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Game Theory: Did the FNAF 2 Movie FINALLY Solve the Timeline?
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- Published on Jan 14, 2026
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Did the FNAF 2 Movie actually help to solve the game’s timeline? And wait…there’s TWO Mikes now? There’s SO much to unpack with this film and I think it actually helps to solve parts of the timeline for good…
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I like to picture Mat reading the script and being so happy that he's retired
He must be so glad he pulled out before things went so far off the rails, the train has been reclacified as a bus
I don't think he will ever escape fnaf lol (I mean he is in the fanf 2 movie wouldn't be suprised he came back in the 3rd he's like William Afton he always comes back)
@trixxart777 I'd like to imagine that he now know EVERYTHING but is under NDA (by Scott, I mean: you get him in your retirement vid?! There has to be a deal! Like, "I'll be in the video, and I'll even tell ya the full story... But you just gotta sign this NDA for me real fast and be in the FNAF Movies"). It's like Pink Diamond with Pearl. Scott is PD, Matt is Pearl.
Agree😂
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"In order to confuse the theorist, one must confuse himself" - Scott Tzu
Scott Tzu’s art of lore
@SpamtonPFPnever fails, never disappoints
Scott Tzu, The art of Fnaf
I read that as "terrorist" for some reason.
to confuse everyone you must join everyone
can’t wait for when Vanessa’s middle name gets revealed to be Elizabeth
😂 that would be funny if they did by Holly doubt they will go that route in fnaf movie 3
It wont be, tho. Elizabeth is probably chilling in Baby already in the movieverse, too. Vanessa is not Elizabeth in the movies.
@Mikumo91 I think OP was joking that they keep naming everyone after already existing characters, confusing everyone and then sayin “nooo why would you think they’re the same person! When you do this for so long you run out of names!”
@liam_shea bro ran out of british names after william and michael edit: I forgot Henry 💀
Or like maiden name or some shi
Right, Henry EMILY?
I think it's very clear that Michael Afton's character from the games was divided into multiple characters for the films: his guilt and remorse about his brother's death was given to movie Mike, the part of him who remained obedient to his father and helped him carry on his work was given to movie Michael, and the part of him who wanted to pick up the ruin and devastation his father caused and to take responsibility and atone for his own involvement in that harm was given to movie Vanessa.
Thats great theory.
That’s literally exactly what’s happening
That would make much more sense and keep the satisfying narrative we've got about Michael Afton!
I think Mike Schmidt from the movies is a mix of Ralph from the week before and Fritz Smith (Michael Afton working under a fake name in fnaf 2)
Why can't Micheal and Mike BOTH represent Game Micheal?
Like the 2 halves?
One is an older brother remorseful for the death of their younger brother, and the other is a tortured man who believes his dead father is still gonna get him
I feel like Vanessa is more of a represention of Michael Afton.
@Mrsmile99-x5b Yeah, I agree with that.
@Mrsmile99-x5beh I can see it
Bro got it right
@Mrsmile99-x5band evil michael is more of a representation of Elizabeth? How she always wanted to make her father proud?
Fnaf lore will outlive everything and everyone
Forever 😔🤚
It straight up might become a religion in 300 years
At the heat death of the universe- my descendants will be trying to figure out when things happened in Fnaf
Including the one piece
Yeah, I'm getting kinda tired of it
i always just assumed the Games, Books and Movies were each in their own timelines same story just slightly different
That is definitely true
How I see it is like this: The Games, the Books, and the Movies are each their own timelines separately but they share the same universal rules.
If an item or concept appears in one of these timelines, then it fair game for it to appear in the other timelines. ( Example: Charlie being a robot child in the books and M2 being Edwin Murray's robot child in the games. )
Tbh it just feels like the books are just an excuse to have an ACTUAL story because like for the first few FNAF games there was not much, we didnt have names or any real plot, just events that just happen with no rhyme or reason
@Pryexelanother good example is like how Cassidy is a girl in the games and books but a guy in the movies but they still possess the same animatronic
That’s just the truth
did we just deadass forget nightmare freddy IN the survival logbook
*nightmare fredbear (or whatever idc)
toms argues that mike from the logbook is michael afton but fnaf 1 mike is mike schmidt
It's actually Nightmare Fredbear, but yeah, Tom forgot it was there in the logbook.
