FNAF: What are the Shadow Animatronics? | FNAF Theory

What are the Shadow Animatronics? Well I think we finally got an answer in this video! It is a theory so of course take it with a grain of salt but it helps depict Shadow Freddy as a genuine threat and not some forgotten character!
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Timestamps
Intro: 00:00
Dark Remnant: 00:38
Shadow Similarities: 01:37
RWQFSFASXC: 03:10
Shadow Freddy: 05:13
The Issues: 09:55
Final Thoughts: 10:37
Outro: 11:14

[@sunnyqlol]

I hope we do see shadow Freddy in the future, I have a good feeling we will after RWQ appeared in Special Delivery

[@NarrowRaven]

That's what I'm thinking. There's a lot going for him now that he was in the movie and the character encyclopedia mentioned he could appear in the future!

[@marioblaze2723]

Seeing the shift in the serie to Sci-fi i doubt we'll ever see Shadow Freddy and RWQ again

[@Eddbruh83]

I agree with almost everything in this video. I only disagree a little on the Shadow Freddy part. IMO, Shadow Freddy in FNAF 3 appears to be defeated. I think that after the FNAF 4 nights, Shadow Freddy/Nightmare was weakened by Mike and that he couldn't really to anything afterwards. Anyways, this was a fun watch! 👍

[@NarrowRaven]

Here just so I grasp a understanding, do you think FNAF 4 happens before or after 3? Though y'know, could be the same thing however later dark remnant showing up in help wanted and stuff could be his resurrection and fnaf 3 was him running out of dark remnant to stay formed. Interesting.

[@Eddbruh83]

@@NarrowRaven I think the FNAF 4 nights happen before the events of FNAF 3 but that Michael was still working at Fazbear Frights while experiencing them. Phone Dude does say how he's glad that the FrightGuard came back for another night and the drawing from the Logbook is based on "recent dreams". And yeah I agree that Shadow Freddy might have resurrected later in HW.

[@NarrowRaven]

@@Eddbruh83 Honestly my only disagreement is FNAF 4 "taking place" in FNAF 3, I believe it's FNAF 1.

[@Eddbruh83]

@@NarrowRaven Oh? Do you believe LogbookMeta?

[@Eddbruh83]

​@@NarrowRaven Fair enough

[@blair2050]

Personally, I like to this it’s the spring lock incidents mentioned in fnaf 3 tapes spawned them, one dying in a Bonnie suit and the other in a Freddy suit

[@NarrowRaven]

My only issue with this is that we never hear of it again and that FNAF 1-4 have been going through some lore changes, I feel either this did happen but isn't relevant anymore, or it's been forgotten due to time.

[@aftoncultistandsimp]

Remmnant: 1. Dark(Sadness, Hate, Agony and Evil/Wickedness) 2.Bright(A soul but no. Basically is an attachable part of the soul) RWQFSFASXC: RWQFSFASXC is a friendly Shadow. Unlike the evil Shadow Freddy who is stated in FNaF World to be a soul eater, Shadow Bonnie is more so a soul Sheppard who guides spirits to peace and tries to prevent more death. Shadow Bonnie is most likely formed from Charlotte’s death and the death of the MCI in 1985. Shadow Bonnie is created from those whom Afton affected and therefore Shadow Bonnie matches the traits of the Marionette well and takes on the form of a bunny due to the murder being done by a man in a bunny suit(Obv Springbonnie≠Toy Bonnie but the connection is still valid) Shadow Freddy/Nightmare/Nightmarione/Eleanor I have a simple answer that involves the Shadow Freddy=Nightmare=Nightmarione theory. Nightmare states he is Afton’s wickedness. More evidence to back this up is that Shadow Freddy follows Afton everywhere and even helped him dismantle the OGs. If you believe Shadow Eleanor, like I do, then that would mean that wickedness/evil shit is backed up. The form of a bear also backs this up as Afton murdered Charlotte to get even with Henry later that night while drunk. It represents his son’s possession of Fredbear/Golden Freddy. Afton commits murder and turns evil because he discovers his son’s possession and remmnant. The Nightmare form is used to torture Micheal in his dream. The Nightmarione form is currently used now during the new FNaF era. Overall, I think there is a lot of evidence to support Shadow Freddy being the embodiment of Afton’s evil.

