic justice. They spent decades attempting to (and at least twice succeeding at) murder every poor schmuck who got hired as a night guard by the franchise, and the simple fact that they ceased the haunting after finally taking revenge on their ACTUAL killer proves they knew, at some level, that their victims WERE, if not innocent in the original meaning of the word, blameless in their deaths. The fourth game will have you play as one/ all of the children in purgatory, being stalked by the enraged spirits of their OWN victims manifesting as distorted, nightmarish parodies of the Characters they once controlled and forced to relive their kills form the perspective of the men/ women they tore apart.
433	** This can make sense, especially given that the animatronic scream is a mix of the ones in the Previous Games and the allusion that the child or spirits would've had to known how they sounded before. Who better to know how those screams sound like than the night guards who've heard them before being dragged off to be killed?
434
435	[[WMG: There will be Nightmare Foxy and Chica]]
436	They've revealed a Nightmare Bonnie alongside the Freddy, they might also reveal the other 2 as Nightmares.
437	* confirmed, at least for Chica thus far
438	** Totally confirmed.
439
440	[[WMG: The 'two Purple Men' theory is true.]]
441	And both of their souls possess the Nightmares. Nightmare Bonnie is a 'repaired' Springtrap, soul and all, while Nightmare Freddy is the other springlock suit, possessed by the other Purple Man.
442	* Explain Nightmare Chica, then.
443	* I think this is jossed because of Nightmare Chica.
444	** And Foxy... and Springtrap... [[spoiler:and Fredbear]].
445
446	[[WMG: What color will the Nightmare Foxy use in the Teaser?]]
447	So far, the colors used for the teasers for Nightmare Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica are red, blue, and yellow respectively. Assuming Nightmare Foxy will be next, what color would accompany him? Some choices can be:
448	* Orange
449	* Green
450	* Purple
451	* Black and White
452	* Blue and Black
453	* Gold And White
454	** [[spoiler:It's red.]] And seems to be going roughly by the color of the animatronics. Bonnie having a blue image seems to be more based on his minigame appearance in ''3'' and his Toy self in ''2'' though.
455
456	[[WMG: When the Nightmare Foxy teaser comes out, it will ''also'' have the "Was it me?" tagline]]
457	And the reason for all three of them having it is because Scott is quizzing us. Who caused the bite? Was it Bonnie? Was it Chica? Or was it Foxy?
458	* Sort of confirmed? It says "Or me?", but not "Was it me?". It's similar enough.
459
460	[[WMG: The Final Image Will Have "[[ArcWords IT'S ME]]" On It]]
461
462	[[WMG: The game is a parody.]]
463	Either of the franchise or of some other horror related thing. Some fans find the teased designs so over the top they're more funny than scary (especially now that the cupcake has a Nightmare version); perhaps this was on purpose.
464
465	[[WMG: Foxy will have the worst teeth of them all.]]
466	It's subtle, but noticeable that Scott has improved the teeth in one way or another for each teaser. First Freddy had two sets of steel cone-like teeth, then Bonnie came in with sharper, hook-shaped teeth, and currently Chica, with the same as Bonnie, but with '''three''' sets of teeth instead of two. How about having Foxy giving all three of those guys a run for their money?
467	* Confirmed in the worst way possible, instead of more teeth, he has a '''tongue'''.
468	** The tongue is gone in the final release. Tears have been said
469
470	[[WMG: The animatronics are either heavily remodeled, or based on the classic models.]]
471	Nightmare Freddy has a similar shape as classic Freddy and the removable hat that was shown in the first FNAF 2 teaser, Nightmare Bonnie has the same head and ear shape as classic Bonnie, and Nightmare Chica has the same (actually wider) unhinged jaw as classic Chica. They're probably only based on the models though, as the models themselves were [[spoiler:refurbished into the ones from FNAF 1]].
472	* Confirmed! The [=UnWithereds=] were, in fact, the basis for the Nightmares.
473
474	[[WMG: The next teaser picture, presumably that of Nightmare Foxy, will be released on May 27th]]
475	The first teaser picture of a Nightmare animatronic, Nightmare Freddy, was released on April 27th, then Nightmare Bonnie's picture was released on May 7th, finally, Nightmare Chica's picture was released on May 17th, following a pattern of Scott releasing a teaser picture every 10 days, (Or on every day that ends with a seven) using this logic, we can expect to see Nightmare Foxy on May 27th, 10 days from when Nightmare Chica first appeared.
476	* Jossed, No such teaser came on the 27th
477
478	[[WMG: There will Nightmare versions of all previous animatronics.]]
479	The already been Nightmare versions of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, as well as [[spoiler:Fredbear, and Plushtrap]]. So there will be Nightmare versions of;
480	* Foxy, Confirmed
481	* Golden Freddy,
482	* Toy Freddy,
483	* Toy Bonnie,
484	* Toy Chica,
485	* Mangle (Toy Foxy),
486	* BB (Balloon Boy),
487	** [[spoiler: '''''Confirmed, being added in the Halloween Update''''']]
488	* The Puppet,
489	* Bare Endoskeleton,
490	* Shadow Freddy,
491	* Shadow Bonnie,
492	* Springtrap (Spring Bonnie, Golden Bonnie),
493	** Confirmed
494	* Phantom Freddy,
495	* Phantom Chica,
496	* Phantom Foxy,
497	* Phantom BB (Phantom Balloon Boy),
498	* Phantom The Puppet,
499	* And Phantom Mangle (Phantom Toy Foxy).
500
501	Isn't this a bit much? I get it's the final game and all, but why include the Shadows (who were ghosts), the bare endoskeleton (who HELPED you) and phantoms (who were either not real or the ghosts of the previous characters)?
502
503	[[WMG: The Next Teaser won't be on Foxy]]
504	It'll be on BB, or maybe even JJ!
505	* Jossed, [[spoiler: Unless Fredbear/Nightmare Fredbear is in fact Balloon Boy.]]
506
507	[[WMG: Springtrap will get hit with TheWorfEffect]]
508	You'll spend the first night struggling to beat Springtrap, and then play a mimigame where Nightmare!Freddy [[CurbstompBattle mops the floor with him.]]
509
510	[[WMG: This game will have {{Multiple Endings}}...]]
511	...and each ending has a different animatronic do the Bite of 87. I suggest this because, frankly, almost ''every'' animatronic has a shred of evidence suggesting it was the biter. And given how the teasers have at this point ''two'' animatronics asking it was them, I thought...well, what if it's both? So basically, the decisions you make in-game will affect later events, and it's possible for any of them to have been the biter.
512
513	[[WMG: Someone found the old animatronics and rebuilt them for a [[HereWeGoAgain new horror attraction]]]]
514	It's why they look so terrifying and menacing, because someone's trying to remake Fazbear Fright out of the parts they found.
515
516	[[WMG: There will be a completely new Animatronic/Nightmare]]
517	Going by the above trope about there being nightmares of all previous Animatronics, Perhaps the 10 on the BB teaser not only hints about 4 being released on October but perhaps that will be the number of Animatronics in there.
518
519	My theory on what Nightmare Animatronics besides the Original 4 (Foxy is obviously going to be there) could be the following,
520	* Golden Freddy (Probably not a nightmare version)
521	* Mangle
522	* The Puppet (Same case as Golden Freddy)
523	* BB
524	* Springtrap (possibly not a nightmare version)
525	** Confirmed to appear, just not in his original form. Instead, he appears to be some kind of "Chuckytrap"
526
527	That number at least amounts to 9 Animatronics with Fairly Unique qualities and behaviours and considering how Scott has been known to surprise us with new characters in the final release, I.e Foxy in 1 and the Puppet and BB in 2. Perhaps there will be one more unique Animatronic who will stand as the true nightmare to the Fazbear horror which brings the number to 10.
528	* Confirmed. Golden Freddy/[[spoiler:Nightmare Fredbear]] and Springtrap/Plushtrap are in the game, and The Puppet/[[spoiler:Nightmarionne]] and Balloon Boy/Nightmare BB are in the Halloween DLC.
529
530	[[WMG: The final teaser picture will be [[spoiler:Mangle.]]]]
531	With the text "[[spoiler:IT WAS ME]]".
532
533	[[WMG: There will be no Nightmare Foxy.]]
534	And the fact that Foxy was not featured in any teasers for the first game was {{Foreshadowing}} that only the other three original animatronics would have Nightmare forms.
535	* [[http://i.imgur.com/P0Y1Kdu.jpg Jossed]]
536
537	[[WMG: There will be Springtrap in this game, Nightmare or otherwise.]]
538	Remember the quote from the third game? "He will come back. He always does. We have a place for him." Remember, "He always does", as in, he will always come back. It's entirely possible that the quote still stands, and Springtrap will come back once again.
539	* His Condition however comes into question. Unless he got away without any damage from the fire, he could look probably more horrifying.
540	** Semi Confirmed What appears to be Springtraps Toy equivalent is confirmed under the decrypted code Plushtrap
541	*** What makes you think it's Toy Springtrap? Yes, it does appear to be a (literal) toy, but in-universe Springtrap was just an older version of Bonnie, not a separate character.
542	*** Just grasping a comparison, not saying it's definite; I felt it would be easier to say that this appeared to be Springtrap's (literal) Toy Equivalent plus the name in the code implies it is something like the toy Animatronics (Plushtrap).
543
544	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics are the animatronics themselves, no longer haunted, but in purgatory, hell, or robot hell.]]
545	The children were revealed to be freed in the good ending, but nothing was said about the Animatronics themselves, and it's been hinted in the first 2 games that they are alive and sentient. In the first game, there was that lower pitched reversed message about living metal, while in the second game, it was said that the animatronics reacted well around children, but not adults and are fiercely protective of the children. There's also the fact that some of them attacked the guard even though they weren't haunted (like the toy ones) and even then the old ones may not have been haunted until the second restaurant. When the children left, they went to a good afterlife because it wasn't them who killed the night guards, but the animatronics, while the children were forced to watch, but now that both are dead, they went to different places thanks to their different actions.
546	* If they were sentient the entire time, what was the point of making them haunted?
547	* When the children where placed in the suits by the puppet after being killed, they haunted the suits, but after the suits were put back on the animatronic endoskeleton, the children's ghosts shifted to the animatronic.
548
549	[[WMG: [[TheDogWasTheMastermind Chica was the mastermind]]]]
550	Why? Because she was always golden.
551	* Not in this game, but in the High School segments of ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'', this is true.
552
553	[[WMG: The player character is the Bite victim]]
554	Going by some research and from the recent 8-Bit Gaming theory video where its stated that damage to the Frontal lobe can cause mass exaggeration among rash and impulsive behavior (Doctors might need to quote this troper on that)
555	But the reason the Animatronics look too over the top and demonic is because the player character over exaggeratedly remembers them that way, and the question their asking "Was it me" is a question the player character is trying to remember and answer.
556	** [[spoiler:Confirmed]].
557
558	[[WMG: The Toy animatronics will still be [[PutOnABus on their bus.]]]]
559	Except for BB and the Puppet. Maybe Mangle too.
560
561	[[/folder]]
562
563	[[folder: Pre-Release - Part 2]]
564
565	[[WMG: The protagonist is Phone Guy's grandkid, and the Nightmare animatronics are not ''quite'' what they seem]]
566	Phone Guy, under this theory, had at least one child, not at all outside the realm of possibility. Phone Guy's kid was raised by a father who really loved the pizzeria and probably brought got him or her in for free a bunch of times. Phone Guy's kid would be fond of the restaurant and have lots of happy memories with his/her father. At some point, Phone Guy's kid came into some substantial wealth and, wanting to make memories with his/her own child, bought the Fazbear's Fright props. There's a corner of their huge house where the animatronics remain, but they wander all through the place.
567
568	But his/her kid, like most of us, is very put off by the animatronics, so much so they appear in the demonic, nightmare-like way they do. While they are still murderous, they appear far more frightening to our poor KidHero than the adults who had to contend with the animatronics before. And persumably, they'd have gotten to the point they WouldHurtAChild.
