Memes / Five Nights at Freddy's 4

• Loads of people have joked about the "Final Chapter" tease, as the Friday the 13th franchise used "The Final Chapter" as a subtitle for its fourth (and decidedly not-final) entry. Especially true when Scott ended up making a new game in the series after all.
• Comparisons to Silent Hills, given the timing of its cancellation and FNAF 4's first teaser, have also sprung up.
• When first revealed, fans described Nightmare Freddy as a mechanical Multi-Bear. or as an animatronic bear version of Giygas, earning him the Fan Nickname of "Giygas Freddy".
  • Nightmare Freddy is also subject to jokes about being a single dad, with the Fredlings as his children.
• "NIGHTMARE", the hidden caption in the first 5 teaser images. Mostly used sarcastically by those who find the new designs ridiculous.
• The promotional images of the Nightmare animatronics slightly hidden in shadows with the caption "Was it me?" spawned numerous parody images with characters such as the fan, Vince McMahon, Dio Brando, and others taking the place of the animatronics.
• "WHAT'S IN THE BOX?!" came about shortly after people first began beating the game and gained a lot of traction after Scott's decision to keep the box closed.
• Breadbear.^Explanation A fan-made attempt at making an "unwithered" and "unnightmare" version of Nightmare Fredbear (as in, fixing all the withered and nightmare-like parts of a character to make him look normal). The look on his face as well as the poorly-made design in general has spawned a ton of memes about him, as well as a whole new nickname.
• ... Was that the Bite of '87?! ^Explanation Markiplier has a particularly memorable reaction to the Night 5 minigame. As the scene goes on, he gets increasingly tenser as he realizes where it's heading, culminating in him flinching in fright as Fredbear bites down. Cue Mark staring at the screen in Stunned Silence as the game goes to the title menu, and turning to the camera and saying the quote after around 20 seconds. Various mashups pairing the audio with similar visuals or other references to the Bites of '83 and '87 exist. Incidentally, the event depicted in the minigame is not the Bite of '87.
  • The Bite of Madagascar^Explanation An edit of the Bite of 83 based on when Alex the lion interacted with Mort the mouse lemur in the first film, with Alex standing in for Fredbear and Mort standing in for the Crying Child
• Scott reads FNAF fanfiction.^Explanation In the fandom's early years, a common Fandom-Specific Plot was the animatronics following either Mike or Jeremy home and the two men being forced to fight off against the animatronics on their own. 4 has a similar plot except instead of being about one of the night guards from the previous games, it's about a child trying to face off against the animatronics. It quickly became popular for fans to joke that Scott must read FNAF fanfiction.
• Okay, so the first night is never usually that bad in any of the games, so I'll play through-^Explanation Another clip from Markiplier showing some Suicidal Overconfidence that became a meme a while back, where Mark states the above, and is interrupted by Nightmare Chica. Sometimes, people pause Mark's facecam on the exact frame Chica appears so he just looks like an unimpressed Fearless Fool.

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