As this is a Tear Jerker page, spoilers will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
Main Series:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Sister Location | Pizzeria Simulator | Security Breach
Spinoffs:
FNaF World | Ultimate Custom Night
As terrifying as the game is, it managed to have its fair share of sad moments.
- Yes, you know the truth. But a lot of kids in-universe adore the Fazbear gang and don't know about the restaurant's Dark and Troubled Past. They're going to be heartbroken when the place shuts down for good within two months. The fact that the place gets a re-opening in the sequel does nothing to help, despite what it may seem, due to The Reveal that it takes place before the first game. And when it seems they would get to revisit their childhood thirty years later with Fazbear's Fright, it turns out the place burned down very shortly before or after opening."These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters will live on." -CEO
- This Tearjerker is happily stopped with Help Wanted, when they can finally revisit their childhood with the VR game.
- The death of Phone Guy, your only friendly presence in the pizzeria. What's worse is, it's likely nobody but Mike will ever know his fate.
- Playing through the prequel and hearing him talk about how he's taking up the night shift, with us knowing what will happen to him when he does so, only makes it worse...
- Even if the (quite popular) theory of him being alive in the third game holds any truth, there's still just his entire experience through the whole series. You can tell he's an avid fan of the franchise and absolutely adores the animatronics. But throughout the course of the story, he has to watch this beloved restaurant deal with the murders of children on its premises. He also discovers that someone — probably a co-worker, possibly a friend — used a suit meant to bring joy to small children to lure them to their deaths instead. He sounds devastated in the phone call afterward. Then, possibly for years, he has to take up the lonely nightshift as Freddy's struggles more and more to stay open, all while using his own wits to stay alive against a team of haunted animatronics — the very ones he loved — that are now trying to kill him. It's utterly heartbreaking to see a good-natured man so enthusiastic about the restaurant have to deal with everything from murders to the supernatural — and get killed for it. The player isn't given an option to go check on and possibly save him. Unlike the missing children, someone knew where he was.
- This final piece of dialogue Phone Guy says before he's killed:Phone Guy: I always wondered what was in all those empty heads back there... (Freddy's Tune plays) ...you know... oh, no... (Death scream... and then silence)
- It's possible to interpret his last message differently and make it even worse. Him asking for Mike to check inside the suit could potentially be him asking for Mike to come looking for him and give his family some closure on what happened to him. He also brings up that he's going to hold out until someone checks, which could actually mean he's going to try and stay alive inside the suit so Mike could possibly save him as opposed to trying to hold off all the animatronics until someone checks what's in the suits and satisfies his curiosity.
- The animatronics themselves are a sad story. They were built for the sole and express purpose of entertaining children, and when that purpose is being slowly stripped away as they fall apart and wither in metaphorical agony, some people can't help but feel bad for them.
