- Jossed — The game is suggested to be one long coma-induced dream of the victim of the Bite of '87, or at the very least the hallucinations of him/her. It also takes place at the kid's house, so I guess Double Jossed.
- Though then again, we don't know which bite the game centers around. If there's even multiple bites.
- Jossed. They and Nightmare Freddy are literally nightmares.
- Note the hidden word "NIGHTMARE" in the first teaser. It appears to imply that the new animatronic is not actually real, but merely another, far more deadly hallucination. It suddenly makes sense as to why the new animatronic looks so scary: it's only part of your terrified mind. The Fazbear management would probably cross the line at making such an unsettling robot.
- Even better: what if it's Mike or Jeremy, but the experience has scarred them psychologically and they're in an asylum? And these new 'five nights' are actually them reliving truly larger-than-life nightmares of their experiences as night watchmen, amplified a hundredfold by their own insanity?
- In fact, it's possible that all the games have been nightmares. It would certainly explain physical inconsistencies in the pizzeria, such as the door on the ceiling in the first game, as well as the strange behavior of the animatronics — though this would mean that the player characters have never actually been in danger. It would also give new meaning to the endgame of the previous installment — rather than being punished by the ghosts, the Purple Guy hallucinated them, tore apart the animatronics to "free" them, then climbed into Springtrap to hide from his own phantoms.
- Even better, maybe it's a nightmare being suffered by the victim of the Bite of '87; imagine being in a coma just kind of locked into the traumatic memory or coma dream that caused your mental impairement.
- That's not to say that the threats are any less real... I recall another "Nightmare" with a "Freddy" in it doing something similar.
- It could be that these are the nightmares of the Purple Guy due to the guilt of/paranoia of being caught because of the murders that he has committed. This causes him to go back to the Freddy Fazbear's and destroy the animatronics to erase all evidence and put an end to the threat of the animatronics which would inevitably end in his death by Springtrap.
- Confirmed, sort of...
- I doubt this. The word is still present in the second teaser image, which shows a new Nightmare Bonnie.
- Currently Jossed, since the Indie DB page calls these animatronics as "Nightmare Animatronics"
- Actually, confirmed. The last phantom you can face is named Nightmare, and, like Golden Freddy in the first game, he has a weird little effect on the player's game. Namely, that the whole thing resets.
- There might be more merit to this theory, though- during the "Happiest Day" minigame, the crying child goes through a colorful room passing by at least five other kids with animal masks before finally coming to the five inhabiting the original animatronics. This could indicate that there were indeed 10 or so murdered children who were killed. I would assume that the reason that the five in full color were killed during 2 (with the other kids killed before those events), which I would assume is taking place during a birthday party from the amount of cakes everywhere. This would probably be that ever ominous "Bite of '87".
- Well, now that the game's finally out, we could surmise that the colorful children are instead the Victim, his/her Brother, and the Brother's Friends from the Bite of '87 incident. The reason why they're so colorful now is because nothing has really happened to them yet.
- Actually, there's a child who mentions the murders at one point. Before the bite. Also, the animatronics were already haunted prior to the bite.
- Or at the very least had their "naked endoskeleton" glitch.
- As far as I know, there is a big revelation at the end of the game — that the child you've been playing as is the Bite of '87 victim, it was all a Deadly Prank on the part of the kid's brother and his friends, and that Foxy wasn't the perpetrator (rather, it was Golden Freddy/Fredbear).
- A) Phone Guy will be in the game in the flesh, instead of just a voice.
- B) Phone Guy will speak to you through a method other than the phone.
- C) Phone Guy will be revealed towards the end to be the new animatronic, which contains his corpse or something.
- Alternatively, as someone said on the subreddit
, Phone Guy will be hateful to your progress instead of cheerful.- Jossed. There is no Phone Guy to speak of.
- Alternatively, as someone said on the subreddit
- Instead of listening to a recording at the beginning of each night, you'll be making one.
- Jossed — The 4th game's events are nearly concurrent with the events of 2, up to and including the timing of the Bite and the children's murders. Phone Guy was at least a confirmed adult at the time, while the player character is a child.
- Probably confirmed. Though we only get to see the Purple Man in an easter egg.
- The Springtrap suit being badly damaged in the fire released his soul, which is now tormenting the final Night Guard that burned him, taking on the form of Nightmare Freddy. Alternatively, the Nightmare Freddy Suit is the result of him using the bits and pieces of the other animatronics salvaged from the fire to rebuild himself, or someone else rebuilt him that way.
- Jossed.
- Being the Grand Finale of the series, the game will finally give us a closer look at the enigmatic incidents that led to the restaurant's dark descent, probably through a flashback of sorts.
- Confirmed. The game showcases the events leading up to the Bite, and the protagonist is the victim.
- He manages to survive the fire at the end of the third game, so there's a possibility that, one way or another, he'll make a vengeful comeback.
- Implied in the recent teaser, which confirms Springtrap will return.
- Sort of Jossed. Springtrap as we know him wasn't in the game, but the Purple Man was, and he... helped a man into a Spring Bonnie suit.
- To make up for his Demoted to Extra status in the last installment.
- Adding to this, this troper (not the OP) posted the theory on 3's WMG page where Bonnie's appearances in the original three games' trailers hinted to him knowing more than what was let on, as well as tying his purple color to other events in the game (and that his Toy version was the only one with a drastic change, likely to keep him unique). Since it's the final game, this would be the best time for Scott to FINALLY cash in on all that teasing/foreshadowing.
- Jossed. Bonnie is a regular threat.
- A direct result: All the mini-Freddys we see on Nightmare Freddy will say Phone Guy's trademark "Hello Hello" as they move around or get closer to you.
- Jossed. The nightmares are just that, the nightmares of the Bite of 83/87 victim. We don't even see Phone Guy in this game.
The biggest mystery left unsolved was what exactly happened at the original diner. We have the one "Cake" mini-game in 2 that hints what happened to the child possessing the Marionette. And with all the decayed and rotting parts left around various locations, he's trying to make a comeback.
- Currently jossed by the newest teaser. Fredbear is still in the game, but is not Nightmare Freddy. However, he could be Shadow Freddy and/or Purple Freddy.
- Ultimately, jossed. Golden Freddy is Fredbear.
- Currently jossed by the newest teaser. Fredbear is still in the game, but is not Nightmare Freddy. However, he could be Shadow Freddy and/or Purple Freddy.
Nightmare Freddy is also unlikely to be the only one coming back, so to speak. Whatever was left in that box (and not burned down), as well as around the other locations, may be coming back together to create bigger, badder monster versions of each animatronic. It could be because Springtrap is still up and kicking: they've reformed to take him down once and for all. And they're going to use whatever they have available.
- Jossed. The game is set years before they should've existed. Though NIGHTMARE BALLOON BOY was added to the game on Halloween and has been confirmed to be CANON!
- Jossed for all the real animatronics, though the rest of the Nightmares could very well be Freddles that underwent some form of metamorphosis.
- That would ruin the Halloween release date, though, so I don't think that will happen.
- I also have heard that Dawko is doing a Five Nights At St Jude's stream ON Halloween.
- This is probably true; 10/31/2015 is on a Saturday, and Steam does not allow games to be published on weekends. Therefore, the game would most likely be released a day earlier provided that Scott knows about that.
- Confirmed. The game itself will be released on 8/8/15, the one year anniversary of the series. The Halloween release date is for DLC.
- Double confirmed. It was released 7/23/15.
- Partially confirmed? You're no longer inside an office looking through camera feeds. You walk around the house with a flashlight instead. Not certain it's with a different engine, but it is different gameplay from the previous three games.
- Sadly, jossed.
- By that token, because it's a busy movie set, the props and set pieces will be in different places after each day of filming, making it harder to track the animatronic(s), as they'll be able to use the props as camouflage or give them different ways to hide each night.
- Somewhat hinted at by the Springtrap teaser.
- Jossed.
- Somewhat hinted at by the Springtrap teaser.
- Adding onto this, look at Golden Freddy in all of his appearances. He only has four fingers. Look at Phantom Freddy in the third game, specifically, his lack of a right ear and how his top hat is tilted to the right; it's Golden Freddy. It also only has four fingers. As such, he can't be a spring suit, making him one of the most enigmatic things in the series so far. This game will hopefully give us some answers about what he is.
- We already know much about Golden Freddy, though. He was confirmed to be the 5th child and to work with Springtrap at the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (Not Fredbear) before the creation of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy.
- Jossed. Nightmare Fredbear is Golden Freddy.
- Confirmed. It takes place around the same time as the second game, officially making it a prequel.
- Actually, it's set before the first and third games, and maybe even the second one as well.
- Confirmed. It takes place around the same time as the second game, officially making it a prequel.
- The monstrosity posted on Scott's page confirms there is at least one monster left to face. So we've now dealt with incompetent AI, vengeful spirits, and a child murderer. What's left? Very possibly a demon, and probably the one who made Purple Guy what he became.
