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| NOTE: This article is only for the original videogame version of Golden Freddy. To see the article for the Universal Picture's version of the character, go to Golden Freddy (Films). |
| “ | IT'S ME. | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy's catchphrase. |
| “ | He tried to release you. He tried to release us. But I'm not gonna let that happen. I will hold you here. I will keep you here. No matter how many times they burn us... | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy talking through Orville Elephant to William Afton. |
Fredbear, better known as Golden Freddy, is the secondary antagonist of the ScottGames era of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
He is a supernatural springlock suit who served as the precursor to Freddy Fazbear and titular mascot of the original Fazbear restaurant, Fredbear's Family Diner. The animatronic (or at least a variant of it) was infamous for an incident named the Big Bite, or later the Bite of '83, where it accidentally bit and killed the youngest son of William Afton. He is possessed by a dead child named Cassidy, one of Afton's victims. Cassidy holds a burning hatred towards Afton for taking their life and once he died they tormented him as revenge for all of eternity.
While not confirmed, it's been widely speculated by fans there is more than one soul residing inside Golden Freddy. Candidates include The Crying Child who died at Fredbear's jaws; Andrew, a bonus victim of Afton's from the tie-in books; and several more obscure possibilities.
"The One You Should Not Have Killed" is voiced by Tabatha Skanes in Ultimate Custom Night, with their lines playing beneath some of the death quotes for Orville Elephant, Nedd Bear, and Happy Frog. Fredbear is voiced by Kellen Goff in Ultimate Custom Night, who also voiced Funtime/Molten Freddy, Moon and the 2023 version of Foxy in the wider franchise, as well as Kai Chisaki in My Hero Academia, Rekka Hoshimiya in Fire Force, and Diavolo in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Appearance[]
Games[]
Fredbear[]
Fredbear as seen in the FNaF 4 minigames.
Fredbear, as shown in Ultimate Custom Night, is a spring-lock animatronic that closely resembles the classic iteration of Freddy Fazbear, except with a yellow color scheme and a purple top hat and bow tie, though he wears a brown hat and black bow tie in the STAGE01 minigame. After becoming Golden Freddy, she takes on a slumped position as her hat and bow tie become black and her eyes are hollow aside from white pinprick eyes.
In the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 minigames, Fredbear appears to have a clunkier and more primitive model, being noticeably bigger than the rest of his counterparts. When in performer mode, his endoskeleton's fully silver eyes show. His upper head is detached from the rest of his body, allowing a mechanism connecting the two to simulate talking and singing.
Golden Freddy[]
After becoming Golden Freddy, he takes on a slumped position as his hat and bow tie become black and his eyes are hollow aside from white pinprick eyes.
His paws are facing palms up. It is also possible that there is an endoskeleton in the suit. If one looks at the arms, a few wires and parts of the endoskeleton are visible, which share the same coloration as his accessories, though this may just be cords holding together the separate pieces of his suit. His jaw hangs open and his head is tilted to the right.
In the second game, Golden Freddy now takes a form mimicking Withered Freddy's as a unique model of his own. He appears to be in a decrepit state, much like the other withered animatronics, with a missing left ear, and a good deal of damage with loose wires and exposed parts. Also, similar to the other withered animatronics, he now has upper teeth, wires are coming out of his empty sockets and shoulders, and small bits of the suit are faded and ripped. His arms and legs seem darker than the rest of his body.
His head is noticeably thinner than Withered Freddy's. He seems to be more visibly clutching his microphone rather than having it lay on his palm. Unlike his form in the first game, he seems much shorter, his pupils are not visible, and he appears to have a black bow tie, with his lower jaw blocking it from view. If one looks closely, he has a black button on his chest, similar to Withered Freddy. His head also seems to be tilting to the left rather than to the right.
In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, his appearance is the same as in the first game, but he is now completely golden, including his teeth, and he is shinier. He is also seen moving its limbs for the first time in its workshop animation, albeit less fluidly, in contrast to other animatronics, and there does not seem to be an endoskeleton within him, making the cause of its ability to move its limbs unknown.
Great Escape Golden Freddy[]
Great Escape Golden Freddy.
In FNaF AR, Golden Freddy gains a skin called Great Escape Golden Freddy. While his body's design remains similar to that of his original counterpart (albeit with a duller shade of yellow for his "skin", a badly damaged head with parts of his ears, left cheek, and hat missing, black spots on his head and legs, and lacking eyes), he also gains a dull brown straightjacket and rusted chains, hooks and locks covering his body from head to toe (with notable ones being the ball-and-chains connecting to his legs and a chain acting as a gag around his mouth), giving him the appearance of a magician/escape artist being all locked up just before they attempt to escape their bindings.
