Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Theories [Massive Spoilers!!!]

[SweetShark]

*A Thread I also created in Steam, but I wanted also to hear your opinion about this theory I have*

We all know if you get the normal ending, you learn the six original children get their spirit free from the grudge they had from their murderer, Purple Guy.
However let us think for a moment WHY this happened:
Yes, that right. This happened because of the other Animatronics from the secret mini games:

Balloon Boy
The Mangle
Toy Chica
Golden Freddy
Shadow Bonnie


THESE specific Animatronics saved somehow the five original children. But how you ask:
Somehow these specific animatronics consoled the FIRST MURDERED KID by give him/her a birthday cake, a birthday cake the child always wanted before sadly the Purple Guy murdered him/her...

So......I think there is only one Theory for me:

Well, this is terrifying if you think about it............There were MORE murdered children.. Yes, the first children get free from their torment, but what about the other Animatronics?
Also we must make a VERY VERY VERY important note here:
All the secret games take place BEFORE the first 6 children make the Purple Guy use the Springtrap costume.

Now you may ask: Does the Purple Guy killed the other children OR there was another reason for that? Does this have something to do with the Hybrid Costumes? OOr there is ANOTHER Murderer.

Sh*t get real people.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

It's entirely possible that there were other murders before the ones that happened in FNaF 2, but I hold to the theory that the animatronics were influenced instead by the first victim (the one crying child in the "take the cake to the children" minigame, which may have actually taken place at Fredbear's Family Diner) who ended up haunting the Marionette. When the Golden Freddy Five were killed, the Marionette ghost- sensing kindred spirits, literally- helped them inhabit the characters he remembered from where he died. Remember that the "toy" animatronics were actually new, and the gang that we know from FNaF 1 were decommissioned and being stripped for parts when FNaF 2 took place.

 

[Scarim Coral]

It could be possible since I have been trying to piece it together but it has been getting confusing :S

The plothole that I thought of is from the first game, the article mention that they caught the killer but we all know that the killer was inside Springtrap? Either the killer they caught was a accomplise or a scapegoat?

The thing is, if the newer toy animatronics were possess by other childrens, why has there been no news about the missing children beforehand?

 

[SweetShark]

It could be possible since I have been trying to piece it together but it has been getting confusing :S

The plothole that I thought of is from the first game, the article mention that they caught the killer but we all know that the killer was inside Springtrap? Either the killer they caught was a accomplise or a scapegoat?

The thing is, if the newer toy animatronics were possess by other childrens, why has there been no news about the missing children beforehand?

Mmmm...well, you open another possibility really if you think about it:
Maybe the other ghost children get killed by the other murderer who get caught.
We very well know there was ANOTHER restaurant we don't know what happened and get once again closed.

 

[SweetShark]

It's entirely possible that there were other murders before the ones that happened in FNaF 2, but I hold to the theory that the animatronics were influenced instead by the first victim (the one crying child in the "take the cake to the children" minigame, which may have actually taken place at Fredbear's Family Diner) who ended up haunting the Marionette. When the Golden Freddy Five were killed, the Marionette ghost- sensing kindred spirits, literally- helped them inhabit the characters he remembered from where he died. Remember that the "toy" animatronics were actually new, and the gang that we know from FNaF 1 were decommissioned and being stripped for parts when FNaF 2 took place.

Actually this specific crying child there is a possibility to be the one who took the form of Golden Freddy.
In the final mini game of FNaF3 we see actually the crying child getting a bear mask, and the other chubby boy who gave the cake to be the Marrionet.
It is very confusing really.
Also there is another mystery about the Toy Animatronics:
The Mangle and Toy Chica have a major part in the mini games and the Toy Bonnie. Where is the Toy Bonnie you ask?

We clearly see Toy Bonnie in the mini games. But this raise another question; Where is the Purple Bonnie?

 

[Tatsuki]

While I don't agree with him on a lot of his points, I can't wait to see what MatPat does on this with Game Theory as it's always entertaining to hear and to give him credit he always looks at things I wouldn't have even thought of.

I like your theory but it sits entirely in speculation without much evidence, I should really get round to getting the game and pulling it apart myself.