- Jossed with the last part, but there is in fact one last enemy to face, and it's Nightmare.
- Instead, we'll get nights with different locations and different rules from throughout the history of the restaurant chain in order to tie off loose ends, with the new Freddy as part of a nightmarish framing story.
- And he or she is having nightmares about what happened to him/her. Of course someone with their frontal lobe missing may have messed up memory among other things, so the victim may as well change the layout every 'night' as well.
- OP with update on the frontal lobe according to Google research: I never knew, but one site states we have more than one frontal lobe(?) Research states that our frontal lobes are involved in motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, and social and sexual behavior. The frontal lobe is extremely vulnerable to injury due to their location at the front of our cranium, proximity to the sphenoid wing and their big size. Some MRI studies studies have shown that the frontal area is the most common region of injury following mild to moderate traumatic brain injury. All in all, some could become vegetables and not aware of the world around them.
- Semi-confirmed. You're playing as the victim of the Bite of Eighty-Three.
- Springtrap survived the fire, was sold at the auction, and made into Nightmare Freddy for whatever poor reason the buyer had.
- Jossed.
- A movie can't be done in 6 months... it requires years.
- Jossed by the Indie DB page, as it confirms IT is a game
- ...is the MultiFazBear.
- Jossed.
- Jossed.
- Confirmed by the trailer.
- And with every WMG someone makes , Nightmare Freddy's Difficulty increases!A HH!!!
- So all we can do is wait for us to be consumed...I'm scared.
- Well, he insists it's the last game, but considering who we're talking about...
- Jossed. The Indie DB pages confirms that this is the last game, but there is a film coming out.
- Jossed. It's All Just a Dream in the head of what is most likely his son.
- Of course there will be a fifth game. Five is the series' arc number, after all.
- Jossed. The Indie DB page confirms this is the last game.....but there is a movie so, five installaments after all.
- However, the movie may not be canon.
- Ultimately, partially confirmed. There will be a fifth game, though the third game still stands as the chronological finale.
- Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator and Ultimate Custom Night come after 3, so yeah.
- However, the movie may not be canon.
- Jossed. The game is set before 1, 2 and 3. It's also not real outside of the 8-bit cutscenes.
There's a lot implied and insinuated in the FNAF series, but we honestly don't know for sure if Mike and Jeremy both had a very bad and scary week (and Fritz one day), but just that after everyone before them quit...or if they were really were the latest replacements of a series of murdered security guards and who happened to be the ones that survived. With the children having moved on, what's left? How about the innocent people who died because angry, vengeful child-ghosts couldn't tell them apart from their killer? With the Murderer/Springtrap still possibly free, where's THEIR justice? Number 4 will deal with one last security guard guarding SOMETHING that somehow ties back to the Fazbears' chain (maybe whatever was built on the sites of the old buildings?) having to deal with these last vengeful ghosts who have manifested as this nightmare Fazbear THING (and perhaps Spring Trap and others will also be involved). After all, what could be more fitting opponents for a final game then all those who came before you, and failed? Can you give them peace? Or will you join them?
- Jossed, though Scott did do something similar later down the line...
- Joy of creation was just some stupid mistake, it was really an excerpt from "autobiography of a yogi" about metal having life.
It's Jason.
- Jossed, it's William and he doesn't have much to do with this game anyways.
- Sorta-jossed. It's about the bite... more likely a different one.
- It's actually a nightmare in the head of a little kid.
- Jossed in that Nightmare Freddy is All Just a Dream, but William did do almost exactly what you said.
- I don't really believe an exclusive deluxe version of the game, but maybe they'll get a demo, or even the full game, before he releases it to the public.
- Going off the above, this time the honk sound will play when you honk Nightmare Freddy's nose. Honking it will make Nightmare Freddy go away, which will allow the honk to be a last second way for you to stave off death.
- Confirmed. This time around, you get to honk Plush Fredbear's nose.
- I have ALWAYS considered The Puppet a monster, no matter what his motivations were for how much blood was on his hands, since he appears to know what he's doing more than the others. I don't know if Scott has a twist as dark as children from hell in him, but it would be a brilliant response to the way the game seemingly excuses Cycle of Revenge.
- So, the open outdoor area is the bad ending and the conglomeration of the previous maps is the good ending?
- The Nightmare versions could also be the souls of past murderers or partners who want to keep being spirits and killing people in the living world while the player character Purple Guy could be trying to move on. Completing the optional objectives will cause the other Nightmare versions to appear and try to stop him from ending their fun.
- Unfortunately, Jossed.
- Jossed, though it does come from the mind of a child.
- Golden Freddy was all but confirmed to be the other suit in FNAF 3.
- Nightmare Freddy is the Golden Freddy suit after thirty years, and one of the Golden Freddy animatronics was made to cover up the actions of the person using the Golden Freddy/Nightmare Freddy Springsuit.
- All jossed. Golden Freddy was the other suit, and the game is set before the second game, while Fredbear was still up and running.
- Confirmed... with 3 rows of razor sharp teeth to boot.
- The game takes place in the dreams of what is probably the Purple Guy's son, so this is certainly likely.
But if the new animatronic can't get away from start, what's going to give the game its challenge? Can't be as simple as "switch between these cameras and make sure these switches stay flipped", now, can it?
The answer? Those little Freddys. They're probably detachable, and while they're not big enough to present much of a threat to the night watch, is it too big of a leap to say they might be able to, say, cross a few wires and let the big guy loose? Your goal is going to be keeping them from breaking the bigger and far more threatening Freddy free.
Need more to convince you? This style of gameplay would keep up the tradition of a Hope Spot / Controllable Helplessness segment between actually losing the game and getting jump-scared.
In the first, you have the power going out, and Freddy's music box.<br/>In the second, the Puppet coming after you, with "Pop Goes the Weasel" playing in the background (or alternatively, Balloon Boy laughing at you after disabling your flashlight, leaving you wide open to be nommed by Foxy).<br/>In the third, Springtrap waiting outside your door.<br/>And now, in the fourth, after big Freddy is free, he heads toward your office, and there's not a thing you can do to stop him. All you can do is track his progress through the cameras as he gets closer and closer to your office.
- Tying into this, Nightmare Bonnie will most likely be there as a second legitimate threat to keep you from being on your cameras all the time... you really can't do that if there's a chance of a demonic rabbit ambushing you if you're not paying attention, now, can you? (If any of the other animatronics show up nightmare-ified, they'll probably hold similar roles, as well.) Alternatively, they'll be trapped, like Freddy, but released more easily, to help take your attention away from the big guy.
- Confirmed, sort of. You need to keep the little guys from coalescing on the bed and summoning/fusing into Nightmare Freddy.
Due to the chimeric nature of Nightmare Freddy, they will be barely functional at first, but maybe as the nights progress, they will begin to rebuild themselves, becoming deadlier each night. Maybe they'll even rebuild while you watch, so if you do badly in the first few days, they have more options to attack you later on.
If it's a movie set as per other guesses, he was recovered from the ruins of the fire and rebuilt into a more classic Bonnie appearance but with the frightening twist on it as with Nightmare Freddy.
- Jossed, Springtrap will be a separate character.
- Springtrap is a little plushie in this game, and he's frankly kind of cute.
- To add to this theory, "It's me" and the bite of 87 are connected. And the "Was it me?" on Nightmare Bonnie's teaser image could quite possibly prove that Bonnie was the culprit to the bite.
- Or at least that the players will finally find out more about the incident. Looking at the source code reveals a couple of hidden 87s, so it's certainly possible...
- Jossed. The bite we see is more likely separate from the bite of 87. Note, Golden Freddy is still in use, yet in 2 he was in despair and we never hear mention of that game's location having any sister locations.
- Or at least that the players will finally find out more about the incident. Looking at the source code reveals a couple of hidden 87s, so it's certainly possible...
The true forms of Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie.
- Jossed unless there was also a Shadow Chica and Shadow Foxy that never made appearances in either of the three previous games.
- Now even more jossed. The nightmares were just the figments of the Bite of 83's victim's imagination.
- [[spiler:Nightmare]] may be the counterpart of Shadow Freddy, though.
- Now even more jossed. The nightmares were just the figments of the Bite of 83's victim's imagination.
- All but confirmed. We just need a Nightmare Golden Freddy.
- And we have one.
- Don't forget the cute widdle plushie Springtrap!.
- And we have one.
The fourth game is from the perspective of one of the kids who was at the birthday party when the Bite of '87 happened. Utterly traumatized, they now have nightmares about the animatronics.
Every night, when they go to sleep, Freddy and his friends haunt their dreams, turning into twisted abominations. In between nights, we'll see flashbacks to the birthday party. The animatronics happy, singing songs. Giving cake to the children. Until, just before Night 5... It happens.
- Wow, you're close! It's a different bite, but other than that, you got it pretty much on the nose!
- Jossed.
