Headscratchers / Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

• In one ending in which Freddy leaves with Gregory, but the PizzaPlex survives, Glamrock Freddy is replaced with Glamrock Mr. Hippo… yet there were a number of Glamrock Endo endoskeletons in Parts and Services which would seem just as usable for a Glamrock Freddy as a Glamrock Mr. Hippo.
  • It's possible they only had one set of casing for Freddy. That and the whole crash on stage probably gave the higher-ups more reason to replace him at that point.
  • Another possibility is that Fazbear Entertainment is trying to distance themselves from their horrific past, and phasing out the original animatronics and replacing them with new ones is part of how they plan to do it. Foxy didn't even get a glamrock incarnation, and no attempt (that we know of) was made to repair Glamrock Bonnie after the decommissioning incident.
  • Doesn't exactly work when they have no qualms advertising and displaying posters and decor from previous establishments, such as the 1987 location with the toy animatronics. Foxy despite lacking a Glamrock version still has a big presence in Pizzaplex through displays and his own animated movie.
    • To be fair, while Foxy still has a presence, he is not an animatronic. Same thing with Bonnie, who, despite still having an attraction tied to him, is no longer an animatronic. Historically, the animatronics have hurt and killed people, but the posters, merchandise, and static decor have not, making them less of a liability to keep around. Plus, those characters appear to still be popular and profitable, so why wouldn't Fazbear Entertainment keep them around in some, safe form?
  • This is the ending where Freddy has escaped. If they have a rogue animatronic on the loose, and no idea what it will do, it is logical for them to no longer associate with it.
• If Springtrap/William Afton was still alive… Who are we playing as in Ultimate Custom Night?
  • Probably still William Afton. He just made good on his word that he "always comes back." However, it looks like Molten Freddy with his new A.I. seemed determined to get him to stop that, judging by him holding Springtrap at bay as the building burned.
  • Still William. Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights confirms that UCN is William's nightmare rather than his afterlife.
    • Specifically one of his victims, the same one inhabiting the Blob, snagged him as he was dying, keeping him in a fittingly hellish limbo planning to get revenge for all the suffering done. But by keeping William from reaching the afterlife, he was still tied to the living world… ready to come back if someone managed to give him the right stimuli.
  • Based on the tapes in Help Wanted, it seems that somehow a few parts of him latched onto the game and turned into Glitchtrap, who then tricked Tape Girl into letting him out. Judging by Burntrap's appearance, it seems his next move afterwards was putting himself in Scraptrap's/William's corpse and making Tape Girl into Vanny. So to answer your question, William is dead, Burntrap is his corpse controlled by his Virtual Ghost.
• Why does the official Fazmap handed out to guests include the very off-limits areas? It's not like they care about safe evacuation points.
  • More than likely it's the exact same map that's given to employees, and they simply don't care enough to give customers a map that doesn't include this information. Attempts at lawsuits for injury in these areas would just be met with resistance that they obviously weren't supposed to be there. Furthermore, robots are easy scapegoats so the wrong map can be blamed on a faulty AI. (Never mind the fact that this opens up criticism for staffing with robots; Fazbear Entertainment doesn't seem to think that far on anything.)
• Remnant was supposed to break down in intense heat, wasn't it? William shouldn't still be attached to Spring Bonnie anymore.
  • He’s survived multiple fires by this point. Looking at how the Blob appears to be every other Pizzeria Sim haunted animatronic fused together, it’s entirely possible that the scooper’s original blueprint was wrong about remnant.
  • That, or the temperature that breaks down remnant is a lot higher than a building fire can get, or the previous fire just missed some.
    • It's worth pointing out that the fires have not been hot enough to cremate Afton, supporting the idea the flames aren't hot enough, but also the felt casing of Springtrap has never been fully destroyed. It's possible Afton is able to keep out of the flames and much of the heat.
• How long has Bonnie been gone and replaced with Monty? Notes around the place reveal there's still quite a bit of Bonnie-related stuff around the PizzaPlex, but somehow there's also already an entire area themed around Monty? How?
  • Before he took over as the bassist, Monty always had the golf section. He was just previously limited to that section, similar to Music Man or the Daycare Attendant being limited to their one area.
• Gregory can stay inside of Freddy even in the Recharge Station, as we see after the Daycare. So why does he not just stay inside Freddy in a Recharge Station the whole night?
