History TearJerker / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

* The mini-games give us glimpses into the life of the Child. So far, he has been locked in his room, scared by his brother wearing a Foxy mask, and left behind by his brother at Fredbear's Family Diner, a place his brother '''[[BigBrotherBully knows he hates]]'''. Poor kid definitely has a crappy life.

* Seeing that there's a town around the diner makes something hit home when you realise that the minigames seem to take place in Summer, and that the MCI happened on June 26th: In barely a few months, five children go missing and one is killed by an animatronic. Not to mention that there was also the Puppet, somewhere before June 26th. And one of those children could be '''''[[AdultFear yours]]'''''.

* [[http://scottgames.com/4.jpg This photo on scottgames.com.]] Unlike the hat, this ''is'' the end of the Fazbear franchise. We've all had a great run...okay, there's a question mark if you brighten it, but if it's for the DLC in Halloween, ''then'' it's the end of the series.
** It's for ''FNAF World'' by this point, and for the ''Sister Location''.

** The Bite of '83 was also the reason of why Fredbear Family Diner was shut down and why Fredbear and Spring Bonnie were left to rot for 40 years. And as Fredbear was singing when all of this was taking place, he didn't realise that the child's head got stuck in his mouth because of that prank until it was too late. Remember, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie have a springlock suit the can be worn by humans, but the springlocks get loose if you make breathe directly on them, touch them directly, make sudden movements or make the suit wet. It's also possible that the child's tears caused the springlocks in the costume to get loose, causing Fredbear to accidentally bite him. Fredbear didn't mean to bite the child, but if this was the case, he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth open to prevent it.
*** Not to mention that because of William Afton just two years later, Fredbear, now known as Golden Freddy, was possessed by one of the five children that Afton killed. He became like a paranormal suit without an endoskeleton, and for decades, we was consumed by hatred, even worse than the others, refusing to rest and punishing Afton by torturing over and over in ''UCN''. Fredbear and Spring Bonnie have a pretty tragic story: the child's brother caused Fredbear to accidentally bite him, the child dies, they are left abandoned for several years, a Spring Bonnie suit is used by William Afton to kill children, and Afton ironically dies inside of it for black irony, and Golden Freddy's spirit won't rest in peace, unlike Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and the other souls. After all, he was ''The one you shouldn't have killed''.

** Even worse is that this kid ultimately gets accidentally killed. His brother and brother's friends shoved his head into the Fredbear animatronic, which bit down and crushed his head.

*** That alone is heartwrenching. Out of all the characters of the restaurant, he at least keeps his Fredbear plushie near. Even if the real deal scares him, it's perhaps the one aspect of the place that he can get close to. Unfortunately, Fredbear is the one who deals him a crippling injury he will suffer for the rest of his now drastically-shortened life.

** The Bite of '83 was also the reason of why Fredbear Family Diner was shut down and why Fredbear and Spring Bonnie were left to rot. And as Fredbear was singing when all of this was taking place, he didn't realise that the child's head got stuck in his mouth because of that prank until it was too late. Remember, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie have a springlock suit the can be worn by humans, but the springlocks get loose if you make breathe directly on them, touch them directly, make sudden movements or make the suit wet. It's also possible that the child's tears caused the springlocks in Fredbear's suit to get loose. Fredbear didn't mean to bite the child, but if this was the case, he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth open to prevent it.

** But here's the ''worst'' tearjerker: who's to say the brother ''wanted'' to kill his brother? Imagine just trying to prank your little brother...[[DeadlyPrank and it goes horribly horribly wrong]].

*** But at the very end...listen briefly. Someone is flatlining... which makes it all the more heartbreaking as it implies that while the child did initially survive the bite, he eventually passed away, meaning that his brother and his friends will all have to live with the fact that they may have '''accidentally killed a child, let alone his own brother.'''

* In fact, forget the ending music. The normal ambience of the game is already tugging at the heartstrings. Unlike the first three games, which have straight-up freaky ambience and/or DroneOfDread as the BGM, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyUE5WAYTM this is]] what you hear for the majority of the game. It's still undoubtedly scary, but the chimes give it a melancholic and nostalgic feeling. Almost as if you are relieving your life from afar or seeing it flashes before your eyes. A subtle {{Foreshadowing}} to the fact that the protagonist is actually going through AdventuresInComaland while he is hospitalized.

* In fact, forget the ending music. The normal ambience of the game is already tugging the heartstrings. Unlike the first three games, which have straight-up freaky ambience and/or DroneOfDread as the BGM, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmyUE5WAYTM this is]] what you hear for the majority of the game. It's still undoubtedly scary, but the minor key gives it a nostalgic, sad feeling. Almost as if you are relieving your life from afar or seeing it flashes before your eyes. A subtle {{Foreshadowing}} to the fact that the protagonist is actually going through AdventuresInComaland while he is hospitalized.

--> Can you hear me?
--> I don't know if you can hear me.
--> ....[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I'm sorry.]]

