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* BittersweetEnding: Lucia manages to defeat the Mimic and escape the pizzeria. However, everyone else is dead, and assuming the epilogues are canon to the games the Mimic will be reactivated eventually.
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* MeaningfulName: "Hope," obviously, represents a loss of hope when the Mimic kills her in front of the other teenagers. "Lucia" also means "light."
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* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Prior to her experience with the Mimic, Lucia already was prone to darker and more macabre thoughts.
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* HairRaisingHare: the Mimic is described as having antenna shaped like rabbit ears. As it doesn't appear with them in ''Ruin,'' it's likely these were put into the epilogues just to associate it with Burntrap.
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* OurSlashersAreDifferent: The story follows basic slasher tropes, with the difference being the Mimic is simply a badly-programmed robot and not a human antagonist.
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* SoundOnlyDeath: For Jayce, as Lucia and Kelly hear him falling from the vent and being grabbed by the Mimic.
* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality: The first characters to die are background construction workers. We then lose Nick, the OutOfFocus character, and then Hope, the blonde cheerleader; Joel and Wade, the [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]]; Adrian, the LovableJock; Jayce, the StereotypicalNerd; and finally Kelly, leaving Lucia as the socially-awkward virgin final girl.
* SortingAlgorithmOfMortality: The first characters to die are background construction workers. We then lose Nick, the OutOfFocus character, and then Hope, the blonde cheerleader; Joel and Wade, the [[JerkJock Jerk Jocks]]; Adrian, the LovableJock; Jayce, the StereotypicalNerd; and finally Kelly, leaving Lucia as the socially-awkward virgin final girl.
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* StockSlasher: The Mimic is a heartless, guile killer with a preferred method of death and stalking tendencies who ends up chasing after a group of trespassing teenagers.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Mimic was programmed to rip apart human-shaped objects, and it will not rest until it's gotten every last one.
* SuperPersistentPredator: The Mimic was programmed to rip apart human-shaped objects, and it will not rest until it's gotten every last one.
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* TeenHorror: The majority of the epilogues feature a bunch of high-schoolers who get trapped in the Pizzaplex with the Mimic. Only one makes it out alive.
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* TransformationHorror: Upon seeing the Mimic start to shift and change, Lucia and Kelly are horrified, and Kelly panics and tries to run.
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* UrbanLegends: The events of the previous ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' games are chalked up to be these, letting Fazbear continue their sinister operations.
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* AloneWithThePsycho: When Lucia goes into the costume room, in order to break all of the costumes so the Mimic can only get into the Springlock suit, she realizes that the Mimic is already there. If she runs, it will catch her, so all she can do is continue breaking the costumes until she finds it.
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* TheCallsAreComingFromInsideTheHouse: The teens hear a desperate plea for help from the radio, making them think someone else is there with them. It's only the Mimic, trying to lure them into the open.
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* ClingyCostume: The Mimic crawls into the dog Kelly inhabits, literally crushing her into a paste and walking away still in the bloody suit. Later, Lucia traps the Mimic inside a Springlock suit.
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* DwindlingParty: Each member of the teens is killed off one by one until Lucia is the only one left.
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* HideAndSeekHorror: A good chunk of the epilogues is the teens desperately trying to hide from the Mimic, who, as we know from "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]]," ''loves'' hide-and-seek.
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* HostileAnimatronics: Wouldn't be a ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' story without one! Though, technically, the Mimic is only an animatronic endoskeleton, and not the full thing.
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* ItWasThereTheWholeTime: The Mimic likes to hide in rooms and wait a while before pouncing. The first time is when it kills Hope, having hidden in a costume while everyone rushed to find her. It culminates in the story's climax, when Lucia realizes that the Mimic is in the room with her, but if she reacts, it will kill her, so she has to continue her work as if she doesn't know it's there and hope that she can escape in time.
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* ObliviouslyEvil: In a short Mimic [=POV=], we find out that the creature literally ''is'' just following its programming, trying to figure out how best to dismember the human-shaped objects as part of its job. It rips apart a Plushbaby the same it does to the humans, because it has the same shape.
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* SilentAntagonist: The Mimic is able to speak, but rarely does so; it only speaks once to Gil and the construction workers before silently killing them all, and only speaks to the group of teens through a radio while pretending to be human.
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* TheBait: Jayce uses himself as bait to lure the Mimic into an enclosed storeroom.
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* CannonFodder: The original construction team runs in upon hearing Gil's screams, and serve as the next ten corpses for the Mimic.
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* CreepyBasement: The old Pizzeria was intended to be ([[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach and will later become]]) the basement of the Pizzaplex, left as a memorial to old Freddy's locations. It's now abandoned and covered in blood as the Mimic lurks.
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* DeathTrap: Lucia recognizes the springlocks on an old jester costume, and decides to trap the Mimic inside of it in order to keep it trapped.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: A lot of characters end up standing stock-still in horror as they watch the Mimic rip people apart. First, the other Fazbear construction workers when the Mimic first attacks. Then, Hope watching Nick get beheaded. Finally, the rest of the teens as Hope is dismembered.
* DeerInTheHeadlights: A lot of characters end up standing stock-still in horror as they watch the Mimic rip people apart. First, the other Fazbear construction workers when the Mimic first attacks. Then, Hope watching Nick get beheaded. Finally, the rest of the teens as Hope is dismembered.
