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[[LetsPlay/{{Critikal}} Serenade my candy ass]]: survive the night after running out of power

Two...I think he ''could'' attack the guard. Yes, I'm serious. Everyone says he's 'too small' but the Puppet proved that you don't need to be big or made of metal to kill the guard, heck, Golden Freddy and the shadows proved that you don't even need to be CORPOREAL to kill the guard! And then later the bidybabs and minireenas and mini music men proved that being BB's size doesn't make killing the guard impossible! If BB wanted to, I really do think he could attack the guard...yet, he doesn't for some reason?

->The management opens Freddy Fazbear's Pizza some time afterwards and buys all new animatronics. While they don't admit to any wrongdoing, they do plug them into the database to try and catch the murderer. Unfortunately, since there is no data on this mysterious murderer, the database is basically useless. The Purple Man, deciding that the new Freddy's is the perfect place to indulge his child murdering, gets a job as the original night watchman and uses the Golden Freddy suit to lure two more children and kill them, and then gets help from the Marionette to cover up the murders. The Marionette has succumbed to post-mortem StockholmSyndrome, so he's willing to help. The Purple Man recognizes the problems with the old animatronics and arms himself with his own personal high-powered flashlight and a pair of sunglasses (hence why his eyes are different), but one day Freddy catches him happily walking around a blood-splattered hallway before he could flash him, and remembering the murder from before, realizes that the Purple Man is bad. The Purple Man does eventually manage to flash Freddy so Freddy's file on the man gets corrupted, but feeling too uncomfortable about almost getting discovered, lobbies to get transferred to the Day Shift. During his stint on the Day Shift, he lures and kills three more children with the Golden Freddy suit, possibly after hours between the end of the day and the start of Jeremy's shift.

->Around this time, the Marionette throws a party for the dead children, first with Foxy, and then the Give Gifts, Give Life minigame. When he does this, the spirits of the dead children start haunting the animatronics. The children remember being murdered, but because the murderer wore the Golden Freddy suit, none of them know who it is, except the one possessing Freddy, who has memories of the time he ran into the Night Watchman!Purple Man. Unfortunately, because Night Watchman!Purple Man flashed him forcing a reboot, Freddy's memories were corrupted and only knows it was a Night Watchman, not the Purple Man specifically. Freddy shares this with the other originals and the new animatronics, who become hostile towards anyone who is a Night Watchman. The Marionette knows better, but doesn't want to out his "[[StockholmSyndrome friend]]", so he is also hostile towards the Night Watchman!Jeremy, and probably everyone else.

* So basically, he's [[VideoGame/EarthBound Ness's dad?]]

*** Though most people (including the [[TheWikiRule FNAF Wiki) transcribe the line as "the one used in...", he's actually saying, "someone used it..."

[[WMG: LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} is the Purple Guy]]

OH HI: Achievement for spotting all the animatronics. Named after the phrase LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} says when he sees Bonnie on the security camera.

!As this is a WMG page, spoilers ''will'' be left unmarked. Administrivia/YouHaveBeenWarned!

** It's possible he had a spare, since the Freddy mask shows that they can be worn safely somehow.]] And in fact, [[spoiler:Golden Freddy appears as a disembodied head...

*** Though most people (including the [[TheWikiRule FNAF Wiki]]) transcribe the line as "the one used in...", he's actually saying, "someone used it..."

* alternively, he’s fine with the new Foxy, [[{{Troll}} but calls her ‘Mangle’ anyway just to annoy the crap outta her.]]

Notice how the animatronics have alliterative names (mostly). Upon noticing how many letters are in the robots' names (Freddy Fazbear = 13; Chica the Chicken = 15; Bonnie the Bunny = 14, and Foxy the Pirate Fox = 16… or if you don't count the "the"s: 13, 12, 11, and 13 respectively), then this could mean that the human characters could have something similar going on. Maybe the three protagonists (Mike, The Phone Guy, and the new guard) will have full names with the same amount of letters. For example: their first name will have four letters, their middle name will have five, and their last name will have seven, with all their first names ending in "ke" (like Jake or Luke) and their last names starting with "S".

[[WMG: The initial haunting is because of the [[spoiler: crying child]]]]
[[spoiler: In one of the death minigames, the Purple Man is seen killing a child outside. However, in the Foxy minigame, there are 5 children, and when you run into the room when the Purple Man is there, there are 5 corpses, bringing the number of dead children up to 6. So, the first dead child is the reason the place is haunted in the first place. The reason this sixth child is not mentioned is a combination cover-up by the management, and the fact that it took place outside led people to believe that while tragic, it was more likely seen as an unrelated crime. He's haunting it probably because no one rescued him. And he's probably possessing the Marionette, since he's the primary suspect as to why the place is so messed up.]]

He'd presumably have access to the whole of the building, including where they keep the suits, there'd be no one to stop him since he's supposed to be the one stopping people, [[spoiler: the robots become hostile to the staff after the incident, and his shift is open by the end of the week]].
* [[spoiler: Plus, it would explain their initial hostility. The only reason they tried to get into the first guy's office was because they recognized him as a criminal. He complains, and is switched to a day shift. In comes Jeremy, (unbeknownst to the robots, who still think he's the killer.) Then, the day shift guy murders the kids, and is arrested. However, the robots automatically assume that *all* night shift guard=child-murdering bastards,and therefore attack you/be possessed by the children. The fact they want to stuff you into suits isn't because of bad programming; it's a form of karma to them. (i.e. "You murdered us and hid us in the animatronics? Well, let's see how you like it.")It would also explain why they wouldn't try to stuff an endoskeleton, even when they're in the same room as them. (See [=FNaF1=])]]

[[WMG: The mini-game where you see the Purple Man kill a child? [[spoiler: That's the first murder...from the diner.]]]]
Freddy must have seen it, but was unable to do anything because he was too busy serving the other kids. Thus, he saw [[spoiler: an innocent child be killed, forever scarring him and making him believe that adults are evil. Thus, he (and the other members of his gang) are distrustful of adults, which may have passed onto their newer generation. And why does the Marionette pop out? Well, look above to the theory that the murdered child is possessing the Marionette...]]

[[WMG: There was ''another'' goddamn murder [[spoiler: in the FN@F1's pizzeria, and Foxy was blamed for it.]]]]
The mini-game where you see Foxy coming out of the two purple things sure [[spoiler: look like his curtains at Pirate's Cove, don't they]]? And maybe the Purple Man murdered the children and pinned the blame on Foxy, leading to him becoming shut down. ''However'', because [[spoiler: the management have their "missing person" policy up, they are successfully able to dodge blame this time and are able to keep on running, with only the loss of Foxy to hinder them. And if the other newspapers are more recent, then that could explain the blood and mucus that were coming from the bots...]]

[[WMG: The five missing child murders were at [[spoiler: the first diner. Not the one from fnaf1 but the one the original robots were from.]]]]
The hauntings started there first that is why the robots act strange at the new restaurant. How could this be? Well on the check you get at the end of night 5 in fnaf2 has the date at November but in the article that talks about the murders it gives the date June 26th as when the children disappeared. [[spoiler: So the ones that happened at the fnaf2 diner were different murders all together, it can't be the ones discussed in the newspaper article because the dates don't match up.]]

