History VideoGame / FiveNightsAtFreddys4

You can watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-taWymx1WI on YouTube]] and buy the game on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/388090/ Steam]] and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottgames.fnaf4&hl=en Google Play]]. A version of the game on [[UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch Nintendo Switch]], [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 PlayStation 4]] and [[UsefulNotes/XboxOne Xbox One]] is also available as of November 2019.

* AccidentalMurder: [[spoiler: The teenagers didn’t mean for their prank to end up being so deadly.]]

* BloodlessCarnage: When the Child is [[spoiler: bitten, there's no blood at all.]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: The Child [[spoiler: dies a terribly cruel death]] at the hands of his older brother, who had done nothing but torment the boy day in and day out.

You can watch the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-taWymx1WI on YouTube]] and buy the game on [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/388090/ Steam]] and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scottgames.fnaf4&hl=en Google Play]].

** Yep, you can [[RunningGag honk Freddy's nose again]] (this time a plush toy version of him). Doing so 20+ times in a row will summon Nightmare Foxy, regardless of the night, for an instant game over.

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The Nightmares are all grotesque versions of Fredbear and friends, who explictly hide in the dark areas of the player character’s home—most notably under the bed and in his closet.

* BonusStage: "Fun with Plushtrap" has you trying to use your flashlight to stop Plushtrap on a specific spot (a white X on the floor). Succeed, and you can skip two hours on the next night. Fail, and you get [[JumpScare the typical punishment]].

-> ''"What have you brought home?"''

Hello, and welc… well, I guess there's no reason to welcome you in your own home. But hey, congrats; you're going to a party at Fredbear's Family Diner! What? You don't like it there? The animatronics creep you out? Well, don't worry, it's not like they can just crawl into your house whenever they want to, right?

Except they can — and they do. For some reason, they look mean and nasty… oh, and ''they're coming for you''. Fortunately, you can fend them off with your flashlight and keep them out of your room with your doors if you see or hear them coming. Just survive for five days until you can go to your party and hopefully everything will turn out fine!

''Five Nights at Freddy's 4'' is the fourth installment in the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' horror-themed strategy game franchise by Creator/ScottCawthon. The game was released on July 23rd, 2015. This game is vastly different from the previous installments: Rather than giving you cameras to monitor, this game lets you move around your bedroom, letting you check your doors, bed, and closet — and those animatronics that used to stand still when you looked at them now move freely even if you're staring them right in their creepy glowing eyes.

* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Even discounting [[WalkingSpoiler that one guard]], [[spoiler:where the heck were the day shift guards? We've got four teenagers dragging a screaming smaller child through the restaurant and stuffing him into an onstage animatronic's mouth, that probably warrants the attention of a security guard. Especially since "stay near the animatronics" is ''the first thing a day shift guard is instructed to do'']].

* KidsAreCruel:
** The Crying Child’s brother is, putting it lightly, [[{{Jerkass}} a huge dick]]. He loves tormenting his younger sibling by locking him in frightening places or jumping out at him while wearing a Foxy mask. Most of the other kids that the player interacts with aren't much better, laughing at his peril as he dreads having his party at Freddy's. [[spoiler:It quickly goes FromBadToWorse by showing the Crying Child being ''forced into Fredbear's mouth'' by the other kids, including his own brother. [[DeadlyPrank Big mistake]].]]

* MassOhCrap: The Child’s brother and his friends were laughing about their prank... then suddenly go utterly silent when the [[spoiler:child's head gets crushed by Fredbear.]]

* JumpScare: As with tradition, with the animatronics ''really'' in your face this time.
** The new scream, which is either a little kid's scream or an amalgamation of all previous games' screams. Even more startling when you open the closet and see Foxy accompanied by a brief yet still effective snippet of the scream.

* ArcNumber:
** 83 seems to be one as well, as an advertisement for "Fredbear and Friends - 1983" can be seen on the television in a minigame, and the site's source code replaced the 8s and 7s with 8s and 3s following the game's release. [[spoiler:1983 is the year the game takes place.]]

* TheEighties: The game takes place in 1983, though due to the constant references to the Bite of '87 in the promotional materials- which have since been edited to omit most of these references- many individuals thought it was 1987.
* AccidentalMurder: The teenagers' did not mean for thier [[spoiler: prank]] to end up being so deadly.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Evan is heavily implied to be hated by all the other children, up to and including his own brother.
* AmbiguousSituation: The guidebook would eventually clear up some details, namely the supposed identity of both the child and his brother, but the ending still remains unclear. Who exactly is talking to Evan then, and what do they mean by "put you back together"?

** If Fredbear and the other animatronics are haunted during Evan's birthday party, it just adds another layer of horror and sadness. Imagine being trapped in an animatronic created for the sole purpose of entertaining children, and then a group of nasty boys shove a child into your [[spoiler:mouth.]] You know he's not supposed to be there, but there's nothing you can do; you can't go against your programming. You can't open your [[spoiler:mouth wider so he can pull himself out, you can't move your arms to pull him out of your mouth, you can't even stop your mouth from clamping down on the kid's head.]] You continue with your performance, unable to stop yourself, and listen to the sickening crunch as you [[spoiler:bite down against your will, feel the blood pour from your mouth, and watch as the laughter once again turns to screaming.]]