Cassidy[]
In the Happiest Day minigame from Five Nights at Freddy's 3, the spirit possessing Golden Freddy appears as a gray silhouette of a child. Before they are given her birthday cake by Charlotte, she has fully black wide eyes. After she becomes ready to move on, a grayscaled Golden Freddy mask covers her face.
Cassidy, the spirit probably possessing the animatronic, is thought to be the Vengeful Spirit in Ultimate Custom Night, and thus appears in the form of a heavily saturated and shadowcast face of an androgynous child with blonde hair, photo-negative blue eyes and an unsettling grin.
Biography[]
Games[]
Backstory[]
In the early 1980s-late 1970s, William Afton and Henry Emily opened up Fredbear's Family Diner, featuring animatronic versions of the titular animatronic and his companion, Spring Bonnie. The restaurant was so successful that in 1983, they opened another pizzeria called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, which eventually spread into a restaurant chain. All the Freddy's restaurants had their own sets of Fredbear and Spring Bonnie suits which would by used by employees as backup, alongside a special, off-camera "Safe Room" where they would put on/take off the suits, and also bleed out in case of a spring-lock failure. In 1983, Fredbear's closed after "The Big Bite/The Bite of '83", a notorious and tragic event in which William's older son, Michael, alongside his friends, picked up his younger brother and put him in Fredbear's mouth as a prank, resulting in the child's death when the animatronic crushed his head. This caused the Fredbear and Spring Bonnie suits to be moved to the nearest - and first - Freddy's location.
On June 26th 1985, a child named Cassidy was killed by Afton while he was wearing the Spring Bonnie suit at Freddy's. Their body was then stuffed into the now-decommissioned Fredbear suit by either William or the Puppet, effectively possessing it. The suit then gained supernatural powers, presumably due to their agony and lust for revenge, becoming Golden Freddy. That said, some fans speculate that Golden Freddy's true identity might, in fact, be the Crying Child; or that he's sharing the suit with Cassidy.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2[]
In 1987, Golden Freddy can be glimpsed on a number of posters drawn by children. The company tried to repair the original four animatronics, retrofitting them with facial recognition software, but since they were deemed too ugly, they ended up being left for spare parts in the Parts/Service room. In the minigame SAVETHEM, Golden Freddy can be seen in various rooms, disappearing if Freddy comes near him.
Golden Freddy becomes active on Night 6, and can teleport to the Office hallway in the form of a floating head, or within the Office itself to kill the next night guard, Jeremy Fitzgerald. Jeremy fends him off by putting on the Freddy mask the moment he sees Freddy inside the Office, fooling the ghost. As well as this, Jeremy could turn off the flashlight while Golden Freddy was in the hall. Ralph mentions that there was a spare, yellow suit in the back that was used, heavily implying Golden Freddy was also used by Afton for his next killing spree.
After Fritz Smith's shift on Night 7, where the animatronics' AI levels are altered, the original animatronics are repaired and taken to the Five Nights at Freddy's pizzeria.
The Week Before[]
First Route[]
After Ralph - the Phone Guy - successfully uses his wits to hide from Foxy in the bathroom in Night 1, he investigates the stall next to the one he used to hide. In there, he finds a graffiti reading "It's Me," with a Fazbear's Employee of the Month pen lying on the ground.
After arriving home from Night 2, Ralph goes to his daughter Coppelia's room to wake her up to school but spaces out, staring at her. She wakes up screaming and throws her pillow at him. She explains to Ralph that she must have been dreaming, as she thought he looked like "that Fredbear thing from [his] work" while staring at her. This could potentially imply that Golden Freddy was causing her nightmares as well.
When Ralph is hiding under the table to surprise an "Intruder" in Night 3, he's suddenly found by who seems to be Freddy Fazbear. Alarmed, Ralph tries to use a mop to defend himself. However, he notices that something was off about Freddy: he seemed sluggish, bumping into random objects that his AI should recognize, like the tables and chairs. Then, he notices that this wasn't the actual Freddy, it was someone in a spare suit from the Backstage. He could even see a second pair of human eyes behind the suit's and rows of teeth when its mouth opened.
Ralph was about to apprehend the Intruder, but then he notices fresh blood on the floor, from the door from where the Intruder lies. Suddenly, he notices that the suit was soaked in red and that blood was dripping out of its eyes. The "Intruder" approaches Ralph, saying to him "It's Me." Then, Ralph wakes up under the table. It's implied that this nightmare was made by Golden Freddy for obvious reasons.
Golden Freddy doesn't make a proper appearance until Night 6, where after Ralph learns from Bronwen Light - a junior reporter invested in the Freddy's case - that the animatronics have been overcharging themselves all week to follow him home, he devices a plan to drain their batteries. He goes to the main stage's crawlspace and pulls all the switches he could find down, causing the building's power to cut off and start running off the backup battery.
