Five Nights at Freddy's 2

* Count
* Appearances
* Analysis

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## Chronology

**Five Nights at Freddy's 2** is a point-and-click survival horror game.

The prequel, which people should've guessed instantly the moment Phone Guy started talking in the trailer.

So, we get our first look at our local child strangler, Purple Guy! Purple Guy with a strange hand to be more specific. Seriously, never explained to us.

Oh pff, wait, I remember, that's not the real Purple Guy, the real Purple Guy looks more magenta and the disproportionally huge Purple Guy is the Purple Guy's son. Bah, totally forgot that "revelation". I swear Scott Cawthon hadn't thought of that before those YouTubers started theorizing regarding that.

## Overview

The Death Minigame gives more kills. However, if they’re actually the same victims as in the Missing Children Incident isn’t explained. I think they aren’t, as I believe those victims inhabit the Toy animatronics, since they actively hunt for the night guard too, ignoring any endoskeleton. (Remember, it’s apparently their "programming" to go after endoskeletons.)

Take Cake to Children gives another kill outside the establishment, the culprit is Purple Guy again. Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator would revisit this minigame and explain that the victim was Charlie, Henry’s daughter.

Foxy Go! Go! Go! gives another 5 murdered kids by Purple Guy.

 #11

Geez, Willie.

**Featured Characters:**

* Jeremy Fitzgerald ***(First appearance)*** ***(Death determinent)***

**Supporting Characters:**

* Fazbear Entertainment
	+ Phone Guy
	+ CEO Fazbear Entertainment ***(Unnamed)***

**Antagonists:**

* Toy Freddy ***(First appearance)***
* Toy Bonnie ***(First appearance)***
* Toy Chica ***(First appearance)***
* Mangle ***(First appearance)***
* Marionette ***(First appearance)***
* Balloon Boy ***(First appearance)***
* Freddy Fazbear
* Bonnie the Rabbit
* Chica the Chicken
* Foxy the Pirate
* William Afton ***(First appearance; unnamed)***
* Shadow Freddy ***(First appearance; unnamed)***
* Shadow Bonnie ***(First appearance; unnamed)***

**Other Characters:**

* JJ ***(First appearance)***

**Locations:**

* Earth ***(Mentioned only)***
	+ Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (FNaF2) ***(First appearance)***
	+ Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (before FNaF2) ***(Mentioned only)***
	+ Fredbear's Family Diner ***(Mentioned only)***

**Items:**

* Freddy Fazbear head
* Music Box
* Flashlight

**Races and Species:**

* Humans ***(Sprite; drawings; animatronic charicature)***
* Bears ***(Animatronic charicatures)***
* Rabbits ***(Animatronic charicatures)***
* Chickens ***(Animatronic charicatures)***
* Foxes ***(Animatronic charicatures)***

Oh man, this one is also easy, I'm guessing. I mean, it all fell apart the moment YouTubers returned to this game and made theories that there is a Pink Guy and Purple Guy. What does this change?

## Story

The game is a prequel, specifically 1987, the year of The Bite mentioned back in the first installment.

But since this is a *hidden* prequel, that means that Scott tried to make some hints that this was just an average sequel.

### False Sequel Hints

#### "The old location"

First up, Phone Guy's message in the first phone call:

> *"Uh, now, I want you to forget anything you may have heard about the old location, you know. Uh, some people still have a somewhat negative impression of the company. Uh... that old restaurant was kind of left to rot for quite a while, but I want to reassure you, Fazbear Entertainment is committed to family fun and above all, safety."*
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So, with a prequel in mind, that means that the previous location wasn't the FNAF1 location, but another previous location. In total we've 3 locations now.

#### Those weird Freddy POV scenes

Caaaw, caaaw. No idea why you hear a crow.

Anyway, at the end of each night you get a cutscene of you in the eyes of Freddy in the FNAF1 location. We know this because everyone has their models from FNAF1 as opposed to their appearance in FNAF2. What these cutscenes entail is odd to say the least; Bonnie and Chica looking at you, the Puppet following your vision, Golden Freddy looking at you.

Interpretation can go for miles... I think, I don't know what one can gather from this. Well some things're for certain; The Puppet was in the FNAF1 location, and Golden Freddy isn't just a hallucination since even Freddy can see him.

##### My stupid intepretation of the Freddy POV cutscene

Another interpretation is this: "it's me" appears at the end of all cutscenes except the first which just says a cut-off "error". The cutscene with Bonnie and Chica looking at Freddy, the one with Golden Freddy, and the one with Puppet have ended with "it's me". Now, if my logic in Five Nights at Freddy's of "it's me" always being related to a tragedy in FNAF is sound, we can use that logic to piece why "it's me" is said.

