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Why? Considering all the evidence or things supporting that he could be him, there's also a ton of theories of Purple Man being everyone else, including the Doll and other characters, such as Jeremy. So why isn't he? Well, [[spoiler:in the minigame where a ghost child chases after Purple Man, so he gets stuck in Springtrap, he has dismantled the Animatronics, which is most likely after the first game. And Phone Guy died before the end of the first game.]]

* Pretty much jossed, it isn't the creation of anyone. [[spoiler:Except that of your imagination's, or possibly the murderer's.]] Either way, it's a phantom, as is everyone except Springtrap.

[[spoiler:"My name is Spring Trap"]]. One of months of the Spring is April.

[[WMG: Golden Bonnie is actually Shadow Bonnie from the second game and the [[spoiler:suit that the murderer used.]]]]
Regular Bonnie has teeth only on his lower jaw, Toy Bonnie has a full set of teeth only on his lower jaw and two buck teeth on his upper jaw while both Shadow Bonnie and Golden Bonnie have full sets of teeth. [[spoiler:Phone Guy said that someone used a yellow suit but he never specified which one.]]

** [[spoiler:[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5y79CZeBxo Confirmed.]]]]

** Original poster here, and the statement was meant as "security guards in-general". Mike is the most likely candidate, obviously, but [[spoiler: it's unclear if Jeremy was the bite victim, the scapegoat for the murders, or a traumatized witness to the actual victim of the Bite of '87. If it's one of the latter two, there's a chance he could come back. Personally, I believe it was probably the first option, but Scott's also thrown us a blind before, so it's safe to leave the possibility open]]. We also don't know anything about the day shift guard who was there before Jeremy, or if there was a guard from Fredbear's Family Diner who might know something. [[spoiler: Or if Phone Guy, alive or dead, will make a return]].

Instead, it refers to the one being that always comes back. [[spoiler:[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou The player.]] Remember, an early teaser phrase was, "They are watching us"...]]

[[WMG: In the overall arc of the games, Freddy isn't the most dangerous animatronic, or even the most important one. It's [[spoiler:Bonnie.]]]]

Take a look at all three trailers. What's the one thing they all have in common? [[spoiler:Bonnie. Specifically, Bonnie moving in some way, or doing something to indicate he knows someone's there]].

* Trailer One: [[spoiler:Bonnie running down the hall, and removing his face directly into the camera]].
* Trailer Two: [[spoiler:Bonnie coming to life and then appearing in the office with blinking eyes]].
* Trailer Three: [[spoiler:Bonnie's eye turns to look at the camera. And the fact that something we can call a Golden Bonnie even exists]].

From Website/ThisVeryWiki, on the first game's WMG page, [[spoiler:prior to the second game, Freddy, Foxy, and Chica all had evidence -- somewhat backed by canon -- of why they could be the culprit of the Bite of '87, minus one joke theory of it being Bonnie because he's the one everyone least suspects. Taking a look at the trailers, what if that's true? What if Bonnie knows something the others don't, and lets everyone assume Freddy's the most dangerous one? Even Rebornica has hinted to him knowing more than he lets on in their characterization of him, and it's no secret that Scott has a morbid fascination with Bonnie, considering he was the animatronic that gave him nightmares, and the one who gets the creepiest makeovers and Easter eggs.]]

[[spoiler:Furthermore, what color is Bonnie? ''Purple''. What color has marked the important human characters in these games? ''Purple''. What color are the "He always does" words? ''Purple''. Even if the phrases from the trailer refer to someone else entirely, ''Bonnie is involved somehow''. It could even be argued that his state of disrepair is a hint to this, seeing as Bonnie is the one who's falling apart the most. And why not dismantle the most troublesome bot for parts first?]]

[[spoiler:He either knows something or did something, and his involvement will be made clear in the next game.]]

This troper's friend shared another thought to add to this. [[spoiler:In the trailer and game screencaps, we see evidence of most the animatronics in the box or around the new place...but who's one of the ones who hasn't been put in the box or converted into a lamp? ''Bonnie''.]]
* Edited to add [[spoiler:Bonnie's head was seen as a lamp in one of the stills, so the last point is Jossed....maybe. The endoskeleton of Golden Bonnie could still be the original Bonnie's. But one other point this troper missed is Bonnie has always been notoriously aggressive, thus giving a little more credence to him being the most dangerous.]]

* Golden Bonnie/Springtrap being regular Bonnie is Jossed: [[spoiler:In the Night 5 minigame, the Springtrap costume can be seen seperately from Bonnie's dismantled self]].

Another thought to add to this. [[spoiler:InUniverse, Toy Bonnie went from purple to blue as part of a marketing redesign. But what if the change from purple to blue was an intentional move on Scott's part to keep the original Bonnie unique? Toy Chica and Toy Freddy kept their color schemes, but Toy Bonnie changed ''drastically'' compared to his counterpart. And I believe Scott's got it on record that he doesn't add any details without a reason.]]

* Confirmed, sort of. He makes an appearance as a Phantom, and [[spoiler:plays an important role in the very last minigame.]]

* Confirmed with regards to "Golden Bonnie" being the only animatronic, and to some extent with the presence of other characters/suits that aren't technically animatronics. Jossed with regards to everything else, although [[spoiler:the insides of the suit heads in "Bad Ending" are lit up, presumably to represent the still-trapped souls within.]]

* Jossed. [[spoiler:It's one of the older suits that was designed to switch from a costume to an animatronic, which was discontinued because of how faulty the locks were]].

* Jossed. No such article appears - on the contrary, [[spoiler:the creature contained the corpse (and possibly soul) of the murderer all along, and the player was sitting inside a firetrap all along.]] No idea if you actually get killed by the creature when you get caught, but it's not hard to guess.

* Oh good God. If you ''are'' the Murderer's son, that means [[spoiler:''[[OffingTheOffspring your own father's]] '''[[ArtificialZombie corpse]]''''' [[OffingTheOffspring is trying to kill you.]] Nobody should have to go through that.]]

* [[spoiler:Confirmed! The place burns to the ground after Nightmare mode is completed.]]

* Jossed. Purple Guy isn't in much of a position to make deals with anyone. [[spoiler: He's kinda dead.]]

* Unless you count the hallucinations, there's no indication of the old parts still being haunted. However, there ''is'' a greater degree of paranormal activity in this game compared to the rest. Not just the hallucinations (which ''could'' be residual haunting), but also in the Easter Egg minigames and the 5th Night minigame. The latter [[spoiler:shows the Purple Man being chased by the ghosts of the murdered children]], while the former [[spoiler:features minigames where the animatronics try to reach the lost, dead children and help them to move on]].

* Partially Jossed. No one seems to harbour any misgivings about the animatronics. However, the old place was scavenged by the new management, and the old suits did get disassembled... [[spoiler: by the Purple Man.]]

* Jossed, [[spoiler: unless there's room for more than one body inside. The murderer's occupying the suit posthumously.]]