Now, all Ralph had to do was to lure the animatronics back into their charging plates on the stage, and he does so by starting up a show. After he started it and the stage lights come up, they illuminate the ghostly apparition of Golden Freddy behind the stage. As Ralph waits for the other animatronics to come back to the stage, he locks eyes with Golden Freddy, apparently not recognizing him as Fredbear.
As the animatronics finally go back to the stage, they didn't even bother going after Ralph. He figures that it's because they think he might as well be dead.
Ralph's plan proved successful as the charging plates started transferring the animatronic's charge into the backup battery instead. Ralph quips inside his mind as he hears them slurring over their own words, only to see that his mind is being invaded by a painful thought "It's me." Ralph could hear, see, and even feel the words as they invaded their mind, and his nose started bleeding.
Ralph notices that the band went quiet and, breaking eye contact with Golden Freddy, he looks up at the stage, confirming that his plan had worked. In that brief moment, however, Golden Freddy teleported in front of Ralph, screaming and causing him to fall over to his knees. Golden Freddy places his hands on either sides of Ralph's head, where his mind starts getting consumed by "It's me."
In his final moments, he managed to hear the soothing and calm voice of a woman - implicitly Bronwen - piercing through the disharmony. She spoke "It's me. Thank you. You did it. She'll be all right now. She's safe. She's safe." With that, the onslaught of "it's me's" inside his mind slowly gets replaced with a new mantra: "she's safe."
Knowing that he had protected her daughter, that she was safe, Ralph passed away with a smile.
Bonus/Canon Route[]
After the player obtains the first ending, they will be granted the choice to re-play the book with a bonus item: Bronwen's mobile phone. Using the mobile phone, Ralph leaves messages for the next security guard that will come after him.
After he uses the mobile phone to call backstage to distract Bonnie as he approached Party Room 2 in Night 3, someone picks up the phone. Ralph rationalizes that it must be the intruder, given that he might not be alone. However, when he pulls the phone closer to listen, all he hears are faint echoes of children's laughter. The line goes dead, and a message lights up the screen of the phone: "Save them."
In Night 5, every animatronic was rapidly approaching Ralph's office, with Bonnie and Chica already banging on his door. In his final will, he leaves a message for the next security guard to take his position. He realizes that he didn't leave a message for them last night, so he records the message like he's on his fourth shift. While he records, he can hear Freddy arriving outside his office. Then, every single animatronic screams at the same time, including Golden Freddy. In his final thoughts, Ralph notes that something stinks, and it was him; he was stuffed into a Freddy costume.
Game Overs[]
In Night 1, if Ralph tries to make a run for it past Bonnie when leaving the bathroom, he will be catched and Bonnie will stuff him in Golden Freddy.
Later on, if Ralph decides to use the phone to call the Backstage area of the Pizzeria to lure Bonnie away from the Party Room, someone will actually pick up the call. A distorted, almost unintelligible voice shrouded in static will state "It's Me." Ralph, confused, tries to talk to the person and ask them who they are, but he's only met with a child's laughter. The laughter increases in volume, even after he hanged up. Ralph loses himself and just laughs along with it. He's then dragged into the Backstage and stuffed into a spare Freddy suit.
In Night 5, if Ralph inputs 1-9-8-3 in the Voicemail, he will start to hear a playback of the Big Bite. Ralph tries to talk to the Crying Child and make the tormentors stop him, but he soon realizes that he's hearing a recording. He hears a man, shouting to one of the Bullies to put the child down and to keep him away from Fredbear, but it was no use. People start screaming as they see the Child being put inside Fredbear's mouth, until suddenly all Ralph hears is a loud crunch from the bite. He hangs up the phone, but still hears a child's crying coming from behind him. He turns around and is met with a similar bite, implicitly from Golden Freddy.
Five Nights at Freddy's[]
During "Mike Schmidt's" (actually Michael Afton's) shift, Golden Freddy is not openly attacking him and only shows up as an easter egg on two occasions. Firstly, when checking CAM 2B, the Freddy poster can rarely change into a Golden Freddy poster, accompanied by a giggle, at which point Golden Freddy appears in the Office. The only way Mike can save himself is by flicking the monitor up, which causes Golden Freddy to vanish. If the player is killed by Golden Freddy, the game crashes. Golden Freddy's jumpscare could be heard cutting off Ralph's Night 4 phone call. The second easter egg happens whenever the player sets the animatronic AIs to 1/9/8/7 in the Custom Night mode. Instead of starting the night with the selected difficulty settings, Golden Freddy instantly jumpscares the player and forces the game to crash (or be sent back to the main menu in the console or remastered Mobile ports).
Golden Freddy's status in the game is ambiguous, and there are arguments supporting both him being a physical suit that has been repaired by Fazbear Entertainment, and him being a fully noncorporeal animatronic, with the real Golden Freddy animatronic never being properly repaired and remaining in his Five Nights at Freddy's 2 form.
