Summary
Fans ofFive Nights at Freddy’sfinally have the opportunity to witness the pizzeria and the animatronics in all their live-action glory. However, despite fans' and critics’ feelings onFive Nights at Freddy’s, many can agree that some elements of the plot just don’t make too much sense when one thinks deeply about what they just watched.
Whether it’s the fate of certain characters, or how people even got to the pizzeria in the first place,Five Nights at Freddy’shas a few plot holes and inconsistencies that make players question things more than they should. After all, this is a movieabout haunted animatronics, but that doesn’t mean it’s void of logic and reason.
This article contains spoilers for Five Nights at Freddy’s.
8What Is Balloon Boy?
Balloon Boy is often seen as one of themost hated animatronicsinFive Nights at Freddy’sdue to his creepy appearance and how he constantly jumpscares the players and steals their batteries. However, Balloon Boy appears inFive Nights at Freddy’sas a surprise animatronic, but is he even an animatronic? Balloon Boy must be sentient, as he is found moving around in different locations around the pizzeria, and even entering a taxi.
It just doesn’t make sense how Balloon Boy is so tiny, and practically a figurine, yet seems as sentient as the animatronics. Does that mean William Afton killed a child and placed it into a toy? The origins of Balloon Boy leave much mystery surrounding what he actually is.
William Afton isknown to theFive Nights at Freddy’scommunityas a notorious serial killer and a heinous one who only kills children and stuffs their bodies in animatronic suits. However, if this is William Afton’s hobby, how come he was able to lead a double life as a career counselor with the name Steve Raglan?
Would people not look into his past as an owner of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place or the fact that his name is completely different? It seems odd that William Afton would be in an industry where he had constant access to kill children, just to then move over to career counseling to help adults get jobs.
6Is Vanessa Actually A Cop?
Vanessa is a police officer inFive Nights at Freddy’s, but in all honesty, she doesn’t seem very good at her job. As a cop, she should be out patrolling the town and keeping people out of trouble. However, she seems to spend most of her time hanging out at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place. How has Vanessa not been fired, she clearly isn’t protecting and serving if she’shanging out with Freddy Fazbear and the gang every night.
Vanessa doesn’t just turn up to the pizzeria to make sure everything is okay in the abandoned location, she decides to stay and build forts out of chairs to have some fun. It doesn’t make much sense that Vanessa is a police officer, on duty, and someone who has plenty of time to hang around an abandoned pizzeria. Does she not have a radio to respond to, or is she just lying about her job?
5Did No One Smell Rotting Corpses?
The reason William Afton was able to get away with his child murders comes from the fact that he would stuff the children’s bodies into the animatronics, as nobody would even think to look inside these lovable things. However, that doesn’t make much sense when one realizes just how bad the smell of a rotting corpse would be, especially decomposing inside a metal suit that interacts with children on a daily basis.
Surely someone would have smelt something foul? Even so, security guards after the pizzeria closed down have either quit or disappeared, but their bodies are just stuffed in a backroom. How have none of the other guards before Mike stumbled across these bodies, and what do they even do with them? It’s not like they’re going to dig graves in a parking lot.
4How Did A Giant Animatronic Get To Mike’s House?
The animatronics want Abby Schmidt so that they can play with her forever when she is reborn as an animatronic like them. Yet, one important question remains, and something that doesn’t make much sense, is just how Golden Freddy managed to trek all the way to Mike’s house.
It’s unlikely that Golden Freddy got a taxi, considering he had no money to pay with. It’s also unlikely that he walked, as he would have been spotted, or considering how slow the animatronics walk, it would have taken hours, well into the morning.
3Why Did The Yellow Rabbit Costume Have Springlocks Inside?
Considering Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place had amix of mascots in suitsand animatronics, it seems a tad strange that the suits that are supposed to fit someone inside to fully move around in would have springlocks designed to basically crush people’s flesh and bones to trap them inside.
When William Afton puts on the Yellow Rabbit costume, it seems a tad bizarre that this suit would be designed in such a way that it would trap him, and effectively kill him slowly, stuffing him and keeping him locked inside to rot, with no way out.
2Is The Cupcake Sentient?
What seems most harmless in theFive Nights at Freddy’smovie is the cupcake, which is just a silly little animatronic attached to Chica’s plate. With two big teeth, one wouldn’t expect the cupcake to be harmful, until it tries biting off someone’s face and Mike’s leg. This begs the question, is theFive Nights at Freddy’scupcake sentient?
It doesn’t make much sense for the cupcake to have the soul of a child, as Mike’s dreams do not show the cupcake kid, nor does it make sense for William to stuff a cupcake with a child’s body. Why is the cupcake so evil when it’s usually just a decoration to be a part ofthe evil Chica?
1Are The Animatronics Good Or Bad?
Another thing that doesn’t translate well is the state of the animatronics. Whilst they are visually incredible for a live-action movie, the animatronics inFive Nights at Freddy’sseem to pick and choose when they want to murder someone, orwhen they want to play. Whether it’s having a tickle fight, singing on the stage, building forts out of furniture, or biting people in half, the animatronics seem to be pretty messy when it comes to morality.
What’s the deal with the animatronics, and why do they seem to fluctuate between helping someone and killing someone? It makes sense for them to kill William Afton, due to the fact that he killed them and trapped their souls in the animatronics, but it doesn’t seem to make much sense for them to want to kill random security guards, people that break-in, and another child.