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Fredbear plush in the minigames subverts this. While the plush does guide Evan towards bad events (such as leading him to his brother), it's implied to genuinely care for him; in this light, its prodding is trying to help the child face his fears instead of hiding (they both know that the fear of his brother's scares won't stop until they get it over with, hiding only prolongs that anxiety).
* ArtifactTitle: Despite the title, Evan, unlike his predecessors, does not spend five nights at any Freddy's. The setting is instead a house that the Nightmare Animatronics are haunting. There ''is'' a pizzeria (or rather, a diner) close to his house, though, and plays a very important part of the between-night minigames.

* BigBrotherBully: Evan's older brother, Michael, fits this to a T. He liked picking on his little brother and doing all sorts of horrible things to him. During his birthday party, he and his friends stuck the kid inside [[spoiler:Fredbear's mouth to scare him. Unfortunately, the animatronic bit down and nearly killed his brother. The silence that followed makes it clear that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he never meant for his brother to get hurt like that]].]]
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Evan is dreading his birthday because it's being held at the place he loathes so much. It gets worse when [[spoiler:his brother and his friends' "birthday present" gets his head crushed]].
* BloodlessCarnage: When Evan is [[spoiler: bitten]], there's no blood at all.

* ButtMonkey: Evan. Not only is he constantly tormented by his brother, he winds up later [[spoiler:dead via Fredbear's bite.]] On his ''birthday''.

** Otherwise averted: Evan loves his other dolls of the Freddy's characters, though he's terrified of the actual animatronics. He considers them his only friends.
* CryingAtYourBirthdayParty: Evan is seen, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crying]] in the penultimate minigame that takes place during his birthday.

* DeadlyPrank: This is the cause of Evan's eventual [[spoiler:death. His brother]] tried to scare him by putting him in Fredbear's [[spoiler:mouth, only for the animatronic to bite]] down a lot harder than expected.
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:Evan]] does not survive the events showcased in this game.

** The ghosts of the murdered kids, too. In all the other games, they were the force behind the game's events. Here? It's simply Evan's [[BigBrotherBully asshole brother]]. Unless the five kids Evan meets in the post-Night 3 minigame are [[spoiler:thier spirits reaching out to him, and his Fredbear plush really is haunted by one of them...]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The teens, including Evan's brother, [[spoiler:shoving the child's head into the Freddy suit]]. The silence that follows what happens is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quite eerie]].

* DownerEnding: Evan doesn't [[spoiler:survive]] his brother's onslaught, being [[spoiler:killed in a prank gone wrong]] that Michael orchestrated during his birthday. It becomes slightly less of a downer when the spirit haunting his Fredbear plush seemingly [[spoiler:appologizes and promises to 'put him back together',]] but what exactly that means is unknown.

* HeelFaceDoorSlam: The color text used to [[spoiler:appologize]] is not the same as Michael's, and so, presumably, he did not. However, it is the same as one of the kids that Evan meets on the way home from the pizza-place. What this means in the greater context of the story is never elaborated upon, however.
* HeKnowsTooMuch: Averted; even though Evan can witness his father putting a spring-locked suit on someone else, what eventually happens to him is an entirely different matter. This may be because the Purple Man may simply be helping an employee into the suit.

* InvisibleParents: Evan's parents are criminally negligent to ignore what their kid is going through, and how his brother is facilitating it, though, with who his [[{{BigBad}} father]] is, maybe that's to be expected.

** Evan's brother is, putting it lightly, [[{{Jerkass}} a huge dick]]. He loves tormenting his younger sibling by locking him in frightening places or jumping out at him while wearing a Foxy mask. Most of the other kids that the player interacts with aren't much better, laughing at his peril as he dreads having his party at Freddy's. [[spoiler:It quickly goes FromBadToWorse by showing Evan being ''forced into Fredbear's mouth'' by the other kids, including his own brother. [[DeadlyPrank Big mistake]].]]

* MassOhCrap: Evan's brother and his friends were laughing about their prank... then suddenly go utterly silent when the [[spoiler:child's head gets crushed by Fredbear.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The guidebook tries to shed light on this, but many aspects are still unclear. The actual nature of the Nightmare Animatronics are still in the air, as is that of the toy Fredbear and the voice that [[spoiler:appologizes]] to Evan at the end.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Nightmare animatronics are characterized by having long, sharp teeth. Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Fredbear, and Nightmare stand out, with the former having three rows of teeth, and the latter two possessing both giant, toothy and possibly bloody maws, but also fanged {{Belly Mouth}}s. [[spoiler:Not so surprising, given what happens to Evan at the end…]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler:Fredbear bites down on Evan's head]], his brother and his friends instantly stop laughing.

* OhCrap: Evan and his plushie have some moments, especially where Michael's abuse is involved.
** Every time Michael jumpscares Evan.
** When someone sees Evan at Fredbear's Family Diner and an adult in a Fredbear suit starts chasing him.
** When Evan's locked in the Spare Parts room and is banging to escape.
* PragmaticVillainy: Evan, while stuck in Fredbear's Diner, can catch a glimpse of William Afton, who is helping another employee with the spring-lock suit. While running from a man in a yellow suit, the child hides under a table and gets into a TroubledFetalPosition. Because other employees are still there, the Purple Man spares his son.
* ProperlyParanoid: This child is the only person in the games scared of Fredbear's Diner and the murderous, haunted animatronics. While Afton clearly still has his job- implying that the murders, both child and gaurdsman, are still relatively unknown- five kids that he sees on his way home validate his fears.

** Mangle appears in Evan's house. Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, and Toy Chica also appear as toys owned by a local kid. After the Halloween update, there is "Fun with Balloon Boy", which highly suggests that the child is aware of the original BB's existence. With the indirect confirmation by Scott that the game takes place in 1983, all of these mean that the Toy animatronics weren't introduced in 1987; they have existed since long before that (possibly as a parallel roster of the original Fazbear gang).

