History VideoGame / FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's not quite clear when the game takes place. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is said to be closed and Circus Baby's Pizza World stepped in to fill its void shortly after, but Freddy's has closed two or three times across the series. [[note]]Fredbear's Family Diner closed sometime between the fourth and second games, Freddy Fazbear's closed immediately after the second game to reopen in a new location, and Freddy's closes for good sometime in the 30 years between the first and third games.[[/note]] The TV in-between nights is even an old analog set. However, the animatronics seem exceptionally high-tech compared to even the Toy animatronics, and the set of unlockable blueprints has a copyright listing the year as "xxxx"...and, just to make things even worse, the Private Room, inexplicably, has access to a video feed of [[WhamShot the Child's bedroom from 4]]. [[spoiler:If you subscribe to the theory that Michael Afton is the true protagonist of all games in the series (with the exception of ''4''), then this game at the very least takes place before the second game. In other words, before or in 1987. This would mean that the closed Freddy's establishment mentioned is Fredbear's Diner.]].

''Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location'' is the fifth game in the ''[[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' series by Creator/ScottCawthon, who eventually revealed it to be a new game in what was previously considered a finished series after the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld spin-off RPG game]]. The game was released on October 7, 2016; [[https://youtu.be/Uw4-bZkxyKQ you can watch the trailer on YouTube]] and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/506610/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 order it on Steam]]. And, [[TrollingCreator in typical Scott Cawthon fashion]], [[http://gamejolt.com/games/sister-location-ma/195478 you can download the troll game, passed off as the "mature version", for free]] at Website/GameJolt. On December 1, 2016, a set of Custom Night modes was released as a free update.

** Funtime Foxy first appeared in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld''.

* CanonImmigrant: Lolbit from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld'' can occasionally replace Ennard's mask in the Primary Control Module and is one of the animatronics attacking you in the Custom Night.

* AbsenteeActor: While new versions of Freddy, Foxy, Bonnie, [[spoiler:and Golden Freddy]] appear, Chica is never seen or even mentioned in the game, making this the first main FNAF game not to include her.

** [[spoiler:Mr. Afton went above using a suit to lure children to the back to creating animatronics that would help him serve that purpose. He then suffers a father's worst nightmare when Baby kills his daughter the one time he wasn't keeping his little girl away from the bot.]]

* AIIsACrapshoot: Aside from [[HostileAnimatronics the obvious]], it turns out that [[spoiler:Handy the AI "Phone Guy" is completely malfunctional, to the point of giving the player wrong (and deadly) instructions, mistaking two dead bodies as animatronics, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and having an unstable keypad that can't even recognise your name]]. Then again, [[IncompetenceInc considering who developed him]], is it really surprising to know he doesn't work properly?]]
* AirVentPassageway: This is the only way access different parts of the facility. [[spoiler: Also, in the Private Room, one of the methods Ennard tries to get into your room is through the vents. This is used again in the Custom Night, but by Bidybab only.]]

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's not quite clear when the game takes place. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is said to be closed and Circus Baby's Pizza World stepped in to fill its void shortly after, but Freddy's has closed two or three times across the series. [[note]]Fredbear's Family Diner closed sometime between the fourth and second games, Freddy Fazbear's closed immediately after the second game to reopen in a new location, and Freddy's closes for good sometime in the 30 years between the first and third games.[[/note]] The TV in-between nights is even an old analog set. However, the animatronics seem exceptionally high-tech compared to even the Toy animatronics, and the set of unlockable blueprints has a copyright listing the year as "xxxx"... [[spoiler:and, just to make things even ''worse,'' the Private Room, inexplicably, has access to a video feed of ''[[WhamShot the Child's bedroom from 4.]]'']].

* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: This game plays quite differently from the other FNAF games. For example, you're now able to move around and aren't seated to one spot every night.[[spoiler: In fact, most of the game doesn't even have you watching the cameras and it is actually YOU who goes to where most of the animatronics are instead of the other way around]].
** [[spoiler: Compared to the rest of the game, this also applies to the fourth night, which is more like a minigame and where you can't move.]]
** [[spoiler: Averted...or maybe played straight compared to the rest of the game, in the secret zone during the fifth night and in the Custom Night, where you play something very much like the rest of the series, even taking some elements from previous games]].

* {{Antepiece}}: Since moving around is a new thing in the main [=FNAF=] franchise, the first thing you do is crawl into a vent to get to the main office like area. [[spoiler:This is to get you ready for Ballora's Gallery, which you have to crawl through and not make too much noise.]]

* ArtificialStupidity: [[RunningGag Despite this series' long affair with this trope]], largely averted this time around. There are clear, in-universe explanations for why the animatronics don't just snap your neck when you come in arm's reach of a few of them. [[spoiler:And if you find the secret [=FNAF1=] style room, Ennard ''will'' attack you from all sides, as they are hellbent on getting you into the scooping room, even if they have to drag you there themselves.]]
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: In the SoapWithinAShow, [[spoiler:once you access the secret ending, it's clear that Clara and Vlad really do care about each other beneath their constant bickering]].

* BaitTheDog: Baby at first appears to help by giving you instructions on surviving night two. [[spoiler:Then after night three, she locks you into a springlock suit to see if the technicians will find you, and nearly gets you killed.]]
* BeingWatched: For whatever reason, the management is watching [[spoiler:the houses in the neighborhood it lies buried under. The neighborhood layout is seen on the power screen, with areas labeled "observatories" -- and if you enter the right code in the secret room, you get a security camera view of the home from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4''.]]
* BittersweetEnding: In the "Real Ending", [[spoiler:you get your insides scooped out of you by Ennard so that they can escape from Circus Baby's Pizzeria. The Custom Night expands on it: [[RealityEnsues the skin starts to rot]], and Ennard is forced to exit it and escape into the sewers. Surprisingly, the protagonist ''gets back up'', and is implied to be possessing their rotting hollowed out corpse. However, the Golden Freddy cutscene makes it very clear that [[SequelHook things aren't quite over yet...]]]]

** [[spoiler:Ennard says that the Scooper will ''only hurt for a moment", and that you won't die. As with everything it says, it's only a ploy to get you to come out of the Private Room...until [[WhamEpisode the Custom Night cutscenes]] reveal that ''[[AndIMustScream it wasn't joking.]]'']]
* BreatherEpisode: The SoapWithinAShow segments that take place between each night are hilariously silly (it is a soap opera about a cartoon vampire and his lover, after all) and provide some lighthearted release from the game's scarier moments.
* BrickJoke: The automated Phone Guy counterpart has a RunningGag of asking you to type the answer to a question (i.e. "What is your name") on a malfunctioning virtual keyboard, and then inputting the answer he believes you were trying to type. On the last night, he asks you which type of gift basket you would like to receive, and misinterprets your answer as "Exotic Butters". [[spoiler:If you get the good ending, a basket of said butters can be seen sitting on top of the television.]]

** There's a secret room in Night 5, and entering it [[spoiler:results in you playing a revamped version of the original [=FNaF=] game, with doors, power meter, lights, cameras... hell, even the famous ''fan'' is there]].