Survival Logbook[]
Golden Freddy, or more specifically, the soul possessing him is the deuteragonist of the Survival Logbook. The soul is all but stated to be trying to reach out to another soul, the Crying Child from Five Nights at Freddy's 4, through faded text written in specific pages.
Golden Freddy's soul seems to have an unnatural amount of knowledge of the Crying Child's memories, including the memory of his favorite ride and toys, as well as the Fredbear plush talking to him. This indicates that Golden Freddy is trying to make the Crying Child remember his own life, possibly to help him move on to the afterlife.
There is also incorrect numbered pages, each of which have the words "My name" written on the same faded text Golden Freddy uses, one of them even being over a gravestone, bringing to mind the good ending of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. Using the numbers of said pages as coordinates in the word search in page 58, will result in getting the name "Cassidy."
Five Nights at Freddy's 3[]
Although Golden Freddy doesn't directly appear, his Fredbear form appears in the minigames, along with Spring Bonnie at what's possibly Fredbear's Family Diner. The soul of Golden Freddy appears in the Happiest Day minigame. Here, the child possessing him is standing behind a table, with Charlotte Emily, Gabriel, Susie, Fritz, and Jeremy to the left of the table. After Charlotte places a cake on the table, all six children will then disappear, and their masks will fall to the ground. The six balloons will then fly upwards through the room barrier, mostly out of view. Finishing this ending will trigger a unique star to appear on the main menu, and this is saved to the game file as a unique variable signifying that the Good Ending has now been realized and the souls of William Afton's victims can finally pass on in peace.
Nevertheless, if theorized that Golden Freddy is the same as Shadow Freddy, it may also be possible that Golden Freddy also has a part in the game through the latter character's appearances. It is may even be assumed that the Crumpled Freddy suit easter egg may be the remains of the Fredbear/Golden Freddy suit, which were eventually destroyed in the fire that erupted at Fazbear's Fright.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4[]
Golden Freddy appears in Five Nights At Freddy's 4 as Nightmare Fredbear. His Fredbear counterpart also appears in the minigames of Fredbear's Family Diner. It's revealed that the cause of Fredbear's Family Diner closing was because a child (William's youngest son) was shoved into Fredbear by his brother and other bullies, which caused Fredbear to bite the child, killing him.
Ultimate Custom Night[]
Cassidy, the soul likely possessing Golden Freddy, is the main antagonist of the game, while the withered version of Golden Freddy appears as a supporting antagonist. Like in other games in the series, Golden Freddy may appear in the player's office. The player only has a short amount of time to put up their monitor or put on the Freddy head when catching a glimpse of him to make Golden Freddy disappear before Golden Freddy kills the player.
Golden Freddy is tied to an Easter egg in the game. If only Golden Freddy is active with his A.I. set to 1 and the player uses the Death Coin on him, Fredbear will appear and instantly kill the player, confirming that Golden Freddy and Fredbear are the same entity.
If the player completes all of the anime cutscenes in the game, a final one will play after completing a night with a total of 9800 points. This cutscene showcases the classic version of Golden Freddy twitching on the ground as he fades into the darkness. This scene shows that the soul inside Golden Freddy still exists as a ghost and is most likely the one controlling the hell William is imprisoned in. While not confirmed, some people interpret Golden Freddy fading away as his soul moving on.
If the player sets Old Man Consequences to 1 and all other characters to 0, they'll be taken directly to OMC's pond. Here, he tells the player to "Leave the demon to his demons. Rest your own soul. There is nothing else." after which the Golden Freddy can choose to drown themselves in the lake OMC is fishing at all while Afton's screams can be heard in the background. Judging by the ending of the game it can be safely assumed that Cassidy didn’t heed Old Man Consequences advice and continued to torture William for all eternity.
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery[]
Golden Freddy is a combination of most of the animatronics before him. His footsteps are silent and he haywires frequently. When the encounter starts, his face and "IT'S ME" will flash on the screen quickly. The player has to use a tablet to rotate the mechanics used to defeat Golden Freddy: a flashlight, a mask, the shocker and the timer. When he haywires, the player must put on the mask, like the Toys. They must look at him when he has white eyes, and look away if he has red, like Springtrap. He must be shocked three times to be defeated, with the face and "IT'S ME" appearing when you get to the next phase. In the first phase, you only need to use the mask, flashlight and shocker. The second phase is quite similar, but he now has Toy Freddy's power draining mechanic. In the third phase, you need to find his hat and shock him for the third and final time, defeating the golden bear. It is implied to be "C" contact from Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery's trailer and teaser is actually Cassidy herself.
