Five Nights at Freddy's

*Five Nights at Freddy's* is a video game horror franchise made by Scott Cawthon in 2014. While the franchise doesn't really have a lot of contenders for the Ultimate Good, there is one character who proves admirable, powerful and influential enough to qualify as such, that being the Puppet. To learn more about her, visit her page here.

## Plot

*Five Nights at Freddy's* revolves around several things: the corruption of Fazbear Entertainment, the tragedy of undead children, and the Afton Family. A pizzeria chain with animatronic mascots is struck with tragedy when children are kidnapped and murdered, causing their souls to haunt the mascots and seek revenge. The timeline revolves around the killer of the children, William Afton, and how his actions affected him, his family, his franchise and everyone connected to it.

After the *ScottGames* era ended with the demise of the Aftons, the *Steel Wool* era began, where Fazbear Entertainment rebrands and tries to make everyone forget about the tragedies from the past. However, their actions accidentally awaken the Mimic, an artificial intelligence from the early days of the company that copies what it sees. The Mimic begins to constantly sabotage Fazbear Ent. and cause more deaths as it becomes obsessed with continuing Afton's legacy and replicating his deeds.

## Potential Candidates for the Ultimate Good

### Gregory

More or less the main protagonist of the *Steel Wool* era, Gregory is a young, but genius kid. He's extremely intelligent, surprisingly skilled and strong, and has great knowledge about electronics. While he did start out as a villain and one of the Mimic's greatest allies, he manages to redeem himself and undo his actions, redeeming Vanny and briefly stopping the Mimic from harming people.

While Gregory does have the power and to a lesser extent influence, it's debatable how good he is due to his past as Patient 46 and the fact that he seemingly drops Cassie to her death to prevent the Mimic from escaping the Pizza Place. As his story is ongoing, it's possible he'll qualify in the future.

### Cassie

Debuting in *Ruin*, Cassie is a young girl and best friend of Gregory. She's shown to be kind and intelligent, being able to survive against M.X.ES. and the aggressive Glamrock animatronics. She is also very kind, freeing Sun from its torture, feeling remorse over having to shut down Roxy, and trying to save Gregory (even if she was ultimately being manipulated).

As her story arc has just begun, Cassie currently doesn't have much going on for her, but it's possible she'll gain more qualities in the future that might let her be the Ultimate Good.

## Close Contenders for the Ultimate Good

### Michael Afton

The main protagonist of the *ScottGames* era, Michael Afton is the son of William Afton. After accidentally killing his younger brother, he becomes determined to right his wrongs in any way possible, trying to free from his sister's soul from Circus Baby and then helping Henry Emily in his plans. While starting out as a villain, he eventually sheds any corrupting qualities, is shown to be a skilled survivalist able to fend off multiple animatronics, eventually becomes the manager of a whole pizzeria, and his actions led to the defeat of Afton and the freeing of his victims.

However, Mike cannot be the Ultimate Good because he eventually becomes Henry's right hand man. Additionally, it's unknown if he knew about Henry's plan and if he genuinely wanted to free the souls of his father's victims, making him outright.

### Henry Emily

The overarching protagonist of the entire franchise, Henry is pretty much golden in all aspects. He has a major influence over the series as the founder and creator of Fazbear Entertainment and its animatronics, is one of the most powerful characters thanks to his various resources as a franchise owner, is extremely intelligent, and is very noble and heroic thanks to completely stopping William Afton and his creations while allowing the souls of his victims to be set free.

Henry is by and far the closest the series has to a true Ultimate Good besides his daughter. That said, he still cannot qualify due to being an extremist; while that in itself isn't an instant disqualifier, his methods are, as he's willing to have innocents harmed (constantly endangers Mike by having him salvage the animatronics, with the *FFPS* intro implying at least one person was killed beforehand; being willing to lobotomize Mike in one of the endings; and imprisoning his own daughter inside the Lefty robot which is implied to shock her).

### Glamrock Freddy

The deuteragonist of *Security Breach*, Glamrock Freddy is a truly kindhearted version of the usually aggressive Freddy Fazbear. He is obviously quite powerful as a robotic humanoid bear, is completely good with no corrupting qualities, and ultimately assists Gregory in redeeming Vanny and temporarily stopping the Mimic.

While he does have a few things going for him, Glamrock Freddy is ultimately just Gregory's right hand and doesn't have much influence over the franchise.

### Edwin Murray

A major player in the *Steel Wool* era and specifically the *Tales from the Pizzaplex* books, Edwin is the man who created the Mimic and the man who tried to stop it decades after. On top of having a big influence, he is also quite intelligent and skilled, being able to make several animatronic costumes and a genius AI, and ultimately tries to stop his creation.

That said, Edwin is pretty much outdone by Henry in every aspect, with it being likely timeline-wise that he even worked under him at one point.