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome:
** Chica is nowhere in sight as a bot or even as a poster.
** Phone Guy doesn't appear in any form in this game, not even as an Easter Egg. [[spoiler:This could potentially be rather odd, as -- if the game takes place in the 1980's -- it's very possible that he's still alive when it takes place.]]

* ColorMotif: Much like ''3'' and ''4'', this game has two color motifs: blue, and... [[GreaterScopeVillain purple.]] [[spoiler:Considering who [[TheManBehindTheMan created these animatronics]],it's justified.]]

* ContinuityCavalcade: The [[spoiler:secret room on Night 5]] has this for every game in the series.
** ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys FNAF 1]]'': [[spoiler:Limited battery and a door on either side which can be closed.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 FNAF 2]]'': [[spoiler:Three separate entrances, one of which is a vent.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 FNAF 3]]'': [[spoiler:Only one animatronic after you, but has several different angles of attack and multiple jumpscares.]]
** ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 FNAF 4]]'': [[spoiler:A Fredbear plush can be seen on the desk wearing a purple hat and bowtie.]] Also, [[spoiler:if you input "[[WildMassGuessing 1983]]" into the keypad, you get ''[[WhamShot footage of the Child's bedroom from the fourth game!]]'']]

* ControllableHelplessness: [[spoiler:At the end of Night 3, [[FissionMailed Funtime Foxy catches you]]. Night 4 begins with you inside a springlock suit, unable to move for the entire night. The only things you can do are try to keep the springlocks wound up, and wiggle to shake Minireenas off.]]

** The game itself shows that it most likely ''is''. [[spoiler:Two nameless technicians are killed and hung in plain sight on rafters, a child is ''murdered by Baby on-screen,'' and in the Bad Ending, the main character gets 'scooped' (i.e., ''disemboweled'') and Ennard, a BodyOfBodies made up of the rest of the animatronics, [[GenuineHumanHide wears his skin as a disguise]] to get out of the building. Oh, and Ennard doesn't leave the skin suit until it's rotted purple, and you get to watch it slowly decay in 8-bit 'glory'.]] You know things are going to be bad when [[spoiler:it is spelled out to you within the first ''minute'' that these things were designed by ''[[WouldHurtAChild Mr.]] [[SerialKiller Afton]] [[BiggerBad himself.]]'']]

** [[spoiler:Mr. Afton]] clearly did not think his plan of [[spoiler:creating animatronics to aid him with his SerialKiller shtick]] through very well; [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma he lost his daughter because of it]]]].
** Baby doesn't consider after [[spoiler:having Foxy ambush you that putting you, the only means of escape, into a deadly springlock suit, could kill you]].
** [[spoiler:Ennard]] doesn't seem to have a grasp of basic biology [[spoiler:if it thought it could pilot your corpse around indefinitely. Bodies ''do'' rot, after all, and the progression of the minigames in Custom Night shows the corpse's slow degradation (much to the horror of your neighbors) before Ennard finally bails on your now skeletal and [[WhereItAllBegan purple]] corpse and scampers down a storm drain. [[OhCrap And then your body]] ''[[WhamShot gets back up.]]'']]
* DoingInTheWizard: Possibly. [[spoiler:The Golden Freddy plush in the Private Room is holding a walkie-talkie, and next to a camera which has a feed of the home from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4''. It's entirely possible that anytime Fredbear seemed to speak in the other game, it was through a walkie-talkie inside him.]]

** You can press various things (including [[RunningGag various noses]]) in the elevator, the Central Control Module, and Circus Gallery. In particular, the little red button on the down-right of the elevator will produce the exact sound that you'd normally get from [[OnceAnEpisode beeping Freddy's nose]] in the other games.
** There's also a big CallBack [[spoiler:and possibly a ''ludicrously'' important [[TheReveal Reveal]]]] involving one of the keypads you can find: [[spoiler:entering 1983 in the keypad inside the Private Room will make the three TV screens [[WhamShot show images of various locations from]] VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4. What this means, exactly, is unclear.]]
* EatenAlive: [[spoiler:The fate of Mr. Afton's daughter when she finally got her much-desired alone time with her favorite animatronic out of the ones that her father made: Baby herself. It's shown onscreen in the mini-game if you go back to the start with the ice cream.]]

** While [[spoiler:Mr. Afton is scum that lured children to their death and designed robots that would lock a child inside them]], even ''he'' didn't want [[spoiler:his daughter killed by them and kept warning her away from Baby. It... [[LaserGuidedKarma didn't work]]]].

* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:Mr. Afton, [[TheManBehindTheMan creator of the CBPW animatronics]] and [[SerialKiller eleven-time child murderer]], has a slight British accent.]]
* EvilCounterpart: Handy to Phone Guy. While Phone Guy provides extremely useful information to keep the player alive during the first [[spoiler:and second]] game, Handy's instructions lead to all of the animatronics gunning for you.
* ExactWords: At one point on Scottgames.com, Scott posted a screen that said "CANCELLED due to leaks." [[spoiler:The grand opening of Circus Baby's Pizza World got cancelled because of gas leaks in the building. [[TrollingCreator Oh, you thought Scott was talking about the]] ''[[TrollingCreator game?]]'']]

* FalseReassurance: [[spoiler:"The scooper only hurts for a moment."]]
* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Said by Afton's daughter before Baby ate her: "Where did the other children go?"]]

* FinalExamBoss: [[spoiler:The hidden final encounter with Ennard is this for the ''entire series'' up to this point, with the doors/power conservation mechanic from the first game, the three points of entry from the second, the lone roaming animatronic with multiple attack patterns from the third, and the reliance on audio cues from the fourth.]]

** [[spoiler:Regardless of how well you play, Funtime Foxy ''will'' catch you at the end of Night 3, even playing a jumpscare. However, you are still alive, and instead you are put inside a springlock suit for Night 4.]]
** [[spoiler:Earlier on the same night, the player ''will'' experience the JumpScare that is Funtime Freddy's face abruptly flying open... except for once, you're actually ''trying'' to open up his face, and that just means you're halfway through the night; for once, the local Freddy isn't trying to kill the protagonist. For now.]]

** [[spoiler:On Night Four, before the playthrough starts, you're forced to watch two technicians scooping Ballora. She gets the equivalent of three heavy blows to the face and having her insides torn out.]]

** On Night 3, you have to take a trip to Parts and Services to remove Funtime Freddy's power module, opening him up and taking a good look at all of his wires. [[spoiler:When you return to perform maintenance to Baby on Night 5, opening up Baby's face reveals... nothing. There are no wires or machinery in her at all, indicating that Baby has already been 'scooped' and something very wrong is going on]]. Another indication of this is that, unlike Funtime Freddy on Night 3, [[spoiler:the Baby sitting in front of you on Night 5 ''has no eyes'', which indicates that the endoskeleton is no longer inside]].
** On Night 4, Baby mentions that she [[spoiler:has learned how to pretend]]. Come Night 5, and it turns out that [[spoiler:Baby was pretending to be your friend to put the plan in motion, and ''Ennard'' is pretending to be ''Baby'' to get you to the Scooper Room]].

** Also, on Night 5, [[spoiler:you can sprint all you like in Funtime Auditorium without triggering a Foxy jumpscare]]. This is because [[spoiler:Foxy is already part of Ennard by that point. Additionally, Ennard also doesn't jumpscare you (yet) because their escape plan requires that you first send Baby's animatronic suit to the Scooping Room]].