Dark Circus: Encore![]
After Ballora gets defeated, Classic Golden Freddy head will partially block the screen with "IT'S ME" phrase. Immediately after this event, Great Escape Golden Freddy completely destroys the tank and the battle with Great Escape Golden Freddy begins. He will be use different phases until it gets shocked and change it again. After he gets electroshock for three times, he gets defeated but in the finale scene where everyone was deactivated, Great Escape Golden Freddy's blue eyes glows.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach and Ruin[]
Golden Freddy doesn't appear in person, but cutouts and artwork of Fredbear appears several times throughout the game. Additionally, it's speculated the Princess from the Princess Quest minigames is Cassidy.
Fazbear Frights[]
The New Kid[]
When Devon sees Kelsey doing what he perceives as going out with his crush, he starts planning a revenge. He convinces Kelsey to join him and Mick in exploring an old Freddy's he found in the woods nearby. After wandering inside the place, the three find an old Golden Freddy spring-lock suit. Devon encourages Kelsey to put it on, which he does. Kelsey starts dancing: this triggers the spring-locks, which end up skewering Kelsey while Devon and Mick watch helplessly. Devon confesses that he had no idea the suit was so dangerous, he just wanted to trap Kelsey for a prank. Devon makes Mick swear not to tell anyone, and the two leave Kelsey for dead.
The child corpse inside the suit.
After having nightmares every day for a full week, Devon tells Mick he'll go back for Kelsey, hoping he's still alive so that he can nurse him back to health, and asks Mick to cover for him, which Mick promises he'll do. Devon then goes back to the pizzeria and put his hand inside the suit, trying to understand where Kelsey is; however, the spring-locks fail again, crushing Devon's arm. As Devon struggles to escape, he sees a corpse with curly black hair inside; this puzzles him, as Kelsey had blonde hair. Devon then presumably dies of water loss after being sucked inside the suit. The corpse inside the suit likely belongs to Andrew, who is also described as having curly black hair.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit[]
Though Golden Freddy doesn't make an appearance in the story itself, his suit plays a major role in its 2024 game adaptation.
Golden Freddy's suit is, unlike the rest of the animatronics, a stationary object in what's implied to be an old Fredbear's Family Diner safe room in the 1985 pizzeria. Oswald first climbed inside the suit in the middle of a hide and seek game with his past friends, Mike and Chip, but later used it as a recurring hiding spot from The Yellow Rabbit once it took over the pizzeria.
In the Fetch minigame, the player spawns in the same room as Golden Freddy, being the only visible animatronic besides the titular Fetch. Occasionally, his eyes will lit up, implying that he was already possessed by the fifth soul by the time of the minigame.
Other Media[]
FNaF World[]
Adventure Golden Freddy[]
Main article: Golden Freddy (FNaF World)
Golden Freddy appears in this game as a playable character, which needs to be unlocked.
Golden Freddy's moves are:
- Jumpscare - Stuns all enemies for a few seconds.
- Rainy Day 2 - Temporarily decreases all enemies defense and damages all enemies multiple times.
- Haunting - Summons a ghost version of Freddy Fazbear that can Freeze an opponent for a short time. Doesn't work on bosses.
Golden Freddy is a support character, although not great, since Rainy Day 2 is the only move that can kill. He needs allies to survive, because he won't make it far alone.
Adventure Fredbear[]
Main article: Fredbear (FNaF World)
Fredbear's also appears in this game as a both NOC and playable character, which needs to be unlocked.
Fredbear's moves are:
- Mega Bite - Deals an incredible amount of damage to enemies.
- Regen Song - Heals the party over time.
- Mimic Ball - Summons a temporary mimic that duplicates any attacks used.
Freddy in Space 2[]
Golden Freddy returns in this spin-off made to donate to St. Jude as one of the six playable characters, alongside Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and The Puppet. Compared to others, he doesn't look human-like, but still has his original appearance.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)[]
- Main article: Golden Freddy (Films)
Golden Freddy as he appears in the movies.
Golden Freddy also appears in the film adaptations of the franchise, once again as one of Afton's victims that seeks revenge, an minor supportive animatronic (leader of missing deceased children/animatronics), killed Jane in order to free Abby and take her back to the restaurant, but disappeared.
He was played by Jade Hassouné.
Novels[]
Main article: Golden Freddy (Novels)
Golden Freddy as he appears in the novels.
Golden Freddy is a far more benevolent and heroic character in the novel than in the game series, acting as a guide to the main characters. He is first discovered by Carlton while he is trapped in a spring lock suit. When his kidnapper, William Afton, leaves the room, Carlton notices a yellow Freddy costume sitting in the corner, with two glowing pinpricks in its empty eyes. It is possessed by Michael Brooks.
Golden Freddy is a far more benevolent and heroic character in the novel than in the game series, acting as a guide to the main characters. He is first discovered by Carlton while he is trapped in a spring lock suit. When his kidnapper, William Afton, leaves the room, Carlton notices a yellow Freddy costume sitting in the corner, with two glowing pinpricks in its empty eyes. He is possessed by Michael Brooks.