* DA Games's new single, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhdNa3iy5rw "Break My Mind"]], has dashes of this mixed in with NightmareFuel, especially when the song is sung from the child's point of view. You can't help but shed a tear for the little guy.
--> '''Child''': "I'm not allowed to cry, because they told me I would die. Oh, no...'''they're getting near.'''" ''(knocking)'' "Help me..." *[[EvilLaugh demonic laughter]]*
** The very end of the song is a definite water-works.
--> '''Child''': "'''They're here!'''" ''(Nightmare Fredbear's jumpscare, cut to black)''

* “Dream your Dream” by Tryhardninja is already tearjerking from its lyrics and melody while the accompanying Music video makes it more tear-worthy. The song depicts a detective who has spent who knows how long on the Fazbear case, only to get frustrated because he has no conclusion, only to wind up in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza through a nightmare as he falls asleep and near the end wakes up after his nightmare pulls him into the shadow's.

* [=MandoPony=]'s new song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIA6lp3xj-8 Nothing Can Hurt Me]]". The entire song is one big tear jerker mixed with a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} as it is sung from the Child's perspective after the Bite, but the most heartbreaking part of the song is that while the child brings his brother to task for all the cruelty he inflicted, at the end... ''[[TurnTheOtherCheek He forgives him.]]'' [[ThickerThanWater That's right, even after everything his brother did to him, he still has enough love for his big brother to forgive him]], asking his brother to remember him as he was before The Bite and even hoping their parents will forgive him.
** If the song's power would need to be summed up in one sentence, it's this: "But one thing I'll never know/is why you treated me like you did?/I was your only brother, ''and I was just a kid''..." Yes, he forgives his brother, or at the very least thinks living with the guilt is more than enough punishment, and says he hopes their parents will forgive him too, but that doesn't make the pain any less and he still doesn't know why it had to be the way it was.
** The chorus to "Bad Dream" by Video Game Rap Battles ups the ante with the mother begging for the Child to wake up, even promising that the Child's older brother wouldn't hurt him ever again, while in the verses the boy is pretty much thinking his family thinks he shouldn't have been born and the Bite was to get rid of him and latter thinks of the Fazbear Family as his true family.
* "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8VymIwdb0Ow A Brother's Sorrow]]". Even if he was one big, nasty JerkAss, the kid's older brother is truly repentful of how his mean joke went all wrong, and this song totally shows it. He sings the song to his little brother as he lays unconscious on the hospital bed, all while trying his best to hold back tears and promising to be a better brother for him while begging the child to wake up.

* [[http://i.imgur.com/dB3r4Rn.png This fanmade representation of how the fanbase helped Scott and motivated him to make games again]] by [[https://www.reddit.com/user/Ocouluss Reddit user /u/Ocouluss]]. Just...
* The fact that the series is over now makes this line from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'' super-depressing in hindsight.
--> "Thank you, and remember to smile; You are the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza!"

* There's a popular theory that involves the Purple Man being the Child's father, later was confirmed. And since it is true, and regardless of whether or not the kid died from the Bite... he must've been [[TragicVillain completely torn apart]] by it, and [[StartOfDarkness would explain his murders rather well.]] And if the "animatronics attacking" post from the Fridge and WMG pages is true, then that must've hurt the poor man even ''more''. No wonder why he was always {{AxCrazy}}.
** If the children he murdered were (somehow) the bullies that did this to his son (though more likely the five children that never showed up to the party), his death in ''FNAF 3'' suddenly becomes ''far'' less heartwarming. He only wanted justice for his child, but got ''killed'' for it. Not only that, but the bullies can move on to the afterlife, and you ''are controlling one of them''. YouBastard at its best.
** Both are jossed. The Purple Man is an abusive and neglectful father who has no problem with killing his children, and he murdered before any of his kids died. He's a CompleteMonster, nothing more.
* “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsI_boFphF4 Goodbye]]” by TryHardNinja can be this as well as awesome; it feels a little punching since the story has been [[WordOfGod officially confirmed to be finished]].
* “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUX2q1k6y3I Dear Brother]]”, the final FNAF Song by DA Games for the final game in the FNAF story where the two brothers sing to each other as the child ascends to heaven all the while the brother begs for him not to go. It doubles as a Heartwarming Moment, especially if you have a sibling yourself.
* “Painted Faces” by Trickywi will most likely cause you to shed some tears due to the effectiveness of the melody, lyrics, and the singer's voice.

** Even worse is that this kid might be the victim of the Bite of '87. His brother and brother's friends shoved his head into the Fredbear animatronic, which bit down and crushed his head.

