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Nearly all of the Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights and Tales From The Pizzaplex stories have Downer Endings, with the only exceptions being "Into the Pit", "Out of Stock", "Dance with Me", "Coming Home", "Bunny Call", "Blackbird", "The Cliffs", "The Scoop", "You're the Band", "Submechanophobia", "Animatronic Apocalypse", the "Bobbiedots" duology, "B7-2", and arguably "The Puppet Carver", "Frailty", "Pressure", and "Alone Together".
- "To Be Beautiful": Sarah falls for Eleanor's manipulations hook, line, and sinker, and ultimately collapses into a lifeless pile of scrap metal after finding out that she wasn't ugly at all. Eleanor, meanwhile, gets away scot-free after taking Sarah's identity.
- "Count the Ways": While the original story left it unclear whether or not Millie survived Funtime Freddy's attempt to decapitate her, the odds of her being discovered before she starves, dehydrates, or suffocates inside Funtime Freddy's storage tank are not in her favor. The final epilogue reveals that she did indeed die, being seen in a spirit world that Jake visits.
- "Fetch": Fetch hospitalizes Greg's uncle Darren and murders his crush, Kimberly, before leaving her corpse in his house. It then texts him with one last message: "CU", with it escaping punishment and the possibility that Greg would be implicated for Kimberly's death. The graphic novel version of the story however has Fetch deliver her when Greg is already at the police station, possibly giving him an alibi to prevent him from taking the blame.
- "Lonely Freddy": Alec has his body forcibly swapped by a Lonely Freddy and is locked away in a dumpster alongside dozens of other imprisoned souls.
- "1:35 AM": Delilah becomes trapped inside a ventilation chute while trying to flee Ella... and willingly remains there, deciding that it was better to remain there than to be found by the doll.
- "Room For One More": Stanley is rendered immobile by the Minireenas inhabiting his body, leaving him unable to defend himself as more begin to crawl inside.
- "The New Kid": Devon bleeds out after having his arm crushed by the springlocks in the Fredbear suit, while Kelsey reappears apparently unharmed to lure more children to their doom.
- "Step Closer": Pete is unable to break the curse, being struck and killed by a truck on his way back to Freddy's; he then finds himself conscious but paralyzed as he is unable to stop surgeons from removing his eyes and hand. A few weeks later, Chuck goes back to Freddy's to confront Foxy again... only to find that Foxy has apparently disappeared.
- Played with in "In the Flesh": while the ending is quite dark in terms of plot, with Matt dying from a self-inflicted wound caused by surgically removing the Springtrap entity growing inside him, Matt himself is such a horribly unsympathetic Jerkass that the audience doesn't feel nearly as bad for him as they do for the previous protagonists who had terrible fates.
- "The Man in Room 1280": Arthur finally gets the Man to the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, hoping it will allow him to move on… only for the Man's body to explode into black sludge, with some kind of invisible entity escaping from it; the story ends with Arthur feeling, for the first time in his life, that things are definitely not going to be okay. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that this event is how all the items in the book series became infected.
- "The Real Jake": Evan, Jake's father, is killed in action. When Margie receives the news from Jake's uncle Michael, she decides to hide the news from Jake, telling him that Simon (a doll Margie created with a walky-talky that Evan uses to communicate with his son) simply won't be visiting. Hearing this, Jake's condition worsens, and the next day he succumbs to a brain tumor that had been plaguing him throughout the story. Downplayed since the story ends with his soul possessing Simon which disappears and later becomes used as the head of the stitchwraith in the epilogues.
- "Hide-and-Seek": Realizing that Shadow Bonnie is determined to win by any costs just like he is, Toby finally returns to Freddy's to end the game. However, despite his apparent epiphany earlier in the story, Toby is unable to allow himself to concede the game to Shadow Bonnie; instead he impales himself against the pegs on the wall, implicitly bleeding out as Shadow Bonnie returns to the game.
- "The Breaking Wheel": Reed is overcome by the monstrous fusion of Julius' exoskeleton and mutilated body and is killed by it when it is inadvertently controlled by a remote to contort itself in unnatural ways. The graphic novel version of the story also ends with the implications that Shelly and Pickle are going to "check in" on Reed and witness the mangled corpse of their best friend.
- "He Told Me Everything": Alongside his classmates, Chris is tricked into an experiment involving combining Faz-Goo with his baby tooth, with the resulting clone completely absorbing his body in the process. Understanding that he's about to die from the Faz-Goo clone absorbing him, Chris asks the clone to be good to his family and not harm anyone, and while it's likely the clone will keep said promise, we never hear how Chris's family receives the news of their son's death (if they ever actually learn of it).
- "Gumdrop Angel": Dominic calls Angel to Freddy's after hearing of what's happening to her, and mournfully guides her to a box that she falls asleep in. Upon waking, she’s lowered down to be eaten by kids as the next Birthday Gummy.
- "Sergio's Lucky Day": Sergio is completely bent to Lucky Boy's influence, and after making several impulsive decisions that ultimately damage his life, he mutilates himself to make himself more attractive to his high school crush at a reunion, terrifying the other guests as he becomes more delusional with the implication that he would soon die from his self-inflicted wounds.
- "What We Found": After being tortured by the hallucinations all night, Hudson is trapped inside an oven and roasted alive by an unseen entity.
