The Complete Five Nights at Freddy's Story Explained

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  • Опубликовано: 19 май 2024
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    Time Stamps
    Introduction - 00:00
    Setting the scene - 6:52
    FNAF 4 - 11:32
    Sister Location too early - 16:56
    A weirdly passionate stance on a minigame from the sixth installment of a fictional indie horror series - 22:49
    FNAF 2 - 28:03
    FNAF 1 - 44:08
    Sister Location fr this time - 54:18
    FNAF but it's the future now - 59:33
    FNAF Return of the Jedi - 1:02:30
    haha I brought it back around to a religious metaphor - 1:08:41
    Audio static & empty promises 1:12:28
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  • @Wendigoon
    @Wendigoon  2 года назад +5305

    Go to buyraycon.com/wendigoon to get 15% off your Raycon purchase!
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  • @DuncanGrimm
    @DuncanGrimm 2 года назад +11395

    "For one of you, the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the Devil waiting, old friend." Such a badass line.

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 2 года назад +316

      One of my favorite lines in the series!

    • @SakuraAsranArt
      @SakuraAsranArt 2 года назад +632

      Henry really is the unsung hero of this entire franchise.

    • @RinLockhart
      @RinLockhart 2 года назад +92

      I can still hear the line in my head, I love it.

    • @mazzareli820
      @mazzareli820 2 года назад +13

      Timestamp?

    • @brynnbutler3388
      @brynnbutler3388 2 года назад +53

      @@mazzareli820 1:07:47 is about when it starts

  • @D3LTA48
    @D3LTA48 11 месяцев назад +6934

    1:06:18 Honestly, for being an indie horror game about ghosts possessing animatronics, Scott did not have to go this fucking hard with this monologue.
    "Although for one of you, the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole. So don't keep the devil waiting, friend." is such a raw line.

    • @break_the_galaxy
      @break_the_galaxy 9 месяцев назад +372

      ​@@euoniautopiaThe use of "friend" has always stuck with me because it's just so beautifully passive-aggressive. Scott knocked it out of the park writing that speech but whoever Henry's voice actor is absolutely took it to the next fucking level. Their delivery of the entire thing was incredible.

    • @svant3
      @svant3 9 месяцев назад +92

      @@break_the_galaxyI didn’t even see it as passive aggressive. I mean, I believe he actually says “old friend”. Which would make sense, because they were friends and partners. A fucking badass line nonetheless.

    • @pewpew8606
      @pewpew8606 8 месяцев назад +50

      I have never played the game or anything but man that was RAW AF AND I STARTED CHEERING AND PUNCHING THE AIR FR. Rawest line I have heard in a HOT minute.

    • @uai6107
      @uai6107 8 месяцев назад

      @@pewpew8606🤓

    • @MyBitch925
      @MyBitch925 7 месяцев назад +4

      13:31 what game is this?

  • @munecaxmuerta
    @munecaxmuerta 6 месяцев назад +1642

    all of the parents, grandparents, and other adult family members here in the comments who watched this video to better understand the interests of the kids in their lives is SO wholesome

    • @ericmcdonough6771
      @ericmcdonough6771 6 месяцев назад +4

      Condoning murder porn isn’t parenting 😂

    • @ava3270
      @ava3270 6 месяцев назад

      wait where the porn come from.. im confused@@ericmcdonough6771

    • @munecaxmuerta
      @munecaxmuerta 6 месяцев назад +91

      @@ericmcdonough6771 its a uhm... video game?

    • @ericmcdonough6771
      @ericmcdonough6771 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@munecaxmuerta and jails just a room

    • @robertoparedes5787
      @robertoparedes5787 6 месяцев назад +68

      @@ericmcdonough6771dude its a fucking video game😂 also you have to understand that kids who play the game are a select few that are mature enough to not get scared and still enjoy the game and its story despite the dark lore. So parents feel good enough to trust them playing the game as they know there child can handle the scary parts

  • @user-hf8my8to3v
    @user-hf8my8to3v 6 месяцев назад +3395

    My son was into this game several years ago, and he got me hooked on the storyline (just the teeniest bit of the storyline), I’ve read the first book, and we just saw the movie last night. I immediately came home and looked everything up that I could. My son sent my your video, and I thought it was great! You made it very easy to understand. Nicely done!

    • @JohnDoe-ij8gy
      @JohnDoe-ij8gy 6 месяцев назад +162

      Fun fact; the waiter in the movie was actually played by a RUclipsr called GameTheory! He was mentioned in this video, but he was essentially the person who created most of the fan theories!

    • @madsfiedler3884
      @madsfiedler3884 6 месяцев назад +109

      ​@@JohnDoe-ij8gy my wife loves the games so i was watching it with her, and she rewound it, smacked me in the arm and pointed v emphatically and it STILL took me until the "theory" to realise why he looked familiar xD

    • @jackcarter9861
      @jackcarter9861 6 месяцев назад +88

      It means a lot to your son that you take an interest in the things he does❤

    • @user-hf8my8to3v
      @user-hf8my8to3v 6 месяцев назад +46

      @@jackcarter9861 - thanks for saying that! I haven’t always been super interested in some of his interests (minecraft 😂), but I’ve always tried to listen to him. FNAF is definitely something I can get in to!! We’ve had a good time talking about it!

    • @kyrosavcic7382
      @kyrosavcic7382 6 месяцев назад +1

      @@JohnDoe-ij8gy matt patt

  • @kayd.1600
    @kayd.1600 Год назад +9829

    Poor Evan. Not only was he the first child killed, but he can’t even possess his own animatronic! Dude’s got a roommate!

    • @lightsinthecar
      @lightsinthecar Год назад +168

      I don’t think they feel or even know that they have a “roommate”

    • @3meritetrinel50
      @3meritetrinel50 Год назад +651

      @@lightsinthecar pretty Sur Evan knew, since he and cassidy had a comversation in the fnaf survival book

    • @lightsinthecar
      @lightsinthecar Год назад +45

      @@3meritetrinel50 oh sorry I didn’t know I don’t have the books!

    • @your_favorite_jackalope_ba1325
      @your_favorite_jackalope_ba1325 Год назад +216

      i think having a roomate is better than being lonely in a hell hole like that

    • @Dummy39167
      @Dummy39167 Год назад +249

      Evan: *Having the worst afterlife imaginable*
      Casity: wassssaaaaaaap

  • @michellemcgee6365
    @michellemcgee6365 2 года назад +8955

    I am 52. I remember in 2014 my kids started talking about Five Nights at Freddy’s. All I knew was it was a game about a closed down Chucky Cheese type place with some animatronics. Over the next 8 years this became a huge part of my kids’ lives. I lost interest.
    Fast forward. Today. I watched this video with my 20 year old daughter and WOW!!
    You asked for comments from people new to FNAF… well… you have a new fan Mr. Wendigoon. This made PERFECT sense and is the best explanation I’ve EVER heard of FNAF! Kudos son. You’ve stretched into the over 50 market!
    Thank you for this great explanation.

    • @squidward9747
      @squidward9747 2 года назад +275

      That’s so cool!

    • @neon-kq6wz
      @neon-kq6wz 2 года назад +391

      This comment is so wholesome :,)

    • @realfisheggs
      @realfisheggs 2 года назад +112

      very wholesome ~

    • @DummysGirl97
      @DummysGirl97 2 года назад +143

      My night was made reading this

    • @mztikys
      @mztikys 2 года назад +1

      this comment is very cute, until you realise this series is about killing kids LOL

  • @Mullenm
    @Mullenm 6 месяцев назад +2078

    As a kid who’s been obsessed with the story of Five Nights At Freddy’s since 2014. Current 21 year old me can finally rest now. Thank you for this Wendigoon.

    • @owozzy6841
      @owozzy6841 6 месяцев назад +34

      same story bro, just watched the movie with the boys and realized I kinda missed everything after FNAF 4, so ima give this video a watch

    • @mjrough
      @mjrough 6 месяцев назад +27

      @@owozzy6841so did everyone who was a fan of the games stop paying attention to the lore after fnaf 4?

    • @itsdakilla7599
      @itsdakilla7599 6 месяцев назад +20

      Do not rest yet. Watch Gibi’s FNAF full story for what REALLY happened. Yes it’s 9 hours, yes it’s insane, but yes it’s totally worth it. My mind was blown for how much is left out in every other theory out there.

    • @Mullenm
      @Mullenm 6 месяцев назад

      @@itsdakilla7599 Thank you for the recommendation, I’ll def give it a watch!

    • @carlo2038
      @carlo2038 6 месяцев назад +14

      @@itsdakilla7599I will NOT be doing allat 😭

  • @sdebord8707
    @sdebord8707 6 месяцев назад +538

    I believe that Afton was neglectful, yet possessive towards his children. I think the video cameras and psychic friend Fred bear was a way for him to exert control over them, to watch them without having to stop his work. He doesn’t seem to particularly care that Micheal is bullying Evan, and he drags them to the pizzeria even if they don’t want to be there. Without this angle of possessiveness, I can’t quite make the cameras make sense.

    • @Deasherb
      @Deasherb 6 месяцев назад +44

      Other people theorise that Charlie died before Evan. This would explain Williams paranoia (cameras) and why Evan was so scared. However it does make Williams character lose some depth

  • @Netheraptr
    @Netheraptr 2 года назад +5026

    I honestly prefer the idea of Evan being the first death, it feels like an actual starting point to the story instead of a vague point where a guy starts killing people.

    • @ravenraven8503
      @ravenraven8503 2 года назад +600

      THANK YOU! As a writer I hate the “oh yeah he just kills kids cuz why not lol” I think as a story this is so amazing. Rement or whatever it’s called is just bs. I want horror not sci-fi. William is a father who descends to madness, not some goofy dude who kills because why not. It makes a story good in my opinion

    • @kayleighwukovich8318
      @kayleighwukovich8318 2 года назад +85

      I agree! I used to be on that boat, but after hearing this timeline, i think it packs a bigger punch

    • @Sadist-sama
      @Sadist-sama 2 года назад +60

      @@ravenraven8503 I mean, Scott is a sco-fi man at heart. Is it really such a big deal for him to mix horror and sci-fo together? Oh, and it's called "remnant”. I actually had a theory a while back that he killed children to experiment on how remnant worked in an attempt to keep Michael (or the crying child, we still don't actually know which brother is Michael Afton and Scott makes deliberate attempts to make it difficult to decipher it) alive after the bite of 83.

    • @N-Qrse
      @N-Qrse 2 года назад +155

      @@Sadist-sama I think it is fairly obvious that Michael is not the crying child, it's because of the message to William "Father it's me Michael, ..."

