| “ | Remember to smile - You are the face of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. | „ |
| ~ The company's possible employee motto. |
| “ | Fazbear Entertainment is not responsible for damage to property or person. | „ |
| ~ Phone Guy in the first game protecting the company against any liable damages. |
Fazbear Entertainment, Incorporated is the main antagonistic faction of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
Founded by Henry Emily and William Afton, it is a corrupt entertainment company and creators of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria chain, whose shady business practices allowed the events of the series to occur in the first place, as well as the animatronics.
Following its temporary closure, it was later revived and managed by William's son Michael in a plot by Henry to destroy the malicious William once and for all. With Henry and Michael presumed dead and William reduced to a murderous zombie, it is unknown who runs the company as of now.
Roles
Fazbear Entertainment is the overarching antagonistic faction of Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted, Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, and Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, the posthumous antagonistic faction of Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, a minor antagonistic faction in Five Nights at Freddy's 4, and the titular main protagonistic faction of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.
It is also the overarching antagonistic faction of the Fazbear Frights anthology series.
Biography
Five Nights at Freddy's 1, 2, 3, 4 and Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Fazbear Entertainment is a company created in 1983 by Henry Emily and William Afton. It was created when Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was opened during the same year the company was founded (although its predecessor Fredbear's Family Diner was founded earlier, possibly in 1982). It was a successful organization at first, until Afton killed five children in Freddy's and one child outside the establishment. Between these two incidents, a teenager stuffed his younger brother into the mouth of the Fredbear animatronic, unintentionally killing him. This resulted in Fredbear's Family Diner closed down, and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza following it.
Later, they opened a second Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in 1987, with new Toy animatronics. The restaurant was closed down after a few short weeks, due to one of the animatronics biting an employee's frontal lobe off and William killing five more kids.
In 1988, the third Freddy Fazbear's Pizza opened, and did successfully well until 1993 where bankruptcy occurred, resulting in the closure and abandonment of the establishment. William later came back and destroyed the animatronics, but the souls chased him into a backroom, forcing him to don the Spring Bonnie suit located within it. This caused him to experience a springlock failure, slowly but surely killing him.
In 2023, a horror attraction called Fazbear's Fright was made in an attempt to cash in on the various myths and tragedies surrounding the defunct pizzeria chain. During their search of the run-down pizzeria locations for usable props and decorations, a rotten but still functioning Spring Bonnie animatronic was found and brought to their house of horrors. Unbeknownst to them, this animatronic contained the corpse of William Afton, now haunting the suit and looking for new victims as Springtrap. It is unknown if Fazbear Ent. was associated with the Fazbear's Fright group any way, but it is highly likely that they have no involvement with them whatsoever.
A few days before Fazbear's Fright could even be opened to the public, the entire attraction burned to the ground thanks to either arson or faulty wiring. Springtrap, however, manages to escape. Henry, now an old man and aware that his former friend is the culprit behind the Fazbear murders, hears of this and decides to take matters into his own hands, cooperating with the remaining Fazbear Entertainment members to create one last location to end it all. A massive incinerator disguised as a pizzeria to lure out, trap and kill Springtrap, Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby and Lefty, the last remaining animatronics he and his partner created, along with Henry himself as atonement for all the suffering he inadvertently caused. With the help of William's son Michael, the trap was successful and burned down, ending Fazbear Entertainment.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted
Despite Henry's plans of leaving the franchise to be forgotten, the company was re-established yet again some time after his death. Fazbear Ent. hired an indie game developer to make indie games based on the tragedies associated with the brand so they can discredit them and regain their long lost reputation, now that all evidence has been destroyed.
Fazbear Ent. then works with a company called Silver Parasol Games to make a VR game, "The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience", to further snuff out any rumors regarding their past.
Eventually, instead of working with Silver Parasol they handed development to a different unnamed company, after an incident with one of Silver Parasol's employees called Jeremy resulted in his death. Since they make a DLC later, it seems to have sold well.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted DLC - Curse of Dreadbear
Eventually, Fazbear Ent. makes a Halloween DLC, titled "Curse of Dreadbear".