[[WMG: The Marionette became haunted when [[spoiler: the murderer disposed of a dead child by throwing it into his present box]]]]
Most people believe that the Marionette [[spoiler: is the murderer because of its role in the killscreen minigames, like the S-A-V-E-T-H-E-M minigame where you play as Freddy and chase the Marionette through the restaurant, past some pools of blood and an empty golden freddy suit, to finally arrive at the Marionette's present box, which appears to be leaking blood out of the bottom. The Marionette might be the murderer, or it might be the first of the haunted animatronics.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Fritz is not Phone Guy.]]]]
[[spoiler: After the Bite of 87 and the murders, the pizzeria became a crime scene and was shut down for investigation. Trouble is, with all those expensive animatronics the pizzeria still needs to be guarded, so security was turned over to an independent contractor with no ties to the pizzeria, who sent Fritz on his first job. Fritz, being reasonably smart, discovers the robots are killers, finds the controls, and dials it down to zero. Thing is, that's ''technically'' tampering with evidence, so he was fired on his first day (and likely prosecuted). Besides, if he ''was'' Phone Guy, why would they hire someone back that they already fired?]]
* [[spoiler:Plus, Fritz was fired on his First Night, while it's pretty obvious that Phone Guy has been working there since Day 1 of the Re-Opening. I approve of this WMG.]]
* Phone Guy mentions that most people don't last as long as Mike. IIRC, Custom Night doesn't have a canonical date. So, there's nothing to indicate that Custom Night happened right after the other nights. [[spoiler: Fritz had signed up at a later date to replace Phone Guy, but didn't make the cut.]]

This ties into the above [[spoiler: Mangle was the Biter of '87]] theory. Foxy was planned to be repaired and used in the reopened store like the other three. However, [[spoiler: people associated Foxy with Mangle due to the Bite of '87 and protested that Foxy needed to be made safer before he was turned on.]] So Foxy was placed in Pirate Cove with an out of order sign until they could afford to change Foxy into something with less negative connotations.

In part 1, the animatronics are after you because they think you're a naked endoskeleton who needs to go into a suit. At the time, more than a few fans asked why not wear a Freddy Fazbear costume to fool them. In part 2, they do exactly that. Or, to be more precise, [[spoiler:they ''did'' exactly that]]. The problem comes in that either the robots' AI is more advanced than anyone realizes or the hauntings give them more intelligence. Either way they work out the difference between a moving animatronic like themselves and a human wearing an animatronic head and attack accordingly.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy are ghosts]].]]

His feelings of anger could have possessed Golden Freddy, making the animatronic murderous over time. Eventually, though, before a killing spree began, the company got more profits and moved to a larger location, hanging onto [[spoiler: Golden Freddy's suit]] as a basis for their new animatronics, which were the Old ones in FNAF

* This leaves us with Fritz Smit. “But he got fired at the end of his shift,” you say. But was he really?

* Assuming the increase in the animatronics' aggression as Jeremy's week progressed, it is not illogical to assume that Golden Freddy mode (10/20) on the Custom Night are the settings the animatronics were operating under during Fritz’ shift.

* Seemingly jossed, as the purple man now inhabits springtrap as of 3, and there is no one left around him to mock.

No, it's not Foxy. It's [[spoiler:Mangle!]]

* This actually seems plausible, assuming the information from the death minigames is accurate. Foxy's Game is most likely in the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys FNAF1]] Freddy's -- note the purple curtains, which aren't in the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 FNAF2]] version. The Give Gifts/Give Life minigame can only take place in this version or the original ("Fredbear's Family Diner"), given it takes place in Prize Corner, and since the Marionette puts the heads of Bonnie, Chica, Freddy and Foxy on the dead kids [[spoiler: before the fifth child shows up in the center]], that makes the original more likely. Finally, there are five dead bodies scattered around the map where you chase the puppet. That gives us dead bodies at three different Freddy's.

The murderer, if he wasn't [[spoiler: Jeremy Fitzgerald]], was most likely the guy before him. It's quite likely that after being moved to the day shift, Jeremy's predecessor realized that they would most likely get someone else to fill in his old position. After having experienced the horrors of the night shift himself, the guy before Jeremy realized that Fazbear Entertainment would put countless others at risk of suffering what would've surely been his fate if he hadn't gotten so lucky. He probably realized he couldn't go to the police about it, because they'd either laugh at him at best, or commit him to a mental hospital at worst. He ultimately came to the conclusion that the only way to protect people from the night shift would be to get Freddy Fazbear's pizza closed down for good. However, he knew it wouldn't be easy. Despite any problems they may have had from the old place, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza seemed to bounce back from that quite nicely. So, he decided that he needed to give the pizzeria a PR nightmare they could never recover from. Thus, he committed the murders. He probably decided whatever he got would be worth it if it meant getting the pizzeria closed down permanently, which would likely save countless lives from what could've happened to him.

** And now we know it's a very good phone. [[spoiler: For 1987, at least.]]
* Confirmed, sort of. [[spoiler:Phone Guy wasn't resurrected, he hasn't even died yet. The game is a prequel.]]

Let's see, [[spoiler:Mangle kept getting turned into scrap metal by the Kids because they just had to touch her, the workers repair her, and rinse and repeat till the workers said "Screw this!" and Mangle is now a "break-and-put-together" attraction.]] On Night 6, we find out from the Phone Guy [[spoiler:that something happened with a yellow Freddy costume]] and that tomorrow is a birthday party for a child.

[[spoiler:Think about it, an animatronic who was turned into a break-apart toy with VERY pointy teeth available for every child around.]] and a birthday that's about to happen with god knows how many kids the birthday child is about to bring. [[spoiler:Mangle is a trap that's just waiting to snap.]]
** While certainly plausible (it's a miracle that no mentions were made of [[spoiler:kids injuring themselves with the pieces of the animatronic]]), it doesn't explain why the other three animatronics [[spoiler:are disposed of afterwards]]. After all, the incident could have been blamed on [[spoiler:the Mangle being one big pile of junk]], and the management could have [[spoiler:kept the other ones for later]].
*** [[spoiler: The new animatronics all came from the same 'generation' of animatronic. Likely they scrapped the entire generation because of a 'flaw' that caused the bite rather than risk another one of them biting someone else.]]
** There is also the theory the victim for the Bite of '87 isn't one of the kids, in which case [[spoiler:Mangle]] is just another suspect, though one of the more likely ones, as [[spoiler:she's still going, sorta, in use, and thus in contact with the party]].

* Jossed with ''3'', though ''4'' [[AmbiguousSituation might]] have solved it with [[spoiler:Golden Freddy being the culprit.]]

The murderer, if he wasn't [[spoiler: Jeremy Fitzgerald]], was most likely [[spoiler: the guy before him]]. It's quite likely that [[spoiler: after being moved to the day shift, Jeremy's predecessor realized that they would most likely get someone else to fill in his old position. After having experienced the horrors of the night shift himself, the guy before Jeremy realized that Fazbear Entertainment would put countless others at risk of suffering what would've surely been his fate if he hadn't gotten so lucky. He probably realized he couldn't go to the police about it, because they'd either laugh at him at best, or commit him to a mental hospital at worst. He ultimately came to the conclusion that the only way to protect people from the night shift would be to get Freddy Fazbear's pizza closed down for good. However, he knew it wouldn't be easy. Despite any problems they may have had from the old place, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza seemed to bounce back from that quite nicely. So, he decided that he needed to give the pizzeria a PR nightmare they could never recover from. Thus, he committed the murders. He probably decided whatever he got would be worth it if it meant getting the pizzeria closed down permanently, which would likely save countless lives from what could've happened to him.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Freddy killed The Murderer while he was wearing the Golden Freddy Outfit.]]]]
Notice how Golden Freddy can't quite keep his head on and in the death minigame where you chase the marionette [[spoiler:Golden Freddy is lying in a pool of blood]]
* [[spoiler:Jossed. He died putting on a yellow Bonnie suit with spring-loaded bars (Spring Bonnie) while trying to escape from the children's spirits.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed. Though it appears to be a Bonnie suit, the murderer's reanimated corpse is inside Springtrap.]]

