History VideoGame / FiveNightsAtFreddys1

* AWinnerIsYou: When you beat the game, all you get for your efforts is a picture of a check for the laughably small amount of $120, with the words "Good job, sport! (See you next week)" above it, while Freddy's tune plays in the background. Complete the Night 6 BonusLevel, and you get a check for $120.50. Complete Night 7, and you get a notice of termination for tampering with the animatronics, general unprofessionalism and odor, which is [[EarnYourHappyEnding admittedly the best possible outcome]].

* CatchPhrase: Phone Guy says "Hello, hello!" at the start of all his voicemails.

In August of 2020, as part of the "Fazbear Fanverse Initiative", an semi-official (but non-canon) remake/reimagining of the game was officially confirmed by Scott Cawthon, to be made by fangame creator Phisnom (who previously made ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Open Source'' and ''Porkchop's Adventure''). Later that month, the remake's title was officially confirmed as ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysPlus''.

* DaylightHorror: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by the Phone Guy's account of the Bite of '87, citing it as the reason why the characters are no longer allowed to roam during the day. It also heavily implies that the Bite took place during normal business hours, in front of patrons. Later confirmed in the second game.

* {{Deconstruction}}: Of the SuckECheese. The restaurant is run down, 5 children were murdered there and were never found, the animatronics receive complaints of a terrible odor and leaking blood and mucus, the animatronics are murderous, and they’re so [[NoOSHACompliance flagrant about their lack of workplace safety]] that it is stated policy that your death will be covered up. As a result Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza has a terrible public reputation, their sales are poor, and they’re they’ve drawn the ire of local health and safety inspectors; all of which culminate in the restaurant being set to go out of business by the year’s end.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The main four animatronics are hostile, neglected versions of various mascots Chuck E. Cheese- and thier former rival company, that they later consumed, Showbiz Pizza- has had over the years:

''[[http://store.steampowered.com/app/319510/Five_Nights_at_Freddys/ Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' (released on August 8th, 2014) is a horror-themed strategy game by Creator/ScottCawthon and the first in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys the eponymous franchise]]. It's based around resource management: you have a nonrenewable source of electricity that drains every time you use the cameras, shut the doors, or turn on the lights. If an animatronic enters the office, it will kill you instantly. If you make it to 6 AM, you live to work another night shift.

* AWinnerIsYou: When you beat the game, all you get for your efforts is a picture of a check for the laughably small amount of $120, with the words "Good job, sport! (See you next week)" above it, while Freddy's tune plays in the background. Complete the Night 6 BonusLevel, and you get a check for $120.50. Complete Night 7, and you get a notice of termination for tampering with the animatronics, general unprofessionalism and odor.

the triggers for some attacks can be very difficult to spot.

* SuperPersistentPredator: The robots, especially Freddy himself, who makes a beeline for the office on later nights and never, ever leaves once he's reached the right hallway.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: These are robots designed entirely for singing on a stage, and yet are capable of lifting a grown man and restraining them long enough to force a suit onto them. Hell, just moving around and running in general. Usually these things have cables, and there is ''no'' reason for them to be in the security room, or restrooms, let alone bolting to the former in two seconds in Foxy's case.

** The door and light on one side of the room can lock up and be rendered unusable. Since there's no way to fix this, unless your shift is almost over and lady luck is feeling really merciful, you're pretty much screwed. This typically happens when you've screwed up and let one of the animatronics sneak into your room when you weren't looking.
** Once the power has been depleted too far too early in the night, not even the most skilled player will be able to reach 6 AM before the power goes out and Freddy kills them.
* ViciousCycle: The paranoia that the office tries to induce can cause players to panic, thereby losing track of an animatronic and leaving them more open to dying- which in turn produces more panic.
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Dealing with Golden Freddy requires you immediately do something that will get you killed if you're threatened by any other animatronic- looking at the monitor.

* WestminsterChimes: These sound to signal that you've made it to 6 AM. ''Yaaaaaaay!''
* WhoWatchesTheWatchmen: The official job description claims that you're ''protecting'' these things.

* AWinnerIsYou: When you beat the game, :all you get for your efforts is a screenshot of a check for the laughably small amount of $120, with the words "Good job, sport! (See you next week)" above it, while Freddy's tune plays in the background. Complete the Night 6 BonusLevel, and you get a check for $120.50. Complete Night 7, and you get a notice of termination for tampering with the animatronics, general unprofesionnallism and odor.