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* UpCloseWithTheMonster: Lucia ends up getting extremely close to the Mimic as she tries to springlock it. When she finally succeeds, she goes up to its twitching body and shuts it off.
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* AbusiveParents: A throwaway line reveals that Wade's dad is physically abusive.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: While the Mimic doesn't get on top of it, he literally builds a pile of body parts as part of its [[GoneHorriblyWrong bad programming]].
* BloodierAndGorier: Unlike the previous series' Stitchwraith Stingers, in which the only deaths were either of ghosts or of minor characters who die quickly and bleed black Agony, these epilogues are absolutely ''brutal.'' The Mimic rips every victim to shreds, and more than once the people nearby end up drenched in their friends' blood.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Any character who witnesses the Mimic's attacks ends up drenched in blood. Lucia gets to be the main one, as she was closest to Hope when the Mimic attacked and thus ended up covered in the girl's remains.
* BloodSplatteredInnocents: Any character who witnesses the Mimic's attacks ends up drenched in blood. Lucia gets to be the main one, as she was closest to Hope when the Mimic attacked and thus ended up covered in the girl's remains.
* BuriedInAPileOfCorpses: Wade, at one point, hides within the dead bodies so that the Mimic won't see him.
* CorpseLand: The Pizzeria's dining room is full of the torn limbs of the Mimic's victims.
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* DelayedReaction: Both Nick and Hope take a good minute to realize Nick's arm has been ripped off. Nick, in shock, simply stares at the wound until the Mimic comes for his head next.
* DismemberingTheBody: The Mimic was programmed to take the limbs off of endoskeletons to make them easier to move. It starts doing it to its human victims, too.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Recap:]] ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'': ''The Epilogues'''''\\
'''I. Lally's Game:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexFrailty Frailty]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexLallysGame Lally's Game]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexUnderConstruction Under Construction]]\\
'''II. HAPPS:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexHelpWanted Help Wanted]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexHapps HAPPS]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexB7 B-7]]\\
'''III. Somniphobia:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexSomniphobia Somniphobia]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexPressure Pressure]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexCleithrophobia Cleithrophobia]]\\
'''IV. Submechanophobia:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexSubmechanophobia Submechanophobia]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexAnimatronicApocalypse Animatronic Apocalypse]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 1]]\\
'''V. The Bobbiedots Conclusion:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexGGY GGY]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheStoryteller The Storyteller]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 2]]\\
'''VI. Nexie:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexDrowning Drowning]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]\\
'''VII. Tiger Rock:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMontyWithin The Monty Within]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBleedingHeart Bleeding Heart]]\\
'''VIII. B7-2:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexB72 B7-2]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexAloneTogether Alone Together]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexDittophobia Dittophobia]]-]]]]]
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-> But being alone in an abandoned pizzeria, sharing the death-filled place with the torn and scattered remains of kids who, though not exactly friends, were familiar to Lucia, was nothing like hanging out alone in her room. This kind of alone felt like the ultimate isolation. Lucia was locked inside an abandoned building with a creature whose sole purpose was to find and kill her. No one knew she was here. She was alone. The only person who was going to help Lucia was Lucia.
Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex has begun construction, and everyone in town is buzzing about what it could mean for their economy. Lucia isn't too interested, though; she's heard [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted the horror stories associated with the brand]] and doesn't want to have anything to do with it. But at the carnival with another group of kids, when the group decides to sneak into the construction site and see what's there, she goes along. The teens soon find a mysterious building, apparently an old Freddy's Pizzeria that they are planning to build over and memorialize. There's only one way in, and they take it... only to find it filled to the brim with ripped-apart human bodies. Their way out? Blocked. Their cries for help? Unheard, at least for the rest of the night. And it becomes very, very clear that they're not alone, and whatever killed all of those people is coming for them next.
The epilogues from ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'' (referred to sometimes in fanon as the Mimic Epilogues) are included in every book, hidden behind the "About the Authors" page. Unlike [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights the previous series]]' [[Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers Stitchwraith Stingers]], these epilogues only connect a few of the other shorts, with most of the story focused on explaining the workings and behavior of [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFrightGeneration the Mimic]], who would [[CanonImmigrant later appear in the games]] as a major antagonist; as such, the story is incredibly connected to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' and its ''Ruin'' DLC. The Pizzeria setting is also highly likely to be the same as ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator.''
The stories that do connect to the epilogues are "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheStoryteller The Storyteller]]," which introduces the Mimic's creator and its integration into the Pizzaplex system; "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]," which provides the entire backstory of the antagonistic robot, and "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]]," which also features the Mimic as a now-digital antagonist.
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* AbandonedArea: The entire Pizzeria, following the events of ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator.'' By the time the teens break in, it's also been abandoned by the construction workers due to the Mimic's rampage.
* ActionSurvivor: Lucia isn't any sort of trained fighter, just a teenage girl who got thrown into a horror movie situation. She manages to make her way through, though, by planning ahead and keeping her wits about her.
* AIIsACrapshoot: When brought into the Pizzeria, Gil programmed the Mimic to take apart the endoskeletons it saw in order to make cleanup easier. Unfortunately, the Mimic AI either couldn't differentiate between endoskeletons and people, or didn't care. (Similar to [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game's animatronics]].) The sixth epilogue implies that it is the former, as it spots a Plushbaby and rips it apart due to its human-like shape.