    • @Sadist-sama
      @Sadist-sama 2 года назад +5

      @@N-Qrse I don't think the voice line confirms who is who still. Everywhere I look nobody can say they can really confirm who is who. Even in the log books it adds proof on both sides on which brother Michael even is. After all, how would the older brother know what Nightmare Fredbear looks like if he's Michael? There are details added on both sides of the argument- it's not clear cut.

  • @tommykarrick9130
    @tommykarrick9130 10 месяцев назад +6167

    The biggest plot hole in the series is how this company was able to survive such a long streak of devastating PR and legal disasters, I swear every time they open a restaurant at least one person ends up dead

    • @Felipe-kv8qd
      @Felipe-kv8qd 8 месяцев назад +417

      Well Pharmaceutical companies in our world have survived massive lawsuits (Pfizer), and many companies that produce things from batteries to chocolates earn well despite their supply chains being linked to slave labor in Africa.
      Banks like HSBC have also held money belonging to terrorists and cartel members.
      Companies get away with a lot, even when they are PR disasters, so its not that inaccurate.

    • @siobhanhenry9094
      @siobhanhenry9094 7 месяцев назад +275

      You would be surprised how often this has happened in history and probably some really recent events too.

    • @svant3
      @svant3 6 месяцев назад +154

      ⁠@@Felipe-kv8qdthat’s ultra massive companies, some of whom are essentially part of the government. Naturally, they are protected.

    • @heardemsayy
      @heardemsayy 6 месяцев назад +174

      The Afton family must have friends in Congress😭

    • @dankerbell
      @dankerbell 6 месяцев назад +77

      yeah i can MAYBE understand twice, but 3+ separate instances of child death/murder attached to one chain? what were they cooking in the 80s

  • @Artemis13579
    @Artemis13579 6 месяцев назад +434

    Marionette was probably for me the saddest death. It literally was meant to do good and couldn't do anything to help and laid next to her like a good dog and died. Everyone else was killed with evil intentions. Marionette Charlotte makes me the most sad.

    • @LucyGreene-hx2jl
      @LucyGreene-hx2jl 2 месяца назад +1

      The death of Charleigh wasn’t good at all. It was a revenge kill.

    • @zornxd9111
      @zornxd9111 Месяц назад

      @@LucyGreene-hx2jltheyre talking about literally puppet not charlie

  • @matthewalvis9287
    @matthewalvis9287 6 месяцев назад +845

    I’m convinced MatPat is the true master mind even if he doesn’t know it. I think Scott didn’t know the first game would be a hit and just egged on MatPat till he wrote a story for him. All while MatPat believed Scott was the mastermind

    • @strychnine-ik1mc
      @strychnine-ik1mc 5 месяцев назад +198

      no this is 100% what happened. scott makes a game, sees the game theory video, goes WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN, rinse and repeat. i’m completely convinced that scott has been bullshitting it the entire time. it would explain the gaps and plot holes etc….. there wasn’t a plot to begin with

    • @invalid_user_handle
      @invalid_user_handle 5 месяцев назад +65

      Definitely. Pretty sure Scott once said that Golden Freddy had no actual name before the fanbase came up with it, so who knows what else he's considered due to fan theories.

    • @mr.diddles3806
      @mr.diddles3806 5 месяцев назад +30

      Spy vs Spy

    • @igotwect3174
      @igotwect3174 4 месяца назад +25

      EXACTLY, there is no way Scott had an intricate story from the get-go, he’s just letting the fans do all the work lmao

    • @teresalaveglia8152
      @teresalaveglia8152 4 месяца назад +34

      Also MatPad's theory that the first game was your punishment as the killer that you had to come back every night to your horrors were 100% used in UCN

  • @mhm3766
    @mhm3766 2 года назад +3816

    One thing that you omitted was that at the true end of Fnaf 3, a spirit of Golden Freddy was freed in a birthday party set up by the other spirits. That was probably the release of Evan Afton, giving him the party and happiness that was robbed from him, therefore making Cassidy the one who tortures William Afton.

    • @synnamon_toast_crunch
      @synnamon_toast_crunch 2 года назад +300

      yeah i was wondering about this, its a very crucial event

    • @satanicnoodles7214
      @satanicnoodles7214 2 года назад +60

      ^^^ this commenting so people see

    • @dumbly-stupid
      @dumbly-stupid 2 года назад +11

      Yeah that makes sense

    • @bluhbluh5243
      @bluhbluh5243 2 года назад +4

      pog

    • @dataexpunged6969
      @dataexpunged6969 2 года назад +322

      And tbh I like the idea of Cassidy torturing William more. Evan has been through this long enough and now wants to rest. Cassidy didn't deserve this either but that's exactly what justifies her hatred towards William, as she was just a test subject in the wrong place, at the wrong time.

  • @merrakie5216
    @merrakie5216 2 года назад +6327

    one chilling detail that was omitted was why the spring locks failed and killed Evan in the first place. it's meantioned that as the locks get damp they tend to fail and in the scene where Evan dies he's visibly crying implying that he cried so much and was in so much fear it caused the failure.

    • @traintracks7199
      @traintracks7199 2 года назад +615

      so glad i found this comment i was waiting for someone to mention this! its such a sad detail :(

    • @wajmgirl
      @wajmgirl 2 года назад +118

      So we’re forgetting moisture exists now.

    • @softmongreal2522
      @softmongreal2522 2 года назад +34

      oh my god.

    • @carlosgomez-nv9xo
      @carlosgomez-nv9xo 2 года назад +67

      Or you know, the ceiling was dripping water

    • @lilyungin4906
      @lilyungin4906 2 года назад +272

      It was Evans very own tears fellas

  • @davidfeltheim2501
    @davidfeltheim2501 6 месяцев назад +1663

    I like how the plot of the movie essentially boiled down the half-century of convoluted history to its best elements, the missing children, Mike's trauma, Afton wearing the bonnie suit, Vanessa's new character, etc. while simultaneously paying fan service in a creative way.

    • @Lore_Keeper
      @Lore_Keeper 6 месяцев назад +126

      It definitely streamlined it while keeping its best elements, I was a very big fan of that.

    • @BigMeefer
      @BigMeefer 6 месяцев назад +54

      Still having trouble figuring out what happened to garret. At first I thought he was golden Freddy but that wouldn’t make sense because mike would’ve said something to him when he originally saw them all standing there in his dream.

    • @Lore_Keeper
      @Lore_Keeper 6 месяцев назад +112

      @@BigMeefer It's intentionally vague, I think, but it's possible Garrett is also in Golden Freddy and he's the second spirit in there but we just don't see him. We do see "It's me" show up on a mirror when Mike is sleeping.

    • @madsfiedler3884
      @madsfiedler3884 6 месяцев назад +11

      i really enjoyed that, obvs you cant make a movie without the creative lisence necessary to make it Comorehensible, but they did such a great job bringing in the canon and allowing for continuation with very little issue!

    • @char1363
      @char1363 6 месяцев назад +8

      ​@@Lore_Keeperdoubt he is most likely the puppet

  • @spinalfluid_deathexplosion
    @spinalfluid_deathexplosion 5 месяцев назад +376

    I feel like they kicked Elizabeth out because she had a sort of dedication to William.
    “I will make you proud, daddy” that’s what she said in that clip. So i’m assuming they kicked her out because she was trying to work for her father in a way

  • @PineappleLiar
    @PineappleLiar 7 месяцев назад +9545

    Just came to the horrible conclusion that about half of the FNAF tragedy could’ve been resolved if they just settled on fursuits instead of going the extra mile with the animatronic components.

    • @Artemis13579
      @Artemis13579 6 месяцев назад +290

      The comparison to real world I think is akin to Chuck E Cheese VS. Rock afire Explosion. The man who started Rockafire thought Chuck e was theft of his ideas and it started basically a cold war but with animatronics tech music, pizza places etc and thought they needed to open so many of them they did so too soon and died by hemorrhaging money. So it works here as well with the intellectual property issue, opening many locations etc and eventually closing down.

    • @holyaxolotlwall2437
      @holyaxolotlwall2437 6 месяцев назад +468

      "This would've all not happened if y'all became furries"

    • @madsfiedler3884
      @madsfiedler3884 6 месяцев назад +84

      honestly??? y e a h- plus, metal is easier to clean than textile, and a bloody furry walking around would raise some eyebrows real fast

    • @fortuneivanov4685
      @fortuneivanov4685 6 месяцев назад +45

      That's more upsetting than the murders

    • @Solico-rf6rq
      @Solico-rf6rq 6 месяцев назад +77

      @@fortuneivanov4685yea id rather have children-possessed robots become my pizzeria employees than weirdos

  • @carlitotheman
    @carlitotheman 2 года назад +49459

    This is literally the "Be quiet he's explaining FNAF lore"' final boss.

    • @viola308
      @viola308 2 года назад +210

      @Obi-wan Kenobi 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

    • @user-vf1zm1ee1l
      @user-vf1zm1ee1l 2 года назад +113

      Slava ukrani

    • @iwanna_jest36
      @iwanna_jest36 2 года назад +212

      We should fear this man

    • @tbirddontcare3047
      @tbirddontcare3047 2 года назад +62

      My lord what does this comment have to do with Ukraine lmfao. Nothing against Ukraine but everyone already knows about it. I'd understand if it was doing anything to help at all... but it doesnt. The video this obi wan dude linked isn't even to do with Ukraine. Its Islamic clickbait. He punk'd yall by putting a Ukraine flag at the end lmfao. Every single video I watch anymore has Muslim indoctrination videos hijacking the top comments, when Christians do that crap they get called stupid for believing in God but Muslims get a pass, which is hilarious because wendigoon is a proud Christian. Yall need to quit supporting clickbait comment high-jackers who clearly have an agenda.

    • @sadtomat0
      @sadtomat0 2 года назад +290

      @@tbirddontcare3047 they're mostly bots. rlly not that annoying compared to irl christians spewing hate speech on street corners lol

  • @seanmacguire8988
    @seanmacguire8988 6 месяцев назад +292

    I won’t lie this was the most coherent timeline in my opinion.

    • @brohoof4069
      @brohoof4069 2 месяца назад

      Personally, I really like how GiBi's Good Idea Bad Idea put the events together

    • @ZoeyDeLeonVA
      @ZoeyDeLeonVA Месяц назад +1

      this one is better by storytelling, GiBi's not that just a storytelling of the franchise but also the game's development and background, history and it's 8 hours. coherent too but too long. lol

  • @placeholderthegreat1307
    @placeholderthegreat1307 6 месяцев назад +73

    I really like the idea that in at least a few runs of the game, a random guy name Fritz rolls up and despite having no clue about the animatronics he absolutely embarasses them on 10/20 mode because he's just him, and then leaves with his minimum wage without so much as a complaint.

