History Fridge / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

* Why are the Nightmare Animatronics so terrifying in comparison to the older models, including Springtrap? The player character has a dream, where things are terrifying and unrealistic.

* Plushtrap's name, hidden in the code of the site for the "Terrible things come in small packages" teaser, is concealed in the letters "Cyh gvh gpe". Also hidden in the code are the numbers "13, 12, 11". The letter triplets are coded with a Caesar cipher, also called a [=ROTation=] cipher. Thus, the first three letters are ROT-13: Plu. The next three are ROT-12: sht. The last three, of course, are ROT-11: rap. May also double as Fridge Humor -- Springtrap has been left to ROT, after all.

** Can't say if the reference is intentional, but there have been actual toys that could pretend to eat - the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, which had rotors in the mouth. Alas, if they caught something, they wouldn't let go - hair, fingers, name it. They were recalled.

** Since the animatronics are aggresive, [[DeathOfAChild some should realise what already happened...]]

* One particularly unpleasant bit of fridge horror rears its ugly mug when you realize that Fredbear doesn't simply bite through the kid's head. He stalls for a couple of seconds. Notice how the mouth was opening and closing normally up until the kid's placed inside. Fredbear stalled because his jaw was trying to close, but couldn't, finally accumulating in one final "bite" before breaking. Think about this from the perspective of the victim: you are placed into a closed space that you are already terrified of, and immediately, you feel a horrible pressure on your head. Too shocked to scream in pain, you can only hear bone cracking and gears grinding, time seeming to slow down as your mind races for a way out, before a final explosion of pain grants you the mercy of unconsciousness, your body going limp. And, keep in mind, during all this, four cruel, stupid teenagers are laughing, failing to understand the severity of what they have done until it is too late to prevent it. The protagonist's nightmares are NOTHING compared to the living, waking nightmare that he had to deal with until he forgot or got over it, ''only to be reminded again.''

* If you believe in the "Child = Golden Freddy" theory, consider this. Nightmare's killscreen? Not just a reference. It comes only after the child ''flatlines'' in the night 6 mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. ''A ghost in the machine''.

* One of the many sounds you can hear during the nights is a dog barking. Because it's just a background detail, you never learn what it was barking at, but the fact that the title screen shows the animatronics outside the house [[RealAfterAll really doesn't help.]]

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--> '''Nightmare Fredbear:''' I assure you, [[RealAfterAll I am very real.]]
--> '''Nightmare Fredbear:''' This time, there is more than [[BrownNote an illusion]] to fear.
--> '''Nightmare Freddy:''' [[ExactWords I am remade, but not by you.]]

* Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!

-> '''Nightmare Fredbear:''' I assure you, [[RealAfterAll I am very real.]]
-> '''Nightmare Fredbear:''' This time, there is more than [[BrownNote an illusion]] to fear.
-> '''Nightmare Freddy:''' [[ExactWords I am remade, but not by you.]]

** It gets worse. Later material alludes to all sorts of things that make the Nightmares feel more real. [[BrownNote Illusion Discs]] that make you see animatronics ''very'' differently, the Funtimes having compartmants for holding children [[BellyMouth in their stomachs], the Rockstar Animatronics being [[AmbiguouslyRelated dead ringers for some of the Nightmares,]] and so on. Makes a few quotes we get from the Nightmares [[VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight when they]] [[SuddenlyVoiced finally talk]] take on a whole new meaning.

* The events of this game get so much worse after taking into account [[HarsherInHindsight later installments]]. It's heavily implied that William Afton is the two's father, who is not only a SerialKiller, but is shown to mistreat their sister Elizabeth in ''Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheFourthCloset''. There's also the possibility that he purposely sent Michael down to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental in his place knowing that the animatronics would mistake him for his father, and that he might have used reverse psychology to get Elizabeth killed. With all that plus the way the older brother (implicitly Michael) [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone reacts]] to Crying Child's injury, in mind, it becomes likely that he's not a {{Jerkass}} [[ForTheEvulz for the hell of it]], but instead because he's [[TroubledTeen legitimately troubled]] and acts out in the only way he knows how, possibly taking inspiration from his father's own cruelty. Which begs the question, what did William ''do'' to him?

** And, naturally, seeing [[PariahPrisoner how badly]] almost all prisoners will react to child murderers...

** Can't say if the reference is intentional, but there have been actual toys that could pretend to eat - the Cabbage Patch Snacktime Kids, which had rotors in the mouth. Alas, if it caught something, it wouldn't let go - hair, fingers, name it.

* Why does the child's brother scare him with, of all things, a Foxy mask? Well, Foxy was out of order during the first game, right? And WHAT conclusion did we draw from that…?
* In [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150728043120/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/f/fc/Fnaf4_jumpscare_freddyonbed.gif Nightmare Freddy's jumpscare]], watch the background closely. It almost looks as if Freddy is lifting you into the air before attacking you, right? Considering how the kid's brother and his friends lifted the poor kid into the animatronic's mouth, it's no wonder the kid would have nightmares about Freddy doing the same thing.
* Why are the Nightmare Animatronics so terrifying in comparison to the older models, including Springtrap? The player character is very likely a child, who tend to have wild imaginations.
** Even better: at one point in the minigames, the Child is accidentally or intentionally, by his brother locked ''in the spare parts room'', where the animatronics that ''already'' horrified him are in bits and pieces. No wonder what he sees is so monstrous; it reflects what he thinks they truly are after that trauma!

* Why is the scream a mix of the three previous screams? The child scream is from THE PROTAGONIST!
* Plushtrap's teaser may have been implying other small, terrible things in the game as well… [[KidsAreCruel the protagonist’s brother and his friends]].
* The death animation in this game uses blood splatter instead of static. For one, it's obviously because this time there are no camera feeds to be cut to static. However, there may also be a fair bit of {{Foreshadowing}} in this; the animatronic attacks create blood splatter as their mouths close in on your vision, a bit like how it would look to be bitten on your head. Like your frontal lobe, for instance?
** On a different but related tack, the "death animation" doesn't actually show anything to indicate how you die. At first, it seems to be a bit of [[NothingIsScarier good ol' fashioned restraint]], but the twist that all of the Nightmares are hallucinations rather than actual monster animatronics offers the alternative explanation that the protagonist is never in ''real'' danger, just utter terrified misery due to his trauma and brain damage.
*** Just to turn the horror up to maximum levels: if the kid is in a coma, and fighting off his nightmares, who's to say that failing to do so doesn't result in a fatal aneurysm? If he gets caught by his nightmares, he's ''never waking up'', because he's ''dead''.
* The teaser images of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy all wonder if 'it was me?' In the end, we discover that the kid's older brother and his friends were responsible for the victim getting his frontal lobe bit off. Remember how all four were wearing the masks of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Metaphorically, all four “nightmares” were guilty of the Bite of '87. It's also worth considering that Foxy has some extra ambiguity and differences compared to the other teasers and asked “or me?”. The Foxy mask was worn by the kid's big brother.
** In addition, this gives the choice of Animatronics a lot of meaning too. While Fredbear performed the bite, the other Nightmares represent his brother and his friends directly.