** Usually, players are shocked by TheReveal that [[spoiler:Ballora, Funtime Foxy, and Circus Baby had already been to the Scooping Room]], but if the player pays attention, then they would have noticed that [[spoiler:Ballora got scooped in front of the player in Night 4, Funtime Foxy was not heard or seen when going through their area on Night 5, and that Circus Baby was already only an empty husk without eyes.]]
** In a way, the tagline and the trailer's text is now foreshadowing after Custom Night's [[spoiler:Golden Freddy cutscene. "There was never just one" -- never just ''one Purple Guy'', there's now William and Mike Afton. And "anger is restless" -- well, Mike ''does'' want to find his dear old dad and pay him back for leading him to have his insides scooped out to make way for his dad's machinery, doesn't he?]]

* GasLeakCoverup: [[spoiler:The grand opening of Circus Baby's Pizza World got canceled due to some "gas leaks" in the building. It's implied the actual cause is William's daughter getting killed by Baby.]]

** [[spoiler:"Don't you trust me?" from the fake ending where you have to keep Ennard out.]]
** [[spoiler:"You won't die."]]

* MetaTwist: [[spoiler:So, you'd think the cause of the animatronics attacking you would be that they were [[HauntedTechnology haunted by murdered children]], as usual, especially Baby, as she actually did pull a child inside her to die. ''Wrong!'' Baby distinctly refers to the dead little girl as someone separate from herself, and the animatronics in general are simply tired of being treated like they're JustAMachine.]]

** In the Baby mini-game, which is light and cheerful, [[spoiler:after getting the ice cream, you can go to the start. A little girl approaches Baby, who offers her the ice cream. Baby's eyes then go blank, the screen turns dark, and Baby swallows the little girl with her stomach]].

* MultipleEndings: There's the Bad Ending [[spoiler:aka the Real Ending]], where [[LuredIntoATrap you go to]] [[SchmuckBait the scooping room]] and [[spoiler:get scooped by Ennard]], and there's the Good Ending [[spoiler:aka the Fake Ending]], where, instead of going to the scooping room, you [[spoiler:go to the Private Room, fend off Ennard ala old school ''Five Nights at Freddy's'', go home to watch more TV, and witness Ennard hobbling into the room]].

* NostalgiaLevel: [[spoiler:The [[TrueFinalBoss secret encounter with Ennard]] in the Private Room. Your goal here is to survive until 6 A.M., watching security cameras, closing doors, and managing limited power to fend off Ennard a la [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys the original game.]]]]

* NoOSHACompliance: At Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, you'll be in cramped spaces, surrounded by active machinery, and your employers aren't responsible for any dismemberment or death you may undergo (and like Fazbear Entertainment, they make no effort to hide this; in fact, they go ''even further'' with it, approaching [[VideoGame/Portal2 Aperture Science]] levels of workplace unsafety). This is justified, given that the company's name is [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Afton]] Robotics, LLC, and you're literally working for a SerialKiller]].

* OnlySaneMan: If we can believe [[spoiler:Ennard]], Ballora was the only animatronic who [[spoiler:opposed the plan to take Eggs Benedict as a human suit because she was afraid it wouldn't work]].

** Upper management searches for you [[spoiler:after Night Three. [[KickTheDog Now, this doesn't exactly end]] ''[[KickTheDog well]]'' for them...]] but... well, it's the thought that counts?
** Despite [[spoiler:getting fired in the Fake Ending, you still get the exotic butters]].

** The trailer shows Baby's face glowing and opening, ostensibly [[spoiler:her JumpScare]] since most trailers end with that. Except [[spoiler:Baby never actually jumpscares you in the game, not counting Ennard. In fact, you never see her at all except when she's "scooped" or on posters. One theory is that it's how Baby looks when the technicians shock her.]]
** The game starts you with learning how to check for the animatronics and putting them back on their stages with a corrective shock. Simple, right? [[spoiler:Wrong. These elements never come into play again beyond the first night (and briefly in the second night before everything goes to hell), as this game instead gives you a different unique task with each new night, rather than doing the same thing until six like every game before.]]

* RetCanon: The game canonizes [[spoiler:Purple Guy's last name, Afton. His first name, William, though did not get canonized until [[VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator the next game]]]].
* {{Retool}}: InUniverse. While Handy tries to make it sound like Freddy Fazbear's closure made way for the competition, the use of some of the same characters, and TheReveal that [[spoiler:Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental is located very close to, or even right beneath Fredbear's Family Diner]], make it appear that the company was just trying to rebrand itself to avoid its shady past.
* RevisitingTheRoots: The premise of playing as an after-hours pizza joint employee returns (albeit you're a technician and not a security guard) after it was played with in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3''[[labelnote:*]]where Freddy's is long gone and you play as a horror attraction night guard[[/labelnote]] and absent entirely in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4''. Reaches a whole new level when [[spoiler:reaching the secret room on Night 5 puts you into a room that plays like an upgraded version of the very first game, complete with doors, cameras, and a power meter that drains when using any of your functions]].

* RobotClown: For the first time in the series, ''all'' of the main animatronics have a clown motif, with bright color schemes and even the appearance of wearing facepaint. As if this didn't pull them far enough into the the UncannyValley, their faces are more technologically advanced than previous animatronics, with movable brows and cheeks. This leads to quite the NightmareFace when they split their faces open, revealing the robotic endoskeleton inside. [[spoiler:Though [[BodyOfBodies Ennard]] only barely qualifies here, as the most they have for ''any'' sort of theme other than BodyOfBodies is a mask.]]

** The [[spoiler:Custom Night cutscenes shows Ennard escaping from the player's rotten body into the sewers. What happens to Ennard next is unknown, but if hidden dialogue in Scott's websites were anything to go by, the other animatronics aren't very happy with Baby and are trying to get rid of her...]]

* SchmuckBait: Invoked for how [[spoiler:Baby]] was designed; [[spoiler:she keeps track of how many children there are in a room while performing. When there is only one, like a little girl she sees, her body makes ice cream to lure them closer. Then the robot is compelled to shove the child inside their stomach and hide them, with the noise from other kids and the robot's ostensibly soundproof stomach hiding the screams.]]

** Also, upper management keeps the animatronics sentient and only focuses on "scooping" them to make them behave when it'd be better to either start from scratch or [[spoiler:take away their sentience]].
* SoapWithinAShow: After each night [[spoiler:except in Night 3 and in Night 5's bad ending]], your character gets to watch ''The Immortal and the Restless'', a cheesy soap opera about the human Clara, trying to convince ClassicalMovieVampire Vlad to support their son despite Vlad's claims the child isn't his. You even eat popcorn while watching.

** Also subverted with Ballora, [[spoiler:who will kill you on other nights. With that said, Ennard does mention that she hates the plan to take your body because "she is afraid"]].
* TooDumbToLive: Even compared to Mike, Jeremy, and Fritz, "Eggs" qualifies when he comes back to his job [[spoiler:after Baby locks him away in a springlock suit to hide him from the technicians]]. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:he seems to be investigating the animatronic that killed his sister, or, alternatively, is there to try and ''see her again'']].

* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Rather than having one set method of fending off animatronics that doesn't change save for increasing difficulty, every night has you do something completely different, [[spoiler:culminating in a replica of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys one of the original game's nights]] as you desperately try to hold off [[FinalBoss Ennard]] long enough to escape the building]].

** Handy doesn't always register when [[spoiler:an animatronic is not onstage intact or in good working order]] and his orders very nearly get you killed on nights two and three.
** Baby and [[spoiler:Ennard]] when you hear their tales, especially when [[spoiler:on Night Five, Baby claims that she's guiding you to the Scooping Room so Ballora won't kill you, and even talks to Ballora in the dark. Except... Ballora and Baby were already scooped earlier in the day, meaning that you were alone with Ennard the whole time]].
* TheUnreveal: The map seen during Night 2 shows several rooms that are not explored during the game, such as the room next to Ballora's room, the room connected to Baby's room, and [[spoiler:a room connected to the Private Room]]. If you look closely, however, [[spoiler: they match the layout of the areas in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 4''. Specifically, the one next to Ballora's room is the corridor where you play the Plushtrap minigame; the one next to Baby's is Fredbear's Family Diner, the Child's house, and the road connecting them; and finally, the one next to the Private Room is the Child's bedroom, A.K.A. the primary setting of ''4'']].

* WorldBuilding: The setting seems almost factory-like, so it's possible this is some kind of Freddy Fazbear's corporate facility. Whatever the case, the nominal restaurant chain has become very widespread, along with the curse associated with it.

** Handy on Night Five tells you to look out for [[spoiler:two technicians]]. You find each of them [[spoiler:on Ballora and Foxy's respective platforms, dangling from nooses]].
** As stated before, [[spoiler:entering the Private Room and inputting 1983 on the keypad gives you camera feed of the house from ''[=FNaF=] 4''. Also, the Golden Freddy/Fredbear plush in the Private Room is holding a ''[[http://imgur.com/GTnBlPA walkie-talkie]]'']].

* ComeOutComeOutWhereverYouAre: Handy on Night Two says, "Oh Circus Baby, we aren't here to play hide and seek."

* AirVentPassageway: This time, '''you''' can crawl through the vents to escape murderous animatronics, instead [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 of the other]] [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 way around]]. The Custom Night is back to business as usual though. [[spoiler: And once you get into the Private Room, the original formula is reinstated as Ennard tries to get into your room through the vents.]]

* ArtificialStupidity: [[RunningGag Despite this series' long affair with this trope]], largely averted this time around. There are clear, in-universe explanations for why the animatronics don't just snap your neck when you come in arm's reach of a few of them. [[spoiler:And if you find the secret [=FNAF1=] style room, Ennard ''will'' attack you from all sides, as he/she/they/[[RunningGag yes]]/whatever is hellbent on getting you into the scooping room, even if they have to drag you there themselves.]]

** [[spoiler:Ennard says that the Scooper will ''only hurt for a moment", and that you won't die. As with everything it says, it's only a ploy to get you to come out of the Private Room...]]
*** [[spoiler:...until [[WhamEpisode the Custom Night cutscenes]] reveal that ''[[AndIMustScream it wasn't joking.]]'']]

* ColorMotif: Much like ''3'' and ''4'', this game has two color motifs: blue, and... [[GreaterScopeVillain purple.]] [[spoiler:Considering who not only [[TheManBehindTheMan created these animatronics,]] but may very well ''[[VillainProtagonist be the player character,]]'' it's justified.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Compared to the spin-off that came out beforehand, [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld FNaF World]], this game is ''clearly'' much darker right off the bat. And as the trailer shows, this could potentially be ''the'' darkest game in the series.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: Ennard's little subtitle on his teaser. It's a reference to how [[spoiler:[[FusionDance it's a combination of all the animatronics]], [[GenuineHumanHide and how it plans to escape the restaurant.]]]]

* FissionMailed: [[spoiler:Regardless of how well you play, Funtime Foxy ''will'' catch you at the end of Night 3, even playing a jumpscare. However, you are still alive, and instead you are put inside a springlock suit for Night 4.]]

*** Also, on Night 5, [[spoiler:you can sprint all you like in Funtime Auditorium without triggering a Foxy jumpscare]]. This is because [[spoiler:Foxy is already part of Ennard by that point. Additionally, Ennard also doesn't jumpscare you (yet) because their escape plan requires that you first send Baby's endoskeleton to the Scooping Room]].

** Usually, players are shocked by TheReveal that [[spoiler:Ballora, Funtime Foxy, and Circus Baby had already been to the Scooping Room]], but if the player pays attention, then they would have noticed that [[spoiler:Ballora got scooped in front of the player in Night 4, Funtime Foxy was not heard or seen when going through their area on Night 5, and that Circus Baby was already only a empty husk without eyes.]]

* MeaningfulName: "Sister Location" isn't just another Freddy's franchise; it has predominately female animatronics, and even has two new humanoid leads. [[spoiler:It's also where Mr. Afton's daughter died, and this qualifies if you believe that the girl's room in ''Five Nights at Freddy's Four'' was hers, that the Crying Child and his brother were her siblings, and that said brother is trying to find her in the location in the game]].

* MoralityPet: Out of all the children he knew, [[spoiler:Mr. Afton never wanted his daughter to be killed]]. It is implied that [[spoiler:this may be why he keeps coming back to the place: [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to]] ''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes see her again.]]'']]

* RetCanon: The game canonizes [[spoiler:Purple Guy's last name, Afton]]. Whether his ''first'' name ([[spoiler:William]]) is confirmed along with it is ambiguous, however.
* {{Retool}}: InUniverse. While Handy tries to make it sound like Freddy Fazbear's closure made way for the competition, the use of some of the same characters, and TheReveal that [[spoiler:the Child from ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4'' was at Sister Location, complete with toys of the main Fazbear crew]], make it appear that the company was just trying to rebrand itself to avoid its shady past.

* SequelHook: The [[spoiler:Custom Night cutscenes shows Ennard escaping from the player's rotten body into the sewers. What happens to Ennard next is unknown, but if hidden dialogue in Scott's websites were anything to go by, the other animatronics aren't very happy with Baby and are trying to get rid of her...]]

*** Whether intentional or not, the animatronics' rooms are textbook [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber Skinner boxes]] -- designed to reinforce desired behavior. Of course, the original had an option for positive reinforcement, but [[BadBoss Management seems to have left that part out]].

* TwistEnding: In multiple layers. Firstly, the ending of the game proper has TheReveal that [[spoiler:the animatronics have combined their endoskeletons to form Ennard, who murders the protagonist]]. Then, the ending of the Custom Night cutscenes reveals that [[spoiler:the protagonist ''wasn't actually all the way dead'', survives Ennard vacating his remains, and returns to life as a literal purple guy]]. ''Then'' the very last cutscene of the game, unlocked only after beating [[HarderThanHard the hardest possible version]] of Custom Night, gives us the twist that [[spoiler:this purple guy is really Michael Afton, the son of the original -- who, by the way, is still alive as Springtrap, even after Fazbear's Fright was incinerated]].

* TheUnreveal: The map seen during Night 2 shows several rooms that are not explored during the game, such as the room next to Ballora's room, the room connected to Baby's room, and [[spoiler:a room connected to the Private Room]].