Jeremy gets moved to the day shift, but he had still been wearing his guard's outfit(assuming they don't have regular employee ones), the animatronics would still recognize him well due to that night shift he had worked prior. There's not a chance he brought an extra pair of clothing to 'switch' into since he wouldn't have known Phone Guy was gonna ask/tell him to stay during the day time for the party the night before, right? He had to work the next day, so he presumably worked a double. The Phone Guy did say for Jeremy to stay close to the animatronics.... The likely culprit according to fan theories is between The Mangle or Foxy.
- Never confirmed in-game since but since we don't see the bite of 87 it's still possible.
As for why, maybe the nightmares are after him as well.
- Confirmed! The new Fun Size "Plushtrap" will let you sleep in peace and fend off the others for three hours if you manage to win his minigame.
He could be manipulating the viewer into thinking he was the culprit for the Bite of 87. He'll pull this off if Scott posts another teaser showing another Nightmare animatronic, saying "No. It was me.".
◊ It says Or me?.- Jossed, the Puppet doesn't even show up until the Halloween DLC.
- Sort of Confirmed, as most of the cutscenes including the Bite of '83 take place in the diner, but 2 most likely never existed.
These suits look like they could have been built fairly quickly and had little time to be modified to be safe and usable. Plus with the line about "Appropriateness" also springs (no pun intended) to mind looking at these things. Plus more evidence is that its a Freddy and a Bonnie suit and both have four fingered hands.
- This Troper can say his own theory is Jossed due to the inclusion of Nightmare Chica
- The old supply suits do have Nightmare forms, in the form of Nightmare Fredbear and Plushtrap.
This came to me after the moment of Fridge Brilliance I got about the Number 4. Just think about this. The real, unsolved mystery that nobody had paid attention to because we had almost zero clues about it: The fact those animatronics are way too advanced for the dates. They are way too advanced for even today. Remember that it's unclear if the Toy animatronics were even haunted and it's canon that the animatronics are expected to be able to interact with guests but they are not doing it during the games for safety reasons. Maybe there's a separation between animatronic AI and child spirit, and the animatronic AIs are the murderous ones, inspired by the childrens' spirits inhabiting them. But, since the story of the childrens' spirits is complete and they are already resting in peace (After all, the Number 3 is about Completeness) the last thread of story is about the animatronics themselves, if they are super advanced technology or something else entirely.
It would also explain the relationship between the Phone Guy, the Purple Guy and the Creator of the Animatronics: The first two people have been there since the beginning of the franchise, never entirely moving on and knowing a lot about the inner workings of the animatronics themselves. As MatPat from Game Theory said, Phone Guy displays a lot of knowledge the Purple Guy must have had in order to commit the killings and both have been there since the first two restaurants (Confirmed for Purple Guy and the first restaurant in FNaF2 and the Phone Guy/Second Restaurant in FNaF3), but, incredible enough, neither of the two is expecting to the animatronics to actually be haunted (Purple Guy is surprised during their apparition in the final Mini Game in FNaF3 and the Phone Guy has trouble with that explanation on FNaF). Are Purple Guy and Phone Guy the same? Are either of the two the creator of the animatronics? Or are these people three separate entities that related somehow? Is the creator of the animatronics Nighmare Freddy?
- Or, he'll be a reporter interviewing staff in the guise of Wilford Warfstache.
- If you think about it, it'd make sense AND poetic justice. They spent decades attempting to (and at least twice succeeding at) murder every poor schmuck who got hired as a night guard by the franchise, and the simple fact that they ceased the haunting after finally taking revenge on their ACTUAL killer proves they knew, at some level, that their victims WERE, if not innocent in the original meaning of the word, blameless in their deaths. The fourth game will have you play as one/ all of the children in purgatory, being stalked by the enraged spirits of their OWN victims manifesting as distorted, nightmarish parodies of the Characters they once controlled and forced to relive their kills form the perspective of the men/ women they tore apart.
- This can make sense, especially given that the animatronic scream is a mix of the ones in the Previous Games and the allusion that the child or spirits would've had to known how they sounded before. Who better to know how those screams sound like than the night guards who've heard them before being dragged off to be killed?
- confirmed, at least for Chica thus far
- Totally confirmed.
- Explain Nightmare Chica, then.
- I think this is jossed because of Nightmare Chica.
- And Foxy... and Springtrap... and Fredbear.
- Orange
- Green
- Purple
- Black and White
- Blue and Black
- Gold And White
- It's red. And seems to be going roughly by the color of the animatronics. Bonnie having a blue image seems to be more based on his minigame appearance in 3 and his Toy self in 2 though.
- Sort of confirmed? It says "Or me?", but not "Was it me?". It's similar enough.
- Confirmed in the worst way possible, instead of more teeth, he has a tongue.
- The tongue is gone in the final release. Tears have been said
- Confirmed! The UnWithereds were, in fact, the basis for the Nightmares.
- Jossed, No such teaser came on the 27th
- Foxy, Confirmed
- Golden Freddy,
- Toy Freddy,
- Toy Bonnie,
- Toy Chica,
- Mangle (Toy Foxy),
- BB (Balloon Boy),
- Confirmed, being added in the Halloween Update
- The Puppet,
- Bare Endoskeleton,
- Shadow Freddy,
- Shadow Bonnie,
- Springtrap (Spring Bonnie, Golden Bonnie),
- Confirmed
- Phantom Freddy,
- Phantom Chica,
- Phantom Foxy,
- Phantom BB (Phantom Balloon Boy),
- Phantom The Puppet,
- And Phantom Mangle (Phantom Toy Foxy).
Isn't this a bit much? I get it's the final game and all, but why include the Shadows (who were ghosts), the bare endoskeleton (who HELPED you) and phantoms (who were either not real or the ghosts of the previous characters)?
- Jossed, Unless Fredbear/Nightmare Fredbear is in fact Balloon Boy.
My theory on what Nightmare Animatronics besides the Original 4 (Foxy is obviously going to be there) could be the following,
- Golden Freddy (Probably not a nightmare version)
- Mangle
- The Puppet (Same case as Golden Freddy)
- BB
- Springtrap (possibly not a nightmare version)
- Confirmed to appear, just not in his original form. Instead, he appears to be some kind of "Chuckytrap"
That number at least amounts to 9 Animatronics with Fairly Unique qualities and behaviours and considering how Scott has been known to surprise us with new characters in the final release, I.e Foxy in 1 and the Puppet and BB in 2. Perhaps there will be one more unique Animatronic who will stand as the true nightmare to the Fazbear horror which brings the number to 10.
- Confirmed. Golden Freddy/Nightmare Fredbear and Springtrap/Plushtrap are in the game, and The Puppet/Nightmarionne and Balloon Boy/Nightmare BB are in the Halloween DLC.
- His Condition however comes into question. Unless he got away without any damage from the fire, he could look probably more horrifying.
- Semi Confirmed What appears to be Springtraps Toy equivalent is confirmed under the decrypted code Plushtrap
- What makes you think it's Toy Springtrap? Yes, it does appear to be a (literal) toy, but in-universe Springtrap was just an older version of Bonnie, not a separate character.
- Just grasping a comparison, not saying it's definite; I felt it would be easier to say that this appeared to be Springtrap's (literal) Toy Equivalent plus the name in the code implies it is something like the toy Animatronics (Plushtrap).
- Semi Confirmed What appears to be Springtraps Toy equivalent is confirmed under the decrypted code Plushtrap
- If they were sentient the entire time, what was the point of making them haunted?
- When the children where placed in the suits by the puppet after being killed, they haunted the suits, but after the suits were put back on the animatronic endoskeleton, the children's ghosts shifted to the animatronic.
- Not in this game, but in the High School segments of Ultimate Custom Night, this is true.
- Confirmed.
But his/her kid, like most of us, is very put off by the animatronics, so much so they appear in the demonic, nightmare-like way they do. While they are still murderous, they appear far more frightening to our poor Kid Hero than the adults who had to contend with the animatronics before. And persumably, they'd have gotten to the point they Would Hurt a Child.
Kids have always been a huge element of the series, so why not play as one? For further interesting points, the prerecorded audio will be Phone Guy and the hero's parent as a child (played by one of Scott's kids) making a tape with cryptic hints on Bring Your Kid to Work Day.
- Jossed. Nightmare Foxy has both eyes lit; the Foxy head in the Bad Ending had only one eye lit.
- Also, this takes place way before FNAF 3.
- And who knows, maybe even the rest of the gang will appear as well, possibly in movie form.
- Or Freddy and the gang giving one final bow
- Confirmed!◊
- Or maybe the site will be blank until the movie
- Confirmed!
- Partially confirmed. It says "Or me?".
- Jossed by the trailer.
- And the actual game.
- This was a dumb WMG to begin with.
- Dumb theories are what WMG is for, buddy.
- And the actual game.
- Foxy's late, but heeeeeee's hereeeeeeee◊.
- So jossed.
