# Chica (character)

Chica the Chicken, also known as Chica, was the backup singer of the band at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, and a major antagonist in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. Chica was one of the four original animatronics of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

## Conception and creation

Before Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon released his previous family game, Chipper & Sons Lumber Co, but that game was a failure, players said the main character looked like "a scary animatronic animal" and reviewer James Sterling called it the game being "unintentionally terrifying", critics discouraged Cawthon who used the feedback to create something more intentionally frightening, thus creating Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, Golden Freddy, and Chica for the release of his first horror game, Five Nights at Freddy's.

## Characterization
### Physical appearance
#### Classic

Chica is a bright yellow animatronic chicken with a spherically-shaped head, orange beak, magenta eyes, and black eyebrows. On the top of her head are three "tufts" of feathers. She has two talons from each of her orange feet. She wears a white bib that reads "LET'S EAT!!!". She has an out-of-place set of blocky teeth sticking up from her lower beak. Her endoskeleton teeth can also be seen in the back of her mouth.
Chica is often depicted with Mr. Cupcake, an animatronic representing a cupcake on a tray carried by Chica with her left hand. It has pink frosting with two large yellow eyes, a yellow-striped birthday candle with a vinyl candle-light, buck teeth, no wrapper, and, like other animatronics (except Foxy and Golden Freddy), has black eyelids. He is not active and is instead represented as an object in the games, except in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted and Five Nights at Freddy's 4. In the film Five Nights at Freddy's, he is linked to Chica but can attack and perform actions independently of Chica. We still don't know if this animatronic is also possessed by Susie, by her puppy, by another individual, or that it is not haunted but programmed like this.

#### Withered

Withered Chica is the unmaintained version of Chica as she is replaced by Toy Chica.
Unlike the classic version of Chica, the feminine features have been toned down, she appears more androgynous, to contrast her more with Toy Chica. Her body have minimal changes. Her beak has a jaw similar to the ones Withered Bonnie and Withered Freddy have, which appear to be completely unhinged. Her beak is more pointed, and she has even more teeth on her upper and lower beak. The second set of teeth from the animatronic endoskeleton is visible and covered in blood. She has two stumps where her hands used to be, with long wires pouring forth, consequently she is not accompanied by Mr. Cupcake.

### Personality

Based on the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Theme Song, Chica is a pushy, gluttonous but lovable singing animatronic bot who has love for food, especially pizza. Chica is also very pushy and determined, as, when she gets to the night guard's door, she will stay there for long periods of time, far longer than Bonnie would.

## In-universe biography
### Original story

Chica the Chicken was created in 1983 by Henry, Emily, and William Afton as the sole female character of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, although she was bought from a restaurant called Chica's Party World.
A girl named Susie attended a birthday party at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in 1985. At the party, her puppy got hit by a car and Spring Bonnie told her that he found her puppy, and made Susie follow him.
Spring Bonnie lured four more children named Gabriel, Fritz, Jeremy, and Cassidy, into a room where he brutally murdered them. However with the help of the Puppet the children were stuffed inside the animatronic suits, each animatronic is possessed by one of The Missing Children, Freddy Fazbear by Gabriel, Bonnie by Jeremy, Foxy by Fritz, Golden Freddy by Cassidy, and Chica by Susie. Parents were quick to ask about blood and mucus oozing from their eyes and mouths; and deemed the animatronics too creepy and smelly, causing the restaurant to close down.
Soon the new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was opened, starring new versions of Freddy and Co., known as the Toy Animatronics. The old ones were kept for parts, and would come to life at night, with the new models doing the same. Every night they attacked the night guards, hoping one of them would be the man that destroyed their lives. Jeremy Fitzgerald and Fritz Smith worked at this location in November of 1987. Finally, this pizzeria was closed down in the summer of 1987 after somebody used one of the yellow suits for sinister purposes. It was forced to close even earlier as someone got bitten by an animatronic in the summer of 1987.
A few years later, yet another pizzeria of the same name, was opened, using only the original animatronics. They still attacked the night guards, and their behavior continued until the pizzeria closed for good after its popularity reached an all-time low.
Later, Afton and Shadow Freddy returned to Freddy's Fazbear's Pizza, and destroyed the original animatronics, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. Afton unwittingly released the spirits of the first five children he murdered, who converged on him in the pizzeria's Safe Room, while Shadow Freddy left the pizzeria. In terror, Afton hid in the same Spring Bonnie suit he had worn decades earlier. Despite thinking he was safe, the suit's age caused it to malfunction and kill him, although the spirits were still trapped.
Thirty years later, Phone Dude brought the remains of Chica to Fazbear's Fright, a horror attraction. William was also brought there as Springtrap, now possessing the suit. The attraction burned down, destroying Chica and other original animatronics once and for all and allowing Susie and her friends to pass on.

### Film adaptation

There are differences between the story of the games and the film, unlike the games we do not know the name of the girl who possesses Chica, the girl who possesses Chica is not the first to have been killed by William Afton, it's the child who possesses Foxy who was killed first, also the animatronics are not dismantled.
The Chica animatronic was created under William Afton, an associate of Fazbear Entertainment, being the backup singer of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in order to entertain kids. Afton abducted a girl with blonde hair tied into pigtails, murdering her, along with other four children. The child's soul returns to the living world and possesses Chica, residing in her.
After Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed, Chica and the other animatronics attacked the security guards and anyone entering the building. Chica and the other animatronics attacked the security guards and anyone entering the building. One day when criminals ransacked the restaurant, Chica ordered Mr. Cupcake to attack one, violently tearing his face. Later Chica and the other animatronics built a makeshift fort with Mike, Abby, and Vanessa. The next day Chica took Abby into a back room and tried to put her in Ella's endoskeleton which would have killed Abby, but Chica was tasered by Mike temporarily disconnecting her, Abby made a drawing showing that Afton was actually the murderer of the children possessing the animatronics, the animatronics then change their behavior and revolt against Afton. Chica orders Mr. Cupcake to attack Afton, biting off part of his suit which activated the springlocks within. During the springlock failure, Chica and the other animatronics watched him as he suffered and writhed in pain, and with Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place internally collapsing before them, Chica and the other two animatronics followed Foxy into the engineering room.
It is uncertain at this time as to what might have happened to Chica along with the rest of the animatronics after Freddy Fazbear Pizza's Place internally collapsed.

## In other media
### Film

Chica's first appearance in a film was in the 2023 film Five Nights at Freddy's. A real animatronic in the appearance of Chica was built by Jim Henson's Creature Shop for the filming. Some actions mainly facial expressions like blinking are controlled by puppeteers via remote control, while more complex movements like walking are performed by actress Jessica Weiss who was inside the costume, she and the actors in the Bonnie and Freddy costumes trained to imitate the movements that a real animatronic would make.

### Video games

Chica appears in the Funko Fusion game during a level inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's, the level takes the settings of the original game with the classic animatronics Chica, Bonnie, Freddy and Foxy. Chica is not playable, only Freddy and Foxy can be unlocked and played.

### Miscellaneous

Chica is featured with Mr. Cupcake on the CD, cassette and vinyl covers of the Five Nights at Freddy's soundtrack.