Changes: Freddy Fazbear (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Latest revision as of 16:14, 28 March 2024

NOTE: This article is only for the original videogame version of Freddy Fazbear. To see the article for the Universal Picture's version of the character, go to Freddy Fazbear (2023).

Villain Overview

Synopsis

Gallery

Evil-doer

Classic
Withered
Ghost

Full Name

Gabriel (human)

Freddy Fazbear (animatronic)

Alias

Freddybear (original name)

The Bear
Withered Freddy
Old Freddy
AR skins:
Shamrock Freddy
Firework Freddy

Origin

Five Nights at Freddy's

Occupation

Animatronic performer

Mascot of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (both formerly)

Powers / Skills

Stealth

Leadership
Enhanced speed
Mechanical strength
Noteworthy intelligence
Strategic tactician
Nigh-invulnerability

Hobby

Entertaining children and singing.

Stalking the night guard.

Goals

Defeat and kill William Afton (posthumously succeeded).

Have his soul set free from his animatronic body.
Kill Phone Guy by stuffing him into an animatronic costume (both succeeded).
Kill Mike Schmidt, Jeremy Fitzgerald and Fritz Smith by stuffing them into an animatronic costume (failed).

Crimes

Multiple attempted murders

Mutilation
Psychological abuse
Stalking
Mass murder (implied)

Type of Villain

Paranormal Robot

“	Are you ready for Freddy?	„
	~ Freddy's famous tagline for the first game.

“	It looks like someone wasn't ready for Freddy to come to the party!	„
	~ Freddy Fazbear after killing the player.

“	When you wake up, just remember: Friends are forever.	„
	~ Freddy after killing the player in Special Delivery.

Freddy Fazbear is a major antagonist and the titular mascot of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.

He is an animatronic bear and the mascot of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Seemingly a nice and innocent animatronic entertainer for children, he is actually possessed by the soul of a child named Gabriel and actively tries to kill the security guards of at least two Freddy Fazbear's Pizza locations, which he mistakes for his murderer.

In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, he is voiced by Tim Simmons, who also voiced Nightmare Freddy.

Appearance

Five Nights at Freddy's

Freddy appears as a tall, large anthropomorphic, quite muscular and stereotypical robotic teddy-bear with a black hat. He has two glowing blue eyes overcame by dark thin eyebrows and a black bow tie under his chin. He has hands with four fingers and feet with three toes.

Also, he holds a microphone in his hands which allows him to performs songs in order to distract and amuse children. However, he does not carry it while attacking the night guard.

In the easter egg of Freddy's distorted poster, showing him tearing off his own head, one of his hands is in the same positions as the hand prints on his chin.

Freddy does not look too robotic as the only mechanical parts that are exposed are his wristbands in each arm which connect his hands to the rest of the body. However, no other straps nor lacerations can be spotted on his well-conserved body, and his endoskeleton is totally hidden by the amount of fake orange fur, which could mean that the animatronic, in spite of his decaying imprisonment, remained in a perfected state (as opposite to Foxy). However, as a result of his abandonment, the fur is much more unclean, as some dust can be spotted in various places. Also, the player can encounter an eyeless still image of Freddy after their death in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, albeit this event occurs rarely.

Freddy appears with human-like blue eyes in the hallucinations.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

In the second game, which is a prequel that takes place before the first, it is revealed that Freddy used to be more damaged and was not in his perfected, flawless state from before, much like Foxy. However, from the four withered animatronics, he still appears as the least damaged.

Notable changes are his somewhat cruder and much more dirty body, large tears on his arms and legs, visible wires connecting the robot's joints and a differently-shaped boxy head with all of his square-shaped teeth clearly visible. He also seems to be crooked.

Unlike Withered Foxy who has a moldy endoskeleton and Withered Bonnie who has a scratched endoskeleton, Withered Freddy and Withered Chica's are almost brand-new other than bloodstains on Chica's jaws. This implies that these two were the most recently retired, probably after Chica bit someone's head.