- "Jump for Tickets": Colton becomes trapped in the Ticket Pulverizer, is crushed by children and a rather heavy employee jumping inside, and Coils the Clown becomes sad.
- "Pizza Kit": Payton falls from the roof and breaks her neck after a hallucination of an undead Marley coming for revenge. Also, it turns out that Marley is still alive and was pretending to be missing as a prank, and she’s the one who discovers Payton’s body.
- "Friendly Face": Edward is hit and killed by a truck just like Jack and Faraday after running from the Friendly Face chasing him (and for added pain, it turns out the Friendly Face was just trying to play with him).
- "Sea Bonnies": Mott is eaten by the Sea Bonnies and they take his form and identity.
- "Together Forever": Jessica's faulty programming causes her and Brittany to both become springlocked inside Rosie Porkchop, where they are trapped forever and unable to do anything except stare at each other's lifeless faces and act as servants to Mindy and Cindy. Like with "In the Flesh", the protagonists' deeply unsympathetic nature (and the fact that they basically did it to themselves) helps to downplay this trope.
- "Prankster": Jeremiah is mentally scarred from seeing the dismembered body parts, and despite the video of Parker and Hope saying it's all a prank, there's still the table of dangerous tools in the background and Parker clicking pliers with a Slasher Smile.
- "Kids at Play": Joel is forced by an unseen entity to walk back to the scene where he ran down a child, and once there, he turns into a Kids at Play sign. Fortunately, this helps to locate said child, who was still alive but unable to move.
- "Find Player Two!": Aimee finds the Hiding Maze where she last saw Mary Jo, and becomes trapped inside after discovering Mary Jo's corpse within; no one able to hear her anguished screams.
- "Felix the Shark": Dirk finds the old Freddy's location and enters Felix's tank, only to realize that Felix has turned hostile. He attempts to escape, only to realize that the tank can't be opened from the inside. It's left unclear whether he's killed by Felix or drowns first, but either way, the outcome isn't good for him.
- "Lally's Game": Lally kills Selena, and Cade has to live as the only person who really knows what happened to her.
- "Under Construction": Maya is consumed by the blob creatures after everyone she knows and loves dies from cancer, but is seemingly unable to die herself. A background event in "Cleithrophobia" later states that the AR booth Maya used was producing smoke, heavily implying that she was actually stuck suffocating in the AR booth for the majority of the story and couldn't leave.
- "Help Wanted": Steve's entire life has been a lie, and his seemingly loving and loyal wife Victoria turns on him and stabs him in the heart.
- "Happs": Happs kills Jace and continues to stalk Aiden through the off-limits area of the tube maze, with the only exits closed off and the implication that he will also die within minutes.
- "B-7": Billy's efforts to become an animatronic (It Makes Sense in Context) have ruined his life, and he dies in a junkyard car crusher. Except he doesn't, and actually does get a happy ending in the sequel story "B7-2", six books later.
- "Somniphobia": Sam is trapped in a dream while his physical body is being attacked and possibly killed by Raad's dog.
- "Cleithrophobia": Grady has all his bones broken by Ballora, and has to spend an unknown amount of time in unimaginable pain and living out his worst fear before death mercifully takes him.
- "GGY": While the story ends before Tony accepts or rejects Gregory's offer of meeting 'friends' at the Pizzaplex, it's almost certain said 'friends' will go to any length to keep Tony quiet. If nothing else, Tony doesn't suspect Gregory's involvement at all.
- "The Storyteller": Edwin suffocates in the Storyteller Tree (as well as Mr Burrows). While a later story reveals the Tree was taken down, it was still able to infect the Pizzaplex and its animatronics with the Mimic 1 virus.
- "Nexie": Astrid is manipulated into flaying herself alive by her Buddytronic.
- "Drowning": Kara is drowned in the VR Resort by the 'Drowned Girl', causing her to die or at least be rendered comatose in the real world.
- "The Mimic": Edwin has lost his son and abandoned his factory, leaving the Mimic behind. Him attacking it out of grief-fueled anger taught it violence, which it brutally practices on the teams of innocent Fazbear Entertainment workers who go to retrieve Edwin's work. The events of this one story lead to The Storyteller, Tiger Rock, Nexie, the epilogues, and possibly even more stories- and, if you believe the Mimic is Glitchtrap, everything from Help Wanted onwards.
- "Tiger Rock": Kai escapes Tiger Rock's simulated reality, but later that night Tiger Rock follows him home and somehow rips his arms off despite being a virtual character.
- "The Monty Within": The Monty AI seizes control of Kane's body for long enough to cut through his skull with a table saw.
- "Bleeding Heart": Danny realizes Daisy doesn't have feelings for him, and out of spite activates the Cutting Nanobots to give him hundreds of 'tattoos'. They quickly carve countless cutouts of flesh from his body, until nothing is left but his heart.
- "Dittophobia": Rory attempts to escape the simulated house after discovering his life and his Nightmares were nothing more than illusions on repeat for the last ten years of his life. However, a voice (all but stated to be Afton's) plays over a tape, convinces Rory he has no place in the real world after so long and he's happier in the simulation. Rory fixes the broken generator (its failure was what led to the illusion being revealed to him), and goes to bed, certain to forget everything he learned by the morning. The ending implies this has happened many times before, and will happen many times again until Rory can't survive with the implication that he eventually is found as the dead body in the vents of Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals mentioned all the way back in Sister Location.