  • @Wwhdduendjdhhfmwosdn
    @Wwhdduendjdhhfmwosdn 2 года назад +3659

    I’ve always been fine with the “William was in a silly goofy mood” for killing the kids, because when it started cawthon didn’t expect to be the huge franchise, but this makes SO much more sense

    • @sorry-ck2vd
      @sorry-ck2vd 2 года назад +149

      yeah sometimes when im feeling silly i mutilate toddlers

    • @giran4914
      @giran4914 2 года назад +220

      @@sorry-ck2vd silly AND goofy* or maybe you’re just built different idk

    • @thegreatest1294
      @thegreatest1294 2 года назад +513

      *murders 6+ kids*
      "oops sowwy, i'm such a gemini"

    • @angelichobi__18
      @angelichobi__18 2 года назад +303

      @@thegreatest1294 *makes an animatronic designed to literally kill children expecting his children to not see it alone and acts all surprised it happened*
      “hehehe oops I’m a Scorpio”

    • @nicolelouise7295
      @nicolelouise7295 2 года назад +65

      @@PeppermintyFreshh that's great and all and most probabily canon but *gestures to Wendigoon's theory* I like this one

  • @isabellanunez959
    @isabellanunez959 Год назад +4162

    I think maybe the reason Elizabeth was kicked out of the ennard is because she was still loyal to her father. In her speech at the end of Pizzeria Simulator, she goes on about doing what she was created to do, and even directly says “I will make you proud, Daddy”. Obviously the victims of her father would not be too fond of someone who was loyal to their killer.

    • @Blazecap
      @Blazecap 11 месяцев назад +434

      the canonical reason is because Elizabeth was being too controlling and the rest of the fun times just decided to kick her out. This was revealed in the source code of Scott Cawthon’s website(yeah where we find lore in this franchise is weird)

    • @SaltySynapse
      @SaltySynapse 10 месяцев назад +359

      you have been KICKED OUT of the machinery murder victims polycule hive mind

    • @basedgod6016
      @basedgod6016 10 месяцев назад +344

      Elizabeth Afton rolls WORST JOINT EVER and is asked to LEAVE molten freddy

    • @break_the_galaxy
      @break_the_galaxy 9 месяцев назад +36

      ​@@basedgod6016This made me laugh so hard I snorted chocolate milkshake out of my nose, thank you for that

    • @sleepyfucker09
      @sleepyfucker09 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@SaltySynapseBEST COMMENT 💀💀

  • @warrenrhinerson6373
    @warrenrhinerson6373 6 месяцев назад +414

    I kinda like this explanation. It still shows that William was evil but originally a good man driven mad by the death of two of his children

    • @JesseK.Robbins
      @JesseK.Robbins 6 месяцев назад +38

      like he said, it makes it a much more interesting story

    • @euphoria6975
      @euphoria6975 5 месяцев назад +8

      The only part I like to interpret differently is that Henry was the one who created Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, because personally I believe that makes William’s motive much more stronger for murdering Charlie, as he’s taking what Henry took from him
      Edit: I know Bonnie and Fredbear were William’s creations, I’m specifically speaking about the engineering of the animatronics themselves

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 3 месяца назад +7

      Well "good" might be stretching it, but probably was decent. We don't have any record of how he acted towards is children before, or if he was more interested in saving his son or figuring out immortality for himself.

  • @DoctorMinjinx
    @DoctorMinjinx 6 месяцев назад +634

    Been catching up on the series since I saw the movie. This is easily the most clearly explained, sensible, and easy to understand breakdown of the story I've ever seen. Bravo.

    • @spookyho5994
      @spookyho5994 5 месяцев назад +3

      same, I've never played the games, but the movie got me into the story and I'm definitely planning on playing the games someday (when I have the money for it)

    • @meglabruh1652
      @meglabruh1652 4 месяца назад +2

      I just wish this Timeline was actually canon and supported by Scott instead of being a Fan-Theory that just happens to be very very good. Knowing that there’s plenty of other interpretations and headcanons for when events take place and why just make it kinda frustrating since there’s no real clear answer. Still a good narrative though, even though I doubt the creator even meant for it to play out that way.

  • @burg3575
    @burg3575 2 года назад +31998

    Henry's speech as he burned everything down including himself was phenomenal.

    • @somethingwithbungalows
      @somethingwithbungalows 2 года назад +3798

      That “though for one of you; the darkest pits of hell has opened up to swallow you whole. So don’t keep the devil waiting, friend.” line always gives me chills. So cool!

    • @bigovergrownrat40
      @bigovergrownrat40 2 года назад +2200

      the bit where hes talking to charlie/puppet genuinely makes me so upset :((((

    • @EspeonMistress00
      @EspeonMistress00 2 года назад +868

      And then SB just ruined that moment

    • @garox5124
      @garox5124 2 года назад +1161

      @@EspeonMistress00 Security Breach is a bad game and a bad story. I still don't know why people are defending it.

    • @lila.sorelli
      @lila.sorelli 2 года назад +627

      @@garox5124 Seriously. The bugs it has made the game actually interesting, but erase those and it's just... a very bad game. It could've been something more for sure, and the 'aesthetics' of the game is the only good part of it, but they know fnaf fans will buy anything they make whether finished or not so it's just sad.

  • @laurentucker7471
    @laurentucker7471 Год назад +10256

    I think it's kind of weirdly sweet that the puppet went to lay down with Charlie when she failed to protect her. Idk it twinged my heart

    • @sk_lxr2920
      @sk_lxr2920 Год назад +538

      it made me want to tear up, it's sweet. It didn't just follow the kid but also gave her company...

    • @lyn2247
      @lyn2247 Год назад +407

      The puppets job was to stick with charlie at all costs❤️ and thats what she did🥹

    • @badger6882
      @badger6882 Год назад +167

      pitiful but meaningful puppet W

    • @dominospikza
      @dominospikza Год назад +87

      yes, it was bitterly endearing

    • @Gabey28
      @Gabey28 11 месяцев назад +43

      It's so exquisite, but yet, so hard breaking

  • @LG-cd7wr
    @LG-cd7wr 6 месяцев назад +64

    His chronological order: 4,2,1,5,3,6,7 2:16
    Explaining owners kids: 9:37
    William afton motive 18:33
    Elizabeth accidental death 20:47

  • @jeffrando
    @jeffrando 6 месяцев назад +433

    Loved the MatPat shoutout. He really has done more for FNAF than anyone

    • @mackingcheese
      @mackingcheese 4 месяца назад +1

      cough gibi's good idea bad idea

    • @WhaleManMan
      @WhaleManMan 3 месяца назад +1

      Rest in Peace

    • @brohoof4069
      @brohoof4069 2 месяца назад +3

      I feel like Markiplier had a bigger impact on bringing an audience to FNAF and MattPat provided a deeper dive into the lore

    • @jeffrando
      @jeffrando 2 месяца назад +1

      @@brohoof4069 that’s totally fair.

  • @thisperson345
    @thisperson345 Год назад +12496

    Henry's VA absolutely KILLED it with the voice acting for that final monologue, legit my favourite scene of the whole series and it's made 100% by the 10/10 voice acting

    • @mrfudge2861
      @mrfudge2861 Год назад +436

      Left me speechless, jaw dropped, in tears, and with good bumps

    • @Sockren
      @Sockren Год назад +648

      its perfect. such a monotone voice yet has the perfect amount of anger and disappointment and grief that hes ultimately accepted from this fire

    • @Lenlon703
      @Lenlon703 Год назад +227

      I can't describe clearly how I feel and on how I think he feels, so much emotions, so raw, its both intimidating and comforting, the feeling of strength yet also all the pain he endured

    • @Cubed_Sphere
      @Cubed_Sphere Год назад +87

      Honestly the whole monologue is like the best fu and also chill out you could possibly do in that situation
      @Mr Fudge same here with the goosebumps only cause it actually felt like a the end type thing

    • @MarioSMG64
      @MarioSMG64 Год назад +130

      Which makes it even more annoying that security breach ruined it all.

  • @HasvenWorld
    @HasvenWorld 2 года назад +2123

    Man... Michael's been through a lot. Accidentally killed his brother, lost his sister, dad turned crazy, got *SCÖÖPÉD* , used as a puppet for...an abomination of sin...damn

  • @quinnie_here
    @quinnie_here 6 месяцев назад +726

    I’ve watched this about 3 times and I just wanna say thank you for not having any jumpscares!! It’s pretty hard to find FNAF videos without them being used, and as someone very easily startled by loud noises but also fascinated by FNAF and it’s story, I appreciate when none are present, or at least with prior warning ;v;

    • @RayMorgan_
      @RayMorgan_ 6 месяцев назад +24

      Boo hoo

    • @madsfiedler3884
      @madsfiedler3884 6 месяцев назад +29

      rt !! i never played the games bc im a wuss when it comes to jumpscares (if you cant have smthn be scary without relying on them, its not horror imo), but i always loved the lore bits i heard!

    • @infernalabyss651
      @infernalabyss651 6 месяцев назад +6

      @@madsfiedler3884thats fair but imo the huge amount of build up around the jump scares and sheer atmosphere makes it truly a horror game, i dont really find the jumpscares to be like cheap or the only thing scary abt the game yk?

    • @Jenna2k
      @Jenna2k 6 месяцев назад +3

      Me to.

    • @AwesomeMooseSmile
      @AwesomeMooseSmile 6 месяцев назад +4

      You should watch DJ Sterf. He's so talented that most of his playthroughs don't have jumpscares.

  • @chanelnumbertahi
    @chanelnumbertahi 6 месяцев назад +128

    As someone who is too scared to play the games but wanted to know more about the story, watching this was really easy to follow along! Thank you so much ❤️

    • @byersvhs
      @byersvhs 5 месяцев назад +4

      this is so me!!! i love reading horror stories bc they interest me a lot but visuals is a big no no for me (tho i’m pLanNing to watch the movie) lol

  • @hound1059
    @hound1059 2 года назад +4692

    Even years after pizza simulator, the ending speech that Henry gives is absolutely chilling. It’s so cold, so distanced, and yet so filled with love for his daughter, pity for Elizabeth, and burning hatred as hot as the fire that consumed the building for his once best friend. The music is perfect, and your added visuals were great. I genuinely love pizzeria simulator’s ending and won’t accept anything else as canon, lol. I still get tingles from it!!

    • @fishyles
      @fishyles 2 года назад +142

      every time i hear it i genuinely feel so happy for all of those spirits. william being in his own hell is absolutely amazing.

    • @sulsulii810
      @sulsulii810 2 года назад +180

      Help Wanted was good, but I just can’t accept it as part of the same universe because Pizzeria Simulator had such a perfect ending. It was just… a perfect conclusion in every way. The way it returned atmospherically to the original, how it was released without warning and for free, THAT ENDING SPEECH. It was clearly the ending Scott wanted for the series, him pulling it back and making it just the way he wanted to.
      I’ve always imagined the ending as Michael finding Henry in the restaurant after listening to the tape and sitting down next to him as the fire gets closer. Henry looking at this kid who never had any other option for how he would die. Taking his hand and saying “You did a good job.” Maybe Michael cries. And the two dying there together.