Following the closure of the "New and Improved Freddy Fazbear's" at the end of the second game and the scrapping of the toy animatronics, Freddy and his fellow withered animatronics were refurbished and rebuilt, gaining the physical appearances they had in the first game.

Shamrock Freddy

Shamrock Freddy is a recolor of Freddy Fazbear but with a few differences. He has clove green in complexion, lime green in irises, white scleras, has a dark green leprechaun-themed hat, a golden beaded necklace and a dark green bowtie. He was released to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, explaining his look.

Firework Freddy

Firework Freddy has the same look as Freddy Fazbear because of being a skin, but now wears a torn outfit. He wears a light blue-colored tank top with star patterns on it and a grey shorts, as well as a red bowtie and a top hat with red and white stripes and stars. A notable appearance on Freddy is that he holds a large firecracker that is ignited, and he also has a sunglasses on him.

Personality

As the mascot of the restaurant, the day Freddy appears as a nice, joyful, and lovely mascot who takes care 's child and always trying to cheer them up, as expected from an animatronic. However, once he is alone in the dark, he turns into a cunning, dangerous and malevolent robot, willing at all cost to catch and stuff the security guard into an endoskeleton suit. The reason for this behavior is that the animatronic is, in fact, possessed by the vengeful spirit of a child named Gabriel who was murdered at Freddy’s.

Freddy is the original leading antagonist of the first game, and acts as such, sitting at the side and allowing the other animatronics to do all the work in the earlier nights, and when they fail, he finally comes into action himself. In FNaF 1, he is very intelligent and strategic, and also presumably the leader of the gang. If the power runs out, he always is the first to enter the office, even if he is the animatronic furthest from said office, meaning the other animatronics may be allowing him the privilege (as leader) of getting the night guard. However, even if Freddy's AI is set to level 20 on Custom Night, he won't move until Bonnie and Chica have left the Show Stage.

When on the move, Freddy lets out a very deep belly laugh that echoes throughout the building. Like the other animatronics, Freddy appears to be a sadist, toying with the night guard in order to break him mentally, and laughing at his misery, although he is still not completely evil for many reasons. That, and he plays his music before killing the guard if the place runs out of power, leaving the guard in complete and utter fear, not knowing when he will be killed. Freddy may be a mutilator as well because once the protagonist is killed, his eyes and teeth are shown through the openings of the suit, with the former's eyes popped through the suit's eye sockets and teeth showing within the mouth of the suit. In the second game, Freddy appears in the Game Over screen and the point of view is from inside the suit.

Despite being a violent and sadistic animatronic, Freddy attacks only because he wants to avenge himself and his friends by killing their murderer. However, he doesn't know how his killer looks like, all he knows is that he was a night guard (heavily implied by the SAVE THEM minigame), explaining why he's so hostile to them. He also seems to be protective of other children not wanting them to die like he did he even teamed up with the Puppet in the SAVETHEM mini game to rescue Afton’s victims although unfortunately he was too late.

Quotes

From Freddy

“	Hello, everybody! You ready to have a good time? I know I am!	„
	~ Freddy in the scrapped Showtime performance.

“	'Cause it's Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, for kids it's number one! Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where fan-tasy means fun!	„
	~ Freddy singing about his pizzeria in the scrapped Showtime performance.

“	My name is Freddy, I'm the singer of the band, got a hat and a big bowtie! I'm a big brown bear, but don't be scared, I'm a real fun-lovin' guy!	„
	~ Freddy in the scrapped Showtime performance.

“	Finally, there's Foxy! One eye and a hook for a hand! He hangs out over in the Pirate's Cove, now you've met all the members of the band!	„
	~ Freddy about Foxy.

“	That sure was fun!	„
	~ Freddy after killing the player in Special Delivery.

“	You did your best, and that's all that counts.	„
	~ Freddy after killing the player in Special Delivery.

“	What's that you say? You didn't invite me? Too bad.	„
	~ Freddy while hunting for the player in Special Delivery.

“	Now now, all that fear there isn't helping either of us.	„
	~ Freddy while hunting for the player in Special Delivery.