* To some, the game's an ArtifactTitle now due to not taking place in an establishment linked to Freddy at all, really. But after beating the game and realizing the animatronics are essentially hallucinations of a psychosis degree, it begins to make sense; even if Fredbear is technically the real leader this time, you're essentially spending five nights of nightmares fueled and ultimately dominated by Freddy. For the Child, you never left Freddy's.
* The Child's room having two doors in gameplay but only one in the minigames, the unlimited battery in the flashlight, and the Child not keeping all the doors shut and locked make complete sense taking into consideration the heavy implications that it's AllJustADream (well, nightmare).

** The doors don't stay shut against the monsters when the Child runs off because it's a nightmare, so they keep opening.
** The doors don't lock because in this nightmare they don't ''have'' locks (or possibly they don't work, or the Child is stuck in the nightmare and can't change anything about how it's going).
** Furthermore, there are literally monsters outside his door(s), in his closet, and (implied to be) under his bed because those are all places children expect boogeymen to lurk. And this continues night after night without much positive change (in fact, getting ''worse'') because the Child is having recurring nightmares of the Fazbear animatronics as the horrors his subconscious sees them as after all the bullying, his brother deliberately terrifying him with these fears, and ''then'' getting his head stuffed into the mouth of his favorite animatronic and getting part of his head ''bitten off'', with his inability to recover from all this making his nightmares increasingly worse (and thus difficult for the player).
** The change in gameplay could be interpreted as part of Plush Fredbear's attempts to help the child in a sort of tough love way. In the minigames he's always encouraging the child to move forward even when they both know that something bad is about to happen, because they both know that cowering in terror will only make things worse and prolong the fear. Gameplay-wise, this is the game most oriented with directly facing your fears. There's no cameras to see things from far away, you can't seal all the entrances for safety, you can't wear a protective mask, and you can't create distractions. If you try to hide in your room or panic and spam the lights/close the doors, you'll only speed up the attacks. The only way to be successful is to frequently and actively put your face right next to a door where an animatronic could be waiting to attack, stop and listen carefully for a good 3-4 seconds, then make a judgement call on how to respond, all while being aware of the constantly building threats of Foxy and Freddy inside the room, but only addressing them when you have to. So the whole game is not just about a nightmare, but about controlling your fear and not panicking during the whole thing.
* While the ''FNAF'' series as a whole has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and has never been shy about ramping up the creepiness factors of said teeth, this game really took it to an [[UpToEleven exaggerated level]]. And that makes a lot of sense when you realize the animatronics in this game are actually the nightmares of a kid who was seriously injured by an animatronic biting him. Of course his nightmares would be filled with terrifying teeth and enormous wide-open mouths.

* At first, it's odd that Bonnie is blue (the color of Toy Bonnie) instead of purple, and Chica is holding her cupcake everywhere for no reason (a characteristic of Toy Chica). However, take this into consideration: this game takes place in 1983, years before the Toy animatronics became scrapped. In fact, you come across a girl who holds Toy animatronic plushes in one of the minigames. Since Foxy is perfectly normal and Chica's bib says "Let's Eat!!!" instead of "Let's Party!", it seems that the Child is mixing up details of the animatronics due to the damage of his frontal lobe.
** Also, remember Phone Guy's line from the first night of the first game: "If I spent twenty years singing the same stupid songs". ''[=FNAF1=]'' is set in 1993. The Fazbear Four have been around for twenty years, and for at least a decade were side-by-side with Fredbear and Golden Bonnie. That explains why we see the plushies and masks of them as well as them on the TV show with Fredbear. So the child also knows what they look like in person, and also explains why the Nightmare versions are most heavily based on their Withered/pre-''2'' versions.
* Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie all have five fingers on each hand. Which is strange, of course, until you get the post-Night 5 minigame. The child's big brother and his friends were each wearing a mask representing the animatronics, and each of them lifted the child up into Fredbear's mouth. Of course, with the Nightmare Animatronics being literally Nightmares, it's easy to see Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie as representations of the big brother and his friends. May double as FridgeHorror, as the child will always remember his big brother as a monster who (seemingly) tried to kill him.
** Of course, the above brilliance becomes even more brilliant when you pay close attention to where Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie attack you from and the positions that the big brother and his friends were in when they lifted the child into Fredbear's mouth.
* After someone found an audio clip of some ambience in the game and pitched it up, it was revealed to be Phone Guy's message from the first night of the first game. Why this clip specifically? ''Because it was the only message in the series to mention a Bite incident!'' While this game isn't about the Bite of '87, it does foreshadow that a similar event is going to happen later in the week.
* The reason the cupcake can kill you in this game besides its hallucination status is because a child is much easier to kill than an adult, and so the cupcake can kill the kid without him fighting it off.

** But why Foxy doesn't kill you the instant he enters the room? As some other Tropers pointed out above, Foxy used to "hide" in Pirate Cove at the time. But also ask yourself: what person liked to jumpscare the kid in real life?

* While the scream made by the Nightmare animatronics may be an amalgamation of the screams of the previous three FNAF games, think about some of the other fridge horror on this page. A lot of it speculates that the protagonist this time around is a child (thanks to things like the view height and the design of the room). What if the scream heard at the very end of Nightmare Bonnie's is not Bonnie's, but the protagonist's?

* At the end of [[HarderThanHard Night 7 (Nightmare)]], a locked box with the sentence "Perhaps some things are best left forgotten, for now." appears. This is very much a teaser for the Halloween content... but what's inside the box? Users on [=YouTube=], and likely other places, have identified it as a ''puppet case.''
** This begs the question: What did the Puppet do that was so terrible the child has currently repressed it?
* Throughout the nights, if you look closely, sometimes a medical IV bag, a vase of flowers, or a pill bottle may appear on the nightstand next to the bed. These are early hints to the medical condition of the Child, but it also makes you wonder just how long it has been since the Bite for him to still be hooked to an IV bag -- and ''how often'' he suffers these hallucinations and dreams to require the equivalent of home hospice?

* The Foxy doll is missing his head and the asshole brother wears a Foxy mask. The poor little kid cut the doll's head off because he was too scared of Foxy's face!
** Or the kid's older brother might have cut off the doll's head and somehow turned it into the Foxy mask he uses to scare the protagonist with. Your choice which possibility is worse.
** Could also be heartwarming if you consider that, despite the big brother completely ruining the character for him, he still considers Foxy his friend.
* Consider that the game gets more difficult as the nights go on. In the other games, it was a gameplay staple, so one might not bat an eye, but here the nights are nightmares that the child is going through. And they get even WORSE with each passing night. The child may have survived getting bitten and no longer having his frontal lobe, but chances are the [[TearJerker nightmares are going to take their toll if not eventually kill him]].
* Also counts as fridge [[TearJerker sadness]]. Listen closely to [[{{Flatline}} the sound]] at the end of the 6th night. '''The kid could have just died.'''
* One particularly unpleasant bit of fridge horror rears its ugly mug when you realize that Fredbear doesn't simply bite through the kid's head. He stalls for a couple of seconds. Notice how the mouth was opening and closing normally up until the kid's placed inside. Fredbear stalled because his jaw was trying to close, but couldn't, finally accumulating in one final "bite" before breaking. Think about this from the perspective of the victim: you are placed into a closed space that you are already terrified of, and immediately, you feel a horrible pressure on your head. Too shocked to scream in pain, you can only hear bone cracking and gears grinding, time seeming to slow down as your mind races for a way out, before a final explosion of pain grants you the mercy of unconsciousness, your body going limp. And, keep in mind, during all this, four cruel, stupid teenagers are laughing, failing to understand the severity of what they have done until it is too late to prevent it. The kid's nightmares are NOTHING compared to the living, waking nightmare that his brother is going to have to deal with the rest of his life.
* Nightmare is horrifying enough, but looking at brightened pictures of him (or just being very attentive with unedited ones), in some angles you can see that part of his skull is missing, leaving a floating hat and ears...''and an extremely visible, very human-looking brain in the center.''