* Let's make this even more horrifying: On night 6, the animatronic doesn't wear a suit, and we get to see what it looks like under it. [[spoiler: It wasn't an animatronic at all. It was the killer the whole time.]]
** [[spoiler:The killer being underneath the suit is confirmed, in a way. He's pretty much a zombie though.]]

...and one of them will have letters that spell out [[spoiler:I-T-S-M-E]]
* Jossed. [[spoiler: We have "life minigames" instead, and no weird voice spelling out words.]]

* Confirmed, sort of. Phantom versions of the old animatronics show up and scare you, but Springtrap is still the primary antagonist. [[spoiler: The original murderer does show up as well... somewhat.]]

This just seems so obvious after [[spoiler: the ending of the second game.]] [[spoiler: Given the implications that the restaurant in the first game is the fourth incarnation of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and the restaurant in the second game is the third, plus the implication that the various child murders have taken place at all four of the restaurants, then we can conclude that the facility in which FNAF 3 is set takes place in the second incarnation of the restaurant, and that the murders to which the summary refers are the original murders that took place at the original family diner.]] This is further supported by the fact that [[spoiler: we've never seen Golden Bonnie before, which implies that Golden Bonnie, and by extension perhaps Golden Freddy as well, are among the ORIGINAL animatronics from the first diner.]]
* The Steam Greenlight page pretty much josses that theory immediately. This game is set 30 years after the first or second games, and Fazbear Entertainment is long gone. The location is a horror attraction designed to cash in on the horror stories and urban legends of the restaurants' child murders and unnerving animatronics. There's really no alternative interpretation with what Scott said.

* [[spoiler:Confirmed]]

* Jossed, [[spoiler:but the last part isn't.]]

[[WMG: Who we now know as Bonnie [[spoiler: was the original Freddy.]]]]
[[spoiler:Simply put, Fredbear was just the owner's name, and the original Freddy in Fredbear's Family Diner was a cute if somewhat tacky rabbit animatronic. But when they expanded the lineup, a mixup occurred and the bear animatronic was mistaken for 'Freddy Fazbear', and the owners just went with it, giving the original Freddy the bear's intended name, Bonnie.]] ''And he wants his proper name back.''
* [[spoiler: Bonnie ''does'' look like Freddy with a smaller muzzle and longer ears placed differently on his head. And if the rips on the sides of Golden Bonnie's head are any indication, it could be a hint that the original Bonnie had his own endoskeleton ears adjusted/moved.]]

* For the most part, Confirmed. [[spoiler: The Marionette ''and'' Golden Freddy were both child victims, and their actions ''are'' sympathetic. However, the games don't show if they were horrified by their actions or not.]]

It's [[spoiler: the Marionette's]].
* Building on that, [[spoiler: It is both. Golden Bonnie is the Marionette covered in the remaining parts of the other animatronics. Look at the proportions. Both are very tall and lanky.]]
** [[spoiler: Golden Bonnie ''does'' seem to have pinprick eyes at the core...]]
** The name also works well with where [[spoiler:the Marionette]] came from in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' and how the Phone Guy referenced it as [[spoiler:always thinking]]. That could make Spring Trap infinitely more dangerous in a one-on-one scenario than any other animatronic.

...[[spoiler:[[IncrediblyLamePun Sir Prize]]!]]

...at first. Late in the game it will be revealed that [[spoiler: it's actually Golden Bonnie calling you, speaking with Phone Guy's voice. Golden Bonnie may-or-may-not contain the remnants of Phone Guy's corpse between its suit and its endoskeleton.]]

* Mostly Jossed, but partially Confirmed, as Springtrap ''was'' in the old location, but [[spoiler: was hidden behind a wall near the bathrooms. Also, he's a separate character.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed. Their offical names are Phantom Freddy, Phantom Chica, and Phantom Foxy.]]

* Jossed. It's [[spoiler:an older suit designed to transform to and from an animatronic]].

* The after-level minigames give us the answer. [[spoiler:He's the murderer, who tried to take refuse in Spring Trap's suit but fell victim to its poorly made spring locks]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5y79CZeBxo It's revealed]] that [[spoiler: Golden Bonnie was used for the child murders, and the Purple Guy got in the suit, but something inside crushed him to death...and he is in the suit.]]

Anybody remember the death minigames from FNAF2? Well, it looks like they're back. And this time, [[spoiler: they have you playing as the original cast of animatronics, which follow a purple Freddy sprite to a corner of the restaurant, and get ambushed by the purple guy, who disassembles them.]] These take place after the first nights of the game, and so far, none of them have come after the player, implying that they've [[spoiler: been killed off for real]]. For similar reasons, Foxy might not be making an appearance, either.

[[WMG: [[spoiler: We watched the Purple Guy die in the trailer.]]]]
[[spoiler: [[http://imgur.com/a/7FBhQ As demonstrated here,]] the animation of Purple Guy's death strongly resembles the twitching Springtrap makes in the teaser trailer.]]

Up until this point, we have not seen [[spoiler:humans]] in the ''Five Nights'' franchise. Upon seeing [[spoiler:the corpse of the murderer inside Springtrap]], it's not in a realistic form: it's styled in much the same way as Scott has done everything else.

[[spoiler:In the good ending, Fazbear's Frights burns to the ground. That's it! The nightmare is finally over!]]
* [[spoiler: I have just the worst feeling that Scott wouldn't have included items being auctioned off if this ordeal was finally over...]]
** [[spoiler: The "true ending" unlocked by beating all the mini games seems to confirm that the children's spirits are finally at rest and Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy and Chica are gone for good. Considering that auction however, Springtrap might still be around...]]
*** [[spoiler: [[http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/8BrickMario/things/springtrapnewspaper.png Brighten the Night 6 newspaper.]] Springtrap's survival is [[SequelHook CONFIRMED.]]]]
** There's a theory that [[spoiler: there were two sets of murdered children. If that's true then only one set was put to rest.]]
** There's also this: the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsatFreddys2 FNAF2]] animatronics were trying to kill you [[spoiler: ''before'' the five children were murdered.]]
*** No, because the previous night shift guy, who was moved to the day shift, [[spoiler: likely committed the murders in the empty restaurant during his shifts, so their souls have only recently occupied the classic animatronics]]. Also, it is hinted that they Toy 'bots have been acting strangely around adults and being over-protective of children, [[spoiler: meaning the murderer re-programmed them so that they cannot read adults' faces anymore.]] Which is why, as the new night guard, both sets are gunning for you: they can't tell you apart from [[spoiler: the Purple Guy]].

** Partially Jossed...while there is a Part 4, that game takes place around [[spoiler: possibly the Bite of '87]] meaning that chronology, this is indeed the end, as far as the 4 games go. As of this writing, it's unknown where the upcoming new game, Sister Location, will fit in the continuity.
** Completely {{Jossed}} now, as VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator takes place after this game [[spoiler:and is the new GrandFinale too]].