Fazbear Fanverse[]
Five Nights at Freddy's Plus[]
Main Article: Golden Freddy (Five Nights at Freddy's Plus)
A miscoloured Freddy head from Breaking + Entering, it is implied that it belongs to Golden Freddy.
Golden Freddy was likely going to appear in cancelled Five Nights at Freddy's Plus, a semi-canon remake of the 2014 video game, Five Nights at Freddy's. It is speculated that miscoloured Freddy head from Five Nights at Freddy's Plus's YouTube mini-series of the same name's episode "Breaking + Entering" is actually Golden Freddy himself/herself. It is unknown who was gonna posses him but it is implied to be Cassidy herself like original and movie.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- The Missing Children
- Gabriel †
- Jeremy †
- Susie †
- Fritz †
- Charlotte Emily †
- Old Man Consequences
- Every single UCN animatronic - Minions
- Freddy Fazbear
- Bonnie/Withered Bonnie
- Chica/Withered Chica
- Foxy
- Toy Freddy
- Toy Bonnie
- Toy Chica
- Mangle
- BB
- JJ
- Marionette/Lefty
- Springtrap/Afton
- Phantom Mangle, Freddy, BB and Chica
- Nightmare Freddy
- Nightmare Bonnie
- Nightmare Fredbear
- Nightmare
- Jack-O-Chica and Jack-O-Lantern
- Nightmare Mangle
- Nightmarionne
- Nightmare BB
- Old Man Consequences
- Circus/Scrap Baby
- Ballora
- Funtime Foxy
- Ennard
- Trash and the Gang
- Helpy
- Happy Frog
- Mr. Hippo
- Pigpatch
- Nedd Bear
- Orville Elephant
- Rockstar Freddy
- Rockstar Bonnie
- Rockstar Chica
- Rockstar Foxy
- Music Man
- El Chip
- Funtime Chica
- Molten Freddy
- Ralph
- Dee Dee/XOR
- Shadow Bonnie
- Plushtrap
- Nightmare Chica
- Bonnet
- Minireena
- Lolbit
- Mr. Cupcake
- Candy Cadet
Enemies[]
- William Afton †? - Arch-nemesis and Killer
- Michael Afton/Mike Schmidt † - Attempted victim
- Ralph † - Indirect victim
- Jeremy Fitzgerald - Attempted victim
- Fritz Smith - Attempted victim
- Unnamed FNAF AR protagonist - Attempted victim
Quotes[]
Said by Golden Freddy[]
| “ | There's more fantasy and fun where I came from. | „ |
| ~ Fredbear in Ultimate Custom Night. |
| “ | (Unintelligible voices) | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy's unintelligible voices before killing the Night Guard. |
| “ | Currents or heavy pressure. I looked around the room at the numerous inventions, eloquent [test]-imony of a tireless ingenuity. Sir, it is lamentable that mass agricultural development is [not] speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms. Would it not to be easily possible to employ some of them in quick laboratory experiments to [indicate influence of various types of fertilizers on plant growth?]. | „ |
| ~ A voice possibly from Golden Freddy (note it is actually a reading of an excerpt from "Autobiography of a Yogi" by Paramhansa Yogananda, albeit lower-pitched, reversed, and put through multiple other effects). |
| “ | This is how it feels. And you get to experience it over and over and over again. Forever. I will never let you leave.... | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy talking through Nedd Bear to William Afton. |
| “ | We've only just begun. I will never let you leave. I will never let you rest... | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy talking through Happy Frog to William Afton. |
Referring to Golden Freddy[]
| “ | I have seen him - The One You Shouldn't Have Killed! | „ |
| ~ Withered Chica to Afton in the Ultimate Custom Nightt |
| “ | Greetings from the fire and from The One You Shouldn't Have Killed. | „ |
| ~ Jack-O-Chica to Afton after killing him. |
| “ | I am remade, but not by you, by The One You Shouldn't Have Killed. | „ |
| ~ Nightmare Freddy hinting at the true nature of Afton's punishment. |
| “ | He's here and always watching, The One You Shouldn't Have Killed... | „ |
| ~ Mangle hinting at Afton's tormentor's nature. |
| “ | 01100001 01101100 01110111 01100001 01111001 01110011 00100000 01110111 01100001 01110100 01100011 01101000 01101001 01101110 01100111 | „ |
| ~ Binary code seen in the Into the Pit video game adaptation after an arcade cabinet is fixed, translating to "always watching," likely referencing the above quote. |
Audio Samples[]
Cassidy's Laughter[]
Speculations[]
- It was heavily implied that Golden Freddy is a springlock suit hybrid, like Springtrap, in the sense of the ability to be both an animatronic behavior and a wearable suit, given that the Purple Guy was originally theorized to have worn the Golden Freddy suit to lure the five children to the back and killed them. The endoskeleton is visible in the images of Golden Freddy, shares the yellow color, and in one of the minigames in Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Golden Freddy is shown entertaining children on a stage alongside Springtrap.