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery
They create the "Fazbear Funtime Service" to allow customers to see their favorite animatronics entertain them at home, but "unfortunate circumstances" causes the animatronics to glitch out and attack them instead. With a near millennia long subscription to their service caused by glitches, they must brave the endless sea of malicious machines while the FFS is either completely oblivious to it or pretends to be. Amidst the chaos, an old version of Bonnie (Springtrap) was added to the roster of animatronics the players could encounter, but e-mails between Fazbear employees show that it wasn't planned to be there.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
The company has opened a new location, a giant three-story entertainment center called the Freddy Fazbear's Mega PizzaPlex, with animatronics with hyper-advanced and hyper-realistic animatronics. Soon several disappearences starts taking place at the PizzaPlex, and one night a young child, called Gregory, remains stuck inside the building. The newspaper headline in one of the endings reveals the eventually location shut down due to health concerns, with Fazbear Entertainment planning to reopen it the following season. In another ending, a newspaper clip says that the PizzaPlex burnt to the ground, and that Fazbear Entertainment was planning a recall on flammable toys produced by them.
Other Media
Fazbear Frights
Into the Pit
Into the Pit
At the time of the first story, Into the Pit, Fazbear Entertainment seems to be gone for good, at least in this city. It was instead replaced by Jeff's Pizza. However, a magic ball pit allows Oswald to experience the time of when Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was still open, in 1985. There, he finds out the horrible truth, someone killed six children, which most likely caused Freddy's to close down.
To Be Beautiful
We don't know anything in this story about Fazbear Entertainment. However, the story exists in the same universe as another book, in which Fazbear Entertainment is active, so it can be guessed it exists.
Fetch
Fetch
Fazbear Entertainment most likely has existed before, as there's an abandoned Freddy's. However, outside of the classic Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy, another animatronic was in the pizzeria.
Lonely Freddy
Fazbear Entertainment exists in the present time, and even has a still-functioning pizzeria. However, there are certain little animatronics that will go to lonely children. The little animatronics are Lonely Freddies.
Out of Stock
Once again, the company exists in present time. This time, they sell toys, and seemingly don't have a pizzeria. One of the most popular toys is the Plushtrap Chaser. Three protagonists get themselves one (by stealing it). However, it is aggressive, attempting the possibly murder them. Meanwhile, an urban legend roams around the streets and eventually gets the unusual Plushtrap Chaser.
1:35 AM
1:35 AM
Fazbear Entertainment is the company that produced the Ella dolls' line. However, their production was later stopped by the company for undisclosed reasons. Delilah, the main character of the story, ends up buying one of these dolls at a garage sale.
Room for One More
Fazbear Entertainment isn't mentioned. However, this story is connected with Into the Pit through the Snack Space (that is mentioned in both them), implying the company isn't active during the events of this story.
The New Kid
Fazbear Entertainment likely stopped existing, as there's an abandoned Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in the city Devon lives, with the main four characters deactivated and an empty Fredbear suit.
Step Closer
Step Closer
Fazbear Entertainment is still around, and it runs a Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in the town where Pete and Chuck live.
Coming Home
It is suggested that Susie died at a Freddy's location owned by them. It's unknown whether or not they are still in activity by the time the story takes place.
Bunny Call
The Man in Room 1280
Fazbear Entertainment is still active and it produces merch that is delivered to their locations throughout their distribution center. It is here that the titular man is brought by Father Arthur Blythe. Once he reaches the place, he starts to convulse violently and bursts into bits and pieces of charred flesh, apparently dying and releasing the child who was keeping him alive, who infects many of the objects at the center with his agony and possesses a Fetch toy.
Blackbird
Blackbird
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is mentioned, with Nole and Sam taking inspiration for Blackbird from the characters present in the restaurants owned by Fazbear Entertainment, particularly Chica.
Hide and Seek
In this story, Fazbear Entertainment is apparently still active. In the story, the main character Toby works at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and Games, a family pizzeria managed by his boss Dan and presumably, either currently or previously, owned by Fazbear Entertainment. The restaurant offers to the patrons food to eat and various arcade games to play, with the titular Hide and Seek being one of them.
The Cliffs
The Cliffs
In this story it presents a toy produced by Fazbear Entertainment, called Tag-Along Freddy, which can monitor a child and give updates to the parents about what the child is doing through a wristband connected to the plushie.
He Told Me Everything
The story revolves around the Faz-Goo, a substance contained inside the Freddy Fazbear Mad Scientist Kit brought to Chris' school by Mr. Little. The kit is a most likely a product sold by Fazbear Entertainment.
Gumdrop Angel
Gumdrop Angel
In this story they are still active and runs a functional pizzeria, who offers the patrons animatronic shows, and the possibility for children at parties to eat a Birthday Gummy, a humanoid figure made completely out of candy.
