TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Ask The Tropers

Go To

Have a question about how the TVTropes wiki works? No one knows this community better than the people in it, so ask away! Ask the Tropers is the page you come to when you have a question burning in your brain and the support pages didn't help. It's not for everything, though. For a list of all the resources for your questions, click here. You can also go to this Directory thread for ongoing cleanup projects.

Ask the Tropers:

Trope Related Question:

Make Private (For security bugs or stuff only for moderators)

sgamer82 Since: Jan, 2001
2021-12-24 19:37:02

Administrivia.Speculative Troping can help with a guideline.

It's a bit tricky, since a lot of FNAF lore can be implication or inference. We sincerely don't know why Gregory is in the situation he's in, for all we know he just couldn't go home after escaping the Pizzaplex for some reason.

homogenized Since: Oct, 2009
2021-12-24 20:37:09

Lots of "possiblys" in those entries.

Edited by homogenized
WaterBlap Since: May, 2014
2021-12-24 20:41:52

I think the question is whether or not we can find characterization of the protagonist from non-canonical endings, especially when we don't have confirmation of which ending is canonical. The ending where Gregory drives off with Freddy is overtly comical and likely is not canonical, what with the van driving through a billboard and a kid using jumper cables correctly to charge Freddy. We shouldn't read characterization into this unless it's deemed canonical. The same goes with the other endings. The ending where Gregory sleeps on the streets could simply be because the dev team didn't want to design his parents, for all we know (there are only, what, two fully designed humans in the entire series of video games).

Look at all that shiny stuff ain't they pretty
Amonimus (Sergeant)
2021-12-24 23:11:03

I'm more concerned about the actual writing. Everything past "This suggests" is just one troper's interpretation, which is why Speculative Troping is so dangerous.

For Alternative Character Interpretation it's relatively fine, but for others it needs some form of confirmation.

TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup
JAG01 Since: Mar, 2012
2021-12-25 05:23:38

I disagree on the Alternative Character Interpretation. It tries to claim that "Gregory is homeless" was implied by the game, not an interpretation by fans.

I'd rewrite that thusly:

  • Alternative Character Interpretation:
    • Fans have interpreted the one-star ending to mean that Gregory is a homeless orphan, citing his resourceful and ruthless behavior as his learning to adapt to life on the street. His starting the game already on the run from Vanessa and having no guest profile, passes or merch is taken to mean that he had sneaked his way inside to steal pizza. The game actually reveals very little about Gregory's life before he was chased by Vanessa. Gregory himself never says anything about his family or how he ended up in the Pizzaplex in the first place, leaving us with only taunts by Vanessa and the animatronics hunting him, none of whom are altogether reliable sources of information.

Edited by JAG01
JAG01 Since: Mar, 2012
Top