An Undeniably Canon Five Nights at Freddy's Timeline is a series by the ooftroop
detailing the definitely canon story of Five Nights at Freddy's, a humorous take of the series' story. Initially a single 20-minute video released in 2021 titled "An Objective & True Five Nights at Freddy's Timeline", it was remade in 2022, with multiple expansions on periods the original video glossed over.
See Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.
Tropes Found In AUCFNAFT:
- Accidental Murder:
- The Crying Child trips the springlocks on Harold's suit while running away from a smoking Fredbear, crushing him to death.
- William accidentally death stared Charlie and Andrew, killing them.
- Adaptational Jerkass:
- The Crying Child deliberately killed Trevor with a springlock malfunction, acted like a scared crybaby to guilt trip Michael, and snuck a ton of +4 cards into their Uno deck.
- William is extremely spiteful here, beating up Foxy because he hated the pirate, making Ballora good at ballet to one up his ex-wife, and most of all, going on a child killing rampage to send a message to Henry for not paying him back those five dollars.
- Henry is shown to be more of a Pointy-Haired Boss, with many of Fazbear Entertainment's corrupt and/or incompetent practices stemming from him. He fires Michael from the 1993 Freddy's for body odor (and hesitates to hire him for Circus Baby's for the same reason), fits the Funtime animatronics with shock collars to limit their freedom, and is unwilling to pay Ballora for handling finances.
- Adaptational Villainy:
- Phone Dude in this account deliberately made Fazbear's Fright as much of a fire hazard as it was just to kill both William and Henry, all for their mistreatment of his father's favorite character, Foxy.
- Michael Afton becomes the new owner of Fazbear Entertainment by the end of Part 2, with the final shot indicating that he intends to cover up the franchise's past tragedies with a VR game (using Springtrap's circuit boards), start an animatronic delivery service, and build the Mega Pizzaplex.
- Adaptation Deviation: A lot of it, for the sake of comedy.
- The Bite of '83 was much less lethal than in canon, as Fredbear was designed with rubber teeth specifically to avoid this sort of thing. The media pushed the blame of Harold and Trevor's deaths onto Fredbear and the bite anyways, effectively ending his career then and there.
- The main four animatronics actually originated from the Fredbear and Friends' cartoon, with Freddy, Bonnie and Chica originally being named Leopold, Theodore and Mirabella. William shoved Foxy in the corner of the establishment and kicked him in the kneecaps before breaking him even further out of sheer spite.
- William killed Charlotte entirely by accident, when in an angry rage at Henry and trying to get in the parlor. This is when he got the idea of killing the other five children to send a message to Henry.
- Fazbear's Fright's poor wiring is because it's actually a death trap set for Henry and William by Phone Dude, who plotted to kill them for their poor treatment of Foxy; the experience gives Henry the idea for his own pizzeria firetrap. The Phantoms are also semi-existent entities whom William eventually bribes to mess with Henry.
- Michael Afton escapes Henry's final fire, and becomes the new CEO of Fazbear Entertainment, kickstarting the business's post-FNaF6 activities.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: After a couple of years wandering through the forest, Ferdinand Von Bernard returns to Hurricane to try and take revenge on his creators. He only manages to threaten Michael, though, before giving up.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: Although many characters are drawn normally, characters with stylized minigame sprites such as William, Henry, and post-Ennard Michael, retain these brightly-coloured designs (with William even turning a darker shade after being kicked in the shins by Cassidy). This includes canonically unseen characters like Phone Guy, Phone Dude, and Eleanor Schmidt (who is purple like William, but with blonde hair). Word of God states that William and Eleanor are canonically white, and just perceived as purple by the audience, implying that (besides Michael) everybody has normal, human skin in-universe.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: The yellow guy in Midnight Motorist is not William or Henry as many have theorized, but rather Dave Miller, father of Andrew.
- Berserk Button:
- William HATES Foxy. When forced to make an animatronic version of him, he deliberately smashes it up not long after and makes no efforts to repair it, and later on he ensures to make Funtime Foxy as generic as possible so nobody would care about them.
- William also dislikes the Fredbear and Friends original animatronics in general, believing Bonnie doesn't deserve the name of Spring Bonnie's successor and refusing to work with any grizzly that isn't golden. He doesn't show any specific scorn for Chica, though. Henry is able to live with it though, but it's implied he's not too fond of replacing his original animatronics with them either.