- Jossed... maybe. All the image shows is a purple top hat and bow tie under a spotlight... with the reflection of something's teeth shown as well.
- Actually confirmed.
- And Balloon Boy makes up the head of this creature.
- Sort of confirmed, all three are added to the Halloween Edition, however it is not canon. However, Nightmare Balloon Boy, who replaces Plushtrap, was also added to the Halloween Update and has been confirmed by Scott on a livestream that he is in fact Canon...
- Confirmed.
- He or she may have been a big Fazbear Entertainment fan as a kid and they bought all the leftover parts that was left to be put in the auction. He/she wants to throw a party for the masses, or folks who would remember Fazbear Entertainment history. The way the mascots look are NOT what they seem in the past games, so it could possibly be a Halloween party or an attraction knockoff.
- And they were repaired to be in high quality to prevent another Purple Guy incident.
- Brightened up picture of that text◊
- Jossed. Golden Freddy is Fredbear.
- His name is Fred Fazbear or Fred Fredbear and he will be the final Big Bad.
- It says Fredbear's family diner. Not Krueger.
- I'm talking about the hidden "Property of Fr______________er" message. The ___ are blanked out.
- I know, but still, it's kind of obviously Fredbear. And why would FREDDY KRUEGER have robot partners? If anything, him being in the game would probably make more questions than answer them.
- Remember, he is a child killer. The robots get closer to children. And, he likely would kill them in the dream world. The reason the children's spirits were stuck was because he put them there, knowing they would terrorize the night guard and would almost never get said vengeance. Now, however, the heroes have lasted all 3 games, and he's coming in full force, at only one person— You.
- Jossed due to the new Fredbear's teaser. Plus, him being in the game would be stupid.
- I'm talking about the hidden "Property of Fr______________er" message. The ___ are blanked out.
- The Purple Hat teaser has text in the bottom right corner that reads "Property of Fr____er". Using a similar text and size it is too small to be "Freddy Fazbear"... but "Fredbear's Family Diner" appears to fit perfectly.
- Confirmed in the minigames. The main game takes place in the player character kid's house, though.
- How exactly does 3 confirm these things?
- For starters, in the happiest day mini game, there were 11 children. Then there's the fact that Mangle and Balloon Boy return as phantoms. Why would those two be haunted but not the other toy animatronics? Especially since those two seem just as haunted as the rest.
- How are ANY of them haunted? Remember how the children's spirits were set free when Purple Guy died?
- The Phantoms alone should prove they were haunted. And yes, they were real because why call them phantoms if they aren't..
- You are aware of what a phantom is... right?
- For starters, in the happiest day mini game, there were 11 children. Then there's the fact that Mangle and Balloon Boy return as phantoms. Why would those two be haunted but not the other toy animatronics? Especially since those two seem just as haunted as the rest.
- Semi-confirmed. The end-of-night mini-games take place in the "real" world and depict perfectly normal UnWithereds, while the nights contain the nightmares of the player character.
The obvious theory is the hat and tie belong to Fredbear, but it's possible it's a Red Herring.
What color are the hat and tie? Purple. What two characters are associated with purple? Bonnie and the Purple Man. Keeping that in mind, remember that the Purple Man was revealed to be a variant of Bonnie: Springtrap. Also remember that Springtrap used to perform with Golden Freddy, and that Bonnie's variants are always seen with a bowtie - so where's Springtrap's? The simplest explanation is Springtrap was discontinued because the suit was unsafe, which could also explain why the purple bow tie and hat still look brand new: the items simply never got the chance to be used.
We also know they are supposedly the property of Fredbear's Family Diner, which puts Springtrap in the proper place on the timeline.
- Here's a problem, though: Springtrap wasn't from Fredbear's. Phone Guy (rather specifically) says Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in FNAF 3. And even if he is somehow still from Fredbear's, the hat looks too big for his head.
- Original OP here. Five Nights at Freddy's 3 does also have the one minigame with Golden Freddy and Golden Bonnie performing together with no other characters, which in and of itself could be a hint to to Fredbear's. It was never clarified if this mini game was part of Fredbear's Family Diner or Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. As for the audio tape, one possible explanation is it came during the Fredbear-to-Freddy's conversion (hence using the new name), and the "sister location" mentioned was the original diner that hasn't been completely converted over yet. Looking at the minigame also shows something at Springtrap's throat, though it's unclear if it's a button or a bow tie. As for the hat being too big to fit, that could actually be right, and another reason it was never used for the show for what little time Springtrap was able to perform.
- And he will be in a horrific state, looking like he was salvaged from all of the animatronics (mainly Freddy, of course). He will also appear in Night 6.
- Confirmed, in that he DOES appear in the game, we just don't know when or what he completely looks like (all we know is that he likes purple clothing, has 2 mouths and "was probably it"
- [[Spoiler:Completely correct, aside from the "looking like he was salvaged from the others" bit.]]
- Confirmed, in that he DOES appear in the game, we just don't know when or what he completely looks like (all we know is that he likes purple clothing, has 2 mouths and "was probably it"
- It's William.
- Only if you don't count Golden Freddy as one and the same with Fredbear.
Because why not?
- Or maybe it says "Property of me".
- Maybe Fredbear's a gangster and said Pro me
- Or maybe it says "Property of me".
- Jossed, Golden Freddy's the other suit. And Springtrap wasn't from Fredbear's, he came from a restaurant in between that and the FNAF 2's location.
- Not Jossed. Golden Freddy being a springlock suit and Springtrap's origin are completely fan speculation, which obviously doesn't mean that it's canon.
- Phone Guy flat out states that Springtrap is from "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza" in FNAF 3. You can't say they renamed the original place because really, what would be the point of establishing a different name for the place if it gets the same name later on? And about Golden Freddy, he never moves, is golden and can't be found on the map. I.e. the suit was in suit mode, looks like Springtrap and is probably hidden off in the safe room. As for why he just teleports into the office, I don't know, maybe all the animatronics can do that and just don't bother or haven't figured out how to. It's not like they know their in-game roles or something.
- Confirmed, Golden Freddy is Fredbear.
- Not Jossed. Golden Freddy being a springlock suit and Springtrap's origin are completely fan speculation, which obviously doesn't mean that it's canon.
- Jossed, the coding says Fredbear.
- Explains his color in the new teaser.
- Jossed. He's back and cuter than ever.
Jeremy was the Bite victim. He survived it, but ended up with severe brain damage and trauma. He spent time recuperating, but he doesn't have a clear memory of what happened, so he got the job at Fazbear Fright as a way to try and get his memory back. It only kind of worked; he sees the Phantoms (something that only he would be able to hallucinate), but he still can't really remember. The fourth game will be from his perspective, as he deliberately makes a bunch of terrifying animatronics and sets them to chase him through an empty building, trying to either get to the bottom of all this shit, or die in the attempt.
◊ Isn't Fredbear- Well, not in the first game, anyway. In the second game, both Withered Freddy and Toy Freddy had similar four-hole round buttons on their chests, though smaller in proportion. Given Fredbear's presumed history as a precursor to those models, larger buttons are a distinct possibility — they would add to the appearance of a teddy bear.
- Withered Freddy and Toy Freddy didn't have four-hole buttons, but BB and the Puppet did...
- So? The coding says Fredbear and while there is evidence the Puppet was at the first diner, there is zero evidence that BB was, and this looks nothing like either.
- What's precluding BB from being a part of Fredbear's Diner though? In fact, it would make sense if BB was always a part of the Fredbear experience that eventually got kicked out as the time's changed. Which would be why he's in 2, but not in 1.
- The reason he's not in 1 is because, for starters, he would be useless. Then take into consideration the fact that he lacked a withered form. If he was always an important character, why was he left out of a SISTER LOCATION!?
- Withered Freddy and Toy Freddy didn't have four-hole buttons, but BB and the Puppet did...
- Freddy never having buttons can easily explained as "they just decided to not give the next Freddies buttons". The previous teaser and coding of the current one also straight out say Fredbear in them.
- Jossed, Springtrap is coming back as well.
- Jossed, it shows Springtrap, Jr.
- Marionette was likely at Fredbear's as well, since the first child was killed outside of it and possessed Marionette.
- That's probably true. If it were a more recent pizzeria, the others would be there feeding the children as well - but instead, Fredbear is the only one there.
- Jossed, Phone Guy himself says the company was trying to contact the original owner.
- I don't really believe anything he says (except the rare times he tries to verbal backspace, implying he said something he didn't mean to), so I kind of disregarded that as a lie. Especially since "contacting the original owner" doesn't sound like something Fazbear Entertainment would actually do. Keep in mind that this company regularly hires night guards (many of whom don't make it past the first night or two) for the sole purpose of distracting the animatronics (essentially they're hired for slaughter), cleans up their murdered bodies which includes replacing the carpets, waits a month to file missing persons reports, gives these guards laughably limited means to protect themselves (up to and including limited power, a flashlight they need to ward off most of the animatronics with no spare batteries, a costume head that fools less than half of the animatronics, and ridiculously shoddy surveillance equipment), fires the guards for trying to make their environment safer, and give them almost no warning as to what their job truly entails. They would rather spend hundreds of dollars replacing carpets and doing intensive cleaning than they would rather let themselves be shut down, or simply turn down the murderous AI. As a result, I sincerely doubt they tried to contact the original owners.
