FNAF: Everything You Need To Know (ft. MatPat)

ryder do you know why i called you here no matpat of the youtube channel's game theory film theory food theory and gt live i do not know why you called me here well maybe this will jog your memory oh look at this cute little plushy of a rusty metal animatronic haunted by the soul of a child whose head was bitten by a robot in 1987. happy birthday tommy nice now what do you have to say for yourself my videos are funny mister of a ferret this is without a doubt one of the most shameful displays of five nights at freddy's lore dumping i have ever seen it's actually amazing how almost every single thing you said was wrong i thought we had taught you better back on the theorist channels you even worked on multiple fnaf videos during your time working with us but clearly you were too busy frolicking around making videos about bubsy and king's quest to pay any sort of attention dude i was just the history guy and the editor i wasn't doing any of the lore research back then you still thought purple guy was the phone guy but whatever i get it can i go now no no not until you learn the proper fnaflor sir now if you'll see here on this 92 slide powerpoint presentation that i've made on exactly this subject first off this is not the bite of 87. rather the image you chose depicts the bite of 1983 and the child in question is actually the crying child aka the younger brother of michael afton now michael afton is very important help play as him hello internet welcome to my channel photo of a ferret where yes a few months back i made a video about fnaf where i got a lot of the lore wrong and yeah i knew it was all sorts of wrong it was a quick throwaway gag and i wasn't about to do hours and hours of research and fact checking just to get to the punch line nice but even so i want to make things up to any of the fnaf lore buffs whose heads may have exploded at the amount of inaccuracies i managed to squeeze into 15 seconds so i decided to call in some help from the resident fnaf expert of the whole internet matpat from game theory hello internet welcome to i already did that bit oh well um anyway five nights at freddy's is a long series spanning more games books and mysteries than you can shake a stick at so our goal is to present you guys a complete recap of the entire core fnaf storyline or at least as much as we can without delving into too many unconfirmed theories or things that could suddenly be totally rewritten by a new book or a new game or new movie or decorative birthday party napkin with hidden text that only appears after you wipe your mouth five times and fnaf is infamously frustrating when it comes to deciphering its lore but i think once you boil it all down the story might not be as complicated as you think it's weird don't get me wrong but we're not talking about kingdom hearts here but first i gotta say if you like this video and you want to see more be sure to hit the big red subscribe button right below this video and ring the little gray bell next to it that makes sure you get notified every time i upload in the future it's a big help for my channel and i'd really appreciate it also there's plenty of really cool photo affair at merch for sale at the link in the description or in this little banner right below this video but yeah enough of that so get comfortable we're gonna be here for a while this is this is everything you need to know about five nights at freddy's so hey it's the 70s ain't this just a time well it certainly was for these two guys named william afton and henry emily these guys are a couple of inventors specializing in building robots and animatronics they're also family men william has a wife a daughter and two sons while henry has a daughter named charlotte so we got two groovy 70s dudes building robots to support their families but there's just one little snag william afton is a crazy person i'm not really sure why but william afton has this insatiable desire to uh kill children but yeah i'm sure that won't be a problem anytime soon so instead let's focus on this new restaurant in town that just opened fredbear's family diner a small locally owned family restaurant that commissions william and henry to create some fun chuck-e-cheese-style animatronic mascots to entertain the kids there's a golden bear named fredbear and a golden rabbit named bonnie now these are what are called springlock animatronics meaning they operate using well spring lock mechanisms which are extremely dangerous boy it sure is a good thing these are just robots and not mascot costumes or something hey guess what these are also mascot costumes meant to be worn by the employees of the restaurant yeah come work at fredbear's diner sing songs entertain families try not to breathe too much inside of the springlock animatronic suits because even the slightest bit of moisture will cause the springlock mechanisms to malfunction and clamp down on you killing you out right cook pizza so despite this gigantic safety hazard fredbears becomes a pretty popular spot for birthday parties attracting some real good business but uh things start going downhill real fast so one night fred bears is hosting a birthday party and one of the kids attending is henry emily's daughter charlotte but during the party charlotte accidentally gets locked outside in this dark alley behind the restaurant suddenly a mysterious purple car drives up and out steps william afton who kills charlotte outside of fredbear's diner and gets away scot-free william afton also known in the fnaf series as the purple guy has claimed his first victim henry emily has lost his daughter leaving him just kinda disappear for a while and fredbears has its first of many deaths tied to its name besides being a horrible sad terrible tragedy it's also a pr nightmare