Also the exotic butters.
Bro completely forgot the logbook exists as it hard confirms Michael Afton and Mike Schmidt are the same character, and that the FNAF 2 game literally shows us there are more than one spirit inhabiting the animatronics than just Charlie. Also, are we just going to ignore the movies and games being in separate timelines? Not every detail has to be the same for both mediums. The films are a reimagining of the original story, just like the novels (Silver Eyes trilogy specifically).
i was waiting for him to mention that book to debunk his theory but nope
He didn't forget, it's another take. A possible answer.
Could be a retcon for what it's worth
@hades6354 A take can be valid only if you don't omit certain evidences that can completely tear down your theory
I mean it's a book after all it can be a separate universe too just like every other book now
4:22 I’m gonna stop you right there and repeat a quote from the trailers and movie that clarifies your confusion, “You’re thinking of the franchise location, this is the original”
*Cough*cough* survival logbook
Yeah how could mike schmidt have known about Nightmare Fredbear if he wasnt Micheal Afton
I felt the absence of that book in this discussion.
@braisdios354I was referring to Clara from immortal and the restless but that works too:)
@graydenharrison-lh3dwalso don't forget about the cash basket and casual bongos drawings
Yeah the survival logbook alone refers to FNaF 1, 2, 3, 4, and SL. I think they ignored it to make the theory or they forgot
I think why there's two mike here is because the movie go for the role reversal route. Golden Freddy is the leader and protector of the children, while the Pupppet becomes the vangeful spirit-instead of vengeance toward willy her are flipped toward the parents instead.
Vanessa, as the daugther of Willy, becomes the one who wanted to redeem herself from his father legacy while Michael is the one who wanted to help their father-basically Vanessa is the game michael while michael is taking elizabeth role for the movie. So, since Michael is now detached from Mike, Scott decided to split them apart because movie Michael is basically Elizabeth.
Even further, i think game Michael is splitted into three characters for the movie-Mike, Vanessa, and Michael. In the past, before we came to a conclusion that Mike is Michael, we thought Mike is just an unfortunate security officer-i think this is what movie Mike based on but much more fleshed out to be a major player to the story. Vanessa is what we think game Michael is, the one who wanted to clean up WIlliam mess. And M Michael is only the bearer of the name but is actually just Elizabeth gender bend, grown up, and alive.
Also, Vanessa being possessed might be a reference to game Michael getting possessed by Ennard, and to game Vanessa being possessed by glitch trap to make the Vanny persona AND might also be a reference to novel Baby.
Another thing, could it be that Scott goes with Vanessa because the actor's name is Elizabeth? Maybe for multiple layers of reason like to avoid weirdness and also a cheeky easter egg or lore hidden in a meta way.
this is actually the most sound theory about the movie, everything suddenly makes sense
even while watching i was thinking it was odd how vanessa and michael were basically swapped
Most of the latest FNAF theories feel like "Yeah so this happened in the movie/book so it probably happens in the games. It changes everything we thought we knew and makes the narrative less interesting. Yippee."
EXACTLY!!
This theory doesn't even Make any sense 😂
Why would crying child say "It's Me" to a random guy he never met??
How would the Logbook make ANY Sense?? It clearly shows that we play as the same person in Fnaf 1-6... (4 is debateable, but that doesn't overly matter rn)..
This whole theory is just "What if we take the Main Character out of the series?? :D".. it just makes the fnaf story Boring, when it doesn't need to be.
@AceFazthis is so true especially the “it’s me” bit cuz why would cc say that to some random schmuck instead of his brother who he would obviously recognize ☠️
15:30 So he goes from “My Dad killed kids using animatronics and I want to carry on his work” to “Oh my God my Dad killed kids using animatronics I have to stop him”
I like to think Michael didn’t know what his dad was actually doing he was just cooperating bc it’s his dad but idk
Or Mike realized HE was disposable. If Mike was helping his father he would have known he was a serial killer. But maybe Mike thought he was special, just like Vanessa was surprised when William stabbed her. Then Mike realized he was sent down to Sister location to die, and that's what made him vengeful.