[[WMG: The first murder [[spoiler: was a hit-and-run.]]]]
Someone on the Headscratchers page asked [[spoiler: why the Purple Man in the "Cake" minigame drives away and leaves the body behind]], and FridgeBrilliance kicked in for me, so thanks to whoever posted that question.

In the "Cake" minigame, [[spoiler: we see a kid standing outside, a car pull up, the Purple Man appears, the kid dies, and then the car goes away. Seeing as the "chase" scenes move slowly due to the way the minigames are formatted, the car we see is actually moving faster than it appears. The Purple Man coming out is the game's way of showing that Freddy identified the driver. The fact that he drives away and leaves the dead body could be interpreted as the driver panicking and booking it before he could be identified. This also leads credence to the theory that the facial recognition software doesn't work right: the driver may not be the same person as the murderer, but Freddy "remembers" him because he murdered a child, even if it was an accident]].

Someone on Steam thought of this, but it's worth mentioning here. Basically, your only defense against the animatronics now, since there are no doors, is the Freddy mask. But it wouldn't make sense for wearing a mask to use up your power supply, so how will the game keep you from the just wearing the mask all the time? That's where the two groups of animatronics come in. The old ones still act like they did in the original game, viewing humans as endoskeletons that need to be put in suits. Putting on the mask fools them into thinking you have a suit, so they leave you alone. The ''new'' animatronics, however, are said to have facial recognition software. When ''they'' come in, you'll need to have the mask ''off'', or else they'll think you're an old animatronic (or possibly even [[spoiler:a criminal trying to lure away children by using a Freddy disguise]], as was done in the past). So rather than trying to keep the animatronics out of the room, your goal is instead to spot which ones are going to enter, and either wear the mask or not.

* '''Jossed'''; [[spoiler:the game takes place before he died in the first game.]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:FNAF 2 happens before the original Five Nights At Freddy's.]]
** Not entirely jossed. [[spoiler: The theory could still be true. We just have no way to confirm or deny it now.]]

The new robots are slightly more advanced prototypes, but they were also captured and reprogrammed by the Resistance to hunt down the older prototypes and also protect the new night watchman. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, a bug in their programming will cause them to think you're one of the older Terminators when you put on the mask, and thus they'll try to kill you.]]
* [[spoiler:Somewhat]] '''jossed''', [[spoiler:as they also attack you together and your only survival tactic is to use a mask.]]

* '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler:The events of the first game haven't even happened yet.]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:this game takes place before the first one.]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:they won't attack if you have on a mask.]]

* Or, alternately, the Game Over ending where [[spoiler:the animatronics stuff Mike in a Freddy Fazbear suit]] is the canon ending.
** '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:the entire game takes place before Mike became a security guard.]]

* Sadly, [[spoiler:'''Jossed'''.]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:Foxy 2.0's appearance is because it would be continually destroyed by kids before they finally decided to make him into a build-it-yourself animatronic.]]

* '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler:In order to avoid the Puppet, you have to keep his music box going via monitor, going to the Prize counter and resounding it. Failure to do so will lead to very bad things happening.]]

** '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:the game has the same goal as always and the counterparts '''''absolutely''''' don't mind teaming up to kill you, even coming at you all at once.]]

** [[spoiler:'''Jossed''', the Puppet was there at the time of the murders, is haunted by the Purple Man's first victim and is responsible for the animatronics being haunted.]]

He was supposedly killed last time 'round, but he speaks again in the trailer. Assuming the theory about [[spoiler:Mike Schmidt]] being the new Phone Guy isn't correct, it's possible that Phone Guy came back as a new animatronic and will be coldly hunting the new guy (for the same reasons that [[spoiler:the murdered children possessed the first animatronics]]) while helping him survive the others.
** '''Jossed''' [[spoiler: this game is a ''prequel'', Phone Guy is very much alive in this game]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:it just waits until the music stops then charges across the restaurant to get to you.]]

[[WMG: Going with the above theory, [[spoiler: the two 'shadow' animatronics are the same person, and that person is the above mentioned 'devil'.]]]]
Simply put, that something the original owner has to keep tabs on his 'investment' somehow, so occasionally...[[spoiler: he possesses an animatronic, shown by the animatronic turning black and being only visible ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes.]] As for why [[spoiler: the shadows]] aren't seen in FNAF 1, well, hey, even devils need a change, so he started possessing something else...Golden Freddy.

The minigames imply that [[spoiler:there were at least six murders at Freddy's. Given the cinematic after Night 4, it may be that the Marionette attracts psychos to act out their aggression and captures their victims' souls. The reason could be as simple as it having BlueAndOrangeMorality or that it's AlwaysChaoticEvil and wants to be entertained by the victims' entrapment]].
* [[spoiler:It could be that the marionette somehow found itself in the possession of an entrepreneur who had a child -- perhaps a daughter (recall the girl's laughter in the first game). When Freddy's was Fredbear's, his daughter was murdered outside the store (as seen in the minigames). The animatronics at that point already had peoples' souls trapped within them, but the marionette kept the owner's daughter to ensure that -- no matter what happened -- the owner would maintain the animatronics and keep his restaurant open. The marionette demon is may be able to communicate through text -- similar to in the minigames where something is giving instructions to "give life" and such. Perhaps the marionette implied that the owner could get his daughter's soul back if he followed the marionette's instructions and he's been giving the demon souls to appease it ever since.]]
** [[spoiler:The minigames show the start of the Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy, who were there before the Toy versions, but not the start of the Toy versions -- implying that the minigames were of Fredbear's and not Freddy's.]]

This is going to be a long one and contains a lot of spoilers on the Death Minigames.

->[[spoiler: Fredbear's Family Diner had their normal operations until one day, the Purple Man murdered a child outside the diner. Freddy witnesses this, but never gets a good look at the murderer. The spirit of the dead child then possessed the Marionette. Meanwhile, Fredbear's Family Diner took part in a cover-up but eventually rumours began flying and the place had to close down. Freddy and his original buddies go into a state of disrepair.]]

->[[spoiler: The management opens Freddy Fazbear's Pizza some time afterwards and buys all new animatronics. While they don't admit to any wrongdoing, they do plug them into the database to try and catch the murderer. Unfortunately, since there is no data on this mysterious murderer, the database is basically useless. The Purple Man, deciding that the new Freddy's is the perfect place to indulge his child murdering, gets a job as the original night watchman and uses the Golden Freddy suit to lure two more children and kill them, and then gets help from the Marionette to cover up the murders. The Marionette has succumbed to post-mortem StockholmSyndrome, so he's willing to help. The Purple Man recognizes the problems with the old animatronics and arms himself with his own personal high-powered flashlight and a pair of sunglasses (hence why his eyes are different), but one day Freddy catches him happily walking around a blood-splattered hallway before he could flash him, and remembering the murder from before, realizes that the Purple Man is bad. The Purple Man does eventually manage to flash Freddy so Freddy's file on the man gets corrupted, but feeling too uncomfortable about almost getting discovered, lobbies to get transferred to the Day Shift. During his stint on the Day Shift, he lures and kills three more children with the Golden Freddy suit, possibly after hours between the end of the day and the start of Jeremy's shift.]]