- So apparently, Mike, Jeremy, Fritz, the Bite of '87, the Spring lock suits, security guards, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, The Puppet, Purple Guy, the company, pizza, life, and Phone Guy himself don't exist. Thank you obviously right god who I must now kill myself over, you are the most greatest person ever for missing my point.
- All ranting aside, Scott himself has stated that Phone Guy is an Unreliable Expositor — in short, you should take everything he says with a grain of salt and check it against known facts. For instance, Phone Guy has never once mentioned the missing children, though he did briefly mention an investigation in the second game. Some of what he says is true — the advice to check the screens while listening to his messages in the first game, for instance — but some of it is confusing (his advice regarding Foxy in the first game), while some of it is questionable (he's our only source for the management's "boilerplate") and some is just downright wrong (starting from "It's really not that bad").
- Er... if I missed something or was rude, I'm sorry... what point were you trying to make other than exactly what you said? There's no reason to think a company like Fazbear Entertainment would try to contact the original owner about things going wrong when they obviously try to keep it as hush-hush as they can unless it's totally unavoidable (such as a public incident). "Anything" is a hyperbole. I think he tells a lot of half-truths and outright lies (such as that they're trying to stuff you into a suit because they think you're an endoskeleton. He's been with the company for years and should know this isn't the case since the player can find out in less than a week, and yet it seems that being immobile when the power goes out makes Freddy take longer with killing you which he advises against). The only times I feel I can believe him is when he sounds as if he's reading off something (such as about the Spring-Lock suits and the way the company deals with dead guards), or when he brings up what seems to be indisputable facts (like that the animatronics exist, the company going through guards like Kleenex, and the fact that there were incidents in the past) because what he says is backed up outside of his dialogue by things in the environment and the newspapers.
- I don't really believe anything he says (except the rare times he tries to verbal backspace, implying he said something he didn't mean to), so I kind of disregarded that as a lie. Especially since "contacting the original owner" doesn't sound like something Fazbear Entertainment would actually do. Keep in mind that this company regularly hires night guards (many of whom don't make it past the first night or two) for the sole purpose of distracting the animatronics (essentially they're hired for slaughter), cleans up their murdered bodies which includes replacing the carpets, waits a month to file missing persons reports, gives these guards laughably limited means to protect themselves (up to and including limited power, a flashlight they need to ward off most of the animatronics with no spare batteries, a costume head that fools less than half of the animatronics, and ridiculously shoddy surveillance equipment), fires the guards for trying to make their environment safer, and give them almost no warning as to what their job truly entails. They would rather spend hundreds of dollars replacing carpets and doing intensive cleaning than they would rather let themselves be shut down, or simply turn down the murderous AI. As a result, I sincerely doubt they tried to contact the original owners.
- Foxy's missing his snake tongue, but they look about the same otherwise.
For starters, it would not be the first time in history that a murderous rampage began with the death of somebody close to the culprit. Additionally, if the theory is true, the death could even have been an accident — maybe Bonnie was responsible for the Bite of '87, and the victim was Purple Guy's kid. As a result, Purple Guy snapped and started killing other children, probably because his own kid couldn't play or run around anymore. Hiding them inside the animatronics was just the most convenient thing to do.
We know from the Phone Guy that the victim of the Bite of '87 survived for at least a little while after the attack. This could explain why Bonnie would still be haunted after the events of FNAF3: Purple Guy's child didn't die right away, but was either taken off life support or died from something unrelated to their injury later on. This could mean that Bonnie has either been repossessed or was shared by two ghosts during the first three games.
If it's Purple Guy's kid, they could be coming back to run amok like Daddy did, and probably for the same reason: They were bitten, but it took forever afterwards for the restaurant to finally shut down. Maybe Purple Guy Junior doesn't feel as though the shutdown was punishment enough, especially considering it wasn't due to the Bite (as far as we know.)
- This makes this troper wonder that perhaps the Ghost you control in Night 5's minigame in FNAF 3 is Bonnie's ghost which would explain why he was walking up to Purple guy because the child recognised his father. He was trying to get his affection by approaching him only to end up causing Purple guy's accidental yet justified demise in the Springtrap suit.
- After watching the trailer, this troper thinks there is now more evidence supporting the theory that Purple Guy's kid will be involved. Bonnie has quite a bit of screentime and gives us the obligatory jumpscare at the end, and Springtrap seems to have been replaced by or remanifested himself as Plushtrap. Look closely at the way Plushtrap moves. He jumps up into his little chair almost the way a small child would after being caught trying to move from a time-out spot. Could Plushtrap be the Purple Guy's ghost? Or is he Purple Guy Junior haunting a new object and sending out... whatever in the hell the Nightmares are?
- As for why Purple Guy Junior would go after whoever is in this house, particularly the child... Who's to say Purple Guy Junior was not bullied? In fact, who's to say the child in FNAF 4 did not somehow cause Purple Guy Junior to be bitten? Even if it was an accident, if Purple Guy Junior is anything like their pops...
- Actually, the player is the one that's the Purple Guy's kid, but he is just dreaming up Nightmare Bonnie, so it's sort of confirmed.
It's a story that gives out the entirety of the storyline, covering up most if not all remaining questions. If the movie takes place in the continuity, and is not a simple adaptation of one of the games, then it will leave a few questions for the film to answer.
Now hear me out. I thought about this looking at the teaser, when brightened up Springtrap looks in tact compared to what we actually see in Springtrap, its also hard to make out how many digits it has but it looks like it only has 4 (it might have 5). It could either possibly be Springtrap before the Purple Guy incident. Or it could be another version of him that eventually became Shadow Bonnie
If not either due to its size which I admit may joss this.. Another theory is that this possible plush toy Springtrap is similar to the mini Freddys as seen in Nightmare Freddy.
- God, I wish.
This is one of those Depending on the timeline theories but perhaps if its a sequel then a Plush Mangle will show it in its Toy Foxy incarnation.
- Confirmed for Mangle in the Halloween Edition when it's fully retreated into the closet, as it is just a clone of Nightmare Foxy, who does the same.
The Nightmare Animatronics are either genuine night terrors or the spawn of some eldritch force (likely Fredbear, going by the teasers), and your character is the boy who will eventually grow into the child murderer we all know and fear. Whatever happens in this game is enough to traumatize him to the point that he's compelled to commit his atrocities when Fredbear's Family Diner becomes Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.
- A few details to note in support of this theory is that the color purple is prominent in pictures of the child's bedroom. Specifically on three objects, a fan (a trademark of the series), a toy phone (supporting theories that Purple Man and Phone Guy are one and the same), and a toy robot (a humanoid figure that looks like it could be wearing a badge, like the Purple Man in the FNAF 2 minigame. It would also explain why Plushtrap is the "extra" mechanic, a la Foxy and the Puppet before.
- Acually, it's his son. Purple Guy's appearance as a child was actually revealed in a troll game of all things.
- Alternatively, he won't actually be gray and be brown (or golden) in the final game.
- Freddy was a character at Fredbear's. They were probably a father/son duo.
- Confirmed, though the real ones only show up in 8-bit.
- ...you do realize Springtrap (as in the suit) is just an older version of Bonnie, right? And even if he was a separate character, why would they name him SPRINGTRAP!? And why are there wires on him? He wasn't like that when he was used, that came from damage, killing Shadow Bonnie and being untouched for so many years.
- The separate character's name is Spring Bonnie; probably a Donkey/Cranky Kong situation with the modern Bonnie character. He looked normal during use, though he was golden. The game's protagonist is the purple man's son. End communication.
Not the animatronic, the actual suit the endoskeleton was in, explaining why his ears are the same but he looks in surprisingly better condition. Whoever bought Springtrap from the auction couldn't do much with the endoskeleton, so just did what they could with the severely burned suit, namely making a doll out of it. Unfortunately for them, the act of doing so transferred the Purple Man's soul into it.
- He's so so small and Purple Guy isn't even in the suit yet.
Mini games will still be in the game, and the final one will be the childrens' spirits manifesting and dragging his into the afterlife. Perhaps the player will also have to finish Springtrap off somehow to get this ending.
- Jossed by the new trailer.
- Confirmed!
For those implications that these monsters are all in the players head as well as how people see them due to the murders and other horrors, yet if these were Animatronic's made by the company they would not look the way they do in the teasers.
Its dawned on me that perhaps the Animatronics we actually see will be their FNAF2 incarnations normally but when they get to you and kill you they will appear in their nightmare appearances during the Jumpscare.