* RandomEvent: Whether it's truly random or requires well-hidden triggers, all sorts of strange or unexpected things may happen that aren't a part of the robots' patterns.

** Golden Freddy is technically an easter egg. It's entirely up to luck whether the Freddy poster in the West Hall Corner will change into Golden Freddy's or the one where Freddy decapitates himself.
** The visual hallucinations, consisting of Freddy with realistic eyes and, again, "IT'S ME". Cue robotic murmurs in the background. While it mostly happens randomly, it is always triggered whenever you summon Golden Freddy into the office.
** On a very rare occasion, the static upon death and the game over screen will be replaced with a dead-still and soundless image of an eyeless, shadowed Bonnie, before light slowly fades into its eyes and the game returns to the main menu.
** The poster showing the rules of the restaurant in the East Hall Corner may change as well. This poster is changed into one of four documents, all of which highlight the game's backstory.

** Likewise, the animatronic parts in the Backstage might turn their faces to you once in a blue moon.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: Many have complained that it makes no sense why the doors fly open when the power goes out. Mechanisms are always designed such that -- when they fail -- they fail in the safest way possible. Assuming the doors' designer doesn't know the doors are keeping out killer robots, they would design the doors to open in a power outage so nobody gets trapped inside the office indefinitely. Specifically, the doors in the game appear to be armored security doors, which seem to be sealed electromagnetically. Electromagnetic doors are a common occurrence in many higher security locations, and for the safety reasons stated above, they will not remain locked if the power flowing to the locks is cut.
* RedHerring: Phone Guy advising you to "play dead." Despite rumors, it has no effect on the gameplay.
* ResourcesManagementGameplay: You have a finite amount of power each night that can be used for operating cameras/doors/lights. If you run out and you're not ''extremely'' close to the end of the night, you die.
* {{Retirony}}: Phone Guy tells you on night 1 that he's finishing up his last week as he records his messages for you. He doesn't make it past night 4.

* RoboSpeak: The Night 5 message and some inaudible dialogue from Bonnie and Chica when they are outside your room are this.

* SavedByTheChurchBell: Most levels end when the clock strikes 6:00 and a bell can be heard ringing eight times. Given the ParanoiaFuel of being hunted down by mangled jumpscaring animatronics and the limited battery power, that sound is synonymous with safety for most players and probably the most wonderful sound they'll hear all game.
* ScareChord: It plays if you hit a light switch, with an open door, while one of the robots is right outside.

* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: Foxy doesn't appear at all in the majority of the game's promotional material. This means that unless you do a poor job of checking the cameras on the first night and get unlucky, you're left believing there are only three animatronics to look after until the second night's phone call. And even then, you've got absolutely no indicator that there is a Golden Freddy lurking about.
* SkeleBot9000: The internal framing and armatures of these mascots- called an 'endoskeleton' in this franchise- are modeled like that of a slightly-exaggerated human skeleton, complete with a full skull that houses its own set of teeth.
* SoundtrackDissonance: If you run out of power, Freddy plays a happy music box tune right before murdering you.
* StealthPun: As noted in the trivia section, the distorted messages on the Night 5 phone call translate to lines from ''Autobiography of a Yogi''. Said distorted quotes are coming from a cartoon bear.
* StoryBreadcrumbs: The game's backstory can only be found on the hidden newspaper clippings that may randomly appear in the game (or by [[http://freddy-fazbears-pizza.wikia.com/wiki/Story reading the wiki]]).

** [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140830192000/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/b/b9/Freddy_Staring.jpg Many of]] http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140825033550/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/0/00/Cam1B_freddy.png Freddy's]] [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140825033834/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/8/81/Cam7_freddy.png camera poses]] depict him glaring with glowing white eyes, with the very worst showing up [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/7/7c/FreddyCAM4B.png/revision/latest?cb=20140824234504 when he's at the precipice of killing the player]].

* GuideDangIt: Though each bot has its own attack patterns, the triggers for some attacks can be very difficult to spot. Golden Freddy teleports inside your room if you look at a certain poster on your camera feed and will kill you in a few seconds unless you go back to looking at the camera, and Bonnie and Chica can sabotage your door buttons if you let them stand outside the office with the doors open for too long. And even if you deter Foxy when he decides to make a break for your office, and it looks like he's gone back to his booth, the second you stop observing him, he can immediately spring back out of his booth and attack you again without warning. These patterns are never brought up by the previous guard, and were frequently mistaken for glitches on the UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} forums during the game's release week.