 

[SweetShark]

While I don't agree with him on a lot of his points, I can't wait to see what MatPat does on this with Game Theory as it's always entertaining to hear and to give him credit he always looks at things I wouldn't have even thought of.

I like your theory but it sits entirely in speculation without much evidence, I should really get round to getting the game and pulling it apart myself.

True I will admit. We don't even know the true identity of the killer even we know he is VERY dead.
Also there are the Hybrid suit in the story which we don't know NOTHING at at all except of course Springtrap using it.
However this also mean Golden Freddy and Shadow Bonnie were Hybrid suits and not Animatronics.
And my biggest mystery is still here: The Bite of '87.

 

[Evonisia]

We clearly see Toy Bonnie in the mini games. But this raise another question; Where is the Purple Bonnie?

I've got a better question: Where the hell is regular Bonnie in FNaF 3?

See Toy Bonnie, Golden Bonnie, 8-Bit Toy Bonnie, Shadow Bonnie, but not regular Bonnie.

Unless that's supposed to be Bonnie's arm in the box alongside the other old characters.

EDIT: Unless you mean regular Bonnie when you say Purple Bonnie, of course.

 

[SweetShark]

We clearly see Toy Bonnie in the mini games. But this raise another question; Where is the Purple Bonnie?

I've got a better question: Where the hell is regular Bonnie in FNaF 3?

See Toy Bonnie, Golden Bonnie, 8-Bit Toy Bonnie, Shadow Bonnie, but not regular Bonnie.

Unless that's supposed to be Bonnie's arm in the box alongside the other old characters.

EDIT: Unless you mean regular Bonnie when you say Purple Bonnie, of course.

Ha,ha. Yes, I mean the regular Bonnie.
Also the Shadow Bonnie in the secret mini game is Purple, but as we can see he/she gave cake to the crying children.

 

[SweetShark]

Also there is another thing:
Someone had discovered recently a Golden Cupcake in a poster.
SO this maybe means there is also a...Golden Chica?

 

[L. Declis]

We clearly see Toy Bonnie in the mini games. But this raise another question; Where is the Purple Bonnie?

I've got a better question: Where the hell is regular Bonnie in FNaF 3?

See Toy Bonnie, Golden Bonnie, 8-Bit Toy Bonnie, Shadow Bonnie, but not regular Bonnie.

Unless that's supposed to be Bonnie's arm in the box alongside the other old characters.

EDIT: Unless you mean regular Bonnie when you say Purple Bonnie, of course.

He is the main skeleton of Springtrap, there is no Golden Bonnie, it's the main three animatronics being frankensteined together into one final suit, worn by the Purple Man.

Springtrap is Freddie, Chica and Bonnie (and possibly Foxy, not sure) with the Purple Man inside (probably).

Toy Bonnie is utterly unrelated to normal Bonnie.

Shadow Bonnie is what is left.

While I don't agree with him on a lot of his points, I can't wait to see what MatPat does on this with Game Theory as it's always entertaining to hear and to give him credit he always looks at things I wouldn't have even thought of.

I like your theory but it sits entirely in speculation without much evidence, I should really get round to getting the game and pulling it apart myself.

True I will admit. We don't even know the true identity of the killer even we know he is VERY dead.
Also there are the Hybrid suit in the story which we don't know NOTHING at at all except of course Springtrap using it.
However this also mean Golden Freddy and Shadow Bonnie were Hybrid suits and not Animatronics.
And my biggest mystery is still here: The Bite of '87.

Thought we solved it in FNAF2?

The puppet manipulated either Mangle or Foxy to take a chunk out of the forebrain of a child or man who the Puppet had a grudge against. Afterwards, the restaurant closed. The guy supervising was the main character of FNAF2, who was moved to the day shift.

Regarding the bittee, current suspects are the Purple Man (as revenge) or Mike, which explains why he sits his mute, dumbass down for a 5 night suicide job.

 

[Evonisia]

Snipp-ih-di-do

I'm not necessarily referring to the original actual live animatronic, for none of the original animatronics actually show up in this game.