* It's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Diner, so it means Fredbear already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]; how can he trust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suit-less" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the Bite of '87, after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.
* If you believe in the "Child = Golden Freddy" theory, consider this. Nightmare's brain? The victim's. Its killscreen? Not just a reference. It comes only after the child ''flatlines'' in the night 6 mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. ''A ghost in the machine''.

* Imagine one day you go to look at Scott's website and see that the endo skeletons have been changed to adorable versions of themselves, awww. Then to go back the next day and see what appears to be ''Toy Golden Freddy, AND HE'S THE SAME HEIGHT AS A CHILD.''

* If it was all just a dream, and if the Purple Guy was guilty of murdering the children and the protagonist witnessed him murdering them, this could mean that the Purple Guy was ''never caught.''
** The Night 3 Easter Egg implies that Purple Guy framed somebody for the murders and that's who got convicted. Leaving that aside, that means Purple Guy got away with it scot-free until he accidentally got himself killed, but it means somebody out there is either serving a very long sentence for five counts of felony kidnapping that they didn't commit, or they died in prison.
*** And, naturally, seeing [[PariahPrisoner how badly]] almost all prisoners will react to child murderers...
* Probably the saddest piece of fridge horror centers around the sequence where the child runs from the guy in the Fredbear costume. His plush says "Don't you remember what you saw? You know what will happen if he catches you." The plush seems oddly panicked for someone who is normally the calmer of the two. There's a very real possibility that this poor kid witnessed someone in one of those suits "catching" a child, and who do we know who [[PurpleIsPowerful wears]] [[KillerRabbit suits]] and [[SerialKiller catches children?]] What's worse, there doesn't seem to be [[CassandraTruth anyone who would believe him,]] and even pick on him for his trouble, so it's just this kid and his Fredbear plushie against a horror that no kid should have to face. But, it gets [[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE!]] Remember Nightmare? He only appears after the child has faced all of his other fears. Each Nightmare animatronic represents something or someone from the real world, so who represents Nightmare? The Purple Man. The brain in a suit. The biggest monster behind all the other monsters, [[BigBad and the one person that can only be confronted]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare after the child dies.]] [[AndIMustScream And there is nothing to indicate that the child ever stopped having nightmares]] up until [[WildMassGuessing maybe]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding The Happiest Day Minigame.]]

* Plushtrap's teaser may have been implying other small, terrible things in the game as well… [[KidsAreCruel the other children]].

* The teaser images of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy all wonder if 'it was me?' In the end, we discover that the kid's older brother and his friends were responsible for the victim getting his frontal lobe bit off. Remember how all four were wearing the masks of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Metaphorically, all four 'nightmares' were guilty of the Bite of '83. It's also worth considering that Foxy has some extra ambiguity and differences compared to the other teasers and asked 'or me?'. The Foxy mask was worn by the kid's big brother.

* It's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Diner, so it means Fredbear already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]; how can he trust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suitless" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the Bite of '83, after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.
* If you believe in the "Child=Golden Freddy" theory, consider this. Nightmare's brain? The victim's. Its killscreen? Not just a reference. It comes only after the child ''flatlines'' in the night 6 mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. ''A ghost in the machine''.

* The Night 3 Easter Egg implies that Purple Guy framed somebody for the murders and that's who got convicted. Leaving aside that that means Purple Guy got away with it scot-free until he accidentally killed himself, but it means somebody out there is either serving a very long sentence for five counts of felony kidnapping that they didn't commit, or they died in prison.
** And, naturally, seeing [[PariahPrisoner how badly]] almost all prisoners will react to child murderers...

* Now that the fourth game is out, it's been revealed that the Bite of '87 WASN'T the first time it happened. The first time something like that happened was in 1983, and the kid died, with his soul implied to have been "repaired" ala being put inside the original Fredbear animatronic, aka Golden Freddy. That's one death counted for. Before that, as the second game revealed through a minigame, we see one kid get murdered outside of the fast food building, which presumably became the Puppet. Than the Murderer killed five children and stuffed four of their bodies in the main animatronics. In total, that's ''seven'' children murdered. One in Golden Freddy, one in (presumably) the Puppet, and four in Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy. '''WHERE'S THE SEVENTH KID'S SOUL?'''
** The Fredbear imaginary friend/hallucination could possibly account for the seventh soul if you reshuffle the numbers, assuming the incidents aren't actually one and the same.
** In light of ''Sister Location'' and ''Pizzeria Simulator'', it seems that the games merely lead you to believe there are seven kids murdered, when there are only six. It's likely (but not confirmed) that the fifth kid from the minigames of [=FNaF=] 2 and the Child of this game are meant to be the same person. The Child being shown murdered in [=FNaF=] 2 might just be a metaphor of Purple Guy/William Afton's crimes of running a business where six children died.

* If it was all just a dream, and if the Purple Man was guilty of murdering the children and the protagonist witnessed him murdering the children, this could mean that the Purple Man was never caught...

* Out of the four "lesser" animatronics, Foxy is the fastest, so he has no problem slipping in the bedroom when you aren't looking and hiding in the closet. Freddy can divide itself into mini-Freddies, which are considerably agile and can sneak on the bed undetected. Then there's the cupcake, and then Bonnie. Chica is so big, she doesn't even try to sneak inside the bedroom, which is why she sends the cupcake instead.

* After the Bite of '83, Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!

* If [[AllJustADream what Scott wrote down during his website's homepage transition]] was true in any way, then it brings one previous animation to mind. When [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy comes barreling down the hallway and gives off that particularly]] {{Narm}}-y position and expression when he jumpscares Mike (and, as many people had pointed out, looks like he's just checking up on him or popping in to fuck with him), it could just as easily be read as the child dreaming about his brother doing the same thing thanks to the new interpretation.

** The kid with the balloon asks you if you're going to the party since everyone else is, only to laugh because it's your party. Let me emphasize that: he asks if you are going to the party since '''everyone else is'''. None of them are present at the party in the Night 5 minigame.

** This begs the question: what did the Puppet do that was so terrible the child has currently repressed it?

* When it's three days before the party, the sentence "Don't you remember what you saw?" shows up, which implies that this poor kid knows EXACTLY what goes on at night at Freddy's. Why he does is possibly just as traumatic as the Bite was for him…

* Also counts as fridge [[TearJerker sadness]]. Listen closely to the sound at the end of the 6th night. '''The kid could have just died.'''

* Remember how Golden Freddy/Fredbear had an UnexplainedRecovery in [=FNaF1=] (i.e. no loose wires, both ears, cleaner and brighter) and how it didn't make sense since he wasn't in commission? Well, now we know! They had to fix him up so they could use him for a birthday party. After the Bite took place, they took him out of commission again and put him somewhere else. Long story short, Fredbear got a makeover at the end of [=FNaF2=].
** Alternatively, Golden Freddy from [=FNaF1=] and Golden Freddy from [=FNaF2=] are ''different entities altogether.'' It would explain why one is busted and the other is well kept and yet not in use (and seemingly not having an endoskeleton). One caused the Bite of '87 and wound up in the dishevelled appearance we see in [=FNaF2=], whereas the other one was in use during the time of [=FNaF3=]'s Phone Guy tapes when the springlocked suits were employed until the springlocked incident.