It's easy to connect Golden Freddy and The Puppet with "it's me" as the former is (before FNAF3) said to have been the suit used to act out the Five Missing Children Incident, and the latter is due to the "Take Cake to the Children" minigame which shows how The Puppet's soul met her end.

Now, Freddy is difficult to pin point, either it's guilt he couldn't stop the Purple Guy from killing kids, or *he* did the Bite. We can also just think that Freddy did the Bite of '87 as it didn't happen in the FNAF1 location, which then opens up a path on why Foxy and his stage are decommissioned in the FNAF1 location... and the "it's me" sign when Foxy leaves the stage.

The 3 cutscenes can also be connected to the Death Minigames, who knows.

Alright, theorizing aside, let's talk about why we should've expected this to be a prequel.

### Prequel hints

The very first teaser shows a Freddy completely different than how he appears in FNAF1. Now, we can excuse ourselves for not thinking that; maybe it was an artstyle shift and the wear and tear would imply that some time has passed.

Secondly, the fact Phone Guy is alive. Now, again, we can assume Phone Guy faked his death. Remember, back in the day we only had Mike Schmidt, Phone Guy, or imagining a completely random murderer as possible culprits of the Five Missing Children Incident, and people were betting both *hard* that Mike or Phone were the suspects.

But then an undeniable fact is that the building somehow reopened with completely state-of-the-art technology, it's very large, and the animatronics are still allowed to walk. You'd think they'd build the Toy animatronics so their "servos won't lock up" when not walking. Well then, let's talk about that technology.

### Technology

The newer animatronics were given technology which would sense a predator. They even put that technology into the robots of the old location to try and fit them with the Toy bots.

### Phone Calls

According to Phone Guy, the Puppet can always think and move anywhere. No further elaboration is given to those facts, but we could say that that facet was referenced further into Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. More specifically the Security Puppet minigame where the Security Puppet moves out of the establishment to comfort Henry's daughter.

Pff, oh yeah, *Scott actually making use of the lore he already has instead of inventing new stuff such as ghost glue*, as if!

The night 3 phone call actually has Phone Guy deny any rumors about the establishment. No further elaboration is given, again.

This continues with the 4th night, where the building has to close down for a few days. Also, *someone* tampered with the animatronic's facial recognition thingies. Because of the tampering stuff, the animatronics only react well to kids, any adult they see is met with a blank stare. The tampering part is certainly not part of why the building closes down, the tampering part just sounds like the next topic instead of being part of the first topic.

The dayshift suddenly became available. The hesitation that Phone Guy gave with that announcement is suspicious, as if something happened. The same phone call also mentions "Fredbear's Family Diner" which has been closed for years.

Despite being closed down, the pizzeria is planning on a birthday party to happen on Day. The Night 6 phone call also mentions a spare yellow suit, which now outright confirms that Golden Freddy is a tangible object. Also, because someone used the Golden Freddy suit, "none of them are acting right." So far, no concrete thing has been proven on what Phone Guy means by this. The way the text is spoken sounds like using Golden Freddy somehow fucked up the animatronics.

The end of Night 6 says the FNAF2 location "closing it's[sic] doors." It also writes that the original animatronics will be kept and that the pizzeria will reopen but with a smaller budget, leading straight into FNAF1. And we know how the FNAF1 location will eeeend.

I'd like to make a funny theory that due to the placement of this check blocking out Toy Bonnie's mouth that he caused the Bite of '87, but Popgoes made that a serious thing. Hm. Could also explain his Secret Screen, but that would leave out Withered Freddy and Foxy.

### Death Minigames

When you die in the game, you sometimes get a playable death cutscene before throwing you back into the menu.

*SAVETHEM* is odd, you play as Withered Freddy and you walk around in the FNAF2 location but filled with blood I assume. You can follow the Puppet which will end after some time. But then there're other ways of ending the minigame, such as touching Golden Freddy, Mangle, the 5 corpses strewn about in the open, or the Purple Guy.

Now, the Purple Guy sprite in this game is a weird one. For one, his hand is just a penis, there's no denying that that's what it looks like. It has also fueled the "Phone Guy = Purple Guy" theory since the hand looks like a phone. Now, this was back then, we didn't have a British voice behind the elusive "Purple Guy" so that was the only sound proof we had.