* AllForNothing: Lucia, Kelly and Jayce take the desperate attempt to trap the Mimic by using Jayce as a lure. They trap the Mimic in a room, but Jayce is unable to escape and dies. Then, only a few minutes later, the Mimic simply escapes through the vents.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Adrian and Hope have been dating for a while, and Adrian's only got eyes for her. (At least until she dies.) Wade also has a huge crush on her, and gets confused at the fact she won't date him.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Lucia and Kelly both fit the description, with both being shy and awkward loners.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Lucia definitely has some kind of African heritage, as she is specifically described with kinky black hair that she wears in an afro. She may be mixed or light-skinned, though, as when frightened Jayce describes her face as being "white," though that could be artistic shorthand to describe her fear.
** Jayce himself never gets a described ethnicity or skin color, but Lucia states that he looks like a "male version of her," implying that he may also be Black.
* AnArmAndALeg: The Mimic's method of murder.
* AssholeVictim:
** Gil reprogrammed the Mimic solely so that he wouldn't have to do work, and thinks very highly of himself as a genius that everybody should listen to. The Mimic rips his arms off, and Danny describes the screams as the most terrifying thing he'd ever heard.
** Joel was a {{Jerkass}} who liked to bully people and didn't care about anyone but himself. He still got a pretty brutal death, though.
* BadassBookworm: Lucia prefers reading to talking to people, and is very knowledgeable in a lot of areas, especially robotics. She also becomes quite the badass upon being thrust into this situation, able to tear herself away from the Mimic and actually take it down in the end by beating it with a pipe.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Right before using himself as bait for the Mimic, Jayce suddenly kisses Lucia. She's surprised and thrown off.
* BlackAndNerdy: Lucia falls into this trope, being of African descent and having a huge interest in books and robotics.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hope's main friend group features her as the blonde, Kelly as the brunette, and Nick as the redhead.
* {{Bookworm}}: As mentioned above, Lucia, but also Kelly, who greatly enjoys nonfiction.
* BraidsOfAction: Kelly wears a long braid down her back.
* BreakTheCutie: Danny, the sweet MommasBoy from the first epilogue, is absolutely traumatized by watching the Mimic kill eleven people in front of him in such a brutal way, and all he can do at the end is keep running.
* TheBully: Joel.
* BullyMagnet: It's stated that Jayce ''would'' be this if it weren't for his close friendship with popular Adrian. Still, the school bullies look down on him, something that's not lost on him.
* TheCameo: A bunch of Plushbabies can be found in the Pizzeria storage room. The Mimic rips one apart.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The Mimic's appearance, role in the story, behavior and where it lives all but spell out that it eventually becomes who we know as ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach Burntrap]]''. How it is connected to William or how canon the stories are is still ambiguous however. When it appears in the ''Ruin'' DLC, it doesn't appear to resemble Burntrap in any way, or its appearance in the books for that matter. However, it's heavily implied that the Mimic lost its rabbit features after Lucia tricked it into entering a springlock jester costume at the end of the epilogue storyline.
* ChildhoodFriends: Adrian and Jayce; Hope and Kelly.
* ClassPrincess: Hope is the popular and beautiful head cheerleader, who's also incredibly kind and loving.
* CommonalityConnection: Lucia and Kelly bond over being social outcasts who enjoy robotics and learning.
* ConstantlyCurious: The reason that both Lucia and Kelly are so smart is because they just loves to learn from books.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Adrian with both Jayce and Lucia; Hope with Kelly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Mimic's method of killing is to slowly rip off each of its victims' limbs, ending with the head, so they are alive and in pain until that happens. Nick got off easy by getting his head ripped off early. Joel, trapped halfway through a fan that's only paused for a moment, ends up sliced into pieces by it as the Mimic leaves. Kelly got a somehow gets the ''worst'' death, as the Mimic climbs into the costume she's occupying, literally crushing her body and bones into a bloody paste.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Joel and Kelly are both curious as to what's inside of the Pizzaplex construction site, and Lucia wonders if it'll connect to the mysterious rumors of Fazbear's past. So they enter into a dangerous, abandoned Pizzeria at night, and get trapped there with a murderous animatronic.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: A throwaway line reveals that Wade's dad is physically abusive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Kelly and Lucia do this quite a bit, and even Wade gets a few moments.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Both Adrian and Hope are extremely popular and attractive blondes.
* ExtremeDoormat: A lot of the kids just go to the Pizzeria cause they don't wanna say no to Joel. Hope goes so that Kelly won't be left alone with the football players, and Adrian goes because Jayce wants to impress Joel and Lucia.
* FailedASpotCheck: More than once, the kids walk into a room the Mimic is in, and don't realize until too late.
* FieryRedhead: Energetic cheerleader Nick.
* FinalGirl: Lucia, who is the only person to make it out of the Mimic's rampage, manages to shut it off, and escapes the Pizzeria by clawing her way through a bathroom window.
* FireForgedFriends: Lucia, Kelly, Adrian and Jayce become quite close due to their traumatic and high-pressure circumstances.