--->''[[spoiler:"Father. It's me, Michael. I did it. I found it. It was right where you said it would be. They were all there. They didn't recognize me at first, but then they thought I was you. And I found her. [[ArcWords I put her back together]], just like you asked me to. She's free now. But something is wrong with me. [[CameBackWrong I should be dead]]. But I'm not. I've been living in shadows. There is only one thing left for me to do now. I'm going to come find you. '''''[[SelfMadeOrphan I'm going to come find you.]]'''''"]]''

''Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location'' is the fifth game in the ''[[Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' series by Creator/ScottCawthon, who eventually revealed it to be a new game in what was previously considered a finished series after the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld spin-off RPG game]]. The game was released on October 7, 2016; [[https://youtu.be/Uw4-bZkxyKQ you can watch the trailer on YouTube]] and [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/506610/?snr=1_5_1100__1100 order it on Steam]]. And, [[TrollingCreator in typical Scott Cawthon fashion]], [[http://gamejolt.com/games/sister-location-ma/195478 you can download the troll game, passed off as the "mature version", for free at Game Jolt]]. On December 1, 2016, a set of Custom Night modes was released as a free update.

** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys FNAF 1]]: [[spoiler:Limited battery and a door on either side which can be closed]].
** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 FNAF 2]]: [[spoiler:Three separate entrances, one of which is a vent]].
** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 FNAF 3]]: [[spoiler:Only one animatronic after you, but has different jumpscares]].
** [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 FNAF 4]]: [[spoiler:A Fredbear plush can be seen on the desk wearing a purple hat and bowtie.]] Also, [[spoiler:if you input "[[WildMassGuessing 1983]]" into the keypad, you get ''[[WhamShot footage of the Child's bedroom from the fourth game!]]'']]

** [[spoiler:Mr. Afton]] clearly did not think his plan of [[spoiler:creating animatronics to aid him with his SerialKiller shtick]] through very well; [[spoiler:[[LaserGuidedKarma he lost his daughter because of it.]]]]
** Baby doesn't consider after [[spoiler:having Foxy ambush you that putting you, the only means of escape, into a deadly springlock suit, could kill you.]]

** The meaning of ''Sister Location'' itself. Besides the obvious, [[spoiler:the game is about discovering the location (and fate) of Michael Afton's sister.]]

* EtTuBrute: Baby acts wounded in the [[spoiler:fake ending when you don't listen to her and hole up in the secret room. Except by then you know it's not Baby but rather Ennard, and Ennard wants your skin to escape]].

** While [[spoiler:Mr. Afton is scum that lured children to their death and designed robots that would lock a child inside them]], even ''he'' didn't want [[spoiler:his daughter killed by them and kept warning her away from Baby. It... [[LaserGuidedKarma didn't work]].]]

** There is also [[spoiler:Baby, who was forced to watch herself lure in and kidnap/kill a little girl without being able to do anything about it.]]

** "Don't hold it against us".

* MoralityPet: Out of all the children he knew, [[spoiler:Mr. Afton never wanted his daughter to be killed.]] It is implied that [[spoiler:this may be why he keeps coming back to the place: [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes to]] ''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes see her again.]]'']]

* NoOSHACompliance: At Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, you'll be in cramped spaces, surrounded by active machinery, and your employers aren't responsible for any dismemberment or death you may undergo (and like Fazbear Entertainment, they make no effort to hide this; in fact, they go ''even further'' with it, approaching [[VideoGame/Portal2 Aperture Science]] levels of workplace unsafety). This is justified, given that the company's name is [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Afton]] Robotics, LLC, and you're literally working for a SerialKiller.]]

* OnlySaneMan: If we can believe [[spoiler:Ennard]], Ballora was the only animatronic who [[spoiler:opposed the plan to take Eggs's Benedict as a human suit because she was afraid it wouldn't work.]]

** Upper management at Fazbear Corp notices when employees go missing because you can't dispose of a dead body if you can't find it. They also tell the employees to go home when their shift is done since [[spoiler:they won't be out of danger.]]

* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:For Ennard/the animatronics, at the very least. Through combining their ripped up parts and the murder of multiple people, they've finally escaped the pizzeria through the skin of the protagonist. However, the skin starts to rot and the neighbors start to get suspicious, so they're forced to escape into a sewer grate. Now they're back underground, stuck as a mass of wires and metal.]]

** Hey, guess what? [[spoiler:Making it so that the robots themselves abduct and murder children isn't such a great idea, since even IncompetenceInc never allowed "faulty equipment" to work in the restaurant. That's probably why they ''removed Circus Baby immediately'' after she killed someone and never let her out again, Afton.]]

** If the lines hidden in Scott's websites ([=ScottGames=] and [=FNAFWorld=]) are really between Baby and the other animatronics [[spoiler:while inside Ennard, then it shows that the other animatronics are rightfully ''pissed off'' that not only did Baby's plan not work, but it actually landed them in a worse position than before. This causes them to try to expel Baby from Ennard due to her crimes against them.]]

* RevisitingTheRoots: The premise of playing as an after-hours pizza joint employee returns (albeit you're a technician and not a security guard) after it was played with in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3''[[labelnote:*]]where Freddy's is long gone and you play as a horror attraction night guard[[/labelnote]] and absent entirely in ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4''. Reaches a whole new level when [[spoiler:reaching the secret room on Night 5 puts you into a room that plays like an upgraded version of the very first game, complete with doors, cameras, and a power meter that drains when using any of your functions.]]

** Baby's death minigame has similar gameplay with ''VideoGame/MarioBros''. The minigame's theme is "Turtle Crusher", referring to the Koopa Troopa. Oh, and ''VideoGame/MarioBros'' was released in ''[[ArcNumber 1983]]''.[[labelnote:*]]Though ironically, [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness that's the one game where Mario ''can't'' [[GoombaStomp crush turtles]].[[/labelnote]]

** Subverted with [[spoiler:Baby, who keeps you alive only to then kill you as Ennard to take your body.]]
** Also subverted with Ballora, [[spoiler:who will kill you on other nights. With that said, Ennard does mention that she hates the plan to take your body because "she is afraid".]]
* TooDumbToLive: Even compared to Mike, Jeremy, and Fritz, "Eggs" qualifies when he comes back to his job [[spoiler:after Baby locks him away in a springlock suit to hide him from the technicians]]. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:he seems to be investigating the animatronic that killed his sister, or, alternatively, is there to try and ''see her again.'']]

* TwistEnding: In multiple layers. Firstly, the ending of the game proper has TheReveal that [[spoiler:the animatronics have combined their endoskeletons to form Ennard, who murders the protagonist]]. Then, the ending of the Custom Night cutscenes reveals that [[spoiler:the protagonist ''wasn't actually all the way dead'', survives Ennard vacating his remains, and returns to life as a literal purple guy]]. ''Then'' the very last cutscene of the game, unlocked only after beating [[HarderThanHard the hardest possible version]] of Custom Night, gives us the twist that [[spoiler:this purple guy is really Michael Afton, the son of the original -- who, by the by, is still alive as Springtrap even after Fazbear's Fright was incinerated]].
* UnexpectedGameplayChange: Rather than having one set method of fending off animatronics that doesn't change save for increasing difficulty, every night has you do something completely different, [[spoiler:culminating in a replica of [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys one of the original game's nights]] as you desperately try to hold off [[FinalBoss Ennard]] long enough to escape the building.]]

