Five Nights at Freddy's 3

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* Appearances
* Analysis

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## Chronology

**Five Nights at Freddy's 3** is a point-and-click survival horror game.

It was all so wrapped up in a nice bow...

## Overview

This game reiterates previous kills that have happened in the last 2 games.

Phone Guy tells us that an “unfortunate” accident has occurred related to spring lock failures. So someone died.

William Afton is also killed, who is crushed by the spring locks of his old murder suit. I think it actually costs less to create both the animatronic and suit separately.Nr.

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**Featured Characters:**

* Security guard ***(Unnamed)***

**Supporting Characters:**

* Phone Dude ***(Unnamed)***
* Fazbear Entertainment
	+ Phone Guy ***(First talked chronologically)***
	+ Building architecture ***(Unnamed)***

**Antagonists:**

* Purple Guy/William Afton/Springtrap ***(Dies)***
* Freddy Fazbear ***(Destroyed)*** ***(Ghost)***
* Balloon Boy ***(In ruins)*** ***(Ghost)***
* Mangle ***(In ruins)*** ***(Ghost)***
* Foxy the Pirate ***(Destroyed)*** ***(Ghost)***
* Chica the Chicken ***(Destroyed)*** ***(Ghost)***
* Marionette ***(Ghost)***

**Other Characters:**

* Toy Bonnie ***(In ruins)***
* Toy Chica ***(In ruins)***
* Toy Freddy ***(In ruins)***
* Bonnie the Rabbit ***(Destroyed)***
* Shadow Freddy
* Shadow Bonnie ***(Merchandise; sprite)***
* Fredbear ***(Unnamed)***
* Spring Bonnie ***(First appearance)***

**Locations:**

* Amusement park
	+ Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction! ***(Destroyed)***
* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (FNaF1) ***(In ruins)***
* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (Spring lock) ***(Mentioned only)***

**Items:**

* Fan
* Maintenance panel
* Spring lock suits

**Races and Species**

* Humans ***(Sprite; animatronic charicature; corpse)***
* Rabbits ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Bears ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Chickens ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Foxes ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Mice ***(Sprite)***

Hm, well this is getting weird.

Alright, well, first of all; if we ignore all other matters, the story is simply this: Purple Guy, after killing many kids, gets his comuppance and accidentally kills himself inside the Springlock suit he used to kill kids in. 30 years later, he is retrieved but then the entire attraction park that would host him burns down along with him. This ends the tragedy of the franchise.

If only the future games didn't muck this up. I'm sure this game was intended to be the true ending of the franchise, so we should assume things were wrapped up nice, right?

no

Alright, let's actually analyse this.

## Story

> *Thirty years after Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed its doors, the events that took place there have become nothing more than a rumor and a childhood memory, but the owners of "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction" are determined to revive the legend and make the experience as authentic as possible for patrons, going to great lengths to find anything that might have survived decades of neglect and ruin.*
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> At first, there were only empty shells, a hand, a hook, and an old paper-plate doll, but then a remarkable discovery was made...
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> The attraction now has one animatronic. ***FNAF3's Steam page***
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> *Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction!
> Local amusement park is getting ready to scare your socks off with a new attraction based on the unsolved mysteries of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Featuring actual relics from the decades-old pizzeria, this new attraction is guaranteed to bring back your childhood in the worst possible way!*
> **The newspaper**
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Look, let's start from the beginning. Specifically, the end-of-night minigames.

### End of Night Minigames

At the end of each night, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are led by Shadow Freddy to the Safe Room area. Since, according to the Night 3 tape, the Safe Room is not mapped out in the digital map programmed un the animatronics, they aren't able to enter the room.

> *As always, if there is ever an emergency, please go to the designated safe room. Every location is built with one extra room that is not included in the digital map layout programmed in the animatronics or the security cameras. This room is hidden to customers, invisible to animatronics, and is always off-camera.*
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Trying to leave the area spawns Purple Guy running from the Safe Room and *instantly* dismantels the animatronics. Of course, this could be a case of artistic license or a way of quickly letting the player know in 2 seconds that "yeah purple guy destroys them."

Then, the 5th minigame has you play as one of the child spirits, and you follow the same path (this time without Shadow Freddy) to the Safe Room. Here, Purple Guy's actually freaking the fuck out... I guess he didn't expect spirits. Also, I guess they were tangible enough so Purple Guy just couldn't move past them.

As a last resort, Purple Guy propped himself up inside the Springlock suit and, because the ceiling was leaking and thus very humid, the spring locks activated and crushed Purple Guy inside. He died, but not reallyyy.

He actually managed to stay alive and wait for over 30 years until the Fazbear's Fright scavengers find his body.