** The child's situation as a whole is one large tear jerker. He's alone in his own home, relentlessly hunted by the most demonic versions of the Fazbear gang to date. Unlike the security guards in the previous games, he has no cameras to keep track of them and no Phone Guy to give him advice. All he has is a flashlight. His brother uses his fear of the animatronics to relentlessly torment him. [[ParentalNeglect His parents are either unaware or apathetic to his plight]] and the kid has to go through this hell for six hours a night, for all five nights. Even if he manages to survive this horrendous ordeal, he'll most likely be left scarred for life and in desperate need of therapy.
*** The post-Night 5 cutscene proves the kid is the victim of The Bite of '87, thanks in part to his brother. The kid doesn't really need therapy, so much as he needs a new frontal lobe.
*** The final nail in the coffin: As soon as night 6 ends, a scene shows the child is in the spotlight of death, as each of his plush friends fade... and as the scene ends, [[KilledOffForReal he does, too...]]

*** The teens are laughing to themselves when they place the kid into Fredbear's jaws — and then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stop laughing when the poor boy stops moving.]]

*** Here's a way to make it worse: look to the left side of the screen when you look at the bed. Sometimes, an IV bag can be seen next to the bed. None of the animatronics are actually there. The Phone Guy said the kid survived... so he's been in the hospital, has come out, and is now at home with an IV bag... and is ''imagining'' the animatronics due to the PTSD that, due to recovering from his [[BrainFood injury]], he's not had treatment for yet. Yeah, there's nothing there that can actually kill him; he's just ''imagining'' there is due to his traumatic experience.
** That alone is a serious tearjerker. This poor, innocent little boy is being hounded by hallucinations that may plague him forever with very little chance of recovery.

** Besides the poor boy, if this is the Bite of '87, then it's easy to be sympathetic to the animatronics. Throughout the games, it was always assumed that the Bite was ''their'' fault. They were essentially forced into their nighttime shenanigans (starting the events of the first three games) for ''no real reason''.
*** Especially when you consider that the sentient animatronics' only goal is to entertain and protect the children. Their hostility towards adults might be their way of making sure that such things never happen to a child again.

* Seeing that there's a town around the diner makes something hit home: over the course of one week, five children went missing and one more was horrifically maimed. Imagine if this happened in your neighborhood. Imagine if any of those children were ''[[AdultFear yours]]''.

* When we finally get to see the party, there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang. That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. The five murdered kids, while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: he took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented.

** Also doubly worse is if the Purple Man is the Crying Child's father, as some have theorized. You can see the Purple Man as an EasterEgg, and how he spares the Crying Child from the gruesome fate of his victims. It might show that EvenEvilHasStandards or PragmaticVillainy, depending on if you consider the child as a MoralityPet or not. Due to the Purple Man's sadistic actions, he robbed his son of friends that wouldn't bully him and left him with a bunch of kids that caused a fatal accident. It would also explain the ParentalNeglect present and [[LikeFatherLikeSon why the]] [[InTheBlood older brother]] [[FreudianExcuse is such a]] {{Jerkass}}.

* The fate of the animatronics. They were built to entertain children, but instead ended up becoming a nightmare that would go on for 40+ years before Fazbear's Fright burnt down.
* There's a popular theory that involves the Purple Man being the Child's father. And if it is true, and regardless of whether or not the kid died from [[AmbiguousSituation whatever bite this is]]... he must've been [[TragicVillain completely torn apart]] by it, and [[StartOfDarkness would explain his murders rather well.]] And if the "animatronics attacking" post from the Fridge and WMG pages is true, then that must've hurt the poor man even ''more''. No wonder why he was always {{AxCrazy}}.

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** In this same vein, look at the poor boy while he's being dragged over to Fredbear. He's shaking harder than Purple Guy did after setting off the Spring-Bonnie suit, and unlike Purple Guy, this child has not been injured yet. If watching his sprite tremble and cry and beg the bullies to stop and let him go doesn't bring a few tears to your eyes, you have no soul.

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* The mini-games give us glimpses into the life of the Child. So far, he has been locked in his room, scared by his brother wearing a Foxy mask, and [[spoiler: left behind by his brother at Fredbear's Family Diner, a place his brother '''[[BigBrotherBully knows he hates]]''']]. Poor kid definitely has a crappy life.
** Even worse is that this kid might be [[spoiler:the victim of the Bite of '87. His brother and brother's friends shoved his head into the Fredbear animatronic, which bit down and crushed his head]].
** What everyone is forgetting is... [[spoiler:on the day the Bite happens, it was the Child's ''[[ABirthdayNotABreak birthday]]''. He was badly injured on the day he should have been having a good time]].
*** That alone is heartwrenching. Out of all the characters of the restaurant, he at least keeps his Fredbear plushie near. Even if the real deal scares him, it's perhaps the one aspect of the place that he can get close to. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Fredbear is the one who deals him a crippling injury he will suffer for the rest of his now drastically-shortened life.]]

