The Complete Five Nights at Freddy's Story Explained

[@Wendigoon]

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[@evanorsomething909]

I never thought you would make a video on this lol

[@coyoteocular5994]

Mashallah my friend

[@elizabethmerin5735]

I watched the entire video! Good job!

[@damianmendez2127]

This video is going to blow your channel up HARD

[@walterclarkiv5526]

First response lil

[@DuncanGrimm]

"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]

One of my favorite lines in the series!

[@SakuraAsranArt]

Henry really is the unsung hero of this entire franchise.

[@RinLockhart]

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

[@mazzareli820]

Timestamp?

[@brynnbutler3388]

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

[@thisperson345]

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]

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

[@Sockren]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@michellemcgee6365]

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]

That’s so cool!

[@neon-kq6wz]

This comment is so wholesome :,)

[@realfisheggs]

very wholesome ~

[@DummysGirl97]

My night was made reading this

[@mztikys]

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

[@munecaxmuerta]

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]

Condoning murder porn isn’t parenting 😂

[@ava3270]

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

[@munecaxmuerta]

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

[@ericmcdonough6771]

@@munecaxmuerta and jails just a room

[@robertoparedes5787]

@@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

[@D3LTA48]

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]

​@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]

@@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]

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]

@@pewpew8606🤓

[@MyBitch925]

13:31 what game is this?

[@burg3575]

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

[@somethingwithbungalows]

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]

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

[@EspeonMistress00]

And then SB just ruined that moment

[@garox5124]

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

[@lila.sorelli]

@@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.

[@kayd.1600]

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]

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

[@3meritetrinel50]

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

[@lightsinthecar]

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

[@your_favorite_jackalope_ba1325]

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

[@JustarLad]

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

[@sdebord8707]

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]

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

[@purpseatpeeps8641]

I choose to interpret that as an interesting character scar, I never really liked the idea that he intentionally wanted to traumatize the crying child- I think of it more of an emotionally inept kind of way. Like he feels like he should love and watch over his children, but as a consequence of his parental cluelessness and general uncaring, this is how he thinks to do it. “I’ll LITERALLY watch over him! I’m a genius!” And I think that ties into why he doesn’t care about Michael bullying Evan, it’s a “Boys will be boys, he’s just messing around!” kind of thing.

[@jackdavenport5011]

⁠true but that doesn’t really make sense because William murdered Charlie, and at this point in the story I don’t see why he would do that

[@m4n1987]

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]

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

[@seanbruck5269]

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]

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]

@@mud4309 yup

[@La_Win69]

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

[@hound1059]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@merrakie5216]

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]

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

[@wajmgirl]

So we’re forgetting moisture exists now.

[@softmongreal]

oh my god.

[@carlosgomez-nv9xo]

Or you know, the ceiling was dripping water

[@lilyungin4906]

It was Evans very own tears fellas

[@Forthesupporterss]

William: wanna start a pizzeria? Henry: no *good ending*

[@yasinozturk2392]

How to finish it before it starts.

[@mr.e2239]

Written and directed by George Lucas

[@Netheraptr]

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]

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

[@6KIWIDino5]

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

[@Sadist-sama]

@@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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@thatsmypizzaroll]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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 KZbin god-king

[@Big-Sexy]

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

[@tommykarrick9130]

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]

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]

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

[@svant3]

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

[@mazarine_44]

The Afton family must have friends in Congress😭

[@dankerbell]

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

[@ethenol_]

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

[@BrANd1NH05]

Ummmmmm no, actually that is actually wrong

[@habijjj]

She definitely wanted to kill William

[@DasherLV]

Nothing is wrong when it's your imagination

[@Fire.alarmwhoopwhoop]

@@BrANd1NH05Notice how they opened their statement about Lisa with the words “I feel” meaning it is how they have portrayed or their opinion about it. Has it been confirmed? No. Has evidence proven them right or wrong? No, let them have their opinions.