* The true culprit of the bite actually makes ''perfect sense''. Think about it: During the [[FiveNightsAtFreddys3 last game]], Phone Guy was specifically training ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizza employees'' on how to use the springlock suits. ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' -- 1987, when the Bite took place -- is a ''reopening of Freddy Fazbear's, specifically.'' Of course Fredbear is still around, they ''kept'' that one while Purple Guy eventually moved Spring Bonnie for his own devices, and brought it out of retirement for the party because the others were faulty! That's why nobody was watching them, either: Phone Guy instructed Jeremy the night before to watch the other ones because they were believed to be a threat to the party. Also, since the establishment where Fredbear and Spring Bonnie had performed was the first iteration of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizza'', it makes sense that children would still have Fredbear and Spring Bonnie toys and merchandise!
** On another note, the fact that the Golden Freddy model is actually the leftovers of the Fredbear character, as this game confirms, makes a lot of sense in hindsight. Not only has Golden Freddy had a lot to do with heads throughout the series, but his death animation in ''FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', where his giant, disembodied, gaping-mouthed head flies at you, looks very similar to what the boy who was thrown into Fredbear's mouth at the end of this game must have seen as he was going in. In addition, the fact that Golden Freddy always had been shown with his mouth hanging open is very incriminating in hindsight, as not only is it open wide enough to fit a person's head, but looks to have been broken by supporting a person's whole weight ''by'' the head.
** One last note to tie this all together. The previous prime suspect, Foxy, has the same problem all the others do: they would ''never hurt a child.'' Even after the murderer did his work and they were acting hostile towards adults, they still cherished children. Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, however, work differently. They have no "AI", they're as primitive as it gets. In fact, Phone Guy explicitly states in the third game's training tapes that the only input they react to is sound. This is why only Fredbear, the Golden Freddy, could have ever done the deed. He heard a child screaming and ''tried to look in his direction, '''forcing his jaw shut on the Child's head.'''''
* It was pretty easy to guess that Golden Freddy was the one who did the Bite from the very beginning. In addition to the above, this game had teasers that said "Was it me?" as in "Was I the one who caused the Bite?". It's also a reference to "IT'S ME". Now think about it. What animatronic do we most often associate with "IT'S ME", aside from The Puppet? '''GOLDEN FREDDY.'''

* Why stop at the fourth installment? Because '''FourIsDeath.'''
** On the other hand, many people assumed that there would be five games, to fit the series title. But if Scott is true to his word and only makes four games... oh wait, there's going to be a movie, isn't there? Guess there's five installments after all.
** There's no information on what the movie will be about at the time, but it is likely possible it could be the fifth installment.

* The teaser images of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy all wonder if 'it was me?' In the end, we discover that the kid's older brother and his friends were responsible for the victim getting his frontal lobe bit off. Remember how all four were wearing the masks of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Metaphorically, all four 'nightmares' were guilty of the Bite of '87. It's also worth considering that Foxy has some extra ambiguity and differences compared to the other teasers and asked 'or me?'. The Foxy mask was worn by the kid's big brother.

* At first, it's odd that Bonnie is blue instead of purple, and Chica is holding her cupcake everywhere for no reason. However, take this into consideration: This takes place in 1987, as in, the year the second game was in. So the nightmares are based on their toy counterparts! As for why Foxy is perfectly normal, the kid has a plushie of the old Foxy, and his brother wears a Foxy mask, so he associates him more with the original Foxy than with Mangle.
** Or old is mixing with the new. Chica's bib ''does'' say, "Let's Eat!!!" instead of "Let's Party!" after all. So it's likely that the Child remembers the original Bonnie's design, but the existence of Toy Bonnie and the fact that he got his frontal lobe bitten off means that some details are off. Same with Toy Chica and permanently holding her cupcake.

* After someone found an audio clip of some ambience in the game and pitched it up, it was revealed to be Phone Guy's message from the first night of the first game. Why this clip specifically? ''Beacause it was the only message in the series to mention the Bite of '87!''

* A common theory prior to this game was that either Foxy or Mangle committed the bite of '87. Technically, Foxy still did. After all, who was wearing the Foxy mask? Who was the most prominent bully? And who encouraged the other children to stuff a kid's head into an animatronic's mouth as a joke?

* After the Bite of '87, Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!
* The Puppet has always been the odd man out among the cast.. and now we might know why. The Bite Victim's spirit didn't go into Golden Freddy, as Golden Freddy was ''already'' haunted. The Bite Victim could have gone into ''the Puppet''. Of ''course'', he fits quite well in the Puppet's role. What better way to reject his own traumatic birthday party than to spend his afterlife giving gifts to other kids instead of receiving them himself?
** The implication we got of the Puppet's origins we saw in FNAF 2 doesn't match up at all with what's happening in 4. It's more obvious that the Bite Victim ''is'' Golden Freddy, with the Puppet having preceded them all back at Fredbear's.
*** Not really. There's no Puppet anywhere in the flashback that shows the crying kid that everyone speculated to become the Puppet, but Fredbear's right in front of him. Knowing that he's not the only crying kid (the tear streaks on his face being the only reason anyone assumed he was the Puppet to begin with) and that the Puppet didn't exist when he was killed, combined with the Happiest Day minigame (the ghost who disappears and leaves the Golden Freddy mask is the birthday kid, not the Puppet; the Bite Victim didn't want a party, the Crying Kid from FNAF 2 was upset after being locked out of one), implies that Purple Guy's first victim became Golden Freddy and the Bite Victim became the Puppet.)

* The Bite debate can easily be ended by just one thing. Nightmare BB is in ''both'' Halloween updates of the game. And considering that there's nothing hinting that BB was in 1983... But there might be a possibility that BB had existed back in Fredbear's...

* While the scream made by Nightmare Bonnie may be an amalgamation of the screams of the previous three FNAF games, think about some of the other fridge horror on this page. A lot of it speculates that the protagonist this time around is a child (thanks to things like the view height and the design of the room). What if the scream heard at the very end of Nightmare Bonnie's is not Bonnie's, but the protagonist's?

* Here's a double dose of FridgeHorror: in one of the Mini Games, we witness the Purple Guy putting someone in one of the suits. First dose? You're a little child in the same room as the ''murderer''. ''The week he did them''. Second? Someone was arrested for his crimes, crimes he committed at some time during that week. It's ''very'' likely we're witnessing the moment he framed someone for his murders.
* During the Night 3 minigame, you encounter five children on your way home. Each of which love Freddy's. Keep in mind that since the Bite happens at the end of the week, that the murders took place at some point this week. How many victims were there? '''Five'''.

* With the reveal of the bite's culprit, we now know just ''why'' one of the rules at the first game's pizzeria was "Don't touch Freddy."