569
570	Kids have always been a huge element of the series, so why not play as one? For further interesting points, the prerecorded audio will be Phone Guy and the hero's parent as a child (played by one of Scott's kids) making a tape with cryptic hints on Bring Your Kid to Work Day.
571
572	[[WMG: The previous game's Good Ending will be officially declared non-canon.]]
573	Looking at the Nightmares so far, both Chica and Bonnie have their left eye lit, just as in the Bad Ending picture. The sole exception to date is Freddy - which may mean that particular Nightmare is Golden Freddy, whose eyes are ''both'' lit in the image.
574	* Jossed. Nightmare Foxy has both eyes lit; the Foxy head in the Bad Ending had only one eye lit.
575	** Also, this takes place ''way'' before FNAF 3.
576
577	[[WMG: Freddy himself did pick up the hat.]]
578	Good ol' Nightmare's got a hat, but it's a pretty dilapidated one and looks nothing like the original. Slim chance, but I think that he may have done something to Freddy, who after the release, will appear on Scott's website, sending himself off with his second ([[TheMovie but not last]]) good-bye.
579	* And who knows, maybe even the rest of the gang will appear as well, possibly in movie form.
580
581	[[WMG: After the game's release, a new picture will appear.]]
582	A movie projector, wearing Freddy's hat with the fan next to it. That is, if the film comes out after ''4''.
583	* Or Freddy and the gang giving one final bow
584	** [[http://i.imgur.com/MsyIP5B.jpg Confirmed!]]
585	** Or maybe the site will be blank until the movie
586
587	[[WMG: Nightmare Foxy's teaser will not say "Was it me?"]]
588	Instead, it will say, [[NotMeThisTime "It wasn't me!"]]. Foxy always found a way to stand out from the other animatronics. [=FNAF1=] - He didn't appear in the trailer and would attack automatically if the cameras weren't checked. [=FNAF2=] - Wasn't affected by the mask and could only be turned away by the flashlight. [=FNAF3=] - No known trigger that summons his phantom.
589	* [[spoiler:Partially confirmed.]] It says [[spoiler:"''Or me?''"]].
590
591	[[WMG: The Nightmare animatronics will not show up in the game at all.]]
592	Just because it had to be guessed.
593	* Jossed by the trailer.
594	** And the actual game.
595	*** This was a dumb WMG to begin with.
596	*** Dumb theories are what WMG is for, buddy.
597
598	[[WMG: There is no fourth teaser.]]
599	The reason why Nightmare Foxy is delayed is because he was never intended. Nightmare Chica is literally the last teaser before the game comes out.
600	* Foxy's late, but ''[[http://i.imgur.com/P0Y1Kdu.jpg heeeeeee's hereeeeeeee]]''.
601	* So jossed.
602
603	[[WMG: The next image will be Nightmare Golden Freddy.]]
604	* [[spoiler:Jossed... maybe. All the image shows is a purple top hat and bow tie under a spotlight... with the reflection of something's teeth shown as well.]]
605	** [[spoiler:Actually confirmed.]]
606
607	[[WMG: Nightmare Foxy's face is zoomed in...]]
608	[[spoiler: Because he's not just Foxy, but also fused with The Mangle, which will be implied in Mangle's trailer by having her facing the exact opposite direction as Foxy.]]
609	* [[spoiler: And Balloon Boy makes up the head of this creature.]]
610
611	[[WMG: Balloon Boy, Mangle, and the Puppet will return]]
612	Judging from the trailer for ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', it seems that Balloon Boy, Mangle and the Puppet were the very first Toy Animatronics to be built; either during the end of the first Fazbear's Pizza or the beginning of the "Brand New" Fazbear's Pizza. Chances are, they'll come back.
613	* Sort of confirmed, all three are added to the Halloween Edition, however it is not canon. [[spoiler: However, Nightmare Balloon Boy, who replaces Plushtrap, was also added to the Halloween Update and has been confirmed by Scott on a livestream that he is in fact '''''Canon...''''']]
614
615	[[WMG: A future teaser will be Springtrap.]]
616	Springtrap was a pretty significant enemy, and (depending on how you interpret it) very likely in the restaurant's sealed-off safe room during the events of the first game (though whether or not it contained the [[spoiler: Purple Man's corpse]] is still open for debate. Either way, that's plenty of justification to include him in the lineup of the Nightmareified robots of the first game.
617	* Confirmed.
618
619	[[WMG: This really is just some random Halloween party someone is throwing.]]
620	* He or she may have been a big Fazbear Entertainment fan as a kid and they bought all the leftover parts that was left to be put in the auction. He/she wants to throw a party for the masses, or folks who would remember Fazbear Entertainment history. The way the mascots look are NOT what they seem in the past games, so it could possibly be a Halloween party or an attraction knockoff.
621
622	[[WMG: Instead of the above theory, it will end up all being people in suits.]]
623	* And they were repaired to be in high quality to prevent another Purple Guy incident.
624
625	[[WMG: Only the original 4 (or 5) animatronics will return in nightmare form]]
626	Not counting Springtrap and [[spoiler:Nightmare]], confirmed.
627
628	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics are the childrens' souls in a Demonic Form.]]
629	They were neglected from the heavens (pretty obvious why) and sent to the hell.
630
631	[[WMG: Nightmare Freddy is a girl.]]
632	This troper believes that she looks pretty feminine, and it certainly would explain the small bears pictured with her.
633
634	[[WMG: Nightmare Bonnie is the Purple Man taken on a demonic form]]
635	Mostly due to the case that the Purple Man and Bonnie are extremely connected. Nightmare Bonnie also has the color purple in his eyes and a chin much like the Purple Man. This Nightmare Bonnie is a form that the Purple Man's soul was damned with as a horrendous punishment for his actions.
636
637	[[WMG: The Phone Guy is the naked endoskeleton we saw in the first and second games.]]
638	It would make sense. The only game without the naked endoskeleton is also the only game without a live Phone Guy. In addition, remember what he said in the first game: That you should look in the empty heads in the back room. And the only character consistently in the back room in that game is the endoskeleton.
639
640	[[WMG: Like the above theory, the 4th game is on Halloween, but instead of a party, the player character is going trick-or-treating]]
641	Then ends up entering a building with the nightmare animatronics, and he's stuck in there and trying to find a way out while surviving the animatronic's attacks. The building could quite possibly be an Eldritch Location, which is why it would take five (or more) nights to get out of, or it's just really long and the unlocked entrance is on the other side.
642
643	[[WMG: The store page will not reveal the game's situation.]]
644	Maybe it's a new restaurant. Maybe you're having nightmares. Maybe you're insane and in a padded cell. Maybe you're in hell. [[NothingIsScarier You just don't know.]] And, of course, there'll also be the (unspoiled) player's doubts about whether or not the truth will ever be revealed for certain (there's also the possibility that there's multiple truths revealed via multiple endings in a case of SchrodingersGun).
645
646	[[WMG: There will a BigBadEnsemble]]
647	Each of the previous games animatronics can be grouped together, the Originals, the Toys, the Phantoms, there will be Nightmare versions of each group, and each group will a leader which is a BigBad, the Nightmare Originals leader will be Nightmare Freddy or Nightmare Golden Freddy, the Nightmare Toys leader will be Nightmare The Puppet, the Nightmare Phantoms leader will be Nightmare Springtrap (who controls the Nightmare Phantoms).
648
649	[[WMG: [[spoiler: The teaser image when brightened up does in fact confirm Fredbear Family Diner as the location FNAF 4 takes place at.]]]]
650	* [[spoiler: Brightened up picture of that [[http://i.imgur.com/g4qA5P8.png text]]]]
651
652	[[WMG: Purple Freddy is Fredbear ]]
653	Seeing as the Hat and bow are both purple, coupled with the fact the hidden text may very well say "Property of Fredbears Family Diner" Putting two and two together makes one realise that Purple Freddy who has been in both 2 and 3 prior as an easter egg could be the mysterious Fredbear we've heard of.
654	* Jossed. [[spoiler: ''Golden'' Freddy is Fredbear.]]
655
656	[[WMG: Purple Guy is the original owner of Fredbear's Family Diner]]
657	The reason he killed was to get back at Fazbear entertainment for ruining his franchise. You can decide on whether it "worked" or not.
658	* His name is Fred Fazbear or Fred Fredbear and he will be the final BigBad.
659	** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 But we already fought him.]]
660	[[WMG: The "Property of Fr____er stands for [[spoiler:Freddy Krueger.]]]]
661	[[spoiler:Many people noted similarities between this game and the Nightmare series. "Nightmare", blade-hands Freddy and the horrific redesigns.]] Note the lack of an "A" in the last letters so it can't be Fazbear, Fr could be Freddy, and why else would he black it out. He likely got the rights to a crossover because: Why would the creators not want to cash in on the horror sensation and give the villain a role again. It all fits.
662	* It says Fredbear's family diner. Not Krueger.
663	** I'm talking about the hidden "Property of Fr______________er" message. The ___ are blanked out.
664	*** I know, but still, it's kind of obviously Fredbear. And why would FREDDY KRUEGER have robot partners? If anything, him being in the game would probably make more questions than answer them.
665	*** Remember, he is a child killer. The robots get closer to children. And, he likely would kill them in the dream world. The reason the children's spirits were stuck was because he put them there, knowing they would terrorize the night guard and would almost never get said vengeance. Now, however, the heroes have lasted all 3 games, and he's coming in full force, at only one person-- [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou You.]]
666	** Jossed due to the [[spoiler:new Fredbear's teaser.]] Plus, him being in the game would be stupid.
667
668	[[WMG: The location will be Fredbear's Family Diner where everything began]]
669	* The Purple Hat teaser has text in the bottom right corner that reads "Property of Fr____er". Using a similar text and size it is too small to be "Freddy Fazbear"... but "Fredbear's Family Diner" appears to fit perfectly.
670	** Confirmed in the minigames. The main game takes place in the player character kid's house, though.
671
672	[[WMG: The music during the ending will not be like that of [=FNAF=] 3, but instead be downright cathartic.]]
673	The music of 3's was in remembrance of the innocents who had been trapped in the terrible events of that [=FNAF=] mythos. The music of 4's ending will be a cathartic tribute to the whole nightmare. It could quite possibly an instrumental of The Living Tombstone's first [=FNAF=] song.
674
675	[[WMG: The current teaser image will appear each four images.]]
676	And the more times it appears, the more revealing it becomes (spotlight is larger, letters are revealed, the teeth become more visible), until the animatronic with the purple hat and bowtie is finally revealed, saying '''"It was me."'''
677
678	[[WMG: The remaining phantoms will appear in this game]]
679	3 confirmed there were indeed 11 kids taken by Vincent. 3 also proved that the Toys were haunted, and that being scrapped apparently didn't free them. Maybe this game will show us the 5 unseen phantoms.
680	* How exactly does 3 confirm these things?
681	** For starters, in the happiest day mini game, there were 11 children. Then there's the fact that Mangle and Balloon Boy return as phantoms. Why would those two be haunted but not the other toy animatronics? Especially since those two seem just as haunted as the rest.
682	*** How are ANY of them haunted? Remember how the children's spirits were set free when Purple Guy died?
683	*** The Phantoms alone should prove they were haunted. And yes, they were real because why call them phantoms if they aren't..
684	*** You ''are'' aware of what a phantom is... right?
685
686	[[WMG: The "nightmare" animatronics are a result of the player character's insanity]]
687	As stated in the Nightmare Fuel page for this game, we're not sure if the person viewing the nightmare animatronics is even sane or not. In the game, the animatronics (at least, the original four which have been revealed so far) will appear in their original appearances from the first game... but as the nights go by, the player character's sanity will take a turn for the worse, and he'll start seeing the animatronics in a "different" light...
688	* Semi-confirmed. The end-of-night mini-games take place in the [[ThisIsReality "real"]] world and depict perfectly normal [=UnWithereds=], while the nights contain the nightmares of the player character.