[@Missdreavus1]

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]

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

[@Missdreavus1]

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

[@laurentucker7471]

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]

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

[@lyn2247]

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

[@badger6882]

pitiful but meaningful puppet W

[@dominospikza]

yes, it was bitterly endearing

[@Gabey28]

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

[@jammyantom585]

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]

Bruh

[@pinecone4610]

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

[@jammyantom585]

@@pinecone4610 bot

[@bistander]

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

[@bigbloo9322]

Yeah wow

[@matthewalvis9287]

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

[@simonautic]

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]

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]

Spy vs Spy

[@igotwect3174]

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]

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

[@carlitotheman]

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

[@viola308]

@Obi-wan Kenobi 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺

[@user-vf1zm1ee1l]

Slava ukrani

[@iwanna_jest36]

We should fear this man

[@tbirddontcare3047]

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]

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

[@APotatoMan]

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]

great is carrying a lot of events in that sentence

[@KingArthur39]

"Hope nothing bad happens to this company" - Clueless

[@Masonia_]

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

[@joshuaottley7902]

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

[@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479]

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

[@isabellanunez959]

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]

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)

[@SamuiGame]

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

[@basedgod6016]

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

[@break_the_galaxy]

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

[@sleepyfucker09]

@@SamuiGameBEST COMMENT 💀💀

[@placeholderthegreat1307]

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.

[@thecollector6392]

That's my new headcanon now. Fritz is just a chad.

[@Flaszka]

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]

That's funny the story is pretty much improved

[@Madameformaldehyde]

Same!!

[@quagernag]

We are the dozens!

[@IRONSnip3r77]

valid asf profile pic

[@StarrySkyyyy]

Creepy? sure. Well built? That's debatable.

[@AeonDaemon]

As a massive fan of FNAF lore this is the best laid out timeline I've seen so far. Great job dude keep up the awesome work on the vids.

[@ImJeff-pd3hd]

epic pfp

[@bilgisayarbilgisi183]

@@ImJeff-pd3hd epic pfp

[@AeonDaemon]

@@ImJeff-pd3hd I LOVE WENDIGOON VIDEOS

[@admiral_m_10k35]

Agreed!

[@abd8x_lol]

Wait so where is Evan? Aka Golden Freddy. Did they left him at the FNAF 1 location?

[@mhm3766]

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]

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

[@luciferspasta]

^^^ this commenting so people see

[@dumbly-stupid]

Yeah that makes sense

[@bluhbluh5243]

pog

[@dataexpunged6969]

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.

[@LG-cd7wr]

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

[@veryRarelySeenNe0]

2 weaks agowh

[@OMSKBRUH]

​@@veryRarelySeenNe0 3 months ago

[@bobsempletank5362]

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]

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

[@huronn]

wendigoons channel as a paragraph

[@matthew1002]

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]

Isn't William still alive in the newest game?

[@alonetraveler5391]

Hyperbdroid made the best for me imo

[@Rexotec]

For someone who is a big fan of the series I think that your timeline is *definitely* the most cohesive and satisfying for me. Like you said there's a lot of extra chaff that can be hyperfocused that means one overlooks the main beat.

[@Wwhdduendjdhhfmwosdn]

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]

yeah sometimes when im feeling silly i mutilate toddlers

[@giran4914]

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

[@thegreatest1294]

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

[@angelichobi__18]

@@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]

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

[@qalt1190]

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

[@danboru_bakooo1966]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

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]

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?

[@RylanForever]

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]

yes!

[@0nullnil]

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]

And it's a really original idea.

[@owenpurr]

also frankenstein

[@miguelcepas1401]

Nice observation JFK

[@mistermaxie6487]

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]

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

[@whyiwakeup6460]

@@nikoclesceri2267 rod sterling

[@Roach_Dogg_JR]

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

[@donovanromanski]

Bruh I remember 2014 when nobody knew shit

[@urgae9125]

@@donovanromanski fr remember when people were making fnaf drawing where Willy was some dude named Vincent who was mega thirsty, obsessed with toast, and had like knives everywhere? Man, the community was feral back then.

