History WhatAnIdiot / FiveNightsAtFreddys

'''Instead''': He accepts the job, and learns too late that the animatronics are out to kill him, and [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation for whatever reason]], is stuck there.

'''New Information Reveals''': This wasn't in 1987, or even at Freddy's, so the rules were likely different.

'''Instead''': Either the bodies were never found, or Fazbear Entertainment just left them there. Even after the animatronics began to smell like rotting corpses, and blood and mucus appeared around the mouth, no one checked.
* Fazbear Entertainment treats the list of OSHA violations as a checklist, and break huge numbers of laws.\\

'''Further Still''': Jeremy continues working the birthday party closing out the place on Sunday and becomes the likely Bite of '87 survivor.\\

'''Instead''': They do nothing, and business begins to falter as parents avoid the place due to concerns over sanitation.

* Mike Schmidt finds an newspaper ad for a pizzeria well-known for its animatronic animals, but it says "Not responsible for injury/dismemberment."\\

'''You'd Expect''': The company would keep the suits well out of reach of the robots; simply locking the door to the backstage at night or having the spares in a separate building could do.\\

'''Instead''': They decide to hold off their closure until the next day, especially because there is a party scheduled for that day. As mentioned above, the staff fail to inform Jeremy not to go to work on Night Six or that his shift change has been finalized, setting him up for a painful double shift as he is to stay close to the animatronics and watch over them in the latter shift. Having reached their breaking point, one of the animatronics takes action during the daytime for once, attempts to deal with a "predator", and bites their frontal lobe off. Everything inside the pizzeria is immediately abandoned, and they hire a new night guard to watch over the place afterwards, who is immediately fired for tampering with the animatronics. Parts of the Toys are used to repair the originals, and the company stashes their internally-pristine shells (which likely wouldn't fatally slice and dice a human shoved inside) and leftover parts away. Assuming that the old animatronics weren't continuing their murderous streak due to their possessions by the kids, it would appear that their refurbishments failed to remove what little facial recognition technology they had installed, which is what caused the majority of the problem in the first place.\\

'''You'd Expect''': The guard would bring a camera with him the third night (Springtrap becomes active in the second night), take pictures of him moving, run out of his office, and head for the exit (right outside the door, might we add). The next morning, he can show his employers the proof that Springtrap is alive.\\

'''Or''': Apply the same no entry policy to the already existing office.\\

* The Spring Bonnie suit was actually very dangerous to wear, as the springlocks could easily fail, causing the suit to crush and kill the wearer.\\

* The new company has already set up their place.\\

* William Afton got crushed to death inside of the Spring Bonnie suit, causing a pool of blood to leak out onto the floor. Thirty years later, the people from Fazbear's Fright finds the Spring Bonnie suit, now Springtrap, still inside the old pizzeria.\\

'''You'd Expect''': Sooner or later, the younger brother would go to his parents and tell him what his brother is doing to him.\\
'''Instead''': He just keeps it in, and never tells anyone about anything.\\

'''Instead''': Mr. Afton forbids his daughter from going near Baby. This means that, being a kid, she sneaks out to see the animatronic and thus is alone. This triggers Baby's killing mechanism, which Baby didn't know about, and Afton's girl dies. As a result, Circus Baby is no longer allowed to perform, and Afton is left with the guilt about his daughter being one of his victims, [[TheSociopath if he even cared in the first place]].

'''Instead''': On Night Four, Baby, now slowly becoming Ennard, compels Funtime Foxy to kidnap you and put you in a springlock suit, which very nearly gets you killed as you try not to wiggle too much but have to fend off the Minireenas. Also, for some reason, the two technicians are also killed and left to hang on the performance platforms.\\

* Afton has come to the new pizzeria, seeking children to kill there. However, he knows that something is not right and this new pizzeria is possibly a trap. He's right; his old business partner Henry, using Michael, has trapped him, his daughter Scrap Baby, Molten Freddy, and Lefty/The Puppet in order to burn them in a deathtrap.\\

* Fazbear Entertainment, the multimedia franchise that has sprung up out of the ashes of the pizzerias, has invested significant time and money into cleaning up their image and to discredit the stories of haunted animatronics and murders at their pizzerias. After having a video game made in order to discredit their detractors, they go on to build the [=PizzaPlex=], a massive compound with a wide variety of entertainment fare and a brand new line of Glamrock Animatronics.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Fazbear Entertainment would build this [=PizzaPlex=] far away from the locations of any previous murders in order to maintain their image, which is still fairly controversial.\\

'''As a Result''': Vanessa is being either {{Brainwashed}} or [[DemonicPossession possessed]] by Glitchtrap and begins kidnapping and murdering children at the [=PizzaPlex=], as well as tampering with the animatronics to make them murder kids.