It just seems that Cawthon's gone out of his way to blank the lovely bunny rabbit. We get at least get Freddy, Chica and Foxy showing up as phantoms, and Golden Freddy is in one of those 8-bit secret games. The Bonnie in the 8-bit games is coloured to be like Toy Bonnie, so either Cawthon massively fucked up or once upon a time Bonnie was coloured that way.

Springtrap bears the closest resemblance to him, obviously, but the original Lavender is completely absent, not appearing in person, in 8-bit form or as a burnt Phantom like his friends. His guitar is in the box at least, and his head is at the ending (without ears, though).

Then again Cawthon, like myself, is only scared by Bonnie, so perhaps he just took the less-frightening route and ignored him.

 

[Godzillarich(aka tf2godz)]

What I find interesting is the fact even after you free all the children's souls from the animatronics- the Purple Guy is left behind to forever be trapped in that suit as punishment. Here's proof.

<spoiler=Spoilers>

His name is apparently 'Springtrap' which is quite fitting, seeing how he died in the suit by crushing him from the inside.
Everything else, I am waiting for GameTheory to dig into which will most certainly be worth watching.

quite a fitting punishment for him. He probably despised children and that pizzeria so much now he will forever be stuck with it for all eternity. who knows, maybe they'll fix him up, remove his ability to walk and put him in a another pizzeria so he can sing for children forever.

 

[TakerFoxx]

Personally, I hold that Golden Freddy and Springtrap were the primary mascots from the first location (as demonstrated in one of the hidden minigames) that were retired and replaced with the classic quartet due to the costumes being too dangerous. Purple Guy (who might have been the original dayshift guard from FNA2) first murdered the crying child at the second location (as seen in the cake giving minigame), used Golden Freddy to cause the four murders at the third location (in FNA2), and later came to the fourth location (original game) after it had been abandoned to destroy the animatronics, but was cornered by the ghosts and killed when he hid in Springtrap. There probably was another set of murders at the second location (remember the dead kids in the Foxy minigame?), but as the Marionette wasn't around to put the bodies in mascot suits (probably under the direction of the crying child, who would later go on to manifest as Golden Freddy), those kids passed on normally and Foxy took the heat for the murders, leading to the classic quartet to be retired and the third location with the Toy versions to be built. But then the Golden Freddy murders happened as well, and, well, you know the rest.

So it seems that there might have been three murders that we know of, two at the second location, and a third at the third location: the crying child (Marionette/Golden Freddy), Foxy's audience (never possessed anything), and the victims of the Golden Freddy murder who would become the classic quartet.

And on the upside, at least this does seem to clear Phone Guy's name of being the murderer, as he was killed while the fourth location was still open while Purple Guy was killed years after it closed. Unless of course the Night 4 phonecall was a red herring and he survived somehow, only to return later to take revenge.

 

[SweetShark]

What I find interesting is the fact even after you free all the children's souls from the animatronics- the Purple Guy is left behind to forever be trapped in that suit as punishment. Here's proof.

<spoiler=Spoilers>

His name is apparently 'Springtrap' which is quite fitting, seeing how he died in the suit by crushing him from the inside.
Everything else, I am waiting for GameTheory to dig into which will most certainly be worth watching.

quite a fitting punishment for him. He probably despised children and that pizzeria so much now he will forever be stuck with it for all eternity. who knows, maybe they'll fix him up, remove his ability to walk and put him in a another pizzeria so he can sing for children forever.

What's odd though is the fact Springtrap never had a purpose. Let me clarify that:

Freddy sang, Bonnie played the guitar, Chicka sort of stood there, and Foxy was put away but beforehand, entertained the kids by interacting. Toy versions of them in FNoF 2 had them do the same thing, but also came with predator scanning. However, Springtrap (aka the suit the Purple Guy died in) wasn't used for any purpose.

The telephone guy basically informs you of a suit that you can adjust to allow humans to fit in, without the crap stuffed inside. However, if the spring goes wrong... it's powerful enough to crush someone who's inside the suit. That is what happened to Purple Guy. What I find interesting is the fact they never explained WHY any employee would go into such a suit, and what for.