689
690	[[WMG: The purple hat and tie belong to [[spoiler:Springtrap]]]]
691
692	The obvious theory is the hat and tie belong to Fredbear, but it's possible it's a RedHerring.
693
694	What color are the hat and tie? Purple. What two characters are associated with purple? [[spoiler:Bonnie and the Purple Man]]. Keeping that in mind, remember that [[spoiler:the Purple Man was revealed to be a variant of Bonnie: Springtrap]]. Also remember that [[spoiler:Springtrap]] used to [[spoiler:perform with Golden Freddy, and that Bonnie's variants are ''always'' seen with a bowtie - so where's Springtrap's]]? The simplest explanation is [[spoiler:Springtrap was discontinued because the suit was unsafe]], which could also explain why the purple bow tie and hat still look brand new: the items simply never got the chance to be used.
695
696	We also know they are supposedly [[spoiler:the property of Fredbear's Family Diner]], which puts [[spoiler:Springtrap]] in the proper place on the timeline.
697	* Here's a problem, though: [[spoiler:Springtrap]] wasn't from Fredbear's. Phone Guy (rather specifically) says Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in FNAF 3. And even if he is somehow still from Fredbear's, the hat looks too big for his head.
698	** Original OP here. ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' ''does'' also have the one minigame with [[spoiler:Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie performing together with no other characters]], which in and of itself could be a hint to to Fredbear's. It was never clarified if this mini game was part of Fredbear's Family Diner or Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. As for the audio tape, one possible explanation is it came during the Fredbear-to-Freddy's conversion (hence using the new name), and the "sister location" mentioned was the original diner that hasn't been completely converted over yet. Looking at the minigame also shows ''something'' at [[spoiler:Springtrap's]] throat, though it's unclear if it's a button or a bow tie. As for the hat being too big to fit, that could actually be right, and another reason it was never used for the show for what little time [[spoiler:Springtrap]] was able to perform.
699
700	[[WMG: Fredbear will be [[TrueFinalBoss the main antagonist.]]]]
701	* And he will be in a ''horrific'' state, looking like he was salvaged from all of the animatronics (mainly Freddy, of course). He will also appear in Night 6.
702	** [[spoiler:Confirmed, in that he DOES appear in the game, we just don't know when or what he completely looks like (all we know is that he likes purple clothing, has 2 mouths and "was probably it"]]
703	*** [[Spoiler:Completely correct, aside from the "looking like he was salvaged from the others" bit.]]
704
705	[[WMG: The game will be set at Fredbear's, but not during its time]]
706	The game will be about someone trying to destroy what's left of the Fazbear history, and winding up at the diner. The reason you're monitoring the old animations is to either take notes or to keep them inside the diner. Or both.
707
708	[[WMG: The "teeth" in the purple hat teaser is Springtrap's arm.]]
709	Just posting this for the sake of posting before the reveal. Nightmare Freddy has steel cone teeth, not the hooked in ones we see in the teaser. He also doesn't have eyes like those, which look human and glow purple, and instead has grey metal, glowing eyes. the jaw also looks misshapen, like a reflection on a wet floor. My guess? Those aren't teeth. That's a reflection of Springtrap's arm. Two joints, as with every other animatronic's arm, low eyes, as [[spoiler: his head was likely sold at an auction, so that's the Purple Man's head]], and a burnt appearance.
710
711	[[WMG: Mangle will make an appearance.]]
712	Mangle seems to have a strange importance based on the previous two games. She showed up in a mini game where she had no point in being in but to crash the game in number 2, and made a physical appearance in FNAF 3, and might not have been a Phantom. Mangle also seems to be one of the more actively malevolent animatronics, and seems to actually want to kill the guards as opposed to stuff the, in a suit. This game is also theorized to reveal the truth about the bite of 87 and Mangle is commonly assumed to be the perp. If she makes a 'surprise' appearance, I would not consider it much of a surprise.
713
714	[[WMG: The jumpscares will come with less deter and greater regularity]]
715	For better or for worse, I've noticed a trend across the series: If you play the first game perfectly, you will never get a jumpscare, barring an uncontrollable visit from Golden Freddy possibly mucking things up. Played perfectly, there will never be an animatronic in your office and you will never get the scare. In the second game, the animatronics WILL get in the office no matter how you play and you will meet them face to face. But again, played perfectly, you will never get a jumpscare. In the third game, no amount of perfect play can both keep Springtrap and the phantoms away. You are forced to accept the scares as they come and keep playing in spite of it. So, as the terrors get closer and closer with each installment, the fourth game will continue this trend... Though how it will do so I seriously have no idea.
716
717	[[WMG: Purple Guy's name]]
718	It's not Vincent, it's [[spoiler:Tnecniv]]
719	* It's William.
720
721	[[WMG: The teeth in the fifth teaser belong to the Mangle.]]
722	The reflection isn't any of the other Nightmare animatronics; the shape of the jaws is too long for Freddy or Bonnie and not pointed at the snout enough for Chica or Foxy. Also, there appear to be two eye-like spots reflected ''below'' the jaws, as if the animatronic being reflected was hanging upside-down on the ceiling.
723
724	[[WMG: The culprit of the Bite of '87 will be an entirely new character.]]
725	* Only if you don't count Golden Freddy as one and the same with Fredbear.
726
727	[[WMG: The game mechanics will focus on Chica in some way.]]
728	Let's look at the trend so far. The first game's mechanics tends to focus on Freddy himself. He comes to visit you when the power's off, he is the toughest of the four to evade, he's the last to be active, and you can get a surprise in the form of Golden Freddy. The second game, however, focuses more on Foxy. He's one of the few animatronics that aren't fooled by the Freddy mask, his Toy version is [[OddNameOut completely]] [[BodyHorror different]] than the others, he gets mentioned more often by Phone Guy in the calls (due to him being his favorite), and running out of flashlight power or a Balloon Boy visit is likely to get you killed by him. He also gets a minigame and an EasterEgg. The third game only features one animatronic: a decayed variant of Bonnie. With that in mind, this may mean Chica gets a DayInTheLimelight. We might even see Scott [[AscendedMeme reference]] the cupcake meme in some way.
729
730	[[WMG: The brand-new-top-secret-super-hidden message is:]]
731	"Pro[[spoiler:bably]] Me."
732
733	Because why not?
734
735	** Or maybe it says "Pro[[spoiler:perty of]] me".
736	*** Maybe Fredbear's a gangster and said Pro[[spoiler: ]]me
737
738	[[WMG: Fredbear is the other springlock suit.]]
739	He '''has''' to be.
740	* Jossed, Golden Freddy's the other suit. And Springtrap wasn't from Fredbear's, he came from a restaurant in between that and the FNAF 2's location.
741	** Not Jossed. Golden Freddy being a springlock suit and Springtrap's origin are completely fan speculation, which obviously doesn't mean that it's canon.
742	*** Phone Guy flat out states that Springtrap is from "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza" in FNAF 3. You can't say they renamed the original place because really, what would be the point of establishing a different name for the place if it gets the same name later on? And about Golden Freddy, he never moves, is golden and can't be found on the map. I.e. the suit was in suit mode, looks like Springtrap and is probably hidden off in the safe room. As for why he just teleports into the office, I don't know, maybe all the animatronics can do that and just don't bother or haven't figured out how to. It's not like they know their in-game roles or something.
743	*** Confirmed, Golden Freddy ''is'' Fredbear.
744
745	[[WMG: The Figure in the new teaser is Shadow Bonnie]]
746	Going by the body shape with the buttons and bow tie which are two prominent traits of Bonnie as well as Freddy, what really clinches it for this troper is the fact the Jaw of the beast is similar to that of Nightmare Bonnie and not Nightmare Freddy, Another possible attempt to throw us off?
747	* Jossed, the coding says Fredbear.
748
749	[[WMG: Fredbear is Shadow Freddy.]]
750	After the "Give Cake" event in 2 where Fredbear was unable to save the child being killed by Purple Man outside the pizzeria, something happened to him that filled him with darkness and created/turned him into a shadow spectre.
751	* Explains [[spoiler:his color in the new teaser]].
752
753	[[WMG: Fredbear and Nightmare Freddy are the BigBadDuumvirate.]]
754
755	[[WMG: Springtrap will not appear in this game.]]
756	Just taking a random guess.
757	* Jossed. He's back and cuter than ever.
758
759	[[WMG: The security guard of Five Nights 3 was Jeremy, and Five Nights 4 will be about his SanitySlippage.]]
760
761	Jeremy was the Bite victim. He survived it, but ended up with severe brain damage and trauma. He spent time recuperating, but he doesn't have a clear memory of what happened, so he got the job at Fazbear Fright as a way to try and get his memory back. It only ''kind of'' worked; he sees the Phantoms (something that only he would be able to hallucinate), but he still can't really remember. The fourth game will be from his perspective, as he deliberately makes a bunch of terrifying animatronics and sets them to chase him through an empty building, trying to either get to the bottom of all this shit, or die in the attempt.
762
763	[[WMG:The Bare Endoskeleton will return]]
764	Though we may or may not see a teaser of him. Like in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 2]], he will indirectly help you (by keeping the murderous nightmare versions out). Unlike the Other Animatronics, he will actually look better, not worse (it'll be his "Dreamy" version). He will also retain his [[spoiler:vague relation with Marionette]].
765
766	[[WMG:[[http://i.imgur.com/oGbtLwL.jpg This]] Isn't Fredbear]]
767	Looking at the image, it's way too short and round to be Fredbear (If Freddy Fazbear is suppose to be inspired/similar to him), and Freddy's never had Buttons like the one on this Animatronic.
768	* Well, not in the first game, anyway. In the second game, both Withered Freddy and Toy Freddy had similar four-hole round buttons on their chests, though smaller in proportion. Given Fredbear's presumed history as a precursor to those models, larger buttons are a distinct possibility -- they would add to the appearance of a teddy bear.
769	** Withered Freddy and Toy Freddy didn't have four-hole buttons, but BB and the Puppet did...
770	*** So? The coding says Fredbear and while there is evidence the Puppet was at the first diner, there is zero evidence that BB was, and this looks nothing like either.
771	*** What's precluding BB from being a part of Fredbear's Diner though? In fact, it would make sense if BB was always a part of the Fredbear experience that eventually got kicked out as the time's changed. Which would be why he's in ''2'', but not in ''1''.
772	*** The reason he's not in 1 is because, for starters, he would be useless. Then take into consideration the fact that he lacked a withered form. If he was always an important character, why was he left out of a SISTER LOCATION!?
773	So who is that suppose to be? It's Balloon Boy or Balloon Girl!
774	* Freddy never having buttons can easily explained as "they just decided to not give the next Freddies buttons". The previous teaser and coding of the current one also straight out say Fredbear in them.
775
776	[[WMG: There will be no more animatronics beyond this point.]]
777	It's just these five and only these five. Additionally...
778	* Jossed, Springtrap is coming back as well.
779
780	[[WMG: The next teaser will show Fredbear's face.]]
781	* Jossed, it shows Springtrap, Jr.
782
783	[[WMG: The nightmares are prototypes for [[spoiler: Fredbear]] ]]
784
785	[[WMG: The player character this time is Phone Guy.]]
786	This explains how many of the loose plot threads can be resolved in the final game, since Phone Guy has been with the company since the beginning, and has detailed knowledge on all of the animatronics, as well as the springlock suits.
787
788	[[WMG: Fredbear was the only animatronic at his diner.]]
789	He had no bandmates back in the day, and he was literally the sole attraction, sans the pizza. This could easily be jossed if he's Shadow Freddy, since he might have Shadow Bonnie as a stage partner. That is, if the two are related to each other.
790	* Marionette was likely at Fredbear's as well, since the first child was killed outside of it and possessed Marionette.
791	** That's probably true. If it were a more recent pizzeria, the others would be there feeding the children as well - but instead, Fredbear is the only one there.