  • The game needs to have a plot, for one, and while Gregory may not be the kindest character, he has enough reason to want the animatronics to pay for what they're putting him through. The game also frames it as Freddy's role to ensure safety and survival, which Gregory seems a bit less concerned by, though Freddy also leans toward cooperating and assisting a child's wishes so he goes along with a more active plot.
    • So why doesn't Gregory just convince Freddy to let him stay inside his chassis? Gameplay-wise, nobody can detect him in there, not even Vanessa.
    • If Freddy runs out of battery while Gregory's inside him, Safe Mode is presumably deactivated, and Freddy will pull Gregory out and kill him, so staying inside there for an extended period of time would not be a great idea.
    • Gameplay-wise, 2 characters can figure out that Gregory is hiding inside of Freddy. Map Bot will yank Gregory out of Freddy to give him a map, and Moon will eventually check inside Freddy at the end of the hour if the player doesn't find a charging station in time.
    • But there's nothing stopping him from staying inside a recharge station the whole night story-wise.
    • Perhaps not, and they might have been able to have a time-lapse cutscene and alternate ending for such a path, but overall, the game only works if a more active story is offered to the player.
    • Perhaps there are concerns of overcharging and damaging the life of Freddy's already limited battery?
• Is there any Watsonian explanation for how the Daycare Attendant can transform? As a machine, it really doesn't look built to shapeshift, especially given its different colors and fabrics as Sun and Moon. The game devs didn't seem to think so, since the transformation is never actually shown, but in-universe, what's actually happening? Realistically, there would probably have to be two separate animatronics with mutually exclusive activation protocols that happen to just look like one that transforms, possibly swapped out through ceiling cables if we're going with the puppet theming they seem to have.
  • Illusion Discs, boom, problem solved/head scratched.
  • The fabric looks the same, but the patterns and colors change. Some have proposed that the clothing and outer casing is made of some kind of extreme color-changing material triggered by light, electricity, or something else. The Sun's thin, triangular rays likely just extend from the head and retract back into the head when Moon is active. The real mystery is Moon's nightcap, which appears much thicker than the rays and doesn't seem like it could be stored in the head or really anywhere else due to the Daycare Attendant's thin frame and lack of visible storage areas. Where does it keep the nightcap when Sun is active? Does Moon pull it out of its loose-fitting pants (which don't appear to have any pockets)? Hammerspace? It's a mystery.
    • The rays extending from the head can be seen in-game, but the animation is hard to see, as it lasts for only a few frames, is at a distance, and the rays blend in with the background. When Sun first emerges from its room, the rays are absent, but they quickly extend outwards from the head.
    • Sun also temporarily pushes the rays back into its head when it puts its hands on top of its head when it freaks out about the lights being off. The rays immediately pop back into place when it takes its hands off its head.
• How exactly are the ruins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place so far below the PizzaPlex? Unless it sunk into the earth or was forcibly buried after FFPS, it should still be on the surface, right?
  • Apparently the fire triggered a sinkhole. Somehow.
  • One of the lawsuits you can receive in Pizzeria Simulator mentions a kid falling into a sinkhole that suddenly formed underneath him, and the building in this lawsuit is noted to have unstable ground due to poor maintenance upkeep. It's possible that the fire Henry started aggravated the instability, and caused the building to fall beneath the earth.
  • Maybe a ghost did it. There seems to be enough of them in that location.
  • This Troper was always under the impression that it was always underground. Think about it: Henry wanted it all to end, so the last thing he'd want is to draw attention of the authorities by setting a building on fire. So he constructed the pizzeria underneath a decoy building (so the animatronics would assume it was a real establishment) and connected them with the elevator we see in Security Breach.
• If Fazbear Entertainment wanted to bury the past horrors as a joke story in Help Wanted, why include reminders of the horrors in the decor? Are they still holding onto that narrative as a necessity to address the dark side? Also, how do they know about entities like Shadow Bonnie?
  • They probably hold onto some of the old stuff due to popularity and profits. Basically, some of the old stuff, despite the horrors associated with them, are too popular with the masses and profitable to the company to get rid of right away. Foxy in particular was apparently quite popular, as he got a movie featuring him, despite Fazbear not building a new animatronic for him this time.