* HarderThanHard: Night 6 is hard enough as the difficulty hits its peak, but using the LevelEditor for Custom Night can make the AI even harder. The definition of this? All AIs set to 20, or 4-20 mode. It's practically impossible, what with the huge amount of micromanaging, countering Freddy, and nearly unbeatable likelihood of the game being rendered {{Unwinnable}} by sheer RNG.
* HauntedTechnology: There's a chance the safety poster in the East Hall will be replaced with one of four newspaper clippings. They detail the murder of five children whose bodies were never found, and how the animatronics resemble dead corpses and leak blood and mucus... yeah, doesn't exactly take a grade A detective to figure out the real reason the animatronics can move.

* HoldTheLine: The entire goal of the game is to survive from midnight to 6 AM, taking an entirely passive role against the robots.

* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: Both Bonnie and Chica can be caught [[NightmareFace leering]] into several of the cameras as they make thier way to the office.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Throughout the night, the AI levels of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy will periodically increase, making them more active over time. This can be first seen in the very first night, where all the animatronics start out entirely dormant, but Bonnie and Chica will eventually wander off the stage when you're not looking.

* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: For the first four nights, Phone Guy provides helpful advice, and being the only other human in the game (even if it is just pre-recorded tapes), he's the closest thing you have to a companion. However, Night 4 is the last of his tapes, as he was caught by the animatronics and killed, and his tape in Night 5 is just a garbled mess of robotic sounds, leaving you truly alone against Freddy and his friends for the following three nights.

* JumpScare: Several:

** Every time you lose, you are met with one from the mascot that caught you.

** {{Subverted|Trope}}. According to the former employee leaving you voice mail messages, the killer animatrons in the game will attack you because they don't know what humans are — they think you're an animatronic endoskeleton without your costume, and will try to force a costume onto you, killing you in the process. At one point, he suggests the obvious answer of playing dead, so they think you're an empty costume instead. He quickly thinks better of it, saying that if they think you're an empty costume, they'll try to shove a metal endoskeleton inside you, which would be even worse (for the record, there's no 'play dead' option, and playing dead by not moving at all doesn't do anything).
** For that matter, though, if the animatrons are trying to get you because they think you're an endoskeleton without your costume, why not just make a fake costume and wear it to trick them? Interestingly, this actually is your primary defense mechanism in [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 the second game]]. It doesn't work on all of the animatronics, though.

* LastStand: This game is this for the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. With the second and fourth game being prequels, the fifth game being- supposedly- run by a different company entirely, the third game taking place 30 years after the pizzeria closed permanently, the Freddy Fazbear's location in the sixth game being an elaborate facade to lure the remaining animatronics together for their ultimate destruction, the seventh game being a VR game in-universe, the eighth game being a delivery service in-universe, and the ninth game being a mall, this is the final official incarnation of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, as far as we know.

** The game [[RandomNumberGod rolls the dice]] on whether the animatronics can move or not every so often. If the result is lower than their A.I. level, they move. So at max difficulty they will move every time except in the case of Foxy, who gets stuck for a random time while the camera is on at all, and Freddy, who likewise slows down while being observed. Once Freddy does get into the office, there's actually only a 25% chance of him jumping the player on every second.

* MascotVillain: The tituliar animatronic in the game- and mascot of the franchise in-universe- is trying to kill you because it's malfunctioning… [[HauntedTechnology or at least that's what the company insists]].

* MookChivalry: Comes into full effect once the power goes out. It doesn't matter if Foxy is already on his way while Chica and Bonnie are breathing down your neck, they'll all stand back and let Freddy do his thing. Even if Freddy is ''already in your office'', he'll forgo jumping you immediately in favor of his usual theatrics.
* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The animatronics have 2 sets of teeth, the outer ones that are part of their costume, and another which is part of their robotic skeleton.

* NestedMouths: The animatronics add to their overall creepiness by having these inside the external mouths of the animal suits, complete with their own sets of teeth. It's most apparent in Chica, whose suit jaw hangs perpetually open, [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140818205453/five-nights-at-freddys/images/f/f3/Cam4B_chica3.png showing the second pair of gnashers at all times]].

* NoEnding: After withstanding Freddy's unfiltered Nightmare Fuel for five nights, you get a comparatively minuscule check and a note from your boss that implies you'll come in again next week. Granted, there ''is'' a sixth night you can unlock, but it merely results in a slightly higher check and some overtime pay. That unlocks the Custom AI night seven, after which you're fired… which is easily the best thing that could happen.