* ForcedToWatch: Both Jayce and Lucia are forced to do nothing but watch as their friends are brutally killed in front of them, lest they be next.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the fifth ''Tales From The Pizzaplex'' epilogue, the Mimic fakes a distress signal from someone else trapped in the underground pizzeria, luring the teens to it. While unimportant at the time, this is exactly what the Mimic does in ''Ruin.''
* FriendlessBackground: Lucia had never really had friends prior to moving into the neighborhood. Adrian quickly befriended her, causing her to have a massive crush on him. While trapped with the Mimic, Lucia also becomes close with Kelly, which ends in tragedy as Kelly gets crushed by the endoskeleton.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Joel. Even Wade, his nominal best friend, can't figure out why he hangs out with him.
* GirlNextDoor: Adrian serves as a male example to Lucia, who has been in love with him since she moved into town. She herself fits a lot of the description, being a bookish, quiet girl who wears vintage clothes and tries to stay out of teenage trouble.
* GivenNameReveal: Epilogue 4 is the first time the Mimic is actually named.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Mimic's eyes glow an eerie orange.
* GoodWithNumbers: Lucia's father taught her to do math equations in her head when she was tired, because math is emotionless and therefore calming. She started using this tactic whenever nervous, and as such is a math whiz.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[AmbiguousSituation It is not entirely clear]] to what extent [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Glitchtrap]] is connected to the Mimic, but it is heavily implied that Glitchtrap was created from scanning the Mimic's programming to make the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience". This would make it directly responsible for the events of ''Help Wanted'', [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vanessa turning into Vanny]] and everything that happened in ''Security Breach''.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: While trying to escape, Joel gets stuck halfway past a stalled fan. Once the Mimic leaves and the electronics start working again, he's literally sliced in half.
* HateSink: Joel is a cruel bully who is desperate to leave the other kids behind to save his own skin. He even abandons his only friend Wade to be killed by the Mimic with the thought that he might be able to get himself out.
* HopelessSuitor: Wade thinks that because Hope's the head cheerleader and he's the star football player, they should be a couple. Hope's not interested, though.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Lucia eventually attacks the Mimic with a lead pipe, beating the crap out of it until the Jester's springlocks go off.
* ItCanThink: At first, the kids think the Mimic is an ordinary killer robot. They're blindsided, however, when it imitates a human voice to lure them out.
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* JerkJock: Joel, a malicious and arrogant football player. Wade is this to a lesser extent, as he's mostly just following what his friend does.
* KillerRobot: The main villain of these stories is the Mimic, a terrifying shapeshifting endoskeleton with the strength and ability to rip people limb from limb.
* KillTheCutie: Kelly is described as cute and quiet, and she's usually shrinking behind her friends in social situations, then excitedly shines when she finds something she's interested in. The events of the story utterly break her, and she gets perhaps the worst death of all of the Mimic's victims.
* TheLeader: Adrian, who's quickly able to get the group together and help them make plans.
* LetsSplitUpGang: To be fair, they initially split into ''pairs'' so that nobody can be left alone, but Adrian does say that they should split in order to cover more ground, resulting in Nick being killed in front of Hope. Afterwards, Joel and Wade split from the group to look for their own way out, and later Adrian and Jayce separate from the girls in hopes of finding them.
* MechanicalAbomination: Mostly shown in the seventh epilogue, the Mimic's ability to fit into any costume makes it basically a shapeshifter, and Lucia and Kelly witness it leave a costume and take a more horrifying, spider-like appearance as it swaps around its limbs.
* MuderousMalfunctioningMachine: The Mimic was re-programmed just to take apart endoskeletons. Likely due to its violent backstory, the Mimic quickly moves on to ripping apart human beings instead.
* NerdGlasses: On Jayce.
* NewTransferStudent: Lucia, who moved in to the town very recently.
* NiceGuy: Despite being a popular jock, Adrian is nothing but kind to everyone, and very protective of his best friend, Jayce.
* NoFullNameGiven: Nobody in this series gets a surname.
* NoSocialSkills: For Lucia.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: While Lucia is comfortable in earlier epilogues hanging out with the more feminine Hope, in the last epilogue she reflects that she had never been a mainstream girl, and "had little patience for what most girls liked talking about– endless chatting about clothes and boys. She preferred reading a book to shopping and pretty much everything else."
* NotQuiteDead: One epilogue has the Mimic leap for Lucia, as Kelly runs off with Jayce. For a page or so, Jayce fears that Lucia's been killed by the Mimic. She shows up soon later, though, bleeding but alive.
* OutOfFocus: Nick doesn't get a lot of attention by the narrative, which is probably because [[SacrificialLamb he was there to die first]].
* TheQuietOne: Kelly has always been known as the quiet kid, and everyone's surprised whenever she talks. She opens up more as the attacks continue and she needs to keep the group calm.
* QuirkyCurls: Lucia's hair is described as untameable. She doesn't really like her curls, but keeps it in an afro-style as a tribute to her Nana.
* SacrificialLamb: Gil is the first person the Mimic kills in the epilogues, starting its AxeCrazy descent. Later, once the story really kickstarts, Nick serves as this as the Mimic gets to him first.
* SacrificialLion: Kelly; the last to die before Lucia takes down the Mimic, her death leaves Lucia completely and utterly alone.