In modern times, people would say it's some hand crank to tamper with the animatronics. Whatever it is, it's still a weirdly drawn object and Scott never clarified what it is. Having it also be the same color as the body adds more confusion. Scott, you gave Freddy a differently colored microphone in that same minigame, you can afford to have that object be another color.

The next minigame, *Give Gifts, Give Life*, revolves around the Puppet as she gives gifts to corpses before "giving life" to them via stuffing them into the suits of the (if we take the color of Bonnie into account) Withered suits. For one frame, you can see a 5th corpse before it being blocked by a Golden Freddy jumpscare. People have theorized that that spirit could be Golden Freddy, which then... ugh, we'll get to FNAF4 later. For now, all we were stuck with is that the 5th corpse is now possessing Golden Freddy.

Since the 5th kid wasn't even in the room at the time, he might have possessed Golden Freddy in some other way other than what the Puppet did.

*Take Cake to the Children* is straight forward; you give cake, go slower and slow and see a child get murdered outside by the Purple Guy. The Puppet jumpscare would imply that that minigame's the origin story of the Puppet. (And be confirmed later down the line, but I have gone over future installments way too much already.)

*Foxy Go! Go! Go!*, other than strengthening the point that the Purple Guy kills kids, doesn't offer much in terms of lore. However, it is a possibility that the Purple Guy's kill count would be upped by 5 more kids.

People use the theory that *Take Cake to the Children* is Fredbear's Family Diner due to the small size in scale and Freddy's appearance looking shit-tier accurate. First of all, ha ha. Second of all, *Give Gifts, Give Life* and *Foxy Go! Go! Go!* also use a very small closed off room to take their minigames place in. I am certain there's not a Foxy's Family Diner and Puppet's Family Diner. Lastly, almost nobody in these minigames look good.

### Hallucinations

Sometimes, a paper doll will appear in the Office, whose origins are in Party Room 4. The room itself isn't that far off the Office itself, but who moved it or if it can move is uncertain. Again, another case of hallucinations brought on by the protagonist. But then comes the problem that *we* must decide what is real and what isn't, since the game doesn't make that clear.

This is a major problem in this sort of storytelling; leave behind random clues and occurences and make the fanbase pick up what is and what doesn't fit in their theory, eventually leaving those unfilled pieces as giant tumors to their entire theory.

Moving on, when the Puppet leaves its box, the Main Hall camera will flash transparent images of the Puppet. This isn't the Puppet fitting inside the environment of the camera; plain PNGs facing the camera.

Now, random boot screens. An eyeless Toy Bonnie appears when the player loses, an eyeless Withered Freddy when the player starts the game, and an eyeless Withered Foxy when a night is started. People believe they are simply nods to the eyeless Bonnie screen from the first game. Could make sense, otherwise this is just a "scary just to be scary" moment.

## Conclusion

We now have a face behind the slaughter; Purple Guy. As we should assume back in FNAF1, he was apprehended. (We're still acting 1 and 2 are the only games)

There were 3 Freddy Fazbear's Pizza's; The pizzeria with the withereds, the FNAF2 pizzeria, and FNAF1 pizzeria. And before Freddy's, there was Fredbear's, whose owner hasn't been found yet.

Chica continues being the 4th wheel.

## Critiques

Nitpicks.

You get your paycheck in November. November is fall, not summer. Phone Guy says this is your summer job. This one genuinely feels like a mistake and it's funny seeing YouTubers try and prove that Scott never makes mistakes by placing the pizzeria across several countries when we know the paycheck uses the MONTH/DAY/YEAR date which is U.S. standards.

In-universe, the Music Box mechanic sounds so incredibly complicated. One animatronic, The Puppet, is soothed by music. So instead of placing some machine that just produces a loud beep or something (I'm sure the brand doesn't know the animatronics are actually alive and thus have music preference), they connected a music charger into your camera tablet which can *only* be accessed by tapping into that camera feed. That latter part is even more maddening, have the Music Box button always available to charge for the night guard.

Apparently the Music Box was a solution to avoid the animatronics from entering the office (the working theory in the establishment is that the animatronics go where sound is). It only affects one animatronic, the Puppet, it never affects the other, like, 10 animatronics.

Why couldn't they also provide a sound-proof wall. They can definitely afford thick walls; they could afford technology in the '80s that can scan criminals. (Though, if the theory that the minigames is the animatronic's vision were to be true, then the whole " primitive technology" would fly well... until you get to FNAF4 which has cutscenes in that exact same style but in the eyes of the Bite Victim, but we'll get there.)

Finally, the water puddle is eternal, it never dries up.