### Phone Guy/Dude

I sure would believe a person in the 2020s would talk like a surfer from a '90s movie.

Okay, getting serious.

The night guard you play as has been working at this place even before the gameplay happened, judging by Night 1's:

> *Hey-Hey! Glad you came back for another night! I promise it'll be a lot more interesting this time.*
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It also mentions the fire hazards that the place holds, foreshadowing the eventual fate of this place. Anyway, between night 1 and 2, Springtrap is discovered in the FNAF1 location and is brought to Fazbear's Fright.

It's funny that we never hear from Dude again after he starts the training cassettes which we'll focus on next.

So far in our "pizzeria location history", we have: Fredbear's Family Diner - Withered Freddy Fazbear's - Toy Freddy Fazbear's - FNAF1 Freddy Fazbear's.

Phone Guy sounds pretty distant regarding Fredbear's Family Diner:

> *Uh, we're going to try to contact the original restaurant owner. Uh, I think the name of the place was..."Fredbear's Family Diner" or something like that. It's been closed for years though, I doubt we'll be able to track anybody down.*
> **Phone Guy, Night 5 - FNAF2**
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We can assume Phone Guy didn't work at Freddy's until Withered Freddy Fazbear's. Anyway, Phone Guy records these training tapes for employees of Freddy's who are in the field of performer and entertainers, specifically the animatronic/suit hybrids.

But anyway, here's a new introduced concept into the FNAF franchise: *Springlock suits.*

Apparently, you can transform these springlock animatronics into suits by using a crank, which will "recoil and compress the animatronic parts around the sides of the suit". The actual logistics behind that is unknown; we've never seen it happen. We just have to take Phone Guy's word for it; turning a hand crank will somehow allow enough space for a human being to fit in.

Enough moisture on the spring locks holding the animatronic parts together causes it to break loose, springing the animatronic parts back into their original location and just fucking destroys the person inside to resemble weird lasanga.

But never mind, though, since someone actually died inside one of those death traps as revealed in the Night 4 cassette.

> *After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location, involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporarily unfit for employees.*
> **Phone Guy**
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So yea, they stopped using springlock suits. But someone else did, specifically a spring Bonnie suit as seen in Night 5's cassette.

> *Management has also been made aware that the spring Bonnie animatronic has been noticeably moved. We would like to remind employees that this costume is not safe to wear under any circumstances.*
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Connecting that employee's disregard of safety with Purple Guy's willingness of entering the suit, we can say that Purple Guy was an employee of the establishment. Yeah, forgot we needed to confirm that, didn't you? Still though, he didn't take into account the "moisture loosens the spring lock" bit, so he got mushed.

Other than that, we also now know that Purple Guy used the spring Bonnie animatronic to lure kids and kill them.

Nightmare Night ends the Safe Room saga with them being boarded up due to "budget restrictions". lol yea, the mere existence of a room caused budget pains, absolutely, makes sense, Phone Guy. Okay so we know some shady shit happened because of those Safe Rooms, maybe some "someone in spring Bonnie suit lured 5 kids in a Safe Room to stabby them" shit.

But now, with the end of Nightmare Night, so too does Fazbear's Fright off-screen.

> *Fazbear's Fright burns to the ground!
> A new local attraction based on an ancient pizzeria chain burned down overnight. Authorities have not ruled out foul play, but at the moment it seems to have been caused by faulty wiring. Very little was found at the scene. The few items that were salvaged will be sold at public auction.*
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Brightening the newspaper shows Springtrap's head.

Kind of disappointing we never saw the fire. But hey, what can you do in a Clickteam engine?

## = Rare screen stuff

When starting a night, a picture of Springtrap with a visible corpse inside of it may appear. The only purpose these screens serve is, yes, Purple Guy's in there.

In CAM 02 and 10, a Freddy poster might change into Spring Bonnie, artstyle fitting an' all. Uhh, yep, Spring Bonnie exists. Absolutely. Wow.

CAM 04 will replace a Toy Bonnie poster with a cupcake, either gold or pink. I... don't get this one. Was it an actual thing, is it Spring Chica stuff? Nobody really knows, at the core it's just a drawing of a cupcake. The only reappearance it got is in The Freddy Files, and actually named "Chica's Golden Cupcake Pizzas". ...So it's Chica's then? That would make sense, as it's not just Scholastic tying things together; Scott made a 3D render for the Golden Cupcake for that page. Ooor did he? Hmmm...