->[[spoiler:Around this time, the Marionette throws a party for the dead children, first with Foxy, and then the Give Gifts, Give Life minigame. When he does this, the spirits of the dead children start haunting the animatronics. The children remember being murdered, but because the murderer wore the Golden Freddy suit, none of them know who it is, except the one possessing Freddy, who has memories of the time he ran into the Night Watchman!Purple Man. Unfortunately, because Night Watchman!Purple Man flashed him forcing a reboot, Freddy's memories were corrupted and only knows it was a Night Watchman, not the Purple Man specifically. Freddy shares this with the other originals and the new animatronics, who become hostile towards anyone who is a Night Watchman. The Marionette knows better, but doesn't want to out his "[[StockholmSyndrome friend]]", so he is also hostile towards the Night Watchman!Jeremy, and probably everyone else.]]

->[[spoiler: However, suspicions on the Purple Man start to get to a head, hence Phone Guy's message on Night 4. The animatronics become aware of this, but the Marionette tries to protect his "friend" by casting suspicion on the entire staff (possibly tampering with the facial recognition software), hence the menacing staring. By Night 5, the Purple Man has fled, and on Night 6 he's probably been captured, hence the message about the closing down. Unfortunately, the Marionette manages to deflect suspicion from the Purple Man, and aim it back on the rest of the staff, in particular Jeremy, because the primary suspect was the Night Watchman. The machines also hear that Jeremy is being transferred to the Day Shift, and decide to enact vengeance upon the one they think murdered them. The Marionette also steals the memo, in order to endanger Jeremy.]]

->[[spoiler: While the check would suggest it was issued in November, remember that Phone Guy says that it's a summer job. Combined with the fact that Fazbear Entertainment is both corrupt and incompetent, it would be unsurprising if whoever issued the cheque accidentally or "accidentally" post-dated it.]]
* Heavily jossed simply because The Puppet is against the killer.

[[WMG: Five Nights At Freddy's 3 is going to be a further prequel. [[spoiler: Taken from the perspective of the murderer.]]]]
Warning, Death Minigame spoilers: [[spoiler: It's heavily implied that the murderer was the Day Guard, who was a former night guard. You're going to face the animatronics, only rather than looking in a screen, you'll physically walk through the places.]]

[[WMG: Five Nights At Freddy's 3 is going to be a further prequel. [[spoiler: Taking place in the original fazbear family diner.]]]]

It's almost a certainty that Golden Freddy was the suit used in the murders, however there is little to indicate that the murderer was ever killed or even caught, which would make it impossible for the suit to be haunted by his spirit if that were the case. However, since WordOfGod has confirmed that there are supernatural forces at work in the Freddy's storyline, an alternate explanation for Golden Freddy is that the suit is tainted. The original purpose of the suit was to delight children, but the murderer used it for something so violent and evil that it left a mark and corrupted the suit into a twisted, perverted version of itself that haunts Freddy's as a constant reminder of what took place there. Bear in mind that [[spoiler:Golden Freddy only shows up after night six, the same night that Phone Guy tells you Freddy's was closed down because someone used a yellow suit for...something.]]

[[WMG: Golden Freddy is [[spoiler:Fred Bear]] ]]
As in, [[spoiler:He's the original Freddy Fazbear from the first Incarnation of the First Restaurant, known as Fred Bear's Family Diner. That's why they keep his suit around.]]
* [[spoiler: Confirmed in FNAF 4.]]
* Not fully. There's many evidence, but nothing's confirmed.

* It's quite possible that these scenes take place [[spoiler:before the restaurant got shut down the first time]].
* Or [[spoiler:those scenes take place during the time period of Mike's occupation of the job, through the eyes of the dead kid who was stuffed into Freddy]].

* Or it could be [[spoiler: the murderer, or at least the culprit of the new NoodleIncident we learned about back when the place was Fredbear's Family Diner. The animatronics suspect this "Freddy" isn't right...]]

[[WMG: The Marionette is haunted by the demon of {{Sloth}} from ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'', i.e. [[spoiler:the ghost of Eve Moonlit, specifically with Margarita's memories.]] Moreover, it's a modern Clockworker's Doll.]]
Yes, it sounds crazy, but hear me out a bit. In [=EC=], [[spoiler:Eve Moonlit]] is the demon of Sloth, with the vessel being [[CreepyDoll The Clockworker's Doll.]] The Marionette doesn't look the same as the Doll, but it could be in the same vein as the Doll. In ''"Gift From The Princess Who Brought Sleep"'' (the Sloth song), Margarita gives out the "Gift," hoping to make everyone happy. [[spoiler:But, the "Gift" turns out to be [[GratuitousGerman poison]]. Well, when The Marionette is "giving life," he's killing the children. His "Gift" isn't poison, but is still death, possibly because he thinks that will make the children happy.]] Either way, it is all for the sake of someone's happiness...

[[WMG: The murderer is [[spoiler: Zebediah Killgrave.]] ]]
That's why he's a purple man in the flashbacks. Because the killer is...[[spoiler:The Purple Man!]]

The Phone Guy misremembered the name, though... It isn't "Fredbear". [[spoiler: It's Threadbare.]]

[[spoiler:There's no way the Marionette is an animatronic. It's too skinny and weird, and it's also a marionette. The only explanation for this machine-less puppet thing being able to move around and attack you is that this guy is powered by some kind of supernatural force. But he's able to move around at a bare minimum SEVERAL DAYS before the murders cause the old animatronics and especially Golden Freddy to be haunted. Which means the Marionette is haunted/possessed by... something else.]]

[[spoiler:While it's assumed when you think it's a sequel, there's actually no evidence of the animatronics being evil or violent in the original restaurant. They just say it has a "bad reputation" on the first night (For perfectly mundane and understandable reasons, it was probably just a crappy [[SuckECheeses Suck E. Cheese's]]) and that it was left to rot. Something about the new location has caused the weird stuff to happen.]]

[[spoiler:While I seriously doubt that Scott would do something as cliche as an "Indian Burial Ground", I think there is something similarly supernaturally f***ed up about the new location, and that it, through the Marionette, is the cause for the horrible history the company will gradually build.]]

They're rare occurrences, so I don't know if they only appear after certain nights, but seeing as this game (presumably) takes place the week of the murders, it's possible that [[spoiler: Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy are ghosts of two of the children stuffed inside the suits. Even if they appear in earlier nights, it's still possible. We find out that the incident was ''discovered'' on Night 5, but it could have happened before then and it's just now being found out about]]. This would also explain [[spoiler: their random (and rare) appearances, how they appear and disappear, and then crash your game. They're trying to reach out to you, but don't have much control yet. It's possible the guard fainted or closed his eyes long enough to let his guard down to be taken out by a real threat in lieu of the perceived one, and it just happened offscreen]].

[[WMG: Five Nights At Freddy's 3 is going to be a further prequel. With some of the animatronics helping the protagonist [[spoiler: like the Bare Endoskeleton in [=FNaF2=].]]]]