* Sure, Jeremy Fitzgerald is alive and well, but remember this: the Toy Animatronics he was guarding that day were extremely glitchy and hostile to ''anyone'' who wasn't a child. Of course, nobody was watching Fredbear at the time, but imagine the aftermath -- blood's gushing down as a kid hangs limply from the animatronic's jaws, there are 4 horrified teenagers panicking, someone's calling the police, and everyone who gets a good look at the victim is now scarred for life. And ''everyone'', including the Toys and Jeremy, could have entered the room to see what the hell was going on. And given how overprotective of children, malfunctioning, and potentially homicidal the Toys were during the day, who's to say that the reason they got scrapped was ''because they tried to attack the kid's brother and his friends?''
** It gets even worse. The Toys were just haywire, potentially due to the Puppet's spectral influence. But the four Withered Animatronics in the storage room had recently become cans for the murdered kids, who are now raging, bloodthirsty ghosts. Plus the Puppet could probably hear the noise from the Prize Corner, and he's been shown to be a ''lot'' smarter than all the others. And then there's Fredbear himself, who contains the last of the six ghosts and would probably be ''pissed'' about what he'd just been made to do. It wouldn't just be amazing for the teens to survive, it'd be a miracle they didn't get swarmed by ''twelve'' animatronics as opposed to four, with Spring Bonnie and Balloon Boy being the only odd men out.
** This could be one of the reasons why the brother was so apologetic on Night 6 -- he was seriously injured in the ensuing bloodbath. And he could have suffered from the realization that by being an absolute douchebag to his little brother, his actions led to not only the near-death of his sibling, but the severe wounds or even ''deaths'' of his friends, his parents' eternal grief and anger at him, and the closing of the pizzeria. Basically, he would be the one responsible for ruining so many lives, and it would haunt him ''forever.''
*** And the cherry on this HumiliationConga sundae? If the murders got pinned on him, even briefly, then he basically got Purple Guy off the hook. There's no way that smug monster wasn't laughing his ass off at getting exonerated by one dumb teen who pulled off a DeadlyPrank and started a massacre.

* When the child's brother (and the brother's friends) are about to throw him head-first in the mouth of Fredbear, it seems like everything in the pizzeria is going like usual... but then there's the fact that it's all but stated that the game takes place in 1987, as in, the year someone got their frontal lobe bitten off, and that means that animatronics already HAVE the technology to read faces; but if you go back to [=Fnaf2=], the Phone Guy mentions that even the OLD animatronics have the facial scanners installed, but that something as simple as a Freddy mask is more than enough to fool the scanners. Now, think about it, the brother and his friends ARE wearing masks of all the other animatronics; if the retro-fitting part is true, then it means that Fredbear also had scanners that don't pick up on humans wearing masks, and therefore, could only watch as the other animatronics picked up a child and brought it to him, and, even if he could tell the child was NOT in any possible way happy, the simple fact his scanners kept on picking up that he was with the other animatronics could've blocked him from doing ANYTHING about it.
** To sink it further, it's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Diner, so it means Fredbear already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]; how can he trust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suitless" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the Bite of '87, after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.

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

** Considering one of the hallucinations from the first game - ''three'' crying faces ala the Puppet or the Crying Child - and its inexplicable ability to manipulate the souls of the other children, it's not out of the question that the Puppet is haunted by multiple children.
*** Or that there are ''multiple puppets...''

* In [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150728043120/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/f/fc/Fnaf4_jumpscare_freddyonbed.gif Nightmare Freddy's jumpscare]], watch the background closely. It almost looks as if Freddy is lifting you into the air before attacking you, right? Considering how [[spoiler:the kid's brother and his friends lifted the poor kid into the animatronic's mouth]], it's no wonder the kid would [[spoiler:have nightmares about Freddy doing the same thing]].
* The true culprit of the bite actually makes ''perfect sense''. Think about it: [[spoiler:During the [[FiveNightsAtFreddys3 last game]], Phone Guy was specifically training ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizza employees'' on how to use the springlock suits. ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' -- 1987, when the Bite took place -- is a ''reopening of Freddy Fazbear's, specifically.'' Of course Fredbear is still around, they ''kept'' that one while Purple Guy eventually moved Spring Bonnie for his own devices, and brought it out of retirement for the party because the others were faulty! That's why nobody was watching them, either: Phone Guy instructed Jeremy the night before to watch the other ones because they were believed to be a threat to the party. Also, since the establishment where Fredbear and Spring Bonnie had performed was the first iteration of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizza'', it makes sense that children would still have Fredbear and Spring Bonnie toys and merchandise!]]
** On another note, the fact that [[spoiler:the Golden Freddy model is actually the leftovers of the Fredbear character]], as this game confirms, makes a lot of sense in hindsight. [[spoiler:Not only has Golden Freddy had a lot to do with heads throughout the series, but his death animation in ''FiveNightsAtFreddys2'', where his giant, disembodied, gaping-mouthed head flies at you, looks very similar to what the boy who was thrown into Fredbear's mouth at the end of this game must have seen as he was going in. In addition, the fact that Golden Freddy always had been shown with his mouth hanging open is very incriminating in hindsight, as not only is it open wide enough to fit a person's head, but looks to have been broken by supporting a person's whole weight ''by'' the head.]]
** One last note to tie this all together. The previous prime suspect, Foxy, has the same problem all the others do: they would ''never hurt a child.'' Even after the murderer did his work and they were acting hostile towards adults, they still cherished children. [[spoiler:Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, however, work differently. They have no "AI", they're as primitive as it gets. In fact, Phone Guy explicitly states in the third game's training tapes that the only input they react to is sound. This is why only Fredbear, the Golden Freddy, could have ever done the deed. He heard a child screaming and ''tried to look in his direction, '''forcing his jaw shut on the Child's head.''''']]
* It was pretty easy to guess that [[spoiler:Golden Freddy]] was the one who did the Bite from the very beginning. In addition to the above, this game had teasers that said "Was it me?" as in "Was I the one who caused the Bite?". It's also a reference to "IT'S ME". Now think about it. What animatronic do we most often associate with "IT'S ME", aside from The Puppet? [[spoiler:'''GOLDEN FREDDY.''']]

** Even better: at one point in the minigames, the Child is accidentally [[spoiler:or intentionally, by his brother]] locked ''in the spare parts room'', where the animatronics that ''already'' horrified him are in bits and pieces. No wonder what he sees is so monstrous; it reflects what he thinks they truly are after that trauma!

* Why does the Scottgames logo turn from a dark purple to a brighter purple when the sixth teaser was released? Because [[spoiler:Fredbear]] has come from the shadows, and has (partially) shown himself.