792
793	[[WMG: Provided this game is a prequel set in the original diner, Phone Guy is the original Fazbear, but ''not'' the animatronic of a similar name.]]
794	That is, he is the original owner of Fazbear's Family Diner, the one and only Fred Fazbear himself. If he's actually a bad guy or not is up for debate.
795	* Jossed, Phone Guy himself says the company was trying to contact the original owner.
796	** I don't really believe ''anything'' he says (except the rare times he tries to verbal backspace, implying he said something he didn't mean to), so I kind of disregarded that as a lie. Especially since "contacting the original owner" doesn't sound like something Fazbear Entertainment would actually do. Keep in mind that this company regularly hires night guards (many of whom don't make it past the first night or two) for the sole purpose of distracting the animatronics (essentially they're hired for slaughter), cleans up their murdered bodies which includes replacing the carpets, waits a month to file missing persons reports, gives these guards laughably limited means to protect themselves (up to and including limited power, a flashlight they need to ward off most of the animatronics with no spare batteries, a costume head that fools less than half of the animatronics, and ridiculously shoddy surveillance equipment), fires the guards for trying to make their environment safer, and give them almost no warning as to what their job truly entails. They would rather spend hundreds of dollars replacing carpets and doing intensive cleaning than they would rather let themselves be shut down, or simply turn down the murderous AI. As a result, I sincerely doubt they tried to contact the original owners.
797	*** So apparently, Mike, Jeremy, Fritz, the Bite of '87, the Spring lock suits, security guards, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, The Puppet, Purple Guy, the company, pizza, life, and Phone Guy himself don't exist. Thank you obviously right god who I must now kill myself over, you are the most greatest person ever for missing my point.
798	*** All ranting aside, [[WordOfGod Scott himself has stated]] that Phone Guy is an UnreliableExpositor -- in short, you should take everything he says with a grain of salt and check it against known facts. For instance, Phone Guy has never once mentioned the missing children, though he ''did'' briefly mention an investigation in the second game. ''Some'' of what he says is true -- the advice to check the screens while listening to his messages in the first game, for instance -- but some of it is confusing (his advice regarding Foxy in the first game), while some of it is questionable (he's our only source for the management's "boilerplate") and some is just downright wrong (starting from "It's really not that bad").
799	*** Er... if I missed something or was rude, I'm sorry... what point were you trying to make other than exactly what you said? There's no reason to think a company like Fazbear Entertainment would try to contact the original owner about things going wrong when they obviously try to keep it as hush-hush as they can unless it's totally unavoidable (such as a public incident). "Anything" is a hyperbole. I think he tells a lot of half-truths and outright lies (such as that they're trying to stuff you into a suit because they think you're an endoskeleton. He's been with the company for years and should know this isn't the case since the player can find out in less than a week, and yet it seems that being immobile when the power goes out makes Freddy take longer with killing you which he advises against). The only times I feel I can believe him is when he sounds as if he's reading off something (such as about the Spring-Lock suits and the way the company deals with dead guards), or when he brings up what seems to be indisputable facts (like that the animatronics exist, the company going through guards like Kleenex, and the fact that there were incidents in the past) because what he says is backed up outside of his dialogue by things in the environment and the newspapers.
800
801	[[WMG: The animatronics will not look like they do in the teasers in the game.]]
802	The extra sharp teeth and whatnot is just Scott doing his TrollingCreator thing again to make it look like he's trying too hard to be scary, and such things would be out of place except at Fazbear's Fright. If they do turn up, they'll be ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin- nightmares, not true animatronics. The player will have to struggle to stay awake during their shift, as each game has had a different element of distraction added to it (first was the doors, then the music box, then the entire vent/audio system thing). Also, if you do fall asleep, the game won't tell you until you get Nightmare'd to death (though you're also in danger when you're awake, too). This fits in with the Friday the Thirteenth theme the game seems to angle towards. There will probably be very subtle clues that you ''have'' dozed off, but nothing very obvious.
803	* Foxy's missing his snake tongue, but they look about the same otherwise.
804
805	[[WMG: The game is actually a midquel, taking place during the events of FNAF 3]]
806
807	[[WMG: Bonnie was/is still haunted by the ghost of the Purple Guy's own child.]]
808	Throughout the series, there's been a lot of fan speculation that there's something more to Bonnie than what we've seen so far. Our new Nightmare Bonnie image even gives him a few similarities to the Murderer — namely, the cleft chin and apparent SlasherSmile. This troper wonders if perhaps this is because Bonnie is the animatronic haunted by the Murder's own child.
809
810	For starters, it would not be the first time in history that a murderous rampage began with the death of somebody close to the culprit. Additionally, if the theory is true, the death could even have been an accident — maybe ''Bonnie'' was responsible for the Bite of '87, and the victim was Purple Guy's kid. As a result, Purple Guy snapped and started killing other children, probably because his own kid couldn't play or run around anymore. Hiding them inside the animatronics was just the most convenient thing to do.
811
812	We know from the Phone Guy that the victim of the Bite of '87 survived for at least a little while after the attack. This could explain why Bonnie would still be haunted after the events of [=FNAF3=]: Purple Guy's child didn't die right away, but was either taken off life support or died from something unrelated to their injury later on. This could mean that Bonnie has either been repossessed or was shared by two ghosts during the first three games.
813
814	If it's Purple Guy's kid, they could be coming back to run amok like Daddy did, and probably for the same reason: They were bitten, but it took forever afterwards for the restaurant to finally shut down. Maybe Purple Guy Junior doesn't feel as though the shutdown was punishment enough, especially considering it wasn't due to the Bite (as far as we know.)
815
816	** This makes this troper wonder that perhaps the Ghost you control in Night 5's minigame in FNAF 3 is Bonnie's ghost which would explain why he was walking up to Purple guy because the child recognised his father. He was trying to get his affection by approaching him only to end up causing [[spoiler:Purple guy's accidental yet justified demise in the Springtrap suit.]]
817
818	** [[spoiler:After watching the trailer, this troper thinks there is now more evidence supporting the theory that Purple Guy's kid will be involved. Bonnie has quite a bit of screentime and gives us the obligatory jumpscare at the end, and Springtrap seems to have been replaced by or remanifested himself as Plushtrap.]] Look closely at the way [[spoiler:Plushtrap]] moves. He jumps up into his little chair almost the way a small child would after being caught trying to move from a time-out spot. Could [[spoiler:Plushtrap]] be the Purple Guy's ghost? Or is he [[spoiler:Purple Guy Junior]] haunting a new object and sending out... whatever in the hell the Nightmares are?
819
820	*** As for why Purple Guy Junior would go after [[spoiler:whoever is in this house, particularly the child]]... Who's to say Purple Guy Junior was not bullied? In fact, who's to say [[spoiler:the child in FNAF 4]] did not somehow cause Purple Guy Junior to be bitten? Even if it was an accident, if Purple Guy Junior is anything like their pops...
821
822	*** Actually, the ''player'' is the one that's the Purple Guy's kid, but he is just dreaming up Nightmare Bonnie, so it's sort of confirmed.
823
824	[[WMG: There will be an unlockable option.]]
825	And it will only appear after completing the game.
826
827	It's a story that gives out the entirety of the storyline, covering up most if not all remaining questions. If the movie takes place in the continuity, and is not a simple adaptation of one of the games, then it will leave a few questions for the film to answer.
828
829	[[WMG: Nightmare/Toy Springtrap/[[spoiler:Plushtrap]] is Either Shadow Bonnie, Spring Bonnie or Akin to the Mini Freddy's]]
830
831	Now hear me out. I thought about this looking at the teaser, when brightened up Springtrap looks in tact compared to what we actually see in Springtrap, its also hard to make out how many digits it has but it looks like it only has 4 (it might have 5). It could either possibly be Springtrap before the Purple Guy incident. Or it could be another version of him that eventually became Shadow Bonnie
832
833	If not either due to its size which I admit may joss this.. Another theory is that this possible plush toy Springtrap is similar to the mini Freddys as seen in Nightmare Freddy.
834
835	[[WMG: Plushtrap is the last remnant of the [[spoiler:Purple Man's soul.]]]]
836	After the Fazbear's Fright fire, Springtrap perished, but what little remained of him was salvaged into Plushtrap. A small portion of [[spoiler:the Purple Man's]] spirit may have been unintentionally transferred to Plushtrap, similarly to how the five spirits were transferred into the FNAF 1 animatronics when they were [[spoiler:re]]built. This game is the [[spoiler:Purple Man's]] final stand, his last attempt at killing the player before truly [[KilledOffForReal dying.]]
837
838	[[WMG: [[spoiler: Fredbear's jumpscare...]]]]
839	...Will involve his [[BellyMouth torso]] in some way.
840	* God, I wish.
841
842	[[WMG: BB, Puppet and Mangle will get the Plush Treatment]]
843	With both the mini Freddys and Plushtrap in toe, this troper began to ponder if there could be any more of these toy based Animatronic's Perhaps being exactly the Toy Animatronic's from 2, mostl Balloon Boy, the Puppet and the Mangle, Three Animatronics from FNAF 2 with mysteries around them while getting some slight spotlight in FNAF 3, I.E BB's Balloon Adventure, Mangles Quest (And Phantom Mangle) As well as the Puppet itself.
844
845	This is one of those Depending on the timeline theories but perhaps if its a sequel then a Plush Mangle will show it in its Toy Foxy incarnation.
846
847	* Confirmed for Mangle in the Halloween Edition when it's fully retreated into the closet, as it is just a clone of Nightmare Foxy, who does the same.
848
849	[[WMG: [[spoiler: Plushtrap will be required to die]]]]
850	Rather than going directly for the office, the animatronics will try to unchain [[spoiler: Plushtrap]]. The reason they're doing this is simple. [[spoiler: They are actually being controlled by bits of the killer's soul. Once they get to him, he'll transfer his soul to the animatronic and then hunt down the player. Your goal is to keep them either lost or trapped within the building, because if you simply just keep them out of the room, they'll head for the office regardless.]]
851
852	[[WMG: You are a young Purple Man]]
853	The tiny Springtrap image is a metaphor, since we've never seen a canon image of this guy that doesn't look like it came from an old Atari console. The game will involve his fear of the these robots from older, pre-[=FNaF=] 2 restaurants; creating the psycho who has tormented them.
854
855	The Nightmare Animatronics are either genuine night terrors or the spawn of some eldritch force (likely Fredbear, going by the teasers), and your character is the boy who will eventually grow into the child murderer we all know and fear. Whatever happens in this game is enough to traumatize him to the point that he's compelled to commit his atrocities when Fredbear's Family Diner becomes Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
856	* A few details to note in support of this theory is that the color purple is prominent in pictures of the child's bedroom. Specifically on three objects, a fan (a trademark of the series), a toy phone (supporting theories that Purple Man and Phone Guy are one and the same), and a toy robot (a humanoid figure that looks like it could be wearing a badge, like the Purple Man in the ''[=FNAF 2=]'' minigame. It would also explain why Plushtrap is the "extra" mechanic, a la Foxy and the Puppet before.
857
858	* Acually, it's his son. Purple Guy's appearance as a child was actually revealed in a [[https://five-nights-at-freddys-world.fandom.com/wiki/Mini_P troll game]] of all things.
859
860	[[WMG: [[spoiler: The First Child wasn't murdered at Fredbear's Family Diner.]]]]
861	[[spoiler: Mainly due to the Freddy in there's color scheme, which is brown with a black tophat and bowtie, while the Fredbear shown in the sixth teaser is black with a purple tophat and bowtie. Unless Scott's planning on pulling a retcon or something, it's unlikely that these guys are the same character.]]
862	* Alternatively, he won't actually be gray and be brown (or golden) in the final game.
863	** Freddy was a character at Fredbear's. They were probably a father/son duo.
864
865	[[WMG: The robots in the teasers WILL be in the game...]]
866	...but in the form of hallucinations or ghosts (akin to the ghosts in Five Nights at the Chum Bucket). There will be physical animatronics in the game as well, but they will be designed in a much more believable way.