As the game tells us [[spoiler: the kids' souls finally caught the killer and finished him off inside the Spring Trap animatronic.]] As a result, their spirits are not inhibiting the lamps or anything of the sort. Scott already told us [[YourMindMakesItReal it's all in our heads]]. Meaning those poor kids are finally free.
* [[spoiler:Confirmed. If you rescue all of the children in the minigames, then go back to the Puppet's minigame, you get to watch the children's spirits move on.]]

Originally, we were lead to believe that the murderer was the one who haunted the Golden Freddy suit, which explains its otherworldly powers and terrifying role. However, with the reveal that [[spoiler:the Purple Man lived past [[VideoGame/FiveNightsatFreddys FNAF1]]]], this means that he couldn't have haunted anything. The minigames also show the [[spoiler:destruction of the original animatronics via the Purple Guy, which releases the kids inside]]. There's only one kid that we know of that might not have been shoved inside a suit: the kid haunting the Marionette, who is presumably the one we play as in the last minigame. Maybe since the kid wasn't shoved in a suit, said kid wasn't linked to any specific suit and could choose a host at will. This explains Golden Freddy's appearance in the first game, his appearance of looking at Freddy between nights in the second game (just like the Marionette did in that very same game), and his (presumed, as he's kinda hard to see) appearance along with the other [[VideoGame/FiveNightsatFreddys FNAF1]] heads in TheStinger of the third game instead of the puppet. This could also help explain Golden Freddy's otherworldly powers; because the kid haunting Golden Freddy isn't 'linked' to the suit like the others, he/she doesn't have to play by the suit's rules.
* [[spoiler:Jossed. In the good ending where you get to see the children's spirits move on, Golden Freddy and the Marionette are shown to be two different children.]]

[[WMG: Springtrap [[spoiler: survived the fire.]]]]

* [[spoiler: [[http://www.brickshelf.com/gallery/8BrickMario/things/springtrapnewspaper.png CONFIRMED.]]]]

It was Mike Schmidt who, for some unfathomable reason, was actually upset about being fired by Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Alternatively, he decided he was going to do something about the deadly animatronics once and for all. Either way, he came into the restaurant after it had closed with the intent of destroying the animatronics, the idea that they would've been scrapped by Management (rightly) never entering his mind. He does so, finds the sealed off room, and uses it to ambush the animatronics when they go into their Free-Roaming Mode. What Mike never expects is this causes [[spoiler:the spirits of the children to be freed from their imprisonment inside the suits, and they attack what they believe to be the person who killed them. Mike desperately flees from them, and ultimately takes refuge in the Spring Trap suit, possibly believing it would make them think he was one of them or otherwise protect him. Then the springs release, killing him. Perhaps the true irony of this scenario is that, in killing him, the souls of the children believe their vengeance complete and move on, while poor Mike is now the only one haunting a suit]].
* That might’ve been another employee in a purple suit tasked with dismantling the animatronics. [[spoiler:The children obviously can’t tell the difference, so they haunt him regardless]]. [[DownerEnding The real murderer might still be out there]], and that’s why non-Bad Ending (notice it’s not a ‘good ending’) [[spoiler:lacks the Golden Freddy suit]].
* Which, as the above troper alluded to, is why it's the '''Bad''' Ending; [[spoiler:the children's ghosts aren't getting justice and stopping a murderer, they've condemned another human (a previous player character, no less -- so in a meta sense, you got your own player character killed and thus lost the game the same way as if you'd let an animatronic get into your office) to suffer the same fate they have. The reason why Mike starts laughing when he puts the suit on is that he's gone LaughingMad at the random realization that they've finally got him in a suit and Phone Guy was wrong -- [[TemptingFate the suit isn't cutting him up at all!]] Then, within seconds, suddenly the suit's mechanics DO activate and kill him]]. Now try watching that minigame again and take any pleasure in [[spoiler:the Purple Man's fate]] with this WMG in mind.

Basically, someone [[spoiler: bought those pieces in an auction]] and either placed them in a toy museum or made one wholesale as an exhibit on the 'Freddy Fazbear murders'. Much like the first few games, you will play a security guard working the night shift to make sure no one breaks into/defaces the exhibit. Except you didn't know the exhibit will try to kill you.

[[WMG: Purple Guy had Alzheimer's at the time of [[spoiler:his death]].]]
It had been at least thirty years since the murders and Purple Guy's sprite doesn't seem to dissuade that he was around 30 or 40 at the time. He had led a rather normal life since the murders until he began to relive that night. Eventually, he went back to the restaurant and dismantled the animatronics that came his way. [[spoiler: On the fifth night, he had hallucinations of the children and he found a stored animatronic to try to kill his demons. That sealed his fate.]]

[[WMG: The Hallucinations are [[spoiler: the murdered children's ghosts]].]]

And they truly mean you no harm. In fact, they're trying to ''save'' you. [[spoiler: Since they have had their vengeance on their killer, they now know or remember ''specifically'' who killed them. Now they see you trapped in this building with their killer, who is going to try to do the same to you, they're trying to scare you away so you leave your job and are then safe from Springtrap. As to why they don't attack Springtrap directly, they're aware of the faulty wiring and the impending fire, and know that the Springtrap problem is gonna take care of itself anyway, they just want you to GTFO to safety before it happens.]]

[[WMG: Spring Trap's name refers to [[spoiler: the eventual fate of its wearer]]]]

As shown at the beginning of the second part of Markiplier's playthrough, Spring Trap clearly has [[spoiler: a human skeleton]] stuck in him. Given that Phone Guy's tutorial for the 3rd night explicitly references [[spoiler: what would happen if the springs in the wearable suits snapped back: namely, that it'd kill the wearer in much the same way they'd die in the original FNAF]], and even sites a mechanical reason for how this could occur accidentally, and it seems almost obvious. To [[spoiler: whoever was wearing the suit at the time]], the name certainly fits.

That's why you're hallucinating the previous animatronics coming after you. The malfunctions that coincide with their appearance are just coincidence; the place has a really sucky computer system. (Springtrap is real, though.) [[spoiler:It's also why the place burns so easily; gas leak plus faulty wiring equals impressive fire.]]

* [[spoiler: Confirmed, except for the part where he wanted to die. His death was completely accidental.]]

** Seems to be Jossed. [[spoiler: We don't know how he kills them, but the Puppet shoves the already dead children into suits in the second game]].

* A sequel, where The Freddy Fazbear License is absorbed by a not so different amusement park of some kind. [[spoiler:The twist is that the only reason they kill you was [[AndIMustScream because they are]] [[DemonicPossession possessed]], and [[BenevolentAI truly mean no harm.]] It would make a challenge to [[DamnYouMuscleMemory your muscle memory]] to say the least. [[TokenEvilTeammate Springtrap, on the other hand]]... see the "A New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza will open after the events of the game..." entry below for similar concept...]]