[@Jar0fStars]

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.

[@kl41256-p]

Is that from the FNAF VHS tapes?

[@Jar0fStars]

@@kl41256-p Henry's monologue is from one of the endings in Pizzeria Simulator!

[@buttsmgutts]

I am genuinely astonished that you were able to piece together such a coherent story from this series. There's such retconning and twists and weird bullshit. (Which is unsurprising, I don't think it was originally supposed to to have any sequels) Like, the story that you've pieced together is interesting and character's motivations make sense. Im blown away.

[@bungerroyale112]

I agree. FNAF was the last endeavour of the creator to make a game and it unexpectedly blew up. Having to add so much to that, including books and everything means they're always going to be a mistake

[@khata1169]

Fnaf is one of the stories of all times

[@tyranidhive8575]

@Khata This is a very opinion

[@thefatherrabbit]

@@bungerroyale112 I imagine that the theorizing community probably also has a lot to do with how the story has panned out. Not to say that the story was written based on theories, but more that it probably added a lot of pressure during writing to keep the story interesting and theorizable without giving too much away. It's not surprising that many of these "theory-bait" games end up with stories that are a convoluted mess.

[@aaronweers8697]

I really think he had the plot for the first game and that was it. Everything else is based whatever theory he liked the best. He made a good game but essentially let his fans write the story themselves. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

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]

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

[@anankos795]

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]

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

[@Judgement_Kazzy]

@@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]

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

[@pnbtg3783]

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]

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

[@sametortoise4125]

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

[@drballsballsballs]

@@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]

In his interview he said he knew the lore beforehand

[@pierremollet1914]

@@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

[@seanmacguire8988]

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

[@brohoof857]

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

[@ZoeyDeLeonVA]

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

[@madmedjay]

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]

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

[@emilykarrh421]

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]

same

[@siwap3809]

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

[@jadenyuki3138]

They making a movie a rated R one

[@jadenyuki3138]

@Aggelos Anastasoulakis weich wans?

[@metamodern409]

Same

[@HasvenWorld]

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

[@sahilhossain8204]

Tragic I know

[@lolstuffenjoy9880]

Shakespearean

[@roleat]

@@lolstuffenjoy9880 lmao

[@TheLyingFigure]

And worst of all he was..... Really stinky

[@Noah-ry5qj]

The sins of the father are passed on to the son... Or however that saying goes

[@return2sender_89]

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 :)

[@Sonicshad]

Shes way behind lol! I used to watch this long time agi

[@tiredishere]

Henry's monologue when he's talking to William, the animatronics, and Michael has always given me chills. His voice actor did such a good job.

[@melovespoon]

I think Michael is really underrated. The line "I'm going to come find you" is so well executed and underrated, it still sends chills any time I hear it.

[@april4524]

NO FR HE RLLY WAS THE ONE OUT HERE DOING IT

[@bekleedee]

It creeps me out too. that and Henry's speech. they always get me. it's brilliant voice work.

[@rodrigoa.m3566]

So is Michael a zombie the whole time after sister location? Does that also explain the "odor" reason for being fired, twice?

[@melovespoon]

@@rodrigoa.m3566 yes. He died, and is possessing his own flesh similar to his father.

[@bogus0]

@@rodrigoa.m3566 sister location takes place after fnaf 1 and 2 though, so the odor doesnt make much sense since micheal wouldnt be dead yet

[@thefatherrabbit]

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]

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]

MatPat, Wendigood, Dawko Collab?

[@vindicatelol]

security breach is a spinoff

[@comradedogma4957]

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]

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

[@junebugtheartist]

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 :)

[@BlackfordBenjamin]

The audio pause at 25:33 had the exact intended effect on me. I've never seen any other creator use that technique before, and I genuinely really appreciate it. I listen to just the audio while at work. I'm just floored with the forethought Wendigoon (or his editor) had to put that in.

