Springtrap

**Springtrap** is the only real animatronic featured in *Five Nights at Freddy's 3*. Springtrap's true identity is William Afton, the main villainous antagonist of the series and plays an important part in the hidden story of *Five Nights at Freddy's*.

## Appearance

The suit is an olive green with a forest green belly patch as well as the inside of the ears, the suit has several holes ranging from small to large in size. The teeth are mostly exposed and a yellowish tint and on the left side, a wire sticking out of the jaw. The left is the most decayed(or missing) showing part of the endoskeleton with a red wire poking out of the suit's ear, the right one is less decayed(missing) but the ear still shows some decay.

The face has multiple holes and a larger hole on the right side of the top of the head exposes the "Purple Guy's" rotten corpse's head inside and one red, black wire and two green wires sticking out from the bottom of the large hole. The eyes are grey(Maybe soul piercing to some) and look like human eyes the size of animatronic eyes, in front of the eyes are light grey circles in front of the human-like eyes.

Sticking out of the bottom of the right eye is one dark red and three black wires sticking out. The left side of the head is wires sticking out from a large hole, one red, greed, black and two yellow wires. On the side of the jaw are two bolts that make the head flip open, exposing the full look of "Purple Guy's" rotten corpse face, which is in a screaming position(maybe of all the pain from the coiled locks).

The nose is brown and a tiny bit deformed. The chest has multiple holes that show the "intestines, veins and stomach" are shown in the larger hole below the black button on the belly patch. The upper legs has holes that show the endoskeleton and some of the springlocks as well as some of "purple Guy's" blood vessels dangling out into the lower leg parts. The knee coverings and has tiny holes and the lower legs go down to the calf and are decayed showing the vessels dangling down from the inside of the legs.

The feet are the medal endoskeleton and the red blood vessels in the grooves of the feet, and the ankles are covered with reddish pink muscle fibers. The arms has multiple holes and has several wires sticking out of the holes in the suit. The hands are mostly complete but the thumb and the first finger of the right hand is missing, showing the endoskeleton fingers, the left hand is mostly complete except for the second part of the ring finger is missing.

## Story

### Five Nights At Freddy's 3

Springtrap is a withered, decayed SpringBonnie suit, in which William Afton has died and his soul is now trapped.

SpringBonnie was an animatronic functioning with "spring-locks", created alongside Fredbear, and one of the first animatronics created and used at a location in the FNAF storyline.

SpringBonnie made its first debut in "Fredbear's Family Diner", the original location which lead to the creation of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

In the Night 5 mini-game in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 it is revealed that "SpringBonnie" was used by the William Afton to escape the spirits of the 5 murdered children. The lock mechanism falters as the "purple man" laughs in the suit, as well as the fact that there was rain dropping down through the roof, due to the fact that the spring locks will break from moisture, thus killing him slowly as his body slumps to the floor.

### Sister Location

Springtrap appears in the Golden Freddy Mode cutscene. After Michael says his speech, Springtrap walks in for a second, outside of the burned out Fazbear's Fright. before the screen goes black.

### Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Springtrap, or as he's credited in the game, **William Afton**, is an antagonist and one of four salvageable animatronics in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*. The player may choose to throw this animatronic away or try to salvage him for parts. Salvaging this animatronic will net a base profit of $1000. In this game, Springtrap (unlike FNaF 3) speaks.

Springtrap's old form reappears in Fruity Maze. Here he is pristine, and is being worn by Afton. He looms behind a girl, Susie, and promises to show her where her dog is.

## Behavior

### FNAF 3

Springtrap is the only true antagonist within this game. He will slowly approach the office, similar to the animatronics from the previous two games, but can also attempt to take the vents as shortcuts. Most often, he will try to immediately go through Camera 14, being his fastest way into the office.

There are only two ways to hold him off. On the camera system, there is an Audio button. Pressing this will play one of Balloon Boy's lines from the previous game, and attempt to lure Springtrap to it. He will only be able to hear it if he is in one of the adjacent cameras, and will not move if he is in a vent. If he is in a vent, you must instead go onto the Ventilation view in the system. Locate the vent, and double-click on it, which will shut it. This, however, has a small window of vulnerability, for the vents do not close right away.

Once arriving at the office, he will either wait outside the door to the left of the player, or directly attack from the vent. When in the doorway, he will not immediately attack the player; He can only attack when either the Camera or Repair systems are up, or when the player's vision is lost due to ventilation. He can additionally be lured back to Camera 01 using the audio, although this is as far back as he will go.