** More jossed: It's his older brother's nightmare after getting flashbacks of his greatest mistake: [[spoiler:Fratricide]].

The reason Golden Freddy acts differently is because the last child's spirit is extra traumatized from watching all their friends being killed and then being forced to possess the suit that the murderer himself was wearing. This child is [[spoiler: the same one you play in the last minigame who scares the Purple Man into the Springtrap suit]].

[[WMG: The Purple Guy [[spoiler:survived the suit]].]]
* Notice that when the [[spoiler:the suit crushes him]], he never actually [[spoiler:stops twitching]]. And now he’s [[spoiler:coming at you, and he’s stronger thanks to the metal parts in the suit, but slower because of the agonizing pain]].
** [[spoiler: No living being could survive that torture for ''30 years'' without sustenance or water. Plus it's stated that even if you don't die instantly, you're guaranteed to bleed out.]]
*** [[spoiler: He lives in a pizzeria. He might not be living on a very good diet, but he has sustenance, water, and a lavatory. As for bleeding out, maybe the animatronic parts stopped the blood from pouring out.]]
*** [[spoiler: No he wouldn't. The electricity and water would've been cut off from an abandoned building, and closed restaurants don't leave food lying around. No toilet, no food to cook, and no way to prepare it anyway. And his blood? Oh, you mean ''all the blood that burst out of him'' in the final minigame? Not to mention the Phone Guy recordings explicitly mentioned someone who was trapped in the suits would bleed out? Yeah, you don't lose that much blood and live, especially without medical attention. Also, the animatronic eyes are sticking out through his eye sockets, which means they would've pushed through his brain. Go on, explain how he survived, perfectly conscious, after his brain was squashed into mush. We'll wait.]]
*** [[spoiler: But we see what he looks like under his suit. Flesh rotted away, reduced to a blackened skeleton, arteries poking out, some organs here and there...]]
*** [[spoiler: Gangrene and congealed blood. His condition might’ve worsened because he decided to finally make his move once the horror attraction was built, for some reason.]]
** Perhaps [[spoiler: the children wanted to make him suffer the fate he forced on them, trapped for years in a rotting body within the animatronic, mindlessly acting out an empty revenge.]]
*** [[spoiler: This is the ''only'' possible way he could still be "alive" in any fashion, is if it's supernatural. He sure as heck wouldn't have lived after that kind of maiming on his own.]]
** Is it possible that he [[spoiler:went into a coma]]?
** [[spoiler: Look closely at the interior of Springtrap. The only part of his chest visible is rotting blobs of meat, and there's no evidence of a neck. There's no concievable way Purple Guy is alive in any form.]]
*** [[spoiler: He's not alive... [[TheUndead but he's still active.]]]]

* Aside from the same coloration and apparent design (especially with GF in 2), it would explain why the Golden Freddy suit acts so weird compared to the others, as well as being summoned rather than actively gunning for the protagonist in the first game. After the incident where it crushed an employee (and was subsequently haunted by their spirit, since this is how these things work in these games,) it was sent to the location from 2 to get it out of their hair. Once that happened, it was used by the Murderer to lure the five children, where it then got double haunted by one of the children's spirits. It's weird behavior in 1 can be chalked up to both spirits having different agendas, and the reason its eyes are vacant is because the head of the suit got retracted when they were (presumably) cleaning it out at the sister location [[spoiler: This also explains why, in the Bad Ending, it has both eyes illuminated rather than the one that the other four heads have; it's harboring two souls, so both eyes get lit up.]]

[[WMG: [[spoiler: The Purple Man wants your body.]]]]

A minor one, but we see [[spoiler: the Purple Guy get into the suit, and almost immediately get pulverized.]] Who warns us throughout the entire game about the dangers of the [[spoiler: spring lock suits? Phone Guy. If the Phone Guy was the murderer, he would have been much more careful in using the suit as a hiding place, or not even wanted to consider it. After all, he knows what happened to the last guy who got stuck in one.]]
* [[spoiler: Confirmed]]. Phone guy seemingly dies on night 4 of [=FNAF1=], but [[spoiler:the murderer came back after the restaurant was left to fall apart.]]

[[spoiler: His last message at the end of FNAF 1 asks you to go check on the suits, insinuating that he died. Now that we know that some of the suits are genuinely wearable and that he knows how to do so, it's quite possible that he faked his own death and was attempting to lead ''you'' into a trap. Also, his first reaction upon seeing the ghosts of his victims is to get ''into'' Springtrap: something an outsider would not consider; but the aging suit failed, which he would not have expected, and that killed him.]]
* [[spoiler: The Phone Guy was one of the few people who actually was aware of how incredibly unsafe the Springtrap was, so it's actually unlikely that he would even consider wearing it, much less start doing sudden movements while inside it like the murderer did as that was one of the very things the Phone Guy warned about in his recordings.]]
** [[spoiler: The Purple Man didn't seem to want to jump into the Springtrap suit, however. It was clearly an act of desperation. It's certainly possible he took the risk because he felt he was choosing between ''guaranteed'' death by the ghosts or only ''a chance'' at death with the suit. He may have laughed either in so much relief that he forgot the danger, because he thought the danger of the suit had passed after successfully getting it on without incident, or maybe just in hysteria at being faced with death and such a lose-lose situation.]]
* It didn't need to be a trap for you. It could easily just be that, with all of the animatronics bearing down on him, and knowing he couldn't get far, he fled to the one place he knew they couldn't follow: the secret room ([[spoiler: we have no proof Phone Guy actually died after that call]]). Still in the building, he may have been essentially trapped, waiting for Mike to come get him, but he never did. So, instead, [[spoiler: he uses the inaccessibility of the room to ambush the animatronics to clear a way out]]. Unfortunately for him, [[spoiler: when he finally gets the last animatronic, the ghosts corner him and he accidentally gets himself killed with Springtrap as a final gamble at escape.]]

Not that the game explicitly mentions how the souls of the children and [[spoiler: Purple Guy]] were trapped within the suits in the first place, but given that it mostly seems to involve having the body stuffed inside an animatronic, and since Phone Guy was likely killed that way back in FNAF 1, it's not unreasonable to imagine that his soul might be hanging around, similar to that of [[spoiler: the murderer]]. Granted, perhaps the latter was denied closure for some reason, and perhaps the kids chose to hang around because of their grief/desire for revenge, but Phone Guy having similarly been murdered without any good reason, he might also have a grievance to settle.