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Evan [[spoiler: dies a terribly cruel death]] at the hands of his brother, who had done nothing but torment the boy day in and day out. Michael never so much as appologizes, and instead goes to seek out thier [[spoiler:missing sister]] some time after the events of the game, as shown in the next two installments. Evan may have gone on to [[spoiler:co-haunt the]] Fredbear suit, but that also means he was subjected to the same neglect and abuse by the company as his new peers until they all [[spoiler:passed on]] sixty years- or more- later.
* TheSoCalledCoward: Evan, who is always crying and hates Fredbear's Diner. Still, anyone in his shoes would be terrified with a BigBrotherBully who [[JumpScare scares him]] on a regular basis, to say nothing that he is ProperlyParanoid about the diner [[spoiler:given what happens to him on his birthday]]. He holds up pretty well with Fredbear's help, all things considered.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Evan's BigBrotherBully and his friends stick the child’s head in Fredbear's jaws during a song routine. Not only is Fredbear a spring-lock suit, with ''overly'' strong mechanisms that can tear a grown man to ribbons in seconds, but the skull of a child is only 1/8 as strong as that of an adult's. Evan's head is completely crushed by Fredbear's programmed jaw movements after little resistance.

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: The Nightmares are all grotesque versions of Fredbear and friends, who explictly hide in the dark areas of Michael's home- most noteably under the bed and in his closet.
* TraumaCongaLine: The game is one big one for Evan. He is consistently abused by his family — his brother locks him in his room, while his parents leave him at the diner which he hates and later force him to go there for his birthday. All of this culminates in the kid being pranked by his brother and some of his friends when they put his [[spoiler:head inside Fredbear's mouth — a prank that ends with his head crushed]]. That might not even be the end; if the voice in the final cutscene was able to do as promised...

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Evan's BigBrotherBully. His [[spoiler:DeadlyPrank]] was just another horrific event in Fazbear Entertainment's downward spiral.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: Evan HATES the diner and the animatronics. Guess what's a short walk away from his house.

** [[spoiler:The kid you're controlling in the minigames was the victim of an unfortunate (and seemingly lethal) brain injury. His brother and some of the brother's friends lifted the kid up towards Fredbear during the kid's birthday party as [[DeadlyPrank a prank]]. The kid ended up crushed in Fredbear's jaw.]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: ''[[spoiler:The whole damn game.]]''
* TheSoCalledCoward: The child character, who is always crying and hates Fredbear's Diner. Still, anyone in his shoes would be terrified with a BigBrotherBully who [[JumpScare scares him]] on a regular basis, to say nothing that he is ProperlyParanoid about the diner [[spoiler:given what happens to him on his birthday]]. He holds up pretty well with Fredbear's help, all things considered.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Crying Child's BigBrotherBully and his friends stick the child’s head in Fredbear's jaws during a song routine. Not only is Fredbear a spring-lock suit, with ''overly'' strong mechanisms that can tear a grown man to ribbons in seconds, but the skull of a child is only 1/8 as strong as that of an adult's. The child's head is completely crushed by Fredbear's programmed jaw movements after little resistance.

* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: This seems to be part of the theme with this game, given how the animatronics are after a child this time and can be ''anywhere,'' such as in the shadows and just out of sight. Nightmare Foxy seems to be lurking ''in your closet''. The gameplay adds to this trope by making the player listen for the animatronics rather than watch for them.
* TraumaCongaLine: The game is one big one for the kid protagonist. Not only does he have to suffer through trying to survive against the Nightmare animatronics, but he is consistently abused by his family — his brother locks him in his room, while his parents leave him at the diner which he hates and later force him to go there for his birthday. [[spoiler:All of this culminates in the kid being pranked by his brother and some of his friends when they put the kid's head inside Fredbear's mouth — a prank that ends with his head crushed. That might not even be the end; if the gameplay sections take place after the bite, it means this kid either has PTSD or is trapped in a coma. And, either way, it's implied [[DownerEnding that he]] ''[[TheHeroDies died]]'' [[DownerEnding after all of this.]]]]

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:The player character's BigBrotherBully. His DeadlyPrank was just another horrific event in Fazbear Entertainment's downward spiral.]]

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: The child character HATES the diner and the animatronics. Guess what's a short walk away from his house.

** If Fredbear and the other animatronics are haunted during Evan's birthday party, it just adds another layer of horror and sadness. Imagine being an animatronic created for the sole purpose of entertaining children, and then a group of nasty boys shove a child into your [[spoiler:mouth.]] You know he's not supposed to be there, but there's nothing you can do; you can't go against your programming. You can't open your [[spoiler:mouth wider so the Child can pull himself out, you can't move your arms to pull him out of your mouth, you can't even stop your mouth from clamping down on the Child's head.]] You continue with your performance, unable to stop yourself, and listen to the sickening crunch as you [[spoiler:bite down against your will, feel the blood pour from your mouth, and watch as the laughter turns to screaming.]]

* HalloweenEpisode: A special update was released on Halloween 2015, aptly titled the "Halloween Edition". It features slightly reskinned versions of Bonnie and Chica (named [[https://40.media.tumblr.com/c6228d8438427a1b4fcbb8b4f7ccbc30/tumblr_nx2gok2Ma01u98bgmo1_400.jpg Jack-O-Bonnie]] and [[http://orig12.deviantart.net/4f3f/f/2015/304/f/0/fnaf4___jack_o_chica_by_kana_the_drifter-d9ezk1d.png Jack-O-Chica]]) and minor Halloween-themed elements in the main story's cutscenes (such as jack-o-lanterns and decorations). It also includes Balloon Boy, the Puppet, and Mangle in major roles, replacing Springtrap, Nightmare, and Foxy respectively.