*** [[spoiler:The post-Night 5 cutscene proves the kid is the victim of The Bite of '87, thanks in part to his brother. The kid doesn't really need therapy, so much as he needs a new frontal lobe.]]
*** [[spoiler:The final nail in the coffin: As soon as night 6 ends, a scene shows the child is in the spotlight of death, as each of his plush friends fade... and as the scene ends, [[KilledOffForReal he does, too...]]]]
** In this same vein, look at the poor boy [[spoiler:while he's being dragged over to Fredbear. He's shaking harder than Purple Guy did after setting off the Spring-Bonnie suit, and unlike Purple Guy, this child has not been injured yet. If watching his sprite tremble and cry and beg the bullies to stop and let him go doesn't bring a few tears to your eyes, you have no soul.]]
** But here's the ''worst'' tearjerker: [[spoiler:who's to say the brother ''wanted'' to kill his brother? Imagine just trying to prank your little brother...[[DeadlyPrank and it goes horribly horribly wrong]]]].
*** [[spoiler:The teens are laughing to themselves when they place the kid into Fredbear's jaws — and then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stop laughing when the poor boy stops moving.]]]]
*** Night 6: [[spoiler:The grey text at the beginning is the same as the brother's in the previous night. What is he saying? "I'm sorry."]]
** The whole situation gives off serious [[spoiler:TeensAreMonsters]] vibes. In the end, one of the scariest things in the whole series isn't the animatronics, or the child murderer, but the [[spoiler:sheer despair and depths of cruelty that kids can do to each other]].
*** Here's a way to make it worse: look to the left side of the screen when you look at the bed. [[spoiler:Sometimes, an IV bag can be seen next to the bed. None of the animatronics are actually there. The Phone Guy said the kid survived... so he's been in the hospital, has come out, and is now at home with an IV bag... and is ''imagining'' the animatronics due to the PTSD that, due to recovering from his [[BrainFood injury]], he's not had treatment for yet.]] Yeah, there's [[spoiler:nothing there that can actually kill him; he's just ''imagining'' there is due to his traumatic experience]].
** That alone is a serious tearjerker. [[spoiler:This poor, innocent little boy is being hounded by hallucinations that may plague him forever with very little chance of recovery.]]
*** Possibly averted under the terms of the 6th Night Ending. [[spoiler:Fredbear states that the animatronics are still the Child's friends and that he'll fix him in a tear jerker of the Heartwarming fashion.]]
*** But at the very end...listen briefly. [[spoiler:Someone is flatlining... which makes it all the more heartbreaking as it implies that while the child did initially survive the bite, he eventually passed away, meaning that his brother and his friends will all have to live with the fact that they may have '''accidentally killed a child, let alone his own brother.''']]
** Besides the poor boy, [[spoiler:if this is the Bite of '87, then it's easy to be sympathetic to the animatronics. Throughout the games, it was always assumed that the Bite was ''their'' fault. They were essentially forced into their nighttime shenanigans (starting the events of the first three games) for ''no real reason'']].
*** [[spoiler:Especially when you consider that the sentient animatronics' only goal is to entertain and protect the children. Their hostility towards adults might be their way of making sure that such things never happen to a child again.]]
** The situation gets even ''worse'' when you realise the layout of the home in the cutscenes is radically different from the actual game. A very odd inconsistency. It's not clear what this means until ''Sister Location'' — [[spoiler:going off the security footage, the Child was possibly locked up in Circus Baby's Pizza World and wasn't at home the entire time]]. Small wonder the poor thing was having nightmares, considering [[spoiler:CBPW is also a facility for creating animatronics]]!
* Seeing that there's a town around the diner makes something hit home: over the course of one week, [[spoiler:five children went missing and one more was horrifically maimed]]. Imagine if this happened in your neighborhood. Imagine if any of [[spoiler:those children were ''[[AdultFear yours]]'']].

* When we finally get to see the party, [[spoiler:there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang]]. That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. [[spoiler:The five murdered kids]], while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: [[spoiler:he took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented]].
** Worse still, [[spoiler:those five kids were now possessing the Withered animatronics and Fredbear when the Bite happened. Whoever was now in Fredbear had to watch as a kid they might have considered a wimp, but still wanted to be nice to, was forced into their mouth and dealt a brutal injury. It goes a long way to explaining how ruthless Golden Freddy is in ''FNAF 1'' and ''2'', breaking Mike's mind when spotted and possibly killing Jeremy like the others.]]
** Also doubly worse is if [[spoiler:the Purple Man is the Crying Child's father]], as some have theorized. You can see the Purple Man as an EasterEgg, and how he spares the Crying Child from the gruesome fate of his victims. It might show that EvenEvilHasStandards or PragmaticVillainy, depending on if you consider the child as a MoralityPet or not. Due to the Purple Man's sadistic actions, he robbed [[spoiler:his son]] of friends that wouldn't bully him and left him with a bunch of kids that caused a fatal accident. It would also explain the ParentalNeglect present and [[LikeFatherLikeSon why the]] [[InTheBlood older brother]] [[FreudianExcuse is such a]] {{Jerkass}}.
* [[http://scottgames.com/4.jpg This photo on scottgames.com.]] Unlike the hat, this ''is'' the end of the Fazbear franchise. We've all had a great run...[[spoiler:okay, there's a question mark if you brighten it, but if it's for the DLC in Halloween, ''then'' it's the end of the series.]]
** [[spoiler:It's for ''FNAF World'' by this point, and for the ''Sister Location''.]]