* SanitySlippage: Kelly actually holds up pretty well throughout the epilogues until they hear Jayce die. That's when she completely breaks and goes into shock, trying to claw at the concrete to get out. When the girls are hiding from the Mimic, Kelly panics and runs, which causes the Mimic to see and kill her.
* SealedEvilInACanon: Lucia traps the Mimic in a Springlock costume, then flips the switch on its neck to turn it off.
* SequentialArtist: Jayce is really only interested in drawing, and keeps a sketchbook and pens handy on him at all times. This turns out to be a great thing for the kids, as he's able to draw a map of the location.
* ShrinkingViolet: Kelly. Early on, Lucia thinks about how she's heard Kelly be more social when she's alone with Hope, and wishes that she would talk more often.
* SlashersPreferBlondes: The second of the kids to get killed, ''extremely'' early on, is strawberry-blonde cheerleader Hope.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The Mimic kills Kelly in Epilogue 7 by crawling inside of the blue dog costume she was hiding inside. It then gets up with her corpse still in the suit and walks away.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Lucia really hates talking to people and isn't really good in public situations, Jayce is a StereotypicalNerd, and Kelly is painfully shy.
* SoleSurvivor: In the first epilogue, it's Danny, who manages to escape the Pizzeria as the Mimic is distracted by killing everyone else. After the teens break into the place, only Lucia makes it out.
* TheSpock: Kelly; after Hope dies and Joel and Wade split off, she is able to put her emotions aside and try to help everyone through their shock. She keeps up this exterior until it's just her and Lucia left, to which she has a breakdown.
* [[StealthSequel Stealth Prequel]]: The Mimic was not revealed to be part of the games' continuity until the release of the ''Ruin'' DLC, which happened very late into ''Tales''' run. As such, not a lot of readers knew it was going to be so heavily connected.
* TheStinger: All of these stories are placed after the "About the Author" sections of the book, making them a literary post-credits scene. The previous series ''Fazbear Frights'' had already used this format for [[Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers The Stitchwraith Stingers]].
* TeenGenius: Kelly, who is a ham radio nerd and ends up being extremely good with robotics.
* ThrillSeeker: Surprising the rest of the teens, Kelly is actually really interested in going to the construction site and exploring. She's really into exploring abandoned areas and tech.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kelly was the {{Tomboy}} to Hope's {{GirlyGirl}}.
* TraumaCongaLine: Everything that happens to the teens just gets worse and worse and more and more traumatic until Kelly literally has a breakdown... and then dies horribly, adding more onto Lucia's bucket of trauma.
* TraumaticHaircut: As the Mimic tries to grab Lucia, she manages to escape only because it grabs onto her hair and rips off a good chunk of it, nearly scalping her.
* TresspassingHero: All of the kids break into the Pizzeria to see what's inside.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Joel, for suggesting they sneak into the construction site and see if they can spot the new animatronics.
* VoiceChangeling: The Mimic is able to imitate a human voice over the radio in attempt to lure the teenagers out.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: A frustrated and heartbroken Lucia angrily tells Jayce that she'd rather he died with Adrian or in his place.
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[[WMG:[[center:[-'''[[Recap/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Recap:]] ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Five Nights at Freddy's: Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'': ''The Epilogues'''''\\
'''I. Lally's Game:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexFrailty Frailty]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexLallysGame Lally's Game]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexUnderConstruction Under Construction]]\\
'''II. HAPPS:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexHelpWanted Help Wanted]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexHapps HAPPS]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexB7 B-7]]\\
'''III. Somniphobia:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexSomniphobia Somniphobia]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexPressure Pressure]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexCleithrophobia Cleithrophobia]]\\
'''IV. Submechanophobia:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexSubmechanophobia Submechanophobia]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexAnimatronicApocalypse Animatronic Apocalypse]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 1]]\\
'''V. The Bobbiedots Conclusion:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexGGY GGY]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheStoryteller The Storyteller]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBobbiedots Bobbiedots, Part 2]]\\
'''VI. Nexie:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexNexie Nexie]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexDrowning Drowning]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]\\
'''VII. Tiger Rock:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMontyWithin The Monty Within]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexBleedingHeart Bleeding Heart]]\\
'''VIII. B7-2:''' [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexB72 B7-2]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexAloneTogether Alone Together]] | [[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexDittophobia Dittophobia]]-]]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hey! He went for the head.]]
-> But being alone in an abandoned pizzeria, sharing the death-filled place with the torn and scattered remains of kids who, though not exactly friends, were familiar to Lucia, was nothing like hanging out alone in her room. This kind of alone felt like the ultimate isolation. Lucia was locked inside an abandoned building with a creature whose sole purpose was to find and kill her. No one knew she was here. She was alone. The only person who was going to help Lucia was Lucia.
Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex has begun construction, and everyone in town is buzzing about what it could mean for their economy. Lucia isn't too interested, though; she's heard [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted the horror stories associated with the brand]] and doesn't want to have anything to do with it. But at the carnival with another group of kids, when the group decides to sneak into the construction site and see what's there, she goes along. The teens soon find a mysterious building, apparently an old Freddy's Pizzeria that they are planning to build over and memorialize. There's only one way in, and they take it... only to find it filled to the brim with ripped-apart human bodies. Their way out? Blocked. Their cries for help? Unheard, at least for the rest of the night. And it becomes very, very clear that they're not alone, and whatever killed all of those people is coming for them next.