    • @youknowwhat9911
      @youknowwhat9911 2 года назад +36

      @@sulsulii810 I’m pretty sure all the new games that came after ultimate custom night are part of a different new timeline. So like they’re not in the same universe

    • @ASaltyGhost
      @ASaltyGhost 2 года назад +29

      Same! And well said. I love the ending of Pizza Simulator a whole lot because it was the perfect, bittersweet ending. It was so satisfying and absolutely chilling. Love the speech so much. I believe it's the true ending of the series.

    • @CrudeCylinder
      @CrudeCylinder 2 года назад +48

      The visuals weren’t wendigoons. The visuals came directly from the game

  • @APotatoMan
    @APotatoMan 2 года назад +2226

    The beginnings of Fredbears are actually really sweet. Just two guys who wanted to keep the magic of childhood alive and went to great lengths to keep it.

    • @Roxanneredpanda
      @Roxanneredpanda 2 года назад +194

      great is carrying a lot of events in that sentence

    • @KingArthur39
      @KingArthur39 2 года назад +262

      "Hope nothing bad happens to this company"
      - Clueless

    • @Masonia_
      @Masonia_ 2 года назад +83

      Surely nothing bad could happen! Why do i hear kids screaming?

    • @joshuaottley7902
      @joshuaottley7902 2 года назад +117

      How do you want to keep the magic of childhood alive, but not the children???

    • @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479
      @magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 Год назад +1

      @@joshuaottley7902 you don't need the children for that -manchildren

  • @sandralila9915
    @sandralila9915 6 месяцев назад +158

    I knew nothing about FNAF, apart from the Characters which my Grandson has on display. I watched your video on the story of FNAF, because I’m going to the cinema this evening with my grandchildren to watch the film and wanted to know something about it before I went. I feel totally enlightened now, your summary from beginning to end was perfect. Im now ready and fully equipped to watch the film version,
    Thank you !!!

    • @laurenromanski9845
      @laurenromanski9845 6 месяцев назад +19

      This is so cute and wholesome. Youre a good grandma for going out of your way to learn about something your grandkids are passionate about :)

  • @qalt1190
    @qalt1190 6 месяцев назад +139

    For someone who haven't played one single second on FNAF i seriously have to admit:
    The Lore is some good stuff

  • @danboru_bakooo1966
    @danboru_bakooo1966 8 месяцев назад +4995

    Love the idea that fritz smith is actually just a random guy that really needed money and just though surviving the moving animatronic was something that came with the job is really funny

    • @Quirksvil
      @Quirksvil 7 месяцев назад +313

      I personally always thought that it was Phone Guy. My reasoning being, Phone Guy says he'll probably take up your position as night guard after you, he made the Springlock tapes so he obviously has some animatronic knowledge, and unlike Michael he wasn't fired for being unprofessional, which his politeness on the phone can attest to.

    • @GAMENITE
      @GAMENITE 6 месяцев назад +104

      According to matt patt. Michael afton was every single nightguard. He just changed his name and looked unrecognlizable after being a walking corpse practically lol

    • @rayofthedarkside
      @rayofthedarkside 6 месяцев назад +55

      @@GAMENITE well im pretty sure fritz was the nightgaurd for the first week got moved to day shift and then was the bite of 87 victim

    • @dusk4974
      @dusk4974 6 месяцев назад +45

      Poor guys thought it'd be a simple job and came to work expecting just a night duty shift and instead got 6 hours of
      Objective: SURVIVE
      And then just went "yeah fck that, IDGAF if I signed SHIT I'm not doing that again"

    • @Minceraft69
      @Minceraft69 6 месяцев назад +12

      I think this theory is funny and like it. However personally I think that the surname Smith is too similar to "Schmidt" to be a random dude. It's literally just the German variation of the name. I think he's the same guy as Mike Schmidt but with a fake name, and if the missing children's names are considered canon, it's likely that both Smith and Fitzgerald chose fake names after 2 of the missing kids. Meaning they were either the same person or in league. My guess is that most of the guards were just Michael with different names that he specifically chose - and maybe one of the guards is phone guy?

  • @missdreavus649
    @missdreavus649 2 года назад +783

    There's something so damn tragic about Michael looking enough like William to be mistaken for him by his victims. Looking in the mirror and seeing his dad's face too, after everything he's done to him. Not to mention ending up with a similar fate to his father while trying to right his wrongs.

    • @boom-jr8vi
      @boom-jr8vi 2 года назад +38

      It literally WAS the same fate of burning in FNaF 6, and I just find that so awesome.

    • @missdreavus649
      @missdreavus649 2 года назад +52

      @@boom-jr8vi Not even just the burning- being reanimated with an animatronic endoskeleton attached to your body.

  • @return2sender_89
    @return2sender_89 6 месяцев назад +54

    My 12 year old ia obsessed with Fnaf and I wanted to be able to talk about it with her, so this helped. Very detailed and not hard to follow. Cheers pal :)

  • @Jar0fStars
    @Jar0fStars Месяц назад +5

    Henry's monologue makes me cry every single time I hear it. His voice is so pained, so loving yet so detached. And his line telling Michael that he knows it's him, knows that he wants to stay and burn with everyone, and then Henry saying that he's here to burn with them as well is so fucking heartbreaking.
    Phenomenal.

    • @kevinle1083
      @kevinle1083 Месяц назад

      Is that from the FNAF VHS tapes?

    • @Jar0fStars
      @Jar0fStars Месяц назад

      @@kevinle1083 Henry's monologue is from one of the endings in Pizzeria Simulator!

  • @pnbtg3783
    @pnbtg3783 Год назад +3547

    I think the reason the timeline is all fucky is because Scott probably wasn't sure if the first game was going to get any traction at all. So when it did, he kinda had to start making up the story with each new game to tie up loose ends from the previous one.
    With that in mind, he did an absolutely tremendous job considering he was writing the story as he went, not being able to go back and change previously established lore.

    • @pierremollet1914
      @pierremollet1914 Год назад +69

      I mean, he did it anyway, Retconing multiple times from FNAF 4 to pizzeria simulator

    • @sametortoise4125
      @sametortoise4125 Год назад +115

      He retconned the lore a couple of times, most noticebly in FNAF 4(most people think he retconned the dream theory)

    • @drballsballsballs
      @drballsballsballs Год назад +34

      @@sametortoise4125 well with fnaf 4 there was so much hype and so many things he set up without even knowing where they were going himself. I respect him honestly for abandoning the meaningless theory grabbing stuff and tightening the story up towards the end

    • @IsmaelYout
      @IsmaelYout Год назад +9

      In his interview he said he knew the lore beforehand

    • @pierremollet1914
      @pierremollet1914 11 месяцев назад +39

      @@IsmaelYout he "knew" the grand scheme of the lore but changed the details, the Bite of 83 was supposed to be the bite of 87 bur fnaf 2 F'ed it so plot changes, the first kid to die from afton changed from a boy to a girl. And some other things too

  • @OneTopic
    @OneTopic 2 года назад +3139

    *“…which is a funny name”* should not have made me chuckle like it did

    • @ic3yr0
      @ic3yr0 2 года назад +46

      OT!!!! didnt expect to see you here

    • @tanglekelp1857
      @tanglekelp1857 2 года назад +28

      Oh hi OT! Didn't know you were a Wendi fan, my respect for you has risen even further

    • @Zamntron
      @Zamntron 2 года назад +18

      Damn you're here too reddit man? Guess everyone's a fan of Wendi

    • @JPEG_cat
      @JPEG_cat 2 года назад +15

      this might stain my perception of your videos, knowing you know the entire fnaf lore.

    • @amel888
      @amel888 2 года назад +3

      Good to see you OT! :D

  • @sae200502167
    @sae200502167 6 месяцев назад +29

    FNAF overall is just so sad, which is why I really like it. The sadness behind the horror hits different.

  • @chelseaarmstrong1646
    @chelseaarmstrong1646 6 месяцев назад +54

    No this was so good and helpful! I’m a mom to an almost 10 year old who is getting into “horror” games. I wanted to know what he was talking about and this helped explain it! Thank you so much!

    • @marcel-ni2mf
      @marcel-ni2mf 6 месяцев назад +21

      off topic but i find it very wholesome that you care about your son’s interests and that you try to learn more about it in order to understand what he was explaining, im sure you’re a great mom!:)

  • @m4n1987
    @m4n1987 Год назад +6612

    What makes wendigoon a superior horror channel is he talks normally and doesn't overdwell on ideas. He just tells it how it happened like a friend you're having a conversation with and maybe throws a cool idea or two in there

    • @thebaseandtriflingcreature174
      @thebaseandtriflingcreature174 Год назад +317

      “P-please elaborate…???”
      “No. I need to tell you about the part where he melts the children.”

    • @seanbruck5269
      @seanbruck5269 Год назад

      I DNT WATCH 1 HORRIOR CHANNEL WITH OVER A MILL SUBS CUZ THEY ALL TALK N RUIN IT IT, THEY TALK LIKE A SCARY STORY NARRATOR THT IS TRYN TO SCARE US, SHITS DEAD LIK3 WHJT?

    • @mud4309
      @mud4309 Год назад +140

      Exactly! I LOVE creators like Nexpo, Night Mind, and Reignbot, but it seems like literally every other horror creator does the same “creepy ambiance music and aesthetic with a low voice” style, and while their content is great, the presentation has become so generic its almost hard to differentiate between a lot of the creators.
      But Wendi has such a unique presentation and vibe that its easy to listen in for hours upon hours of his content, because he always has the vibe and passion of a really cool and knowledgeable friend who’s SUPER happy you asked “Wait what’s (x)? Can you tell me about it?”

    • @seanbruck5269
      @seanbruck5269 Год назад +13

      @@mud4309 yup

    • @la_win69
      @la_win69 11 месяцев назад +24

      Hes just that friend that has no issue at all to just tell you the entire lore of something he saw 2 days ago

  • @ChrisTheMemeMan
    @ChrisTheMemeMan Год назад +4734

    i like this alot. especially 4 being the first. it gives william an actual reason for his killings and not just "heh i like killing children"

    • @SomekidplaysMinecraft
      @SomekidplaysMinecraft Год назад +86

      Why did I read that in Ballon boys voice 😭☠️

    • @deadgirlonlinez
      @deadgirlonlinez Год назад +16

      exactly!