and the owners of fredbears were just like nope we're out and they bailed took the money and ran sold off the fredbear franchise to new owners who pulled the flip job of the century to create fazbear entertainment not only did they get fred bears back on its feet but by 1983 they've turned the franchise into a bit of a multimedia empire with a tv show action figures plushies and most importantly of all the new sister location freddy fazbear's pizza see this newly revamped fazbear franchise introduced a slew of new characters to the lineup the tv show was named fredbear and friends after all so they added a chicken named chica a pirate fox named foxy and a non-golden bunny and bear named bonnie and of course freddy fazbear you all know these guys right remember back in 2014 when fnaf was just these guys feels like decades but yeah freddy bonnie chica and foxy become the faces of the new hit restaurant freddy fazbear's pizza and things seem to be back on the up and up for fazbear entertainment which of course means one thing somebody's about to die while freddy's is up and running fred bears has gotten back to business as usual seems to be doing fine for itself since you know that one time a kid died enter william afton's youngest son the crying child why is he crying well it's implied that he has a pretty intense fear of the animatronics his dad makes and his older brother michael afton really likes to torment the kid by dressing up as foxy to jump-scare him the kid really just can't catch a break man he's clearly terrified of the animatronics but is basically forced to be around them which leads us to one fateful day in 1983 where the crying child is celebrating his birthday at fredbear's family diner he's not having a great time and his older brother decides to be a little cruel to the kid he and his friends all crowd around the crying child wearing character masks lift him up and bring him to the main stage where fredbear's performing the crying child starts well crying and freaking out the other kids then do what dumb kids do and take things way too far putting the crying child inside fredbear's mouth matt i know you're the numbers guy but i'ma take this one let's do the math here one springlock animatronic suit with a very low tolerance for moisture plus one horrified child crying rivers of tears equals was that the bite of 87 no 2015 markiplier that was what's known as the bite of 83. william afton's youngest son is munched by a golden freddy animatronic and dies ooh it's a birthday party i can't can i say that i don't know if i can say that in the wake of this fazbear entertainment decides the spring lock animatronic suits are just too dangerous to keep using no what gave you that idea so our good friends golden freddy and golden bonnie are retired from fredbear's diner and sent off to the new restaurant freddy fazbear's pizza to be stored in their safe room and then in walks william afton now you'd think after william afton lost one of his kids to an animatronic he created he would take a step back re-evaluate himself in what he's doing and change his ways but nah if anything the death of his own kid was a source of inspiration so william goes to freddy fazbear's pizza and is just like hey guys uh why don't we all just not go into the safe room you know the safe room housing the dangerous child killing animatronics i made yeah in fact uh why don't we just why don't we just forget the safe rooms even exist you know we don't need security cameras in there no in fact i'm gonna go ahead and reprogram all the animatronics to not even recognize the safe room at all nothing suspicious going on here and everyone just goes along with it i'm sure that won't lead to anything horrible so a few years later around 1985 something horrible happens five kids mysteriously go missing at freddy fazbear's pizza and the animatronics start oozing and smelling real rank turns out william afton's been lurking around the pizzeria using the decommissioned spring bonnie suit to lure kids into the safe room kill them and then hide their bodies inside the animatronic suits okay why where's the logic here i get that you're kinda messed up mr afton but what on earth are you hoping to accomplish by stuffing your victims into animatronics that are around dozens of people every single day naturally this sparks an investigation that eventually leads to freddy fazbear's pizza shutting down so let's take a break from the robot bunnies and talk about something that's a little less scary clowns yeah really see while william afton was going around killing kids he still found time to develop some animatronics here and there and when he wasn't building terrifying robot animals he was building terrifying robot people all of them had this creepy circus theme like this ballerina named ballora this balloon boy named balloon boy and most importantly this little girl named circus baby afton also redesigned some of the old fazbear crew to fit the circus vibes as well all that and he still finds time for his hobbies how does he do it these are the funtime animatronics bright shiny happy they seem harmless right well underneath the clown makeup were some interesting design choices see at this point afton has seen how effective his animatronics can be when it comes to helping commit his crimes so he designed the funtime crew with some advanced features that to be frank pretty sus as if they're specifically designed to lure and kill children i wonder what will happen now the details get a little fuzzy here especially in terms of the timeline but from what i can tell the plan was to have these animatronics available to rent out for birthday parties and events housing them in this crazy underground storage facility in addition some of these animatronics were set to become the face of yet another