The epilogues from ''[[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights Tales from the Pizzaplex]]'' (referred to sometimes in fanon as the Mimic Epilogues) are included in every book, hidden behind the "About the Authors" page. Unlike [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysFazbearFrights the previous series]]' [[Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers Stitchwraith Stingers]], these epilogues only connect a few of the other shorts, with most of the story focused on explaining the workings and behavior of [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFrightGeneration the Mimic]], who would [[CanonImmigrant later appear in the games]] as a major antagonist; as such, the story is incredibly connected to ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach'' and its ''Ruin'' DLC. The Pizzeria setting is also highly likely to be the same as ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator.''
The stories that do connect to the epilogues are "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheStoryteller The Storyteller]]," which introduces the Mimic's creator and its integration into the Pizzaplex system; "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTheMimic The Mimic]]," which provides the entire backstory of the antagonistic robot, and "[[Recap/TalesFromThePizzaplexTigerRock Tiger Rock]]," which also features the Mimic as a now-digital antagonist.
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!!Tropes related to the Epilogues:
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* AbandonedArea: The entire Pizzeria, following the events of ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator.'' By the time the teens break in, it's also been abandoned by the construction workers due to the Mimic's rampage.
* ActionSurvivor: Lucia isn't any sort of trained fighter, just a teenage girl who got thrown into a horror movie situation. She manages to make her way through, though, by planning ahead and keeping her wits about her.
* AIIsACrapshoot: When brought into the Pizzeria, Gil programmed the Mimic to take apart the endoskeletons it saw in order to make cleanup easier. Unfortunately, the Mimic AI either couldn't differentiate between endoskeletons and people, or didn't care. (Similar to [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 the first game's animatronics]].) The sixth epilogue implies that it is the former, as it spots a Plushbaby and rips it apart due to its human-like shape.
* AllForNothing: Lucia, Kelly and Jayce take the desperate attempt to trap the Mimic by using Jayce as a lure. They trap the Mimic in a room, but Jayce is unable to escape and dies. Then, only a few minutes later, the Mimic simply escapes through the vents.
* AllGuysWantCheerleaders: Adrian and Hope have been dating for a while, and Adrian's only got eyes for her. (At least until she dies.) Wade also has a huge crush on her, and gets confused at the fact she won't date him.
* AloofDarkHairedGirl: Lucia and Kelly both fit the description, with both being shy and awkward loners.
* AmbiguouslyBrown: Lucia definitely has some kind of African heritage, as she is specifically described with kinky black hair that she wears in an afro. She may be mixed or light-skinned, though, as when frightened Jayce describes her face as being "white," though that could be artistic shorthand to describe her fear.
** Jayce himself never gets a described ethnicity or skin color, but Lucia states that he looks like a "male version of her," implying that he may also be Black.
* AnArmAndALeg: The Mimic's method of murder.
* AssholeVictim:
** Gil reprogrammed the Mimic solely so that he wouldn't have to do work, and thinks very highly of himself as a genius that everybody should listen to. The Mimic rips his arms off, and Danny describes the screams as the most terrifying thing he'd ever heard.
** Joel was a {{Jerkass}} who liked to bully people and didn't care about anyone but himself. He still got a pretty brutal death, though.
* BadassBookworm: Lucia prefers reading to talking to people, and is very knowledgeable in a lot of areas, especially robotics. She also becomes quite the badass upon being thrust into this situation, able to tear herself away from the Mimic and actually take it down in the end by beating it with a pipe.
* TheBigDamnKiss: Right before using himself as bait for the Mimic, Jayce suddenly kisses Lucia. She's surprised and thrown off.
* BlackAndNerdy: Lucia falls into this trope, being of African descent and having a huge interest in books and robotics.
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Hope's main friend group features her as the blonde, Kelly as the brunette, and Nick as the redhead.
* {{Bookworm}}: As mentioned above, Lucia, but also Kelly, who greatly enjoys nonfiction.
* BraidsOfAction: Kelly wears a long braid down her back.
* BreakTheCutie: Danny, the sweet MommasBoy from the first epilogue, is absolutely traumatized by watching the Mimic kill eleven people in front of him in such a brutal way, and all he can do at the end is keep running.
* TheBully: Joel.
* BullyMagnet: It's stated that Jayce ''would'' be this if it weren't for his close friendship with popular Adrian. Still, the school bullies look down on him, something that's not lost on him.
* TheCameo: A bunch of Plushbabies can be found in the Pizzeria storage room. The Mimic rips one apart.
* CanonCharacterAllAlong: The Mimic's appearance, role in the story, behavior and where it lives all but spell out that it eventually becomes who we know as ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecurityBreach Burntrap]]''. How it is connected to William or how canon the stories are is still ambiguous however. When it appears in the ''Ruin'' DLC, it doesn't appear to resemble Burntrap in any way, or its appearance in the books for that matter. However, it's heavily implied that the Mimic lost its rabbit features after Lucia tricked it into entering a springlock jester costume at the end of the epilogue storyline.
* ChildhoodFriends: Adrian and Jayce; Hope and Kelly.