"Terrible things come in small packages", anyone? That, or Plushtrap was the first Toy Animatronic and gave the idea to make more of these.
- That doesn't make sense though as, in-universe, he isn't a separate character, just the first Bonnie. Still, I predict the toys will appear. Maybe we can finally see withered versions of them.
- For the longest time this bite has been nothing but a Noodle Incident. Fredbear will be the one who TRULY did it, and Fredbear will have found a way to blame it on our poor OUT OF ORDER Foxy.
- Alternatively, Fredbear was the one that got blamed.
- CONFIRMED. Fredbear is the one who caused it, although not by choice.
- ACTUALLY, JOSSED. This was a different bite.
- Alternatively, Fredbear was the one that got blamed.
- Well, without too much spoilers, I got the Downer Ending part, let's see what the DLC holds.
- No, it's just the same downer ending but sp00pier.
The trailer takes place in someone's house. One of the taglines is, "What have you brought home?" It's very possible that, as mentioned above, Plushtrap is the remains of Springtrap. How did he get in your home? You won him, you fixed him up, and now you've brought the Fazbear curse upon yourself. The Purple Man might be gone, but Springtrap himself isn't happy that the nightmare hasn't truly ended yet
- Confirmed, though I'm not sure Freddy's mini-me mechanic follows this pattern.
- Confirmed!
That does raise the question of why someone would bring home something from the auction, but there are a few reasons:
- The bite victim is implied to have survived. It could be that whoever brought it home was trying to jog their memory of the event. There are some obviously cruel reasons why, but it could also be a last resort to try to find who was involved with the murders and catch the child killer.
- Whoever bought it knows the bite victim, whether or not they're still alive, and they bought things at the auction in hopes of getting a clue as to what happened those years ago.
- It's meant to be a memento, or a reminder of a happier time before all of this happened. Contrasting the first reason, it could be the victim only remembered the terrible parts, and the person who bought Springtrap and (possibly) turned him into a toy was trying to soften that trauma the victim experienced.
- Semi-confirmed. It's a different bite.
Even child murderers have loved ones, and we know that the murderer never got caught in life. It's possible he had a wife and kids who never knew what he did back in '87, and his family knew that for one reason or another, he loved the Freddy Fazbear franchise. They purchased Springtrap as a way to remember the man/father who disappeared all those years ago, and don't realize they've literally brought him home again...and the other ghosts are angry that he gets to see his family again, and they don't.
- This is the Purple Guy's house and his two sons, but it takes place long before '87.
The most obvious reason is it would allow for Scott to reprise his role. But there are some other reasons, such as Phone Guy being a die-hard fan of the franchise. That alone would explain Plushtrap having a special place in the house. There's also the chance that, however slim, he survived the encounter on Night 4, because we know of the existence of the spring suits. Phone Guy also worked for Freddy's for years, and knew about the murders, and everything else that goes on there, and he helped deny it and cover it all up. Who's to say some inner demons aren't catching up to him? It's also a good reason why he'd actually buy something at the auction, even knowing the history of Fazbear Entertainment. He's a die-hard fan of the Fazbear characters. There's also the fact that he worked there longer than any of the other guards, and being there for years probably did a lot to his mind night after night of facing the characters he still somewhat loves and adores (since he told Mike to "show them a little respect" on his first night there), but still rightfully fears them.
The reason the Animatronics are after you this time is because the Purple Man's soul in Springtrap wants to play a new game. It's called hide the soul.
Tying into the above, instead of cutting to black, he'll tackle you to the ground it will be implied he's transferring his soul into you.
This theory isn't to be taken seriously, but considering the fact that he had nightmares about Bonnie...
And he (maybe accidentally) brought his work home with him. The most likely candidates are Jeremy (for obvious reasons, considering the "87" hints) and Mike (because of the hallucinations and more obvious haunted happenings in the first game), but whoever it is, their nightmare isn't quite over yet.
With the minigames in 2, there were the five children who were killed during the week of the murders. That one was taken out in 3. Then there's the "Give Cake" minigame with the Crying Child (which is heavily hinted to be the Puppet) that was killed by the Purple Guy in the car. And since he's still around, this is the homeowner.
- Sort of. The Child's father is Purple Guy.
Going off of the (waaaay) above theory about the Puppet not moving on, realizing what it did, and having a "Not So Different" Remark moment regarding the murderer.
In the third game, if it appears on the cameras, it has a reflection, hinting that it's real. It also has a nasty habit of somehow avoiding things that should have destroyed it, so it's very likely it survived the Fazbear Frights fire. Keeping that in mind, it also does not appear as a mask in the Good Ending, hinting that it hasn't moved on.
Right now, the Puppet is essentially a being that no longer has a cause, but it's also responsible for several murders of its own, such as all the security guards who were never lucky enough to get fired. It could be atoning for what it did by aiding someone who is now suffering for its actions. It also could very well count as an Arch-Nemesis to Springtrap/The Murderer/Plushtrap, which in and of itself could put it into a more heroic role by trying to help you endure the nightmares and keep Springtrap from destroying you.
Keeping with its theme, maybe music temporarily summons it to keep you safe. Of course, music also marks your position to the others, so use it wisely.
Going a bit off of the above, the Marionette is haunted by the Crying Child, didn't pass on like the others, and is more or less a foil/nemesis/etc. to the Murderer. Keeping this in mind, consider everything that happened because of the Marionette's actions. This is the Marionette's or at least, the Crying Child's, Hell/punishment for its own wrongdoings, and chance to redeem itself of its wrongs if it can make it through this test of horror and finally defeat the Murderer once and for all.
- Confirmed. It's set in '83.
There are a few variations on this theory, but the bottom line is that Pink Guy and Purple Guy are two different people, and Purple Guy isn't actually the killer because the killer was caught on tape and convicted. This game follows the real killer after he's finally released from prison, and the ghosts are tormenting him by forcing him to have nighmares of being trapped in a place that should be safe, being attacked by horrible versions of creatures that should be friendly and loveable.
- Kind of. Nightmare Fredbear still attacks, but a plush Fredbear is the player's best friend.
Someone in the house is trying to rebuild the animatronics, either on their own or were paid to by Fazbear's Fright before the fire. After the fire, the unfinished Nightmare Animatronics are left but were completed enough to have their autonomous mode... and lack the "be nice to children" programming of their predecessors.
- Confirmed that it belongs to the owners of the diner, but the Nightmares really are just that.
Over the years, various Fazbear security guards have snapped and begun killing children thanks to the influence of something. Springtrap will be nothing compared to the true Big Bad.
- Scott is actually doing this idea in Security Breach, although the abomination is the soul of Springtrap/William/Purple Guy.
Plushtrap (who is a reconstructed Springtrap) gave them a new life as monstorous machines (similar to how the Puppet let the dead children's souls live on inside of the main four bots and Golden Freddy) so that they can aid him in killing children. Why would they listen to him? Plushtrap tells them about the kids haunting the same animatronics that ended their lives, causing them to despise children (spending at least three decades as spirits that couldn't make it to the afterlife would drive anyone crazy, so they don't have any qualms with hurting younglings) Fortunately for Plushtrap (and unfortunately for you), they can't tell children apart, similar to how the dead children couldn't tell adults apart when they were possessing the animatronics, so they're after you, an innocent child, in a quest for vengeance.
Phone Guy, who possesses one of these beasts (though which specific member is left ambiguous), will give you a speech each night, telling you about the danger and threat of death you'll be facing.
This one is a bit for fun.
"What game do you think you're playing?"
The child invented this whole story as a game. It could be because they were the bite victim: the characters they used to admire are now monsters. So the child created the stories to cope and try to put the animatronics in a reverse role: the bots never meant to attack them, someone made them do it. A bad person who hates children. And they might briefly recall such a bad person, since the bite happened the same week as the murders, and they aren't remembering everything right, and might even believe the bad man wanted them too, but they got bitten instead of dying.
There's a few hints in the child's room: a phone, a purple robot with a security badge, and the fan. We also know the various Freddy's characters were made into plushies and action figures (the originals versus the "Toy" models for the purposes of playtime). The child puts themselves as the security guard and uses their toys to tell this story about how the "bad" animatronics are really good, but have no choice because of the bad man (represented by the purple robot), and a nice man on the phone calls at night to try to help, but he doesn't always no how.
The stories just took a life of their own, and took what the child started with and made them more sophisticated.
So the child thinks they are simply playing a weird, twisted game to work out their inner demons about what happened when they were bitten (because it was mentioned the victim lived). Whether it's their own mind making it real, or their stories just becoming very vivid nightmares, and either way, the child is trying to find a way to make the "bad" animatronics "good" again, and to make the story have a happy ending.
- Half-confirmed, Half-jossed. It is a theory.
- Scott will return to voicing Phone Guy and use his trademark, "Hello? Hello?".
- If not as the guy on the phone, perhaps even a ghost for Phone Guy's case.