fazbear's sister location circus babies pizza world set to swoop in and fill the hole in the market left when freddy fazbear's pizza shut down but that plan kinda fell through due to an accident involving william afton's daughter because a surprise when you make animatronics specifically designed to lure and kill kids while also having multiple kids of your own those two things might just happen to overlap once or twice so right as circus baby's pizza world is set to open afton's daughter gets just a little too close to circus baby and is attacked by a claw that was programmed to shoot out from her torso this kills afton's daughter and leads to circus baby's pizza world closing for good on its opening day the funtime animatronics are then packed up and sent back into storage but they still move forward with the whole rental service thing creating circus babies entertainment and rental meaning these guys are still ready and waiting to be rented out for your next birthday party but hey guess what it's 1987 now that's a great year i'm sure nothing could possibly go wrong in 1987. huh damn it yeah even with a handful of child murders under their belt fazbear entertainment decided it was time to reboot their franchise after only four years opening the new and improved freddy fazbear's pizza that we see in fnaf2 the restaurant is bigger there's new animatronics and there are all sorts of extra security measures put in place after what happened at the last place for instance there's the new toy animatronics all based on a series of fazbear action figures yes they're shiny yes they're somehow cuter and creepier at the same time but most importantly the toy animatronics are packing some super advanced for the 80s facial recognition technology scanning for potential predators however that doesn't stop william afton from going for round two using the same exact spring bodysuit to lure and kill kids at the pizzeria but this time things are a little different afton commits his second series of murders sparking yet another investigation of freddy fazbear's pizza so the restaurant is just about to close down but first they got one last birthday party to host which is a little worrying because the animatronics are going a bit funky now there's one pretty big detail about the fnaflore we've not mentioned yet and it's kind of the whole point of the story there's a pretty hard and fast rule in the fnaf world if you are a kid killed by william afton or any of his creations your soul will undoubtedly go on to possess one of the animatronics see it all started with charlotte afton's first victim when she was killed outside of fredbear's family diner her soul found a new home in the diner security animatronic this weird creepy puppet or at least that's how it looks to be conveyed in the games like we've said the series is kind of frustratingly vague when it comes to their lore but that is what it looks like and from that point on the puppet was working behind the scenes following william afton around to pick up the pieces he left behind and do what they could to set things right i'm about to sound a lot like matt here as we see in one of nafta's atari style mini-games the puppet gives the souls of afton's victims new life inside of the animatronic suits so our buddies freddy bonnie chica and foxy yeah they're haunted way haunted but wait that's only four animatronics didn't purple guy kill five kids during the missing children's incident well this is where things get a little funky again because now we're dealing with golden freddy's spirit or should i say spirits so remember the bite of 1983 where the crying child got chomped by the golden freddy animatronic well his soul is now inside of golden freddy which yeah makes sense but going back to that fnaf2 minigame depicting the missing children's incident in the very last split second we see a fifth kid followed by a golden freddy jump scare this is cassidy the fifth victim of the 1985 missing children's incident and the second spirit haunting the golden freddy animatronic and let me tell you cassidy is mad at william afton she is out for revenge keep a pen in this it's important all this is to say that the fnaf 2 toy animatronics are now most likely haunted by the souls of afton's most recent victims you can tell because these guys start acting way more aggressive and confrontational towards adults they're chill around kids but if you're a grown up they'll start giving you the death glare and they're not programmed to do that so i'mma say haunted they're looking for revenge against william afton but on the day of that last birthday party they get a tad over excited and attack the daytime security guard giving them a nice hard chomp on the noggin and removing their entire frontal lobe and what became infamously known as the bite of 87. happy birthday tommy needless to say this gets the new and improved freddy fazbear's pizza closed for good alright so let's tally things up by 1987 fazbear entertainment has around a dozen dead kids to their name that's almost one dead kid for every year they've existed you really think by now they decide to call it a day but nope these guys these guys decided to give it one more go in 1993. they went back to that first freddy fazbear's pizza location brought back the original crew and relaunched the pizzeria feeling just so sure about it this time but surprise people kinda sorta associate the fazbear name with dead kids now so no one comes to this new restaurant and it eventually shuts down one rainy night a while after the restaurant closes down and falls into disrepair william afton sneaks in and starts dismantling the animatronics one by one little does he know that those robots got ghosts in him the souls of his victims are released and they chase afton down they corner him in the back