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Averted; even though the child can witness the Purple Man putting a spring-locked suit on someone else, what eventually happens to him is an entirely different matter. This may be because the Purple Man may simply be helping an employee into the suit.

** After sitting OutOfFocus in the second game and becoming a mere hallucination in the third, Freddy appears in the first teaser image for ''FNAF 4'' and gives us a ''firm'' reminder of why he owns the AntagonistTitle.
** Bonnie didn't even show up as a hallucination in ''FNAF 3,'' but he returns in this game with a similar nightmarish overhaul. He is the animatronic featured most prominently in the trailer — and is the one to give the obligatory JumpScare at the end.

* MassOhCrap: [[spoiler:Evan's brother and his friends were laughing about their prank... then suddenly go utterly silent when the child's head gets crushed by Fredbear.]]

* MiniMe: Plushtrap and the three "Freddles" resemble smaller versions of Springtrap and Nightmare Freddy, respectively.

* OhCrap: The Crying Child and his plushie have some moments.
** Every time the older brother jumpscares him.
** When someone sees him at Fredbear's Family Diner and an adult in a Fredbear suit starts chasing him.
** When he's locked in the Spare Parts room and banging to escape.
* PragmaticVillainy: The child, while stuck in Fredbear's Diner, can catch a glimpse of the Purple Man, who is helping another employee with the spring-lock suit. While running from a man in a yellow suit, the child hides under a table and gets into a TroubledFetalPosition. Because other employees are still there, the Purple Man spares the protagonist.
* ProperlyParanoid: This child is the only person in the games scared of Fredbear's Diner and the animatronics. It's a place where a serial killer lures children to the back room, murders them, and stuffs them into suits and the bots will go after you if you're a security guard. Can anyone blame him for being so fearful?

* PumpkinPerson: The Halloween update includes Jack-O Bonnie and Jack-O Chica, who may be examples of this.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Averted by the new golden animatronic. Just from hearing the word "golden", you should be able to tell he's the original form of Golden Freddy. And when we learn his real name, we learn he's Fredbear, from Fredbear's Family Diner, as namedropped in the second game.

** Mangle appears in the protagonist's house. Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, and Toy Chica also appear as toys owned by a local kid. After the Halloween update, there is "Fun with Balloon Boy", which highly suggests that the child is aware of the original BB's existence. With the indirect confirmation by Scott that the game takes place in 1983, all of these mean that the Toy animatronics aren't introduced in 1987; they have existed since long before that (possibly as a parallel roster of the original Fazbear gang).

* ImaginaryFriend: Golden Freddy in the form of a teddy bear. According to the official Sanshee version of the toy, however he's apparently very [[spoiler:real, and very haunted.]]

** The protagonist's brother is, putting it lightly, [[{{Jerkass}} a huge dick]]. He loves tormenting his younger sibling by locking him in frightening places or jumping out at him while wearing a Foxy mask. Most of the other kids that the player interacts with aren't much better, laughing at his peril as he dreads having his party at Freddy's. [[spoiler:It quickly goes FromBadToWorse by showing the protagonist being ''forced into Fredbear's mouth'' by the other kids, including his own brother. [[DeadlyPrank Big mistake]].]]
* KillerTeddyBear: Plushtrap, being a little plush toy of Springtrap, kinda counts. The mini-Freddies are a more literal version.
* LateArrivalSpoiler: The post-night minigames spoil some of the biggest reveals from ''3''. Namely that Spring Bonnie, a golden predecessor of Bonnie, exists, and he and Golden Freddy (whom this game reveals was originally called Fredbear) used to headline an establishment of Freddy's, overshadowing the original Fazbear gang.

* MassOhCrap: [[spoiler:The kid's brother and his friends were laughing about their prank... then suddenly go utterly silent when the child's head gets crushed by Fredbear.]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: The entire game. Are the Nightmare Animatronics just [[spoiler:the hallucinations/PTSD-induced flashbacks of a DeadlyPrank victim, or actual entities that can kill him? Is Fredbear just a plush toy, or a NotSoImaginaryFriend responsible for the Nightmares in the first place?]]

** The Mini-Freddies. Turn your back on your bed too long and more of them gather, only running off when you shine your flashlight at them. Fail to do so and Nightmare Freddy will come after you soon after three of them gather.

* MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily: The Nightmare animatronics are characterized by having long, sharp teeth. Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Fredbear, and Nightmare stand out, with the former having three rows of teeth, and the latter two possessing both giant, toothy and possibly bloody maws, but also fanged {{Belly Mouth}}s. [[spoiler:Not so surprising, given what happens to the Child at the end…]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler:Fredbear bites down on the child's head, his brother and his friends instantly stop laughing.]]

** A girl that Evan can encounter on his journey home from the restaurant asks him if he is crying because he doesn't like her collection of the Toy animatronic figurines.

** If you lose at "Fun with Plushtrap", the same blood-filled screen is shown (but it fades out quickly) with a caption that says "TOO BAD." It's almost like the game's taunting you.