And instead of squeaking when clicked on it'll say "Hello? Hello-hello?".
- Called it.
- Actually, jossed. The game is set in 1983. As evidenced by Fredbear still being in order and the TV.
- That hasn't been confirmed. for all we know, Fredbear being there could've been a temporary thing due to the toy animatronics not working or for that kid's birthday, since his favorite probably is Fredbear. As for the TV, it could just be a re-run.
- As evidenced by the fact the place in this game is clearly not the one from 2 and the fact Scott replaced the site's 87s with 83s shortly after 4 came out. Oh, and The Movie will show the bite of 87, despite confirmation it won't be a direct adaption of the games and be an unseen event within the canon. Make of that what you will.
- Most probably JOSSED, as Scott had hinted during a livestream that the first three games are all just a nightmare, in the child's coma-induced mind.
- Actually, jossed. The game is set in 1983. As evidenced by Fredbear still being in order and the TV.
- Jossed; the house holds a secret underground facility which contains Freddy, as seen in game 5.
- Confirmed, though Plushtrap may not be real either.
- Most likely Mike's. Remember the Toreador song, and how it hints that there's someone Mike loves to go home to after every night of hell? It's not a romantic love. It's love for his child, who is haunted by the nightmares that follow him home from work!
- It's most likely William's kid, though Mike is the player's older brother. Perhaps the Protagonist's ghost stuck around and haunted Michael's home, eventually making amends with the former torturous being that had to reform after his praks became the tool of demise? Don't quote me on that.
- Semi-confirmed. Purple Guy is the homeowner, but this took place before he killed any kids.
- They're actually not there at all.
- Jossed.
The first four or perhaps five nights are Plushtrap/The Purple Guy having his fun and playing around, but when the protagonist manages to survive long enough, he decides to go all out, perhaps accessing the rest of Springtrap's body if just parts of him were used to make Plushtrap or just becoming a demonic manifesting like the other Nightmare Animatronics by ditching his Plushtrap body. If you are allowed to move freely around the house, Nightmare Springtrap will be an Advancing Boss of Doom and all you can do is run when you see him coming until dawn. If not, he'll be extremely hard to actually escape.
One of the obvious features we can make out in the trailer is how you can move about the house and/or into different rooms, which many people have alluded to playing "Hide and Go Seek" with murderous animatronics. However, the trailer asked the question of "What game do you think you're playing". Depending on the context of the question, it can also mean that someone is playing more than one "game". The Hide and Go Seek Connotations are obvious, but what about the game "Red Light, Green Light", where the person playing the stoplight has to look when saying "Red Light" and other players are supposed to stop moving or they're out of the game?
In the Trailer, after a few flashes of the flashlight, there is something there JUST out of sight, not to mention Nightmare Chica leaving after you shine a light on her from peeking behind a door, but also how Nightmare Foxy was inside the closet, and yet didn't attack you when shining your light on it. Plushtrap also gets back up onto it's chair when the light is shown on it. Contrast to the end of the trailer, where Nightmare Bonnie gives a jumpscare...in absolute darkness when you were looking away.
In short, not only will there be a "Hide and Go Seek" like mechanic to this game, but your flashlight, which will serve as a defense mechanism in a twisted version of "Red Light, Green Light", where darkness lets the nightmare animatronics move as they please and that using the flashlight uses up battery life like in the first two games. Enjoy!
- Original WMG poster back. Given the Steam page for this game does state that shining your light on them does ward them off if they're far away, but they'll attack you if you shine the light right at them when they're in front of you, this seems to be played straight. Think about it, if the stoplight in Red Light, Green Light, and a "player" catches up to the stoplight without said stoplight warding them off first (catching them moving farther off), then the stoplight is the one who loses the game. In FnaF 4, the child is the stoplight, and the Nightmare Animatronics are the players...and it's definitely game over if the Nightmares are close enough to get to you.
It's simple: When the children's ghosts left in peace, their spirits left the suits-but not the AI. And the AI is now in full control, and murderous.
Think about it. The ghosts and the computer systems have been coordinating for decades. By being in there for so long, the supernatural presence interfered with the AI well enough that the AI is not only far gone from its original programming, it is now homicidal.
However, the computer is not like Skynet and self-aware. It simply believes it is doing what it thinks it is meant to be doing-killing things.
But if the suits were destroyed in the third game by Purple Guy, how is it in a new shell? Easy-the computers were salvaged at the wreckage and sold, alongside the broken, one-of-a-kind suits or any of the Toy masks that could be salvaged.
However, the person who bought the computers also brought Plushtrap home, which very well could be made from what remained of Springtrap. Plushtrap, still having supernatural abilities, was somehow able to create new animatronics with the computers and wrecked suits, which are now fully bent on killing the child that is home alone, because the ghosts are no longer there to convince the AI to leave other kids alone.
- It's happened before to when we didn't know of a few characters Scott didn't have in the trailer. Why not again? We may find out about them from Phone Guy (if alive?) or Phone Dude (if he's also alive).
- They have not appeared yet in the "nightmare" the child is having.
- Not very stealthy, but he did make a 5th game.
- The person who bought all this is a fan of Freddy and the gang from back in the day and he was planning to fix up the old animatronics but isn't finished, hence the beaten to shit look. He also has a kid and unfortunately he works nights so after he leaves... purple guy starts hunting his favorite prey, with a combination of the real animatronics and all the fears he can pull out of this kids mind like the hallucinations from 3.
- With significant brain damage, a severe case of creep animatronic PTSD, and a screwed up emotion center he's stuck in a world of horrors at every turn. He doesn't have any gadgets because the year is only 88 or 89 now that he's out of the hospital and recovering at home. The things he's seeing aren't entirely real but numerous average things from his home that his brain is misinterpreting or his fearful mind is imagining as monsters. For example the monster in the closet, the thing at the end of the hall just out of sight, scary things under the bed. But something is real. The Springtrap doll and the Purple Man who's in the house on assignment from the company to silence the kid so charges can't be pressed in his name.
Note: This is based on the headcanon that purple guy works for the company and they know exactly what he does. It's his fee for being their less-than-legal enforcer. He pushes old family diners into bankruptcy with a child murder scandal so that Fazbear Entertainment can take over their characters, he gets unprofitable establishments shut down with missing kids and foul smelling machines so the restaurant chain owners can use their new security at another as better PR. If you do not agree with this adjust the last sentence accordingly.
- The main nights take place before FNAF 2 and the house it takes place in is abandon after the game till it is bought by Fazbear Entertainment and turned into the dinner in FNAF 1. The extra night takes place after FNAF 3, after Fazbear's Fright burned down, and you are the security guard from FNAF 3 going back to make sure that Springtrap is gone for good only to find out Springtrap is badly damaged but alive (now called Nightmare Springtrap) and you have to survive for one more night at the Fazbear's Fright. Which at the end you put Springtrap down for good. The security guard from FNAF 3, is also the child from FNAF 4, and Mike Schmidt from FNAF 1.
- Jossed.
- Jossed. He stays in his room, probably because he can't sleep anywhere else.
- this idea popped in my head randomly and made a disturbing amount of sense. The best known user of Psycho power (from street fighter) is M. Bison/ Vega/ Dictator. He is known for glowing purple, having a disturbingly huge smile, and being a puppy punting maniac. He also was a repeat offender of mind rape, possession, and body hopping. He has literally expelled the good part of himself from his body. It's never stated that the Psycho Drive is powered by a forsaken child, but considering it can only be utilized by beings of pure evil, dead children souls probably do a good job of feeding it. These new nightmare animatronics are all being controlled by the purple guy through psycho power. You are the good part of his soul. And he's come to get you back. For bonus points, Dictator's outfit is kind of similar to an officer/ security guard.
- It would make sense after three male main protagonists that the 4th one would be female, she just happens to the youngest as well. Besides, the children's room in the game looks a bit feminine (though that's just this troper's opinion.) It would also be an interesting twist since probably no one is expecting the protagonist to be a little girl.
- I was talking a friend who expressed their concern about FNAF 4 and it possibly retconning a lot of the events and what we were told by Phone Guy in the first 3 games. While we don't know if Phone Guy was being a reliable narrator or not! It will be hard to tell until we see for ourselves what is in store.
- I also feel as if the fanbase will NOT take kindly to the retcons.
- Surprisingly, there aren't too many retcons. The only big, story changing one is possibly the Bite of 83.
- I also feel as if the fanbase will NOT take kindly to the retcons.
The obvious argument against this is the different colors of both the bots and the hats and bow ties. But what if Fredbear is a (literal) negative version of Golden Freddy? Purple is the opposite of yellow, and it should follow that white would be the opposite of black, but in this case, however, Dark Is Evil is in play. It's also reversing Golden Freddy's hat/tie color to Fredbear's fur color and vice-versa. We already know the Purple Is Powerful ties in this series generally mean association with something evil (Purple Man, the Puppet's tear streaks, etc.), so keeping that in mind, Fredbear's black coloring is Golden Freddy's gold, except it's now tainted. The purple hat and tie mean that the Purple Man now has control over it.