[@liyre4189]

It's cool but I can't help wonder why he couldn't just voice over with "hey guys I got the name wrong"

[@chad4921]

@@liyre4189 i guess when youre listening to a video like this while working you can kind of miss out on absorbing the information so you might not even notice that wendi was correcting his mistake instead an audio pause will snap you out of it like "hey why did the video stop" ps: love zuko :^)

[@lightandsalt7612]

@@liyre4189 ya, just slap in a text to speech HENRY with text over lay.

[@mistymonsterbite67]

Same here!! Super effective!

[@Jemicken]

It worked for me as well, and I have the same thoughts as you! I found it smart

[@Lenape_Lady]

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]

Yes

[@thedestr0yer333]

What a baby

[@O_Haraa]

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

[@MidnightHedgehog365]

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]

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.

[@PineappleLiar]

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]

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]

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

[@madsfiedler3884]

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

[@Canis_Corpus]

That's more upsetting than the murders

[@One9999-rf6rq]

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

[@jeffrando]

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

[@mackingcheese]

cough gibi's good idea bad idea

[@WhaleManMan]

Rest in Peace

[@brohoof857]

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

[@jeffrando]

@@brohoof857 that’s totally fair.

[@pvzgamer6029]

@@brohoof857Markiplier started it and MatPat expanded it.

[@eg_manifest510]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

[@Dr.Crusader0138]

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.]

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

[@dartoney]

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

[@thesneakystrangler9002]

@@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]

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

[@FreezyPop]

@@chaoticpugs I agree

[@connorc6200]

This is genuinely the most cohesive and understandable explanation of the FNaF storyline and all the details. I never even thought of Wendigoon covering this franchise, but after watching the video, I can tell it was meant to be. Fantastic video. This is why I love your content man!!

[@unknown-kp3zz]

I completely agree I usual come away from mat pats and other theorist videos like damn there is so much we don't know about the story still but wendigoon tries to explain everything without pointing out atleast to much inconsistency or details we don't know ever two seconds

[@unknown-kp3zz]

@@dudebros6122 😂😂😂

[@dunmo9582]

Holy crap Austria stop deconstructing the FNAF lore and push the Russians off your borders! Me and the ottomans are trying our best yet you're here focusing on the lore of dead kids in animal suits!

[@squiffi9173]

It is really nice, anyways have a nice day Herr Österreich-Ungarn

[@DrazCo88]

Austria-Hungary your my favorite BF1 faction 😋

[@sae200502167]

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

[@joshlakin2844]

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_]

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

[@Dorkeydaze]

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]

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]

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]

​@@zosialee7000 What's there to hate?

[@dylanzoney7141]

Since watching and playing the games since they first came out, seeing the reason for the "It's me" finally being explained is beyond incredible! Thank you

[@dogeclanleader1]

Do you like potatoes

[@Helos743]

Never played these games myself, not really a big fan of sit and survive. Being spoiled with open world games and all, but the lore has always interest me. Like you I followed the series from day one.

[@smoredreyharsley5865]

@@dogeclanleader1 yes

[@madisonj480]

Did you watch this is x2 speed?

[@iiiisssssaaaaaacccccc]

It been explain long time ago from matpat. So thought everyone knew about this.

[@catsinwonderland7473]

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]

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.

[@Dorkeydaze]

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]

@@Dorkeydaze 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]

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

[@wyntormoon]

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!!

[@SealedKiller]

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.

[@Wrixlilies]

Real..

[@BeatlesCirca1963]

I knew nothing about this series other than “dead children purple guy”, but this video made a lot of sense and really helped me! I haven’t played any of the games yet, but after this, I’m really interested in playing them! Thank you, Wendigoon!