--> '''Child''': "'''They're here!'''" [[spoiler:''(Nightmare Fredbear's jumpscare, cut to black)'']]
* The game's ending itself is sadder than the third one, but wanna make it ''even sadder''? The real Tearjerker in this: [[spoiler:None of this is real. ''None'' of it, including the aforementioned ending. Fredbear promising to fix the child? A pure figment of his imagination. He wasn't planning on fixing him. He probably didn't even know what had happened. The closest these things have had to emotions is artificial A.I. and the spirits of dead children. Unless either the A.I. itself reached out to him or one of the kids went into his dreams, it's likely that promise wasn't real. The child even flatlines at the end of the final minigame. Fredbear isn't real. Fredbear is nothing. Just a pure, unhaunted hunk of metal that was made to bite a young child and was used as a scapegoat for the teenagers. The poor kid didn't even get a promise from the real Fredbear... at least his dying dream was happy.]]

* “Dream your Dream” by Tryhardninja is already tearjerking from its lyrics and melody while the accompanying Music video makes it more tear-worthy. The song depicts a detective who has spent who knows how long on the Fazbear case, only to get frustrated because he has no conclusion, [[spoiler:only to wind up in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza through a nightmare as he falls asleep and near the end wakes up after his nightmare pulls him into the shadow's]].

* [=MandoPony=]'s new song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIA6lp3xj-8 Nothing Can Hurt Me]]". The entire song is one big tear jerker mixed with a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} as it is sung from the Child's perspective after [[spoiler:the Bite]], but the most heartbreaking part of the song is that while the child brings his brother to task for all the cruelty he inflicted, at the end... ''[[TurnTheOtherCheek He forgives him.]]'' [[ThickerThanWater That's right, even after everything his brother did to him, he still has enough love for his big brother to forgive him]], asking his brother to remember him as he was before [[spoiler:The Bite]] and even hoping their parents will forgive him.
** If the song's power would need to be summed up in one sentence, it's this: "But one thing I'll never know/is why you treated me like you did?/I was your only brother, ''and I was just a kid''..." [[spoiler:Yes, he forgives his brother, or at the very least thinks living with the guilt is more than enough punishment, and says he hopes their parents will forgive him too, but that doesn't make the pain any less and he still doesn't know why it had to be the way it was.]]

* You know how after Nightmare Fredbear shows up that he starts using a very unnerving rendition of Freddy's laugh from the first ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj4l5KrJv0 Note that this laugh sounds like Fredbear is crying]] and considering how he was [[spoiler:forced to bite a child who loved him, this turns from NightmareFuel to tear jerker real fast]]. This becomes even worse when you consider that the Fredbear plushy actually acts like it's sentient and tries to help the child deal with his animatronic counterpart....

* There's a popular theory that involves the Purple Man being the Child's father. And if it is true, [[spoiler:and regardless of whether or not the kid died from [[AmbiguousSituation whatever bite this is]]... he must've been [[TragicVillain completely torn apart]] by it, and [[StartOfDarkness would explain his murders rather well.]] And if the "animatronics attacking" post from the Fridge and WMG pages is true, then that must've hurt the poor man even ''more''. No wonder why he was always {{AxCrazy}}]].
** If the children he murdered were (somehow) the bullies that did this to his son (though more likely the five children that never showed up to the party), his [[spoiler:death in ''FNAF 3'' suddenly becomes ''far'' less heartwarming. He only wanted justice for his child, but got ''killed'' for it. Not only that, but the bullies can move on to the afterlife, and you ''are controlling one of them''. YouBastard at its best]].

* “[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUX2q1k6y3I Dear Brother]]”, the final FNAF Song by DA Games for the final game in the FNAF story where the two brothers sing to each other as [[spoiler:the child ascends to heaven all the while the brother begs for him not to go]]. It doubles as a Heartwarming Moment, especially if you have a sibling yourself.

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** Even worse is that this kid might be [[spoiler: the victim of the Bite of '87. His brother and brother's friends shoved his head into the Fredbear animatronic, which bit down and crushed his head.]]
** What everyone is forgetting is... [[spoiler: on the day the Bite happens, it was the Child's ''[[ABirthdayNotABreak birthday]]''. He was badly injured on the day he should have been having a good time.]]
*** That alone is heartwrenching. Out of all the characters of the restaurant, he at least keeps his Fredbear plushie near. Even if the real deal scares him, it's perhaps the one aspect of the place that he can get close to. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, Fredbear is the one who deals him a crippling injury he will suffer for the rest of his now drastically-shortened life.]]
** The child's situation as a whole is one large tear jerker. He's alone in his own home, relentlessly hunted by the most demonic versions of the Fazbear gang to date. Unlike the security guards in the previous games, he has no cameras to keep track of them and no Phone Guy to give him advice. All he has is a flashlight. His brother uses his fear of the animatronics to relentlessly torment him. His parents are either unaware or apathetic to his plight and the kid has to go through this hell for six hours a night, for all five nights. Even if he manages to survive this horrendous ordeal, he'll most likely be left scarred for life and in desperate need of therapy.