** Mangle, Balloon Boy, and the Puppet return in the Halloween update as genuine enemies who can kill you. In the previous game, they are merely hallucinations.
* HumansAreTheRealMonsters: This seems to have become a running theme of the series by this point. Between the Purple Guy's actions revealed in the previous game to [[spoiler:the cause of the child's nightmares]], nearly everything awful that's happened in the series has been the result of the actions of very cruel humans.
* ImaginaryFriend: Golden Freddy in the form of a teddy bear. [[spoiler:Surprise, he's apparently a NotSoImaginaryFriend, too.]]

* InvisibleParents: It's not clear if the parents even ''exist''. If so, they are criminally negligent to ignore what their kid is going through, and how his brother is facilitating it.

** If Fredbear and the other animatronics are haunted during the Child's birthday party, it just adds another layer of horror and sadness. Imagine being an animatronic created for the sole purpose of entertaining children, and then a group of nasty boys shove a child into your [[spoiler:mouth.]] You know he's not supposed to be there, but there's nothing you can do; you can't go against your programming. You can't open your [[spoiler:mouth wider so the Child can pull himself out, you can't move your arms to pull him out of your mouth, you can't even stop your mouth from clamping down on the Child's head.]] You continue with your performance, unable to stop yourself, and listen to the sickening crunch as you [[spoiler:bite down against your will, feel the blood pour from your mouth, and watch as the laughter turns to screaming.]]

* ArtifactTitle: Despite the title, Evan, unlike his predecessors, does not spend five nights at any Freddy's. The setting is simply a house that the Nightmare Animatronics are haunting. There ''is'' a pizzeria (or rather, a diner) close to his house, though, and plays a very important part of the between-night minigames.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Only two of the Nightmares are as pristine as their original selves — Nightmarionne and Nightmare ''Balloon Boy''. Fittingly enough, they're both based on members of the Toy generation.

** Plushtrap and the Mini-Freddies definitely have this vibe. The former really gives it off due to looking like a doll sitting in a chair... who is staring at the door.
** A girl the protagonist can encounter on his journey home from the restaurant asks him if he is crying because he doesn't like her collection of the Toy animatronic figurines.
** Otherwise averted: the protagonist loves his other dolls of the Freddy's characters, though he's terrified of the actual animatronics. He considers them his only friends.
* CryingAtYourBirthdayParty: The Crying Child is seen, well, [[ShapedLikeItself crying]] on the penultimate minigame, that takes place during his birthday.

* DeadlyPrank: [[spoiler:This is the cause of the child's nightmares (and possibly his eventual death). The victim's brother tried to scare him by putting him in Fredbear's mouth, only for the animatronic to bite down a lot harder than expected.]]
* DeathOfAChild: [[spoiler:The Child is very, very heavily implied to not survive the game.]]

** The ghosts of the murdered kids, too. In all the other games, they were the force behind the game's events. Here? It's simply the Child's [[BigBrotherBully asshole brother]]. [[spoiler:There is a theory that the five kids the protagonist meets in the post-Night 3 minigame are the murdered kids before they are, well, murdered. It would still make them squarely in this trope, though.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The teens, including the child's brother, [[spoiler:shoving the child's head into the Freddy suit]]. The silence that follows what happens is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone quite eerie]].
* DontCelebrateJustYet: The day after the release of ''Five Nights at Freddy's 3'', Scott placed an image on his site that showed Freddy's iconic hat under a spotlight. This image gave off the implication of a "The End" moment without actually writing the words (and ''FNAF 3'' had the words in its "Good" ending, besides). On the 22nd of April, the hat vanished from the spotlight. Five days later (fitting!), Scott posted the first teaser image for ''FNAF 4'': Nightmare Freddy holding the hat in his hand.

* DownerEnding: Has '''the''' most depressing ending by far of the ''Five Nights at Freddy's'' series. [[spoiler:The Child gets his skull and brain smashed in (due to his OWN BROTHER, and help from his bully friends, no less) and gets put into a comatose state, where the game takes place. The last minigame-cutscene then ends with a [[TheHeroDies flatline.]] The only thing that saves it from being a total downer ending that that the Child is promised that he'll be "put back together"… though even this could just be a hallucination.]]

* EverythingsBetterWithPlushies: The plushies of Foxy and Freddy are undeniably adorable. [[CreepyDoll Plushtrap]], [[SubvertedTrope however…]]

* TheEighties: The game takes place either before or in 1987, due to the constant references to the Bite of '87 in the promotional materials, although Scott proceeded to troll the fanbase by removing references of it after the game was released. Eventually, Scott confirmed in his reddit page about [[WebVideo/GameTheory MattPat]]'s theory that the game takes place in 1983 is correct.

** 87, as it's in the Nightmare Foxy teaser and the site's source code.

** "Was it me" appears on Bonnie, Chica, and the new animatronic's image teasers — most likely a reference to the ArcWords "IT'S ME" from the previous games, although it could also be referencing the Bite of '87. There are 8s and 7s spread throughout the site's source code and an "87" can be found in Nightmare Foxy's right eye if his teaser image is darkened.

* BodyHorror: The Nightmare animatronics qualify as this, but special shout-outs go to Nightmare Freddy (due to the Mini-Freddies on his body) and Fredbear and Nightmare, since they both have teeth in their stomachs (and two holes in their stomachs that resemble eyes).

** The scream heard in the game sounds like a hybrid of ''all'' of the screams from the previous games,[[note]]Excluding 1 and 2's Golden Freddy[[/note]] as unnerving as it is.

** The Nightmare Animatronics are based on their designs from ''Five Nights At Freddy's 2'', especially noticeable with Chica and Foxy.