We are NOT doing this again 😭
The mere existence of the Survival Logbook, which debunks this theory: Am I a joke to you?
Thank you! Was about to say that
so true
Real
Where does it say that?
he kinda covers everything from it
nothing in it suggests mike afton is mike schmidt other then they both worked at the fnaf 1 location both are named mike and both heard phone guys prerecorded messages
I personally think the Movie is its own Separate Universe that’s changing the Roles of Specific Characters much like the Books, like movie Vanessa has aspects of Game Michael - Elizabeth and Game Vanessa while Abby is basically the Movie Version of Elizabeth and Coppelia, and Movie Michael Shares Character Aspects of both Game Michael and Elizabeth.
agreed.
Also agreed
thank you finally someone who thinks the same way
👍👍👍
Everyone is Elizabeth. Got it.
a second michael has hit the theorist channels
STOP I CANT DUDE AHAHSSHHSHGSDG
This comment deserves more recognition and likes
2015 Dream theory ahh thumbnail
has anyone considered "Schmidt" is Mrs.afton's maiden name?
The answer: No, it didn't
Bro you didn’t even finish the video how do you know😭🙏
It will never been solv
@Mark__IZHK2005 Bc I saw the movie
@Mark__IZHK2005 Because Scott said that the movie timeline is different from the games timeline.
@Mark__IZHK2005 For starters movies have different events, so different canon than the games
6:11 YoU lIeD tO mE mat
An Asdf movie reference? Amazing!
ball knowledge fr
Or... Michael went to the locations because William told him to like what he said in his Sister Location cutscene. The FNAF 1 phone call is in FNAF 4 so Michael was in FNAF 1, he saw Phantoms of Whithered Animatronics in FNAF 3 so the same person in that game was in FNAF 2 and Scott stated "4 games, 1 story".
YES IT'S THAT EASY FINALLY SOMEONE WITH COMMON SENSE THANK GOD🙏😭
I mean if you look round fazbear frights you can see the shells of pretty much all the characters I mean there's a box of the toys right in your office
@trixxart777yea, the classics and the toys but the only way the fnaf 3 guard could have seen the withereds to have phantoms of them was working at fnaf 2 and we know because of the survival logbook that michael afton is the fnaf 3 guard
@trixxart777 yet no toy Phantoms
@DJBurns-jq8mnactually yeah why are there no phantom toys (unless you count phantom puppet and balloon boy)
The Survival Logbook debunks this theory 😔
Completely agree i feel like this theory was a bit of a stretch, especially cos the logbook is so important.
@ProbSpecial taabjs for fagree to me :)
Doesn't the Security Logbook debunk this theory? It literally points out that Mike Schmidt and Michael Afton are one and the same.
The movies seem to be representing two halves of a whole for Mike, one being the guilt of losing his brother, the other looking for his father's approval.
5:07 I looked away for one second and saw dis… Scott Rizzthon.
I'm hollering 😂😂😂😂😂
That was soooo cursed
Gimme a sec I gotta claw out my eyes
Thumbnail lowkenuinely made me think this was an old fnaf theory.
I like it tbh
dont be fooled its just a theory
the survival logbook disproves this entire theory... we play as mike who knows about fnaf 1.2.3 in the logbook and draws them
@ephraimxeditzz
Also, Crying Child in Golden Freddy says "It's Me" to the nightguard... why would he say that to a random dude he doesn't know... 😂
what does lowkenuinely even mean
@ajkcool
It's a portmanteau of Lowkey and Genuinely. Meaning to feel something genuinely but express or acknowledge it in a subtle, understated, or non-overhyped way, essentially "truly but quietly". It's used online to convey authentic feelings without making a big fuss. It just means "Truly, but keeping it lowkey".
3:51 "For good" Righttttttttt..........