When a Ventilation error is in effect, Springtrap will create a fake clone of himself on the cameras. This will attempt to trick the player into thinking he's there, allowing him to close in. This fake Springtrap, sometimes deemed a Phantom Springtrap, will have no physical impact on gameplay, and is merely a hallucination. It will disappear after the Ventilation is fixed.

### Help Wanted

Springtrap reappears in a near perfect recreation of his original appearance. However, despite his model having lower quality, his AI is more polished; Rather than seemingly teleporting, he will walk from room to room, and can jumpscare the player without assistance from the Phantoms or Panels. However, the Phantom Springtrap does not make a return.

In addition to this, he appears within Ennard's blacklight level. His purpose is to slowly crawl towards the player in the second section, putting them on a time limit. As long as the player is fast, however, he is not much of a threat; His distance back, along with his slow movespeed, allows players to quickly deal with his threat before allowing him to get close.

### Special Delivery

Springtrap returns within Special Delivery, generally being treated as the hardest fight in the game. Alongside the initial character mechanics of charging or haywiring, Springtrap's haywire has an upgrade; When his eyes are White, you must look at him rather than looking away. This makes him a much bigger threat, as you need to actually find his location and look instead of just looking away.

In addition to this, Springtrap tends to haywire far more frequently, being known to often chain up to five in a row. Players with slow reaction times may be unable to keep up.

## Trivia

### FNAF 3

* A message hidden in a pre-release post (the double-lettered words spell it out) revealed the animatronic's name as Springtrap.

* Out of all the animatronics in the entire *Five Nights at Freddy's* series, Springtrap appears to be the only one to not have a "starting point" as to which camera he can be initially viewed in during the beginning of each night he appears in before he starts moving.

* It was confirmed by Scott that it was William Afton that was scared into putting on the Spring Bonnie suit, which caused him to get killed and trapped by the springlocks, creating Springtrap.

* According to a hidden minigame that is found by tapping the Bonnie plush, Springtrap may have come from Fredbear's Family Diner, along with Fredbear.

* Springtrap has five fingers on each hand, as opposed to the cartoonish four-fingered hands of the other animatronics. This is most likely because Springtrap's costume was (poorly) designed to fit a human inside.

* In the mobile version, Springtrap can attack the player without closing the monitor. This will also happen with Phantom Chica.

* The shot of Springtrap writhing about in the trailer could be William being crushed within the suit.

* William's decayed mouth can be seen whenever Springtrap opens his mouth, foreshadowing a corpse being in the suit.

* In one of the nights of "*Five Nights at Freddy's 3,*" one of the tapes pertaining to Springtrap Bonnie, the Phone Guy states that "...the spring-Bonnie suit has been noticeably moved...", hence, giving the suit its "real" name of Spring-Bonnie.

* A rare event can happen when starting a night, where 1 of 3 pictures can be seen. The first photo is of springtrap with his mouth open a bit. The second one is of him now pushing the upper jaw up to reveal William Afton's dead corpse inside. The third one is of William Afton, now pulling open the upper and lower jaw in an attempt to try and pull himself out. After one of the photos are shown, the night will start as normal.

* An image of a glitching Springtrap can be seen in The Freddy Files. It appears to be similar to Scraptrap, but with the damage of Springtrap, likely being an in-between.
	+ The glitching springtrap also appears to be similar to Into the Pit's version of Spring Bonnie.
		- This could imply that it's the same suit.

* Springtrap is the only animatronic to change the second half of their name upon being damaged, rather than the first half
	+ Additionally, Springtrap is the only character who's damaged name is shorter than their fixed version.

* Springtrap is the only animatronic to be the leader of two groups; The Phantoms, and the Twisteds.
	+ On top of this, Springtrap is the only animatronic to not be part of any of the groups he leads.

* Springtrap is the first instance of the main antagonist not being a version of Freddy, with the second being Circus Baby and third being Glitchtrap

### Sister Location

* It was thought after the *Sister Location* cutscene was released, that this meant that Micheal Afton *was* Springtrap, but after Game Theory's 6th November FNaF theory, Scott Cawthon confirmed that that Springtrap is actually William Afton.

* Prior to the game's release, a major theory had started after he was found being reflected off of Circus Baby's nose.

### Special Delivery

* Of Springtrap's lines, two of them are shared with Nightmare in Ultimate Custom Night.
	+ These are "You will not be spared. You will not be saved." and "I am here to claim what is left of you."
	+ Some of his other lines are paraphrased versions of Nightmare and Nightmare Fredbear's lines.

* Springtrap is the only character within the original Launch Cast to feature unique haywire mechanics.

* When Springtrap's jaw moves, the jaw of his corpse moves along with him, rather than remaining static like previous games.