[@NarrowRaven]

Our theories align a lot! The only reason I didn't mention Nightmarionne is because I just don't have evidence to link the two for the time being!

[@aftoncultistandsimp]

@@NarrowRaven Nightmarione in SB is called "Nightmare" when you get a plushie of Nightmarione! Also their jumpscares align perfectly. Nightmarione replaces Nightmare as well.

[@NarrowRaven]

@@aftoncultistandsimp Plushie point fair enough! The jumpscare aligning could just be a coincidence and nightmarionne is a fair point as well in FNAF 4 however I'm hesitant on that since it was for the Halloween Update.

[@nickytembo4112]

I personally think that Shadow Freddy is a fusion of the FNaF 4 kid’s soul and William’s wickedness and that Shadow Bonnie is the soul of a dead Freddy’s employee who died inside a Spring Bonnie suit.

[@NarrowRaven]

The only thing with this is that we never see a resemblance between spring bonnie and rwqs looks. As well as there being someone else who died in that suit. So far we only know William has. Also you wouldn't be wrong about the fnaf 4 soul thing, however it'd be the dark remnant not normal remnant.

[@nickytembo4112]

@@NarrowRaven But if Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie have nothing to do with Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, Then why only Freddy and Bonnie as shadow versions? Plus, Shadow Bonnie has more teeth than Toy Bonnie.

[@nickytembo4112]

@@NarrowRaven and Phone Guy mentions that the Springlock failures happened at Freddy’s. We know it can’t be the bite of 83 because Fredbear is in Suit mode. Plus the Bite of 83 happened at Fredbear’s not Freddy’s.

[@NarrowRaven]

@@nickytembo4112 Just checked the FNAF 3 call. It happened at the sister location. "After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures..." Also i never said the Crying Child specifically died as a result of the springlocks within Fredbear nor did I mention it happened at a freddy's location. Just that he did and the dark remnant that spawned from the traumatic experience, such as fear, sadness and later agony would've been more for Shadow Freddy to eat and become more powerful. It seems however that those springlock failures, if they even did happen at this point, aren't relevant to the story of FNAF anymore as they are never mentioned after this game, not even once. So odds are it was retconned or just not important anymore.

[@nickytembo4112]

@@NarrowRaven But the “Sister Location” could be referring to a Sister Freddy Fazbear’s pizza.

[@iamspringtrap223]

Pretty good theory. Makes lots of good points. I see no problems with this one, great job

[@NarrowRaven]

Thank you! I tried really hard on this video because I'm so annoyed shadow freddy never gets love!

[@Sonicmid]

In the games, they’re definitely agony however, in the movie universe they’re Max and Jeff

[@NarrowRaven]

The movie shadows are interesting. We've only seen good ol shadow freddy so far and we don't know much about the movie counterpart. However I do think Max will have a role to play in Shadow Freddy in the future. We will just have to wait and see.

[@MrCacoMC]

Nightmarionne is just another form of Nightmare/S. Freddy, and who shows up all throughout Security Breach and Ruin?... Honestly love that idea, + it makes sense from what we speculate of him and what we know of Eleanor in Frights (another shadow entity who takes advantage of Will's actions). Dunno about RXQ, but that one's probably more mysterious ig.

[@NarrowRaven]

RWQ is really confusing as we know so much yet so little. Shadow Freddy being Nightmarionne is something I wanted to say but cut out of the script due to me not having any evidence to back that up!

[@samlawlor9514]

Rwq is just a unknown name so I just neme him shadow Bonnie and he looks like toy Bonnie but black and shadow Freddy looks like golden Freddy but purple he even shows up in fnaf 1 because it’s in fnaf 3 mini game of fnaf 1 and nightmare looks like nightmare fredbear but black and with yellow so my theory that shadow Bonnie is a shadow side of toy Bonnie and shadow Freddy is the crying child aka Chris Afton after the bite of 83 and him becoming golden Freddy with Cassidy Chris Afton be came shadow Freddy

[@2TaterTot]

I'm a bit out of the loop with this stuff - is shadow freddy in FNAF 3 the figure that looks like a broken down freddy? I always thought that was a decoration

[@NarrowRaven]

Are you talking about the one in the doorway? The one in the doorway is Freddy. The one that can randomly appear right next to you is shadow freddy.