The humble nightmare fredbear drawing and SL references in the security logbook, by "Mike"
Survival Guide: Am I a joke to you?
12:57 but you just said that Michael wasn’t the one who worked at fnaf 1
**IF** (big if) MIke and Michael are different, then the logbook shows that Michael Afton (Cause we see him write down references to Sister Location and The Immortal and the Restless in the book) ALSO worked at the fnaf 1 location. The book is for night guards in the fnaf 1 pizzeria (The book references that the employee has listened to the FNAF 1 phone calls)
They bring this exact thing up at 14:49 😭
I think you are looking at the whole Sister Location timeline placement backwards. Mike isn't smelly because he is a purple corpse, he is smelly because he is tampering with the animatronics for his father, William. The animatronics that we are explicitly told are smelly. Michael going to Sister Location is just another location where his father asked him to go to. Another thing, Remnant is shown to have healing abilities. There is a good chance that Michael is no longer a purple corpse by his next appearance.
(Also, Mike Schmidt, if he is seperate, has no reason to tamper with the animatronics nor to come back.)
Additionally, Mike and Michael absolutely have to be the same character. We know Michael is the player from Sister Location. The Security Logbook, which is owned by Mike, has Sister Location reference drawn in by Mike. It also has FNAF 4 references drawn in by Mike. FNAF 4 has the FNAF 1 Phone Call audio in the background and the same animatronic movements/layout as FNAF 1 (which Scott explicitly said wasn't an Easter Egg). The Security Logbook has the FNAF 3 office as the main set dressing. FNAF 3 has Phantoms which are explicitly the FNAF 1 and 2 animatronics, implying the guard has experienced them. There is no world where they are two seperate characters in the games.
2:35 atp they just be saying it for the love of the game
13:42 when micheal got scooped i got an add about pork BBQ XD
Survival Logbook. Survival.... Logbook. SURVIVAL LOGBOOK!
9:00 don’t forget that when we do the burn it all down ending we see a picture of the graves of the missing kids incident which heavily implies that their souls were there and the only way that was possible is molten Freddy having their souls.
the survival logbook disproves this entire theory....
15:34 the captions perfectly capture that accent
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Great job youtube, now they're gonna be wondering why the video as a random strike for suggestive content.
8:08 The Funtimes don't have souls, they have condensed agony, which is basically the same thing except it means each animatronic doens't have an individual soul corresponding to it
I would actually like to agree with this theory because of the unnaturally erratic behavior of the funtimes(with the exception of Baby)
The remnant metal from the endos didn't just store the souls, it trapped their agony as well.
The act of melting the endos and creating the liquid remnant subjected the material to enough heat which freed the souls but what remained within the remnant was their agony, now in a more condensed form. Which is why higher temperatures are required to completely neutralize the remnant, or at best, destroy the "battery" that stores the agony and dispersing it.
If the MCI were in the funtimes, they would not have appeared before william and had him springlocked.
If Molten Freddy had the MCI souls, he would've attacked Scraptrap and Baby if they ever saw each other but as far as we know, he's aware of their presence because they have to be coming into contact with one another whilst traversing the vents. It would not make sense for the dead spirits to ally themselves with their killer and the one person they ousted.
So this theory makes Molten Freddy an agony-powered construct.
Now, there is also the Soul-Fragmentation theory where William merely took parts of the endos but the ghosts themselves were still tied to the building. William merely took pieces of their supernatural essence then melted them into a condensed form to make the "life-giving" power more potent, but this resulted in the creation of erratic and violent monsters.
7:13 YOOOO is that a Princess’s Bride reference? You know, “My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.”
Nice catch
YESS LOL
No offense but I hate this theory and will not support it. Not only do you need to take a LOT of the movie at face value, but you also have to accept parts of the Mike = Michael theory, but without the thread of connection Mike being Michael adds (ex: Fritz being Mike makes no sense as Fritz and Mike being "stinky" doesn't have any connection if Michael, the rotting body, isn't WHY they stink.)