• At this point, who even are Fazbear Entertainment? They collapsed after the first game's revived restaurant shuttered, but somehow re-formed after Fazbear's Fright until they rebuilt through the VR game and the launch of the Mega PizzaPlex. We don't know who's running it, but the company seems outright malicious by now, as they are no longer just incompetent and denialistic, but seem to have the whole picture and are burying the company's horrific past to relaunch and make more money, showing immense and active disrespect to the victims of the company and taking no responsibility for the failures of their fore(Faz)bears. It's a good commentary on corporate greed, so maybe we don't need to know who these people are. But by Security Breach, is Afton even the biggest problem we should be worrying about in this universe?
  • While, yes, they're corrupt, they're not the main source of conflict in the series, as William always seems to be the one pulling the strings in the events which result in people dying.
  • Aftons wife, the only person from the original era who isn't dead. As his widow having avoided falling into his machinations in a way that would get her killed she is the legal inheritor of the intellectual property. Henry and his family are dead, William is missing presumed dead, shes the only one left with any legal claim to it. And from the look of it she rebranded successfully as well as massively selling out in the AR delivery game not having the same devotion tinthe artistry of it as William or Henry but excellent business sense.
• How does the Blob have the pieces it has? It has the unscathed face pieces of Funtime Freddy and Circus Baby, and even parts of the classic animatronics. Are these the original animatronics' pieces — if so, why not have Molten Freddy and Scrap Baby parts, which would be what survived of those characters? Or are they pieces of alternate copies or reproductions of the animatronics that somehow ended up at the Pizza Place ruin?
  • Can probably be handwaved that Molten Freddy and Scrap Baby's designs were a creative choice by the Indie Developer (Nott Cawthon) who is said to have made the first 6 games in-universe. This is the only way to possibly explain the inconsistency in the designs in-universe. Same with Burntrap.
  • The display cases in the Pizzaplex have animatronic parts, but a lot of them have empty pedestals, as though someone stole the parts that were on them. Those probably aren't the Funtime Freddy and Baby parts, but instead spares or replicas the Blob stole.
• Upon reaching an exit at 6 AM, Freddy will bring up Vanny, who he has never seen, and in many cases, neither Freddy nor Gregory should have any reason to know her name.
  • It's not explained how Gregory knows her name, but he can tell Freddy that he picked up on Vanny's name prior to 6 AM, and tell Freddy about a scary rabbit lady. Even though Freddy can't see her, he must believe Gregory enough to take Vanny seriously as a threat based on Gregory's testimony.
  • You can discover Vanny's hideout in Fazer Blast, which has her name written on the wall. Naturally, you can miss this if you do Monty Golf and Roxy's Raceway first, so it is very likely an oversight that Steel Wool made, and forgot to make dialogue and a check if the player had found the room prior.
    • Said oversight mainly happens because there's a Dummied Out voice file of Freddy saying the same thing as he does in the final game, but referring to the "dancing rabbit lady". So the file already exists, but it seems they ran out of time to program it into the game effectively.
• Sun says that we (referring to itself and Gregory) can drink Fizzy Faz as we stay up all night, but Sun doesn't have a moving jaw like the other animatronics and consequently lacks anything resembling a functional mouth. While it's possible that Sun would only pretend to drink the Fizzy Faz or would hide the can or bottle away when Gregory looks away for a moment, assuming that Sun would actually drink the Fizzy Faz with Gregory, how would Sun pull it off?
  • Sun might just be excluding itself from that suggestion for the above-mentioned obvious reasons.
  • The problem is that Sun said "we can ... drink Fizzy Faz until our heads ex-PLODE" and repeatedly refers to a group, which can only mean, in that context, Sun and Gregory. It's possible, however, that Sun is simply used to working with a group of toddlers and is misspeaking out of habit. If drinks were brought out for consumption, Sun would mysteriously disappear while the child(ren) enjoy them without Sun.
  • Alternatively, a thin gap exists between the sun and moon pieces that make up the Daycare Attendant's face (the ads for the candies make the detail that the moon is a separate piece attached to the sun clear). Sun might be able to drink Fizzy Faz through a straw between that gap.
  • Sun's just using the royal we. It's no different than if a parent says to their toddler "Let's go have a bath".
• How did William Afton transport his conscience from the in-universe video game and into a half-animatronic body that clearly has flesh growing through it? Vanessa, while possessed, probably helped, but how and why the torched Spring Bonnie suit? Why not something less damaged?