867	* Confirmed, though the real ones only show up in 8-bit.
868
869	[[WMG: Plushtrap was a doll that the Purple Man owned in his youth, prior to getting his job as a security guard.]]
870	Springtrap was a character at the original Fredbear's Family Diner, which the Purple Man was a fan of when he was a kid, and he won a Springtrap plushie in a drawing or a game. The plushie became one of his prized possessions until he grew out of it. Eventually, Fredbear's was purchased by Fazbear Entertainment, but they kept the Springtrap character, and eventually Fazbear Entertainment commissioned a hybrid suit of the already-existing character.
871	* ...you do realize Springtrap (as in the suit) is just an older version of Bonnie, right? And even if he was a separate character, why would they name him SPRINGTRAP!? And why are there wires on him? He wasn't like that when he was used, that came from damage, killing Shadow Bonnie and being untouched for so many years.
872	** The separate character's name is Spring Bonnie; probably a Donkey/Cranky Kong situation with the modern Bonnie character. He looked normal during use, though he was golden. The game's protagonist is the purple man's son. End communication.
873
874	[[WMG: The game is a prequel, and you will play as the Phone Guy.]]
875	It'd be an easy way for Scott to keep voicing the character. The game will be his first week as a night guard at Fredbear's Family Diner. Phone Guy's lines will be recorded notes he left himself before hand to remind himself how to do his job.
876
877	[[/folder]]
878
879	[[folder: Pre-Release - Part 3]]
880
881	[[WMG: Plushtrap was made using Springtrap's suit.]]
882
883	Not the animatronic, the actual suit the endoskeleton was in, explaining why his ears are the same but he looks in surprisingly better condition. Whoever bought Springtrap from the auction couldn't do much with the endoskeleton, so just did what they could with the severely burned suit, namely making a doll out of it. Unfortunately for them, the act of doing so transferred the Purple Man's soul into it.
884	* He's so so small and Purple Guy isn't even in the suit yet.
885
886	[[WMG:There will be a minigame of the Purple Guy being finished for good.]]
887
888	Mini games will still be in the game, and the final one will be the childrens' spirits [[BackupFromOtherWorld manifesting and]] [[DraggedOffToHell dragging his into the afterlife.]] Perhaps the player will also have to finish Springtrap off somehow to get this ending.
889
890	[[WMG:The Game will take place in a Toy Factory that is somehow connected to Fredbears Family Diner]]
891	Going by the Mini Freddys and [[spoiler:Plushtrap]] as well as what other potential horror toys might be there. it wouldnt be too far of a stretch to say that game could take place in a Toy factory or storage house for Fredbears Family Diner.
892	* Jossed by the new trailer.
893
894	[[WMG: The game will actually MAKE more mysteries than solve them]]
895	[[spoiler: And the game will end on a cliffhanger. Not a "to be continued" type, but rather one that confirms there's still more mysteries to be solved. One will be solved in TheMovie, but Scott will leave the rest for the fans to debate.]]
896	* Confirmed!
897
898	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics will appear in game but..]]
899	Only when they Jumpscare/Kill the player.
900
901	For those implications that these monsters are all in the players head as well as how people see them due to the murders and other horrors, yet if these were Animatronic's made by the company they would not look the way they do in the teasers.
902
903	Its dawned on me that perhaps the Animatronics we actually see will be their [=FNAF2=] incarnations normally but when they get to you and kill you they will appear in their nightmare appearances during the Jumpscare.
904
905	[[WMG: The Toy animatronics from FNAF 2 will appear in some form]]
906
907	"Terrible things come in small packages", anyone? That, or Plushtrap was the first Toy Animatronic and gave the idea to make more of these.
908	* That doesn't make sense though as, in-universe, he isn't a separate character, just the first Bonnie. Still, I predict the toys will appear. Maybe we can finally see withered versions of them.
909
910	[[WMG: The game will give us bios of every character in the series]]
911
912	[[WMG: The Bite of '87 incident will somehow involve Fredbear.]]
913	* For the longest time this bite has been nothing but a NoodleIncident. Fredbear will be the one who TRULY did it, and Fredbear will have found a way to blame it on our poor OUT OF ORDER Foxy.
914	** Alternatively, Fredbear was the one that got blamed.
915	*** [[spoiler:'''''CONFIRMED.''''' Fredbear is the one who caused it, although not by choice.]]
916	*** [[spoiler:'''''ACTUALLY, JOSSED.''''' This was a different bite.]]
917
918	[[WMG: [[spoiler: The thing the nightmares are trying to get is Plushtrap]]]]
919	[[spoiler: Like one of the above, they are being controlled by bits of Purple guy's soul and are trying to complete his soul so that they can finally... I don't know, go Freddy Krueger on us or something.]]
920
921	[[WMG: The main game will have a DownerEnding, the DLC will have a GoldenEnding.]]
922	Only reason I can think of to split the game up, unless he plans on implementing a even harder than hard Nightmare mode or multiplayer.
923	* Well, without too much spoilers, I got the DownerEnding part, let's see what the DLC holds.
924	** No, it's just the same downer ending but sp00pier.
925
926	[[WMG: According to the newest trailer, the location is the home of whoever [[spoiler: bought Springtrap at the auction.]]]]
927
928	The trailer takes place in someone's house. One of the taglines is, "What have you brought home?" It's very possible that, as mentioned above, Plushtrap is the remains of Springtrap. How did he get in your home? [[spoiler: You won him, you fixed him up, and now you've brought the Fazbear curse upon yourself. The Purple Man might be gone, but Springtrap himself isn't happy that the nightmare hasn't truly ended yet]]
929
930	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics will play like their original counterparts ]]
931	From what is seen in the teaser, Bonnie attacks you from the left hallway while Chica can be briefly seen on the right. Also when Foxy is shown on screen he mirrors how he was in Pirates Cove behind the curtains after you leave him for a while. this implys the game will have similar AI behavior to the first game.
932
933	* Confirmed, though I'm not sure Freddy's mini-me mechanic follows this pattern.
934
935	[[WMG: The player character is a child]]
936	Lets see.. Your in a childrens room by the looks of it. Your Point of View is that of a child, The Animatronics look so nightmarish and scary because you're a child. which is why Foxy is in a cupboard, because that's a common child fear that a monster is in your cupboard.
937	* Confirmed!
938
939	[[WMG: Springtrap seeks to continue his killing spree]]
940	If the above theory proves to be true, and you do play as a child in a house now haunted by something your parent brought home (although the trailer states the player brought something home), then the Killer most likely summoned the Nightmare animatronics to continue his child killing spree and add you to his kill count.
941
942	[[WMG: The home we see [[spoiler: belongs to the bite victim of '87, or someone related to them.]]]]
943
944	That does raise the question of why someone would [[spoiler: bring home something from the auction]], but there are a few reasons:
945
946	* [[spoiler:The bite victim is implied to have survived.]] It could be that whoever brought it home was [[spoiler: trying to jog their memory of the event. There are some obviously cruel reasons why, but it could also be a last resort to try to find who was involved with the murders and catch the child killer.]]
947	* Whoever bought it [[spoiler: knows the bite victim, whether or not they're still alive]], and they [[spoiler: bought things at the auction in hopes of getting a clue as to what happened those years ago.]]
948	* It's meant to be a memento, or a reminder of a happier time before all of this happened. [[spoiler: Contrasting the first reason, it could be the victim only remembered the terrible parts, and the person who bought Springtrap and (possibly) turned him into a toy was trying to soften that trauma the victim experienced.]]
949	** Semi-confirmed. It's a different bite.
950
951	[[WMG: Conversely to the above, the home belongs to [[spoiler: the murderer, or someone related to him.]]]]
952
953	Even [[spoiler: child murderers]] have loved ones, and we know that [[spoiler: the murderer never got caught in life]]. It's possible he had a wife and kids who never knew [[spoiler: what he did back in '87]], and his family knew that for one reason or another, he loved the Freddy Fazbear franchise. [[spoiler: They purchased Springtrap as a way to remember the man/father who disappeared all those years ago, and don't realize they've literally brought him home again...and the other ghosts are angry that he gets to see his family again, and they don't.]]
954	* This is the Purple Guy's house and his two sons, but it takes place long before '87.
955
956	[[WMG: The house belongs to [[spoiler: Phone Guy.]]]]
957
958	The most obvious reason is it would allow for [[spoiler: Scott to reprise his role]]. But there are some other reasons, such as [[spoiler: Phone Guy being a die-hard fan of the franchise]]. That alone would explain Plushtrap having a special place in the house. There's also the chance that, however slim, [[spoiler:he survived the encounter on Night 4, because we know of the existence of the spring suits]]. [[spoiler:Phone Guy]] also [[spoiler: worked for Freddy's for years, and knew about the murders, and everything else that goes on there, and he helped deny it and cover it all up]]. Who's to say some inner demons aren't catching up to him? It's also a good reason why [[spoiler: he'd actually buy something at the auction, even knowing the history of Fazbear Entertainment. He's a die-hard fan of the Fazbear characters]]. There's also the fact that [[spoiler: he worked there longer than any of the other guards, and being there for years probably did a lot to his mind night after night of facing the characters he still somewhat loves and adores (since he told Mike to "show them a little respect" on his first night there), but still rightfully fears them]].
959
960	[[WMG:The death screen will be from Plushtrap's POV of a child smiling wickedly at the camera...with glowing purple eyes.]]
961
962	The reason the Animatronics are after you this time is because the Purple Man's soul in Springtrap [[Film/ChildsPlay wants to play a new game. It's called hide the soul]].
963
964	[[WMG:Plushtrap will have a unique kill screen.]]
965
966	Tying into the above, instead of cutting to black, he'll tackle you to the ground it will be implied he's transferring his soul into you.
967
968	[[WMG:The player character is Scott Cawthon himself.]]
969
970	This theory isn't to be taken seriously, but considering the fact that he had nightmares about Bonnie...
971
972	[[WMG:Fredbear will act like Golden Freddy, if Golden Freddy himself does not appear.]]
973
974	[[WMG:The child ''can't'' leave to get help.]]
975	The Phone Guy analogue (possibly Plushtrap himself) will warn him that if he does, they're going to die.
976
977	[[WMG: The house belongs to one of the previous security guards.]]
978
979	And he (maybe accidentally) brought his work home with him. The most likely candidates are Jeremy (for obvious reasons, considering the "87" hints) and Mike (because of the hallucinations and more obvious haunted happenings in the first game), but whoever it is, their nightmare isn't ''quite'' over yet.
980
981	[[WMG: There WERE two Purple Guys.]]
982
983	With the minigames in 2, there were the five children who were killed during the week of the murders. [[spoiler: That one was taken out in 3]]. Then there's the "Give Cake" minigame with the Crying Child (which is heavily hinted to be the Puppet) that was killed by the Purple Guy in the car. And since he's still around, this is the homeowner.
984
985	[[WMG: The Childs parent(s) are Security Guards.]]
986	Because the irony in this would be amazing. The reason why the child is alone is because the mother/father works night shift. They won the Fazbears Fright stuff from the auction, perhaps because of the rumors and each night starts with a phone from the parent in question and at first joke about animatronics walking around at night.
987	* Sort of. The Child's father is Purple Guy.
988
989	[[WMG: The player character is a child and an (initial) survivor of the past incidents.]]
990	And the child is experiencing a mix of severe PTSD and the fact that Purple Guy ''really is trying to get to this kid'' because he believes the kid knows who he really is.
991
992	[[WMG: The Marionette/Puppet is your ally.]]
993
994	Going off of the (waaaay) above theory about the Puppet not moving on, realizing what it did, and having a NotSoDifferentRemark moment regarding the murderer.
995
996	In the third game, if it appears on the cameras, it has a reflection, hinting that it's real. It also has a nasty habit of somehow [[NeverFoundTheBody avoiding things]] that [[JokerImmunity should have]] [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat destroyed it]], so it's very likely it survived [[spoiler: the Fazbear Frights fire]]. Keeping that in mind, it also [[spoiler: does not appear as a mask in the Good Ending]], hinting that it hasn't moved on.