It would explain why [[spoiler: you see through the eyes of Old Freddy in the original pizzeria during the between night buffers]] and why you sometimes play those Atari mini games when you die. And why you can only move your head during the [[spoiler: between night buffers]]

[[spoiler: He's a guard or perhaps a police officer who is very much aware of the crime that has taken place. The Marionette is the voice telling Freddy to save the children and leading him to the scene, and when the guard/officer is stopping Freddy, all Freddy hears is "you can't," as in "you can't save them," when what he is being told is "you can't go in there, it's a crime scene and you'll disrupt the evidence." Freddy mistakes the guard's interference as complicity, resulting in the reactions toward people in uniforms with badges. The Marionette is similarly upset because of the guard/officer stopping Freddy.]]

It's [[spoiler: Golden Freddy.]]

Look, so far, we know that the company's first restaurant was called [[spoiler: Fredbear's Family Diner. There, one day, a crying child was killed slowly and in great pain, outside the pizzeria, and only Freddy witnessed it while acting as a waiter, and possibly the only animatronic.]]

Now, what if [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] was originally colored brown, and was actually Fredbear? Not only would this explain the animatronic's presence, it would explain why his suit is still kept by the company.

A popular theory goes that [[spoiler: the dead child]], furious at his murder and the pain he suffered by the sadistic [[spoiler: Purple Man]], transferred his soul into the Marionette. But could his rage and anger transferred into [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] instead? Could the ghost also cause it to change color gradually from brown to gold? In FNAF 1, [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] looks, well, gold. But in FNAF 2, he seems to be a more [[spoiler: faded shade of brown.]] His head also does not seem to look like Old Freddy's, suggesting that this is an earlier version of Freddy.

His feelings of anger could have possessed [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]], making the animatronic murderous over time. Eventually, though, before a killing spree began, the company got more profits and moved to a larger location, hanging onto [[spoiler: Golden Freddy's suit]] as a basis for their new animatronics, which were the Old ones in FNAF
2. As [[spoiler: Golden Freddy's]] murderous influence spread, the old animatronics became bloodthirsty as well and started tormenting the first night guard, eventually killing him. That could have also been what shut down the newer location-sanitation problems ''and'' the deaths of dozens of night guards.

The Old Animatronics were blamed for the deaths and shut down. [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] was considered obsolete by the company at that time, as a new animatronic, based off Old Freddy, was ready to take over the role. But as [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] was important to the company's history, they kept his suit as a memento.

And then came that day when the [[spoiler: Purple Man decided to slaughter 5 kids for fun, using Golden Freddy's suit.]] [[spoiler: As the spirits of the 5 kids were put into the Old animatronics]], their rage and anger transferred onto [[spoiler: Golden Freddy]] as well, and this culminated in the suit becoming haunted and stalking the halls.

Eventually, of course, due to the Bite, the pizzeria was shut down, and the now-poor company moved to a much smaller location...but yet again, the suit was held on. It was cleaned and presented with a new head. But naturally, now filled to the brim with the rage and anger of [[spoiler: countless children]], the new animatronics became murderous again...

If [[spoiler:Golden Freddy has human eyes]], and [[spoiler:what appears to be a security badge]], then it's a prequel, set from one of the victim's point of view, as a child like in ''VideoGame/AmongTheSleep''. you gradually try to escape the Pizzeria but you are hopelessly killed by the murderer. Alternatively, the victim would go back to the Pizzeria in [[spoiler:2017]] and the murderer will chase him down.

* Jossed. Jossed so hard, it's ''30 years'' after the first game.

[[WMG: Mulder and Scully will eventually be called in to Investigate Freddy Fazbear's]]

Remember that the new location ''just'' opened up, and there's only been one guard there. We don't know if he's been there a week, a month, whatever (probably no more than a month or two at most, and at least a week minimum, since, again, brand new location). Therefore, it's possible that [[spoiler: that first guard is the murderer, and if not the murderer, then he's an accomplice, or otherwise did something to piss off the animatronics. Whatever he did, they aren't happy with him, which is why he was begging to be moved to day shift--to avoid suspicion--and why they were trying to get into his office. It also makes it possible that he's the "disgruntled employee" mentioned in one of the phone calls]].

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Fritz Smith]] was stuffed into a Freddy Fazbear suit.]]

* Assuming the animatronics weren't hostile toward humans until their facial recognition software was tampered with, there have only been four security guards in the following order: [[spoiler:Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith]], Phone Guy, and Mike Schmidt.

* Assuming the theory that [[spoiler: Jeremy Fitzgerald is the Bite Victim, and that the Bite Victim survived,]] it wasn't him either.
* This leaves us with [[spoiler:Fritz Smith]]. “But [[spoiler:he got fired at the end of his shift]],” you say. But was he really?
Fazbear Entertainment lets us know that they can and will cover up any death or severe injury suffered on the premises. Sure, we may [[spoiler: see a pink slip]]. But what better way to detach yourself from a former employee than by [[spoiler:terminating their employment]]?
* As for their reasons for [[spoiler:firing him]], we know that the animatronics' software was tampered with, but even management is unsure who it was. What better scapegoat is there than a corpse who can't fight the blame?
* [[spoiler:Assuming the increase in the animatronics' aggression as Jeremy's week progressed, it is not illogical to assume that Golden Freddy mode (10/20) on the Custom Night are the settings the animatronics were operating under during Fritz’ shift]].
* Realistically, [[spoiler:Jeremy had to deal with this increase of aggression gradually, able to learn the animatronics' patterns to be able to defend against them, even when they threw a curve ball the next night]].
* Unless [[spoiler:Fritz Smith was a total badass, it's not likely that he would have actually survived the night having no experience with these characters beforehand]]. After all, [[spoiler: even some of the best ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2'' players died many times trying to complete Golden Freddy mode]].

He knows a lot about how the animatronics worked, got away with child murder at least six times, and has been around since the early days of Fredbear's Diner. The Purple Guy managed to do all this because of connections: he worked with the franchise's founder to develop the animatronics. While a suspect, his importance to the company led them to protest against rumors he killed a bunch of kids. Once it closed down, the Purple Guy had nobody to cover his ass. Which is why, in spite of seemingly getting off scott-free, [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 he found the need to cover his tracks]] and [[KarmicDeath being killed in Springtrap]] as a result]].

Golden Freddy is clearly some sort of pure ghost, unlike the other animatronics who have the souls in the suit. There's also a Golden Freddy character, so what happened to the animatronics? If you look closer you can see Shadow Freddy is some sort of color swap of Golden Freddy. While Golden Freddy is the ghost, it is the actual animatronic. Whatever created Golden Freddy also gave said animatronic a supernatural element, but not having any human element caused it to become...different. [[spoiler:If you take "the Crying Child is Golden Freddy" option, Nightmare could be the suit trying to incorporate itself with the kid]].

Shadow Bonnie is another supernatural A.I, but of a very different form. Shadow Freddy is physical to Golden Freddy's spectral. Golden Bonnie, or should we say [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 Springtrap]], is physical. Shadow Bonnie is completely blackened out. It is spectral, and the disembodied A.I of Springtrap, since the animatronic itself is occupied by a human host. One that it's incompatible with and is likely opposed to. [[spoiler:That is, the Purple Guy himself]].