** But here's the ''worst'' tearjerker: [[spoiler:who's to say the brother ''wanted'' to kill his brother? Imagine just trying to prank your little brother...[[DeadlyPrank and it goes horribly horribly wrong.]] ]]
*** [[spoiler: The teens are laughing to themselves when they place the kid into Fredbear's jaws- and then [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone stop laughing when the poor boy stops moving.]] ]]
*** Night 6: [[spoiler: The grey text at the beginning is the same as the brother's in the previous night. What is he saying? "I'm sorry."]]
** The whole situation gives off serious [[spoiler: TeensAreMonsters]] vibes. In the end, one of the scariest things in the whole series isn't the animatronics, or the child murderer, but the [[spoiler: sheer despair and depths of cruelty that kids can do to each other.]]
*** Here's a way to make it worse: look to the left side of the screen when you look at the bed. [[spoiler: Sometimes, an IV bag can be seen next to the bed. None of the animatronics are actually there. The Phone Guy said the kid survived... so he's been in the hospital, has come out, and is now at home with an IV bag... and is ''imagining'' the animatronics due to the PTSD that, due to recovering from his [[BrainFood injury]], he's not had treatment for yet.]] Yeah, there's [[spoiler: nothing there that can actually kill him; he's just ''imagining'' there is due to his traumatic experience.]]
** That alone is a serious tearjerker. [[spoiler: This poor, innocent little boy is being hounded by hallucinations that may plague him forever with very little chance of recovery.]]
*** Possibly averted under the terms of the 6th Night Ending. [[spoiler: Fredbear states that the animatronics are still the Child's friends and that he'll fix him in a tear jerker of the Heartwarming fashion.]]
*** But at the very end...listen briefly. [[spoiler: Someone is flatlining... which makes it all the more heartbreaking as it implies that while the child did initially survive the bite, he eventually passed away, meaning that his brother and his friends will all have to live with the fact that they may have '''accidentally killed a child, let alone his own brother.''']]
** Besides the poor boy, [[spoiler: if this is the Bite of '87, then it's easy to be sympathetic for the animatronics. Throughout the games, it was always assumed that the Bite was ''their'' fault. They were essentially forced into their nighttime shenanigans (starting the events of the first three games) for ''no real reason''.]]
*** [[spoiler: Especially when you consider that the sentient animatronics' only goal is to entertain and protect the children. Their hostility towards adults might be their way of making sure that such things never happen to a child again.]]
** The situation gets even WORSE when you realise the layout of the home in the cutscenes is radically different from the actual game. A very odd inconsistency. It's not clear what this means until Sister Location- [[spoiler: going off the security footage, the Child was possibly locked up in Circus Baby's Pizza World and wasn't at home the entire time]]. Small wonder the poor thing was having nightmares, considering [[spoiler: CBPW is also a facility for creating animatronics]]!
* Seeing that there's a town around the diner makes something hit home: over the course of one week, [[spoiler:five children went missing and one more was horrifically maimed]]. Imagine if this happened in your neighborhood. Imagine if any of [[spoiler:those children were ''yours''.]]
* Although the animatronics scare the Child, he describes his Freddy plushie collection as his only friends. That's sad enough but one of his friends, Foxy, is missing his head. [[BigBrotherBully Three guesses whose fault that is.]] It seems nothing the Child cares about is safe.
* When we finally get to see the party, [[spoiler: there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang.]] That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. [[spoiler: The five murdered kids]], while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: [[spoiler:he took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented.]]
** Worse still, [[spoiler: those five kids were now possessing the Withered and Fredbear when the Bite happened. Whoever was now in Fredbear had to watch as a kid they might have considered a wimp, but still wanted to be nice to, was forced into their mouth and dealt a brutal injury. It goes a long way to explaining how ruthless Golden Freddy is in FNAF 1 and 2, breaking Mike's mind when spotted and possibly killing Jeremy like the others.]]
** Also doubly worse is if [[spoiler:the Purple Man is the Crying Child's father]], as some have theorized. You can see the Purple Man as an Easter egg, and how he spares the Crying Child from the gruesome fate of his victim. It might show that EvenEvilHasStandards or PragmaticVillainy, depending on if you consider the child as a MoralityPet or not. Due to the Purple Man's sadistic actions, he robbed [[spoiler:his son]] of friends that wouldn't bully him and left him with a bunch of kids that caused a fatal accident. It would also explain the ParentalNeglect present and [[LikeFatherLikeSon why the]] [[InTheBlood older brother]] [[FreudianExcuse is such a]] {{Jerkass}}.