    • @spectralknight7142
      @spectralknight7142 Год назад +192

      William afton when his robots designed to murder children murder his children:

    • @amayakhler1551
      @amayakhler1551 Год назад

      @@SomekidplaysMinecraft i read it in Dracula's voice

    • @akamered4483
      @akamered4483 Год назад +27

      Actually read ppl write the exact opposite: Why can't a villain for once be evil just for the sake of being evil? 🤦 I mean, everyone can like what they like, but I'll never understand why you would prefer a one dimensional "hehe killing fun lol" villain over someone who actually has an reason/explanation why they kill

  • @Yue_mariin00
    @Yue_mariin00 6 месяцев назад +52

    For someone who has ADD and has trouble keeping up with complex storylines, you've made it very easy to comprehend and digest, THANK YOU!!

  • @Yunaschesirekat
    @Yunaschesirekat 6 месяцев назад +58

    Henry's speech to his daughter legit gave me chills.

  • @RylanForever
    @RylanForever 2 года назад +3573

    the idea of a guy’s greatest creation being his downfall and spiraling him out of control has such a greek tragedy feel about it which definitely kept me hooked onto these games for so long

    • @SimsWhoSmokeWeed
      @SimsWhoSmokeWeed 2 года назад +15

      yes!

    • @0nullnil
      @0nullnil 2 года назад +57

      You're absolutely right and I never thought about that. It being compared to a Greek tragedy is just so fitting due to how iconic this series is.

    • @muhklungky6855
      @muhklungky6855 2 года назад +4

      And it's a really original idea.

    • @owenpurr
      @owenpurr 2 года назад +1

      also frankenstein

    • @miguelcepas1401
      @miguelcepas1401 2 года назад +1

      Nice observation JFK

  • @Dr.Crusader0138
    @Dr.Crusader0138 2 года назад +703

    I've always seen the "odor" comment on the pink slip as a reference to the fact that Michael Afton was a reanimated corpse (by the end of Sister Location), and he was slowly rotting by the time that the events of FNAF 1 and 2 came around. It would also explain the tampering of animatronics, and the general unprofessionalism, he's a partly a zombie.

    • @Shorkii.
      @Shorkii. 2 года назад +46

      Yeah that's one reason I think that sister location takes place right before fnaf 2.

    • @dartoney
      @dartoney 2 года назад +31

      My dude, no way scot was planning it since that long

    • @thesneakystrangler9002
      @thesneakystrangler9002 2 года назад +54

      @@dartoney yeah but even back when it was just the pink slip it was easily assumed someone was dead in the suit. There's a ton of heavy foreshadowing (in the second game you're literally hiding inside a suit too). While maybe not planned for the character, it's almost certain it was a body. I remember back when it came out everyone saw that detail and were picking it apart

    • @chaoticpugs
      @chaoticpugs 2 года назад +35

      I don’t think Scott really planned any of it, the story is all over the place.

    • @FreezyPop
      @FreezyPop 2 года назад +7

      @@chaoticpugs I agree

  • @JustAGuy632
    @JustAGuy632 6 месяцев назад +36

    I have to say, as someone who knew absolutely nothing about fnaf until I saw the movie, this was an incredibly well done explanation of all of the events and really did service to the mad creativity of the creators. Nice job man!

  • @aespaspalace
    @aespaspalace 6 месяцев назад +83

    I'm 14. In 2016 I got into my FNAF era. It wa my whole life, but I never understood the lore. My friends invited me to watch the FNAF movie I've been waiting for for 7 years. I never understood the lore until this video, thanks!

    • @cottonballs9
      @cottonballs9 6 месяцев назад +3

      Wow you’re slow

    • @shruggggg
      @shruggggg 6 месяцев назад +15

      You got into FNAF when you were 7 years old??? Huh???????

    • @thena7033
      @thena7033 6 месяцев назад +25

      @@cottonballs9 that’s rude considering they still wanted to know about it. A lot of people are fans of the fnaf storyline but don’t fully understand the lore.. this was heavily unnecessary 🌚

    • @NeonApathy
      @NeonApathy 6 месяцев назад +2

      You’re the same age as my nephew, he’d watch the FNAF game plays back then as well.

    • @zazadestroyer333
      @zazadestroyer333 6 месяцев назад

      a lot of ppl did to be fair, unsupervised internet access goes crazy lol@@shruggggg

  • @joshlakin2844
    @joshlakin2844 Год назад +5712

    It can’t just be me that thinks Michael Afton is lowkey a badass, man goes through untold horrors and literally survives being a body suit through just sheer will

    • @Saphia_
      @Saphia_ Год назад +351

      Definitely not only you. I love Michael Afton. Him and Charlie are my favorites, Henry is a close second.

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather Год назад +160

      That’s why I love he’s the main the character no one else could really play the events of FNAF1-3 for any real reason the security guard in 2 survives because Freddy and his friends weren’t possessed yet and phone guy was tied in real close with the company and seemed to really want to believe the best for the company but since the guard in 3 sees visions of characters in the FNAF2 we know that at the very least those 2 characters are the same person

    • @perry6544
      @perry6544 11 месяцев назад +130

      he’s SUCH a badass i love him. he went through so much too from the guilt of accidentally causing his brother’s death to watching the awful stuff his dad did

    • @zosialee7000
      @zosialee7000 11 месяцев назад +71

      I mean. I hate him tbh. Only because he tortured and killed his brother even if on accident. But I feel like (because it was an accident) his brothers death haunted him. He was never looking for his dad. He was always trying to find his brother.

    • @ming2479
      @ming2479 11 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@zosialee7000 What's there to hate?

  • @Lenape_Lady
    @Lenape_Lady Год назад +5492

    Call me a baby but Henry’s speech right before the fire is set, at the end of Pizzeria Simulator gives me goosebumps. Whoever wrote that was able to put so many mixed emotions…rage, heartbreak, sorrow, despair, hope, guilt…and even love (his daughter Charlie). It’s just a really great speech.

    • @mrgiblet7379
      @mrgiblet7379 Год назад +35

      Yes

    • @thedestr0yer333
      @thedestr0yer333 Год назад +83

      What a baby

    • @O_Haraa
      @O_Haraa Год назад +322

      Scott was a fuckin legend for writing that speech holy shit. The perfect ending to the franchise

    • @MidnightHedgehog365
      @MidnightHedgehog365 Год назад +202

      Not only was the speech fantastic, but the delivery is what really made the speech what it is. It brought that speech and the emotions it entails to life.

    • @wyattsmith
      @wyattsmith Год назад +83

      I wholeheartedly agree. I have often thought of the game franchise as cringy (still kinda do, at least the majority of the fanbase), but no matter what I think, or what anyone thinks; Henry's speech is so damn impactful and in an odd way, badass I love it.

  • @MannyNamiro
    @MannyNamiro 6 месяцев назад +60

    This was the video that introduced me to Wendigoon.
    I've never played the games but wanted to look up the story for some reason. And every video I've watched was like a dramatic radio play or some third rate fanfic reading, with "creepy" sound effects and overly-acted voice over.
    Wedndigoon is just a guy telling you a story. He lets the story stand on its own and allows the contents of it to scare you. He has no need for these stupid sound effects or hamfisted dramatic readings.
    Straight and to the point.

    • @m_moritz1472
      @m_moritz1472 4 месяца назад +1

      he's like an uncle rambling on a road trip it's amazing

  • @handlebecauseihaveto
    @handlebecauseihaveto 6 месяцев назад +73

    Also I think remnant is actually a really useful concept introduced to the series. It basically establishes that the souls of the children, and most notably their pain and misery if not explicit consciousnesses are imprinted into the endoskeletons of the animatronics. This helps us track who went where, and also explains how little kids could be so murderously violent and downright sadistic towards even innocent people like michael and phone guy- their pain and suffering and misery is what animates the animatronics, they're not fully aware. It's not just the same person with a new body, it's a horrible experience trapped in a body.
    Which would also explain why william afton kept experimenting- he didn't just want the ghost of his son, the animated suffering he went through, he wanted the whole full consciousness of his son back. He got closer with circus baby, having made an animatronic that was more capable of communication and I assume ai to serve as the basis for conscious thought, but even only merged and filled circus baby's personality with the consciousness/sentience of her victim, elizabeth, rather than an unadulterated vessel for elizabeth to be able to live again through.
    Henry refers to the animatronics as "monsters" and tells them to give up their spirits. He wouldn't just be calling victimized children monsters, I think this goes to show it's not exactly the children's conscious minds/personalities in active control of the animatronics, but their pain.

    • @ericmcdonough6771
      @ericmcdonough6771 6 месяцев назад

      children are monsters. All of them

    • @scoliosis_core2455
      @scoliosis_core2455 5 месяцев назад +9

      I think a lot of the same ideas you mentioned can be understood without needing remnant to explain it. I think it’s generally agreed on by everyone, even those who don’t use the remnant theory, that the children’s souls are corrupted after possessing the animatronics. while that can be explained with the things you gave, it can also be something as simple as “souls are not supposed to do this, this is not natural”. to me, it seems like remnant is a good component for anybody who wants a specific and scientific-esque explanation of the soul possession. if that’s you, then that’s fine, but a lot of people (like myself) have always been able to accept “I mean yeah, this is a fictional universe, the rules of our universe might not apply” before remnant was even introduced. idk, that’s just how I see it.

    • @anonecki
      @anonecki 3 месяца назад +1

      The lack of an explanation made it scarier. Children's ghosts possessing mascot costumes are a violation of our accepted laws of reality, and that element of absurdity gave it that "bad dream you can't wake up from" feeling.
      The remnant theory rationalizes it within that world's laws, making it that much less interesting, and it filled gaps that should've remained empty.

    • @scoliosis_core2455
      @scoliosis_core2455 3 месяца назад

      @@anonecki yeah exactly!! you explained it a lot better than I did lol

    • @vanyadolly
      @vanyadolly 3 месяца назад

      I don't think it removed the supernatural elements entirely. The suits are clearly still haunted and the souls of the victims suffering, the remnant can just be used to animate other things. And it clears up how there's five murdered children rather than ten (or fifteen as some people claim).

  • @NaraShikamaru21
    @NaraShikamaru21 2 года назад +936

    The biggest complaint I've heard about Security Breach(from a story perspective) is that it undoes the fantastic ending of Pizzaria Simulator. And I wholeheartedly agree. Williams story should have ended at custom night.

    • @melissahenderlight2588
      @melissahenderlight2588 2 года назад +85

      Apparently in Security Breach, the original FNaFs were actual in-universe games that a random person made to stir up trouble around the company. There’s a reason why we don’t talk about that game XD

    • @spacetaco2792
      @spacetaco2792 2 года назад +57

      Yeah, they could have easily excluded William entirely from anything after Pizzeria Simulator and Ultimate Custom Night and it would have made not only those games’ story more satisfying, but make any future games’ stories less confusing and infuriating. They should have just used new characters instead of messing with the relatively satisfying conclusion given to William, his 3 kids, Henry, and the victims.

    • @broravioli907
      @broravioli907 2 года назад +10

      @@melissahenderlight2588 please tell me you're joking...