- Black Comedy: All over the place, given its status as a comedic retelling of a series filled with murder and horrific accidents.
- Brick Joke:
- William tells Michael to stop making up fake younger brothers, and sends him off to engineering school. He later returns with an engineering degree.
- William angrily states that Henry still owes him that five dollars when telling Michael to disable the animatronics' A.I.s. In Part 2, learning Henry gave Michael five thousand dollars before giving him five dollars enrages William enough to try and kill Michael, and Michael drops a five dollar bill in front of a picture of William and Henry when preparing to take over the Freddy's franchise.
- William applied a layer of defense against springlock failure in his Spring Bonnie suit by duct taping the locks. When returning to the suit to protect himself against the missing children, the duct tape falls off, allowing the leaking water to snap the suit shut, killing him.
- Harold the Janitor dies from a springlock failure in a spare Spring Bonnie suit, and is promptly forgotten about. When Springtrap returns to Fredbear's decades later for said spare suit, he finds Harold's corpse still maimed inside.
- When Ferdinand Von Bernard goes on a rampage through Hurracaine, you can see Phone Guy holding Phone Dude while running away.
- Butt-Monkey:
- The Jeremy Fitzgeralds always suffer some sort of facial trauma in one way or another.
- William always ensures to beat up or deface Foxy in some way.
- Cloudcuckoolander: William really got into the role of Spring Bonnie, and often wore the suit as he did important paper work. He also thought that killing five kids was worthy punishment for Henry failing to pay him back five dollars, and found it best to spite his ex-wife by making Ballora better at ballet than her.
- Character Shilling: Played for Laughs.
The Scrappy Balloon Boy is hailed as the hero of the story, but he only shows up for a little while to shut down the '87 location. - Chekhov's Gag:
- The triggering event for Afton's murders is Henry borrowing five dollars from him. Years later, Henry would plan to sell Lefty to Michael for five dollars, only for Michael to salvage it first for five thousand, leading William to try and kill his son in fury.
- Eleanor is initially mentioned to be an accountant and not a ballerina, meaning William designing Ballora to one-up her in this field is a bit strange (even if it worked.) Later on, when Henry takes over Circus Baby's, Ballora helps him with the finances. This means she isn't given a shock collar with the other animatronics, which leads Henry to sacrifice an engineer to get one on her, giving Michael the perfect opportunity to get himself a job there.
- After the Crying Child disappears, Michael is sent off to engineering school. He later returns with the right knowledge to mess with the AI of the animatronics and get a job as an engineer at Circus Baby's.
- Complexity Addiction: After taking over the finances of Circus Baby's, Ballora subsequently quits once she finds out Henry isn't going to pay her. She easily could have just paid herself, but
Word of God says she needed Henry to allow her upfront or else it wouldn't be as satisfying. - Composite Character:
- Ferdinand Von Bernard is not only the first version of Freddy, although not the one involved in the Bite of '83, but he's also Nightmare Fredbear.
- Golden Freddy is possessed by two spirits, like his self in Fazbear Frights. One of them is Andrew, the other is Cassidy, both being the spirits of Golden Freddy in the two continuities.
- Cool and Unusual Punishment: Among the other dangers in Cassidy and Andrew's Ultimate Custom Night hell for William, their ultimate punishment for him was leaving him completely without any allies... except for the most recent version of Foxy, forcing him to eventually learn to appreciate the animatronic.
- Creator's Pest: In-universe with Foxy, as William absolutely despised the fox pirate character, see an entry of Berserk Button above.
- Death Glare: A very, very literal interpretation of this; with the sheer rage in William's heart after finding himself five dollars short of dinner, his mere stare results in the death of anybody he looks upon. After accidentally killing Charlie, he realized he could send a message to Henry by killing five more children with his death stare. He accidentally kills Andrew as well thanks to Power Incontinence though.
- Decomposite Character: Dave Miller is an actual character in this continuity, as opposed to his name merely being an alias of William's, in that he's the yellow guy in the Midnight Motorist minigame. William later picks up Miller's name when looking through newspapers to get back into Freddy's.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation:
- The Crying Child didn't get his head crushed by Fredbear this time around, as William and Henry gave their animatronics rubber teeth as a safety feature. Instead, he simply tells Michael that he never existed, before fusing with him and erasing himself from everybody's memories.