997
998	Right now, the Puppet is essentially a being that no longer has a cause, but it's also responsible for [[spoiler: several murders of its own, such as all the security guards who were never lucky enough to get fired]]. It could be [[TheAtoner atoning]] for what it did by aiding someone who is now suffering for its actions. It also could very well count as an ArchNemesis to [[spoiler: Springtrap/The Murderer/Plushtrap]], which in and of itself could put it into a more heroic role by trying to help you endure the nightmares and keep [[spoiler: Springtrap]] from destroying you.
999
1000	Keeping with its theme, maybe music temporarily summons it to keep you safe. Of course, music also marks your position to the others, so use it wisely.
1001
1002	[[WMG: The player character is the Marionette.]]
1003
1004	Going a bit off of the above, the Marionette is [[spoiler: haunted by the Crying Child, didn't pass on like the others, and is more or less a foil/nemesis/etc. to the Murderer]]. Keeping this in mind, consider everything that happened because of the Marionette's actions. This is the Marionette's [[spoiler: or at least, the Crying Child's,]] Hell/punishment for its own wrongdoings, and chance to redeem itself of its wrongs if it can make it through this test of horror and ''finally'' [[spoiler: defeat the Murderer once and for all]].
1005
1006	[[WMG: The house is actually purgatory.]]
1007	The Marionette has trouble moving on like the others, knowing Springtrap is still out there and is stuck in Purgatory alongside the Purple Guy. The Marionette was also the Psychopomp....but he has unfinished business before he too, transcends.
1008
1009	[[WMG: The nightmares are coming from Plushtrap]]
1010	The game takes place after the third game's auction, where a plush toy of Springtrap is sold to parents who intend on giving it to their kid. For whatever reason the Purple Guy has possessed Plushtrap (maybe it was made out of parts of Springtrap?) and he's using horrors he's witnessed at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to give the poor child nightmares. These horrors take the form of the Nightmare animatronics.
1011
1012	[[WMG: The game is a prequel, at least in relation to FNAF 3.]]
1013	As FNAF 3 took place in 2023 (30 years after FNAF 1, which took place in 1993, as it used the federal minimum wage for that year, which FNAF 2 did for 1987), the house just technologically seems more contemporary, or even around the time of FNAF 2 or 1. Notice the metal purple fan, and the toy analog phone (how often do you see those nowadays, let alone in 2023 or beyond?), and the other features of the house that just don't seem to fit with the future. We have no confirmed date on when the Spring suits (and, logically, the Spring suit plushies) were retired, but it was most likely around 1987, when the Purple Guy did a wave of killings.
1014	* Confirmed. It's set in '83.
1015
1016	[[WMG: The kid will be the victim of the Bite of '87.]]
1017	Following the previous theory, if this game is a prequel, then the child protagonist is '''doomed''' to be bitten by the end of the game. The culprit will most likely be either Nightmare Freddy, or Fredbear. The Halloween DLC will take place in the child's subconscious as well, possibly in his final moments before dying.
1018
1019	[[WMG: Phone Guy will return as a ghost.]]
1020	The small phone toy on the floor holds the earthbound spirit of Phone Guy, who will communicate with you through it.
1021
1022	[[WMG: The player character is the killer being tormented by nightmares.]]
1023
1024	There are a few variations on this theory, but the bottom line is that Pink Guy and Purple Guy are two different people, and Purple Guy isn't actually the killer because the killer was caught on tape and convicted. This game follows the real killer after he's finally released from prison, and the ghosts are tormenting him by forcing him to have nighmares of being trapped in a place that ''should'' be safe, being attacked by horrible versions of creatures that ''should'' be friendly and loveable.
1025
1026	[[WMG: Despite his ghastly appearance, Fredbear will be the game's BigGood.]]
1027	* Kind of. Nightmare Fredbear still attacks, but a plush Fredbear is the player's best friend.
1028
1029	[[WMG: The house belongs to the original owners of Fredbear's Family Diner]]
1030
1031	Someone in the house is trying to rebuild the animatronics, either on their own or were paid to by Fazbear's Fright before the fire. After the fire, the unfinished Nightmare Animatronics are left but were completed enough to have their autonomous mode... and lack the "be nice to children" programming of their predecessors.
1032	* Confirmed that it belongs to the owners of the diner, but the Nightmares really are [[AllJustADream just that.]]
1033
1034	[[WMG: There have been many Purple Guys, and they weren't acting of their own free will.]]
1035
1036	Over the years, various Fazbear security guards have snapped and begun killing children thanks to the influence of [[EldritchAbomination something]]. Springtrap will be nothing compared to the true BigBad.
1037
1038	* Scott is actually doing this idea in Security Breach, although the abomination is the soul of Springtrap/William/Purple Guy.
1039
1040	[[WMG: The nightmare animatronics are possessed by security guards that were killed, [[spoiler: Phone Guy being one of them.]]]]
1041
1042	[[spoiler: Plushtrap (who is a reconstructed Springtrap)]] gave them a new life as monstorous machines [[spoiler: (similar to how the Puppet let the dead children's souls live on inside of the main four bots and Golden Freddy)]] so that [[spoiler: they can aid him in killing children.]] Why would they listen to him? [[spoiler: Plushtrap tells them about the kids haunting the same animatronics that ended their lives, causing them to despise children (spending at least three decades as spirits that couldn't make it to the afterlife would drive anyone crazy, so they don't have any qualms with hurting younglings)]] Fortunately for [[spoiler: Plushtrap]] (and unfortunately for [[spoiler: you]]), they can't [[spoiler: tell children apart, similar to how the dead children couldn't tell adults apart when they were possessing the animatronics, so they're after you, an innocent child, in a quest for vengeance.]]
1043
1044	[[spoiler:Phone Guy, who possesses one of these beasts (though which specific member is left ambiguous), will give you a speech each night, telling you about the danger and threat of death you'll be facing.]]
1045
1046	[[WMG: Everything that happened in the past three games was the doing of an imaginative and disturbed child.]]
1047
1048	This one is a bit for fun.
1049
1050	"What game do you think you're playing?"
1051
1052	The child invented this whole story as a game. It could be because they were the bite victim: the characters they used to admire are now monsters. So the child created the stories to cope and try to put the animatronics in a reverse role: the bots never ''meant'' to attack them, someone made them do it. A bad person who hates children. And they might briefly recall such a bad person, since the bite happened the same week as the murders, and they aren't remembering everything right, and might even believe the bad man wanted them too, but they got bitten instead of dying.
1053
1054	There's a few hints in the child's room: a phone, a purple robot with a security badge, and the fan. We also know the various Freddy's characters were made into plushies and action figures (the originals versus the "Toy" models for the purposes of playtime). The child puts themselves as the security guard and uses their toys to tell this story about how the "bad" animatronics are really good, but have no choice because of the bad man (represented by the purple robot), and a nice man on the phone calls at night to try to help, but he doesn't always no how.
1055
1056	The stories just took a life of their own, and took what the child started with and made them more sophisticated.
1057
1058	So the child thinks they are simply playing a weird, twisted game to work out their inner demons about what happened when they were bitten (because it was mentioned the victim lived). Whether it's their own mind making it real, or their stories just becoming ''very'' vivid nightmares, and either way, the child is trying to find a way to make the "bad" animatronics "good" again, and to make the story have a happy ending.
1059
1060	*** Half-confirmed, Half-jossed. It is a theory.
1061
1062	[[WMG: Phone Guy and/or Phone Dude will be in the game.]]
1063	* Scott will return to voicing Phone Guy and use his trademark, "Hello? Hello?".
1064	** If not as the guy on the phone, perhaps even a ghost for Phone Guy's case.
1065
1066	[[WMG: Plushtrap will use similar mechanics to Foxy in the first game or the Puppet in the second.]]
1067	If you look at his scene in the trailer, you can see him plopping himself back in his chair once the light is beamed down the hallway. Perhaps what you need to do to stop him is aim your flashlight at him periodically to prevent him from approaching.
1068
1069	[[WMG: The Freddy's Fazbear's poster will be replaced by the toy phone.]]
1070
1071	And instead of squeaking when clicked on it'll say [[CharacterCatchphrase "Hello? Hello-hello?".]]
1072
1073	[[WMG: The game takes place at the same time as the second one.]]
1074	While there is debate about whether the game is a prequel or a sequel, what if it was neither? What if it took place at the same time as the second game? And on the final night, [[spoiler: You become the victim to the bite of 87.]]
1075	* Called it.
1076	** Actually, jossed. The game is set [[spoiler: in 1983. As evidenced by Fredbear still being in order and the TV.]]
1077	*** That hasn't been confirmed. [[spoiler: for all we know, Fredbear being there could've been a temporary thing due to the toy animatronics not working or for that kid's birthday, since his favorite probably is Fredbear. As for the TV, it could just be a re-run.]]
1078	*** [[SarcasmMode As evidenced]] by the fact the place in this game is clearly not the one from 2 and the fact Scott replaced the site's [[spoiler:87s]] with [[spoiler:83s]] shortly after 4 came out. Oh, and TheMovie will [[spoiler: show the bite of 87, despite confirmation it won't be a direct adaption of the games and be an unseen event within the canon]]. Make of that what you will.
1079	*** Most probably JOSSED, as Scott had hinted during a livestream that the first three games are all [[spoiler: just a nightmare, in the child's coma-induced mind.]]
1080
1081
1082	[[WMG: The house in the game was built on the site of Fredbear's Family Diner.]]
1083	Just like building a house on top of an IndianBurialGround, the ghosts of those killed there are not happy about their old haunting grounds being demolished, so they torment the residents.
1084
1085	[[WMG: The protagonist or his/her father will be coincidentally named "Freddy"]]
1086	So as to avoid ArtifactTitle.
1087	* Jossed; the house holds a secret underground facility which contains Freddy, as seen in game 5.
1088
1089	[[WMG: The house will have a similar design to the pizzeria in the first game.]]
1090	From the first trailer, we can already see the child has two long hallways leading to their bedroom. Since the first game's restaurant has made an appearance in both sequels as a semi-explorable location in the Atari mini-games, the child's house could get away with a similar design. Maybe the electricity in the kitchen is even out that night.
1091
1092	[[WMG: Plushtrap and the Mini Freddies were bought at the public auction mentioned at the end of the third game]]
1093	Because although another prequel could possibly answer some questions, it wouldn't account for the cliffhanger the auction represents from the third game. It's possible the little monster toys were being produced as items for a gift shop Fazbear's Fright was supposed to have and we just never saw them out of their packing back in the third game.
1094
1095	[[WMG: This takes place in the distant past.]]
1096	Specifically, [[spoiler: the dead children have gone back in time to haunt the boy who will become the Purple Man, to try to instill a fear of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and keep him from working there in the future, keeping him from becoming the Purple Man. Only problem? YouAlreadyChangedThePast. Their hauntings ''inspired'' him to become the Purple Man.]]
1097
1098	[[WMG: The Nightmare Animatronics don't exist.]]
1099	Only the player character and Plushtrap exist. Plushtrap is possessed and/or an ArtifactOfDoom, which brought the Nightmares into the home.
1100	* Confirmed, though Plushtrap may not be real either.
1101
1102	[[WMG: The house belongs to one of the night-shift security guards from the previous games.]]
1103	And the main character is his kid, home alone while he is at work.
1104	* [[FridgeHorror Most likely Mike's]]. Remember the Toreador song, and how it hints that there's someone Mike loves to go home to after every night of hell? It's not a romantic love. It's ''love for his child'', who is haunted by the nightmares that follow him home from work!
1105	** It's most likely William's kid, though Mike is the player's older brother. Perhaps the Protagonist's ghost stuck around and haunted Michael's home, eventually making amends with the former torturous being that had to reform after his praks became the tool of demise? Don't quote me on that.