* Plushtrap's teaser may have been implying other small, terrible things in the game as well… [[spoiler:[[KidsAreCruel the other children]].]]
* The death animation in this game uses blood splatter instead of static. For one, it's obviously because this time there are no camera feeds to be cut to static. However, there may also be a fair bit of {{Foreshadowing}} in this; [[spoiler:the animatronic attacks create blood splatter as their mouths close in on your vision, a bit like how it would look to be bitten on your head. Like your frontal lobe, for instance?]]
** On a different but related tack, the "death animation" doesn't actually show anything to indicate how you die. At first, it seems to be a bit of [[NothingIsScarier good ol' fashioned restraint]], but the twist [[spoiler:that all of the Nightmares are hallucinations rather than actual monster animatronics]] offers the alternative explanation that [[spoiler:the protagonist is never in ''real'' danger, just utter terrified misery due to his trauma and brain damage]].
*** Just to turn the horror up to maximum levels: [[spoiler:if the kid is in a coma, and fighting off his nightmares, who's to say that failing to do so doesn't result in a fatal aneurysm? If he gets caught by his nightmares, he's ''never waking up'', because he's ''dead''.]]
* The teaser images of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy all wonder if 'it was me?' [[spoiler:In the end, we discover that the kid's older brother and his friends were responsible for the victim getting his frontal lobe bit off. Remember how all four were wearing the masks of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Metaphorically, all four 'nightmares' were guilty of the Bite of '87.]] It's also worth considering that Foxy has some extra ambiguity and differences compared to the other teasers and asked 'or me?'. [[spoiler:The Foxy mask was worn by the kid's big brother.]]
** In addition, this gives the choice of Animatronics a lot of meaning too. [[spoiler:While Fredbear performed the bite, the other Nightmares represent his brother and his friends directly.]]
* Plushtrap's name, hidden in the code of the site for the "Terrible things come in small packages" teaser, is concealed in the letters "Cyh gvh gpe". Also hidden in the code are the numbers "13, 12, 11". [[spoiler:The letter triplets are coded with a Caesar cipher, also called a [=ROTation=] cipher. Thus, the first three letters are ROT-13: Plu. The next three are ROT-12: sht. The last three, of course, are ROT-11: rap.]] May also double as Fridge Humor -- [[spoiler:Springtrap has been left to ROT, after all.]]
* To some, the game's an ArtifactTitle now due to not taking place in an establishment linked to Freddy at all, really. But after beating the game and realizing [[spoiler:the animatronics are essentially hallucinations of a psychosis degree,]] it begins to make sense; even if [[spoiler:Fredbear]] is technically the real leader this time, you're essentially spending five nights [[spoiler:of nightmares fueled and ultimately dominated by Freddy. For the Child, you never left Freddy's.]]
* The Child's room having two doors in gameplay but only one in the minigames, the unlimited battery in the flashlight, and the Child not keeping all the doors shut and locked make complete sense taking into consideration the heavy implications that [[spoiler:it's AllJustADream (well, nightmare)]].
** He has more than one door to his room because [[spoiler:it's a dream interpretation of his room, not his actual room, and part of his nightmare means there's more than one opening for the monsters to get him from]], increasing his terror.
** The doors don't stay shut against the monsters when the Child runs off because [[spoiler:it's a nightmare]], so they keep opening.
** The doors don't lock because [[spoiler:in this nightmare]] they don't ''have'' locks (or possibly they don't work, or [[spoiler:the Child is stuck in the nightmare and can't change anything about how it's going]]).
** Furthermore, there are literally monsters outside his door(s), in his closet, and (implied to be) under his bed because [[spoiler:those are all places children expect boogeymen to lurk]]. And this continues night after night without much positive change (in fact, getting ''worse'') because [[spoiler:the Child is having recurring nightmares of the Fazbear animatronics as the horrors his subconscious sees them as after all the bullying, his brother deliberately terrifying him with these fears, and ''then'' getting his head stuffed into the mouth of his favorite animatronic and getting part of his head ''bitten off'']], with his inability to recover from all this making [[spoiler:his nightmares]] increasingly worse (and thus difficult for the player).

* While the ''FNAF'' series as a whole has MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily and has never been shy about ramping up the creepiness factors of said teeth, this game really took it to an [[UpToEleven exaggerated level]]. And that makes a lot of sense when you realize [[spoiler:the animatronics in this game are actually the nightmares of a kid who was seriously injured by an animatronic biting him. Of course his nightmares would be filled with terrifying teeth and enormous wide-open mouths.]]
* The design of the room itself is brilliance on Scott's part to ramp up the fear factor. Think about it. Your starting location is in the middle of the room facing the closet, and each possible point of attack -- the bed, the closet, and the hallways -- has to be moved to in order to be interacted with. Moving to intercept one animatronic ''exposes your back to the other three,'' whether you realize it or not. If you didn't feel vulnerable enough in past ''Five Nights'' games, you probably do now. This becomes even worse by Night 5 because [[spoiler:Nightmare Fredbear can use ''any'' of those approaches to attack you, and he's ''much'' faster than the other Nightmare animatronics.]]

** Or old is mixing with the new. Chica's bib ''does'' say, "Let's Eat!!!" instead of "Let's Party!" after all. So it's likely that [[spoiler:the Child remembers the original Bonnie's design, but the existence of Toy Bonnie and the fact that he got his frontal lobe bitten off means that some details are off. Same with Toy Chica and permanently holding her cupcake.]]

* Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie all have five fingers on each hand. Which is strange, of course, until you get the post-Night 5 minigame. [[spoiler:The child's big brother and his friends were each wearing a mask representing the animatronics, and each of them lifted the child up into Fredbear's mouth.]] Of course, with the Nightmare Animatronics being [[spoiler:literally Nightmares]], it's easy to see Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie as [[spoiler:representations of the big brother and his friends]]. May double as FridgeHorror, as the child will always remember [[spoiler:his big brother as a monster who (seemingly) tried to kill him.]]
** Of course, the above brilliance becomes even more brilliant when you pay close attention to where Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie attack you from and the positions that [[spoiler:the big brother and his friends were in when they lifted the child into Fredbear's mouth.]]
* After someone found an audio clip of some ambience in the game and pitched it up, it was revealed to be [[spoiler:Phone Guy's message from the first night of the first game. Why this clip specifically? ''Beacause it was the only message in the series to mention the Bite of '87!'']]
* The reason the cupcake can kill you in this game [[spoiler:besides its hallucination status]] is because a child is much easier to kill than an adult, and so the cupcake can kill the kid without him fighting it off.
* A common theory prior to this game was that either Foxy or Mangle committed the bite of '87. [[spoiler:Technically, Foxy still did. After all, who was wearing the Foxy mask? Who was the most prominent bully? And who encouraged the other children to stuff a kid's head into an animatronic's mouth as a joke?]]

** But why Foxy doesn't kill you the instant he enters the room? As some other Tropers pointed out above, Foxy used to "hide" in Pirate Cove at the time. But also ask yourself: [[spoiler:what person liked to jumpscare the kid in real life]]?
* After the Bite of '87, [[spoiler:Fredbear is yellow with a black tie and hat. This is the inverse of Nightmare's colors!]]
* The Puppet has always been the odd man out among the cast.. and now we might know why. [[spoiler:The Bite Victim's spirit didn't go into Golden Freddy, as Golden Freddy was ''already'' haunted. The Bite Victim could have gone into ''the Puppet''. Of ''course'', he fits quite well in the Puppet's role. What better way to reject his own traumatic birthday party than to spend his afterlife giving gifts to other kids instead of receiving them himself?]]
** [[spoiler:The implication we got of the Puppet's origins we saw in FNAF 2 doesn't match up at all with what's happening in 4. It's more obvious that the Bite Victim ''is'' Golden Freddy, with the Puppet having preceded them all back at Fredbear's.]]
*** [[spoiler:Not really. There's no Puppet anywhere in the flashback that shows the crying kid that everyone speculated to become the Puppet, but Fredbear's right in front of him. Knowing that he's not the only crying kid (the tear streaks on his face being the only reason anyone assumed he was the Puppet to begin with) and that the Puppet didn't exist when he was killed, combined with the Happiest Day minigame (the ghost who disappears and leaves the Golden Freddy mask is the birthday kid, not the Puppet; the Bite Victim didn't want a party, the Crying Kid from FNAF 2 was upset after being locked out of one), implies that Purple Guy's first victim became Golden Freddy and the Bite Victim became the Puppet.)]]

