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Fridge Brilliance

• During the legal spiel at the beginning of the game, HandUnit mentions, among other nasty dangers, "real world manifestations of digital characters". Then you realize it's actually foreshadowing for Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, a FNAF game in which you fight animatronics that have made their way to your home.
  • This could also be a reference to Glitchtrap possessing you.
• During the Pizza Party minigame, the animatronics are trying to scare you away from your party. At first, you think they're trying to kill you. With the reveal of what Glitchtrap was trying to do, they might have been trying to save you.
• Doubles as Fridge Horror, but why does Foxy have the FNaF 4 jumpscare sound in this game, albeit a high-pitched version like Plushtrap's? That's the character whose mask the brother used to scare the crying kid.
• Plushtrap jumpscaring you in the prize boxes harkens back to his teaser quote in 4. Terrible things come in small packages.
• Why do Phantom Freddy and Foxy have their original models rather than their Withered incarnations? Because 2 is a prequel, so their refurbishment and the first game happened before 3. There's also the possible explanation that the nightguard in 3 just found the Withered's creepier, while the people making this game for Fazbear Entertainment disagreed.
• Why is Lolbit an actual threat here rather than a nuisance? Before, they just showed up in TV and/or computer interfaces, but now you're playing a Game Within a Game, and putting a small TV screen to your player character's face. Now all the animatronics are as real to you as Lolbit is.
• Since the first four games get the Nostalgia Level treament, why is Sister Location simply given new challenges rather than recreating those nights as well, and why is Pizzeria Simulator entirely left out aside from Helpy's presence, some of the Plush Baby's looking like Scrap Baby, a few references to the buyable animatronics? Think about it from Fazbear Entertainment's perspective. Sister Location is about the son of the guy who used those animatronics for evil learning horrible, unforgivable things about their old partner company, Afton Robotics, plus the fate of his sister. Pizzeria Simulator is about a former higher-up from Fazbear Entertainment using their name to lure in some of the most hostile and clearly sentient animatronics spawned from all this madness. Both of these games probably made the horrid secrets behind the Freddy Fazbear franchise more blatant and obvious than the first four games did. So much that Fazbear Entertainment wouldn't entertain the thought of drawing attention to them, even to try and brush them off as rumors. There's only so much even they can get away with.
  • Regardless, the Funtime's presence ensures that they were well-known enough in-universe to justify Fazbear Entertainment putting them in, aside from the obvious meta reason.
  • Ennard's presence makes sense when you remember that Michael's neighbors clearly saw what was happening to him after Ennard started wearing him. Given Ennard roamed around without a suit after that for who knows how long, it's very likely someone had to have seen them at some point.
  • The upcoming Help Wanted 2 expansion is going to have a focus on Sister Location, so perhaps Fazbear Entertainment might be a bit more lenient on allowing a bit more of their past to leak through, if not only to attempt to pass it off as a hoax like everything else up to this point in the game.
• Fazbear Entertainment using the circuit boards from the haunted animatronics for this game seems like a dumb move, and it is, all things considered, but there may have been a reason for it, to perfectly replicate how the animatronics acted and where they went at night, with a few additions. You never saw Chica show up in the left door, did you?
• Why were the Withereds left out until DLC, even as Phantoms? Fazbear Entertainment didn't want their flagship characters looking broken and scrapped, on top of everything else. But the broken animatronics seemed well-known enough by people familiar with the Pizzeria's many scandals that they had to put them in.

Fridge Horror

• Let's get this one out of the way: it turns out that William Afton (Purple Guy) wasn't kidding. HE ALWAYS COMES BACK.
• There is a child's hat and shoe stuffed inside Freddy's chest cavity. Given that the animatronics became possessed because the bodies of murdered children were hidden inside them, it's not hard to realize what this might mean.
  • Considering that the puppet was the one who stuffed the kids into the suit, this likely takes place soon after the incident, after Fazbear Entertainment scooped the corpse of the child out of the robot, apparently.
• The secret ending to the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, revealed when holding the Glitchtrap plushie while wearing the Rabbit Mask, very strongly implies that William Afton had accomplices. And the animatronics may not be responsible for some of the murders he committed, or at the very least, weren’t always the tools he used.
• Fazbear Entertainment used "Scott Cawthon" to make games in an attempt to dispel rumours. One of MatPat's theories state, however, that the stories are true... So how much of the extra-games (the ones that aren't remakes) that we have seen are true within the in-universe events, if at all?
  • MatPat's theories shouldn't be taken seriously, as they aren't the ~Gospel of Freddy's~ as most people would try to shove it into your face as. Although, the idea that Scott Cawthon himself is a character in FNaF is pretty interesting.
    • Yes, you shouldn't treat MatPat as the Gospel of Freddy's as he's not even the creator, but one is allowed to take his theories into consideration and believe them as they're just theories.^note THEY'RE GAME THEORIES!! THANKS FOR READING. He basically said that Oswald, a character from the book series, "Into the Ball Pit", is the creator of the games and shares the face of Scott Cawthon, which makes sense due to Oswald's seemingly random knowledge about the animatronics that came out of nowhere (amongst other similarities in likes). Put two and two together and you might believe it.
  • In one of the books, Fetch, it turn out that the Springtrap plush in the minigames is indeed canon.
• It would've been much easier to send the tapes that are scattered throughout the game into places that are actually unreachable. Or better yet, don't make them a collectible item at all... Which is probably why they're purple.
  • By that point, as the audio reveals, the anomaly had already latched onto the files and prevented their being deleted. Since Glitchtrap/Malhare is inside the code and capable of altering things inside the game, he's basically handing you the files in order to be fully reassembled.
• At one point, one of the tape recordings mentions that they used old circuit boards and materials from the original animatronics when making the VR Game. This is the implied reason why Glitchtrap is present. What makes this horrible is the the Pizza Party level. That level represents the scattered memories and last thoughts of the children William Afton killed and stuffed into the suits, from their perspective. Does that mean that Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, or Freddy could still be in there as well?
• Sister Location revealed that the child's house in the fourth game took place on top of the facility within the Sister Location. Why is this Fridge Horror? Well, in one of the mini-games, you get to play as the child of the fourth game, who's hiding from Baby. BABY ESCAPED FROM THE FACILITY AND IS HUNTING THE CHILD (who is also implied to be her brother!).
• William coming back as Glitchtrap doesn't seem to be as much of a victory as you'd think. Look at how Glitchtrap acts; it's nothing like the cold-blooded, threatening killer we've been dealing with. Considering this and the fact that his very soul was broken apart across the game after he died, and the possibility that he went through the Ultimate Custom Night before this, it begins to feel like any humanity William had is now gone, the man he was is dead, and all that's left is his delusions and bloodlust; his most basic instincts are now all he has. You have to wonder if he even remembers who he was at this point, if he remembers his daughter, his son, anyone, or if it's all gone at this point. Seems always coming back has cost William greatly...
  • To clarify, Glitchtrap is speculated to be how William sees himself when he's in the Spring Bonnie suit. Security Breach's trailers seem to suggest he isn't completely lost in his delusions, but he certainly sounds pissed off… William was never the pinnacle of sanity, but the amount of agony he's put himself through at this point couldn't have done anything good for his mental state. If that IS his voice in the Security Breach trailers, his Mask of Sanity is slipping off quickly...

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