* ArtifactOfDoom: The Fredbear plush in the minigames subverts this. While the plush does guide the child towards bad events (such as leading him to his brother), it's implied to genuinely care for him; in this light, its prodding is trying to help the child face his fears instead of hiding (they both know that the fear of his brother's scares won't stop until they get it over with, hiding only prolongs that anxiety).
* ArtifactTitle: Despite the title, the protagonist, unlike his predecessors, does not spend five nights at any Freddy's. The setting is simply a house that the Nightmare Animatronics are haunting. There ''is'' a pizzeria (or rather, a diner) close to the protagonist's house, though, and plays a very important part of the between-night minigames.
* AscendedExtra: Remember that cupcake Chica always holds in her hand? ''It can jumpscare you now.''

* BigBrotherBully: The Child's older brother to a T. He liked picking on his little brother and doing all sorts of horrible things to him. [[spoiler:During his birthday party, he and his friends stuck the kid inside Fredbear's mouth to scare him. Unfortunately, the animatronic bit down and nearly killed his brother. The silence that followed and the dialogue after Night 6 makes it clear that [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he never meant for his brother to get hurt like that]]. He even hoped that his brother would wake up so that he could be a better brother. It never happened and the kid passed away.]]
* ABirthdayNotABreak: The player character is dreading his birthday because it's being held at the place he loathes so much. It gets worse when [[spoiler:his brother and his friends' "birthday present" gets his head crushed]].
* BloodlessCarnage: Averted. However, [[spoiler:when the child is bitten]], there's no blood at all.

* ButtMonkey: The kid. The poor, poor kid. Not only is he constantly tormented by his brother, he's also being chased by the most terrifying versions of the Fazbear gang to date, ''and'' [[spoiler:he winds up brain damaged, and later dead via Fredbear's bite. On his ''birthday'']]. ''Damn.''

* CanonDiscontinuity: Scott has stated that, due to changing his mind about revealing the contents of the box, the Halloween update's contents are officially non-canon.

** If Fredbear and the other animatronics are sentient during the Child's birthday party, it just adds another layer of horror and sadness. Imagine being an animatronic created for the sole purpose of entertaining children, and then [[spoiler:a group of nasty boys shove a child into your mouth. You know he's not supposed to be there, but there's nothing you can do; you can't go against your programming. You can't open your mouth wider so the Child can pull himself out, you can't move your arms to pull him out of your mouth, you can't even stop your mouth from clamping down on the Child's head. You continue with your performance, unable to stop yourself, and listen to the sickening crunch as you bite down against your will, feel the blood pour from your mouth, and watch as the laughter turns to screaming.]]
** [[spoiler:The ([[TheHeroDies apparently initial]]) fate of the protagonist after an unfortunate accident involving his brain]].

** [[spoiler:The ([[TheHeroDies apparently initial]]) fate of the protagonist after an unfortunate accident involving his brain]]. The brother even says [[spoiler:"I don't know if you can hear me."]]

** The "I'M STILL HERE" line from ''3'' briefly shows up here, as well — [[spoiler:it's spoken to the child after his disastrous birthday party ended with him hospitalized and close to death.]]

* BigBad: Nightmare Freddy, if the pre-release material is of any indication. And then Nightmare Foxy comes in, as he represents the actual BigBad: the kid's absolute douchebag of a brother. And then Nightmare Fredbear shows up. [[OverlyLongGag And]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish then]] [[LastEpisodeNewCharacter Nightmare.]]

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: The child is heavily implied to be hated by all the other children, up to and including his own brother.
* AmbiguousSituation: The entire game, for multiple reasons. Especially the ending: [[spoiler: Who's talking to Evan, and what does it mean by "put you back together"?]]

* AccidentalMurder: Downplayed, but [[spoiler:the teenagers' prank against the child]] was an accident, and it probably [[spoiler:disabled (and ultimately killed) him.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: The entire game, for multiple reasons. Especially the ending: [[spoiler:does The Child die? Who's talking to him? What does it mean by "put you back together"?]]

* AllJustADream: The events of the game are implied to either be a horrific nightmare or AdventuresInComaland. [[spoiler:It's implied that the protagonist is either suffering from PTSD or is outright ''comatose'' thanks to his older brother unintentionally getting his head crushed in a DeadlyPrank.]]

* SpiritualSequel: A young protagonist is left to fend for themselves in a nightmarish place against monsters with no real means of keeping safe besides basic defense, his talking teddy bear is his best friend, [[spoiler:and, on top of all that, the BigBad is a family member]]. The game is quickly shaping up to feel like a follow-up to ''VideoGame/AmongTheSleep''.
* StartOfDarkness: The events of this game mark the beginning of the end for Fazbear Entertainment… [[spoiler:and possibly Golden Freddy, though that's not exactly clear]].

* TakeThatAudience: In a post, Scott mentioned he was disappointed in the fanbase for not figuring out the hidden details of the story as they had in past entries — with special mention to ''WebVideo/GameTheory'' — and was never going to reveal the contents of the locked box at the end, which he said holds the pieces of lore that makes the games fit together.
* TeensAreMonsters: [[spoiler:After Night 5, the player character's BigBrotherBully and his friends shove him into the mouth of a Fredbear animatronic against his will.]]

* ActionSurvivor: The child protagonist is this, both during the nights and in the minigames. Even though [[spoiler:he was lobotomized]], he's alive. [[spoiler:Night 6's ending subverts this, however, as the child is implied to die after… ''something…'' speaks to him in one last dream, promising to "put him back together."]]
** Then (possibly) averted if you know real life: [[spoiler:A hospital machine only flatlines when it has no power or is turned off. This means the child either dies and the machine is turned off… or he has been "put back together" and has woken up.]]