[@HeyLoiss]

I'd definetely reccomend playing the classic trilogy first (you know, FNAF 1-3). A lot of ppl are starting off with games like Security Breach or Sister Location, and that really isn't the best idea.

[@BeatlesCirca1963]

@@HeyLoiss Thanks, I’ll definitely check it out!

[@BeatlesCirca1963]

Just got the first game and made it past night 1! Struggling a hair on night 2, but it’s pretty fun.

[@jasminev5103]

same :)

[@AceTaxiaGaming]

Don't... It's just jumpscares and jumpscares are lazy horror

[@JillRaney]

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!

[@Pussmister]

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

[@madsfiedler3884]

​@@Pussmister 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]

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

[@JillRaney]

@@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]

@@Pussmister matt patt

[@Yue_yunn]

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!!

[@braydentobin5150]

I never realized that Henry has to be at least in his 60s or 70s by the time of pizzeria simulator. Considering the earliest date we see confirmed in game was in 1983, and Henry was most likely at least in his mid 20s if not older when the franchise started. Afton has the excuse of being an undead spirit essentially haunting his own corpse, but Henry comes back as an old ass man, gives a badass speech and burns down literally everything to do with his old demons and himself.

[@zurirobinson2749]

I think there's something about William having the idea for Freddy Fazbear from watching a show called Fredbear's Singin' Show during the Great Depression as a little kid. Assuming William and Henry are roughly the same age, Henry would be in his 90s by Pizzeria Simulator.

[@CDCobermai]

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]

*BEEP* Connection Terminated

[@CDCobermai]

@@hydro1096 I’m sorry to interrupt you Elizabeth

[@hydro1096]

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

[@monikakomodzinska2283]

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

[@kingswiss3241]

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

[@HyperDroid]

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]

Love your vids

[@trannydevito9748]

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

[@brianaaaaaa]

@@trannydevito9748 tbh 😂🤣

[@bigmyke2008]

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

[@meloshi2597]

I cannot tell you how much I appreciate this "ending" of the game rather than the Help Wanted and Security Breach ending, its SO refreshing to FINALLY understand that there are practically two endings, I absolutely despise that side of the FNAF lore. Thank you so much.

[@vjaeger177]

Yes! I feel like it got so unnecessarily complicated when SB and HW were released. They should have just stayed over with a new story!

[@daikaijugamer6967]

There are theories that fazbear is possessed by Michael, who couldn't rest as long as his father was still alive. It explains why he's protective of Gregory and why he has free will compared to the other animatronics. Failing to protect his own brother, Michael wouldn't want Gregory to be killed by an animatronics or Vanny so he made himself a sort of protective figure to the boy. It also fits in with the true ending, freddy brings Gregory down to where Afton was being revived to end this

[@rotisseriepossum]

@@daikaijugamer6967 I want to like this idea but, for me, there’s just too much else that would need to be tweaked for it to work. The opening cinematic all but tells you ‘Freddy’s good because he’s broken’ without any clues that would make you doubt that. Something like Vanessa’s tapes, with a frustrated engineer going on abt Freddy’s level of free will shouldnt be possible and they have no idea how to fix it. Or at least subtle hints in Freddy’s dialogue, sort of like that ‘I am not me’ bit. Tbh I’m way more interested in how the brand got here than I am in anything about Vanessa/Vanny. Even if she is possessed by William or whatever, her costume doesn’t mesh with anything; since it’s not a Fazbear character and it’s named after her, it just looks like Vanessa found an excuse to cosplay her fursona.

[@trickytreyperfected1482]

While I love Help Wanted and Security Breach (even with as much flak as SB gets, I still enjoyed it at the end of the day and it was a commendable effort by a non-triple A company attempting something akin to a triple A title) and also enjoy the stories they're trying to tell, I think they're just better looked at as "here's how the story could have ended if FNaF 6 didn't ever take place." Or essentially "alternate timelines". It's this weird sort of cognitive dissonance for me because I enjoy the storylines they attempted in those two releases (namely HW), but I also feel like the storyline would be better without them, however (this is where the dissonance comes in), the storylines build off of the existing framework the first 6 games made, so they can't be made as entirely different storylines.