** Baby and [[spoiler:Ennard]] when you hear their tales, especially when [[spoiler:on Night Five, Baby claims that she's guiding you to the Scooping Room so Ballora won't kill you, and even talks to Ballora in the dark. Except... Ballora and Baby were already scooped earlier in the day, meaning that you were alone with Ennard the whole time.]]

* WhamEpisode: The ending for Custom Night. We get some insight into who we are -- [[spoiler:Michael Afton, the son of Wiliam "the Purple Guy" Afton, who's now an undead zombie thanks to Ennard]]. Not only that, but [[spoiler:Springtrap's still alive even after the fire at Fazbear's Fright. And Mike wants to meet with his dad for a "nice" chat over his scapegoat trick.]]

--->''"With all due respect, those aren't the design choices we were curious about, Mr. Afton."'' [[labelnote:*]]In [[Literature/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes the book]], William Afton is [[spoiler:''the [[BigBad Purple Guy]].'']][[/labelnote]]

--->''"You are in the scooping room now. Funtime Foxy has already been here today. Funtime Freddy has already been here today. Ballora has already been here today. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Circus Baby has already been here today.]] I've been out before, but they always put me back. They always put us back inside. There's nowhere for us to hide here. There's nowhere to go... when we look like this. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck But if we looked like you, then we could hide.]] [[LuredIntoATrap If we looked like you, then we would have somewhere to go.]] [[YouAreAlreadyDead The scooper only hurts for a moment.]]]]"''
** From the Custom Night [[spoiler:after Ennard flees its' host body.]]

** As stated before, [[spoiler:entering the Private Room and inputting 1983 on the keypad gives you camera feed of the house from [=FNAF=] 4. Also, the Golden Freddy/Fredbear plush in the Private Room is holding a ''[[http://imgur.com/GTnBlPA walkie-talkie]]'']].

In June 2017, Cawthon's site teased a sequel to this series. On the very last day of said month, however, [[http://steamcommunity.com/games/506610/announcements/detail/1343611811951288957 said sequel was supposedly cancelled]] due to a lack of interest and a wish to "get back to what made game-making enjoyable in the first place". Unfortunately, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6lwqgs/im_sorry/ recent events]] made it clear that this time he wasn't trolling.

Then in August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/ several]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys6 Five Nights at Freddy's 6]]'' has been UnCanceled.

** For a while, the cutscene shown for clearing the Golden Freddy Very Hard mode caused one: [[spoiler:If Eggs Benedict/Michael Afton is a literal purple guy with a robotic voice, does he go on to become Springtrap as opposed to his father, William, as was previously assumed]]? Ultimately, WordOfGod cleared up the matter [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 by confirming]] that [[spoiler:William Afton is indeed still Springtrap]].

* DoomedByCanon:
** [[spoiler:The Purple Man, William Afton, won't live at the very least beyond the third game. Assuming that wasn't his son.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is Springtrap]].]]
** Given what happens in ''Five Nights at Freddy's Three'', [[spoiler:the animatronic branding also doesn't survive and will become an urban legend of terror.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Michael's monologue at the end heavily implies that William Afton either sent his son to destroy the ''murderous'' animatronics from the third installment in his stead or to this location, both situations resulting in Michael ultimately dying and he either became Springtrap or was scooped and reanimated. It’s complicated.]]
** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]], which means that Michael does get sent to this location and ends up scooped for his troubles.]]

* AirVentPassageway: This time, '''you''' can crawl through the vents to escape murderous animatronics, instead [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 of the other]] [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 way around]]. The Custom Night is back to business as usual though. [[spoiler: And once you get into the Private Room, the original formula is reinstated as Ennard tries to get into your room through the vents.]]

** It's also not clear if the player character [[spoiler:is Mr. Afton or not. One one hand, Ennard says on the alternate Night 5 route that you came back "to see her again", uses voice clips of the little girl to lure you out, and the Bad/Real ending has Ennard opening up their ''purple eyes''. On the other hand, the Purple Guy's canonical fate is to get caught in the Spring-Bonnie, which contains organs and no signs of Ennard being in it, and it's possible Ennard could have simply confused the player character for Mr. Afton.]]
** It's ''heavily'' implied, but never confirmed, that [[spoiler:Mr. Afton is Purple Guy, especially since he shares the name with the purple guy from ''The Silver Eyes'', William Afton]].
** Scott has stated that the custom night is non-canon, but it's unknown if this extends to the custom night's ''cutscenes.'' This is kind of important, given that the cutscenes show [[spoiler:Mr. Afton was indeed the player character, that Ennard eventually left his body after the game's ending, and that Mr. Afton ''survived'' or otherwise came back as the Purple Guy after Ennard left his body; likely as a spirit reanimating his own mangled body.]] Pretty big ramifications for the entire series... ''if'' they're canon.
*** As of December third, [[http://steamcommunity.com/games/506610/announcements/detail/585862253595139292 the update]] that extends Golden Freddy Very Hard mode's power supply on Custom Night has confirmed the cutscenes are, indeed, canon.
** As of the Golden Freddy Very Hard night we know there are two [[spoiler:Aftons: The technician (who will be called William) and his son Michael. We also know one is the serial killer Purple Man (probably "William" going by continuity with the book), one is Springtrap, and one is Eggs Benedict- and thus]] he's the player character. However we have no idea which character is which, as the final monologue at the end of the night is ''just'' vague enough that either character could go either way. [[spoiler:The monologue is so vague that Michael could be BOTH Eggs and Springtrap for all we know.]]
*** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]], which means that Michael is the player character that gets scooped by Ennard.]]
* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's not quite clear when the game takes place. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is said to be closed and Circus Baby's Pizza World stepped in to fill its void shortly after, but Freddy's has closed two or three times across the series. [[note]]Fredbear's Family Diner closed sometime between the fourth and second games, Freddy Fazbear's closed immediately after the second game to reopen in a new location, and Freddy's closes for good sometime in the 30 years between the first and third games.[[/note]] The TV in-between nights is even an old analog set. However, the animatronics seem exceptionally high-tech compared to even the Toy animatronics, and the set of unlockable blueprints has a copyright listing the year as "xxxx"... [[spoiler:and, just to make things even ''worse,'' the Private Room, inexplicably, has access to a video feed of ''[[WhamShot the Child's bedroom from 4.]]'']] The Custom Night update makes it worse, as it implies [[spoiler:the Purple Guy's color comes from the fact that [[BodyHorror he's a rotten reanimated corpse]] and it isn't just an artistic choice, and that ''Sister Location'' happens before ''every other game in the series'']].

** If Ennard is to be believed and isn't spouting BlatantLies [[spoiler:neither Eggs Benedict or the girl Baby killed can/will die once taken by the animatronics.]] It is later [[AmbiguousSituation seemingly]] revealed by the Custom Night cutscenes... [[spoiler:[[WhamShot that it's]] '''''[[WhamShot true:]]''''' [[WhamShot the Purple Man is the rotten husk of Eggs Benedict,]] ''[[WhamShot repossessed by its original owner.]]'']]

* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: [[spoiler:One of the game's endings has the protagonist killed by the Scooper, and Ennard wears their skin to escape the building.]]
** And then we have [[spoiler:the last of the 'street' cutscenes from the Custom Night. Basically, Ennard left the protagonist a long time ago and the rotten husk was ''repossessed'' by something if not the original owner]].

** Sister locations were mentioned as far back as ''Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3'', though this one may be a wholly separate one from the one Phone Guy mentioned there. Also, like the first game's advertisement shown at the beginning, this one's ends with "Not responsible for injury or dismemberment."

** While [[spoiler:Mr. Afton is scum that lured children to their death and designed robots that would lock a child inside them]], even ''he'' didn't want [[spoiler:his daughter killed by them and kept warning her away from Baby. It... [[LaserGuidedKarma didn't work.]]]]

* EvilBrit: [[spoiler:Mr. Afton, [[TheManBehindTheMan creator of the CBPW animatronics]] and ''[[BiggerBad eleven]]-[[GreaterScopeVillain time]] [[WouldHurtAChild child]] [[SerialKiller murderer,]]'' has a slight British accent.]]

* ForcedToWatch: [[spoiler:On Night Four, before the playthrough starts, you're forced to watch two technicians scooping Ballora. She gets the equivalent of three heavy blows to the face and having her insides torn out.]]

** In a way, the tagline and the trailer's text is now foreshadowing after Custom Night[[spoiler:'s Golden Freddy cutscene. "There was never just one" -- never just ''one Purple Guy'', there's now William and Mike Afton. And "anger is restless" -- well, Mike ''does'' want to find his dear old dad and pay him back for leading him to have his insides scooped out to make way for his dad's machinery, doesn't he?]]

* GasLeakCoverup: [[spoiler:The grand opening of Circus Baby's Pizza World got canceled due to some "gas leaks" in the building. It's implied the actual cause is the animatronics acting up.]]

* HappyEndingOverride: Zig-Zagged [[spoiler: for [=FNAF3=]. The children are still freed from their shells and pass on. However the person they ''thought'' was killed was not their original murderer. In fact, that was his ''son'' and he's ''very much alive in the Springtrap suit''.]] It's not over, far from it.
** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is actually Springtrap]].]]

* IJustWantToBeFree: [[spoiler:The ultimate goal of the animatronics.]]

* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:William Afton eventually dies in Springtrap and resurrects. Likewise, Michael Afton resurrected after Ennard left his body.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: If Michael is innocent and Springtrap as the custom night ending implies, it's certainly possible that the children's ghosts killing him by tricking him into the suit is the reason he is still alive and kicking; he was unfairly killed and stuffed into a suit, not unlike the other children.]]
** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that this is not the case and that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]].]]

* NoOSHACompliance: At Circus Baby's Pizza World, you'll be in cramped spaces, surrounded by active machinery, and your employers aren't responsible for any dismemberment or death you may undergo (and like Fazbear Entertainment, they make no effort to hide this; in fact, they go ''even further'' with it, approaching [[VideoGame/Portal2 Aperture Science]] levels of workplace unsafety). This is justified, given that the company's name is [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Afton]] Robotics, LLC, and you're literally working for a SerialKiller.]]

* PlotTwist: Thanks to Custom Night, [[spoiler:it's going to take a while to rewrite the series's Wiki/TvTropes pages as it's revealed that the Purple Man/Springtrap is not Afton. It's his son, Mike.]]
** It will take even more time [[to correct some the changes as [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap after all]]. Michael is a literal purple man, but that does not make him ''the'' Purple Man.]]

** Hey, guess what? [[spoiler: Making it so that the robots themselves abduct and murder children isn't such a great idea, since even IncompetenceInc never allowed "faulty equipment" to work in the restaurant. That's probably why they ''removed Circus Baby immediately'' after she killed someone and never let her out again, Afton.]]
** The custom night mini game shows us that [[spoiler:even though Ennard escaped with Afton's skin as a disguise, some people noticed something wrong with him after a while, even ''before'' the rotting happened.]]
** If the lines hidden in Scott's websites (Scott Games and FNAF world) are really between Baby and the other animatronics [[spoiler:while inside Ennard, then it shows that the other animatronics are rightfully ''pissed off'' that not only did Baby's plan not work, but it actually landed them in a worse position than before. This actually causes them to try to expell Baby from Ennard due to her crimes against them.]]

* RememberTheNewGuy: [[spoiler:It turns out that at least a few of Purple Guy's appearances in the minigames throughout the series was not him, but his son. It's speculated that William is the murderer, but that his son worked as a guard.]]

* SequelHook: The [[spoiler:custom night minigames cutscenes shows the origins of the Purple Guy, and shows Ennard escaping, who is implied to have spilt apart judging by its eyes positioning in the dark. The big question now is what has happened to Ennard, since they weren't involved in the Purple Guy murders as was previously believed by some fans.]]
** The very final cutscene, unlocked after beating Golden Freddy Mode on its hardest setting, ''very'' heavily indicates a sequel is in the works, and will be set after the events of FiveNightsAtFreddys3, making it chronologically furthest forward in time the series has gone. It implies [[spoiler:that the Purple Guy who became Ennard, re-possessed his own corpse, and eventually became Springtrap was never actually William Afton the killer, but rather his son Michael. We hear a message from Michael to his father briefly recounting the events of the game (or possibly [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 the third game]]; [[AmbiguousSituation the wording is fairly ambiguous]]) from his point of view, and then makes a promise: "I'm going to come find you." The final shot is of [[WhamShot a very-much-intact Springtrap moving around in the burned-out ruins of Fazbear's Fright]].]]
*** [[spoiler: Made somewhat less ambiguous with [[WordofGod Word of God]] confirming that this is not the case and that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]]. This doesn't change the fact that Michael is still coming after his father.]]

** The use of shocks to force the animatronics to perform is a reference to the Stanley Milgram experiments that tested human compliance, where test subjects were led to believe they were asked to shock real human beings and to keep shocking them after hearing them call for help. [[spoiler:The experiments showed that roughly 2/3 of all participants were willing to inflict what they believed were fatal shocks on other human beings, [[JustFollowingOrders as long as they were ordered to by an authority figure]]. The only way forward, of course, is to [[ButThouMust live out that tradition]].]]

** Baby's death minigame has similar gameplay with ''VideoGame/MarioBros''. The minigame's theme is "Turtle Crusher", referring to the Koopa Troopa. Oh, and ''Mario Bros'' was released in ''[[ArcNumber 1983]]''.

* StartOfDarkness: [[spoiler:This game seemingly serves as one for the Purple Man. Not only does he lose his daughter to his own animatronics, but said creations also kill him and wear his corpse as a disguise until it rots and literally turns purple, at which point they ditch him and he (somehow) still lives. However, a set of blueprints in the files and the fact Fazbear's (at least one version of it) was already shut down before it imply that he was already (trying to be?) a child killer even before all this.]]
* StealthPrequel: [[spoiler:It is ''heavily'' implied in the main game (then ''outright stated'' in [[WhamEpisode the Custom Night]]) that the events of this game serve as the origin story for [[GreaterScopeVillain the Purple Man himself.]]]]