* If [[AllJustADream what Scott wrote down during his website's homepage transition]] was true in any way, then it brings one previous animation to mind. When [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy comes barreling down the hallway and gives off that particularly]] {{Narm}}-y position and expression when he jumpscares Mike (and, as many people had pointed out, looks like he's just checking up on him or popping in to fuck with him), it could just as easily be read as [[spoiler:the child dreaming about his brother doing the same thing]] thanks to the new interpretation.
* The Bite debate can easily be ended by just one thing. [[spoiler:Nightmare BB]] is in ''both'' Halloween updates of the game. And considering that there's nothing hinting that [[spoiler:BB]] was in 1983... [[spoiler:But there might be a possibility that BB had existed back in Fredbear's...]]

* Here's a double dose of FridgeHorror: in one of the Mini Games, we witness [[spoiler:the Purple Guy putting someone in one of the suits.]] First dose? [[spoiler:You're a little child in the same room as the ''murderer''. ''The week he did them''.]] Second? [[spoiler:Someone was arrested for his crimes, crimes he committed at some time during that week.]] It's ''very'' likely we're witnessing [[spoiler:the moment he framed someone for his murders.]]
* During the Night 3 minigame, [[spoiler:you encounter five children on your way home. Each of which love Freddy's.]] Keep in mind that [[spoiler:since the Bite happens at the end of the week, that the murders took place at some point this week.]] How many [[spoiler:victims were there? '''Five'''.]]
** The [[spoiler:kid with the balloon]] asks you if you're going to the party since everyone else is, only to laugh because it's your party. Let me emphasize that: he asks if you are going to the party since '''everyone else is'''. [[spoiler:None of them are present at the party in the Night 5 minigame]].
* With the [[spoiler:reveal of the bite's culprit]], we now know just ''why'' one of the rules at the first game's pizzeria was "Don't touch Freddy."
* At the end of [[HarderThanHard Night 7 (Nightmare)]], [[spoiler:a locked box with the sentence "Perhaps some things are best left forgotten, for now." appears.]] This is very much a teaser for the Halloween content... but what's [[spoiler:inside the box? Users on [=YouTube=], and likely other places, have identified it as a ''puppet case.'']]
** This begs the question: [[spoiler:what did the Puppet do that was so terrible the child has currently repressed it]]?
* Sure, Jeremy Fitzgerald is alive and well, but remember this: the Toy Animatronics he was guarding that day were extremely glitchy and hostile to ''anyone'' who wasn't a child. Of course, nobody was watching [[spoiler:Fredbear]] at the time, but imagine the aftermath -- blood's gushing down [[spoiler:as a kid hangs limply from the animatronic's jaws]], there are 4 horrified teenagers panicking, someone's calling the police, and everyone who gets a good look at the [[spoiler:victim]] is now scarred for life. And ''everyone'', including the Toys and Jeremy, could have entered the room to see what the hell was going on. And given how overprotective of children, malfunctioning, and potentially homicidal the Toys were during the day, who's to say that the reason they got scrapped was ''because they tried to attack the kid's brother and his friends?''
** It gets even worse. The Toys were just haywire, potentially due to the Puppet's spectral influence. But the four Withered Animatronics in the storage room had recently become cans for the murdered kids, who are now raging, bloodthirsty ghosts. Plus the Puppet could probably hear the noise from the Prize Corner, and he's been shown to be a ''lot'' smarter than all the others. And then there's [[spoiler:Fredbear himself, who contains the last of the six ghosts and would probably be ''pissed'' about what he'd just been made to do]]. It wouldn't just be amazing for the teens to survive, it'd be a miracle they didn't get swarmed by ''twelve'' animatronics as opposed to four, with Spring Bonnie and Balloon Boy being the only odd men out.
** This could be one of the reasons why the brother was so apologetic on Night 6 -- he was seriously injured in the ensuing bloodbath. And he could have suffered from the realization that by being an absolute douchebag to his little brother, his actions led to not only [[spoiler:the near-death]] of his sibling, but the severe wounds or even ''deaths'' of his friends, his parents' eternal grief and anger at him, and the closing of the pizzeria. Basically, he would be the one responsible for ruining so many lives, and it would haunt him ''forever.''

* Throughout the nights, if you look closely, [[spoiler:sometimes a medical IV bag, a vase of flowers, or a pill bottle may appear on the nightstand next to the bed.]] These are early hints to [[spoiler:the medical condition of the Child, but it also makes you wonder just how long it has been since the Bite for him to still be hooked to an IV bag -- and ''how often'' he suffers these hallucinations and dreams to require the equivalent of home hospice?]]

* Consider that the game gets more difficult as the nights go on. In the other games, it was a gameplay staple, so one might not bat an eye, but here [[spoiler:the nights are nightmares that the child is going through.]] And they get even WORSE with each passing night. The child may have [[spoiler:survived getting bitten and no longer having his frontal lobe, but chances are the [[TearJerker nightmares are going to take their toll if not eventually kill him]].]]
* Also counts as fridge [[TearJerker sadness]]. Listen closely to the sound at the end of the 6th night. [[spoiler:'''The kid could have just died.''']]
* One particularly unpleasant bit of fridge horror rears its ugly mug when you realize that [[spoiler:Fredbear doesn't simply bite through the kid's head. He stalls for a couple of seconds. Notice how the mouth was opening and closing normally up until the kid's placed inside. Fredbear stalled because his jaw was trying to close, but couldn't, finally accumulating in one final "bite" before breaking. Think about this from the perspective of the victim: you are placed into a closed space that you are already terrified of, and immediately, you feel a horrible pressure on your head. Too shocked to scream in pain, you can only hear bone cracking and gears grinding, time seeming to slow down as your mind races for a way out, before a final explosion of pain grants you the mercy of unconsciousness, your body going limp. And, keep in mind, during all this, four cruel, stupid teenagers are laughing, failing to understand the severity of what they have done until it is too late to prevent it. The kid's nightmares are NOTHING compared to the living, waking nightmare that his brother is going to have to deal with the rest of his life.]]

** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyrOSSl7XwA this video]], the horrifying appearance could symbolically mean Nightmare is [[spoiler:Death itself. He only appears during the end of the seventh and eighth nights of the game, after the end of the sixth night ends with the sound of a flatline, indicating the Child's possible death. During his jump scare scene, it only shows an up-close picture of his face as an electronic gargling sound plays over it, which is significantly different from the other animatronics.]] Only time will tell if the current theory of Nightmare being Shadow Freddy is true...

* When the child's brother (and the brother's friends) are about to throw him head-first in the mouth of [[spoiler:Fredbear]], it seems like everything in the pizzeria is going like usual... but then there's the fact that it's all but stated that the game takes place in [[spoiler:1987, as in, the year someone got their frontal lobe bitten off]], and that means that animatronics already HAVE the technology to read faces; but if you go back to [=Fnaf2=], the Phone Guy mentions that even the OLD animatronics have the facial scanners installed, but that something as simple as a Freddy mask is more than enough to fool the scanners. Now, think about it, the brother and his friends ARE wearing masks of all the other animatronics; if the retro-fitting part is true, then it means that [[spoiler:Fredbear]] also had scanners that don't pick up on humans wearing masks, and therefore, could only watch as the other animatronics picked up a child and brought it to him, and, even if he could tell the child was NOT in any possible way happy, the simple fact his scanners kept on picking up that he was with the other animatronics could've blocked him from doing ANYTHING about it.
** To sink it further, it's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Diner, so it means [[spoiler:Fredbear]] already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in [[spoiler:Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]]]; how can he trust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suitless" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the [[spoiler:Bite of '87]], after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.
* If you believe in the "Child=Golden Freddy" theory, consider this. [[spoiler:Nightmare's brain? The victim's. Its killscreen? Not just a reference.]] It comes only after [[spoiler:the child ''flatlines'']] in the night [[spoiler:6]] mini-game. It represents the unending, mind-shattering ''horror'' of his new existence [[spoiler:as [[{{AndIMustScream}} Golden Freddy]]. ''A ghost in the machine''.]]