6:31
POV: your dad needs help in the garage
17:40 We are Mike Schmidt. We carry the flame
Charlie Kirk is Mike Schmidt and when he got Kirkified he turned into Kirk trap
@TurboGooseOfficialy Kirklocked
Then he turned into kirk trap
We fight for the fnaf lore
@stacl1173we’ll honour its name
Security logbook says they are same person. Film just split them in two
Yes. Scott is trying to herd cats 5:13
11:50 that doesn’t solve the supposed problem of the animatronics remnant being used for the fun times that you used when it easily can be that Mike helped his dad then dun got scooped then tried going after his dad.
15:03 He called them RUclipsrs, despite the movie likely taking place prior to 2005 and the release of RUclips
Maybe Tom wanted to collab with the Spectral Scoopers
Also they were clearly on a TV show Abby was watching, no one had Smart Tvs that could play RUclips videos yet, it's CLEARLY just this universe's version of the show Ghost Hunters or something similar to it. A show that premired in 2004.
@BlueAmpharosyeah i thought so too
I played Deltarune so much, I forgot there was a Mike in FNaF, so I sat in confusion at the thumbnail for a couple seconds longer than I would like to admit.
MIKE, REBUILD MY SCOOPER, REBUILD MY KIDS!
Lol
@PlayTheColorfulCreature does that mean that spamtenna was just helliam all along? (apologies for bringing up ships, but this idea is too funny to ignore)
Scott: The games, movies, and books are all separate universes.
Theorists: THE MOVIE HAS COMPLETELY ALTERED THE GAMES TIMELINE AND THE THINGS SCOTT ALREADY TOLD US WE WERE RIGHT ABOUT!!!!
10:11, He kind of looks like Aphex Twin if he was American.
**cutely abandones everything I'm doing to watch this**
We’re back in the building again
I just assumed that Michael Afton and Vanessa Afton were meant to represent Elizabeth and Michael respectively. Not the other way around.
(Sorry your comment got stolen by a bot)
But GENUINENLY I like this so much. The games are clearly already very different from the movies, so this is a fun way to change it up
@carterpaananen Yeah, so instead of the daughter wanting to continue her father's legacy and the son actively working to right the wrongs of his father, it is the other way around
blud think he mat pat 💀💀
blud liked hisown comment
The main thing that’s got me confused 😵💫 is when was Mike scooped.
THE MOVIES ARENT CANON TO THE GAMES
Didn't Scott say that the movies are in a separate universe
I was spring locked to this video
Bruh why can't no one realize the fact Michael Afton in the movies is the counterpart to Elizabeth while Vanessa is the counterpart to Michael Afton.
What if the movies are like Help Wanted, just in universe movies that help progress the lore.
Well have you thought about SL's gameplay taking place after fnaf 1 and 2?
I mean doesn't that fit a whole lot better? Bringing up the reason for the odor, might it just be a reason too fire someone without propper cause?
Also why would Michael need too "Come find his father" if he can just go home and just find his father there?
Oh boy here we go again
(Love your videos Tom)
And then Mike Schmit disappears like in the FNAF Musical Endings where he is Markiplier.
Oh my god 😂
At this point I can't even blame Scott for abysmal theories that omit certain evidences or strecth things farther than the distance between us and the moon.
6:54 Never thought I'd see a Brodyquest reference in the year of our lord 2026...
The games, books, and movies are in separate continuities. They share themes. You can't use one to solve the other. Ts is so dumb man.
This points to the idea that Michael was the week 1 guard, the one that was worried about their safety due to the animatronics.
5:37 but in the second movie souls of the animatronics get freed meaning only possibly Garret and Charlotte are left
i love how he just completely ignored the survival logbook :)))))))))))
Omg we’re still on this???
PEAK VIDEO!! I LOVE that even you don't 100% agree with it and find the story less satisfying this way, you STILL explored this alternate version of the story eitherway and looked at the dominos that would fall IF it were true! I personally think they're still the same and one character BUT I always think it's good for everyone to look at opposing ideas like this and see what happens (which is basically what this theory is) because maybe, just maybe, you'll end up changing your mind entirely :')
eitherway PEAK VID AS ALWAYS! 👏👏
Why is no comment on you
Glad to see other theorists are looking towards other theories and build something off of it together!
