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  • Epileptic Trees: The whereabouts of Mr. Chipper's Mechanical Son's pieces. He says he sent them to seven different kingdoms, but he could just mean the different habitats surrounding the area. Two potential pieces:
    • Number one is the robot in the Tinker's forest, the cryptic nature of its dialogue, and the way it apologizes to Tyke (who strongly resembles Mr. Chipper).
    • Fun Fungal, who tells Tyke that he used to make things out of wood too, before waking up as a mushroom.
      • He also tells Tyke to "never trust a termite", the only character in the game shown to share or sympathize with Mr. Chipper's loathing towards them.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Mr. Chipper's dialogue in FNAF World; it actually is rather in character for him given how he acts in the game proper! With his tendancy towards Sanity Slippage combined with Large Ham and surprisingly dark thought processes.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: The sheer irony between this game and the Freddy's franchise is amazing to behold:
    • Firstly, a few of those "soulless animatronics" referenced in the complaint that launched the series were the Woodbots, regular (if creepy) robots that did their job without any problems. By the time Freddy's rolled around, the animatronics, despite being deliberately designed to look soulless on Scott's part, were the liveliest characters in the franchise. Having an actual soul in that mechanical body will do that to you. And it gets even better: Five Nights at Freddy's World has a mechanical woodcutting enemy based on Mr. Chipper that looks just as unsettling (a Chipper "woodbot" if you will), bringing it full circle.
    • Secondly, Mr. Chipper himself can sometimes bring to mind how dangerous Fazbear Entertainment would later get, what with the beaver cannibalism and termite genocide being punished with mere slaps on the wrist.
    • And, of course, a fun piece of dialog in which Mr. Chipper mentions building a robot version of himself. Which he had to kill when it started thinking it was the real Mr. Chipper. But it's all right now... right now... right now... *bleep bloop* whoops, excuse me...
  • Just Here for Godzilla: Most, if not all, of the newer players only played the game to see where the idea for Five Nights At Freddys came from.
  • Surprisingly Similar Characters: If Tyke really does have a brother and the implications above are correct, then Fun Fungal is this to Flowey The Flower, both are deranged characters who are the offspring of a major character in their respective games who became unhinged after awakening in their current states.
  • Tear Jerker: The rare frog minigame. The text where it is offered to you simply has the frog say "nobody understands the frog's quest". Finding a red tree will end the game, at which point instead of saying "Good job!" the text will be "Nobody understands." The sad part is how much loneliness the dialogue evokes.
    • And then you find the poor blue frog in the cage.
    • One of the frogs has lost a friend named Earl who was fishing high up in a tree but fell. He frequently talks about his attempts to find Earl's body, and how he searched everywhere and often found an item (which he gives to Tyke) that he mistook for his dead friend.
    • The robot in Tinker's forest, lying sadly to the left of the stump, will very rarely activate and give you this dialogue:
    Robot: But I didn't. I didn't mean to. I'm sorry.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: One of the main criticisms of the game was that the characters looked less like the cutesy characters they were supposed to be and more like creepy animatronics. As we all know, said criticism went on to inspire Five Nights At Freddys, a game about creepy animatronics.
  • Vindicated by History: On release, it was panned widely for its Unintentional Uncanny Valley art style and very stiff animations. Nowadays, it's still obscure, but several Five Nights at Freddy's fans have come to appreciate it for its darker themes.

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