Hence why there is no death screen when the Fright Guard gets cornered; Springtrap murders him in such an unbelievably gory, gruesome, ''violent'' fashion that Scott didn't feel comfortable showing it and he couldn't rely on dialogue to convey it (since no one else in the game had been killed that way before, so no one could warn the player of it), so he left it for us to interpret, figuring we'd realize how bad it must've been once we realized what Springtrap really was. The reason why Springtrap does this is because [[spoiler:the Murderer is working off extreme negative emotion (like ''a lot'' of '''''rage''''') over his painful death and prolonged imprisonment at the hands of his own victims (which probably pisses him off even more, knowing that he'd been killed by children he'd ''already'' killed), without getting to kill ''anyone'' for decades,]] and the poor guard just so happens to be the first person in range when he activates. Additionally, there were no animatronics other than himself to stuff the Guard into, forcing him to get a little more creative than usual.[[note]]Imagine Springtrap trying to stuff the Guard into HIMSELF, especially with that rotten corpse still inside, though. Yikes.[[/note]]

The Shadow animatronics are meant to represent Golden Freddy and Springtrap, or rather, [[spoiler:their original iterations]]. As shown in one of the minigames, Golden Freddy and Springtrap [[spoiler:were potentially the two original animatronics at the first location]]. Now, the post-day minigame cutscenes require you to follow what appears to be Shadow Freddy through an abandoned version of the pizzeria from the first game. Occasionally, you can see Shadow Bonnie walled up in one of the west halls. Who else was walled up in the pizzeria? [[spoiler:Springtrap]]. Which two animatronic suits were presumably used by the murderer? [[spoiler:Golden Freddy for the killings, Springtrap for the attempted escape]]. In short, Shadow Bonnie is a silhouette of what Springtrap looked like before decaying, while Shadow Freddy is a darkened version of Golden Freddy's original, pristine appearance. The Shadows are remnants of what the restaurants could have been if tragedy had not struck.

The Golden Freddy ghost (the one who is effectively in control of BB, Mangle, Toy Chica, and, obviously, Golden Freddy, with the sprites appearing as they do to represent her) takes charge of trying to make the other children's ghosts happy throughout the years, comforting them all and remembering to celebrate every other child's birthday each year, snapping them out of their depression, hence the cake presented to them in the minigames and the children's looks of surprise. After [[spoiler:the Murderer arrives, the Golden Freddy ghost recognizes him and uses him to set her friends free like she is by telling Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy who it is and leading them to him so he can destroy the animatronics they're trapped in. They don't include the Marionette, whom they either haven't forgiven or don't think is up to facing the Murderer. They then attack and terrify the Murderer together -- remember those hallucinations experienced in the first two games? That was ''one'' ghost. Try ''five''. With them driving him out of his mind with terror, ultimately turning him LaughingMad, they pressure him to jump into the Spring Bonnie he killed them in, then use their powers to activate its spring-locks and kill him. They leave the dead Murderer and call the Marionette into what used to be the Dining Area when the pizzeria was still active; the Marionette arrives to find that the children's combined powers have created an hallucination of a room full of children at a party. The dead children appear to reunite with the Marionette and enjoy one last moment before they destroy the Marionette's body to free the first child and all of them cross over. For bonus points, it was on the second child's birthday that this happened, which is why the Golden Freddy ghost takes the seat at the table in the hallucination and why the Marionette presents her cake in the minigame; they're celebrating her birthday the way she's celebrated theirs for years.]]

But it will be fine. The animatronics will be perfectly safe as [[spoiler: they aren't possessed by the ghosts of the children]], there will be no more child murders as [[spoiler: the Purple Man is dead]], and the owners will actually take responsibility when they need to and will really put kids first.

The Happiest Day mini-game showed the six dead children [[spoiler:whose balloons went up at the end]], but there are five children shown leading up to that at the "party." As the six children at the end clearly represent the Marionette, Golden Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Freddy, and Foxy, the other five children might represent the ghosts who had controlled the Toy animatronics in the second game[[note]]Good God, did they have to CHOP UP the kid who went into Balloon Boy?![[/note]]; these spirits could have already been set free after the events of the second game with the destruction of the their corresponding animatronics, making their presence in the mini-game symbolic.

If Springtrap causes them, they symbolize [[spoiler:"special" victims of the Murderer -- the ones who had special significance to him, maybe the ones he enjoyed killing most or the ones who confronted and killed him at the end]]. If the latter is true, he might even be accidentally (in a way) making them appear, with [[spoiler:his own lingering memories/fears being projected to you]]. He is consciously inflicting these hallucinations on you to terrorize and unbalance you as well as make it easier for him to kill you. The reason he can make these hallucinations appear so much more than they did in the first two games is that the shoddy ventilation situation negatively affecting the Fazbear's Fright Guard so much makes it far easier for him to reach out and plant them in the Guard's mind.

If they are ghosts, there are a few options: they are the ghosts of the Missing Children and/or the ones who [[spoiler:killed the Murderer]], they are the ghosts of additional child victims of the Murderer's, or they are the ghosts of the guards killed by the children/animatronics in attempt to get revenge. Either [[spoiler:they've returned to Earth because of what's going on (the Fazbear's Fright attraction and Springtrap being activated), or [[TearJerker not all of them moved on in the first place]]]]. So why are they attacking you? They're ''furious'' about having something so horrible that happened to them get turned into a horror attraction with everyone so into what happened at Freddy's and paying no respect to the victims (i.e. them), and they're taking it out on you, like, "Okay, we'll show you something ''really'' scary." It wouldn't be the first time the ghosts targeted the person not responsible for their anger. It's possible that, in the case of the children, they still can't differentiate between you and the Murderer, so they are attacking the guard again but are too weak now to kill him. After all, they've been killing night guards for ages without realizing it's not the same guy who killed them, so they might not realize that [[spoiler:they ''actually got the right guy'', hence why they think "He'll always come back."]]

Now we move from their present forms to their past lives. When they were human, Balloon Boy loved Fazbear's Diner and dreamed of having a birthday party there; his brother, who was a bit too old for such things, didn't like the idea, but begrudgingly went along with it when his parents insisted. The Puppet took his brother for a walk on his birthday, which was to end at Fazbear's for a surprise party. As they walked to the restaurant where their parents and all of Balloon Boy's friends were waiting for the surprise, the Purple Man, who worked at the diner and knew the plan, pulled up in an official Fazbear car and told the brothers that "Freddy had sent him" to take Balloon Boy to a special party just for him! The Puppet figured this was part of the act (remember, [[spoiler: this happened in the 1980's, long before cell phones were in common use]]), and Balloon Boy eagerly accepted. The Purple Man, smiling broadly, killed him on the spot. This explains why [[spoiler: the voice of Balloon Boy is used to lure Springtrap--the Purple Man's spirit remembers this kill as his "first."]]

So what does this have to do with Fazbear's Fright? Well, the [[spoiler: first secret minigame you play has you controlling Balloon Boy; it's necessary to complete this one in order to have the tools (balloons that are used as platforms) to finish the others properly]]. When you do this, [[spoiler: the Puppet realizes that unlike other security guards, you want to ''help'' his little brother and the other ghosts; this is why he simply stares at you when he enters your office]]. The Hallucinations [[spoiler: are the children's spirits, still bound to their animatronic forms, rushing to see you and make sure you really ''are'' nice. With each minigame, you give one of these souls the opportunity to attend a party and thus escape their imprisonment.]] In the [[spoiler: final minigame, the Puppet is finally able to give Balloon Boy his birthday party, which soothes the older child's guilt and anger over not saving BB; now at peace, he and all of the other trapped spirits are free to move on, breaking the curse of Fazbear Inc.]] And to tie the theory up, what form do [[spoiler: the freed souls of the children take in that final minigame? That's right--balloons.]]