And it will be a prequel [[spoiler: again]]. The game will be much less scary, have very different mechanics and takes places in the Family Diner, finally answering the questions ''why'' the animatronics began to behave so strangely at night and attack the security guards, even before they were likely haunted by dead children's spirits.

* '''Pseudo-confirmed:''' There is indeed a third game coming out, as evident by Scott's website. Though, Scott says [[spoiler: he's taking a break and the hidden message now says "Merry Christmas!" So....might be safe to say this one will ''actually'' be released in 2015.]]
* [[spoiler: [[http://www.scottgames.com/whatcanweuse.jpg Legitimately confirmed]].]]
* Partially-confirmed. A third game exists, but is a sequel.

* '''Semi-jossed''', semi-confirmed. The puppet just kills you and you get to keep your mask, but there ''is'' an animatronic that messes with your flashlight if it gets into your office (BB).

* The Marionette can only be delayed -- not evaded -- by keeping the music box in Prize Corner wound, which can only be accomplished through Camera View. [[spoiler:And the mask doesn't fool him one little bit.]]
** '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:Golden Freddy is back and is far worse.]]
** There ''is'' something new like Golden Freddy though. [[spoiler:Or should I say two new things? Named Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy by the fandom, these beings are rare to encounter, actually disappear while you're watching, and Shadow Bonnie can crash your game.]]

** Three names with six letters? [[Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld Already been done.]]

* '''Jossed''', [[spoiler:the old ones seem to be more of a threat, as they come out more often into the week than the others and even get into the office quicker.]]
* Double '''Jossed''': [[spoiler:the new animatronics randomly stop attacking you halfway through the game.]]

** '''Not jossed'''. [[spoiler:We have no idea who the purple man is supposed to be. And either the marionette, or the purple man is the murderer. Why the hell are we there on night six anyway?]]

* Sadly, '''Jossed''' [[spoiler:as the Puppet is just as evil and will cause an '''''instant death screen'''''.]]
** Worse, [[spoiler:the Puppet is heavily implied to be the murderer of the 5 children! And even if it didn't, it's near-certainly responsible for stuffing their corpses into suits.]]

* '''Jossed'''. [[spoiler:The old ones are even older than we first thought, they were still considered the old ones back in 1987. The new ones got scrapped, and the old ones get repaired into the ones we know and love from the first game.]]

* Possibly '''jossed'''. [[spoiler:The game seems to be implying that the animatronics murderous behavior really is caused by a glitch in their programming. Now whether or not the glitch is the whole "naked endoskeleton" glitch, or if they can't distinguish two adults from each other and think you're the murderer, well that's up for debate. Or maybe you're the murderer. It's left quite ambiguous.]]

[[WMG: The guy who was transferred to day shift is not Mike Schmidt - [[spoiler:Mike Schmidt is still at the helm]].]]

* Partially '''jossed'''. When you get your paycheck the name is [[spoiler:Jeremy Fitzgerald]]. [[spoiler:Also, the game is a prequel, so Mike Schmidt is not the guy transferred to day shift anyway.]]

[[spoiler: Look at Old Chica's in-game (preferably when she's not about to kill you), then when you go to a between night flashback, look at her face again. Notice that she doesn't have the separate head/jaws setup in the flashbacks like she has in game, but instead has the hinged beak she had in the first game. Given that this game is a prequel, I think that at some point, New Chica's head is gonna be torn off, repainted, and then put on Old Chica, thus giving her the look she sported in game 1.]]

It will either [[spoiler:be a prequel to the prequel and focus on the briefly mentioned "Fredbear's Family Diner" and why people have a negative impression of it,]] or focus on Phone Guy's time in the office, [[spoiler:making it a {{interquel}}.]]

*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.scottgames.com/whatcanweuse.jpg Confirmed.]]]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Jeremy was the Bite of '87 victim.]]]]
[[spoiler: The suggestion on the YMMV page was correct and the animatronics were fooled into believing Jeremy was the murderer. It's fact that he's going to be on the day shift for a birthday party. One of the animatronics recognized him and attacked him.]]
* [[spoiler: It's not just fooled. Phone Guy specifically mentioned that he should wear his uniform, which would clearly identify him as one of the security guards. Even if the murderer wasn't a security guard himself (as postulated by others to explain his easy access to the Golden Freddy suit), the animatronics have been chasing you for 6 nights straight, and you've been told to accompany them... who's to say one of them didn't fancy a quick bite? In addition, given the MeaningfulName on the character page of Jeremy Fitzgerald, the stuntman who fractured the front of his scalp... that can't be coincidental. Finally, according to TheLawOfConservationOfDetail, we have a named person who's conveniently in the right place and time to get bitten.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:The Marionette and the Purple Man are a BigBadDuumvirate.]]]]
[[spoiler:Instead of one or the other being the murderer, they both played a part in the murders. The Purple Man would lure the kids away and kill them, and the Marionette would dispose of the evidence and "give life".]]

*** The Marionette gives life. [[spoiler: What would you sacrifice if it was the only way you could have children?]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:The Marionette sent the Night 5 call in the first game.]]]]
[[spoiler:As we should all be aware by this point, the Night 5 call was actually an excerpt from ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' about how metal is alive. Judging from the prompt in its Easter egg game, the Marionette seems to regard its role in the murders as "giv[ing] life". Do the math.]]

Okay, hear me out. [[spoiler: The Purple Man is almost certainly the murderer, as he is seen in two of the minigames with dead kids, one of which has him visibly killing a boy while Freddy is giving out cake. He lured the five kids to Freddy's after hours by wearing an empty Golden Freddy suit, also seen in one of the minigames, then killed them. The Marionette then either controlled or led the robots to the bodies and gathered them up. Then, he put the dead kids into the various robot suits, which you can see in another minigame, in order to "save" them in the only way he knew how. During the minigame where Freddy finds dead bodies, the digitized voice is spelling out S A V E T H E M. When The Marionette is putting the masks on the bodies, the text at the top says GIVE LIFE. Neither of those scenes would make much sense if the animatronics were responsible for the original murders. In fact, considering that the animatronics seem fine with children during the day but distrust the Freddy's adult staff, it's quite possible that the murderer was one of the day shift security guards who wore the empty Golden Freddy suit both to lure the children AND fool the animatronics.]]
** [[spoiler: In fact, maybe by "give life", he was giving the souls of the dead children a new life...by having them possess the animatronics. Unfortunately, the children [[AndIMustScream may not have liked this gift]]...but whether or not they like it, by the next game, they're determined to give what they see as the murder (a.k.a. all the night guards) an IronicDeath.]]

[[WMG: Freddy ensured [[spoiler: the Marionette]] would not make it to the new location.]]

[[spoiler: It's clear these two don't get along, and that the Marionette, whether or not it killed the children, was involved with the murders. Freddy on some level knew that what the Marionette did was wrong: even if it ''didn't'' kill the kids, it still hid their bodies and ensured the parents would never get closure, and its method of "giving life" was not the correct way to handle it. So Freddy, knowing with the murders and the Bite, that there wasn't much more to lose, took out the Marionette and ensured that management couldn't ever fix it, to be sure that history couldn't repeat itself at the new location, and hopefully start anew.]]

*** Possibly NOT Jossed, if [[spoiler: the cutscenes aren't the location in the first game, but Fredbear's Family Diner (or at least, the same building back when it was called that), and what we see is a memory]].