** [[spoiler:It's for FNAF World by this point, and for the Sister Location.]]
* DA Games's new single, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhdNa3iy5rw "Break My Mind"]], has dashes of this mixed in with [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel,]] especially when the song is sung from the child's point of view. You can't help but shed a tear for the little guy.

--> '''Child''': "'''They're here!'''" [[spoiler: ''(Nightmare Fredbear's jumpscare, cut to black)'']]
* The game's ending itself is sadder than the third one, but wanna make it ''even sadder''? The real Tearjerker in this: [[spoiler: None of this is real. ''None'' of it, including the aforementioned ending. Fredbear promising to fix the child? A pure figment of his imagination. He wasn't planning on fixing him. He probably didn't even know what had happened. The closest these things have had to emotions is artificial A.I. and the spirits of dead children. Unless either the A.I. itself reached out to him or one of the kids went into his dreams, it's likely that promise wasn't real. The child even flatlines at the end of the final minigame. Fredbear isn't real. Fredbear is nothing. Just a pure, unhaunted hunk of metal that was made to bite a young child and was used as a scapegoat for the teenagers. The poor kid didn't even get a promise from the real Fredbear... at least his dying dream was happy.]]
** "These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters will live on." -- Fazbear Entertainment CEO
* The last game had "Don't Go" as the title of its ending music. What's the name to the ending music this time? [[https://www.neosounds.com/royalty-free-music/songs/2467/hard-to-say-goodbye-lynnemusic "Hard To Say Goodbye".]] Oh Scott...
* Crosses with Fridge Brilliance as well as heartwarming. But the statement in one of the clippings of Five Nights at Freddy's acts a lot more harsher in hindsight now that the series has reached its end as if Scott put the line there because he knew the series would come to an end eventually.

* Dream your Dream by Tryhardninja is already tearjerking from its lyrics and melody while the accompanying Music video makes it more tear worthy. The song depicts a detective who has spent who knows how long on the Fazbear case only to get frustrated because he has no conclusion, [[spoiler: only to wind up in Freddy Fazbears Pizza through a nightmare as he falls asleep and near the end wakes up after his nightmare pulls him into the shadow's]]

*** After the Halloween update, Both FNAF World's site and Scottgames went completely dark. And then, [[https://i.imgur.com/5rWXt2c.png this]]. Poor, poor Mangle...

* [=MandoPony=]'s new song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIA6lp3xj-8 Nothing Can Hurt Me]]". The entire song is one big tear jerker mixed with a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}} as it is sung from the Child's perspective after [[spoiler: the Bite]], but the most heartbreaking part of the song is that while the child brings his brother to task for all the cruelty he inflicted, at the end... ''[[TurnTheOtherCheek He forgives him.]]'' [[ThickerThanWater That's right, even after everything his brother did to him, he still has enough love for his big brother to forgive him]], asking his brother to remember him as he was before [[spoiler: The Bite]] and even hoping their parents will forgive him.
** If the song's power would need to be summed up in one sentence it's this: "But one thing I'll never know/ is why you treated me like you did?/I was your only brother, ''and I was just a kid''..." [[spoiler: Yes he forgives his brother or at the very least thinks living with the guilt is more than enough punishment, and says he hopes their parents will forgive him too, but that doesn't make the pain any less and he still doesn't know why it had to be the way it was.]]
** The chorus to "Bad Dream" by Video Game Rap Battles ups the ante with the mother begging for the Child to wake up, even promising that the Child's older brother wouldn't hurt him ever again, while in the verses the boy is pretty much thinking his family is think he shouldn't have been born and the Bite was to get rid of him and latter thinks of the Fazbear Family as his true family.

* You know how after Nightmare Fredbear shows up that he starts using a very unnerving rendition of Freddy's laugh from the first ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj4l5KrJv0 Note that this laugh sounds like Fredbear is crying]] and considering how he was [[spoiler: forced to bite a child who loved him. this turns from NightmareFuel to tear jerker real fast.]] This becomes even worse when you consider that the Fredbear plushy actually acts like it's sentient and tries to help the child deal with his animatronic counterpart....

