Poll: Favorite FNAF Animatronic incarnations?

[flying_whimsy]

FNAF 4 is out, time for threads!

Each Five Nights at Freddy's game has a different theme for the designs of the animatronics.

The first game had a distinctly 80's chuckie cheese theme. The second introduced the toy versions of the characters and broken down versions of the originals. The third brought us Springtrap and the phantoms. The fourth gave us nightmare versions of the original cast. I'd include some images but I'm not terribly savvy for that stuff; sorry (try looking up a wiki or something?).

Like the title and the poll says: which theme was your favorite? Or maybe it's a combination?


I'm partial to the toy versions, especially since that gave us mangle, toy chica, and that creepy-ass puppet. Overall, though, I'd probably vote other just because I love the plushie versions of the characters the most.

 

[TakerFoxx]

I've always enjoyed a good villain, so I'm going to go with Springtrap.

 

[flying_whimsy]

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I've always been partial to toy chica because of the weird dichotomy between her exaggerated, feminine and fun design and just how creepy she is when she comes down that hall and kills you. Even the cupcake looks scary (although not as much as the nightmare version). The way the beak and the eyes retract to show the ones of the exoskeleton really creeps me the hell out.

Talk about staring into the abyss.

 

[Silentpony_v1legacy]

I really liked the Toy ones because they were the only ones that looked like they were designed by an entertainment company.
The others were creepy, sure, but that's the problem! They were obviously designed to be scary. As in I can't imagine a bunch of executives greenlighting them, saying "Sure, kid's will want to hug Mangle and Golden Freddy!"

The Toy ones were the only ones designed to be pleasing to children, with the soft, sleek features and not deliberately terrifying grins.
As such they were way scarier! There was a great juxtaposition with them! They were pleasant looking creatures doing monstrous things, as opposed to monstrous looking creatures doing monstrous things.

 

[MeatMachine]

Gonna have to go with the classic designs from the first game on this one.

Though their withered condition in the second game makes them LOOK scarier, there's just something about the first game that constantly eats away at the feeling of, "there were three there, now there are two - THIS IS NOT SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN."

It's the gradual crawl in the first game from believing that they are simply poorly-programmed, glitchy robots that wander around aimlessly in the first few nights to slowly realizing that they are, in fact, haunted, sapient, and VERY deliberately trying to kill you that makes them so scary.

Again, talking pure asthetics, they aren't AS terrifying as some other incarnations, but for me, its the uncertainty of what drives them that makes them the scariest. FNaF 1 is the only game where you really feel like your antagonists are getting more and more pissed off and determined the longer you remain un-Freddy'd.

 

[Artina89]

I really like the withered versions of the classic animatronics in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 there is something about withered, faceless Bonnie that creeps me out.

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