[@xhacknight]

Hmm... I disagree shadow freddy is connected to william and there are also multiple shadow animatronics shadow bonnie the one we see in fnaf 2 is a toy bonnie model while the one we see jn fnaf 4 is based of springbonnie 2 completly diffrent designs and I fredbear the one we see in fnaf 4 is a shadow version of fredbear while shadow freddy has the same model as golden freddy so my opinion is that there is multiple shadow animatronics and that the springlocked worker theory is correct but only for 3 of them shadow freddy is in my opinion possesed by evan/c.c in midnight motorist we see foot marks on the ground and foot steps continuing along it the only animatronics that can teleport are the shadows and golden freddy I mainly believe it's shadow freddy because it might be evan haunting michael after the bite of 83 plus the crying child is full of negative emotions meaning he is has dark remnant and further more evan might have been helping william because he was being tricked just like the missing children jn the fourth closet evan posseses multiple animatronics golden freddy and shadow freddy william could have tricked him just like how he did to the missing children this could further explain why shadow freddy has the same model as withered golden freddy and why the shadows are in the fnaf 4 minigame

[@NarrowRaven]

Okay I'll list my responses to certain things then give my final thoughts on this. 1. RWQ isn't a perfect toy bonnie model, as well as RWQ has been referenced in other forms such as in the books looking more like a blob shadow bonnie than anything. 2. Shadow Freddy is a version of Withered Golden Freddy, in which Golden Freddy is Fredbear. 3. RWQ can also teleport, as seen in FNAF AR. 4. There is currently no evidence in game or in the books of the multiple simultaneous springlock failures that were mentioned. Odds are this was a throw away line. 5. CC seems to be more confused on what's going on than controlled by anyone in the games, the evidence for this is the security logbook and alone together 6. Shadow Freddy could very well have CC's dark remnant, but it isn't CC himself. Overall a lot of the points here don't hold up too well. We have evidence for every point I brought up to a good degree to make a story out of. As well there will be a future further explanation into FNAF 4 as a theory so I can't say too much here. Basically long story short FNAF 4 cannot be 1 protagonist, however it can't be 2 at separate times. That's all I can say without giving it away. Read alone together and you'll see what I mean! Though I do see where you're coming from though I don't believe this explanation as there's too many holes in it.

[@xhacknight]

@NarrowRaven well shadows can't really be damaged and there are multiple animatronic suit which can further proof that there are multiple shadow animatronics

[@NarrowRaven]

@@xhacknight I never said they could be damaged but rather weaker than they once were. Also there's no evidence of multiple shadows outside of what we see in games and books. It's always RWQ or Shadow Freddy. Even in the movie it's Shadow Freddy, and he looks pretty dismantled so they might be able to be damaged when they're manifested.

[@xhacknight]

@NarrowRaven well we do in the same mini game we see the 2 shadows we also see a guy wearing a fredbears suit

[@SonZackSSJ9k]

Actually Charlie died after CC and it makes more sense that Charlie’s next host would be Henry Emily.

[@iamspringtrap223]

Unconfirmed

[@SonZackSSJ9k]

@@iamspringtrap223 Nah but it’s more likely CC Died first giving that William would need the motivation to kill her and mere jealousy wouldn’t be the breaking point but rather the Bite of ‘83.

[@iamspringtrap223]

@@SonZackSSJ9k Either way, it's unconfirmed

[@SonZackSSJ9k]

@@iamspringtrap223 it’s also unconfirmed Charlie died first so what’s your point? FNaF is all speculation so saying it’s unconfirmed is a bad argument.

[@NarrowRaven]

@@SonZackSSJ9k the thing about theory crafting is with unconfirmed things you can't be hard on one theory, you have to look at it on all sides. With charlottes death there's equal arguments for both sides. So it is unconfirmed as of right now. Though William doesn't need ccs death to cause him to kill. We know he was a very messed up man very early on and with the potential story of their partnership and fall fest, enough jealousy or the urge for him to want something he wasn't getting could push him. People have killed for dumber things in life, like mayo on a subway sub.