- Those who do not believe this theory tend to think his supernatural powers, indicate he merely ghost taking the form of Fredbear.
- As of now, there are heavy implications from the second and third games that "Golden Freddy" was a Fredbear suit that was used at Freddy's, separate from the suit used at Fredbear's, similar to how there was a Spring Bonnie animatronic in both locations.
- This was proven true in Five Nights at Freddy's 4 where Fredbear was shown multiple times to function as both an animatronic and suit, as well as in the Fazbear Frights story The New Kid where it was repeatedly stated that Fredbear is a springlock suit.
- Since Golden Freddy has the phrase "IT'S ME" whenever he is summoned, and crashes the game if one has 1-9-8-7 as the custom A.I. in the Custom Night, many players suspected that he was the cause of The Bite of '87. This does not work on the updated version of the first game. However it was debunked due to the heavy implication that one of the Toy animatronics was the culprit, as well as Golden Freddy being withered and decommissioned at this time.
- Before the third game, Golden Freddy was believed to be the suit Afton wore to kill the children. However, it is later revealed in later games that Spring Bonnie was the suit used, but the theory is still somewhat popular, with it being speculated that Afton used the Golden Freddy suit to kill a second group of children during Five Nights at Freddy's 2, as Golden Freddy is the only spare yellow suit in that pizzeria.
- Although his full name is Michael Brooks in Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes, The Survival Logbook heavily hints that Golden Freddy's name is actually Cassidy.
- The Fourth Closet, the novel that introduced Cassidy and established her as a girl, came out one day before the Ultimate Custom Night.
- Strangely, Withered Golden Freddy in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is more beaten up than his version in the original. It is unknown why Golden Freddy seems to be less damaged in the first game, since Five Nights at Freddy's takes place after the events of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, and would have likely not have been repaired.
- This is most likely because Withered Golden Freddy could somewhat parallel what happened to Fredbear, after the Bite of '83. It's believed that since the incident, Fredbear's Family Diner was permanently closed while the abandoned Fredbear suit broke down.
- And as for why Golden Freddy has less damage than Withered Golden Freddy in FNaF 1, its because all the Withered Animatronics from FNaF 2 have been converted to Classic Animatronics. Thus would explain why Fredbear and Golden Freddy were connected each any further.
- Although it's possible that his Five Nights at Freddy's 2 counterpart is an empty, derelict Fredbear suit with a few animatronic parts still inside, while his FNaF 1 counterpart is a ghost taking the form of a yellow Freddy Fazbear. This theory explains his animatronic-like behavior in FNaF 2, and also why his A.I. can be adjusted in the second game, but not in the first game, this also explains how he is able to appear in the first game's office when both doors are closed.
- Their jumpscares also differ. In the first game Golden Freddy's jumpscare crashes the game, while in the second game Withered Golden Freddy's jumpscare only kills the player and doesn't crash the game.
- While Golden Freddy is confirmed to be one of William Afton's victims, some speculate that the dead child, Cassidy, shares the body with the Crying Child from the fourth game. A previous but still prevalent theory was that the spirit that possessed Golden Freddy was just that of the Crying Child, but this was since debunked.
- It was a common argument that in the Five Nights at Freddy's 3 bad ending, two supernatural lights could be seen inside Golden Freddy's head instead of just one, implying the presence of two souls possessing the suit. This was later proven to be a simple optical illusion: if the image was edited to turn up the brightness, it's clear that there's only one light coming from one eye, that simply shines to the other eye because of how lighting works.
- However, this is very unlikely, mainly because in all cases in which possession has been seen in the series, physical contact with the animatronic at the time of death is required to subsequently possess it. Something that does not happen with the Crying Child, who was able to survive the bite for a few more days before eventually dying in the hospital, making it almost impossible for the Crying Child to have possessed Fredbear.
- Throughout every single alternate continuity, including the Novel Trilogy and the Film series, Golden Freddy has consistently been shown to only have one single soul, belonging to William's fifth victim. Naturally, this would likely reflect his status in the games.
- However, The Week Before heavily implies the Crying Child's soul is somehow connected to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and possessing an animatronic. While he's not explicitly inside Golden Freddy, it's still possible they're somewhat connected. Throughout the same book, several animatronics are inexplicably seen saying "It's me," bringing up the possibility that the Crying Child's connection isn't exclusive to Golden Freddy.
- It's possible that the Fredbear that appears in Ultimate Custom Night isn't the only version of Fredbear, considering that the Fredbear seen in Five Nights at Freddy's 4's minigames has a different design, similar with Spring Bonnie cases (specifically a portlier body and a segmented head and jaw connected by moving actuators, something that UCN Fredbear and both forms of Golden Freddy lack).
- Nightmare Fredbear appears to be a "nightmarish" version of this iteration of Fredbear.