* ClassPrincess: Hope is the popular and beautiful head cheerleader, who's also incredibly kind and loving.
* CommonalityConnection: Lucia and Kelly bond over being social outcasts who enjoy robotics and learning.
* ConstantlyCurious: The reason that both Lucia and Kelly are so smart is because they just loves to learn from books.
* CoolKidAndLoserFriendship: Adrian with both Jayce and Lucia; Hope with Kelly.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The Mimic's method of killing is to slowly rip off each of its victims' limbs, ending with the head, so they are alive and in pain until that happens. Nick got off easy by getting his head ripped off early. Joel, trapped halfway through a fan that's only paused for a moment, ends up sliced into pieces by it as the Mimic leaves. Kelly got a somehow gets the ''worst'' death, as the Mimic climbs into the costume she's occupying, literally crushing her body and bones into a bloody paste.
* CuriosityKilledTheCast: Joel and Kelly are both curious as to what's inside of the Pizzaplex construction site, and Lucia wonders if it'll connect to the mysterious rumors of Fazbear's past. So they enter into a dangerous, abandoned Pizzeria at night, and get trapped there with a murderous animatronic.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: A throwaway line reveals that Wade's dad is physically abusive.
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Kelly and Lucia do this quite a bit, and even Wade gets a few moments.
* EveryoneLovesBlondes: Both Adrian and Hope are extremely popular and attractive blondes.
* ExtremeDoormat: A lot of the kids just go to the Pizzeria cause they don't wanna say no to Joel. Hope goes so that Kelly won't be left alone with the football players, and Adrian goes because Jayce wants to impress Joel and Lucia.
* FailedASpotCheck: More than once, the kids walk into a room the Mimic is in, and don't realize until too late.
* FieryRedhead: Energetic cheerleader Nick.
* FinalGirl: Lucia, who is the only person to make it out of the Mimic's rampage, manages to shut it off, and escapes the Pizzeria by clawing her way through a bathroom window.
* FireForgedFriends: Lucia, Kelly, Adrian and Jayce become quite close due to their traumatic and high-pressure circumstances.
* ForcedToWatch: Both Jayce and Lucia are forced to do nothing but watch as their friends are brutally killed in front of them, lest they be next.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the fifth ''Tales From The Pizzaplex'' epilogue, the Mimic fakes a distress signal from someone else trapped in the underground pizzeria, luring the teens to it. While unimportant at the time, this is exactly what the Mimic does in ''Ruin.''
* FriendlessBackground: Lucia had never really had friends prior to moving into the neighborhood. Adrian quickly befriended her, causing her to have a massive crush on him. While trapped with the Mimic, Lucia also becomes close with Kelly, which ends in tragedy as Kelly gets crushed by the endoskeleton.
* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Joel. Even Wade, his nominal best friend, can't figure out why he hangs out with him.
* GirlNextDoor: Adrian serves as a male example to Lucia, who has been in love with him since she moved into town. She herself fits a lot of the description, being a bookish, quiet girl who wears vintage clothes and tries to stay out of teenage trouble.
* GivenNameReveal: Epilogue 4 is the first time the Mimic is actually named.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Mimic's eyes glow an eerie orange.
* GoodWithNumbers: Lucia's father taught her to do math equations in her head when she was tired, because math is emotionless and therefore calming. She started using this tactic whenever nervous, and as such is a math whiz.
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[AmbiguousSituation It is not entirely clear]] to what extent [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted Glitchtrap]] is connected to the Mimic, but it is heavily implied that Glitchtrap was created from scanning the Mimic's programming to make the "Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience". This would make it directly responsible for the events of ''Help Wanted'', [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vanessa turning into Vanny]] and everything that happened in ''Security Breach''.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: While trying to escape, Joel gets stuck halfway past a stalled fan. Once the Mimic leaves and the electronics start working again, he's literally sliced in half.
* HateSink: Joel is a cruel bully who is desperate to leave the other kids behind to save his own skin. He even abandons his only friend Wade to be killed by the Mimic with the thought that he might be able to get himself out.
* HopelessSuitor: Wade thinks that because Hope's the head cheerleader and he's the star football player, they should be a couple. Hope's not interested, though.
* ImprovisedWeapon: Lucia eventually attacks the Mimic with a lead pipe, beating the crap out of it until the Jester's springlocks go off.
* ItCanThink: At first, the kids think the Mimic is an ordinary killer robot. They're blindsided, however, when it imitates a human voice to lure them out.
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* JerkJock: Joel, a malicious and arrogant football player. Wade is this to a lesser extent, as he's mostly just following what his friend does.
* KillerRobot: The main villain of these stories is the Mimic, a terrifying shapeshifting endoskeleton with the strength and ability to rip people limb from limb.
* KillTheCutie: Kelly is described as cute and quiet, and she's usually shrinking behind her friends in social situations, then excitedly shines when she finds something she's interested in. The events of the story utterly break her, and she gets perhaps the worst death of all of the Mimic's victims.
* TheLeader: Adrian, who's quickly able to get the group together and help them make plans.
* LetsSplitUpGang: To be fair, they initially split into ''pairs'' so that nobody can be left alone, but Adrian does say that they should split in order to cover more ground, resulting in Nick being killed in front of Hope. Afterwards, Joel and Wade split from the group to look for their own way out, and later Adrian and Jayce separate from the girls in hopes of finding them.