** The managers of the pizza joint decide that it's cheaper to supply a night watchman with limited power than it is to safely contain the mannequins, leading to the plot of the game.

* OffscreenTeleportation: The robotic animals all use this, only moving when you're not looking at the camera feeds. Except for Foxy, who you can see run down the West Hall towards your office if you let him escape the Pirate Cove room.
* PlayingPossum: The previous night shift guard suggests doing this as a last resort to fool the animatronics into thinking you are simply an empty costume, but admits it would probably be a bad idea. It does nothing.

* PublicDomainSoundtrack: You might recognize that nice little jingle that plays during the 30 seconds between losing power and Freddy killing you. [[http://youtu.be/YT1NhLTwwEg?t=8m10s It's actually]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DNGMoMNLRY#t=66 Les Toreadors, by Georges Bizet.]]

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* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: The Night 5 call and some hard-to-hear speech from Bonnie and Chica when they're right outside your room from Night 4 onward are this. The "IT'S ME" visual hallucination is also accompanied by the same sound.

* ExcusePlot: The owners' ignorance of the killer animatronics and [[TooDumbToLive the player character's insistence on continuing to work the job]] don't make much sense, that's for sure. Ridiculous as the plot may be, however, it's ultimately just a setup for some gameplay. The main assumption could be that since the player never canonically dies, the character may not understand just how dangerous the situation is. There's also the popular theory that, based on the music Freddy plays when the power goes out, that he's calling Mike out on coming back because he enjoys the thrill of it.

** Sometimes, the Animatronics will have their faces right in the camera, specifically [[http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/562142740722855170/65D92863FD958DB7D3036D5166681308A99E8D93 Bonnie]] and [[http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/570023530206785201/345A39D640A80E7209B4F22A796C9F92787F9D0B Freddy]]. When they do this, they appear effectively eyeless.

* FailsafeFailure: The doors to the office automatically open when the power runs out. While this would be a very good idea in real life (to avoid the possibility of a guard being trapped in the office in the event of the power going out because of a fire), here it spells doom by way of homicidal animatronic. Unless the player is very close to the end of the night, death is unavoidable at this point.

** Bonnie's DeathGlare into the Backstage camera. Those pinprick eyes vault him straight to ''[[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/5/54/BonnieBackstageCam.png/revision/latest?cb=20140824235245 diabolical]]''.
** And then there's [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140830192000/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/b/b9/Freddy_Staring.jpg Freddy's]] [[http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140825033550/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/0/00/Cam1B_freddy.png numerous]] [[http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20140825033834/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/8/81/Cam7_freddy.png glares]], with the very worst showing up [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/7/7c/FreddyCAM4B.png/revision/latest?cb=20140824234504 when he's at the precipice of killing the player]].
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: The animatronics are supposed to be roaming freely at night to keep them operational, but they actually stay put whenever you observe them, except for Foxy, whom you can see running in the West Hall (although once he is back in the Pirate Cove, he's just as immobile as everyone else).

* GigglingVillain: Freddy uses an unnerving girl's giggle, slowed down. The unaltered sound clip plays whenever the player looks at Golden Freddy's poster.

* DarknessEqualsDeath: If you let the power drain too early in the night, Freddy walks into your office unopposed. Unless you're very close to the end of the night, death is unavoidable at this point.
* DaylightHorror: [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] by the Phone Guy's account of The Bite of '87, stating it as the reason why the characters are no longer allowed to roam during the day. It also heavily implies that The Bite took place during the business hours of the restaurant, in front of many children and parents. Later confirmed in the second game.
* DeathGlare: In the trailer, the animatronics briefly turn and stare at the camera with the angriest expression they can manage; in the actual game, Foxy sports a deranged-looking glare with GlowingEyesOfDoom when he starts emerging from his curtain, not helped by the fact he's holding his hook to his chin as if pondering whether to attack you or not.
* DeathOfAChild: At least five children were kidnapped and murdered some time in the company's past.
* DevelopersForesight: On the custom night, you can set the four AI's difficulties anywhere from 0-20. If you enter the difficulties as 1-9-8-7 (1987; the Bite of '87), Golden Freddy's death screen appears. This was done to kill rumors about a secret ending.