About Freddy

“	Interestingly enough, Freddy himself doesn't come off stage very often. I heard he becomes a lot more active in the dark though, so, hey, I guess that's one more reason not to run out of power, right?	„
	~ The Phone Guy about Freddy.

“	Uh, by now I'm sure you've noticed the older models sitting in the back room. Uh, those are from the previous location. We just use them for parts now. The idea at first was to repair them...uh, they even started retrofitting them with some of the newer technology, but they were just so ugly, you know? The smell...uh, so the company decided to go in a whole new direction and make them super kid-friendly. Uh, those older ones shouldn't be able to walk around, but if they do, the whole Freddy head trick should work on them too, so, whatever.	„
	~ The Phone Guy about Withered Freddy, his friends, and the reason why the Toy Animatronics were made.

“	Small souls trapped in prisons of my making now set to new purpose and used in ways I never thought imaginable.	„
	~ Henry Emily about Gabriel and other dead children.

“	Are they still...aware? I hope not. It keeps me awake at night.	„
	~ Henry wondering if Gabriel is still aware.

“	He set some kind of trap. I don't know what it was, but he lead them there again. He overpowered them again. And he robbed them of the only thing that they had. Again.	„
	~ Henry about Freddy and his friends being defeated by William.

“	I don't know how those tiny breaths of life came to inhabit those machines. But they will never find rest now. Not like this.	„
	~ Henry about Gabriel and his friends.

Relationships

† means that the character is deceased/destroyed (in case of animatronics) at the time of completion of any Five Nights at Freddy's games/novels. †? means that the character's fate is currently unclear or unknown.

Allies

The Puppet †? - mentor, has given life to Freddy Fazbear.
Bonnie the Bunny †
Chica the Chicken †
Foxy the Pirate †
Golden Freddy †?
Toy Freddy †
Toy Bonnie †
Toy Chica †
Mangle †
Balloon Boy †

Counterparts

Freddy has twenty two counterparts:

Enemies

William Afton †? - Killer
Michael Afton/Mike Schmidt †
Jeremy Fitzgerald
Fritz Smith †?
Phone Guy †
Every night guard that worked in a Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Speculations about Freddy's true identity

Since the reveal of the final image of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Simulator, it has been heavily speculated, but not confirmed, that the name of the child possessing Freddy Fazbear is Gabriel. Since the reveal of the final screen of the Lore-keeper ending in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Simulator, that the child (based on the position of Freddy's head in the Good Ending of FNaF 3) possessing is heavily hinted to be Gabriel further supports this. In the Fourth Closet novel, the child that possessed Freddy was an unnamed boy.

In Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted during the end of the Pizza Party level, Glitchtrap lures the player to the backstage with a cake. After that, the player becomes Freddy and watches Glitchtrap as he dances to the song. It theorized that this was the moment the child was killed and stuffed inside Freddy. Since the cake has seven candles it, is theorized that the child was seven years old.

Trivia

Freddy has been based various sources:
- He is most likely based on the Chuck E. Cheese animatronic mascot from the arcade/restaurant of the same name.
  - He could have been based on a creepypasta which tells about a Chuck E. Cheese employee who got nearly eaten by the mouse animatronic in his house. He managed to escape, and along with the police found at the backstage of the restaurant the bodies of four of the five teenagers who went missing prior to the story. However, the manager and Chuck E. Cheese were nowhere to be found.
It could be possible that he could appear as the main/secondary antagonist of the upcoming film adaption of the first game by Blumhouse Productions.
In the series, Freddy Fazbear has become less and less important as the new games are released. In the first game, he was the main antagonist, but with the present games, he is a supporting and/or posthumous one. Despite this, he remains as the overall mascot of the franchise.
- As of Security Breach, this has technically changed however, as the Freddy of that game, Glamrock Freddy, is now one of the main protagonists.
Freddy's scream in the original game originates from the 1981 horror film Inseminoid.
Freddy and the Puppet are currently the only animatronics that are shown to have unquestionably good intentions, as both of them tried to save William's second set of victims in the SAVE THEM minigame, which shows they want to stop more murders from happening.

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