  • From the ending of Help Wanted: Vanessa, the player character from Help Wanted, tried to perform Tape Girl's "ritual" to contain Glitchtrap (Afton's mind copied as a digital entity inside the game) and failed, with the doorhole scene being Vanessa's mind locked behind as Glitchtrap took control over her body. After that controlled-Vanessa took on the identity of Vanny, and started working to rebuild Springtrap to resurrect Afton. As for why Afton chose the suit, there's not a whole lot of other vessels available. He can't permanently take Vanessa or Gregory as a host, and the animatronics are too sentient and have too much personality to be entirely wiped clean, so the old Springtrap body is the only body he can take.
  • Alternatively, Burntrap may just be a recreation of the old Springtrap. Keen-eyed players have noticed that he's built on a Glamrock endoskeleton, including the same style of claws we take from Monty. This would mean that Burntrap's animatronic parts are from a stolen Glamrock endo, while his human parts (which look much fresher than they did in prior games) came from a more recent cadaver. That begs the question of why the in-universe characters are recreating him, however.
    • That's not a recreation. This troper compared images of Burntrap, the Glamrock endos, and what Springtrap looks like underneath his suit without William's corpse. While there are clearly parts from Glamrock endos incorporated into Burntrap's design, a good chunk of his endo appears to be the original springlock endo. The springlocks even appear to be visible on Burntrap's upper arms. His torso also seems to be more Springtrap than Glamrock, especially since he has narrower shoulders than the Glam endos. The claws are another story, as they more closely resemble the claws of the nightmare animatronics than Monty's, plus the Glamrock animatronics only have four fingers, whereas Springtrap and Burntrap have five. It can be noted however, that not all of Burntrap's fingers end in claws. As to how the original Springtrap suit got there, there's an email in Special Delivery where a "vintage Bonnie model" that doesn't show up in their systems and is reported to give off a foul smell being seen by customers. This is likely to explain why Springtrap is in Special Delivery, as it makes no sense for Glitchtrap to be able to control that suit. But if he can, he could have directed it to the Pizzaplex for Vanny to smuggle underground. Afton's body and the Scraptrap suit would already be there, they'd just have more of the original to work with.
• What sort of kid-themed pizza multiplex is open until midnight? There's a lot of cases when parents take their kids to places like Walmart, and they are screaming, having a tantrum, and just raising absolute hell because they just want to go to bed.
  • It might not literally be at nighttime. Tots are usually given nap times in daycare, so it might have something to do with that.
  • Sun, a part of the Superstar Daycare who would probably know all about the services it provides, asks Gregory if he's having a sleepover (which usually lasts all night) when Gregory arrives at the daycare at midnight. Apparently, at least parts of the PizzaPlex offer services that last throughout the night, such as sleepovers at the daycare.
    • My guess is Sun is just playing to a child, and not talking about a literal sleepover. It probably is just talking about naptime. Adults will do this too, where they play up a tiny event like it's this big thing to get a kid hyped for it.
  • Maybe they're also appealing to an older Periphery Demographic (maybe one that grew up with the original franchise) by also having business hours where they won't have to deal with kids.
    • Such an aged Periphery Demographic does appear to exist in-universe. One of the private birthday parties in the Superstar Daycare's greater area was for a 40-year-old. The whiteboard in the same area mentions it as well, but it's coded. ^note A picture of the whiteboard and what it means can be found here.
  • Some of Freddy's cut dialogue reveals that the Pizzaplex used to do Lock-ins, where birthday or school groups can bring sleeping bags and other camping gear to the Pizzaplex to spend the night. This is why there are so many prize boxes littered around the Pizzaplex, scavenger hunts were part of the Lock-in experience.
• Upon installing Roxy's eyes into Freddy, it is established that the eyes allow it user to see through walls. If that was the case, how did Roxy even have as hard of a time finding Gregory as Monty and Chica (aside from balanced gameplay of course)?
  • Maybe she can see through walls but not through everything? Or she can only see through one thing at a time?
  • Using the Exact Words said by Freddy when he gets Roxanne’s eyes, It seems like Roxanne can detect movement through walls specifically. If that’s the case, then as long as Gregory isn’t moving (which if he’s hiding inside Freddy or sneaking around the Pizzaplex, he won’t be) Roxanne would have to look for Gregory the same way the others do.
• Why is Monty, a gator, wearing gatorskin pants? And if they really are Bonnie's legs (considering the feet are purple), why was BONNIE wearing gatorskin pants?
  • The same reason Roxy and Chica are wearing Tiger and Leopard print. To fit in with the 80's glamrock theme.