    • @omnitroph1501
      @omnitroph1501 2 года назад +19

      @@broravioli907 This is the series with possessed animatronics and time traveling ball pits. Why are you surprised at gameception?

    • @joanncatibod8150
      @joanncatibod8150 2 года назад +5

      @@melissahenderlight2588 we don't talk about sb

  • @eg_manifest510
    @eg_manifest510 2 года назад +852

    must say I always preferred the theories that involved Afton being motivated by the loss of his kids, since it makes him somewhat sympathetic and more interesting, whereas if he was already killing before his kids started to kick the bucket, that'd just mean he's the "1 dimensional murder man"

    • @Ranixo286
      @Ranixo286 2 года назад +51

      Yeah in the Squimpus where he favored one kid over the others, maybe to the point of wanting to bring him back from the dead with the whole remnant aspect being thrown in (And damn the fact that Afton never even AKNOWLEDGES Elizabeth's existence in that is telling too, which yes I know the squimpus videos don't take any game after 4 as Canon but, the dynamic of one golden child, one antagonized and one ignored is far too common) knowing that he was already a little unhinged and that finding a new sick thrill after already grieving and being abusive just throws a whole other wrinkle into the story than just "I like to kill and experiment".

    • @sonokawaray
      @sonokawaray 2 года назад +57

      Exactly. You can kinda see how a guy devastated by losing his children to his own creations would look at the Remnant phenomenon, see a potential way to get Evan and Elizabeth back, and in his desperate state of mind justify the murders he commits as awful but necessary steps to "reviving" them.
      Not to say that a character who is just inherently evil can't be compelling, but it's interesting to think instead he started in more of a Walter White sort of situation, starting as a good guy with a relatable motivation who slowly turned into the monster he ended up as.

    • @lunathetrip3241
      @lunathetrip3241 2 года назад +8

      i've been told i'm simping for a child murderer when i say i don't want him to be a moustache twirling villain 💀

    • @anexistingperson8540
      @anexistingperson8540 2 года назад +7

      That's simply not possible though. CC is alive after Charlie dies (Midnight Motorists is directly after Charlie dies) and if William made the SL bots first that would still make him the murder man before anything bad happened to him.

    • @itsyogirlcrim1476
      @itsyogirlcrim1476 2 года назад +10

      I mean I’m fine with that. A horrible child killer has zero need to be sympathetic at all. To hell with him and whatever sad backstory he may try to have.

  • @bigmyke2008
    @bigmyke2008 6 месяцев назад +8

    Henry’s final speech is still one of the most metal pieces of writing I’ve heard in a game and perfectly delivered too

  • @sarahanaya8850
    @sarahanaya8850 6 месяцев назад +8

    When he writes out the time line, im just so impressed of how CRISP those lines are.

  • @bobsempletank5362
    @bobsempletank5362 2 года назад +3592

    This is honestly my favorite dissection of the lore. Like bravo man holy shit, you laid it out in a way that made it make sense, make it sound good, pitch ideas and theories that make the story better and more cinematic, and make it be the most streamlined. Honestly this video is absolutely brilliant mate

    • @idalia799
      @idalia799 2 года назад +76

      Right? Now I don't have to watch 20 FNAF game theories to catch up anymore lol

    • @huronn
      @huronn 2 года назад +11

      wendigoons channel as a paragraph

    • @matthew1002
      @matthew1002 2 года назад +25

      What’s even better is he stuck to his guns since he believed it made sense, going as far as bucking affirmed things from Cawthon, such as ‘85 being the MCI, because in all reality, the MCI being in ‘87 before Fitzgerald gets bitten does make more sense then what Cawthon has tried to shoehorn in with the Fazbear Frights books after what was a great ending to the series, FFPS, aka FNAF 6.

    • @ccpink99
      @ccpink99 2 года назад

      Isn't William still alive in the newest game?

    • @alonetraveler5391
      @alonetraveler5391 2 года назад

      Hyperbdroid made the best for me imo

  • @CDCobermai
    @CDCobermai 2 года назад +810

    The final cutscene of FNAF 6 will always give me chills. It’s one of the best monologues I’ve ever heard. On top of that, it’s such a good conclusion to the stories of Michael and Henry

    • @hydro1096
      @hydro1096 2 года назад +49

      *BEEP* Connection Terminated

    • @CDCobermai
      @CDCobermai 2 года назад +45

      @@hydro1096 I’m sorry to interrupt you Elizabeth

    • @hydro1096
      @hydro1096 2 года назад +37

      if you still even remember that name, But I'm afraid you've been misinformed.

    • @monikakomodzinska2283
      @monikakomodzinska2283 2 года назад +50

      it was such a badass moment and i refuse to believe something else happened after this.

    • @kingswiss3241
      @kingswiss3241 2 года назад +35

      You are not here to receive a gift. Nor, have you been called here by the individual you assume.

  • @cultof12
    @cultof12 6 месяцев назад +15

    As someone who knows NOTHING about FNAF, this was so awesome and really gave depth to a story I didn’t realize was there. Thanks for making this!

  • @junebug6934
    @junebug6934 4 месяца назад +7

    25:33 Thank you so much for the audio pause man! Thats a genuis way to get audio listeners to see a on screen piece of info and is one of the only reasons I wasnt incredibly confused about that whole segment :)

  • @thefatherrabbit
    @thefatherrabbit 2 года назад +2365

    This is the most coherent and logical timeline I've ever heard for this series. With FNAF, it's really easy to miss the forest for the trees. There are so many little details to get caught up on that the more you know about it, the more confusing it gets. Like you said, I think that is something Matpat has fallen victim to as well. So many people take his theories as gospel, but even he has admitted that they have holes in them. How Security Breach fits into it is beyond me.
    I have alway thought of this story as depicting the complexities of the human condition for many of the reasons you stated. If the characters have no reason for the things that they do, why tell the story at all? Having William start out as a grieving father whose guilt drove him to extremes makes so much more sense. By the end, he's become so consumed by all of it that there's barely anything human left in him. He transforms into a monster entirely because of his own actions.

    • @cd7677
      @cd7677 2 года назад +40

      I've seen a lot of "fnaf explained" videos, and i think wendigoon too, that "Afton didn't kill people until now" is something that is so widely missunderstood

    • @nikhilpranav6915
      @nikhilpranav6915 2 года назад +10

      MatPat, Wendigood, Dawko Collab?

    • @vindicatelol
      @vindicatelol 2 года назад +4

      security breach is a spinoff

    • @comradedogma4957
      @comradedogma4957 2 года назад +13

      I mostly agree, but, insofar (30:21) and he appears to have just missed one fairly important detail: The phone guy 'calls' are actually recordings for training security guards. They were probably phone calls at one point, but when, in FNAF 2, you're spending time as the security guard, the missing childrens' incident *has* already happened.

    • @creed8712
      @creed8712 2 года назад +28

      @@comradedogma4957 why would they use phone records about things not relevant to training as their training tapes?

  • @HyperDroid
    @HyperDroid 2 года назад +1774

    I feel like it's common that at the end of putting together a FNAF timeline everyone says "I don't feel like this made any sense" hahaha, but great video! can't wait to see the VHS stuff :)

    • @haise_mix
      @haise_mix 2 года назад +2

      Love your vids

    • @trannydevito9748
      @trannydevito9748 2 года назад +5

      its not a fnaf timeline video if it doesnt end with that lol

    • @brianaaaaaa
      @brianaaaaaa 2 года назад

      @@trannydevito9748 tbh 😂🤣

  • @ghostie9895
    @ghostie9895 6 месяцев назад +24

    in my opinion, Michael didn't really "survive" after Ennard but more started possessing his own body, to me he's not really alive but not really dead either

  • @r.77022
    @r.77022 6 месяцев назад +11

    Pre-game refresher before the movie

  • @Flaszka
    @Flaszka 2 года назад +3050

    As a person who had ZERO idea about the series, didn't play the games, and know barely about Markiplier's meme - this makes so much sense and is such a creepy, well-build story. I was in awe for, like, the most of the video, for you and mostly the game creators. Can't wait for the VHS video!

    • @tenderturtle1019
      @tenderturtle1019 2 года назад +48

      That's funny the story is pretty much improved

    • @dyslexicfrogs8544
      @dyslexicfrogs8544 2 года назад +93

      It makes way more sense than what they give u as someone whose been in the fandom since the beginning 😩

    • @Riah010
      @Riah010 2 года назад +3

      Same!!

    • @quagernag
      @quagernag 2 года назад +2

      We are the dozens!

    • @IRONSnip3r77
      @IRONSnip3r77 2 года назад +1

      valid asf profile pic

  • @Judgement_Kazzy
    @Judgement_Kazzy 2 года назад +1571

    Something that often doesn't get enough love is what a genuinely brilliant design Springtrap had for a supernatural slasher villain. The derilect, barely together suit with barely visible hints of William's mummified corpse in it, and those cold, malicious eyes that just send a chill down your spine. It may not have the same uncanny creep factor as the classic animatronics, but as a "monster" design I think it's by far the best in the series. Unironically, he should be in Dead By Daylight or something.
    And then Scott turned him into a weird bald peanut man, but we don't have to talk about that part.

    • @anonymousapproximation8549
      @anonymousapproximation8549 2 года назад +116

      No, no, let's talk about the weird peanut man.

    • @anankos795
      @anankos795 2 года назад +213

      The original Springtrap design was able to hide Scott Cawthon's difficulties towards modeling humans very well in my opinion, as the red parts all around Springtrap's body bring to mind images of organs, muscles, veins and arteries without really looking like them. It seems like he wanted to rectify Springtrap's lack of realism (for a rotting human corpse inside of a costume/animatronic, I mean) when designing Scraptrap/William Afton, but as mentioned he has difficulties modeling humans which resulted in the weird bald peanut man we all know and have differing feelings towards.

    • @rubymvos105
      @rubymvos105 2 года назад +7

      Are we gonna talk about how you stole half of this from that fnaf 3 retrospective video

    • @Judgement_Kazzy
      @Judgement_Kazzy 2 года назад +78

      @@rubymvos105 The Sagan Hawkes one, I assume? I mean, if you consider agreeing with a point somebody made to be "stealing", then go for it I guess, but that seems like a stretch to me.

    • @IntenseFizz
      @IntenseFizz 2 года назад +69

      @@rubymvos105 if you're using the same pfp as MaximilianMus you don't get an opinion.

  • @wyntormoon
    @wyntormoon 6 месяцев назад +5

    Thank you for this. I'm 57, my son is 17. He use to play the game when he was younger. We have the new movie qued up to watch, and now I can't wait. This explained A LOT for me. Thank you again. This was perfect!!