* MechanicalAbomination: Mostly shown in the seventh epilogue, the Mimic's ability to fit into any costume makes it basically a shapeshifter, and Lucia and Kelly witness it leave a costume and take a more horrifying, spider-like appearance as it swaps around its limbs.
* MuderousMalfunctioningMachine: The Mimic was re-programmed just to take apart endoskeletons. Likely due to its violent backstory, the Mimic quickly moves on to ripping apart human beings instead.
* NerdGlasses: On Jayce.
* NewTransferStudent: Lucia, who moved in to the town very recently.
* NiceGuy: Despite being a popular jock, Adrian is nothing but kind to everyone, and very protective of his best friend, Jayce.
* NoFullNameGiven: Nobody in this series gets a surname.
* NoSocialSkills: For Lucia.
* NotLikeOtherGirls: While Lucia is comfortable in earlier epilogues hanging out with the more feminine Hope, in the last epilogue she reflects that she had never been a mainstream girl, and "had little patience for what most girls liked talking about– endless chatting about clothes and boys. She preferred reading a book to shopping and pretty much everything else."
* NotQuiteDead: One epilogue has the Mimic leap for Lucia, as Kelly runs off with Jayce. For a page or so, Jayce fears that Lucia's been killed by the Mimic. She shows up soon later, though, bleeding but alive.
* OutOfFocus: Nick doesn't get a lot of attention by the narrative, which is probably because [[SacrificialLamb he was there to die first]].
* TheQuietOne: Kelly has always been known as the quiet kid, and everyone's surprised whenever she talks. She opens up more as the attacks continue and she needs to keep the group calm.
* QuirkyCurls: Lucia's hair is described as untameable. She doesn't really like her curls, but keeps it in an afro-style as a tribute to her Nana.
* SacrificialLamb: Gil is the first person the Mimic kills in the epilogues, starting its AxeCrazy descent. Later, once the story really kickstarts, Nick serves as this as the Mimic gets to him first.
* SacrificialLion: Kelly; the last to die before Lucia takes down the Mimic, her death leaves Lucia completely and utterly alone.
* SanitySlippage: Kelly actually holds up pretty well throughout the epilogues until they hear Jayce die. That's when she completely breaks and goes into shock, trying to claw at the concrete to get out. When the girls are hiding from the Mimic, Kelly panics and runs, which causes the Mimic to see and kill her.
* SealedEvilInACanon: Lucia traps the Mimic in a Springlock costume, then flips the switch on its neck to turn it off.
* SequentialArtist: Jayce is really only interested in drawing, and keeps a sketchbook and pens handy on him at all times. This turns out to be a great thing for the kids, as he's able to draw a map of the location.
* ShrinkingViolet: Kelly. Early on, Lucia thinks about how she's heard Kelly be more social when she's alone with Hope, and wishes that she would talk more often.
* SlashersPreferBlondes: The second of the kids to get killed, ''extremely'' early on, is strawberry-blonde cheerleader Hope.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The Mimic kills Kelly in Epilogue 7 by crawling inside of the blue dog costume she was hiding inside. It then gets up with her corpse still in the suit and walks away.
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Lucia really hates talking to people and isn't really good in public situations, Jayce is a StereotypicalNerd, and Kelly is painfully shy.
* SoleSurvivor: In the first epilogue, it's Danny, who manages to escape the Pizzeria as the Mimic is distracted by killing everyone else. After the teens break into the place, only Lucia makes it out.
* TheSpock: Kelly; after Hope dies and Joel and Wade split off, she is able to put her emotions aside and try to help everyone through their shock. She keeps up this exterior until it's just her and Lucia left, to which she has a breakdown.
* [[StealthSequel Stealth Prequel]]: The Mimic was not revealed to be part of the games' continuity until the release of the ''Ruin'' DLC, which happened very late into ''Tales''' run. As such, not a lot of readers knew it was going to be so heavily connected.
* TheStinger: All of these stories are placed after the "About the Author" sections of the book, making them a literary post-credits scene. The previous series ''Fazbear Frights'' had already used this format for [[Recap/FazbearFrightsTheStitchwraithStingers The Stitchwraith Stingers]].
* TeenGenius: Kelly, who is a ham radio nerd and ends up being extremely good with robotics.
* ThrillSeeker: Surprising the rest of the teens, Kelly is actually really interested in going to the construction site and exploring. She's really into exploring abandoned areas and tech.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Kelly was the {{Tomboy}} to Hope's {{GirlyGirl}}.
* TraumaCongaLine: Everything that happens to the teens just gets worse and worse and more and more traumatic until Kelly literally has a breakdown... and then dies horribly, adding more onto Lucia's bucket of trauma.
* TraumaticHaircut: As the Mimic tries to grab Lucia, she manages to escape only because it grabs onto her hair and rips off a good chunk of it, nearly scalping her.
* TresspassingHero: All of the kids break into the Pizzeria to see what's inside.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Joel, for suggesting they sneak into the construction site and see if they can spot the new animatronics.
* VoiceChangeling: The Mimic is able to imitate a human voice over the radio in attempt to lure the teenagers out.
* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: A frustrated and heartbroken Lucia angrily tells Jayce that she'd rather he died with Adrian or in his place.
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