[[WMG: [[spoiler: It IS a sequel, set in the very distant future, and the location of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria is stuck in a ViciousCycle.]]]]
Notice how [[spoiler: HistoryRepeats?]] The location of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria somehow got cursed, and every few years some food place opens, some tragedy happens, it shuts down, and then the cycle begins again. [[spoiler: This cycle takes place in 2087.]] Note that this does not rule out any possible crossover with The Website/SCPFoundation.

* Originally, Fredbear (aka [[spoiler:Golden Freddy]]) was either the main character, or the BigGood that the Fazbear gang defers to. However causing the Bite of 87 resulted in a ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. Freddy Fazbear replaced it as the main character, though still played a role in the old show

* Foxy, as suggested in the Fnaf 1 WMG, was the villain. Originally based around stealing pizzas, he became the IneffectualSympatheticVillain. Think [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Team Rocket]] from the anime with the motives of [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants Plankton.]] Fans loved him. Mangle was the ReplacementScrappy ''big-time''. They tried fixing it with bringing Foxy back, but the negative reaction to Mangle mixed with [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the events of Fnaf 2]] resulted in the rebooted show being cancelled

[[WMG: The mascots start rampaging because they realize the [[spoiler: murderer is on the loose before any of the adults do.]]]]

In this prequel, the robots are going nuts attacking the guard [[spoiler: even before the dead bodies of the kids were stuffed inside them]]. [[spoiler: It's understandable that the "haunted" suits in the first game would be going after the guard because they mistake him for the murderer as they want revenge.]] So what, [[spoiler: if not the ghosts of the dead kids]], is making the robots hostile, even homicidal? They're smarter than the adults running the pizzeria - they recognize one of the security guards as a risk - maybe even a pedophile. In this case, their attack is a preemptive strike against a possible threat. [[spoiler: After the kids die, the older animatronics are still around and they decide the adults in charge are useless - after all, they don't understand what bleeding robots mean - so they switch from preventing a tragedy to vengeance-mode.]] Any way you slice it, the robots are trying to protect the children they consider themselves in charge of. The only thing that keeps them from being outright heroes is that they keep murdering innocent guards, not just the guilty ones. [[spoiler: Unless there are things about Phone Guy and the protagonists that we don't know about...]]

** Jossed. The original four are [[spoiler: victims of the ''original'' set of murders]] while the new ones [[spoiler: are possessed by the set we see in the Chase minigame.]]

** [[spoiler:'''''Confirmed.''''' So far, we have the main four, both old and new, as well as Golden Freddy, The Marionette, and the Balloon Guy, making for eleven animatronics.]]

[[WMG: The Marionette is [[spoiler: possessed by the soul of a very small child]]]]
[[spoiler: Possibly a baby]]. It is calmed by the lullaby from a music box and gets VERY upset when the music stops.
* [[spoiler: Don't wake the baby...]]
* Confirmed. [[spoiler:The child is ''three years old'', if the books are anything to go by.]]

Think about it. As the night guard, all you can do is look left and right and trigger switches within reach. As Freddy in the cutscenes, all you can do is look left and right. [[spoiler: And in the Night 4 cutscene, the Marionette is everywhere you look...]]

If the second game is actually [[spoiler:a prequel]], that is. Strengthens an above theory about how the Marionette believes metal has a life force; because it is aware that it is being possessed. In other words, the new animatronics aren't possessed, they simply have their own soul, and each of their souls possessed the Marionette, if that makes sense.

* Originally, Fredbear (aka [[spoiler:Golden Freddy]]) was either the main character, or the BigGood that the Fazbear gang defers to. However [[spoiler:causing the Bite of 87]] resulted in a ChuckCunninghamSyndrome. Freddy Fazbear replaced it as the main character, though still played a role in the old show

Long ago, Phone Guy created Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria as a small business. For whatever reason (I'm gonna go with someone approached him with the idea of franchising or he needed the money) he ends up selling the idea to a corrupt company who ended up commissioning the killer robots. Unable to stop them or go public with the news (perhaps the company's blackmailing him or discrediting him somehow), the only thing he can do is call the night guard and hopefully talk them through the nights. [[spoiler:The part where he supposedly 'died' was him trying to throw the company off his trail. He's likely in hiding now.]]

* Jossed. [[spoiler:It's a prequel. He hasn't died yet.]]

[[spoiler: While reading the theory that the Phone Guy's the murderer, this troper was wondering why on Night Six his tone just rings of MyGodWhatHaveIDone. Sure, he could've been faking it, but why would he? This was coming from the guy who was all chipper about the animatronics coming to kill you, so why would he let child murders get to him? This got this troper thinking. What if the Phone Guy killed them under the influence of a split personality, and came to only after the deed had been done? Then, panicked, and horrified, he stuffed their bodies into the animatronics. He now recorded messages for the night guards after him, guilt-ridden that the animatronics are going to be going after someone else completely innocent. This could also explain why he only says "Oh no..." when the 'bots finally get him. He blames himself for what happened, and believes he's getting what he deserves.]]

* [[spoiler: Perhaps it's a result of the Marionette using some sort of evil magic on him. He's aware that something's wrong with the puppet, but he's forced to enact his wicked designs.]]

* Possible, as [[spoiler: VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 has him helping somebody into Spring Bonnie's Suit like a normal person.]] Assuming, of course, that he is indeed Purple Guy.

[[WMG:Phone Guy used to go to [[spoiler:Fredbear's]] as a kid...]]

And it's pretty clear in the second game that he flat-out loves the characters. He says as much several times throughout the various night messages. Even though adults often find these kinds of things creepy, the only one Phone Guy ever speaks ill of is [[spoiler:The Marionette]], which we have no reason to believe was part of the original set of characters, and, if my aforementioned theory is correct, would probably be far more justifiably creepy than the others. [[spoiler:Note how Phone Guy just says "But it does affect... one of them,"]] like he doesn't like talking about it. That's a pretty significant contrast in reactions.