  • @BassBeat66
    @BassBeat66 6 месяцев назад +20

    This was an incredible timeline overview! As someone who has never played the games, but debating about seeing the movie, being able to know the backstory was always going to be helpful, but I literally had NO IDEA the game was this in-depth! This is like Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and Gravity Falls all rolled up into a video game series.
    I did check out some other overview (I'm actually in the middle of an extremely long one) and so far, I think I not only like your explanation better, but feel it's far more likely, especially in terms of the why for Afton going on this killing spree.
    As someone who loved and grew up with Chuckie Cheese, no profitable organization would EVER let their CEO murder a bunch of kids and then continue operating AND no normal human being just straight up murders people - especially children - without some sort of reasoning (this is addressing the thought that the MCI happens at the beginning of this timeline)
    Afton losing his youngest child, before killing his partner's child out of grief makes complete sense and then getting the idea of bringing his son back via animatronics, only then to lose his daughter it's brilliant. The idea that ultimately FNaF is the story of a family tragedy that just happens to center around this restaurant is unique because it's not what you would expect, certainly not from a standard video game.
    Honestly, I think the original 6 games are the completed story and everything after is, IMHO, a cash grab to make more money. From what I've learned, those first 6 games tell this incredible story that starts with a tragedy - from #4 - and then concludes with the remaining members - Mike and Henry in #6 - putting an end to it.
    Now I'm really hoping the movie does some justice to this. Thank you for the painstaking amount of playtime/research it must've taken to do all of this!

  • @spinshocker
    @spinshocker Год назад +2635

    The only part I have issue with is the theory that William was purposely making Evan afraid of his animatronics. It just doesn’t make sense to me that he would willingly make his son hate his own creations that, at that point, he was supposedly making to entertain kids like his own.
    I think it makes more sense that Evan developed a fear of the animatronics from seeing their inner workings and how his dad worked on them in his own home. The nightmare versions of the animatronics have wires and mechanical parts poking out of them, as if they’re already rotting away, like Evan can only see the robotic parts that make up these characters. As for letting Michael tease and bully him so much, that could be a result of William pouring all his effort into these animatronics and being unintentionally neglectful to his actual family. I mean, from the little we see of how he treats Michael as a teenager, he seems to treat him like shit. And the fact that two of his children died as a result of somehow being able to get close enough to the animatronics to cause harm without any adult intervention is pretty telling.

    • @peterwang5660
      @peterwang5660 Год назад +163

      they're also just creepy, if I was Afton's son I would be fucked up.

    • @xDanilor
      @xDanilor Год назад +57

      Question: the fact that Michael survived getting scooped and "eating" (lol) Ennard is just accepted like that or there's an explanation? Also cuz in his monologue about not being dead and going to find William, his last words sound like he's a robot.

    • @Rey_Palpatine
      @Rey_Palpatine Год назад +92

      That was my takeaway based on the fnaf 4 cutscenes. We were shown Evan being stuck in the back room with all of the creepy ass animatronic heads/headless bodies. And wasn't there also a part where he saw William helping an employee put on an animatronic suit? It's very easy for a kid to be traumatized by such things, even if there wasn't any sinister stuff going on

    • @mel0n81
      @mel0n81 Год назад +67

      (just my theory) I think william has always been a cold business man, which is the reason he needed Henry. My theory is that he discovered the animatronics could potentially be dangerous, but he didn't want to lose money over it. He worked on the animatronics more than Henry, so he could be the only one with that knowledge. Instead of temporarly closing the business and losing money and the trust of the costumers, he kept his own children away from his inventions while working on the problem. It could also explain why his mental state decreased so much after the accident, because he knew the animatronics were dangerous and did not bother to fix them.

    • @ehan1406
      @ehan1406 Год назад +12

      I think he purposely did that because he knew they were dangerous, he didn’t think his other son would go that far, in another theory i heard, they said elizabeths death was before evans which would make more sense because william knows that the robots are programmed to kill children, but that theory was alot different from this one

  • @catsinwonderland7473
    @catsinwonderland7473 Год назад +1322

    1:11:46 I think it's fine because they were both stuck there, Cassidy got to know Evan, and Evan eventually wanted to move on, but Cassidy wasn't satisfied with him just being able to let go like that, so she stayed to enact revenge *for* Evan, and in turn, Evan got to move on because he knew Cassidy would stay. It makes sense

    • @annaxqe
      @annaxqe Год назад +215

      Yesss. They call Cassidy “the one you should not have killed” because unlike the other children, she wasn’t afraid to get revenge on William and did what she could.

    • @RedVelvetBlackleather
      @RedVelvetBlackleather Год назад +104

      I absolutely love UCN especially whenever they talk about “the one you should have not killed” especially chicka she says “I was the first I seen the one you should have not killed” just thinking of William get away with his killings just for the first victim to be like “yeah you got me but you sure didn’t get us all” is just so spooky and also inspiring

    • @catsinwonderland7473
      @catsinwonderland7473 10 месяцев назад +24

      @@RedVelvetBlackleather Exactly. I love the idea of Cassidy not getting to choose whether or not she lived, but doing what she could to dictate her murderer's fate. GFH.

    • @catsinwonderland7473
      @catsinwonderland7473 10 месяцев назад +20

      @@annaxqe Exactly. And somebody has gotta do it! I know if I got killed as a child I'd be pissed as hell too!

  • @shaggyhuh8596
    @shaggyhuh8596 6 месяцев назад +16

    This is the best timeline for the games ive seen. I didn’t notice any plot holes or you ignoring anything.

  • @shnyks228
    @shnyks228 6 месяцев назад +8

    1:15:00 For me personally, the only person who knows about FNAF is from fucking songs. Your video just put everything in its place . And I think I fell in love with this franchise

  • @Styxintheriver
    @Styxintheriver 2 года назад +3279

    I think Afton's goal in putting on the spring Bonnie suit wasn't to shield himself directly, but to scare them away. He meant to frighten them by becoming the last thing they saw alive.

    • @miyayuzu4473
      @miyayuzu4473 2 года назад +429

      Yeah, he also presumably starts to laugh taunting these poor souls which may easily be interpreted as him seeing them being afraid

    • @GreenGalaxio5
      @GreenGalaxio5 Год назад +114

      Oh- That actually makes a lot more sense.

    • @user-ec9um8xl2w
      @user-ec9um8xl2w Год назад +80

      Yea... wait doesn't that kinda count as ptsd since this is the same suit he used to kill the kids?... God william that f*cked up

    • @crazy922blade
      @crazy922blade Год назад +29

      @@user-ec9um8xl2w William is pretty f’d up anyway

    • @user-ec9um8xl2w
      @user-ec9um8xl2w Год назад

      @@crazy922blade I bet I can name somebody even more fucked up as william, Martin greywhinder

  • @thatsmypizzaroll
    @thatsmypizzaroll 2 года назад +6443

    The fact he took the time to make sure those listening to the audio understood the corrections is just honestly phenomenal and really deserves its recognition. Thank you bud

    • @Zanphos
      @Zanphos 2 года назад +129

      Honestly i think an audio replacement would work better? Just mute the audio of saying william and have it be him saying "mike" and then just keep the "there was an error" text. the pause wasnt super long. it was well meaning though!!! :D

    • @Leirsa
      @Leirsa 2 года назад +84

      Honestly yeah, I was listening and was like “wait what’d I miss” after hearing the pause. Pretty great idea, he probably just couldn’t properly record any audio at the time and insert it in the clip or something, pretty reasonable

    • @rotisseriepossum
      @rotisseriepossum 2 года назад +29

      @@Zanphos honestly this would’ve been simpler and made more sense imo. I like to listen to these while doing dishes, so it’s a hassle when I have to stop, rinse my hands, etc, to rewind for what could’ve been a one-word replacement

    • @dillonwalshpvd
      @dillonwalshpvd 2 года назад +27

      Like three separate times I started to look something up, only for him to start explaining exactly what I wanted to know in detail. Wendi is a fucking RUclips god-king

    • @Big-Sexy
      @Big-Sexy 6 месяцев назад +2

      I would have just assumed my video was loading and ignored it. He should have just done an audio edit

  • @Kelcb_
    @Kelcb_ 6 месяцев назад +8

    37:49 that’s two jobs

    • @dback50
      @dback50 6 месяцев назад

      That’s fucking hilarious 😂😂😂💀💀💀

  • @Cronrath64
    @Cronrath64 Месяц назад +5

    Bro has to remake this vid

    • @trooperz3499
      @trooperz3499 Месяц назад

      Yes he does the new Mattpat one destroyed this lmaoo

  • @nataliem.2758
    @nataliem.2758 Год назад +3179

    It's honestly a shame that Security Breach basically makes Henry's sacrifice useless, as well as Mike's.

    • @sequinjin8332
      @sequinjin8332 Год назад +521

      That's exactly what I've been saying. Same with help wanted. I honestly really enjoy the concept of VR fnaf cause that seems fucking terrifying, but why add more storyline to it and bring afton back? like glitchtrap was not an era we needed and it makes Henry's efforts worth nothing.

    • @nataliem.2758
      @nataliem.2758 Год назад +27

      @@sequinjin8332 FACTS!!

    • @cjaymeme
      @cjaymeme Год назад +238

      @@sequinjin8332 Glitchtrap was definitely a great concept in theory, but the whole concept of a real William return after UCN was flawed from the start. Henry and Michael sacrificed everything for absolutely nothing, and for all we know there is no way to truly end William at this point. He always comes back. Honestly, in my opinion, the best part of Glitchtrap is his design. It just looks cool and checks a lot of boxes for me.

    • @sequinjin8332
      @sequinjin8332 Год назад +107

      @@cjaymeme I like the general idea of glitchtrap and him causing the animatronics to hunt gregory in SB, just not the idea of William being glitchtrap. like it breaks my heart for all the lost souls and henry and michael's efforts to just have him come back every game. it's time they let him go. find a new antagonist. what if instead they made it so vanessa found out about everything william did (someway, somehow, idek) and wanted to finish what he started and continue his legacy cause shes crazy or sum. what if she was glitchtrap and William actually did die. that would give us a new antagonist and face new battles, potentially giving us an entirely new storyline and henry's sacrifice would have actually meant something for his time. that was just a random concept but yeah. they could have just made vanessa (or literally any random person) glitchtrap but no.

    • @OfficialJab
      @OfficialJab Год назад +62

      Kinda but here's a couple thoughts (that I left in another comment)
      I wonder if these theories can be true which give its story some legitimacy and heart.
      a) Glitchtrap/Burntrap aren't William's actual soul but an imprint of it inside technology, not contradicting UCN. The strength it had by the end of FNAF6 means that even once it's gone, there will be ripples and some maybe permanent effects, especially on that particular place.
      b) Glamrock Freddy is similarly being gradually controlled by Michael's soul, which is not trapped in hell, in order to intervene against Burntrap. Trap has trouble possessing Freddy at the end for this reason. Once they escape, Michael has saved a small boy's life - he has already redeemed his sin previously but in a way he actively reversed it with Gregory.
      This is similar for Blob in fact - the spirits of the murdered children are empowered to return when necessary to guard others against any remnants of William Afton, whatever form those take.