* In this book's continuity, Charlotte's dad made the springlock suits. Early on, he openly tells his kids how dangerous they are (enough that slight twitches can cause them to break).\\

'''Instead''': He (as well as William) continue to use them regardless of their dangerous use. At least Fazbear Entertainment had the excuse of being a subsidiary of IncompetenceInc run by {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and not a GadgeteerGenius who should honestly know better.\\
'''To Be Fair''': While the point stands, Henry had created and likely knew how to properly use the springlocks as well as William, so it probably was a diminished chance at failure.

'''Even Worse''': He later kidnaps Carlton, which not only gets the children to come back, but also ''the police'' possibly trying to catch for the murders, and he ends up springlocked at the end.
* In a somewhat more murky example, [[PoliceAreUseless the police in Hurricane]]. They had correctly suspected William of the murders. He had been present at Freddy's each day of the murders, had mysteriously disappeared at the time of each murder, and when the police went through his house, they found the Spring Bonnie suit and some of William's diaries which showed how obsessed and jealous he was of his partner Henry. However, there were no bodies as they had been stuffed into the suits.\\

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* William as well, for not only setting the animatronics on the kids and getting involved, instead of just letting the kids go into Freddy's to gain closure for the murders, since A. Their not vandalizing anything and no one would know if they kept coming, and B. It would be much more likely that they would have no idea as to what was going on with the animatronics possibly coming after them and killing them, and even if they didn't, the kids would have just gone home and thought nothing of it.\\
'''Even Worse''': He later kidnaps Carlton, which not only gets the children to come back, but also ''the police'' possibly getting him caught for the murders, and he ends up springlocked at the end.

* William as well, for not only Setting the animatronics on the kids and getting involved, instead of just letting the kids go into Freddy's to gain closure for the murders, since A. Their not vandalizing anything and no one would know if they kept coming, and B. It would be much more likely that they would have no idea as to what was going on with the animatronics possibly coming after them and killing them, and even if they didn't, the kids would have just gone home and thought nothing of it. ut also kidnapping Carlton, as this would get not only the children to come back, but also ''the police'' possibly getting him caught for the murders and gets him springlocked at the end.

* William as well, for not only Setting the animatronics on the kids and getting involved]], instead of just letting the kids go into Freddy's to gain closure for the murders, since A. Their not vandalizing anything and no one would know if they kept coming, and B. It would be much more likely that they would have no idea as to what was going on with the animatronics possibly coming after them and killing them, and even if they didn't, the kids would have just gone home and thought nothing of it, but also kidnapping Carlton, as this would get not only the children to come back, but also ''the police'' possibly getting him caught for the murders and gets him springlocked at the end.
* In a somewhat more murky example, [[PoliceAreUseless the police in Hurricane]]. They had correctly suspected William Afton of the murders. He had been present at Freddy's each day of the murders, had mysteriously disappeared at the time of each murder, and when the police went through his house, they found the Spring Bonnie suit and some of William's diaries which showed how obsessed and jealous he was of his partner Henry. However, there were no bodies as they had been stuffed into the suits, and therefore they had to let Afton go. While understandable and realistic, they probably could have at least taken him to court and possibly got a conviction. While the lack of bodies would have hindered the case, and William probably could have gotten a good lawyer, the evidence they had was hard to ignore, and the jury probably would have voted Afton guilty. Additionally, the game news articles tell of how the animatronics leaked blood and mucus because of the kids being stuffed in them, which ''probably'' should have raised a few flags to the police and any sane parent at the time.

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* In a somewhat more murky example of this trope, [[PoliceAreUseless the police in Hurricane]]. They had correctly suspected William Afton of the murders. He had been present at Freddy's each day of the murders, had mysteriously disappeared at the time of each murder, and when the police went through his house, they found the Spring Bonnie suit and some of William's diaries which showed how obsessed and jealous he was of his partner Henry. However, there were no bodies [[spoiler: as they had been stuffed into the suits]], and therefore they had to let Afton go. While understandable and realistic, they probably could have at least taken him to court and possibly got a conviction. While the lack of bodies would have hindered the case, and William probably could have gotten a good lawyer, the evidence they had was hard to ignore, and the jury probably would have voted Afton guilty. Additionally, the game news articles tell of how the animatronics leaked blood and mucus because of the kids being stuffed in them, which ''probably'' should have raised a few flags to the police and any sane parent at the time.

* In this book's continuity, Charlotte's dad made the spring lock suits. Early on, he openly tells his kids how dangerous they are (enough that slight twitches can cause them to break)... yet he (as well asWilliam) continued to use them regardless of their dangerous use. At least Fazbear Entertainment had the excuse of being a subsidiary of IncompetenceInc run by {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s, and not a GadgeteerGenius who should honestly know better. While the point stands, Henry had created and likely knew how to properly use the springlocks as well as [[spoiler: Dave/William]], so their probably was a diminished chance at failure.