room of the pizzeria and afton starts to panic but then and uh i don't really know why he would do this but he runs over to the spring body animatronic suit the suit he's committed all these murders in and hops inside not sure what that's going to do against ghosts but he seems to think it's a smart move remember though that these old springlock suits are super sensitive to moisture that's what killed the crying child back in 83. like i said the pizzeria has been abandoned for a while now it's pretty run down and it's raining so afton piles into his murder suit just kind of stands there for a few seconds and chop spring locks fail blood goes everywhere and william afton stuck inside the spring bonnie suit falls to the ground and dies fazbear entertainment attempts to save face from the now baker's dozen of dead people attached to its name by completely walling off the back room leaving afton's body inside and just forgetting about it we see all this go down during a mini game and fnaf 3. also in that game if you get the good ending you get to see the puppet bring cake to a table of children four of them in fnaf masks and one of them crying the puppet gives the kid cake they stop crying they put on a golden freddy mask and then they all disappear leaving the masks behind the puppet has set the souls free now you might have noticed that all this stuff we're talking about has next to nothing to do with what you actually do in these games sure you see some of this stuff play out in many games but those are side things that are often hidden if you play these games casually you may never see a good chunk of these plot driven mini games so how does a purple dude killing kids lead to you as the player spending five nights at various robot infested buildings checking cameras and avoiding death by robot chicken well that is where william's older son michael afton comes back into the picture while all of that was going on michael now an adult takes it upon himself to try and make up for his dad's crimes at first he was just trying to find a sister which is a little weird considering the whole you know being dead thing but remember the fnaf rule all kids killed by afton or his robots go on to possess an animatronic and the soul of michael's sister is now living in the very same animatronic that killed her circus baby and it seems like william afton knows this because one day william the messed up individual he is went to his son and was like oh uh your sister uh yeah she's she's uh over there go go check it out so michael takes a job at circus babies entertainment and rentals as we see in the game's sister location in between avoiding death by face splitting animatronic michael discovers the whole my dad killed a bunch of kids and their souls are trapped inside these animatronic suits thing and decides he has to do something about it unfortunately while working the night shift at the storage facility michael gets himself scooped meaning the dude gets his insides ripped out of him by a machine meant to remove animatronic endoskeletons and then this giant robot named ennard created by all the funtime animatronics literally stitching parts of themselves together jumps inside of mike to use his body as a host so michael is now dead kinda he's like partially dead he just kind of moves on with his life for a while robo bits jangling around inside his skin sack as his body slowly rots and turns purple oh now he looks like dear old dad mike gets progressively worse until one day ennard's just like yeah this place was cool at first but kinda sucks now and ejects himself from michael's body and michael is pretty okay with it actually yeah somehow he is still alive not much else to do but uh you know keep doing what he was doing before i guess michael starts applying for gigs at all the various fazbear locations that popped up over the years with the goal of setting the souls inside the animatronic spree he lands nighttime security jobs at both the bigger 1987 pizzeria as well as the 1993 pizzeria but is fired from both for tampering with the animatronics to you know save the souls of dead children and for a general foul odor because he is in fact a walking corpse and all this comes to a head in fnaf 3 several years after the final closing of freddy fazbear's pizza the whole fazbear name is destroyed no doubt but over the years it became some kind of urban legend so some random company decides to capitalize on this creating a haunted house style horror attraction called fazbear frights the place is all decked out in freddy fazbear memorabilia spooky atmosphere everything's pp yellow they went the whole nine yards with this place including finding a real fazbear animatronic salvaged from the walled off back room of freddy fazbear's pizza yep william afton is back baby undead rotting haunting his spring bonnie suit and stalking around fazbear frights as the monstrosity we all know as springtrap i guess living after death as a rotting purple corpse creature runs in the afton family but uh only after a certain age sorry kids so william afton has been unleashed back unto the world this could be very bad luckily fazbear frights has a nighttime security guard that's right it's a family reunion father and son back together after all these years except now they're both technically dead and the sun sets the dad on fire yeah at the end of naphth 3 fazbear freights burns down with springtrap still inside which has to have been michael trying to finally finish off his dad but unfortunately for mike william afton always comes back he tried his best but somehow somehow springtrap is still out there but then totally out of left field henry emily comes back with a plan after doing literally nothing this entire time henry jumps back into the fray by starting his own pizzeria with michael