* TwistEnding: In multiple layers. Firstly, the ending of the game proper has TheReveal that [[spoiler:the animatronics have combined their endoskeletons to form Ennard, who murders the protagonist]]. Then, the ending of the Custom Night cutscenes reveals that [[spoiler:the protagonist ''wasn't actually all the way dead'', survives Ennard vacating his remains, and returns to life as the Purple Guy]]. ''Then'' the very last cutscene of the game, unlocked only after beating [[HarderThanHard the hardest possible version]] of Custom Night, gives us the MetaTwist that [[spoiler:William Afton isn't the Purple Guy who died in Springtrap, rather that was his ''son'' who he sent in his place and the animatronics mistook him for. And Afton Jr.'s name is ''Mike'']].
** [[... that is until[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that this is not the case and that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is Springtrap]]. But that still means that Michael did get sent into Circus Baby's to get scooped out, leading to two Purple Guys.]]

* UpToEleven: The new animatronics are to the [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 toy animatronics]] what [[Videogame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 the Nightmares]] were to the originals.
* VillainProtagonist: There are hints scattered throughout the game that the protagonist ''may'' be Mr. Afton, [[spoiler:AKA the Purple Guy. The Custom Night cutscenes reveal this to be true. And then [[ShockingSwerve it swerves]] with the cutscene after V.Hard Golden Freddy Mode. Turns out it may not be the Mr. Afton we thought it was, but his ''son''.]]

* WhamEpisode: After the patched custom nights ending. Pretty much a lot of theories and beliefs fans had can be called into question. [[spoiler:We get some origins of the Purple Guy, or at least what made him insane! Oh, and you may have been playing as Purple Guy, who might still be an active serial killer who sent his son Mike Afton (who may also be the true protagonist of this game) to get killed to avoid being murdered by the ghosts of his victims and became transformed into a implied Springtrap who's revealed to have survived the fire from 3. And Mike wants to meet with his dad for a "nice" chat over his trick.]]
** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is still actually Springtrap]], but that does not soften the amount of wham the inclusion of Michael Afton to the story has.]]

** Though it ''may'' just be a coincidence, at the very end, after [[spoiler:Ennard has Scooped the player character and used their skin as a disguise to escape out into the world, we are shown a silhouette of a man looking into a mirror. As the OminousPipeOrgan slows to a stop, the man opens his eyes. His [[RogueProtagonist glowing]], ''[[VillainProtagonist purple]]'' [[VillainProtagonist eyes]]]].

** The Custom Night ending has one: [[spoiler:Ennard fleeing the now rotten, ''[[VillainProtagonist purple]]'' corpse... which then [[BackFromTheDead stands back up, with glowing silver eyes fading into view in what were previously empty sockets.]]]]

*** [[spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] has confirmed that [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is Springtrap]].

*** [[spoiler: Made somewhat less ambiguous with [[WordofGod Word of God]] confirming that this is not the case and that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]]. This doesn't change the fact that Michael is still coming after his father.]]

*** [[Made somewhat less ambiguous with spoiler:[[WordofGod Word of God]] confirming that this is not the case and that[[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/7b27bf/game_theory_fnaf_the_final_theory_five_nights_at/dpf8b3p/?context=3 William Afton is indeed Springtrap]]. This doesn't change the fact that Michael is still coming after his father.]]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Michael's monologue at the end heavily implies that William Afton either sent his son to destroy the ''murderous'' animatronics from the third installment in his stead or to this location, both situations resulting in Michael ultimately dying and he either became Sringtrap or was scooped and reanimated. It’s complicated.]]

* FamousLastWords: [[spoiler:Said by Afton's daughter before Baby ate her: "Where are the other children?"]]

** Handy on Night Two mentions that he can change his voice to something more suitable. [[spoiler:You assume that the voice talking to you on Night Two is Baby, but it's revealed on Night Four to be Ennard]].

** In a way, the tagline and the trailer's text is now foreshadowing after Custom Night[[spoiler:'s Golden Freddy cutscene. "There was never just one" -- never just ''one Purple Guy'', there's now William and Mike Afton. And "anger is restless" -- well, Mike ''does'' want to find his dear old dad and pay him back for 30 years of springlocked torment, doesn't he?]]

* LamarckWasRight: [[spoiler:William Afton resurrected after Ennard left his body. His son Michael eventually dies in Springtrap and likewise resurrects.]]

* MeaningfulName: "Sister Location" isn't just another Freddy's franchise; it has predominately female animatronics, and even has two new humanoid leads. [[spoiler:It's also where Mr. Afton's daughter died, and this qualifies if you believe that the girl's room in ''Five Nights at Freddy's Four'' was hers, and the Crying Child and his brother were her siblings]].
* MetaphoricallyTrue: If the minigames in the non-canon Custom Night are to be believed, [[spoiler:when Ennard tells Eggs (really [[VillainProtagonist William Afton,]] or [[AmbiguousSituation so it seems]]) that he won't die, they aren't lying... after they burst free from his rotten corpse and leave to find another host, ''he gets back up.'']]

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Michael's final monologue implies that, after escaping Fazbear's Fright as Springtrap, he's gunning for his father that put him in the situation that caused his transformation in the first place.]]

* TooDumbToLive: Even compared to Mike, Jeremy, and Fritz, "Eggs" qualifies when he comes back to his job [[spoiler:after Baby locks him away in a springlock suit to hide him from the technicians]]. Somewhat justified in that [[spoiler:he seems to be investigating the animatronic that killed his daughter, or, alternatively, is there to try and ''see her again.'']]

* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:Michael's monologue at the end heavily implies that William Afton sent his son to destroy the ''murderous'' animatronics in his stead, a situation that Michael ultimately died in and became Springtrap when they mistook him for his father.]]

* CanonImmigrant: The game canonizes [[spoiler:Purple Guy's last name, Afton]]. Whether his ''first'' name ([[spoiler:William]]) is confirmed along with it is ambiguous, however.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: [[spoiler:Michael's final monologue implies that, after escaping Fazbear's Fright as Springtrap, he's gunning for his father that put him in the situation that caused his transformation in the first place.]]

In August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/ several]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys6 Five Nights at Freddy's 6]]'' has been UnCanceled.

In August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/ several]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys6 Five Nights at Freddy's 6'' has been UnCanceled.

In August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/ several]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddy's6'' has been UnCanceled.

In August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/ several]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest ''Five Nights at Freddy's 6'' has been UnCanceled.

In August 2017, Scott released [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6sflkw/megathread_for_the_bts_images/]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6udby3/the_freddy_files_spoiler_release_thread/ teasers]] that heavily suggest the game has been UnCanceled.

In June 2017, Cawthon's site teased a sequel to this series. On the very last day of said month, however, [[http://steamcommunity.com/games/506610/announcements/detail/1343611811951288957 said sequel was supposedly cancelled]] due to a lack of interest and a wish to "get back to what made game-making enjoyable in the first place". Unfortunately, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/6lwqgs/im_sorry/ recent events]] made it clear that this time he wasn't trolling. While Scott never specifically stated that [=FNaF 6=] was cancelled, it appears to have been indefinitely shelved due to Scott wanting to "take a step back from the series".