- While William's victims have ambiguous ideas on how they died (fans came up with getting stabbed or strangled), getting literally death stared isn't one of them.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Every other motive. One glaring example is the inciting incident that made William want to murder children; He was getting Carl's Jr. on the way back from work, after having lent Henry five dollars, and discovered the five dollars was exactly what he needed for the meal. And according to the visuals, it wasn't even because he didn't have five dollars; he just didn't want to go through the effort of breaking a twenty dollar bill.
- Early-Bird Cameo: William's Spring Bonnie pajama suit bares the design of Glitchtrap.
- Enemy Mine: After realizing Fazbear's Fright was a plan to kill both of them, William/Springtrap and Henry put aside their mutual hatred for each other to ensure Phone Dude doesn't get to kill them before either of them do.
- Even Evil Has Standards: William may be a crazy amoral bastard, but he immediately pulled the plug on Circus Baby's when Baby killed Elizabeth. He then begins using the animatronics again on a whim to get revenge on Henry.
- Expy: Ferdinand Von Bernard's omnipotent form is a photorealistic bear colored like Fredbear and given the golden bear's accessories, much like The Real Fredbear.
- Faux Horrific: The Crying Child accidentally kills Harold running away in terror from Fredbear smoking a cigar. According to the narration, he was scared at the blatant ignorance of his respiratory health. Keep in mind, Fredbear is a robot.
- A Fate Worse Than Death: Subverted. The sheer agony of the springlock failure keeps William alive and, presumably, immortal, but he's one with Spring Bonnie now, and he takes it in stride because of it.
- For Want Of A Nail: Henry asking William for a mere five dollars. William would later be five dollars short of a dinner at a Carl Junior's, which would lead to him snapping and going on a child killing rampage to spite Henry.
- Freeze-Frame Bonus: Several scenes have easily-missed background details, such as newspaper clippings and background events. Some of these act as Brick Jokes, foreshadowing, or Shout Outs.
- Funny Background Event: The family portrait of the Aftons is three pictures long; One for William's family, one for his variably elongated neck, and one for his actual face.
- Fusion Dance:
- The Crying Child fuses with Michael, turning his skin a bit paler.
- Cassidy and Andrew are both stuffed in the Golden Freddy suit.
- The spirits of the children William murdered all pile into Balloon Boy because he's seen as the coolest.
- Out of sheer rage of William making Ballora to spite her, Eleanor fuses with the animatronic, rendering his efforts for naught.
- After Fazbear's Fright burns down, four of the five missing children possess Ennard (itself a fusion of the Funtime animatronics), causing Eleanor to throw Elizabeth out.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: The rest of his family disappearing under various circumstances had taken a mental toll on Michael's sanity by the time part 2 rolls around. By the start of the Sister Location part of the timeline, he's so desperate for companionship that he believes a random to do list William left on the fridge is a direct order from his father, and by Pizzeria Simulator, he attempted to replace William with a lamp bearing a picture of his face, to no success.
- Instant A.I.: Just Add Water!: William and Henry somehow turned Ferdinand Von Bernard into an omnipotent sentient being by adding illusive audio disks.
- Loophole Abuse: After being banned from starting a new business by the local government following the closure of Freddy's, Henry takes over Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental; no-one said anything about him being unable to run an existing business.
- Meaningful Rename:
- Harold tries to do this, but he couldn't write his new name down as he never learnt how to spell. So everybody just calls him "Shadow Bonnie" instead.
- Molten Freddy calls themself that for their molten mask, which they took from Yenndo after setting him on fire.
- Misery Builds Character: This is William's excuse why he has Michael disable the 93's animatronics' AI. And also because Henry never paid him back those five dollars.
- Money Dumb: Without William (or an animatronic possessed by his wife), Henry is woefully inept at managing finances, and drives himself to bankruptcy multiple times. He even pays Michael $5000 for salvaging Lefty, as opposed to selling it to him for $5 like he intended.
- No Name Given: The Crying Child. Word of God says it's because the name the fandom used most kept changing during development, so they just opted not to refer to him by name.
- Obliviously Evil: Willaim bribes Shadow Freddy into starting a conga line with the 93's animatronics to lure them into the safe room so he could dismantle them.
