Monster Rat

*Were you looking for The Rat from the first game, or Withered Rat, or Withered Cat from the second game, or perhaps Monster Cat or Shadow Rat ?*

## Monster Rat

* Animatronic
* Close up

## Information

### Starting Location

Outside the Bedroom

**Monster Rat** (Formerly known as **"Nightmare Rat"**) is a monstrous manifestation of the original Rat that appeared in *Five Nights at Candy's 3* as one of two main antagonists alongside Monster Cat.

## Appearance

Monster Rat's appearance closely resembles that of a human with both fixed ears, pointy fingernails, stitched parts, and surprisingly, sporting a long, rat tail filled with metal pieces. His face seems to sport fangs, glowing red eyes, and a big nightmarish smile.

Unlike his other counterparts, Monster Rat is a living creature.

## Behavior

Monster Rat starts outside the Bedroom. If the player hears thumping and sometimes knocking, it means he is either hiding at the door, in the wardrobe, or in the closet. The player must shine their flashlight at these locations to force him back.

If the player does not force him back in time, he will enter the room. He will stand in one of 3 locations in the room, and a purple-blood like an effect will appear around the player's view. The player must shine their flashlight at his eyes. This is easier said than done, as Monster Rat will try to dodge his head around to avoid the flashlight beam. After about 10 seconds of this, the flashlight will flicker, and Monster Rat will go underneath the bed.

When Monster Rat is under the bed, the player must look underneath the bed to figure out which side of the bed he is hiding under. If he is on the left, for example, the player must quickly stop looking under the bed and look to the right side of the bedroom. When they hear the sound cue, they must shine the flashlight in the eyes of Monster Rat. Doing this will play an animation of Monster Rat leaving the room, and the cycle repeats. There is a rare chance of Monster Rat not going under the bed, but instead just going away.

Monster Rat will jumpscare the player, resulting in a game over, in any of these situations:

* The player fails to shine the flashlight in his eyes enough.
* The player fails to force him to peek out from underneath the bed.
* The player looks under the bed for too long while Monster Rat is hiding under it.
* The player fails to shine the flashlight at Monster Rat's eyes when he pokes out from under the bed.

## Trivia

* The name "Nightmare Rat" was at first confirmed by Emil Macko in this post GameJolt page.
	+ Emil Macko said that he called the animatronic this way, because "nightmare" describes it pretty well, though it does not look like a "typical nightmare animatronic" from FNaF4.
* Monster Rat is seen in his first, unwithered/non-nightmarish version on a picture with a boy, in the trailer of *Five Nights at Candy's 3*.
* It is possible to prevent Monster Rat from going under the bed, though this might be a rare chance.
	+ Due to Monster Vinnie's nearly impossible difficulty, the chance could be very rare.
* Monster Rat can be considered an opposite to his Animatronic Counterpart, since, in the previous installments, The Rat was always the last to become active.
* Just like the *Five Nights at Candy's* teaser image of Rat, you can see what appears to be Vinnie's buttons above Monster Rat at the end of the Demo.
	+ This may suggest that RAT/Monster Rat and Vinnie are somehow connected with each other.
		- This is confirmed in Night 5's End-of-Night Minigame: The Puppeteer, who was controlling Vinnie, killed an employee working inside the Rat, and this incident is what caused Mary Schmidt to have nightmares of Rat.
* Much like Candy in *Five Nights at Candy's*, Monster Rat has 3 jumpscares.
	+ This can be a reference to how Monster Rat is the main character of the game, same as Candy being the main character in the first one.
	+ His teeth look similar to The Beaver's teeth from One Night at Flumpty's.
	+ He also has 3 different jumpscare sounds, that correspond to his different jumpscares.
* On Reddit, Emil Macko had said he changed to names of Nightmare Rat and Nightmare Cat to Monster Rat and Monster Cat for two reasons: firstly, they are not meant to be animatronics and secondly, they're meant to be living creatures.
	+ Starting from 2016-11-25, Nightmare Rat and Nightmare Cat's name had officially been changed to "Monster Rat" and "Monster Cat".
	+ This correlates with a saying that states *Whatever you imagine to be real, is Real*.
* Monster Rat's eyes look similar to Nightmare's from *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*.
* It should be noted that on Nights 4 and 5 that Monster Rat becomes more aggressive and knocks on doors more loudly, making surviving far more difficult, because it drowns out other audio cues

## Errors

In monster Rat's closet attack to the left, monster Rat's foot clips through one of his metal protrusions.

**Withereds:** Withered Blank • Withered Chester • Withered New Candy • Withered New Cindy • Withered Penguin
**News:** New Candy • New Cindy
**Funtimes:** Funtime Candy • Funtime Cindy
**Forgottens:** Forgotten Candy • Forgotten Cat • Mini Candies
**Wirelock Hybrids:** The Cat • The Rat
**Monsters:** Monster Cat • **Monster Rat** • Monster Vinnie
**Shadows:** Shadow Candy • Shadow Cat • Shadow Rat
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