- Withered Golden Freddy is presumed to be Fredbear’s original form.
- It is theorized that the reason Cassidy both holds a grudge against William and is so powerful is because they were killed by a springlock failure unlike the other children giving her much more Agony than the other spirits.
- Some people theorized that Cassidy is currently possessing/controlling/ is in the Blob/Tangle.
- Given how the Fazbear Frights books are debatably canon to the game timeline, especially the Stitchwraith story arc, it has been speculated that Andrew is "The One [Afton] should not have killed".
Trivia[]
- Cassidy's laughter is actually Freddy's laugh at 2.5x speed.
- Golden Freddy is one of the few animatronics/characters who don't appear in Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted. However, there is an Easter Egg which may relate to him. In the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, after completing a level, the player can find inside the warehouse three Halloween posters which previously appeared in the images of the salvaged animatronics from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. If the player throws some darts at the posters when they're identical, then the sentence "IT'S ME" will appear, along with music and flashing lights.
- As of version 1.13, setting the A.I. levels to 1/9/8/7 on Custom Night causes Golden Freddy's kill screen to appear, forcing the game to close. This was put in by Scott Cawthon to end the rumors that entering the input 1/9/8/7 would have an alternate ending.
- Golden Freddy's kill screen in the first game is similar to the Freddy hallucination screen but is colored gold and without eyes.
- In the trailer for Five Nights at Freddy's 2, one of the children's drawings, depicts Golden Freddy with the endoskeleton eyes singing to them.
- The animatronic noise that killed Ralph is the same as Golden Freddy's, implying that he is true culprit behind his death. This was debunked in The Week Before, which shows Ralph was killed by the four classic animatronics ganging up on him.
- Golden Freddy's scream in Five Nights at Freddy's is a slowed down version of the other animatronics' scream, supporting the theory that the Puppet stuffed deceased children in the animatronic suits (as seen in the "Give Gifts, Give Life" minigame) with the fifth child possessing Golden Freddy. This theory is confirmed in the third game, most evidently in "Happiest Day".
- In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, its scream is also different, being a louder version of the normal scream, and clips midway.
- In Freddy in Space 2, Golden Freddy is the only playable character who still looks like an animatronic, unlike the other characters.
- Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery is the first game in the series where Golden Freddy stands up.
- The face of "The One You Should Not Have Killed" is an edited picture of Jason Cawthon, the son of series creator Scott Cawthon.
- Their gender in the games is considered ambiguous. While Cassidy does speak with a feminine voice during Ultimate Custom Night, Scott Cawthon said that the voice shouldn't be immediately clear, and it could work as both a young boy and a young girl. If one believes Cassidy is "The One You Should Not Have Killed" then they are also referred to as a boy by Chica and Mangle. The lines referring to "The One" can also be interpreted as referring to the fact that the Golden Freddy animatronic is male, while the ghost is a girl.
- But, as said above, "The One's" photo is a redacted photo of Scott's son.
- Their gender in other official works is changeable: female in novels, but male in movie, assuming the film Golden Freddy is still Cassidy.
- This discrepancy with Cassidy's gender is commonly used as an argument to suggest that Andrew is the spirit controlling UCN and not Cassidy.
- In Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, the sprite of the Princess from the Princess Quest minigame was labelled "Cassidy", implying Golden Freddy to be the Princess' true identity. That said, it was later patched out and the sprite was renamed to "the Princess" (the same name it had in the original Help Wanted mobile port) for currently unknown reasons. Given how Scott Cawthon clarified in 2024 a lot of the story was changed during Security Breach, it's possible this was a mistake on Steel Wool Studios' part.
- Golden Freddy's name was actually a fan-nickname that became popular with Markiplier calling him that, while it was originally called "Yellowbear" in the files of the first game.
- Golden Freddy was actually never going to exist in the franchise.
- From the Clickteam Fusion 2.5 engine's MFA, on "
Frame 1", Golden Freddy is revealed to be in the Office all along but remains invisible unless he is triggered. - In Mobile version of FNaF 1, on a very rare occasion, Golden Freddy's kill screen will appear after the Game Over screen is shown. It is confirmed that this occurs on the mobile version.
- In the original mobile port, there is a 0.01% (1 in 10,000) chance of this occurring.
- Prior to The Week Before, the Fredbear's Family Diner Bite was commonly referred as the Bite of '83 by fans in reference to the other known incident, the Bite of '87. The aforementioned book however gives it its own unique name, "The Big Bite."
- Ralph compares it to how the first World War was called "The Great War" before the second came about, meaning that both "The Bite of '83" and "The Big Bite" are canonical and valid names for the incident.
External Links[]
- Golden Freddy on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Fredbear on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Cassidy on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- The One You Should Not Have Killed on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Great Escape Golden Freddy on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Golden Freddy (Fazbear Frights version) on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