1106
1107	[[WMG: 87 is not the year]]
1108	[[spoiler:It's the house number]]
1109
1110	[[WMG: The house used to belong to the Purple Guy]]
1111	Now it's haunted by the souls of his victims.
1112	* Semi-confirmed. Purple Guy is the homeowner, but this took place before he killed any kids.
1113
1114	[[WMG: The nightmare animatronics don't actually look nightmarish]]
1115	That's just how they look to the child's perception.
1116	* They're actually not there at all.
1117
1118	[[WMG: Fredbear is the free content update]]
1119	* Jossed.
1120
1121	[[WMG:The actual final threat will be Nightmare Springtrap, but his presence won't be revealed until after release.]]
1122
1123	The first four or perhaps five nights are Plushtrap/The Purple Guy having his fun and playing around, but when the protagonist manages to survive long enough, [[OneWingedAngel he decides to go all out]], perhaps accessing the rest of Springtrap's body if just parts of him were used to make Plushtrap or just becoming a demonic manifesting like the other Nightmare Animatronics by ditching his Plushtrap body. If you ''are'' allowed to move freely around the house, Nightmare Springtrap will be an AdvancingBossOfDoom and all you can do is run when you see him coming until dawn. If not, he'll be extremely hard to actually escape.
1124
1125	[[WMG: This game's mechanics are going to be based off of two children's games turned twisted.]]
1126
1127	One of the obvious features we can make out in the trailer is how you can move about the house and/or into different rooms, which many people have alluded to playing "Hide and Go Seek" with murderous animatronics. However, the trailer asked the question of "What game do you think you're playing". Depending on the context of the question, it can also mean that someone is playing more than one "game". The Hide and Go Seek Connotations are obvious, but what about the game "Red Light, Green Light", where the person playing the stoplight has to look when saying "Red Light" and other players are supposed to stop moving or they're out of the game?
1128
1129	In the Trailer, after a few flashes of the flashlight, there is something there JUST out of sight, not to mention Nightmare Chica leaving after you shine a light on her from peeking behind a door, but also how Nightmare Foxy was inside the closet, and yet didn't attack you when shining your light on it. Plushtrap also gets back up onto it's chair when the light is shown on it. Contrast to the end of the trailer, where Nightmare Bonnie gives a jumpscare...in absolute darkness when you were looking away.
1130
1131	In short, not only will there be a "Hide and Go Seek" like mechanic to this game, but your flashlight, which will serve as a defense mechanism in a twisted version of "Red Light, Green Light", [[DarknessEqualsDeath where darkness lets the nightmare animatronics move as they please]] and that using the flashlight [[OhCrap uses up battery life like in the first two games]]. [[SarcasmMode Enjoy!]]
1132
1133	* Original WMG poster back. Given the Steam page for this game does state that shining your light on them does ward them off if they're far away, but they'll attack you if you shine the light right at them when they're in front of you, this seems to be played straight. Think about it, if the stoplight in Red Light, Green Light, and a "player" catches up to the stoplight without said stoplight warding them off first (catching them moving farther off), then the stoplight is the one who loses the game. In [=FnaF=] 4, the child is the stoplight, and the Nightmare Animatronics are the players...and it's definitely game over if the Nightmares are close enough to get to you.
1134
1135	[[WMG: The animatronics aren't being controlled by the children, they're under control from the AI, with Springtrap's help.]]
1136	It's common speculation that the children's ghosts were not released and still remain to murder more people. But, seeing how for the last 3 games, the animatronics clearly have been trying to protect or simply have no interest in harming kids, why would they go full-on Norman Bates so fast?
1137
1138	It's simple: When the children's ghosts left in peace, their spirits left the suits-but not the AI. And the AI ''is'' now in full control, and murderous.
1139
1140	Think about it. The ghosts and the computer systems have been coordinating for decades. By being in there for so long, the supernatural presence interfered with the AI well enough that the AI is not only far gone from its original programming, it is now homicidal.
1141
1142	However, the computer is not like Skynet and self-aware. It simply believes it is doing what it thinks it is meant to be doing-killing things.
1143
1144	But if the suits were destroyed in the third game by [[spoiler: Purple Guy]], how is it in a new shell? Easy-the computers were salvaged at the wreckage and sold, alongside the broken, one-of-a-kind suits or any of the Toy masks that could be salvaged.
1145
1146	However, the person who bought the computers also brought Plushtrap home, which very well could be made from what remained of Springtrap. Plushtrap, still having supernatural abilities, was somehow able to create new animatronics with the computers and wrecked suits, which are now fully bent on killing the child that is home alone, because the ghosts are no longer there to convince the AI to leave other kids alone.
1147
1148	[[WMG: Fredbear, Nightmare Freddy, Balloon Boy, Mangle, and finally The Puppet will be characters who appear in later nights.]]
1149	* It's happened before to when we didn't know of a few characters Scott didn't have in the trailer. Why not again? We may find out about them from Phone Guy (if alive?) or Phone Dude (if he's also alive).
1150
1151	[[WMG: The reason why we don't see the above characters in the trailer.]]
1152	* They have not appeared yet in the "nightmare" the child is having.
1153
1154	[[WMG: Scott's next game will be a StealthSequel to FNAF]]
1155	What? Just because this is the last five nights game doesn't mean he can't continue the universe's story.
1156	* Not very stealthy, but he did make a 5th game.
1157
1158	[[WMG: This is after Fazbear Fright burnt down.]]
1159	* The person who bought all this is a fan of Freddy and the gang from back in the day and he was planning to fix up the old animatronics but isn't finished, hence the beaten to shit look. He also has a kid and unfortunately he works nights so after he leaves... purple guy starts hunting his favorite prey, with a combination of the real animatronics and all the fears he can pull out of this kids mind like the hallucinations from 3.
1160
1161	[[WMG: This is the victim of the bite of 87']]
1162	* With significant brain damage, a severe case of creep animatronic PTSD, and a screwed up emotion center he's stuck in a world of horrors at every turn. He doesn't have any gadgets because the year is only 88 or 89 now that he's out of the hospital and recovering at home. The things he's seeing aren't entirely real but numerous average things from his home that his brain is misinterpreting or his fearful mind is imagining as monsters. For example the monster in the closet, the thing at the end of the hall just out of sight, scary things under the bed. But something is real. The Springtrap doll and the Purple Man who's in the house on assignment from the company to silence the kid so charges can't be pressed in his name.
1163
1164	Note: This is based on the headcanon that purple guy works for the company and they know exactly what he does. It's his fee for being their less-than-legal enforcer. He pushes old family diners into bankruptcy with a child murder scandal so that Fazbear Entertainment can take over their characters, he gets unprofitable establishments shut down with missing kids and foul smelling machines so the restaurant chain owners can use their new security at another as better PR. If you do not agree with this adjust the last sentence accordingly.
1165
1166	[[WMG: It is both a prequel to the series and a sequel to the series]]
1167	* The main nights take place before FNAF 2 and the house it takes place in is abandon after the game till it is bought by Fazbear Entertainment and turned into the dinner in FNAF 1. The extra night takes place after FNAF 3, after Fazbear's Fright burned down, and you are the security guard from FNAF 3 going back to make sure that Springtrap is gone for good only to find out Springtrap is badly damaged but alive (now called Nightmare Springtrap) and you have to survive for one more night at the Fazbear's Fright. Which at the end you put Springtrap down for good. The security guard from FNAF 3, is also the child from FNAF 4, and Mike Schmidt from FNAF 1.
1168	** Jossed.
1169
1170	[[WMG: Each night will be set in a different room]]
1171	[[spoiler: The nightmares themselves aren't real. Rather, they're nightmares the player is having after hearing about the legends of the series and his parents buying the remains of Fazbear's fright. Each night, he tries sleeping somewhere else in his house in hopes of that somehow getting rid of the dreams.]]
1172	* Jossed. He stays in his room, probably because he can't sleep anywhere else.
1173
1174	[[WMG: The Purple man obtained the power of the psycho drive]]
1175	* this idea popped in my head randomly and made a disturbing amount of sense. The best known user of Psycho power (from street fighter) is M. Bison/ Vega/ Dictator. He is known for glowing purple, having a disturbingly huge smile, and being a puppy punting maniac. He also was a repeat offender of mind rape, possession, and body hopping. He has literally expelled the good part of himself from his body. It's never stated that the Psycho Drive is powered by a forsaken child, but considering it can only be utilized by beings of pure evil, dead children souls probably do a good job of feeding it. These new nightmare animatronics are all being controlled by the purple guy through psycho power. You are the good part of his soul. And he's come to get you back. For bonus points, Dictator's outfit is kind of similar to an officer/ security guard.
1176
1177	[[WMG: The child player character is a little girl]]
1178	* It would make sense after three male main protagonists that the 4th one would be female, she just happens to the youngest as well. Besides, the children's room in the game looks a bit feminine (though that's just this troper's opinion.) It would also be an interesting twist since probably no one is expecting the protagonist to be a little girl.
1179
1180	[[WMG: There will be retcons, retcons everywhere.]]
1181	* I was talking a friend who expressed their concern about FNAF 4 and it possibly retconning a lot of the events and what we were told by Phone Guy in the first 3 games. While we don't know if Phone Guy was being a reliable narrator or not! It will be hard to tell until we see for ourselves what is in store.
1182	** I also feel as if the fanbase will NOT take kindly to the retcons.
1183	*** Surprisingly, there aren't too many retcons. The only big, story changing one is [[spoiler: ''possibly'' the Bite of 83.]]
1184
1185	[[WMG: [[spoiler: Fredbear is Golden Freddy.]]]]
1186
1187	The obvious argument against this is [[spoiler: the different colors of both the bots and the hats and bow ties]]. But what if [[spoiler: Fredbear]] is a (literal) negative version of [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]]? [[spoiler: Purple is the opposite of yellow, and it ''should'' follow that white would be the opposite of black, but in this case, however, DarkIsEvil is in play. It's also reversing Golden Freddy's hat/tie color to Fredbear's fur color and vice-versa. We already know the PurpleIsPowerful ties in this series generally mean association with something evil (Purple Man, the Puppet's tear streaks, etc.), so keeping that in mind, Fredbear's black coloring is Golden Freddy's gold, except it's now tainted. The purple hat and tie mean that the Purple Man now has control over it.]]
1188
1189	[[spoiler: Essentially, Purple Man corrupted the Golden Freddy/Fredbear suit to match his own dark soul.]]
1190
1191	[[WMG: One of the phone calls will be like this Reddit thread]]
1192	* You can read the text [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/3dt81j/yyoure_okay_right_night_4/ here]] It'd be pretty awesome to see Scott adding it, but it appears unlikely. Still a nice thread the OP made which would make great sense.
1193
1194	[[WMG: The game will be released earlier than August 8th.]]
1195	We all know that Scott doesn't like to wait with these games, and I think even a few weeks will be too much for him to stand.
1196	* Confirmed. He released the game on July 23, 2015.
1197
1198	[[WMG: This version is set in the ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' Universe.]]
1199	What explains Foxy being in the closet? It's because he is collecting screams from the child, as are all of them. As, related to a Theory on the Five Nights at Freddy's 1 WMG Page, they are machines built by Monsters Inc to collect scream energy.
1200
1201	[[WMG: The DLC will essentially be Five Nights at Freddy's 5.]]
1202	Scott says that on Halloween there will be free DLC. This will probably focus on [[spoiler:Fredbear's Family Diner in the 70's]]. As [[spoiler:Fredbear]] probably won't be released until it is a DLC. It would make sense, instead of playing as the child, you play as the Fredbear's security guard, and the gameplay will be fundamentally unchanged as CCTV wasn't popular in the 70's. There will be more plot points revealed as a result.
1203
1204	[[WMG: The Phone Guy will be voiced by Markiplier.]]
1205	* Please lord Gabe-[[LastSecondWordSwap I mean Scott!]]
1206
1207	[[WMG: There were two Purple men the latter being a copycat killer.]]