- Overly Narrow Superlative: Ballora was made to be better at ballet than Eleanor. Eleanor doesn't know ballet.
- Pretentious Pronunciation: The Ooftroop calls this out preemptively in their description for Part 2"Isn't the town's name pronounced Hurri-cuhn?"
Utah does not deserve my respect. I will say the word Hurricane like a normal person. - Refuge in Audacity: Henry manages to reclaim the old 83's location by trespassing on the property to spruce the place back up, mainly because nobody else wants to go near it and the police just let him be. He ends up being successful, due to the bear population in Utah dwindling.
- Related in the Adaptation: Phone Dude is the son of Phone Guy in this timeline.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Cassidy and the other spirits tormenting William in his Ironic Hell all ditch Andrew once William actually beats them, having grown tired of his inflated ego.
- Self-Imposed Exile: Upon seeing a burning Foxy head after his plan to assassinate William and Henry fails, Phone Dude goes into exile from society for the rest of his days, having disgraced his family line for harming his father's favorite character.
- Shout-Out:
- Popgoes the Weasel is the mascot arrested for the missing children incident.
- Saul Goodman is seen as William's lawyer in Part 2.
- Scraptrap walking away from a garbage can with his charred Springtrap suit inside recreates Spider-Man's famous "Spider-Man No More" panel.
- Among the many managers Henry hired before Michael is Shaggynote , who was fired for being too scared of Scraptrap to bring him in.
- Another of Henry's ill-fated managers (the one killed by Baby), bears the noticeable blue/pink heterochromia and purple/white suit of Dawko'snote Author Avatar.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Andrew gets particularly proud of himself during the Ultimate Custom Night section of the timeline despite Cassidy doing most of the work, even calling himself "The one you should not have killed." Cassidy, unamused, immediately ends the partnership once William escapes the nightmare, with the rest of the spirits following suit.
- Small Role, Big Impact: The Crying Child disappears early on in the first half, but him killing Harold and Trevor caused the company's first controversy, the Bite of '83.
- Spared by the Adaptation:
- Rather than being scrapped with the other Toy animatronics, Toy Freddy retires to become a livestreamer. A newspaper in Part 2 then reveals he died of unspecified causes on March 4, 2023.
- Double Subverted by the Crying Child; At first he was perfectly fine after being bitten by Fredbear. Then he reveals, to spite his older brother, he never existed to begin with.
- Michael Afton actually escapes Henry's fire here, as opposed to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, which implies he remained to die.
- Jeremy Fitzgerald II was the victim of the Bite of '87, as many fans have theorized, but his frontal lobe grows back before long, leaving him fine and well afterwards.
- Spoofed with Their Own Words: Several plot details are left completely untouched if all it takes to inject humor is saying them aloud. For example, Henry selling Lefty for five dollars, but then rewarding Michael with five thousand for salvaging it instead.
- Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
- In this series, William and Henry actually designed Fredbear with a safety feature specifically to prevent him from causing any damage to anything with his mouth, that being rubber teeth, thus averting the Bite of '83. It was the media shifting the blame onto Fredbear that made the Bite of '83 as infamous as it was.
- The Crying Child killed Harold and Trevor, and it's not long before the police show up, as nobody bothered to deal with their bodies, which were just lying there for everybody to see.
- William fails to recognize that children will often ignore people when they tell them not to go near something they want, and pays for it dearly when Elizabeth gets herself killed by Baby, ignoring his attempts to tell her to keep away.
- Henry is eventually barred from opening a new business by the local government, owing to his restaurants being met with missing children, murder, dangerous accidents, bankruptcy, and horrible tasting pizza.
- A brief Freeze-Frame Bonus shows that Elizabeth can't spell very well. Considering she was only a small child by the time she died and possessed Baby, then spent decades without any sort of education as either a robot or crawling pile of wires, it's only natural her spelling isn't the best.
- Take That!: William's hatred of Foxy was entirely for the sake of a potshot at Funtime Foxy, being the creator's least favorite Funtime animatronic.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Shadow Freddy leads Andrew to the safe room, just as William is killing the kids, which leads to his death.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Michael becomes desperate for his father's affection during the years the latter was trapped in Freddy's, although he gets over it when they finally reunite in Henry's pizzeria only for William to seemingly not care about seeing his son again.