* DudeWheresMyReward: Scott Cawthon didn't believe it was possible to beat 4/20 mode. Because of this, he never bothered programming a special ending or something like that for completing it. In other words, when you originally beat 4/20 mode (a nigh impossible night in which every animatronic is cranked to absolute max difficulty), your reward was...absolutely nothing. This was changed when 4/20 mode was beaten for the first time, to which Cawthon added a third (and final) star in response.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: This game has numerous examples compared to future installments:
** It's very light on story (what the later games made a big deal of were effectively EasterEggs), without any arcade minigames to help explain the plot.
** It includes flashing hallucinations that don't show up ever again.
** Maintaining power and dying when the lights go out is only in this game.
** Golden Freddy's appearance is preceded by a poster changing instead of him just showing up.
** Freddy actually has a distinct role as opposed to the other games, where he's pretty much on the level of every other animatronic.

** Before a patch in September 2014 nerfed Freddy and Foxy's more frustrating behavior, a strategy often used by [=LetsPlayers=] is something like this: switch the camera feed to Pirate Cove and don't switch again until you see Foxy leave, in which you can switch it to the West Hall ''after'' you seal the left door (don't forget to open the door once you hear the banging). Seal the right door before bringing the camera up, then open it after it is down. Check the hall lights for Bonnie and Chica; if they appear, seal the necessary door and wait until they leave and you can open it again. Rinse and repeat. If you do it correctly, this strategy works nearly 100% of the time and is particularly effective in the later nights (although it can't be denied that the 4/20 challenge does require [[LuckBasedMission a bit of luck]], especially whether Freddy is going to play his jingle short or long after the lights go out).

* EvilDuo: Bonnie and Chica are ''almost'' always active together (on Night 1, it's possible to have just one walking around while the other stays onstage). Unless you made one of them super easy on the Night 7.
* EvilLaugh: If you hear one during gameplay, it means that Freddy's out and about. Or that something else got in while you weren't looking…

* BehindTheBlack: Since the game is made up of pngs and therefore has no real movement, the animatronics are often just out of view when they're implied to be walking around- most notably when they're supposedly crawling into the office.

** The sheer awfulness of working at Freddy's is lampshaded in the phone messages and sometimes played for dark laughs. In the [[http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20150119023045/freddy-fazbears-pizza/images/3/38/2014-08-29_00001.png newspaper's "Help Wanted"]] section, there's even this message: "Not responsible for injury/dismemberment."

* BondVillainStupidity: When you run out of power, Freddy appears in the left doorway and plays a music box jingle for dramatic effect when he could just have killed you. Sometimes this gives you just enough time to make it to six AM.

** And from the E. Hall Corner, we have the Rules for Safety:

* CosmeticAward: Stars adorning the main menu screen are rewarded upon completing the fifth and sixth nights, and after people started to beat the custom mode with the hardest AI difficulties, the maker of the game added an unlockable third star for the menu to showcase it.

* CrapsackWorld: Fazbear's continues to not only run despite the accidents and murders- most of which were of children patrons- but display no concern that the victims are still wandering the halls as confused and hostile spirits that're routinely killing the nightwatch staff in turn. All with thier killer, who is implied- and later confirmed- to be part of the staff still at large.

* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: The eyes of the animatronics are set deep into their armature frame, causing there to be a void between thier suit head and the eyes themselves- since most of the suit is empty space- which gives the illusion of permanent undereye bags.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: The main four animatronics are hostile, neglected versions of various mascots Chuck E. Cheese has had over the year:

** A sixth night is unlocked after finishing the main game. It features a DifficultySpike in the form of the AI on everyone except Freddy becoming more aggressive by 5-10 points out of 20 total.

* CantMoveWhileBeingWatched: The main shtick of all the animatronics is that, for the majority of the game, they remain perfectly still as long as the player is viewing them on his monitor, but move when they are unobserved. They will only move onscreen when twitching or directly attacking the player. Staring at them won't completely stop them, however, as there are random intervals where the camera will glitch out and they will move.

* DramaticDisappearingDisplay: When you lose all of your power, the power and usage HUD will disappear. The clock and night number also become absent.

** Night 6, unlocked after finishing the main game.

* CrapsackWorld: The backstory of the Pizzeria, and the fact that it's ''somehow'' still open, can give this vibe. On the other hand, the fact that it's bankrupt and due to close by year's end indicates there's '''some''' amount of justice.

* CreepyShadowedUndereyes: Between their eyes directly attached to their endoskeletons, and the eye holes of their costumes, the animatronics all have this.