* There's a popular theory that involves the Purple Man being the Child's father. And if it is true, [[spoiler:and regardless of whether or not the kid died from [[AmbiguousSituation whatever bite this is]]...he must've been [[TragicVillain completely torn apart]] by it, and [[StartOfDarkness would explain his murders rather well.]] And if the "animatronics attacking" post from the Fridge and WMG pages is true, then that must've hurt the poor man even ''more''. No wonder why he was always {{AxCrazy}}.]]
** If the children he murdered were (somehow) the bullies that did this to his son (though more likely the five children that never showed up to the party), his [[spoiler: death in FNAF 3 suddenly becomes ''far'' less heartwarming. He only wanted justice for his child, but got ''killed'' for it. Not only that but the bullies can move on to the afterlife, and you ''are controlling one of them''. YouBastard at it's best.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsI_boFphF4 Goodbye]] by TryHardNinja can be this as well as awesome, it feels a little punching since the story has been [[WordOfGod officially confirmed to be finished]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUX2q1k6y3I Dear Brother]] The Final FNAF Song by DA Games for the final game in the FNAF Story where the two brothers sing to each other as [[spoiler: the child ascends to heaven all the while the brother begs for him not to go]]. It doubles as a Heartwarming Moment, especially if you have a sibling yourself.
* Painted Faces by Trickywi will most likely cause you to shed some tears due to the effectiveness of Melody, Lyrics and the singers voice.

** The situation gets even WORSE when you realise the layout of the home in the cutscenes is radically different from the actual game. A very odd inconsistency. It's not clear what this means until Sister Location- [[spoiler: going off the security footage, the Child was locked up in Sister Location and wasn't at home the entire time]]. Small wonder the poor thing was having nightmares!

** Besides the poor boy, [[spoiler: it's easy to be sympathetic for the animatronics. Throughout the games, it was always assumed that the Bite was ''their'' fault. They were essentially forced into their nighttime shenanigans (starting the events of the first three games) for ''no real reason''.]]

* You know how after Nightmare Fredbear shows up that he starts using a very unnerving rendition of Freddy's laugh from the first ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys''? [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyj4l5KrJv0 Note that this laugh sounds like Fredbear is crying]] and considering how he was [[spoiler: forced to do the Bite of '87 to a child who loved him this turns from NightmareFuel to tear jerker real fast.]] This becomes even worse when you consider that the Fredbear plushy actually acts like it's sentient and tries to help the child deal with his animatronic counterpart....

** What everyone is forgetting is... [[spoiler: on the day the Bite happens, it was the Child's ''birthday''. He was badly injured on the day he should have been having a good time.]]

*** [[spoiler: And the final nail in the coffin; As soon as night 6 ends, a scene where the child is in the spotlight of death, as each of his plush friends fade... and soon, as the scene ends, [[KilledOffForReal he does, too...]]]]
** In this same vein... Look at the poor boy [[spoiler:while he's being dragged over to Fredbear. He's shaking harder than Purple Guy did after setting off the Spring-Bonnie suit, and unlike Purple Guy, this child has not been injured yet. If watching his sprite tremble and cry and beg the bullies to stop and let him go doesn't bring a few tears to your eyes, you have no soul.]]

*** But at the very end...listen briefly. [[spoiler: Someone is flatlining... Which makes it all the more heartbreaking as it implies that while the child did initially survive the bite, he eventually passed away, meaning that his brother and his friends will all have to live with the fact that they may have '''accidentally killed a child, let alone his own brother.''']]

* Although the Animatronics scare the Child, he describes his Freddy plushie collection as his only friends. That's sad enough but one of his friends, Foxy, is missing his head. [[BigBrotherBully Three guesses whose fault that is.]] It seems nothing the Child cares about is safe.
* When we finally get to see the party, [[spoiler: there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang.]] That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. [[spoiler: The five murdered kids]], while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: [[spoiler:He took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented.]]
** Worse still, [[spoiler: those five kids were now possessing the Withered and Fredbear when the Bite happened. Whoever was now in Fredbear had to watch as a kid they might have considered a wimp, but still wanted to be nice to, was forced into their mouth and dealt a brutal injury. It goes a long way to explaining how ruthless Golden Freddy is in FNAF 1 and 2, breaking Mike's mind when spotted and killing Jeremy like the others.]]

** Also doubly worse is if [[spoiler:the Purple Man is the Crying Child's father]], as some have theorized. You can see the Purple Man as an Easter egg, and how he spares the Crying Child from the gruesome fate of his victim. It might show that EvenEvilHasStandards or PragmaticVillainy, depending on if you consider the child as a MoralityPet or not. Due to the Purple Man's sadistic actions, he robbed [[spoiler:his son]] of friends that wouldn't bully him and left him with a bunch of kids that caused a fatal accident. It would also explain the ParentalNeglect present and [[LikeFatherLikeSon why the]] [[InTheBlood older brother]] [[FreudianExcuse is such a]] {{Jerkass}}.]]

* When we finally get to see the party, [[spoiler: there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang.]] That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. [[spoiler: The five murdered kids]], while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: [[spoiler: He took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented.]]

** [[spoiler:It's probably for FNAF World by this point.]]

** If the children he murdered were (somehow) the bullies that did this to his son, his [[spoiler: death in FNAF 3 suddenly becomes ''far'' less heartwarming. He only wanted justice for his child, but got ''killed'' for it. Not only that but the bullies can move on to the afterlife, and you ''are controlling one of them''. YouBastard at it's best.]]

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