* ArtificialStupidity: [[RunningGag Oh, we have a mixed bag this time!]] Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are back to square one, with Bonnie and Chica always coming from the left and right respectively, and Foxy's back to hiding behind a parted barrier, though this time he has to sneak past you to get there. Sometimes it's him you're shining your light on down the hallway, so you're heading him off at the pass. Fredbear — and later, [[TrueFinalBoss Nightmare]] — on the other hand, will come at you from all sides, and Freddy himself will actually wait for ''your'' stupidity if you don't look behind you often enough. [[spoiler:Justified as it's a nightmare.]]

* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: [[spoiler:The child protagonist is dying. Their skull crushed from a prank gone horribly wrong. Brain damaged, their worst fears threaten to consume them. They're now having five nights, or rather, five ''nightmares'' at Freddy's.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Only two of the Nightmares are as pristine as their original selves — Nightmarionne and Nightmare ''Balloon Boy''. Fittingly enough, they're both based on members of the Toy generation. However, only Nightmare Balloon Boy is canon.

* BloodierAndGorier: Instead of the game over static of the other games, blood takes its place.

* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The game itself primarily uses dark blues, like the first game, but is ''a lot'' darker. Game menus and promotional material, however, uses red like the second game, though this game uses it much more so.
* CreepyChangingPainting: The "Thank You!" image on Scott's website. At first, the changes were subtle, like the colors becoming duller, but animatronics started appearing and being outright replaced, with many of them now looking very cartoonish, and a surprise appearance from the "hallucination" Balloon Boy. It turned out to be a promotion for the then upcoming ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorld''.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The animatronics may be the scariest yet, and you're a little kid instead of a grown man.
** This is also reflected in the death screens — from 1, a shot of the parts room with your character's eyes hanging out of the suit, from 2, a shot of Freddy staring at you through the eye-holes in the mask, from 3, static, and from 4, ''blood everywhere.''
** The plot is also far darker than any of the other games and deals with some very heavy themes, like sibling abuse, parental abandonment, being unable to be safe in your own home, [[spoiler:and life-changing (or ending) injuries]].

* DyingDream: [[spoiler:The entire game is the traumatic dream/hallucination of the dying child having suffered a brain injury at the hands of his complete asshole of a brother.]]

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: [[spoiler:The Nightmare animatronics are a nightmare the Child is having.]]
* ExactWords: As Phone Guy told us, it is possible to survive without your front lobe… [[spoiler:even if the victim only lived for a week afterwards, he still lived without it]].

* FirstEpisodeTwist: Even if you haven't already read through most of the page, you'll more than likely probably have correctly guessed from the information above that the game is another prequel due to the player character's many trips to Fredbear's Family Diner. In the game itself, it's not until the first night's post-night minigame that you'll actually get a heavy hint as to what the aforementioned spoiler is, and get outright shown after the end of the second night.
* FourIsDeath: Not only is this the ''fourth'' installment in the series, but it also has the most disturbing variations of the animatronics that Scott has ever created.

* HarderThanHard: In the original game, there's Night 7, and Night 8. The updates take it to '''[[UpToEleven absolutely insane levels]]''' with the challenge menu. Blind Mode (ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin), Mad Freddy (Nightmare Freddy's faster), Insta-Foxy (Foxy's ''always in your closet''), and All Nightmare (dealing with Nightmare for the entire night). Try activating the first and fourth challenges, and it would completely ''scream'' this trope.
* HeelFaceDoorSlam: After [[spoiler:stuffing the child into Fredbear's mouth and getting the latter hospitalized, the brother apologizes and wants him to wake up. You then hear a {{flatline}}, implying that the child died in his coma]].

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Implied, at least. At the end of Night 6's ending, you can faintly hear a {{flatline}}.]]

* HowWeGotHere: As it turns out, the mini-games reveal how the child protagonist ends up suffering each night.

** It's implied that the kid's brother is also one of the kids who tore apart Mangle, too.

* MentalMonster: The twisted, nightmarish incarnations [[SuckECheeses Freddy Fazbear's Pizza's]] jolly band of murderous mascots are this to the game's child protagonist. [[spoiler:The latter appears to be terrified of the animatronic mascots, and is mercilessly bullied by his older brother and his lackeys, who all wear masks of Foxy, Freddy, Bonnie, and Chica respectively. Nightmare Foxy hides inside the closet during gameplay much in the same way the child's brother does to scare him, and Nightmare Fredbear's teeth are tinted red, alluding to how the real Fredbear accidentally bit down into the child's head after the bullies shoved him into the animatronic's mouth as a cruel prank. The incident left him in a comatose state, thus marking the beginning of his DyingDream, where the main gameplay takes place.]]
* MetaTwist:
** [[spoiler:Your enemies aren't haunted animatronics — they're horrific nightmares of a coma patient.]]
** The Purple Guy has nothing at all to do with the events of the game. He simply appears as a cameo.

