Shadow Freddy: The Embodiment of Afton's Evil

Shadow Freddy is probably one of the most interesting characters in The Five Nights at Freddy's franchise it was first introduced in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 as a harmless Easter egg like JJ and endo02 then he reappeared again in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 as an Easter egg in the May Knights and in the minigames were we the animatronics have to follow him to the safer then infinite 4 as a nightmare monster more on that in a bit but after FNAF 4 he rarely appeared after that but what makes him interesting it is the fact that he is the shadow we know more about than the other Shadows how let me explain let's first start that FNAF 2. he appears in the parts and services room taking the place of withered Bonnie we see that he has a very strong resemblance to golden Freddy with the difference being that shadow Freddy has glowing eyes and teeth and has a purple and black color scheme in this game he's relatively harmless no matter how long you look at him on the cameras unlike his counterpart Shadow Bonnie where he will crash your game if you look at it for too long now let's move on to FNAF 3. more specifically the mini-games we see that shadow Freddy is telling the main Fazbear crew to follow him to the safe room and when they follow him purple guy attacks and dismantles them so what is Shadow Freddy doing is he helping the kids or is he helping William Afton the most logical answer would be that he's helping William dismantle the robots since if he's trying to help the kids kill William he wouldn't use the same tactic after Freddy and also when the kid's Souls attacked William Shadow Freddy is nowhere to be seen and why isn't William scared of Shadow Freddy simple answer is that they are both working together to dismantle the robots we know why William wanted to dismantle the robots but why did Shadow Freddy help him more on that in a bit just a side note Shadow Bonnie is also in the mini games as a hint to click on the shadow Bonnie figure to play his minigame now on to FNAF 4. some of you might think Shadow Freddy only appears as a shadow cast by fredbear in the mini-games but that's not the case we see Shadow Freddy as the nightmare monster in my extremes called nightmare some of you might be asking how is he Nightmare well in the game files we see that Nightmare Night AKA Knight 7 is labeled Shadow Freddy so this is Shadow Freddy's night and what happens when you play Knight Heaven nightmare appears for the first time and stalks Michael in his dreams another similarity between Nightmare and Shadow Freddy is that they are both a darker counterpart of the yellow bear so clearly nightmare is the nightmare version of Shadow Freddy so Shadow Freddy might be the one causing Mike's dreams since he is named nightmare you know the nightmare this adds to the evidence that shadow Freddy is a purely evil entity more evidence to back this up is in his next appearance FNAF world as a playable character we see in his loading screen that he's described as he will eat your soul and his attacks are all offensive and aggressive while his counterpart Shadow Bonnie Is A Healer and supporter so FNAF World describes these two shadows as Shadow Bonnie is more of a helper while Shadow Freddy is more aggressive and harmful Shadow Freddy's next appearance would be an ultimate custom night as nightmare and in one of his voice lines he says this line tells us what shadow Freddy really is or at least what he represents the definition of wickedness is quote the quality of being evil or morally wrong end quote so Shadow Freddy is telling us that he is the embodiment of William afton's evil I see a lot of people describe Shadow Freddy slash nightmare as the embodiment of death while nightmarion is the embodiment of evil but personally I think these descriptions should be switched night Marion is more likely the embodiment of death as his polar opposite Charlie aka the puppet brings life and nightmarion just takes it while nightmare is more cunning and cruel since he doesn't just kill his victims he tortures them like causing Mike's nightmares and when he helped William dismantle the robots and then when the spirits come after William Shadow Freddy is nowhere to be seen he betrays William and leaves him to deal with his sins while an argument can be made that both Nightmare and nightmarion could be the same entity in different forms personally for me if nightmare is the nightmare version of Shadow Freddy I see Knight Marion as the nightmare version of shadow puppet the creature we see in FNAF 3. but that's just my opinion but since ultimate custom night we never saw a shadow Freddy appear in any other game we only see his counterpart Shadow Bonnie appear in cursed of dreadbear special delivery and security breach so what happened to him a possible answer could be that he died at the FNAF 3 fire because in FNAF 3 we see Shadow Freddy more decrepit and has lost his glowing eyes and teeth maybe after 30 years the creature became weakened and when Fazbear's fright burned down the creature died inside it and that's why we don't see it chronologically after FNAF 3 but that's just speculation and his appearance in ultimate custom night doesn't really count since the one you should not have killed is the one creating the nightmares while we don't see Shadow Freddy in the games anymore we did see a creature very similar to it in Fazbear's Frights we all know Eleanor was the character that was the reason a lot of the stories in Fazbear's frights happened and in the epilogues it's revealed that the robot itself