• How does Gregory realize that the other animatronics are dangerous? Freddy agrees with his fears about being chased by Vanessa, but Gregory doesn't mention being threatened or attacked by any animatronic (in fact he ran directly up to an animatronic - Freddy - with no problems at all), nor does Freddy suggest they might be dangerous. Yet still, when Gregory first sees Chica, he assumes she'll be hostile and he needs to "distract her".
  • When Freddy is found by Vanessa while Gregory hides in the first aid station, Vanessa says she "already alerted the others", unintentionally tipping him off to the other animatronics trying to find him. This makes Gregory wary of Chica, Roxy, and Monty.
• How come Fazbear Entertainment are advertising characters like Yenndo, an endoskeleton without its shell, in places for kids to see? Wouldn't it make sense not to include these nightmarish versions of their beloved characters?
  • We can assume the Indie Developer (Nott Cawthon) is the reason. For as far as kids are possibly aware. They are just characters in video games. Same for stuff like Plushtrap and Nightmare.
• Why does Freddy attack the player if he runs out of battery power? You could attribute it to his faulty in-universe programming, but that raises more questions. Wasn't he the only one who escaped Vanny's reprogramming of the animatronics? Shouldn't his programming be completely fine? Or are the Glamrock animatronics like the Funtime animatronics, in that they were secretly made to be killers all along? Also, why would his programming make the conclusion "if out of battery power, then attack thing in chest?"
  • We see at the beginning that he's currently in Safe Mode, which is probably the reason Vanny can't control him like the others. It could be that if an Animatronic gets too low on power, they return to a default state so they can focus on remedying that, but in this case that just makes Freddy vulnerable to being controlled by Vanny. Alternatively, resisting her reprogramming is a constant, active process that he can't keep up if he gets too low on power.
    • Building off this, Freddy may have a back-up battery in case his primary battery runs out, allowing him just enough time to get himself to a recharge station. He depowers for a moment, the backup battery kicks in, and he reboots - Outside of Safe Mode.
  • Another possibility: the animatronics are sentient enough that they have a full on fight-or-flight response to their own death. If Freddy believes he's going to die - and running out of power completely would be equivalent to that, for an animatronic - he's capable of attacking Gregory out of sheer panic. This also explains why he attacks if Gregory botches repairs on him, and why Monty may have attacked Bonnie in fear he would cause him to be decommissioned.
  • I always assumed that the jumpscare for running out of power was just used in a similar way to one of the uses for the Minireenas' jumpscare in Sister Location's fourth night, that is, Freddy didn't actually directly attack Gregory, but instead Gregory was, in his own words, "crushed and twisted into a meat pretzel."
  • Alternative possibility. At the start of the game we see Freddy start to experience the same system tampering as his friends but due to memory constraints his core program crashes outright. He reboots in safe mode running off his backup battery only and with everything but core functions locked out. If his backup battery, which is smaller and thus dies way easier, runs dry he boots in showmode which allows the hack to finish turning him hostile.
• Who is the target audience of this game? Several people have noted that the game seems to censor any cases of extreme violence by using tropes such as Shadow Discretion Shot, Bloodless Carnage, and Never Say "Die". This is jarring because it's the first FNAF game to show real, fully modeled, uncostumed humans onscreen, so they could have made it Bloodier and Gorier. It's as if they were trying to make the game accessible to younger players... despite keeping the jumpscares, Burntrap's horribly visceral design, and other Nightmare Fuel.
  • Gregory was originally planned to cut his arm when crawling in the vents early in the game, and this was why Freddy rushed him to the first aid station. A change in direction may have happened during production of the game that contributed to the censored violence.
• How does The Blob even work? Molten Freddy was already a case of Artistic License – Engineering, but they at least had a handful of visible endoskeleton parts that made it a little bit believable. The Blob seems to be nothing but a literal mountain of cables with some animatronic parts tossed onto the pile. I mean, how does it even have power? It's too big for a recharge station.
  • Maybe it's still haunted?
• Cassette Man deliberately designed the Pizzeria Simulator location to burn; it was supposed to burn thoroughly enough to permanently destroy the animatronics. How is there any fuel left to shoot fire at Afton, or enough combustible material left in the place to ignite another big fire like the Burntrap Ending shows?
  • For that matter, the location hardly looks like it has any fire damage.
• Where do the other Glamrocks come from in the Burntrap Ending? Going down the rickety elevator and breaking through those planks seems to be the only way in, and how would they have even known Freddy and Gregory are going there? If Afton summoned them to protect himself, why did he wait until they were broken? Speaking of which, how did they make their way down there, with Roxy being blind and Monty barely able to crawl?