working as an employee we see all this happen in freddy fazbear's pizzeria simulator but beyond all the arcade games and googly eyes henry's pizzeria is actually just a front to gather up the last few haunted animatronics and set their souls to rest and weirdly enough the animatronics have changed over the years circus baby was apparently kicked out of the entered crew now taking the form of scrap baby what's left of entered has now taken the form of molten freddy the puppet's still kicking around as this bear called lefty and of course there's springtrap not much different about it as just springtrap once the gang's all together they're all incinerated including michael and we hear the voice of henry saying his final goodbye to the lost souls his daughter and his old business partner but hey would you look at that william afton is still alive okay how the heck does this dude keep cheating death well that's all thanks to cassidy the vengeful spirit haunting golden freddy alongside the crying child she's been out for revenge ever since the 1985 missing children's incident and when i say revenge i mean she wants to make him suffer just killing him off isn't enough and at this point william afton should be dead several times over dude got impaled from all angles and burned to death twice so physically he's not really that much of a threat anymore but cassidy keeps him alive to torture him forcing him to live through a never-ending barrage of animatronic horror in his mind as we see in fnaf custom night but that's just half the story because now there's two william afton's oh my god okay follow me on this many many years after all the tragedies of the fazbear franchise occur scott caught the er i mean some random unnamed video game developer who is not scott cawthon the real world creator of five nights at freddy's started making a bunch of horror games based on the stories of the fazbear tragedies yup snap is officially going full meta on us now not coffins games become really popular and fazbear entertainment is getting pretty ticked at the bad name the games are giving their company as if they weren't already giving themselves a bad name so they decide to fight fire with fire it no pun intended creating their own vr horror game as a way of poking fun at themselves discrediting not coffins saving a bit of face and cashing in on their own messed up past while they're at it but as it turns out while making the game the dev team used a few pieces of code found on some old fazbear entertainment hard drives and in that code somehow was a digital replication of william afton's consciousness yeah yeah we're going there this code manifested itself in game as glitch trap a yellow bunny mascot with purple eyes who over the course of the game brainwashed multiple beta testers to become little william afton's in training alright this is this is getting a little far-fetched right but it doesn't stop there in the snap vr dlc curse of dread bear we see this whole william ai afton mind melding thing really takes shape with vani a reluctant follower of william afton we've not seen much of anna yet but we know that she's someone who's played fnaf vr was brainwashed by afton and is now working for him also she wears a creepy bunny mascot costume just like glitch trap and it's looking like vani is about to become a very important player in the fnaf story sometime in the near future we're gonna be getting ourselves the newest fnaf game security breach it's bigger it's better it's constantly getting delayed it's five nights at freddy's security breach i actually think it looks really good and if the trailers and teasers are anything to go by which they should be in this game you're being hunted down by a killer bunny mascot with a woman's voice that's fanny and until we see what all security breach brings to the table that is where the story of five nights at freddy's leaves off i know it kind of feels like we just took a hard left turn right before the end there all this talk of ai brainwashing and deadly vr games actually makes all the child murder and haunted animatronics actually look normal by comparison but to me this feels like we've reached the end of fnaf season 1 and are entering fnaf season 2. at this point fnaf is wrapping up the story we've all been decoding and piecing together since 2014 and using it as a springboard to set up all the new insane stories that we'll be trying to piece together until 2028 the main fnaf story the story of the haunted pizzerias missing kids purple people in the afton family is largely over a couple of pieces of it are wrapping up in the books at this point but really it's just done this is officially the start of not even a new chapter but a new saga of fnaf stories which gotta say super exciting cause like back in 2014 no one could have predicted that the creepy chuck e cheese game would grow to become a massive multimedia franchise about a serial child murderer who can't die so now that fnaf is settling in on a new path oh man it could go anywhere which means that i can't go anywhere i'm stuck in it i am stuck in this franchise until the heat death of the universe wish me luck well matt's gonna go and sulk in a corner for a little while so let me just say thank you very much for watching this incredibly long video about the five nights at freddy's lore believe it or not there are actually a ton more intricate details and mysteries that we couldn't even fit in this video so if you want to go even deeper into the lore definitely head over to matt's channel and check out his amazing fnaf game theories or if you want to hear me talk more about fnaf without going into the lore because oh my god i got that for you too thank you for being patient with me while i put this behemoth of a video together and i'll see you next time dftba