* [[spoiler:What if Phone Guy was the previous night guard who had been moved to the day shift? That would explain the purple-suited figure in the minigames; it was Phone Guy. Maybe he'd started out as the night security guard (maybe even at the original "Fredbear's") so he could take advantage of the business to lure children there; then he learned to reprogram the animatronics to help him. Assuming they were self-aware, due to their programming or due to being already haunted by his victims, they may have really wanted to save the kids in the death minigames, but were prevented from helping or even forced to participate in their murders by Phone Guy (see the "you can't" version of the S-A-V-E-T-H-E-M minigame.) Maybe the "Give Gifts/Give Life" minigame doesn't depict a murder scene, but the Puppet happening upon some of Phone Guy's already-dead victims and innocently trying to "give them life" the only way it could think of, by stuffing them into animatronic suits. Maybe it was the Puppet that gave the other animatronics the idea of hunting down Phone Guy, and that's why he dislikes the Puppet and remarks about it "thinking" too much. So he switched to the day shift and set up some patsy (Jeremy) to take his place at night hoping the animatronics would kill you, thinking you're him, and be satisfied. When that doesn't work, he tampers with the animatronics' facial recognition system. He obviously doesn't seem to believe he's in a criminal database or he would have done it sooner; either he got nervous after all, or he ''disabled it entirely'' thinking it was stopping them from killing you. This theory also explains why the animatronics are relatively docile at the start and get more aggressive as the nights go on, from both the mundane and magical angles. As the week goes on, the animatronics (or their ghosts) are getting progressively more enraged as Phone Guy continues to get away with his crimes; alternately, or additionally, each time Phone Guy sees his patsy walk out of the restaurant alive, he reprograms the animatronics to be more aggressive the next night. That would seem to indicate that ''Jeremy'' is the victim of the Bite of '87; the animatronics thought they'd only get one more chance to take revenge on (or "save") Phone Guy, so he put Jeremy on the day shift ''intentionally'' so they'd mistake him for Phone Guy. His evasive dialogue on the last couple nights seems to support this. If the theory about the suits being haunted and trying to "save" people by shoving them into other suits is also true, then he could have even programmed them specifically to attack the day guard on that day for a more mundane purpose, like being able to pin the murders on malfunctioning hardware. That would easily explain why the Bite of '87 is so inconsistent with other known animatronic attacks.]]
** [[spoiler:Bonus thought: Fritz could still be Phone Guy. He could have applied for the Custom Night under some kind of alias. AND/OR it could be that he didn't care if he got fired for tampering with the animatronics, because he only took the job as a cover to get rid of the evidence of his ''prior'' tampering.]]
* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/865028-five-nights-at-freddys As seen here,]] [[spoiler:the Purple Man Freddy can encounter in the post-death minigames looks like he's holding a phone receiver.]]
** [[spoiler: Not to mention when the Purple Man is in Foxy's cove, he's got that big smile on his face. He did say Foxy was his favourite.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler:Jeremy Fitzgerald is the murderer.]]]]
[[spoiler:People seem to believe that the imagery in the mini-games confirms the Puppet's status as the murderer, but there are a couple things that say otherwise...]]
* [[spoiler:How is the puppet guilty of murders that haven't been committed yet?]]
* [[spoiler:The older robots have the normal "stuff-you-in-a-suit" M.O., to be sure, but they're supposed to be shut down. What about the new ones? They are linked to criminal databases, so they should be able to separate you from a criminal...unless you ''are'' a criminal in a database. After all, Chuck E. Cheese restaurants are notorious for their attraction of pedophiles. ]]
** [[spoiler:That's why they try harder as the night goes on; they're determined to stop a known criminal.]]
** [[spoiler:They also reactivate the old robots in the hopes of killing you ''that'' way.]]
** [[spoiler:This also explains Night Four, when Phone Guy says that the animatronics are "acting very unusual, almost aggressive towards the staff. They interact with the kids just fine, but when they encounter an adult, they just...stare." They know that the crew of the restaurant are harboring a criminal; the ''crew'' doesn't know it.]]
*** [[spoiler:Phone Guy also suggests their facial recognition and criminal database software has been tampered with, meaning they wouldn't be able to differentiate between staff and a criminal.]]
* [[spoiler:On Night Five, you are told that "the building is on lockdown, uh, no one is allowed in or out, y'know, especially concerning any...previous employees. Um, when we get it all sorted out, we may move you to the day shift, a position just became...available. Uh, we don't have a replacement for your shift yet, but we're working on it."]]
** [[spoiler:Why is the building on lockdown? Something happened, but it's clearly nothing to do with the robots because, as obfuscating as he is, Phone Guy would probably tell you about it. There's an opening in staff, but the way Phone Guy lets you know about it is ambiguous; either they fired someone who has not taken it well (as in Game Theory's analysis and the [[http://murderpedia.org/male.D/d/dunlap-nathan.htm real-life incident that partially inspired the game]]), or an employee has been killed and the police are investigating it.]]
** [[spoiler:The only reason you aren't singled out and questioned is because no replacement has been found for your position (who would want it?). This gives you an opportunity to be in the the restaurant overnight.]]
* [[spoiler:On Night 6, Phone Guy tells you that there's been an incident involving the yellow Freddy outfit.]]
** [[spoiler:Jeremy (you) has killed whoever is responsible for the costume and used it to lure the five children to their deaths, the incident referred to in the original game.]]
** [[spoiler:The robots go ''[[UnstoppableRage berserk]]'' because they witnessed you ''killing children in '''their''' domain'', hence Phone Guy saying they "aren't acting right" as well as the noticeable difficulty spike.]]
* [[spoiler:The Bite of '87 is heavily implied to take place after this level. It's possible that, during the birthday party, the robots just said "Fuck it," and took action against Jeremy, forcing him to live out the rest of his days minus his frontal lobe.]]
* [[spoiler:The Purple Man has a security guard's badge, and is shown in another minigame to kill one of the children. This all but confirms that the murderer was a security guard.]]
** [[spoiler:The Purple Man and the Purple Security Guard appear to be two separate people. Purple Security Guard appears to wear glasses, is a lighter shade of purple and is a noticeably different body type.]]
* [[spoiler:People are saying the Puppet killed the children because in the minigame where you control Freddy, you follow him to a room with dead bodies. But another minigame involves the Puppet placing animal heads on the children. What if the Puppet actually ran into Freddy and alerted him that Jeremy had kidnapped the children, and Freddy was actually following him to the scene of the crime, only for the Puppet to have to perform an EmergencyTransformation on the children when he found they were too late to stop Jeremy from killing them?]]
* '''Jossed'''. We have several clear views of Golden Freddy in this game; that is an animatronic suit. [[spoiler:As the murderer wore it, no human could have done the deed, as being forced into it would, as we know, kill them.]]
** It's possible [[spoiler:he had a spare, since the Freddy mask shows that they can be worn safely somehow.]] And in fact, [[spoiler:Golden Freddy appears as a disembodied head...]]
** [[spoiler:Phone Guy says "We had a spare in the back, a yellow one, the one used in..." which seems to imply the Golden Freddy was also used in an incident he doesn't want to speak of. On night two, he mentions that part of the reason they didn't use the old animatronics was because of "The smell..." This all seems to imply that the murder of the five children was committed long before the events of the second game, possibly at the previous 'Fredbear's Pizza'.]]
*** [[spoiler:Though most people (including the [[TheWikiRule FNAF Wiki]]) transcribe the line as "the one used in...", he's actually saying, "someone used it..."]]

*** [[spoiler:Not quite. The first murder, the one of the crying child, took place in the Diner. The Missing Children were kidnapped from the Pizzeria later on. Jeremy would have had plenty of time to use the spare yellow suit.]]
** [[spoiler:It's possible that Golden Freddy is, like in the first game, a hallucination, and is a sign of Jeremy's mental state degrading. Somebody who would dress up as a cartoon mascot, murder a bunch of kids, and stuff them into robots cannot be all that mentally stable to begin with. And after several nights of putting up with the robots, by night 6 he's really going nuts, imagining that the suit he wore is also a robot and is coming to get him as well. When it "kills" you, that might signify that he's had a total mental collapse.]]
** Jossing Jossed; [[spoiler:Golden Freddy was not the suit used for the murders, or at least not the one the Murderer wore, as ''3'' reveals. It also reveals a drawing of a purple guard with a large smile that is most likely Jeremy, as he had been told to stay close to the animatronics - which he is, specifically Toy Chica - at the end of the Night Six phone call.]]
*** Jossing Jossing Jossed. [[spoiler: The Purple Man certainly isn't Jeremy. He was the one before Jeremy.]]

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* Chica's "let's eat" motto comes from being the character who would shill the product. In the show, she was the most interested with pizza, and served as TheSmurfette. Toy Chica was her graduation to being the MsFanservice of the group, or maybe just a ParentalBonus.

* Jossed. She ''hated'' being taken apart and both heads can talk.