* {{Mundanger}}: [[spoiler:Sort of? [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane Maybe?]] Assuming that the theory that the child's hallucinating or suffering PTSD is true, there are no murderous animatronics, he's just hallucinating.]]
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler:Fredbear bites down on the child's head, his brother and his friends instantly stop laughing. In the Night 6 Minigame, the brother's grey text plays, trying to get any signal his brother hears him, before finally saying "I'm sorry."]]
* MythologyGag:
** As noted below, the subtitle is a reference to ''Franchise/FridayThe13th''. The second game definitely, and possibly the others as well, had the fifth night fall on a Friday the 13th.
** There's a fan in the bedroom similar to the ones in the security offices in the previous games.
** The large grandfather clock in the hall may be one to the use of "My Grandfather's Clock" in ''2''.
** Nightmare Bonnie's jumpscare at the end of the trailer may be a gag in regards to the first game's trailer, showing Bonnie pulling his mask off and leering towards the camera.
** Likewise, Scott had mentioned that the animatronic he was most afraid of was Bonnie after having a waking nightmare of Bonnie standing outside his door and Scott trying to shut him out. In the teaser, the protagonist goes to check his bedroom door and is greeted by ''Nightmare'' Bonnie's huge mouth.

* NintendoHard: Blind Mode makes the screen pitch-black, Mad Freddy makes Nightmare Freddy much more active, and Insta-Foxy makes it so Nightmare Foxy is always in the closet. It's possible to combine all of them into one super-challenging night.

* NotMeThisTime: Unlike the other games, the Purple Guy isn't responsible in any way for the killer animatronics causing our protagonist grief this time around. [[spoiler:[[OhCrap Well,]] as revealed in ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister Location]]''[='=]s [[BonusDungeon Private Room]], he may very well be the boy's [[ArchnemesisDad father,]] invoking the nightmares through underground gas hallucination experiments.]]

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A sobering one... [[spoiler:the Crying Child after getting bitten is implied to get some medical help, at least enough medical help to get hooked up to a heart monitor. This means that this is the ''only'' time that someone at Fredbear's diner thought to call the paramedics and try to save a child. The Brother in the meantime gains enough guilt and humility to apologize, even though as far as he knows he doesn't know if his brother can hear him. The reason why this is sobering? He only says sorry when it's too late for his brother to survive the DeadlyPrank]].

* PumpkinPerson: The Halloween update includes Jack-O Bonnie and Jack-O Chica, who may be examples of this as an ExaggeratedTrope, as they are completely made of pumpkins.
* RedHerring:
** The child's room has a [[PurpleIsPowerful purple fan and robot toy]], as well as a toy phone. This would suggest a connection to the Purple Man and/or Phone Guy. Phone Guy is completely absent from the game, and the Purple Man only appears in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameo.
** As a plushie of Springtrap, one of the series' most wicked characters, one would be forgiven for thinking that Plushtrap has a huge role in the plot, such as somehow being the cause of the animatronics. Aside from one child having a Spring Bonnie plush in one of the Atari-esque minigames, he has no plot significance — instead being relegated to a between-nights minigame. His appearance as a main mascot of the establishment, however, does carry significance (see {{Foreshadowing}} above).
** A series-wide example: in the first game, there was a hallucination that displayed three crying faces, ala the Puppet on the wall. Meanwhile, the Child is nearly always depicted with tears in the eyes and in the same manner as the crying children. [[spoiler:The game thus makes you believe that the Child turns into the Puppet after his death by practical lobotomy. ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'', however, jossed this theory and instead tells you that the Puppet is possessed by a girl. Nevertheless, it is still likely that the Child ''does'' haunt an animatronic, but it's not the Puppet. It is Fredbear/Golden Freddy.]]
** At first glance, the game appears to have solved the mystery behind [[spoiler:The Bite of '87]], showing the animatronic responsible for it as well as the circumstances leading up to it. However, certain details scattered throughout the site's source code, as well as the game itself, indicate the game actually takes place in 1983, which was eventually confirmed by Scott Cawthon. While the scene where [[spoiler:The Child has his skull crushed by Fredbear's jaw]] ''is'' still a [[TheReveal major reveal]] within the context of the story, it was ultimately an isolated (albeit strikingly similar) incident, and [[spoiler:The Bite of '87]] [[NoodleIncident remains a mystery]].

** [[spoiler:The kid you're controlling is the victim of an unfortunate (and seemingly lethal) brain injury. His brother and some of the brother's friends lifted the kid up towards Fredbear during the kid's birthday party as [[DeadlyPrank a prank]]. The kid ended up in Fredbear's jaw. Goodbye, functioning brain — hello, coma and nightmares.]]

* SequelEscalation: In the first two games, you're a grown adult fending off varying numbers of animatronics. The third game has a SerialKiller SealedInAPersonShapedCan. Here, ''you're a young child fending off [[AnimalisticAbomination Animalistic Abominations]].''

* AbsenteeActor:
** Phone Guy is nearly absent, understandable given that the main bulk of the game does not take place in a Freddy's establishment. However, he does appear as an easter egg: if you reverse the odd vocal radio-static that plays randomly, it's revealed to be a pitched down Phone Guy recording the first message in the first game.
** In the original game, with the exception of the Spring Bonnie (Springtrap) animatronic, a plushie-sized version of Springtrap, figurines of Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, and Toy Chica and a pile of Mangle's dismantled parts, all of which appear in the minigames, none of the animatronics from the second or third games appear in this one at all. Nightmare versions of BB, Mangle, and the Puppet are added in the Halloween edition, although Scott has confirmed that only BB is canon to the game.
** Conversely, in the Halloween Edition, Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Foxy, Nightmare, and Plushtrap do not appear. Plushtrap is replaced by Nightmare BB, Nightmare is replaced by Nightmarionne, and Nightmare Foxy is replaced by Nightmare Mangle. Nightmare Chica and Bonnie are replaced by Jack-O-Chica and Jack-O-Bonnie, respectively.
** Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are notably absent in the minigames that take place in the Freddy's restaurant. Instead, where they should be present, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie take their place.