* CameraScrew: Sometimes the words "IT'S ME" will briefly flash on a camera screen if you look at them. Freddy's face will also flash from time to time, and they just get worse as the week goes on. Also, as the days go on, Bonnie and Chica may appear to flicker and twitch on your screen when in fact they're standing still.

** Bonnie and Chica can tamper with the cameras if you leave them alone for too long. Let them stand outside the office for long enough, and they'll even break the door and light buttons. [[UnwinnableByDesign You're pretty much screwed if this happens.]]

* ApocalypticLog: The Phone Guy was most likely killed by Golden Freddy on the fourth night, in the middle of his nightly message recording session.

* ArtificialStupidity: When the mascots ultimately come for you, they will always come from the same directions. Bonnie and Foxy will only ever come at you from the left, Chica and Freddy always from the right; unless the power goes out, in which case Freddy comes from the left.

* BlackSpeech: The final telephone call, Bonnie and Chica's electronic gibbering from Night 4 onward, and the "IT'S ME" visual hallucination have this. It is actually a backwards masked message with the pitch dropped down, an excerpt from ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' by Paramhansa Yogananda. Appropriately enough, this is an excerpt from the section in which the yogi demonstrates that metal is alive.

* BloodlessCarnage: Despite the horrific manner in which your death is implied, surprisingly, this game contains no blood or gore, aside from your character's eyeballs (with the veins in plain sight, so presumably still attached to the skull) appearing out of the eyes from the Freddy costume's head and a human set of teeth behind the costume's set on the game over screen.
* BondVillainStupidity: When you run out of power, Freddy appears in the left doorway and plays his jingle for dramatic effect when he could just have killed you. Sometimes this gives you just enough time to make it to six AM.

** '''Newspaper Advertisement:'''
--->Family pizzeria looking for security guard to work the nightshift. 12 am to 6 am. Monitor cameras, ensure safety of equipment and animatronic characters. Not responsible for injury/dismemberment.

** Then there is the Custom Night/Night 7, which as a LevelEditor you can manipulate so it becomes this. Setting the AI for all robots to 20 ensures a very hectic night.

* CasualDangerDialogue: Phone Guy seems pretty unconcerned that he's about to die in the Night 4 phone call.
* CatchPhrase: Phone Guy has "Hello, hello!", which he says at the start of his voicemails.
* ChallengeRun: The last night is [[LevelEditor Custom Night]], where one can adjust how difficult each animatronic is. It can be used to make them super easy and give you a relatively relaxed night… or you can crank the AI up to make it harder for yourself. The most difficult is '[[HarderThanHard 4/20 Mode]]', where you set the AI of all four animatronics to 20, which is the maximum. It's ''insanely'' difficult and only beatable by really skilled power management, reflexes, and a lot of luck and [[TheDeterminator perseverance]]. Not even the ''creator'' has been able to do it. It's ''that'' hard.

** If the player allows either Bonnie or Chica to linger for too long outside of the doors while said doors are open, they will sneak into the room and disable the door and light buttons on that side. From here, the player can still look right and left, but can't check the camera.[[note]]If Bonnie or Chica enters the room, they will not actually kill you until you check the cameras and then lower them.[[/note]] This leaves them with virtually nothing to do but to click the broken buttons and, in the case of the left door being jammed, wait for Foxy to charge in. Or in the case of the right door, let Freddy sneak in and then pounce on you.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: One interpretation of the pizzeria's decisions. Despite The Bite of '87, the killer robots, and all the possible death they've caused along with the kid's/guard's innards still implied to be inside them and never removed, they still tried to get parents and businesses on their side and keep everything going 'for the kids' without ever fixing anything. It didn't work out for them.

** And from the East Hall, we have the Rules for Safety:

* ChallengeRun: The last night is [[LevelEditor Custom Night]], where one can adjust how difficult each animatronic is. It can be used to make them super easy and give you a relatively relaxed night… or you can crank the AI up to make it harder for yourself. The most difficult is '[[HarderThanHard 4/20 Mode]]', where you set the AI of all four animatronics to 20, which is the maximum. It's ''insanely'' difficult and only beatable by really skilled power management, reflexes, and a lot of luck and [[TheDeterminator perseverance]]. Not even the ''creator'' has been able to do it.

* StalkedByTheBell: If you spend too much time not checking the cameras, Foxy will rush to your office and kill you. This is to prevent players from trying to avoid a JumpScare by Bonnie and Chica, who only attack ''after'' you put your monitor down once they get in the office. In later nights, Freddy can also get into your office and immediately kill you.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The backstory of Freddy's reveals that the horrific, uncontrollable behavior of the robots and the seedy history of the joint have basically bankrupted it. The restaurant is going to close down by the end of the year.