It most certainly wasn't to entertain kids. The springtrap wasn't an animatronic so it didn't have AI to interact with kids. The suit was old, so being out in the open would scare kids away. I believe they KNEW the original robots were possessed so it was a way to 'avoid' getting killed. Yet, due to Purple Guy dying... they resorted to you simply putting a Freddy mask over your face instead.

/ Mind blowing

So in other words maybe this is a clue the "first" death of Purple Guy was Before FNaF2 game.
This maybe also explain why in the normal mini games we control Toy Bonnie and not the Purple Bonnie.
Of course the question is the same: Why Bonnie get replaced first?

Also Springtrap had a purpose. Springtrap was together with Golden Freddy and Shadow Bonnie. I guess they were the FIRST Hybrid costumes ever made. Plus there is also the chance of Golden Chica to exist after a poster showing a golden cupcake, the signature sweet of Chica.

Finally I agree with you in the last part of your post: Heck, in ALL games they knew what it is happening with the Animatronics. The Phone guy always help you by giving you advice how to survive every single night.
But again, WHY!!! Why they continue having these Animatronics and keep this a secret?

SO many questions.
I am so ready for FNaF4.

 

[SweetShark]

Just to say I changed the title so the discussion be for the whole game, not only for the ending.

 

[Lunar Templar]

Never gonna play these games, but I love reading threads like this about them, cause i love the lore :3

 

[SweetShark]

Also something VERY interesting I found.
Please let as hear what The Phone Guy said in the last Night in FNaF2 game:

"Hello? Hello...uh...what on earth are you doing there, uh didn?t you get the memo, uh, the place is closed down, uh, at least for a while. Someone used one of the suits. We had a spare in the back, a yellow one, someone used it...now none of them are acting right. Listen j-just finish your shift it?s safer than trying to leave in the middle of the night. Uh we have one more event scheduled for tomorrow, a birthday. You?ll be on day shift, wear your uniform, stay close to the animatronics, make sure they don?t hurt anyone okay, uh for now just make it through the night, uh when the place eventually opens again I?ll probably take the night shift myself. Okay, good night and good luck."

At fist, we all through he was the killer using the Golden Freddie's suit and killed the children. But it seems now...the Phone Guy described what happened to the Purple Guy.
However I acknowledge some VERY major plot holes why this theory don't work.

 

[Evonisia]

To be honest I've always seen Phone Guy as more of a very unfortunate witness to all these crazy shenanigans. His varying tones and emotional shifts come off as being confused and unsure as to what he should be doing.

But then again I'm no pro-theorist, after all the bullshit with people trying to create a flow chart with the Call of Duty Zombies storyline, I'm just burnt out on the concept of doing such a thing.

 

[Lil_Rimmy]

Right, a few things to lay down:

As far as we can see, there are six murdered children:
One at Fredbears Family Diner (or another location, but it seems most likely to be there due to the small location, only one animatronic and also it's the starting point of all the madness) This child went on to become the puppet.
Five for the original animatronics, Foxy, Chica, Bonnie, Freddy and Golden Freddy.

They all inhabited animatronics and proceeded to hate adults and protect children because yay for child murder.

Then, for FNaF 2, the Toy animatronics were made which came with face scanning technology which results in them attacking adults and having a weird glitch when they realise that one of the predators is a guard. (If I recall all of this correctly, that is.)

So, 6 ghosted animatronics, and 5 (BB, 3 Toy, Mangle (Was there a toy foxy?)) Computer animatronics.

Then we have Springtrap, which is the Frankenstein of the original 3.

However, in the end of all of this, the one thing we don't know is exactly who the Purple Guy is, but we know a few things:

He shouldn't be Phone Guy (as he was killed by Foxy)
He was employed or pretended to be employed at a Fred's Establishment.
He was scared of the puppet/marionette/ghost of that.
He died in Springtrap, therefore remaining inside of it for all of time yay (until the last building burnt down)
He knew of the hidden rooms that the animatronics couldn't enter.
He has been around since the first Pizzeria (if that cake game did actually show the first pizzeria), but he may not have been employed there as he arrived to a child outside and wasn't inside or identified as a worker.