Alright, the most important things to see are the Office thingies. First of all, Shadow Freddy appearing out of the corner of the Office. Shadow Freddy has always remained a big mystery; who is he, why is he, how is he? Was he planning on getting the spirits free by leading them to dismantelment by the Purple Guy? Was he working for or against Purple Guy? It's also not an animatronics as it could just wander into the Safe Room, and it's only visible to who it wants since Purple Guy never reacts to why it can just walk inside the Safe Room.

Second of all, the goddamn paper plate dolls. A Bonnie and Freddy paper plate doll might spawn on the left and right side of the Office. No true explanation has been given to the paper plate dolls, and they have just been forgotten to time.

Lastly, the FNAF1 cupcake. Why it appear, nobody knows. Again, another random occurence because "random = spooky and mysterious".

### The minigames

Thought I forgot them? Don't worry, everyone would.

BB's Air Adventure; collect all the balloons. Glitching through the wall sends you to a monochrome void with 3 crying shadowy Balloon Boys and a giant shadow tree. Nobody has yet to figure out what this means, and Scott refuses to explain. I don't believe he even knows either.

Mangle's Quest; you're the head of Mangle and you piece yourself together while avoiding a fat person. You're also in a home environment for whatever reason. (Could be FNAF4 foreshadowing, but 3 was supposed to be the end.) Glitching yourself via the wall makes you fall into a red void and a giant crying Puppet-like shadow figure is present.

Chica's Party; collect cupcakes and feed them to 4 kids. Glitching through a wall shows a child ghost you need to give cake. (Air Adventure and Mangle's Quest are involved in doing that.) Glitching even further down shows 4 crying shadow cupcakes. No explanation either.

STAGE01; do a bunch of reality-bending gymnastics to give a kid ghost cake. This minigame presumably takes place in Fredbear's Family Diner; spring Bonnie and Fredbear are there. In all rooms there are 3 kids, but one room only has 2. People are saying that, since the Glitch Minigame has Shadow Bonnie start in STAGE01, that that kid is now Shadow Bonnie. Who'd be Shadow Freddy in that instance? If you can simply throw a nameless kid as being the identity of Shadow Bonnie,

Glitch Minigame; you're Shadow Bonnie and you glitch through the previous 4 minigames. Give a ghost kid cake.

Happiest Day; related to the previous minigames, have the Puppet spirit reunite the 5 kids with the Golden Freddy spirit so they can see cake and then pass on.

## Criticsm

With the revelation that Purple Guy was stuck behind the Safe Room of the FNAF1 pizzeria for over 30 years, it's time to talk about skeletonization! Basically, it's the final stage of death in a corpse. Skeletonization depends on the climate, but seeing as Purple Guy died in a moist environment (the minigames where he took apart the animatronics took place in a rainstorm and the ceiling was dripping water), his skeletonization could've occured in weeks.

Despite that, Springtrap still holds some fresh parts. Most egregiously, in the Secret Screens, his corpse head still has a nose.

While salvaging what can be gathered from the FNAF1 location, it's odd that the scavengers weren't clued in with the possible ridiculous stench that would be emitted from the springlocked victim. Again, let's look at the stages of death, this time, putrefaction. Putrefaction is when the corpse's organs start decomposing and gasses start fuming from outside the body.

Lol talking like a nerd here, basically: everything from the inside starts leaking from the outside. When the scavengers found Springtrap, he must've been soaked or surrounded by 30-year-old piss and shit.

Actually, why *was* Purple Guy dismanteling the animatronics? I don't believe that has ever been explained, Purple Guy could've just not entered the pizzeria.

People might come up with "ooh he's hiding from the police and he wants the extra space so he destroys the deadly animatronics" but that's the problem: you're coming up with it instead of Scott Cawthon actually explaining what's happening.

The same goes for the "apprehended suspect" mentioned in the FNAF1 newspapers; what happened to that person? Was it actually the Purple Guy and let off after a lack of evidence? Was it the wrong suspect? They're all questions and none of them have been answered since the year 2015.

Purple Guy, if everything's correct, used the spring Bonnie suit to lure in 5 kids and kill them. First of all, why not use the temporary suits as mentioned in the Night 4 cassette?

> *Until replacements arrive, you'll be expected to wear the temporary costumes provided to you.*
> **Phone Guy, Night 4**
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They're far more safe seeing as moisture can easily kill someone, and we all know what blood is, right?

In fact, a kid just struggling in the hands of the spring Bonnie suit might also set loose the spring locks. Purple, man, just use the replacement suits you big old dumbo.

## Small notes

It was funny when December 7th, 2014, Scott quickly changed the site's source code to retcon the fact that Fazbear's Fright took place over 30 years later instead of 20:

> 20 yars later, only one left.
> *-Early source code*
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> five, nights, at, freddys, 30 years later, only one.
> *-Revised source code*
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