is just a shell and underneath it is an entity made of Agony that can take any form or can possess any object this creature is referred to as the shadow and what is Agony Agony is a powerful human emotion that when a lot of it is released can attach itself to an object where the human experienced Agony for example like murder sites or torture devices and when the agony attaches itself to an object the object can appear haunted even though no actual spirit is haunted the shadow that possesses Eleanor is Created from Williams evil Deeds from the past and it Causes Chaos to a lot of the Fazbear fright stories and in the epilogues for the sake of Simplicity I'm just gonna refer to the shadow as Eleanor because it's easier anyways as you can see Eleanor is very similar to Shadow Freddy as they are both evil beings created from William's evil Deeds another similarity between these two is that Eleanor can give the main characters nightmares to feed off their fear and pain like we see with Shadow Freddy torturing Mike with nightmares one popular theory about the Stitchery Stingers is that it and the stories that is connected to it is in the same continuity as the games and if that theory is true maybe Shadow Freddy and the shadow that possesses Eleanor are possibly the same entities it would explain what happened to Shadow Freddy after FNAF 3. while personally I don't believe that the Stitch race stories are Cannon to the games I do believe that Fazbear's frights gave us an answer of what shadow Freddy and possibly the other Shadows really are they are creatures made from agony but I don't think the Shadows except Shadow Freddy are actually evil or at least as evil as Shadow Freddy since we don't see any of them Aid William in any way heck Shadow Bonnie is more likely helping the children since he helps us do happiest day but I will go into more detail about the other shadows in another video now let's figure out when was Shadow Freddy created there are three possibilities either after the death of Charlotte the missing children's incident or the save the murders I think our first clue would be that shadow Freddy is always connected to the first missing children's incident as he takes the appearance of golden Freddy and in FNAF 2 we see him in the room where the old withereds are resided we also see him in the FNAF 3 minigames with the classic gang and infinite 4 we see him with the classic gang again so this means that shadow Freddy is either more connected to Charlie's death or the Mystic children's incident while you could argue that the shadow born from the missing children incident is Shadow Bonnie since William used the spring Bonnie suit and Shadow Freddy was created in the save the murders because William used the golden Freddy suit I personally think that argument doesn't work since Shadow Bonnie looks identical to toy Bonnie except for the teeth and here's a thought infinite 2 Shadow Bonnie can kill us while Shadow Freddy can't and in the FNAF 3 minigames Shadow Freddy seems much stronger as he moves around freely since this is the location he's originated from while Shadow Bonnie does nothing and stays in one room like Shadow Freddy in the last game adding to that we literally see Shadow Freddy recreate the missing children's incident with the Fazbear gang to help William so I think the connections between Shadow Freddy and The First missing children is much stronger what about Charlie's death I think Charlie's death most likely created shadow puppet AKA nightmarion since he's but that's just purely because I don't think Shadow Freddy and night Marion are the same entities so Shadow Freddy is most likely Origins came from them first missing children Citizen and became a creature that mimics Afton but without the filter of having to look innocent so what did we learn after all that shadow Freddy is an Agony creature that is Created from Williams evil after the first missing children's incident and is a creature that enjoys pain and suffering and it feeds off of it at some point he attaches itself to Mike and causes him to have nightmares for eight nights straight then presumably moves on but the nightmares don't really leave Mike even when Shadow Freddy isn't there to haunt him anymore after that shadow Freddy helped Willem dismantle the robots so William can use their Remnant for the fun times Shadow Freddy was the Trap William set to destroy the Gang he said some kind of trap I don't know what it was but he led them there again he overpowered them again and he robbed them of the only thing that they had again but when what's left of the souls attack William Shadow Freddy betrays and leaves William to deal with it by himself and then 30 years later he arrives at Fazbear's fright the horror attraction but when it burned down we don't see Shadow Freddy anymore did it die in the fire because of its weakened state or did it survive to possibly cause havoc in the future the latter could be possible since in the FNAF encyclopedia when it talks about Shadow Freddy it says will he turn out to be a crucial character in The ongoing mythology of Five Nights at Freddy's maybe maybe not time will tell so there's a possibility he could come back I mean if it's anything like William he'll always do thank you so much for watching this video hope you liked it if you did Smash the like button and subscribe and 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Channel: SamBar

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Keywords: #fnaf, #fivenightsatfreddys, #Williamafton

Id: 55WevB0T9Ss

Length: 13min 24sec (804 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 20 2023