* Considering the fact that the Nightmares [[spoiler:are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly What It Says On The Tin]], Scott was essentially giving others [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel]] by ''showing someone else's nightmares.'' What if they spread, haunting [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou others?]]]]

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

* The Don't Wake the Baby teaser features a small Freddy plush sitting on a bed. Aw, how cute! And then you brighten it, and the plushie turns ''golden''. [[spoiler:And that's not the [[HumanoidAbomination only]] [[PerversePuppet thing]] you can find when brightening the image.]]

* Probably the saddest piece of fridge horror centers around the sequence where the child runs from the guy in the Fredbear costume. His plush says "Don't you remember what you saw? You know what will happen if he catches you." The plush seems oddly panicked for someone who is normally the calmer of the two. There's a very real possibility that this poor kid witnessed someone in one of those suits "catching" a child, and who do we know who [[PurpleIsPowerful wears]] [[KillerRabbit suits]] and [[SerialKiller catches children?]] [[spoiler:What's worse, there doesn't seem to be [[CassandraTruth anyone who would believe him,]] and even pick on him for his trouble, so it's just this kid and his Fredbear plushie against a horror that no kid should have to face. But, it gets [[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE!]] Remember Nightmare? He only appears after the child has faced all of his other fears. Each Nightmare animatronic represents something or someone from the real world, so who represents Nightmare? The Purple Man. The brain in a suit. The biggest monster behind all the other monsters, [[BigBad and the one person that can only be confronted]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare after the child dies.]] [[AndIMustScream And there is nothing to indicate that the child ever stopped having nightmares]] up until [[WildMassGuessing maybe]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding The Happiest Day Minigame.]]]]

** Of course, the above brilliance becomes even more brilliant when you pay close attention to where Nightmare Foxy, Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie attack you from and the positions that the [[spoiler:the big brother and his friends were in when they lifted the child into Fredbear's mouth.]]

** But why Foxy doesn't kill you the instant he enters the room? As some other Tropes pointed out above, Foxy used to "hide" in Pirate Cove at the time. But also ask yourself: [[spoiler:what person liked to jumpscare the kid in real life]]?

*** [[spoiler: Not really. There's no Puppet anywhere in the flashback that shows the crying kid that everyone speculated to become the Puppet, but Fredbear's right in front of him. Knowing that he's not the only crying kid (the tear streaks on his face being the only reason anyone assumed he was the Puppet to begin with) and that the Puppet didn't exist when he was killed, combined with the Happiest Day minigame (the ghost who disappears and leaves the Golden Freddy mask is the birthday kid, not the Puppet; the Bite Victim didn't want a party, the Crying Kid from FNAF 2 was upset after being locked out of one), implies that Purple Guy's first victim became Golden Freddy and the Bite Victim became the Puppet.)]]

* In the first 3 [=FNAFs=], players could turn down the volume so they won't hear the screech. The fourth one uses sounds since there's no camera. Scott was very smart about that one.
* If [[AllJustADream what Scott wrote down during his website's homepage transition]] was true in any way, then it brings one previous animation to mind. When [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys Foxy comes barreling down the hallway and gives off that particularly]] {{Narm}}-y position and expression when he jumpscares Mike (and, as many people had pointed out, looks like he's just checking up on him or popping in to fuck with him) , it could just as easily be read as [[spoiler: The child dreaming about his brother doing the same thing]] thanks to the new interpretation.
* The Bite debate can easily be ended by just one thing. [[spoiler:Nightmare BB]] is in ''both'' Halloween updates of the game. And considering that there's nothing hinting that [[spoiler:BB]] was in 1983... [[spoiler: But there might be a possibility that BB had existed back in Fredbear's...]]

** This begs the question: [[spoiler: what did the Puppet do that was so terrible the child has currently repressed it]]?
* Sure, Jeremy Fitzgerald is alive and well, but remember this: the Toy Animatronics he was guarding that day were extremely glitchy and hostile to ''anyone'' who wasn't a child. Of course, nobody was watching [[spoiler:Fredbear]] at the time, but imagine the aftermath -- blood's gushing down [[spoiler:as a kid hangs limply from the animatronic's jaws]], there are 4 horrified teenagers panicking, someone's calling the police, and everyone who gets a good look at the [[spoiler:victim]] is now scarred for life. And ''everyone'', including the Toys and Jeremy, could have entered the room to see what the hell was going on. And given how overprotective of children, malfunctioning and potentially homicidal the Toys were during the day, who's to say that the reason they got scrapped was ''because they tried to attack the kid's brother and his friends?''

** To sink it further, it's implied that the dead child from the "give cake" minigame is around the time of Fredbear's Family Diner, so it means [[spoiler:Fredbear]] already watched as a child died right in front of him without being able to do anything about it because of "programming". No wonder he is such a beast in [[spoiler:Night 6 of [=FNAF2=]]], how can he thrust a Freddy his scanners pick up if it disappears almost instantly and is then replaced by a "suitless" endo-skeleton? That likely happened after he was possibly unable to do anything to prevent the [[spoiler:Bite of '87]], after the guy that he watched killed a child (that again, it couldn't help and it's likely now one of its "co-workers") did something similar (disguising himself), likely using it to ironically, trick the others.

** And, naturally, seeing how badly almost all prisoners will react to child murderers...

* The Don't Wake the Baby teaser features a small Freddy plush sitting on a bed. Aw, how cute! And then you brighten it, and the plushie turns ''golden''. [[spoiler: And that's not the [[HumanoidAbomination only]] [[PerversePuppet thing]] you can find when brightening the image.]]

* Probably the saddest piece of fridge horror centers around the sequence where the child runs from the guy in the Fredbear costume. His plush says "Don't you remember what you saw? You know what will happen if he catches you." The plush seems oddly panicked for someone who is normally the calmer of the two. There's a very real possibility that this poor kid witnessed someone in one of those suits "catching" a child, and who do we know who [[PurpleIsPowerful wears]] [[KillerRabbit suits]] and [[SerialKiller catches children?]] [[spoiler: What's worse, there doesn't seem to be [[CassandraTruth anyone who would believe him,]] and even pick on him for his trouble, so it's just this kid and his Fredbear plushie against a horror that no kid should have to face. But, it gets [[UpToEleven EVEN WORSE!]] Remember Nightmare? He only appears after the child has faced all of his other fears. Each Nightmare animatronic represents something or someone from the real world, so who represents Nightmare? The Purple Man. The brain in a suit. The biggest monster behind all the other monsters, [[BigBad and the one person that can only be confronted]] [[FromNobodytoNightmare after the child dies.]] [[AndIMustScream And there is nothing to indicate that the child ever stopped having nightmares]] up until [[WildMassGuessing maybe]] [[EarnYourHappyEnding The Happiest Day Minigame.]]]]