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Games:
Five Nights at Freddy's
- While the game provides a hidden backstory, many fans felt that the backstory fails to answer important questions such as why Foxy runs, who Golden Freddy is, and the reason behind the animatronics' behavior. The WMG page has continuously gotten bigger and bigger each day in regards to this, and people have posted related theories on tumblr.
- Game Theory posits
that the game is Very Loosely Based on a True Story, and may have been inspired by a murder at a Chuck E. Cheese's establishment in Aurora, Colorado in December 1993, where a former employee shot five employees after hours, killing four.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
- Thanks to the Purple Man, as well as the Purple Guard who may or may not be the same person, The Reveal that the game is a prequel and that the child murders happen throughout the week, the Puppet's role in the murders, and the appearance of Golden Freddy, this game has gotten lots of theories on Reddit, the FNaF wiki, and the WMG page.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
- With no explanation given for what he is or where he came from, Yenndo's origin and purpose is ripe for speculation. Theories proposed so far include him being the "Anim05 OOS" mentioned in the schedule teaser, a prototype of Funtime Freddy, or the endoskeleton belonging to the springlock suit from Night 4. The most accepted fan theory is that he is actually the endoskeleton of a Funtime Version of none other than Fredbear/Golden Freddy, due to his yellow eyes, name, and mysterious abilities.
- Some have theorised that Night 2's map and the images of the Child's room and the Fredbear plush with a walkie talkie in the Private Room are a sign that the events of 4's gameplay were not only Real After All, but also monitored by Mr. Afton/the Purple Guy from the Private Room as some bizarre secret experiment, despite nothing prior ever indicating any of this was the case.
- Continuing from above, people have compared the Twisted animatronics from the books and the Nightmare Animatronics of 4, and noticed that they are surpringly similar. It's speculated by some that the Freddy plush walkie talkie was used to send the Twisted's Brown Note that then caused the kid to see toys and animatronics as monsters.
- A fairly popular theory that has sprung up is the idea that Ballora is possessed by the ghost of William Afton's unseen wife, with the main evidence in support of the theory being her more human like nature than even Circus Baby who is confirmed to be possessed by Elizabeth Afton as well as the fact that she seems to be more aware about the flaws in the Ennard plan then the other animatronics, which is something that an adult would be more familiar with than a child or a robot.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
- Scrap Baby has several similarities with the book-canon only Twisted Animatronics.
- If the Rockstar animatronics are indeed the base for the Nightmares, there's even more evidence towards the "Nightmares are the games' version of the Twisted animatronics" theory.note
Security Breach: Fury's Rage
- As this is a franchise well-known for putting lore-snippets into even its most trivial-looking off-shoots, there were of course no shortage of fan-theories about Fury's Rage possibly foreshadowing plot-points in Security Breach. Not helped by the Hard Mode's secret boss fight.
Literature:
Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones
- There are some who believe that the Nightmares from the fourth game might utilize the same Brown Note technology as the Twisted animatronics do (or that the Nightmares are the games' version of the Twisted animatronics); they were actually real, and the kid sees them as monsters because of said technology. As the house can be seen in Sister Location's private room, the only problem with this theory is that Scott said that the books aren't canon to the games... but we don't know if Broad Strokes is in effect or not. Then again, William's very name had been introduced to the games beforehand, and Pizzeria Simulator does allude to the Twisted animatronics, even including a Twisted Wolf poster in a rare screen (which also reappears in Ultimate Custom Night).
Fazbear Frights
The fact that the books are so much more seemingly fantastical than the average installment of the series, where the supernatural elements are either built up over a long period of time or else kept fairly low-key and straightforward, has lent itself quite well to wild speculation about what any of it means; between this and the confusion over which stories take place in the games' timeline, which take place in the books' timeline, and which take place in their own timeline entirely, the series has fans more confused than ever before about how to fit the new information into the existing lore. The fact that Scott has explicitly stated that these books are the key to understanding the mysteries of the previous games has only added fuel to the fire.
- The synopses for future books are revealed on sites like Amazon and Bookmanager months before the actual books drop; as a result, the fandom is left with details to puzzle over in an attempt to predict both individual plot details and links between the books and the games. In particular, Step Closer's synopsis referencing a girl named Susie has put fans in mind of the girl possessing Chica (which turned out to be the correct instinct... sort of), and the reference to a video game producing something evil strongly suggests that "In the Flesh" might serve as an origin story for Glitchtrap (it very much wasn't).
- After Step Closer was fully released, many fans noticed that we might finally get the answer to which one of the two brothers is Michael Afton. The answer? He's most likely the older brother. Pete has a purple arm at one point, Michael turns purple, Pete and the Older Brother are both bullies associated with Foxy, Michael and Pete both are stuck in their bodies after death, and Pete is slowly becoming scared of animatronics despite being fearless at the beginning, and if the "Michael is the older brother" theory is true, the same happens for Michael/the older brother.
- The fourth Stitchwraith epilogue sent the fandom into an immediate frenzy of speculation, on every topic from the identity of the "hitchhiker" on Andrew's spirit to the connections between Andrew and the other haunted items in the series to the possibility of Andrew being the Vengeful Spirit and/or the Bite Victim. And that's not even factoring in the connection to upcoming stories, such as "The Man in Room 1280" and "The Real Jake", and what this might mean for future games.
- The fact that Jake's dad is named Evan, and that said dad has a brother named Michael, became a major point of attention for the fandom when, barely a month after Volume 6 was published, new evidence was found in the Logbook (after three years of searching) possibly confirming that "Evan" might be the name of the Bite Victim, who is generally agreed to be the younger brother of Michael Afton. This revelation has thrown the fandom into an absolute frenzy over what the parallel (which is even further strengthened by the book's description of Uncle Michael) is meant to mean, if indeed it means anything.