  • Likely other hidden passageways, similar to how Freddy and Gregory escape in that ending. Burntrap likely hacked those three and he could control them beyond their disabilities.
  • Other hidden passageways? Granted, it isn't very clear, but it looked to me like they were just running back the way they came in. Freddy even mentions he had to "clear the path," which, to me, implies only one way in. I'll buy that Afton was able to control the Glamrocks to get them down there, but I feel like that raises more questions. Why do they attack one at a time? He seems to be able to control multiple animatronics at once, so why not just Zerg Rush Gregory and end it?
    • Bond Villain Stupidity? Maybe he thinks that trying to toy with Gregory and draw out his death will be more satisfying than just killing him?
• Assuming it is true that Monty wants to usurp Freddy, how did he add that scene of himself as the lead singer and Freddy in the trash to the Monty Golf arcade cabinet? As noted on the main page, it seems unlikely he'd have the time and ability to add it. Did he ask someone from management to add it? If so, why would they oblige? Did they not find that suspicious? Especially since it seems to contradict the Mellow Fellow personality that Monty is apparently supposed to have.
• Monty is considered the Token Evil Teammate for supposedly killing Bonnie. However, Roxanne says some very cruel things to Gregory - who is a child and possibly homeless - while chasing him, notably that nobody will miss him, to the point the Villains Wiki lists her under "Psychological Abusers" and "Sadists", though said wiki also treats her as no more at fault than Glamrock Chica (also listed as a sadist) due to being Brainwashed and Crazy, and also makes an argument she isn't evil because the Driver Bots she breaks aren't sapient, whereas Glamrock Bonnie was. And there's the apparent implication that she's really just projecting, and there's nothing to suggest she talks to children like this regularly. That, and without the leather pants treatment, she's considered a Jerkass Woobie, seemingly on par with characters like Helga. Would anybody argue otherwise, or can it safely be said that without being brainwashed, Roxanne is not evil, just a Jerkass?
• Once Freddy gains Roxy's eyes, he can see Vanny. However that implies Roxanne could also see Vanny. Why would Roxanne do absolutely nothing upon seeing an intruder in a knockoff Fazbear Entertainment costume? Surely she would have tried to apprehend Vanny, or at least said or did something to indicate she was aware of Vanny's presence?
  • Well... like Freddy says, they are not meant to hurt guests. Vanny just hacked her to make her attack Gregory. Why would she program Roxy to hunt her down as well as opposed to not viewing her as a threat but an ally?
• How does Vanny even make herself invisible to the animatronics? She's just a woman in what appears to be a basic fursuit. If the answer is that she programmed them to be incapable of seeing her, how exactly did she do that? And why do Roxanne's eyes allow the animatronics to see her?
  • Her lack of a guest profile, staff profile, the mask, and the fact she's not a human visually, might mean she's basically invisible thanks to a programming bug or tampering in the programming. Which would make a ridiculous amount of sense, specifically BECAUSE of Afton using the Spring Bonnie suit to hunt down kids. Roxy, whose eyes are not just for seeing through walls but seeing all kinds of colours and such that the others can't, can naturally see Vanny. Roxy's eyes see through deceit.
    • Related to Ruin: Using the mask seems to make you invisible to the Glamrock Endos and Prototype Freddy. It would seem that this is a deliberate programming choice that forces Animatronics to ignore anyone wearing a Vanni mask allowing technicians to fix any malfunctioning machine without issue. In a sense Vanny isn't actually invisible, the animatronics are vaguely aware of her to keep them walking into her but their personality programming is forced to utterly ignore her. Vanny is just taking advantage of it for her own benefit.
• So... why did they choose an 80's era theme, despite the whole Bite of '87 thing? I mean Fazbear Entertainment has never been what one may call bright, but still...
  • The style of the pizzeria is the furthest thing possible from that of the restaurant from 1987 and creates a different association between the incident and the era it existed in. If they thought anything past "it's cool" (and we can all agree FE is either creepily brilliant in most marketing efforts or simply can't get out of its own way), they could be trying to bury the past and create a new association of their company and that era so the first thing you think about when hearing FE and "80's" is the pizzeria, not the horrific events that actually happened in the 80's.