COUGH I’m not William idk what you mean 😁
1 comment?
my personal theory is that mike schmidt and michael are the same person in the game, but in the movies they're split into two, crying child is mad as mike's younger brother while michaels siblings are vanessa and emily (baby reference in the movie with green eyes)
The movie and the games are two different worlds. Just like the books and the games are two different worlds as well.
wow i thought id hate this video but it makes sense
you should try and make another Fnaf timeline with the new information we have of how the lore/timeline goes
To me the timeline goes 4's story in 1983, 2 in 1987, sister location in 1990, 1 in 1993, 4's gameplay right after 1, then 3, 6, and ucn in 2023, vr in 2025, security breach in 2027, and ruin in 2032
yes, scott is a troll
This is the earliest I've made it to a game theory video!!! 2 minutes!!!!
Thought i wouldn't notice the Brodyquest reference at 6:54
Ikr no one is talking abt it
insert the green pippins image
The fact that this released just after the Poppy Playtime Chapter 5 trailer and release date 🙏
Wait at 4:30 I thought FNAF 3 took place 30 years after Freddy’s closure. William being in the springtrap suit was recent since in the mini games of FNAF 3 he’s in a rundown Freddy’s. Maybe I’m over thinking what he said here but maybe not
dont be fooled its just a theory
the survival logbook disproves this entire theory... we play as mike who knows about fnaf 1.2.3 in the logbook and draws them
FNaF 3 is set 30 years after FNaF 1 in the games. We don't know how long the 3rd Movie will be after the 2nd, so Tom just choose a year.
Good video but Michael Afton and Mike Schmidt are still the same person in game universe in the movie Michael doesn't like to be called Mike and Mike Schmidt in movies only have been celled just Mike not Michael but in game we see in the survival logbook and tickets of fun Michael go by Mike and ever having Mike Schmidt, in the reason why Michael is split into two characters is to show two sides of Michael motivation in the game one who have guilt killing his brother in the other wants to help William just like in the games but don't know his evil motivation between FNAF 2 & 1 and sister location when he learns about what his father has been doing and now try to stop him.
Big fan of the friendship between Tom and Lee. The different hosts are so fun and I love seeing the channels "interact" through them
Wait so if Mike Schmidt is a separate person, which Mike was it that wrote in the survival logbook? The answer seems to obviously be Afton but why would he have a survival logbook in the first place if he was never actually a night guard? And also another thing, why would Cassidy/David be saying to Schmidt “It’s Me”? That was something that fit really well with Afton being the night guard.
Let's just not overcomplicate it
Mike is Michael. In the movies they make it clear that michael doesnt want to be called mike. But in the game universe he does use the name Mike in both Sl and the Logbook :p
I just think scott wanted a villain in the fnaf 2 movie and he already made Mike schmidt a different character.
There's a basis recently for Scott splitting his characters in two. In Tales From The Pizzaplex, we learn about (that version of) The Mimic and the Mimic1 program. The Mimic in that story gains an affinity for the White Tiger doll, even representing itself as it during Tiger Rock. In Secret Of The Mimic, however, we find out there's actually TWO Mimic programs, with Mimic2 (M2) being the one to undergo the game version of that story, while Mimic1 (M1) had its own thing going on, with becoming Fiona and all that
who are you
I was so excited to watch dis and forgot mat retired🥀✌🏿
No hate btw
The security logbook proves Mike is Michael because it takes place in FNAF 1, and it also proves that SL takes place before FNAF 1 since he references the exotic butters in that logbook. The second movie actually proves that SL takes place much earlier in the timeline, since Vanessa was a little child when Circus Baby was already fully built (around the year 1982 - seeing how Vanessa was the same age in the 1982 flashback as she was during the Circus Baby scene). If the “original” animatronics were melted down to make Ennard, that would actually explain the change between their endo-02 models from FNAF 2 into the endo-01 models in FNAF 1.