  • @bonefortune
    @bonefortune Год назад +2575

    i dont think william ever really ‘lost his mind’. i feel that the fact he was willing to spy on his children so intensely before killing anyone or even designing animatronics to kill is a good indicator that he always had a potential for evil.

    • @maeikaa4427
      @maeikaa4427 Год назад +103

      yeah, my man always had issues 😅

    • @itrashcant7947
      @itrashcant7947 Год назад +260

      Maybe "finally gave in to his demons" is a better phrase?

    • @bonefortune
      @bonefortune Год назад +41

      @@itrashcant7947 yeah that sounds about right

    • @missingtundra1624
      @missingtundra1624 Год назад +73

      One of the things Wendigoon got wrong was in fact that statement- canonically William killed Charlie before Evan died.
      There is also other clues that may imply William was an alcoholic, abusive and may have killed his wife (Though all are up to interpretation)

    • @ChipCheerio
      @ChipCheerio Год назад +12

      @@missingtundra1624 Canonical in what sense? Where is that lore coming from?

  • @Chaos15105
    @Chaos15105 4 месяца назад +5

    genuinely one of the best fnaf lore breakdown videos ive ever watched

  • @afrothekobold
    @afrothekobold 6 месяцев назад +7

    from what I remember like half of the lore in fnaf was added post-hawk after the first few games blew the fuck up, then drip fed though other stuff as the series went on. It would explain why it's as all over the place as it is.

    • @f5203
      @f5203 6 месяцев назад

      Amen

  • @sirleopold2378
    @sirleopold2378 2 года назад +1824

    My theory for why Michael survives is quite simply that he didn't survive, he's just possessing his own rotting meat suit, cuz his spirit bound to the animatronic which was at the time part of his body, either making his body technically an animatronic, or they did to him whatever it was they did to Elizabeth to kick both of them out

    • @TheSipow
      @TheSipow 2 года назад +216

      I always thought that the sort of robotic effects added to Michael’s voice during the cutscene claiming that he is going to find his father subtly implied that, in some way, Micheal’s body remained animatronic after Enard is rejected from his body.

    • @Juhsmalik
      @Juhsmalik 2 года назад +20

      Imagine Michael was balloon boy

    • @ZenoDovahkiin
      @ZenoDovahkiin Год назад +79

      @@TheSipow Makes sense. Basically, we could say Michael posessed Ennard the exact same way that any MCI animatronic got posessed, except he had Ennard inside himself instead of the other way.
      So Michael became part of Ennard, so in order to be independent from him, Ennard had to leave, but leave behind the robot parts that had now become posessed by Michael, just like how they threw out the robot parts that were posessed by Elisabeth later on. Elisabeth's parts went on to become Scrap Baby, and Michael's parts became a reverse Springtrap with robot parts inside and human parts outside.
      Maybe that's why Ennard left Michael in the first place. Michael seems to be moving much easier after Ennard leaves him and he gets back up. Maybe the souls in Ennard were fighting for control and Michael started winning because everything was inside of his body, so the others had to leave.

    • @neon-kq6wz
      @neon-kq6wz Год назад +42

      I agree. I love the idea of someone haunting their own dead body, like a mixture between a ghost and a zombie.

    • @neon-kq6wz
      @neon-kq6wz Год назад +21

      @@Juhsmalik best FNAF theory hands down.

  • @tanglekelp1857
    @tanglekelp1857 2 года назад +2217

    I've always loved the interpretation that William absolutely snapped mentally once he learned the fate of his children.
    Yeah it does make him easier to hate if you believe he was evil all along or, as I've seen many people hc him as, a p*do, but him just. being a normal, everyday guy who loves what he does, that then suddenly breaks mentally over the tragedy that befell his children at the hands of his own creations...
    idk, that makes him a lot more compelling imo

    • @bullhuss
      @bullhuss 2 года назад

      Didn't he make Circus Baby to trap and kill kids?

    • @mattygee6852
      @mattygee6852 2 года назад

      Where in the living fuck was it stated that he fucked the kids?

    • @threehundredandtwo5991
      @threehundredandtwo5991 2 года назад +198

      yes its way better than bad man does bad things just because he is bad for no reason

    • @PLAGUE-KARM
      @PLAGUE-KARM 2 года назад +120

      Yes, motives like this are much more interesting then “lmao immortality go brrr”

    • @lsghost5805
      @lsghost5805 2 года назад

      People that obsess about making William a pedo need to be investigated cause that's suspicious

  • @Ciscokid-nt7pf
    @Ciscokid-nt7pf 6 месяцев назад +11

    Idc what anyone says this is the real fnaf movie

  • @TinyRaptorGames
    @TinyRaptorGames 6 месяцев назад +39

    While I do think that remnant makes the story so much more complex and confusing, I definitely think it puts certain things together as to how William discovered remnant, and how Mike survives enard

  • @milesdreemurr
    @milesdreemurr 10 месяцев назад +1960

    Michael is the king of determination and grit in this entire franchise. He continued to return to his personal hell to bring everything to an end despite losing his internal organs. This man was a dead man walking and would not die until he truly felt at peace and henry brought it to him. This story is incredible now that its put together in a proper manner

    • @zebboplayer70
      @zebboplayer70 6 месяцев назад +1

      michael is the most antihero guy in the series, he is not a good guy but he is doing the good in the point of view for us

  • @jammyantom585
    @jammyantom585 2 года назад +9635

    This... Is actually a super fitting topic for this channel, wow. The idea of wendi covering this franchise never crossed my mind, but now i am all for it

    • @jammyantom585
      @jammyantom585 2 года назад +19

      Bruh

    • @pinecone4610
      @pinecone4610 2 года назад +73

      @@jammyantom585 why did you reply bruh to your own comment 💀💀💀

    • @jammyantom585
      @jammyantom585 2 года назад +30

      @@pinecone4610 bot

    • @bistander
      @bistander 2 года назад +47

      I want "Wendi" to be a thing we all use

    • @bigbloo9322
      @bigbloo9322 2 года назад

      Yeah wow

  • @ellaehayward
    @ellaehayward 6 месяцев назад +5

    just spent hours watching other fnaf lore videos and nothing made sense or stuck with me at all... but this video is so digestible and straight to the point that now i finally understand everything after struggling for YEARS omg😭😭THANK YOU

  • @TheMarkoSeke
    @TheMarkoSeke 3 месяца назад +2

    Your timeline of William's motives is so much more satisfying than most other theories who just go "oh at some point he killed 5 more unknown children because he's an evil child killer"

  • @emilykarrh421
    @emilykarrh421 2 года назад +2191

    Me, who has never played FNAF: "I need this feature length film of backstory."
    As a newcomer, you actually made this pretty clear to me. Great job

    • @WildArtistsl
      @WildArtistsl 2 года назад +6

      same

    • @siwap3809
      @siwap3809 2 года назад +20

      yeah Wendigoon did a really fantastic job at tackling this task.

    • @jadenyuki3138
      @jadenyuki3138 2 года назад +1

      They making a movie a rated R one

    • @jadenyuki3138
      @jadenyuki3138 2 года назад +1

      @Aggelos Anastasoulakis weich wans?

    • @metamodern409
      @metamodern409 Год назад

      Same

  • @SealedKiller
    @SealedKiller Год назад +698

    Considering that springtrap (William) doesn't really have a jumpscare but rather just approaches you makes more sense if Michael is the security guard and William recognizes him...
    Plus springtrap staring at you thru the window also would imply that William recognizes his son.

  • @carri0n977
    @carri0n977 6 месяцев назад +7

    "I feel like today's horror series needs no introduction"
    *proceeds to give 7 minutes of introduction*

  • @gabrielbruce1977
    @gabrielbruce1977 5 месяцев назад +10

    And then, unfortunately, we got Security Breach and its DLC. Which don't really... feel, like continuations at all. They feel like something new in the same universe.

  • @Spoon-Salesman
    @Spoon-Salesman 2 года назад +704

    Agreed. The fact that security breach says that Henry's plan didn't work was actually insulting. I have decided to completely ignore the last two games so the story has some sort of actual closure.

    • @sbh79
      @sbh79 2 года назад +32

      In UCN you are playing as William in his eternal punishment though, I dunno why you would void it

    • @djriqky9581
      @djriqky9581 2 года назад +39

      He is dead but is in eternal torment. I feel the last games take William's spirit a have him be some code or virus that infects machines especially animatronics which is a cool concept don't know why you need closure boi

    • @Spoon-Salesman
      @Spoon-Salesman 2 года назад +117

      @@sbh79 I’m sorry I think you’re confused, I don’t avoid ultimate custom night. I’m only talking about the two latest games in the series, them being Help Wanted and Security Breach.

    • @ringoferrer2343
      @ringoferrer2343 2 года назад +36

      @@sbh79 the last two games he was talking about are help wanted and security breach, nothing to do with ucn

    • @sbh79
      @sbh79 2 года назад +51

      @@Spoon-Salesman Ohhhhhhhh sorry, at this point I forgot help wanted even existed lol

  • @mistermaxie6487
    @mistermaxie6487 Год назад +1582

    You cannot imagine the sheer awe and emotions I felt when I heard Henry's monologue. You need to remember, by 2017 Henry and Charlie were both book exclusive characters, and so many questions were unanswered. Imagine the whiplash I felt when it finally clicked that Henry was the one speaking and *Charlie* the protagonist of the novels was the single most important animatronic in the entire series.
    This is one of my all time favorite moments in gaming, because it paid off so much. No, we aren't including Security Breach in this conversation. FNAF6 on its own was the *perfect* FNAF ending.

    • @nikoclesceri2267
      @nikoclesceri2267 Год назад +38

      He really sounds like the twilight zone guy to me during that monologue

    • @whyiwakeup6460
      @whyiwakeup6460 Год назад +14

      @@nikoclesceri2267 rod sterling

    • @Roach_Dogg_JR
      @Roach_Dogg_JR Год назад +28

      Wow I wish I actually played the games and read the books rather than just watching RUclips videos because that sounds like such a cool experience to have.

    • @donovanromanski
      @donovanromanski Год назад +10

      Bruh I remember 2014 when nobody knew shit

    • @Rikirie
      @Rikirie Год назад +4

      Holy shit that was 5 years ago. I swear I thought it had only been like 2-3 years since pizzeria sim.

  • @DiamondBrown94
    @DiamondBrown94 6 месяцев назад +3

    This has been SO helpful! I needed to understand what’s going on before the movie and this is the most comprehensive video I’ve watched so far. Thank you!