[[WMG: Purple Man [[spoiler:died before the first game, not after.]]]]
Stay with me here. It's generally assumed that the Purple Man [[spoiler:broke into the first game's resteraunt after Mike was fired, and destroyed the animatronics.]] However, Phone Guy states in his message that [[spoiler:They were sealing off the safe rooms for unexplained reasons, and that they were '''leaving everything inside'''.]] That would give a meta-implication that Springtrap was inside [[spoiler: the first game's resteraunt's safe room the entire time, but it becomes a moot point when it turns out that the Purple Man unsealed the safe room and then later died in it.]] Also, the Surfer Guy said that Springtrap was found inside of a boarded-up room in the old resteraunt, which means that the room was boarded up after this had occured.

There's multiple theories on this page that explains why that is. [[spoiler:Namely, the Purple Man broke into the resteraunt at some point after Mike's firing with the intent to lure the animatronics and destroy them, in order to hide the evidence of his crime. He unsealed the safe room to use it as a hiding place from the animatronics, and the ghosts of the children forced him into Springtrap's suit, then boarded the room up.]]

Those theories make sense, but let me propose an alternate theory. [[spoiler:It was stated that there were multiple Freddy Fazbear locations, including one that apparently was known as Fredbear's Family Diner at one time that was owned by someone else. My theory is that Fredbear's was the location of the first game. Freddy Fazbear's purchased the building and converted it into their own resteraunt. Then they opened up the sister-location. They later closed both resteraunts and opened the new and improved Freddy Fazbear's that was the setting of the second game. At some point in this timeline, the Purple Man murdered the children and disposed of their bodies inside the old animatronic suits. At a later time, he used the safe-room to bait the animatronics and disabled them, in order to clean the corpses out of the suits (remember that customers had complained of blood, mucus, and a stench coming from the robots) so that he can get away with his crime before anyone connected the dots (it's possible that someone did, and the place was under investigation, forcing him to hide the evidence.) Eventually, the spirits cornered him, and he climbed inside of Springtrap, resulting in his death.]]

[[spoiler:After this happened, the management discovered Purple Man's death and decided to cover it up (since their spring-locked hybrid suits have killed other employees, and didn't want to deal with the headache. The management is very amoral, but we all knew that.) However, it was morning, and they couldn't dispose of the corpse because the build will soon open and they didn't want any witnesses, so they ordered that the safe-rooms be boarded off (they were already planning on doing so, but the Purple Man's death sped it up), leaving the corpse inside.]]

[[spoiler: Anywho, eventually the New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's closed down after the events of FNaF2 thanks to the investigation into the murdered children and the arrest of either Jeremy Fitzgerald or his predecessor, whom didn't actually commit the crime. Strapped for cash, the management eventually managed to reopen, but they had to return to their very first building, the one they had originally purchased from Fredbear's. The one that still has the Purple Man's corpse inside. Eventually Mike Schmidt was hired, and the events of the first game occurred. He was eventually fired, and the place closed down for good due to bad business (also, the deaths of Phone Guy and an unknown number of other night guards whom the management had covered up. Hey, disposing of bodies is costly and tends to cause negative rumors.)]]

Fast forward thirty years, and the efforts of the night guard hired for Fazbear Fright finally put the spirits of the dead children to rest. I know this theory is full of holes ([[spoiler: like why are the animatronics violent towards Mike and Jeremy if they already got vengeance on the Purple Man?]]), but I like to believe for the creep factor that [[spoiler:Springtrap and the dead Purple Man were inside the building with you in FNaF1 in the sealed-up safe room]], and this is the only theory I can come up with to make that believable.

* There may be an explanation for why the animatronics are still violent in this theory. [[spoiler: Remember, Purple Man pulls up outside the original diner in a car. He's still around when it becomes a pizzeria. And every single Freddy Fazbear's has a "safe room" that's a child predator's dream come true, allegedly used for "equipment storage". How can this work unless Purple Man is the man behind Freddy Fazbear's?]] Also, remember that Spring Bonnie was ''not'' supposed to be in that safe room -- Phone Guy specifically says "Management has been informed that Spring Bonnie has been noticeably moved". [[spoiler: What if the animatronics are hunting the person who killed their "father"?]]

Phone Dude has a bit of an OhCrap upon realizing that Springtrap wasn't where he left him and is never heard from again after putting on Old Phone Guy's messages. Yes, those old messages play the next few nights...but remember that the first game established pre-recording and playing messages at a set time is possible, as the original Phone Guy did it, and his last message played ''after'' [[spoiler:his death]], so it's possible Phone Dude set these already pre-recorded messages up to play in case he forgot or simply to save himself trouble later (which given his personality, isn't a stretch), but then was killed by Springtrap at some point in the night as his first victim. Given Springtrap spends an entire week trying to kill you and [[spoiler:[[SerialKiller what he really is]]]], why would he leave Phone Dude alone? As for why no one discovered he was missing, remember that Springtrap [[spoiler:had a habit of hiding his victim's bodies]] when he was still alive.

It seems strange that Bonnie would be missing in the finale, considering his presence in previous games. He's not among the Phantoms, and [[spoiler: Springtrap is assumed to already be haunted by the Purple Man.]]

Except the animatronics were implied to be sentient and alive in previous games. Meaning that, depending on how far into MechanicalLifeform we're going in this series, those Phantoms could be [[spoiler: the ''animatronics''' ghosts.]] The reason they're still around is that the hardware containing their AI [[spoiler: (and acting as phylacteries for their Phantoms)]] are intact and present in Fazbear's Fright. The chips for Freddy, Chica, Foxy, and Mangle are in the scrap box in the Office, along with the remains that aren't being used as lampshades. BB's voice box is being controlled from the Office using hardware salvaged from BB and the Puppet.

Bonnie's AI chips, however, were used to replace Springtrap's own hardware, which had become inoperable due to age, neglect, [[spoiler: damage from the amount of force with which they were shoved into a human body]], [[spoiler: damage from exposure to blood and gore from said human body]], etc. Phantom Bonnie is now Springtrap's AI, [[spoiler: and is once again possessed, this time by the Purple Man's ghost.]]

* This magic could also [[spoiler:keep him alive as an undead zombie within Springtrap while he thought up ways to get back to his original form. Maybe it could even dull his pain a little.]]