Essentially, Purple Man corrupted the Golden Freddy/Fredbear suit to match his own dark soul.
- You can read the text here It'd be pretty awesome to see Scott adding it, but it appears unlikely. Still a nice thread the OP made which would make great sense.
- Confirmed. He released the game on July 23, 2015.
- Please lord Gabe-I mean Scott!
What if that the Purple man we see in the Give cake and Foxy mini games was the original purple man I.E the child's father who after being convicted from the murders (only to be potentially released due to lack of evidence) gave his son the Bonnie plush toy (essentially plushtrap but under its original name) the child would begin to have nightmares and eventually be the victim or witness of the bite of 87, if the latter perhaps the boys father was the victim finally causing the boy to snap and declare to destroy the Fazbear name one way or another.
There once was a man who had a sick obsession with death. He was cruel and sadistic, but hid it behind a mask of silent stoicism. He loved to see others suffer, to hear their screams. Men, women, but above all, children. He roamed the country, taking odd jobs whenever he could to survive and constantly changing his name to avoid the authorities, leaving a trail of blood wherever he went. However, he grew tired of constantly dodging the authorities. He wanted to be able to commit his crimes without worrying about getting caught. So one day, he took a job as a security guard, under the name "Jeremy Fitzgerald".
"Jeremy" felt it was the perfect job for him. The role as a security guard meant he had access to the darkest corners of the pizzeria, and as a children's restaurant he would have no shortage of victims. He studied the camera layout, learning where and how would be best to commit his crimes. It was tough, however; probably in response to his crimes elsewhere, the animatronics were fitted with some form of criminal recognition system and were somehow able to sense his intentions. Despite this, he learned their patterns and avoided them until he was ready. Donning a Golden Bonnie costume, he led five children into a backroom where no one would find them, murdered them, and hid their bodies within the animatronics.
Congratulating himself; the bodies would never be found, and even if they did there was no way to identify that he was responsible thanks to his careful memorisation of the camera layout. But then strange things began to happen. The older animatronics began to stalk him, despite them not having the same recognition system the others did. But most disturbing of all was the visions of a golden version of Freddy Fazbear, performing impossible acts before the killer's eyes such as vanishing and reappearing before him. As he stayed at the pizzeria, he became more and more stressed as he tried to make heads or tails of the bizarre things he was seeing. He was transferred to the day shift, but on his first day one of the animatronics lunged for him. He avoided it at the last moment, but another person there that day was caught and had his frontal lobe bitten off, much to even "Fitzgerald"'s horror.
Traumatised by what he had seen, he handed in his resignation and moved far away, changing his name to Mike Schmidt, but he continued to see that hideous Golden Bear in his nightmares. Decades passed, and the old pizzeria shut down. However, a new one in the man's area opened up, and needed a security guard. Deciding that the last occasion was simply a hallucination from stress and guilt, he took the job and prepared to repeat the same actions. However, despite the years he found himself once again being hounded by the animatronics, this time feeling as if they were fully hunting him. And of course he once again began to see the Golden Freddy, taunting him with messages of "It's Me." Trying his best to wrap his head around what was happening, he toughed the job out for six nights, even going so far as to access the robots' AI to understand how they acted the way they did. Unfortunately, this didn't go unnoticed by the management, and he was fired.
By this point, the killer was beginning to sweat. Even after all these years, those animatronics still had it in for him. He asked himself, how? Did someone reprogram them to recognise him?Was there some form of proof that linked him to the crime? Paranoid, he waited until the restaurant shut down once more and used one of the keys he had kept to enter the building. Used to the machines' behaviour, he carefully led them to a room they were unable to recognise and took each one apart. He breathed a sigh of relief, believing that the nightmare was finally over, until he found himself face to face with the spirits of his past victims.
Fear overtook him and he tried to escape, but was trapped. As he backed away from the ghosts, he spotted his old costume, Golden Bonnie, in the corner of the room. Believing that perhaps seeing him in that costume again could intimidate them, he slipped it on and began to laugh. However, as he did the springs in the costume gave way, releasing the parts inside and springing out into his body, bursting his skin, breaking his bones and comdemning him to a slow death. The spirits vanished, as the mocking laughter of Golden Freddy filled the room.
But although he died, the killer was not gone. Somehow, much like his victims, his spirit became bonded to the animatronic, granting him new life as a monster like the ones he had created. Despite this, he was unable to leave the boarded up room he had unwittingly trapped himself in. What little humanity and sanity he had slowly rotted away, leaving behind only the hatred and bloodlust that had led him to this state. Once more, decades passed, until the room and his new self was discovered. He was made a part of a new attraction based on the horrors of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza chain called Fazbear's Fright. The man soon found himself dubbed by a new name; Springtrap. Awaking each night, the Purple Man acted upon the instincts he knew best and began to hunt down the only presence in the attraction he knew of. As he did, the spirits of the children he murdered returned, acting to try and frighten the security guard away with hallucinations, but the new guard bravely ignored them and confused Springtrap with the sounds of children. Even the Golden Freddy occasionally appeared, watching Springtrap and the guard's battle from the shadows. Eventually, the guard managed to unravel the past of Freddy's pizzeria and Springtrap's true identity, and he burned Fazbear's Fright to the ground with the murderer inside.
As the flames consumed his mechanical shell, the killer found himself confronted with the Golden Freddy one last time as it revealed its true identity; it was not a ghost, but a demon, sent to punish the murderer for his crimes. Taking the murderer's soul, he dragged him down into Hell were a very special punishment was devised for him.
The murderer found himself trapped in the body of a child. Armed only with a flashlight, he was tasked with surviving as demonic parodies of the animatronics he used as murder weapons continued to stalk and haunt him. A smaller version of his animatronic self was seated, laughing and taunting him from the shadows. It didn't matter whether he was caught or not. This would be his punishment for all eternity, to experience the same pain and fear that he inflicted on so many children, for all eternity...
Think about it. There has to be a Phone Guy/instructor for every game, and this seems to be the most likely excuse.
- This troper thinks that he will be called "Phone Dad".
If you recall, in Five Nights At Freddy's 3's ending, if you brighten the image, you can see Springtrap's head behind the Freddy Fazbear bobblehead. It was said that anything that survived the fire would be sold at an auction. Chances are, the protagonist's father bought the head and brought it home, and that is what's causing the nightmare animatrons to manifest in the house at night.
They were implied to be harmless to children, but given your implied stature in this game, this leaves us with only 4 possible options:
- You are an adult midget. You may be short, but the animatronics can still realize you're not an adult either.
- These are not the same animatronics we've seen in the last 3 installments. Or at least, they're not possessed by the murdered children, otherwise they wouldn't be after you, right?
- Your house is a hammerspace and all the walls simply appear bigger than what they really are.
- Scott is a Trolling Creator and Trailers Always Lie.
- The animatronics are actually All Just a Dream fueled by a series of unfortunate incidents at Fredbear's.
It's a Dream (or Nightmare in this case), so it wouldn't necessarily be out of the realm of possibility to have the toy telephone have some form of self-awareness and represent Phone Guy for this game, voice and all.
- Plushtrap must be kept from the "X" marked on the floor in front of him, or else he will kill the player. This is done by shining the flashlight on him, causing him to jump back onto his chair. At the same time, however, you need to not watch him too much, because if the counter reaches 0…
Note the old-fashioned "nickel lights" on the ceiling, the lack of light switches, the very basic furnishings — it's possible the entire setting is a strange form of dollhouse, with you trapped inside.
- Or, alternatively, the player playing with the dollhouse, and the entire game is because some twisted little girl made some horrifying toys to play with.
This would explain why both this and FNAF 2 have red as their color motif. They both take place in the 80s.
- Confirmed!
It would also fit with all the Nightmare on Elm Street references that have been made. What happened in those movies? A child killer got burnt alive, and came back to get his revenge. Who did he target? Not the people who burned him, but their children.
- FNAF World. Need I say more?
Will be Phone Guy's "Hello? Hello hello...?" from the Murderer.
Phone Guy loved the Frazbear Franchise and stated Foxy was his favorite Animatronic. Given that the kid seems to hate Frazbear stuff and the father scaring the kid in a Foxy mask, this could mean that it's Phone Guy. Not to mention that Scott said that Phone Guy knew much more than he let on. What if this game lets us know how much Phone Guy knows?
...if this is true, and if this child does get murdered, what if the reason Phone Guy stayed was to catch the murderer of his own son?
He was actually a good father and a decent person, but he had to leave him with a babysitter while he did some errands. The sitter was extremely abusive, scaring him with a Foxy mask and locking him away in his room. Later on, the child would become the Bite of '87 victim, causing Purple Man to go into a DEH, before snapping and going on a murdering spree - since everything that reminds him of his child now makes him balls-out insane.
