Ascended Fanon / Five Nights at Freddy's

All spoilers will be unmarked ahead. You Have Been Warned!

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In General:

• Due to some characters initially having No Name Given, Fan Nicknames often made the rounds.
  • Golden Freddy was originally a fan nickname for the strange, yellow-colored Freddy that sometimes appeared in your office after showing up on a poster in the first game; the exact origin of the name is unknown, though Markiplier likely popularized it by naming the video where he encountered it "WAS THAT GOLDEN FREDDY?!". Scott Cawthon then referenced him by the name in his Geeks Under Grace interview, seen here.
  • "Phone Guy" was originally a fan nickname, until Ultimate Custom Night officially called him that.
  • Before he was given the canon name of William Afton, the franchise's Big Bad Serial Killer was dubbed "Purple Guy" by the fandom (the name seems to originate from Markiplier, unsurprisingly). The nickname was canonized in Update 2 of Five Nights at Freddy's World (though technically it was canonized earlier when the troll game had its Final Boss named "Purplegheist"), and later brands who made merchandise out of the franchise such as 8-Bit Figure would also refer to William as such.
  • The original animatronics' incarnations in the second game were given the fan nickname of "Withered" to distinguish them from their incarnations in the first game. While the nickname isn't used in the canon timeline, it has been used in games that feature both incarnations, starting from Five Nights at Freddy's World.
  • Similarly, the miniature Freddies that come out of Nightmare Freddy have been nicknamed "Freddles", which was later used in Five Nights at Freddy's World.
  • "Helpy" was originally a Fan Nickname for the chibi-Funtime Freddy that appeared in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. Ultimate Custom Night makes it his official name.

Five Nights at Freddy's:

• It was thought that beating 4/20 mode (all AI's set to 20) in Custom Night was impossible — then Let's Player Big Bug pulled it off. Scott responded by adding a third star for beating this mode (the first is for beating the five official levels, the second is for beating the sixth night).

Five Nights at Freddy's 2:

• One common question among players of the first game was if the protagonist could evade the animatronics by hiding in a Freddy suit, if they believe he's an endoskeleton. Guess what you can do here?
• Foxy's leap attack in his jumpscare is oddly reminiscent of the end of this video.
• Details like the Bite of '87 happening on a birthday are confirmed to be fact.

Five Nights at Freddy's World:

• JJ was dubbed "Balloon Girl" by the fanbase, and it caused a debate whenever she was a different animatronic or a Distaff Counterpart of BB herself (since we had no confirmation that it wasn't just a hallucination on Jeremy's or Fritz's part). JJ was later added to the teaser image, gained long eyelashes, appeared alongside Balloon Boy, and got a female voice in Update 2, meaning that she's a separate character and is actually a girl. The trailer and game officially confirmed that her real name is JJ.

Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator:

• One drawing in the Office of a child being given a soda is actually a nod to one of artist LadyFiszi's more controversial artworks done prior to Scott Cawthon hiring her.

Ultimate Custom Night:

• Possibly unintentional, but after so much anime-styled fanart of the series both genuinely and as a joke, it's finally in an actual game. You may start screaming.

Five Nights At Freddys VR Help Wanted:

• In prior games, it's an Easter Egg and a Running Gag that clicking on a particular poster, drawing, or plush of Freddy's nose triggers a honk sound. From this, fans have widely joked or wondered if the actual Freddy animatronic's nose honks when touched. This game confirms it when the player must tap the "large black button on the center of Freddy's face".
• There's been many fan animations depicting Chica as a Big Eater who loves to chow on pizza. In this game, Chica is perfectly fine with being fed slices of pizza during Parts and Service, and in the Pizza Party level, Chica can be seen running towards an open box of pizza before disappearing—and is in dismay if all the slices are gone. She even proclaims herself to be "a bird who likes to eat" in her lyrics for the unused Showtime performance.
• Back with the first game, a lot of people assumed that Chica is the back-up singer for the band because it's not made clear on why Chica would be there if it looked like she wasn't doing anything alongside Freddy and Bonnie. The currently unused (at the time of this writing) Freddy Fazbear's theme confirmed this.
• Certain mechanics in the levels of the game are adapted from the original games in the same way as the Garry's Mod maps of those games, most notably the security cameras appearing from the computer on the desk instead of a tablet in Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, and Five Nights at Freddy's 3, the flashlight instead being a button to see down the hallway in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, and the jumpscares cutting away to be in your face in a dark screen rather than showing the animatronics attacking you in the environment.

Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery:

• Mangle's secondary head having a different, and male, voice/personality from the rest of them (her?) was used fairly often in fan works.
• Ballora crawls around like a spider like in many fan works, though this was something Scott himself had previously confirmed.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach:

• Downplayed, but an arcade game titled House of the Bear features what is quite clearly Ignited Bonnie on its case, suggesting that the The Joy of Creation games exist within the canon FNaF universe.

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