Just finished posing a question in Headscratchers: How is the Springtrap suit mobile when the last thing known to be in it was [[spoiler:a human corpse]] and there's no sign that Fazbear's Fright had a complete endoskeleton (since Springtrap is considered their biggest find to date). As the headscratcher was completed, a thought occurred: In ''Five Nights 2'', there was a naked endoskeleton that could appear in the Prize Room and one of the vents. It's notable for being the sole animatronic not out to murder you. That's changed since then. Fazbear's Fright ''did'' have an endoskeleton. This one, and it was used for Springtrap. Only now that [[spoiler:the murderer's soul]] is possessing the animatronic, it's affected the endoskeleton too, prompting it to kill you when it might have left you alone otherwise. Fortunately, this works both ways, as any murder attempts by Springtrap are hampered by obeying the endoskeleton's programming to follow the noise looking for children to entertain.
* Surely if the Fazbear Fright employees were to do that they would discover the [[spoiler:purple mans body]], unless most of these employees are from the original Freddy's and are TooDumbToLive so theory kind of has a hole or two.
** On the other hand, they ''do'' have the training tapes that explain just how the "Spring-Bonnie" suit works and its dangers. If they discovered [[spoiler:Purple Man]] inside, they could easily assume it was a tragic accident based on the tapes (which, among other things, actively encourage [[spoiler:going to the safe room to die if the suit gives out while you're in it]]).
* Well.. now that you mention it considering the creators of Fazbear Fright doing what they are doing already, It wouldnt be suprising that they have No respect for the dead. [[spoiler: Even if the victim in springtrap is a batshit psychopath with a possible dislike to children]]
** Not that any one would have a way to know that last part. To a casual observer (and Phone Dude is nothing if not casual) it would look like just another hapless victim of Fazbear Entertainment's business policies.

* So Pretty much yeah. No respect for the dead

[[spoiler:Springtrap (or, as it was called before the murderer was killed inside it, Spring Bonnie) was an animatronic as well as a suit. That means it must have had an AI. As Phone Guy said in the second game, the animatronics get along with children just fine. Assuming the murderer used this suit and not Golden Freddy, could Spring Bonnie have been aware while Purple Guy was wearing it and murdering kids?]]

[[spoiler:If so, perhaps wracked with guilt over being used to lure kids to their demises and forced to watch its body killing children and not being able to do a thing about it, the AI took on the form of Shadow Bonnie to help punish (or at least frighten) whoever the animatronics perceived the murderer to be. (Question: In the second game, on what night does Shadow Bonnie first appear?)]]

[[spoiler:In one of the third game's minigames, Shadow Bonnie helps to give a child a cake. If it was the murderer, why would it do that? Also, Shadow Bonnie's minigame and itself are rather glitchy, which would kinda make sense if it were an AI...]]

[[spoiler:When the murderer came back, its fellow AI, Shadow Freddy, (from Golden Freddy) lured the original animatronics to him, hoping they would dispose of him. When they were instead dismantled, while unfortunate for the AIs of those animatronics, his actions freed the children's ghosts. Thus, when they frightened Purple Guy, he hid inside the rabbit suit. Because it had spent years developing the ability to affect the outside world, Spring Bonnie was able to do what it couldn't have done the first time around; activate its own body's mechanisms and kill Purple Guy.]]

[[WMG: The Murderer is an alt. universe version of the [[VideoGame/HotlineMiami2WrongNumber the Miami Mutilator]]/[[spoiler:[[AttentionWhore Manny Pardo]]]]]]
[[spoiler:I don't know about you, but I think the real star of Fazbear's Fright is the Murderer. Though it would've been better if they made a movie about him and not that chicken-masked freak.]]
* [[spoiler:And now there's a movie coming out. [[HilariousInHindsight Son of a bitch]]]].

There were no murderers, there were no dead children, there wasn't even a pizzeria. 'Five Nights At Freddy's' was a game show where a contestant had to survive five rounds fending off 'killer' animatronics (likely either people in mascot suits or {{Funny Animal}}s if that's your thing), and if they make it all five nights, get a big prize of some sort. Night 6? Double or nothing. Custom Night at 4/20, 10/20, or Aggressive Nightmare Mode? ''Triple'' or nothing. Mike, Jeremy, and whoever FNAF 3 PC is are the only ones who made it through all seven nights cause most people choke in the middle of the week, decline to try nights 6 or 7, or fail there. All this talk of 'murderers' and such? Just part of the 'lore'. And before you ask 'who would watch that?', well, what do you think we do when we watch Lets Plays? [[spoiler: Honestly I just want one universe where Freddy and co. are just normal people who shoot the breeze, bitch about their boss, make plans after work, and are besties with Mike or something.]]

[[WMG: Springtrap caused the [[spoiler: Fazbear Fright Fire]]]]

While there is Little evidence to support this, it kind of occured to me that perhaps Springtrap himself is the culrpit for the [[spoiler: Blaze that took down Fazbear Fright.]] After many failures of trying to kill the night guard, Springtrap took the most extreme action it could ever achieve after all else failed, If we can beleive some theories that Springtrap is the one causing the hallucinations then it might imply that he would go as far [[spoiler: as setting the place alight to kill you]] It also worked two ways as he also [[spoiler: got out of the establishment by being part of its salvage]]

* It's the final game in the series and the mascots in the teasers seem to be ''deliberately'' terrifying and dangerous, with sharp claws and fangs (and that Freddy that seems to be made entirely of Freddy heads...). Putting the player in the role of a detective would make a handy avenue to both set them onto solving the mystery, and since [[spoiler: Springtrap survived the fire and may have been sold at auction]] there's a chance that whoever bought him and built the creepy mascots has actually put together an obsessive death trap, not unlike the ''Saw'' movies.

God thought that by [[spoiler:Purple Guy]] [[IronicHell suffering the same fate as his victims]], it'd [[HeelRealization make him realize the error of his ways.]] [[ArtificialZombie Didn't work as planned.]]

Knowing [[BadBoss Fazbear entertainment]], it would've been unlikely that he'd have to worry about them discovering his actions. Maybe Purple Guy was being overly careful, or maybe he realized [[HauntedTechnology what happened to his victims post-mortem.]] Feeling mercy for once, he decided his victims had suffered enough and thought he could break them out of the animatronics. Or felt responsible for the hauntings of Freddy Fazbear, and tried to save them another haunting. Of course, his ghost victims didn't realize that, causing him to panic and [[spoiler:[[KarmicDeath get Springtrapped.]] ]] The [[EvilLaugh laughing?]] Relief/panicking at doing something [[PetTheDog like this for once]]. Note that this doesn't mean [[HeelFaceTurn he became a better person]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards he just didn't thinks his victims should suffer THAT much.]] [[spoiler:His fate in Springtrap]] is a chance to [[TheAtoner atone for his sins]], given for his moment of kindness instead of just being sent to Hell.

