Nightmare Balloon Boy/Trivia

This is a **trivia** sub-page related to **Nightmare Balloon Boy**.

## General

* While the Halloween Edition was originally announced to not expand any lore of the series, *Fun with Balloon Boy* made its way into the Standard Edition. After causing some confusion among fans, Scott himself confirmed that Nightmare BB fits into the story and can be considered canon to the series.
	+ This makes him the first canon animatronic in the entire series who was added to a game after its initial release.
		- This makes him the only animatronic to be announced as canon after its introduction as non-canon.
			* This also makes him the only part of the Halloween Edition that canonically expands upon the game's story and lore.
				+ Additionally, this makes him the only canon antagonist in the fourth game who is based upon a character from the second game.
					- Unless Nightmare Fredbear was counted who was based off of the Bite of '83 incident.
						* Furthermore, before *Sister Location* was confirmed, he is the only canon character who isn't a hallucination that does not appear in the *Thank you!* image.

## *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*

* Nightmare Balloon Boy, Nightmarionne, and Plushtrap are the only nightmare animatronics whose hands do not expose their inner endoskeleton.
	+ However, Nightmare Balloon Boy is the only nightmare animatronic whose claws do not have any metal exposed.
	+ He and Nightmarionne are the only Nightmare animatronics to be based on toys.
* This is the second version of Balloon Boy with a jumpscare, after Phantom BB.
	+ It is, however, the first and only one of Balloon Boy's counterparts that is capable of giving the player a *"Game Over"*, as Phantom BB's jumpscare merely caused a ventilation error.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is one of the three nightmare animatronics to appear in both the Standard and Halloween Editions. The other two being Nightmare Freddy and Nightmare Fredbear. This is because "*Fun with Balloon Boy*" can be selected and played via the Extra menu in both versions.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is one of the two nightmares in the game that are perfectly undamaged, the other being Nightmarionne.
* In his jumpscare, Nightmare Balloon Boy appears to be beckoning with his fingers at the player, in a strangely human-like fashion.
	+ As such, it is odd as to why the player's vision is shaking if Nightmare Balloon Boy doesn't really get to grip the player when he jumpscares, as all the other animatronics do.
		- This may be due to the player's character shaking due to fear.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is BB's only counterpart to have fingers.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy, Plushtrap, and Nightmare Fredbear are the only nightmare animatronics in the game to close or even use their eyelids in the game.
	+ Nightmare Balloon Boy and Plushtrap use them in their jumpscares, while Nightmare Fredbear uses them at the end of the demo where he is seen glaring.
		- Nightmare is seen glaring in *Ultimate Custom Night* but not in in *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy's head isn't connected to his jaw in any way, and simply floats in the air. It can be noticed in his jumpscare.
	+ However, when he hides in the close right hallway and the close left hallway, his head is connected to his jaw by two cylinders.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is the only nightmare animatronic to have lighter colors.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is the only nightmare animatronic from the Halloween Edition with his own sounds. Nightmarionne and Nightmare Mangle use sounds from the second game.
	+ However, Nightmare Balloon Boy's sounds are edited versions of his original counterpart's laugh from the second game.
* This is the first time in the series where BB has been called Balloon Boy. Up until the Halloween update his name was never actually said to be Balloon Boy at all.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is one of the two nightmare animatronics that don't have any visible endoskeleton, the other being Nightmarionne.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy, Nightmare Mangle, and Nightmarionne are the only animatronic counterparts that are not reskins of their original forms.
	+ However, Nightmare Mangle's head is a reskin of Nightmare Foxy's.
* Nightmare BB is the only nightmare animatronic to have human-like eyeballs.
* This is BB's only counterpart to sport an "endoskeleton" teeth.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy is one of the few antagonists from the series to laugh while being active. Others being Nightmare Fredbear, BB, Freddy and Golden Freddy from the first game, Funtime Freddy, Bon-Bon, Bonnet, and Minireena's second counterpart.

### Errors

* While sitting on the chair, Nightmare Balloon Boy's shirt appears to clip through his lower jaw.
* In his jumpscare, Nightmare Balloon Boy's teeth visibly clip through one another.
	+ From the first frame of his jumpscare, his thighs appear to clip through his torso.
	+ His thumbs also clip through his fingers.
* While Nightmare Balloon Boy is sitting on the "X", his nose can be seen through his right eye socket.

### Bugs

* There is a glitch that sometimes occurs where the player doesn't win the minigame after Nightmare Balloon Boy sits on the "X".
* The player can still access the minigame, even if they haven't beaten Night 8 yet.

## *Ultimate Custom Night*

* Nightmare Balloon Boy's voice in Ultimate Custom night appears to be based upon Andy Serkis' Portrayal of Gollum from the Lord of the Rings film series.
* Nightmare Balloon Boy emits the normal *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* kill audio when attacking the player instead of the Fun With Plushtrap mini game kill audio. This is unknown trait is also shared with Plushtrap.
* When the player starts the night, until they put up the monitor, Nightmare BB will not be provoked by them shining the flashlight on him. This also occurs if he was standing up and returned to his slouching position by the flashlight.
* Matthew Curtis, Nightmare BB's voice actor, uploaded videos to his Youtube channel that involve him singing a song in his Nightmare BB voice:
	+ Yakko's Universe from *Animaniacs*.
	+ Suppertime from *You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown*.

## *Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted*

* It is interesting to note that in *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* and *Ultimate Custom Night*, Nightmare BB did not have segmented fingers, unlike *Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted*, where his hands resembles that of bones.
	+ Nightmare BB's pupils have also changed, now black instead of white.
* In the "Trick or Treat" level from the Spooky Mansion game mode for the *Curse of Dreadbear* cutscene, Nightmare Balloon Boy's jumpscare will trigger if the player fails to wear the corresponding mask as the original Balloon Boy opens the door.