Sergio's Lucky Day
Although not confirmed, it's possible Lucky Boy was a toy produced by them.
What We Found
The story takes place at Fazbear's Fright, an horror attraction based upon the murderous history of the restaurants owned by Fazbear Entertainment.
The Puppet Carver
The Puppet Carver
Jack bought the animatronic pizzeria he owns three years before the time the story is set. It is mentioned that there were other restaurants belonging to the same chain that had gained popularity in other cities. The company Jack bought the restaurant from is almost surely Fazbear Entertainment.
Jump for Tickets
The story takes place in one of the pizzerias run by them.
Pizza Kit
The Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Kit Factory, where a part of the story is set, is most likely owned by them.
Friendly Face
Friendly Face
Fazbear Entertainment has started the Fazbear Entertainment Friendly Faces service, which allows clients to send a hair from a deceased pet, whose face will be recreated through DNA technology and put on an animatronic animal, creating a robot who looks just like them and ready to be sent back to the client.
Sea Bonnies
In the city Mott and Rory live, there is a Freddy Fazbear's Pizza still operating. They offer food, games, animatronic shows and the possibility to acquire the Sea Bonnies, alive sea monkeys genetically modified by Fazbear Entertainment to look like they have rabbit ears.
Prankster
Prankster
It is said that Fazbear Entertainment bought the video game company Jeremiah worked at, entrusting them with the task of making their new virtual reality game.
Kids at Play
Fazbear Entertainment has taken part in a campaign to deter reckless drivers, putting in various streets plastic figures representing kids holding a sign which reads Kids at Play. A smaller toy version of the same figure can be found as a prize in Freddy Fazcrunch Cereals boxes.
Find Player Two
The beginning of the story takes part in a pizzeria owned by them, which was eventually closed, seemingly due to sanitary reasons. Some time after Aimee's friend, Mary Jo, disappeared while she was playing in the Freddy's Hide Maze, the building was eventually bought out by some farmers and made into a different restaurant, called Flo's Fabulous Eater. There is another Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in the town where Aimee moved with her mother after the incident, but she never went there.
Felix the Shark
The story revolves around Dirk searching for a specific Freddy's pizzeria he visited when he was younger. The pizzeria had a unique animatronic performer no other Freddy's restaurant had, an animatronic shark called Felix. Felix was kept in an aquarium-like large tube around the pizzeria that visitors could enter and swim along with him inAs it's later discovered, the pizzeria was built by a man named Aaron Sanders. After his son drowned and a shark pushed his dead body onto shore, Aaron started focusing obsessively on his work and decided to make a shark animatronic one of the main attractions of the pizzeria.
You're the Band
Thirty years before the story, child murderers happened at a restaurant owned by Fazbear Entertainment. Another property owned by them is seen towards the end of the story, when Timmy is lured by a shadow-like figure to an abandoned Freddy's and Mike and Sylvia go there searching for him.
Notable Members
- Henry Emily - Founder (previously, deceased)
- William Afton - Co-owner (previously, possibly deceased)
- Kaula Stringer - Associate General Counsel
- Phone Guy - Night guard and creator of the training tapes (deceased)
- Michael Afton - Night guard and manager of the fourth Freddy's (deceased)
- Mike Schmidt - Michael Afton with a fake identity/Night guard (deceased)
- Fritz Smith - Possibly Michael Afton with a fake identity/Night guard (previously)
- Five Nights at Freddy's 3 Security Guard - Possibly Michael Afton or Henry Emily/Guard (possibly, previously)
- Jeremy Fitzgerald - Night guard and possible victim of The Bite of '87 or Michael Afton with a fake identity(previously, possibly deceased)
- Phone Dude - Founder of Fazbear's Fright (possibly)
- Fazbear Funtime Service - Corporation that they control.
- All of its employees.
- Dominic - Assistant manager
- Ted - Daytime employee
- Mrs. Byrant - Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Kit Factory manager
- Aaron Sanders - Engineer (strongly implied)
- Mike - Possibly Michael Afton or an alternative version of him/Night guard
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Trivia
- There is a theory which states that the cartoon, Fredbear and Friends, actually predates the pizzerias. Due to the success of the cartoon, the pizzerias were founded.
- SCP-5963 in the SCP Foundation universe appears to be a homage to FNAF. In it, the evil video game corporation Arcadia kidnapped several children and used their souls to create their arcade machines for a restaurant of ShowBiz Pizza.