1208	Its been established that the player character in [=FNAF4=] is that of a child with referential hints to the Purple man in the bedroom, I.e the Purple fan and the Purple robot akin to the sprite in the save them mini game.
1209
1210	What if that the Purple man we see in the Give cake and Foxy mini games was the original purple man I.E the child's father who after being convicted from the murders (only to be potentially released due to lack of evidence) gave his son the Bonnie plush toy (essentially plushtrap but under its original name) the child would begin to have nightmares and eventually be the victim or witness of the bite of 87, if the latter perhaps the boys father was the victim finally causing the boy to snap and declare to destroy the Fazbear name one way or another.
1211
1212	[[WMG: The true story of the Purple Man.]]
1213
1214	There once was a man who had a sick obsession with death. He was cruel and sadistic, but hid it behind a mask of silent stoicism. He loved to see others suffer, to hear their screams. Men, women, but above all, children. He roamed the country, taking odd jobs whenever he could to survive and constantly changing his name to avoid the authorities, leaving a trail of blood wherever he went. However, he grew tired of constantly dodging the authorities. He wanted to be able to commit his crimes without worrying about getting caught. So one day, he took a job as a security guard, under the name "Jeremy Fitzgerald".
1215
1216	"Jeremy" felt it was the perfect job for him. The role as a security guard meant he had access to the darkest corners of the pizzeria, and as a children's restaurant he would have no shortage of victims. He studied the camera layout, learning where and how would be best to commit his crimes. It was tough, however; probably in response to his crimes elsewhere, the animatronics were fitted with some form of criminal recognition system and were somehow able to sense his intentions. Despite this, he learned their patterns and avoided them until he was ready. Donning a Golden Bonnie costume, he led five children into a backroom where no one would find them, murdered them, and hid their bodies within the animatronics.
1217
1218	Congratulating himself; the bodies would never be found, and even if they did there was no way to identify that he was responsible thanks to his careful memorisation of the camera layout. But then strange things began to happen. The older animatronics began to stalk him, despite them not having the same recognition system the others did. But most disturbing of all was the visions of a golden version of Freddy Fazbear, performing impossible acts before the killer's eyes such as vanishing and reappearing before him. As he stayed at the pizzeria, he became more and more stressed as he tried to make heads or tails of the bizarre things he was seeing. He was transferred to the day shift, but on his first day one of the animatronics lunged for him. He avoided it at the last moment, but another person there that day was caught and had his frontal lobe bitten off, much to even "Fitzgerald"'s horror.
1219
1220	Traumatised by what he had seen, he handed in his resignation and moved far away, changing his name to Mike Schmidt, but he continued to see that hideous Golden Bear in his nightmares. Decades passed, and the old pizzeria shut down. However, a new one in the man's area opened up, and needed a security guard. Deciding that the last occasion was simply a hallucination from stress and guilt, he took the job and prepared to repeat the same actions. However, despite the years he found himself once again being hounded by the animatronics, this time feeling as if they were fully hunting him. And of course he once again began to see the Golden Freddy, taunting him with messages of "It's Me." Trying his best to wrap his head around what was happening, he toughed the job out for six nights, even going so far as to access the robots' AI to understand how they acted the way they did. Unfortunately, this didn't go unnoticed by the management, and he was fired.
1221
1222	By this point, the killer was beginning to sweat. Even after all these years, those animatronics still had it in for him. He asked himself, how? Did someone reprogram them to recognise him?Was there some form of proof that linked him to the crime? Paranoid, he waited until the restaurant shut down once more and used one of the keys he had kept to enter the building. Used to the machines' behaviour, he carefully led them to a room they were unable to recognise and took each one apart. He breathed a sigh of relief, believing that the nightmare was finally over, until he found himself face to face with the spirits of his past victims.
1223
1224	Fear overtook him and he tried to escape, but was trapped. As he backed away from the ghosts, he spotted his old costume, Golden Bonnie, in the corner of the room. Believing that perhaps seeing him in that costume again could intimidate them, he slipped it on and began to laugh. However, as he did the springs in the costume gave way, releasing the parts inside and springing out into his body, bursting his skin, breaking his bones and comdemning him to a slow death. The spirits vanished, as the mocking laughter of Golden Freddy filled the room.
1225
1226	But although he died, the killer was not gone. Somehow, much like his victims, his spirit became bonded to the animatronic, granting him new life as a monster like the ones he had created. Despite this, he was unable to leave the boarded up room he had unwittingly trapped himself in. What little humanity and sanity he had slowly rotted away, leaving behind only the hatred and bloodlust that had led him to this state. Once more, decades passed, until the room and his new self was discovered. He was made a part of a new attraction based on the horrors of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza chain called Fazbear's Fright. The man soon found himself dubbed by a new name; Springtrap. Awaking each night, the Purple Man acted upon the instincts he knew best and began to hunt down the only presence in the attraction he knew of. As he did, the spirits of the children he murdered returned, acting to try and frighten the security guard away with hallucinations, but the new guard bravely ignored them and confused Springtrap with the sounds of children. Even the Golden Freddy occasionally appeared, watching Springtrap and the guard's battle from the shadows. Eventually, the guard managed to unravel the past of Freddy's pizzeria and Springtrap's true identity, and he burned Fazbear's Fright to the ground with the murderer inside.
1227
1228	As the flames consumed his mechanical shell, the killer found himself confronted with the Golden Freddy one last time as it revealed its true identity; it was not a ghost, but a demon, sent to punish the murderer for his crimes. Taking the murderer's soul, he dragged him down into Hell were a very special punishment was devised for him.
1229
1230	The murderer found himself trapped in the body of a child. Armed only with a flashlight, he was tasked with surviving as demonic parodies of the animatronics he used as murder weapons continued to stalk and haunt him. A smaller version of his animatronic self was seated, laughing and taunting him from the shadows. It didn't matter whether he was caught or not. This would be his punishment for all eternity, to experience the same pain and fear that he inflicted on so many children, for all eternity...
1231
1232	[[WMG: Phone Guy is the protagonist's father.]]
1233
1234	Think about it. There has to be a Phone Guy/instructor for every game, and this seems to be the most likely excuse.
1235
1236	* This troper thinks that he will be called "Phone Dad".
1237
1238	[[WMG: The thing that was brought home was [[spoiler:Springtrap's head.]]]]
1239
1240	If you recall, in Five Nights At Freddy's 3's ending, if you brighten the image, you can see [[spoiler:Springtrap's head behind the Freddy Fazbear bobblehead]]. It was said that [[spoiler:anything that survived the fire would be sold at an auction]]. Chances are, the protagonist's father bought [[spoiler:the head]] and brought it home, and that is what's causing the nightmare animatrons to manifest in the house at night.
1241
1242	[[WMG: You are either a midget or those those animatronics are not the same ones from the previous games.]]
1243
1244	They were implied to be [[WouldntHurtAChild harmless to children]], but given your implied stature in this game, this leaves us with only 4 possible options:
1245	* You are an adult midget. You may be short, but the animatronics can still realize you're not an adult either.
1246	* These are ''not'' the same animatronics we've seen in the last 3 installments. Or at least, they're not possessed by the murdered children, otherwise they wouldn't be after you, right?
1247	* Your house is a hammerspace and all the walls simply appear bigger than what they really are.
1248	* Scott is a TrollingCreator and TrailersAlwaysLie.
1249	** The animatronics are actually AllJustADream fueled by a series of unfortunate incidents at Fredbear's.
1250
1251	[[WMG: Phone Guy will be represented by the toy phone itself in the room and not anyone actually calling us]]
1252
1253	It's a Dream (or Nightmare in this case), so it wouldn't necessarily be out of the realm of possibility to have the toy telephone have some form of self-awareness and represent Phone Guy for this game, voice and all.
1254
1255	[[WMG: The Number Replacing the Time on the HUD is the Amount of Times Plushtrap can be Watched]]
1256
1257	* Plushtrap must be kept from the "X" marked on the floor in front of him, or else he will kill the player. This is done by shining the flashlight on him, causing him to jump back onto his chair. At the same time, however, you need to not watch him too much, because if the counter reaches 0…
1258
1259	[[WMG: The house isn't a real house, but a dollhouse.]]
1260
1261	Note the old-fashioned "nickel lights" on the ceiling, the lack of light switches, the very basic furnishings -- it's possible the entire setting is a strange form of dollhouse, with you trapped inside.
1262	* Or, alternatively, the player playing with the dollhouse, and the entire game is because some twisted little girl made some horrifying toys to play with.
1263
1264	[[WMG: The game will indeed take place in 1983.]]
1265
1266	This would explain why both this and FNAF 2 have red as their color motif. [[spoiler:They both take place in the 80s.]]
1267	* Confirmed!
1268
1269	[[WMG: The "phone call" at the beginning of each night will be an eerily fitting bedtime story with hints at how to play the game.]]
1270
1271	[[WMG: The game is the Killer's attempt at revenge towards the Fazbear Fright Guard.]]
1272	It turns out that the entire time they had a younger sibling/child/etc. that they were taking care of. After the events of the third game, the Killer might want revenge for preventing him from rising again (especially if one goes with the theory that the guard started the fire to kill Springtrap). He wants to make it particularly cruel, and what better way to do that is by doing what he does best and murdering a young relative? The line "What have you brought home?" might not be in reference to anything physical, but more how the Fright Guard ended up bringing a supernatural [[WouldHurtAChild child killer]] to their house with their actions. The same house where there's a small child.
1273
1274	It would also fit with all the ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet Nightmare on Elm Street]]'' references that have been made. What happened in those movies? A child killer got burnt alive, and came back to get his revenge. Who did he target? Not the people who burned him, but their children.
1275
1276	[[WMG: There's a spinoff coming next.]]
1277	I have no idea what about, but according to the Steam page, it's the last chapter of the "''original story''". Which is suspiciously worded, and perhaps means there's either a spinoff or perhaps some sort of AlternateUniverse setting. Heck, maybe you'll get to play as the animatronics next time around.
1278	* FNAF World. Need I say more?
1279
1280	[[WMG:The Purple Man is doing a sick tribute to his own heinous actions.]]
1281	In the mini games, we're shown with the Crying Child's father terrifying him wearing an animatronic disguise. The Crying child's father is the Purple Guy, who kills him while he's outside the birthday party. The twisted game of hide and seek you're playing with the animatronics is a tribute to that, with the Purple Guy's soul inside Plushtrap intending to torment you with that game for the week before becoming serious about killing you on the final night before the party to recreate his first murder: of a child who never got to attend a party. Perhaps even the final night will have the party happening downstairs with the child's parents, making it more difficult to actually hear the animatronics moving. Bonus points if the Purple Guy's soul 'getting serious' is when Fredbear (now implied by the Golden Freddy plushy to be Nightmare Golden Freddy) shows up to 'pay tribute' to his ''other'' murders.
1282
1283	[[WMG: The very last thing we will hear in the story's ending...]]
1284
1285	Will be Phone Guy's "Hello? Hello hello...?" from the Murderer.
1286
1287	[[WMG: The Child's father is Phone Guy.]]
1288
1289	Phone Guy loved the Frazbear Franchise and stated Foxy was his favorite Animatronic. Given that the kid seems to hate Frazbear stuff and the father scaring the kid in a Foxy mask, this could mean that it's Phone Guy. Not to mention that Scott said that Phone Guy knew much more than he let on. What if this game lets us know how much Phone Guy knows?
1290
1291	...if this is true, and if this child does get murdered, what if the reason Phone Guy stayed was to catch the murderer of his own son?
1292
1293	[[WMG: The child's father is the Purple Man, but was never abusive.]]
1294
1295	He was actually a good father and a decent person, but he had to leave him with a babysitter while he did some errands. The sitter was extremely abusive, scaring him with a Foxy mask and locking him away in his room. Later on, the child would become the Bite of '87 victim, causing Purple Man to go into a [[DespairEventHorizon DEH]], before [[StartOfDarkness snapping]] and going on a murdering spree - since everything that reminds him of his child now makes him balls-out insane.
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