• What is up with the catwalks over Monty Golf? They have no stairs, the only way to access them is through the Mazercise vent, yet they seem to be set up as a game for customers with cannons to fire balls into the splash bucket. There's also a Monty-themed ride that travels through the area with no known entry point. Of course, there's a roller door on the second floor of the Atrium to the left of Monty Golf's lobby that could go to the ride. However, this doesn't explain how customers would access the catwalks. As stated before, there are no stairs up like there are in Fazer Blast, the only catwalk area that is level with the ride is where the vent empties out and that platform isn't connected to the main catwalks, so climbing back up would be difficult and dangerous because the customers would be at risk of being hit by the Monty ride's buggies.
  • On that same note, how the Hell did Gregory get down to the Monty Golf stage almost immediately after Monty hit the ground? He's there almost instantly. Gregory is too short to climb back up to the vent, and even if he could, he'd need to travel through Mazercise, go down to Monty Golf, and them make his way to and then on to the stage, and this would take him a fair few minutes even without having to dodge or hide from S.T.A.F.F. Bots. But no, he's just there almost as soon as Monty is! How did he do this?
• Why does Vanessa not react to seeing Freddy up and walking around again after she had left him in maintenance with his head disconnected?
  • Moon dragged him to Parts and Service. She probably thought one of the animatronics fixed him up.
• Ruin leaves us with quite a few questions. For one, who created the M.X.E.S. system? Whoever did it had to be the one to seal the Mimic away in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place. That leaves very few people. Only Henry and Vanny, and I think Henry would have just destroyed the Mimic if he could trap it. That leaves Vanny, which actually makes sense. The Security Mask is Vanny's, the AR system has Vanny's name as an acronym, if Vanny and Glitchtrap worked together on it, that might be why the Entity looks like a rabbit.
  • The "Tales from the Pizzaplex" books flesh out the Mimic's backstory. Who knows how much of it will remain canon, so we'll stick with what's relevant to the game: Two construction crews were originally employed for the Pizza Plex, one would build the place while the other would clean up the old Endos of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place to turn it into a museum. The work proved tiring, so a worker named Gil added a clean up protocol to the Mimic, the only old Endo intended for the Pizza Plex (hence the underground recharge stations), instructing it to tear off the arms and heads of the old Endos strewn around the place and put them in a pile. We can guess how that worked out for him and his crew, sadly. The site was sealed off, which is likely when the M.X.E.S. system was installed by Fazbear Inc. I'm guessing that the plan was to just seal the Mimic away and pretend it never existed, save for someone monitoring the M.X.E.S. system. But as we learn in the main game, the old animatronics weren't as destroyed as we thought.
• There are several things that make it unclear what ending is canon to Ruin. Most evidence points towards the Princess ending where Gregory somehow breaks Vanessa out of the Vanny brainwashing but there's other pieces of evidence that suggest other endings happened.
  • Chica has the melted remains of her beak on her face which would indicate one of the fire based endings but none of the other endings suggest this.
  • Gregory's comics include Burn Trap and the Blob but while Cassie takes it as a sign of his imagination, the Blob is shown to exist in Easter eggs in Ruin, but Gregory would have had no way of knowing about it given he left the Pizzaplex before seeing it.
    • The emails found throughout the main game reference that something is causing power losses and structural problems under the Roxy Speedway. Initially, this was because of Glitchtrap and the Blob lurking underneath. But, now with the DLC, it seems the causes were the abandoned equipment from the failed conversion of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place into a museum (due to the Mimic's rampage) and the Blob. Vanessa would know at least some of this since she was forced to clear a path with Freddy. Vanessa and Gregory (possibly with Freddy in tow) might've returned sometime between the main game and the DLC to destroy everything once and for all, possibly by starting another fire with Henry's failsafe, and unwittingly awoke the Blob and possibly the Mimic.
  • The prototype Freddy is found where the main game's Freddy was mauled by Security bots with similar damage.
    • There was a lot cut from the original game, including Freddy's mauling turning him evil. It's possible that our Freddy is the prototype, and the footstamp is a Retcon to explain why he stayed good. We'll have to see if the footstamp is there when someone plays a new game.
• In the Scooping ending, the Mimic dons a mascot costume. From a visual story telling perspective, it's to make it clear it's been scooped as the suit is left behind but why did it feel the need to dress up mid-chase?
  • It might've been expecting to enter a full pizza plex, and dressed up to blend in.