* ThreeLawsCompliant: The animatronics are ''anything '''but''' this''.

* ViciousCycle: As described by WebVideo/SmoshGames' Honest Game Trailers show, "the more scared you get, the more you look for monsters, and the more you look for monsters, the less power you have, which makes you more scared, which makes you look for more monsters, and so on until it finally ends in a JumpScare that makes you scream. Even though you totally know it's coming."
* ViolationOfCommonSense: Dealing with Golden Freddy requires you immediately do something that will get you killed if you're threatened by another animatronic- looking at the monitor. While this will cause all the other animatronics to attack you, Golden Freddy will just disappear.

* WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief: Even in a horror setting, this scenario doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

* LastStand: This game is this for the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. With the second and fourth game being prequels, the fifth game being run by a different company entirely, the third game taking place 30 years after the pizzeria closed permanently, the Freddy Fazbear's location in the sixth game being an elaborate facade to lure the remaining animatronics together for their ultimate destruction, the seventh game being a VR game in-universe, the eighth game being a delivery service in-universe, and the ninth game being a mall, this is the final official incarnation of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, as far as we know.

* LuckBasedMission: The game features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujg0Y5IziiY a number of obtuse random mechanics]] to keep players on their toes.

* MascotVillain: The titular character, like the other animatronics in the game, is trying to kill you because it's malfunctioning… [[HauntedTechnology or at least that's what the company thinks]]. He's also an InUniverse example because he is also the mascot of the abandoned SuckECheeses that serves as the setting.

* MurderIntoMalevolence: It's implied and later confirmed that the animatronics are haunted by the ghosts of murdered children, and one of the possible reasons they're targeting the player is that they can't tell the difference between their killer and Mike Schmidt. [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation A future game]] implies that this may be because [[StrongFamilyResemblance Mike is actually the son of their killer.]]]]

* SkeleBot9000: The endoskeletons.

* TheNineties: Although the year when the five nights take place is listed as [[YearX the year XX]] in-game, the minimum wage rate ($4.00 per hour) indicates the game is set in 1993.

* AloneWithThePsycho: You're working the night shift alone in a closed pizza joint with four and a half[[note]]because Golden Freddy[[/note]] murderous robot animals from midnight to dawn.

* ApocalypticLog: Though it's hardly an apocalyptic scenario, the Phone Guy's recorded messages are pretty nightmarish. It becomes truer to the trope on Night 4, when as things seem to be going horribly wrong for him, from Foxy banging on one of the doors, Bonnie and Chica moaning, and Freddy playing the Toreador Song, building up to a [[SoundOnlyDeath scream that sounds exactly like the one you hear when you get killed by Golden Freddy]].

* ArtificialStupidity: As capable as the AI is at messing with you, when the mascots ultimately come for you, they will always come from the same directions. Bonnie and Foxy will only ever come at you from the left, Chica and Freddy always from the right; unless the power goes out, in which case Freddy comes from the left.

* BehindTheBlack: One tactic the animatronics use is to slip into the room ''when your monitor is up.''

* BlackSpeech: The final telephone call, Bonnie and Chica's electronic gibbering from Night 4 onward, and the "IT'S ME" visual hallucination have this. Although some have pointed out that the sounds used are stock sounds that came with the game engine used, others deduced that it is actually a backwards masked message with the pitch dropped down. It's difficult to make out the entire message, but someone was able to figure it out. It is an excerpt from ''Autobiography of a Yogi'' by Paramhansa Yogananda. Appropriately enough, this is an excerpt from the section in which the yogi demonstrates that metal is alive.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: One interpretation of the pizzeria's decisions. Despite The Bite of '87, the killer robots, and all the possible death they've caused along with the kid's/guard's innards still implied to be inside them and never removed, they still tried to get parents and businesses on their side and keep everything going 'for the kids' without ever fixing anything. Although it may or may not be entirely their fault, it didn't work out for them.

* CuttingTheKnot: Foxy will simply charge you if you don't keep the camera on him regularly.

* DeathOfAChild: In the backstory, five children were kidnapped and murdered.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: If you complete Custom Night, you get fired. Probably the only time one will be happy about being fired.