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Id: RP0ke-hNseU

Length: 27min 25sec (1645 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 18 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/shrekthe1st]

I actually think they got a surprising amount of details correct with this video. Only major things I'd disagree with is when the MCI took place, when Elizabeth died, the lack of FNAF 4 gameplay anywhere, and Glitchtrap being a digital copy of William.

Glad to see Matpat believes Charlie died first again though.

[u/Doo-wop-a-saurus]

I disagree with several things in this video, but the only one that bothers me is that MatPat still thinks Charlie died outside of Fredbear's. We literally see Freddy in the location. Fredbear is never referenced in any way in either of the two minigames depicting Charlie's death.

[u/MichalTygrys]

I think it was decent, but:

- FredBear's was OWNED by Henry and Will, they didn't commotion the robots from them. It's confirmed by both TSE and FNaF2

- Charlie is definitely killed at Freddy's

- MCI85 isn't confirmed yet

- BB isn't confirmed to be from baby's

- GoldenBoth isn't confirmed. BV doesn't have to be in FredBear, tho he can be the 5th (not both at once).

- The reason for why Will enters Spring Bonnie is known. "I'm one of them".

- Mike isn't confirmed to be the arsonist in 3

- William was inside ScrapTrap, not in some backup code.

- Whatever do they mean "2 Williams"? Are they still on about GlitchTrap being a cyber clone? Computer virus possessing a body without ghost magic? Seriously?

[u/_AnArtGuyHK]

I kinda want to bring up how Matpat said the Toy Animatronics being based off of the Toys in FNaF 4, which honestly is a pretty cool take that I (at least) haven't seen anywhere else.
There's also the belief of Glitchtrap being a Will copy instead of just William, which goes against their attempt to keep un-confirmed stuff to the side. Speaking of the un-confirmed things, why didn't they at least bring them up at the end? I would've at least liked for them to properly say that there's still disagreements over things like FNaF 4's gameplay and - again - GlitchCopy or GlitchWill.

Overall still a pretty good video though, and for being a guide to the basic and mostly simplified lore it gets the job done.