• With the DLC, a very big question has been asked: how much of a role did Afton/Glitch/Burntrap really have in all this? The original game has him as the Big Bad, but the DLC added things from the books. Did he control Vanessa until Gregory vanquished him by beating the Princess Quest games, was Afton actually Dead All Along and it was the Mimic behind everything? How was the M.X.E.S. involved?
• How the heck does the VANNI network work? Like, seriously, that thing is black magic. You can pass through solid objects, delete solid objects and travel using portals all because of... augmented reality?
  • It's mentioned that the mask implanted something in Cassie's occipital lobe; this is the part of the brain that processes visual information, motion stimuli, and spatial relationships. So by messing with those brain pathways and inserting fake or modified stimuli, it can make her see things that aren't there, make her feel like she's moving in ways she isn't, make things seem larger/closer or smaller/further away, et cetera. It's a little far-fetched, but not entirely nonsensical. How and why Fazbear Entertainment has this powerful brain-altering technology is a whole other question, though.
  • Maybe whatever ending this DLC follows saw Fazbear Entertainment get their hands on Vanny's costume, and then reverse-engineer it? Seems like the best possible option.
• Was Fazbear Entertainment adding or removing Foxy? In Ruin, while traveling the backrooms of the Roxy Raceway and Famous Glamrock Beauty Salon, cutouts and props can be found depicting a western-themed Foxy the cowboy. This is the only time in either the DLC or base game Foxy appears in any getup other than as a pirate. Heck, when his cutouts are around, the other band members follow his pirate theme, rather than him change his look! Also, continuing along the corridors after that room of Foxy props and frying Monty in a pool of water with a Bonnie-themed neon light, Cassie comes across a full-on log flume ride, presumably what Foxy would be the mascot of. It's not complete, in fact, one of the rider logs can be climbed on by Cassie while avoiding Monty, but whether it's being built or dismantled is unclear.
  • I think that in one of the collectible descriptions it's mentioned that Cassie's dad, who was a technician in the pizzaplex, let her ride the log flume before it was officially unveiled, and it was later dismantled due to safety concerns (though the latter part was somewhere else)
• Given their personas and characters, shouldn't Chica's and Roxy's instruments be swapped? Roxy is the cool, edgy punk-influenced Badass Biker, who would normally be associated with shredding the guitar and playing sick solos, while Chica is a more gentle, feminine and silly character, who would (in my opinion) better fit a more light-hearted instrument like the keytar.
• Is Vanny really gone? I bring this up because in addition to the mask, there's quite a bit of graffiti spelling out Vanny's name and outlines of her masked appearance all over the Pizzaplex. In addition, some animatronics like the mini Music Man and the Mask bot have had their heads torn with the torn metal resembling rabbit ears. The Music Man even has whiskers!
  • Given the implications of a certain ending being the canon one, there's the chance that after Vanessa got freed, maybe she retained a slightly trollish attitude, with all references to murder being cut.
• Why was the Mimic sealed away instead of just destroyed? If someone was presumably able to trick it or overpower it long enough to pour a concrete slab over the entrance to its chamber, and thought it was dangerous enough to warrant such action, why go to all the trouble of doing that and creating an advanced security system just to keep it contained? Why not take it to the Scooper, which was like, a hundred yards away and can apparently kill the thing? Or shoot it with a gun? On the same note, the Mimic has apparently been sealed in there for quite a long time. How does it still have power? Did whoever sealed it away put it in a room with a recharge station?
  • Regarding its power, the Mimic was originally meant to be a friend for its creator's son, so the batteries were probably quite powerful so that it didn't shut down during playtime. Later, a worker used the Mimic to break apart old endos when the Pizza Place was being converted into a museum, so it had access to a recharge station until it was sealed away. After that, the security system may have been a way to keep it contained, interfering with its systems so it was unable to smash its way out, until its power finally ran down. We won't know for sure until the next part of the story.
• Who lit the lantern? In the AR world, when you reach the Vanny office over Fazer Blast, you see the Princess Quest 3 arcade cabinet toppled on its side with the Sword of Light stabbed into it and purple streaks of energy emitting from the stab point. But in the real world, the sword has been replaced with... the princess's lantern? An actual, physical lantern sitting on top of the arcade cabinet. Seems a bit out of place for the game to have. And on top of that, it's been lit. There's no way it was a repair worker, with how decrepit and abandoned all the equipment used for the restoration of the Pizzaplex looks, and even if Vanessa put the lantern there, it's unlikely it has enough fuel to keep burning so long after the Pizzaplex was abandoned. Who is maintaining this lantern, and why?