At least you tried though.
Hey, Tom, have you ever thought that Michael Afton was just a sweaty teenager in 1987 and 1993 as Fritz Smith and Mike Schmidt? The Logbook actually hints at Michael tampering with the Animatronics and working with William. Then we work as Michael in Sister Location, then 3 and finally Pizza Simulator.
Holy based
12:09 That's a good detail. I still think Mike Schmidt = Michael Afton, but this can further reinforce the connection to Fritz Smith
It does. TRUST ME, it does.
i know matpat retired but i wish he came back just for fnaf videos the first fnaf videos i saw were of him and back then i never even played the games
I thought movie Michael Afton and movie Mike Schmidt were supposed to represent both sides of game Michael Afton: movie Michael shows the part of game Michael that listened and helped his father while movie Mike shows the part of game Michael that finds out what William did and goes against him
we need some longer theories dawg
i was literally scrolling down to say a story is just a story when you played the voice line
Based off the title. My problem with this is that the movie can be used to draw parallels not direct events. Hoping they don’t claim William adopted Vanessa after Elizabeth died.
Maybe Elisabeth and Vanessa were both William’s daughters with Elisabeth dying and Vanessa (maybe being gaslit by William into blaming herself about her sister’s death) plays along as William’s little helper till she decides to stay up to him by the end of FNAF 1. It would explain why Baby already has green eyes and Vanessa is more scare of her(she knows what she did)
@beccamoore24021. There’s only evidence for 1 daughter in fnaf 4.
2. You’re treating games and movie lore as one and the same.
@R3varusI’m only talking about the movies; though I like the headcannon that games Vanessa is a descendant of the Afton family
18:12 So that means the FNAF 1~7 era is now called the "William, the idea vs William, the man" era ?
This is a great video and I love what you guys do but something that just doesn’t sit right with me is the importance of Mike (Schmidt) being overlooked. I truly believe his connection with William through Garret could be something worth looking more into.
The plot has been so dishevelled lately that the first conclusion I was able to come up with was that Garrett was kidnapped, and rather than being killed, I can’t help but wonder if William had kept him for a while, making Garrett a potential candidate for the crying child. (Not sure how David would play into this then, but part of me wonders if David had died pre-bite, and that the bite that Michael was involved with had actually been garrett) it would explain motive for William to actually kidnap, as that isn’t quite his style yet. We never see him kidnapping other kids as far as I am aware. It doesn’t explain why Garret would have been able to go out into public to see his friends / Freddy’s. However there is an undertone of Williams own children becoming influenced by him, as Vanessa alludes to becoming nearly possessed in his presence. Michael also seems to be under this influence with how he willingly allows the RUclipsrs to expire. I wonder if they all could have been manipulated to become one big family, which would later become one of the things to haunt William. It may explain why Garret is constantly locked in his room. He could be influenced as well. William does have five family members if you include himself, maybe candy cadet was also referencing him trying to tie his family back together after a great loss, which ends up forming into an obsession, leading him to do what he does. I believe Mike’s point of view will give us great insight, and though he may be on his way out in the series, the idea of Garrett connecting Mike to Michael would help advance the plot in a way. Michael may have seen the missing pieces that Mike was searching for.
I could be totally reaching, as my memory of fnaf can be spotty when it comes to timelines and the most recent discoveries. I love your work! Thank you for providing so much for us!
Come back Matt Pat
19:11 i didnt expect to see Mr. Hippo here
6:40 Night Guards don’t interact with any other crew members, so him getting fired for Oder (In my opinion) isn’t good evidence for Mike to be the guard in FNAF 2. Also in FNAF HW tape girl said that Fazbear entertainment makes up excuses when they’re about to fire someone. P.s you guys should check out The Unwithered Truth’s videos in FNAF 1 and 5, they’re pretty good.
The Help Wanted explanation is fine, but i think it's more likely that Tampering with animatronics that head dead kids in them would make you smell bad. This is very likely the main intention since it's paired with the Odor twice for Mike and Fritz (both Michael), and its evidence from the original games.