* ElectronicSpeechImpediment: The Night 5 call and some hard-to-hear speech from Bonnie and Chica when they're right outside your room from Night 4 onward are this. The "IT'S ME" visual hallucination is also accompanied by the same sound. As for what it is, see BlackSpeech above.
* EverythingTryingToKillYou: Yes indeed. A specific poster of Golden Freddy will trigger his appearance in the office, and he will kill you unless you quickly pull up the monitor again.

* ExcusePlot: The owners' ignorance of the killer animatronics and [[TooDumbToLive the player character's insistence on continuing to work the job]] don't make much sense, that's for sure. Ridiculous as the plot may be, however, it's ultimately just a setup for some gameplay that was given ''much'' more TLC. The main assumption could be that since the player never canonically dies, the character may not understand just how dangerous the situation is. There's also the popular theory that, based on the music Freddy plays when the power goes out, that he's calling Mike out on coming back because he enjoys the thrill of it.

** Golden Freddy appears to have no eyes in his costume's eye holes.

* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: Golden Freddy can crash your whole game if you don't immediately get back on the camera after he appears in the office.

* HopeSpot: That ''silence'' when the light finally fizzles out to complete darkness after Freddy finishes his song, which seems to last forever. You'll either be greeted with the clock rolling over to 6 AM if you made it long enough… or [[JumpScare Freddy's shrieking face]] [[GameOver rushing you]].
* IKnowYoureWatchingMe: If you find one of the mascots, chances are it will be [[NightmareFace leering]] into the camera.
* ImpossibleTask: For a while, the 7th night (Custom Night) was thought to be impossible with every AI set to 20, due to the amount of luck and skill involved.
** Finally, on August 18th, Twitch streamer Bigbugz managed to clear the seventh night on a 4/20 run, proving the task is indeed possible, if extremely difficult.
** It took LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} ''[[{{Determinator}} seven hours]]'' to do so, but he managed it as well, proving that Bigbugz's run wasn't just a fluke.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5aPPW4ftWc This guy]] did it too, with a fantastic reaction to being fired.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: Done sneakily by the game — throughout the night, the AI levels of Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy will periodically ''increase'', making them more active over time. This can be first seen in the very first night, where all the animatronics start out entirely dormant, but Bonnie and Chica will eventually wander off the stage when you're not looking.
* InstantWinCondition: As long as you reach 6 AM, you win — even if Freddy is staring right at you, just finishing up his song after you reach zero power. Waiting until 5 AM and then stalling can actually let you survive sometimes… if he feels like playing the full song before killing you, anyway.

* JumpScare: Very effectively used. Rather than as a replacement for actual atmosphere, they're used to complement the atmosphere. The jump scares, as they're [[{{Understatement}} unpleasant]], cause the player to play the game in constant terror and paranoia of them. The atmosphere and danger of the animatronics is greatly enhanced knowing that [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou at any minute, this game could actually "hurt" you should you fail]]. Rather than mistaking "startling" for "scaring", this game makes you ''scared'' of being ''startled''. Examples of where they're used:
** If you turn on the lights in the hallway when there's a mascot there, you're treated with a ScareChord.
** Every time you lose. The animal that got you pops up and screams ''directly in your face,'' with an ear-piercing "SCCCRRREEEEEEEE". This is especially jarring if they sneak into the room while you're looking into the camera. You think you're safe, but even if you close the doors, it's too late…
** Even worse with Foxy, as he is the fastest and pretty much bum-rushes right for you if you don't keep an eye out. This can even happen if you listen to the opening message each night after the second without viewing the camera.
** And then there's Golden Freddy, who will appear if both of your doors are closed and you view a strange poster through the monitor.
** Perhaps worst of all is Freddy himself sneaking into the Office. Unlike the other animatronics, Freddy does not just roar in your face. He outright ''pounces'' on the player out of the blue, and sports those soulless BlackEyesOfEvil in the process. With '''no''' warning of his imminent attack beyond his evil laugh and the right Office door being open at just the wrong time.

* UnreliableExpositor: Scott says that Phone Guy is this. Credence is lent to it in that Bonnie can appear ''in the same room as the unclothed endoskeleton '''at the same time''''', and does so only to leer into the camera, and ''not do a thing'' about the endoskeleton, which supposedly ''has'' to wear a costume.

* HauntedTechnology: There's a chance the safety poster in the East Hall will be replaced with one of four newspaper clippings. They detail the murder of five children whose bodies were never found, and how the animatronics resemble dead corpses and leek blood and mucus... yeah, doesn't exactly take a grade A detective to figure out the real reason the animatronics can move.