And coming back to dismantle the bots? It's ComicBook/TheJoker. His reason for doing so can literally range from "needed for a scheme" to "ForTheEvuLz" (as terrible as it is, it'd be in-character to break the bots solely to get pictures of the insides to send to the grieving parents and Batman). And if [[spoiler: Springtrap's ''somehow'' still alive after all these years]]? [[JokerImmunity It's not like the Joker hasn't somehow walked off worse]].
** To add onto this crack theory - since the release of ''Pizzeria Simulator'', one could even interpret Cassette Man [[spoiler:''as Batman himself'' - he has a baritone, and actually does pull a BatmanGambit on Springtrap - and considering that Joker is technically already dead in Springtrap and has been ''for years now'', Bats, being the TechnicalPacifist he is, would have no reluctance in wiping out his undead form, as it does not really break his ThouShaltNotKill code if he destroys something that's already dead. Besides, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity he's already done that before.]]]]

He took the job because of being a parapsychology buff who had followed the Fredbear/Fazbear stories, and wanted to be a part of them, however remotely. This made him uniquely receptive to the children warning him in his dreams, showing him the mini-game between nights 1 and 2. He brushed it off as the excitement getting to him until getting to work. While settling in, he dozed off for a bit before his shift and experienced the Night 2 mini-games, which woke him up just in time for his shift to start. Seeing Springtrap and hearing Phone Dude's reaction on the phones (as has been presumed in other [=WMGs=], that Phone Dude actually lost track of him and [[spoiler:possibly killed by him before he could flee]] convinced the guard that it was all real.

Knowing that the animatronics are per-programmed to lock in place during normal hours of operation, the guard made a choice akin to but not exactly like a HeroicSacrifice by choosing to stay in the building and keep Springtrap distracted with the help of Phone Guy's prerecorded training tapes. Learning that it was [[spoiler:a suit rather than a simple animatronic]] made him realize he couldn't just let Springtrap wander around free for six hours: think of the body count!

So as the week went on, the guard made plans and preparations to dispose of Fazbear's Fright. He purchased several cans of kerosene and began dousing the establishment in it. While this made him more susceptible to ventilation errors and caused more frequent shorts in the wiring, it was necessary for his final objective. On the day after Night 5, however, he made an almost fatal mistake after learning who was really inside [[spoiler:the Spring Bonnie suit]] and taunted Springtrap with its impending demise. Knowing that it was doomed, it turned everything up and went all out--hence his increased aggressive behavior in Nightmare mode. Ultimately it failed, and so the guard declared his final victory and torched the building.

For starters, remember the last ([[spoiler: "Purple Guy dies"]]) minigame? Bonnie there was cyan, not lavender. Also, in order to access the Night 5 (the one with the Glitchy Shadow Bonnie) you have to click on a Shadow Bonnie figurine on the right side of your desk... which is a dark Toy Bonnie figurine. Without his guitar.

With the suits acting as animatronics, they'd be able to perform during the day and entertain children. With the people inside of them, they'd walk around and keep an eye out for anything suspicious. They'd be able to walk inside and out of the safe rooms, at least if we go by the fact that [[spoiler: the Purple Guy was able to operate Springtrap, and his thrashing around evidenced that he was able to move in the safe room, even if not actually mobile]]. They would be able to defend the children and hold back the murderer, or at least alert the authorities. Of course, due do an unspecified accident involving the spring suits, the were put out of commission.

* Considering that [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 FNAF 4]] [[spoiler:is a midquel to ''2'']], and that there will not be a FNAF 5, it's safe to say that Springtrap is probably gone. [[spoiler:His head in the newspaper is intact, yes, but it's probably destroyed either way. As for the Purple Man, his soul was freed, but moved on to {{Hell}}.]]

* But WAIT, there's more! The Marionette is in the attraction and resurrects Springtrap. Why? The Marionette recognizes Mike as a victim of the Purple Man. It's spent its entire existence trying to save the souls of his victims with the hope that one day they'd all be set free by getting revenge against him, only for those it managed to save to finally end up being disassembled to where they can't go after the Purple Man. And the only way they'd be able to finally get set free is with the destruction of the Purple Man's body. Mike, the only one who had the strength to escape the Purple Man, may have been the only one of them that had the determination to be able to destroy the Purple Man and the last of the victims who is able bodied enough to be able to end it once and for all. On the final night, Mike sets fire to the attraction in hopes of finally putting an end to the nightmare and finally giving him some sort of peace from years of carrying the trauma (be it in death by the fire or by ending up in jail). However, Mike's attempt to the end of the horror only results in most of the animatronics to be destroyed and the souls set free, leaving the Marionette and Springtrap to escape and continue on, at least until [[spoiler: Henry's plan is put into motion, having one of his animatronics capture the Marionette, and having set up a bigger trap to capture any remaining animatronics, including Springtrap, to finally finish off the long-running horror.]]

* Confirmed. It is [[spoiler: Another purple man, not the one you'd expected.]]
** Jossed, [[spoiler:Pizza Simulator reveals that it's the William Afton Purple Guy, not Michael. There was a case of MistakenIdentity.]]

Again, as children they thought that scaring you away would be the best course of action - not realising that it made it easier for who they thought was the killer [[spoiler:(because as we now know, Michael was the son of that killer)]] to reach you. After all, the Phantoms don't start doing anything until Phone Dude tells you "You're not gonna believe this, we found one - a ''real'' one!"

Of course, this also 'freed' Michael in a sense. No more child ghosts to keep him in place? Time to find [[spoiler:dear old dad...]]

[[WMG: The protagonist of this game is [[spoiler: [[FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator Cassette Man]].]]]]
Just a random theory that came into my mind while watching a livestream of the sixth game. [[spoiler: Cassette Man was trying to free the dead children and kill William Afton once and for all in this game, but failed, so he created the estabilishment of the sixth game instead...]]

Except for the Marionette, [[spoiler:who is still around in the Pizzeria Simulator]]. While the kids got their happy ending, they were still not good enough for Heaven so they had to return [[TheAtoner in order to atone for their actions]]. That's why the Phantoms show up and scare you-they're the kids trying to scare you off from the attraction so as to not be killed by Purple Guy/Springtrap. Of course they're still [[UndeadChild undead children]] so they're not that good at it, but points for trying.

Scott seems to be a bit of a fanboy for Markiplier as seen in his comments in a few of his videos. And considering the fact that Mark constantly gives shoutouts to Scott (which no other LPer ''ever'' does), it almost seems impossible that Scott ''doesn't'' reference Mark in the game, no matter how small.

** To add onto this crack theory - since the release of ''Pizzeria Simulator'', one could even interpret Cassette Man [[spoiler:''as Batman himself'' - he has a BadassBaritone, and actually does pull a BatmanGambit on Springtrap - and considering that Joker is technically already dead in Springtrap and has been ''for years now'', Bats, being the TechnicalPacifist he is, would have no reluctance in wiping out his undead form, as it does not really break his ThouShaltNotKill code if he destroys something that's already dead. Besides, [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity he's already done that before.]]]]