[@meloshi2597]

@@trickytreyperfected1482 exactly my point

[@Styxintheriver]

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]

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

[@GreenGalaxio5]

Oh- That actually makes a lot more sense.

[@user-ec9um8xl2w]

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]

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

[@user-ec9um8xl2w]

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

[@donatoclemente4421]

As someone who has watched and read up on everything fnaf lore over the years, this is the best summary I have seen. The changes made fit very well and make a lot of sense! Wendigoon never misses, good stuff.

[@wesleyem3]

Likewise. It feels so good to finally have most of the pieces in place.

[@henkdachief]

NO! stop supporting this crap! i want back the old wendigoon! i was on board for all this insane stuff but this too far its a stupid baby game anyone actually playing this is braindead and all the hype TRIGGERS me and i am DISAPPOINTED by my friend wendigoon - i havent watched the video yet but i will and if i dont like it i am wendi-gone!

[@notmocka]

@@henkdachief go touch grass

[@PA-1000]

@@henkdachief ok kid, wait until mr. wendigoon those what u like to see.

[@ItzRogue]

@@henkdachief gatekeeping a youtuber who is more successful than you, yeah makes sense.

[@chelseaarmstrong1646]

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]

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!:)

[@ChaoticMeatballTV]

I had a feeling you'd end up doing a video on this series. I never dove into it myself so I'm glad to hear about it from someone I enjoy listening to!

[@Solbeez]

@Flower is eaten by wasp one

[@crisismoon880]

Verified user = free likes

[@watergirl828]

@@crisismoon880 hornet pfp?

[@caseyleenb]

didn’t know you liked wendigoon’s stuff. love the channel, hope you’re doing well.

[@zicklane]

This is so surreal to see you here cuz I stopped watching one of your vids to watch this one

[@RTheu2109]

The most amazing thing on this series is how Fazbear Entertainment is still in business since the '80 or '90, they must have a Phoenix Wright level lawyer to clear their name everytime.

[@AlphaPrinceND]

Nah, probably just that classic business owner bullshitting that gets corporations massive bailouts

[@squidddinator]

@@AlphaPrinceND so, Phoenix Wright?

[@ashikjaman1940]

Better Call Saul crossover confirmed

[@ChipCheerio]

“I find it weird that at a place people are dying they have someone come in to work security.” Having worked at plenty of security companies, I can totally believe it. My managers were so oblivious to everything that I can see them sending someone in to that situation.

[@Dibbo_]

BROTHER!!!!!!

[@Shlankyman545]

Elaborate please? If possible.

[@ChipCheerio]

@@Shlankyman545 I’ve had bad experiences with security company’s upper management. They’re often out of touch with what the guards themselves are dealing with and slow to respond to it. So I made a joke saying that I could see my boss sending me to a pizzeria where the animatronics are killing people because the contract says they need a guard.

[@cceres]

@@ChipCheerio I was a security guard for years, and I happened to mostly work on one company's account. Both sites on the account had one supervisor we answered to, and I'm pretty sure she was the only person who worked for my actual employer who knew or cared anything about us. We couldn't even call our own HR department and get someone to talk to us, they would tell us to talk to our supervisor and she had to do *everything.*

[@ChipCheerio]

@@cceres The exact same situation happened to me. My company never let us know who our HR person was and forced us to just talk to our supervisor even if it was our supervisor that we had an issue with.

[@cultof12]

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!

[@sirleopold2378]

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]

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]

Imagine Michael was balloon boy

[@ZenoDovahkiin]

@@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]

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

[@neon-kq6wz]

@@Juhsmalik best FNAF theory hands down.

[@ChrisTheMemeMan]

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"

[@Sebs_daily_dollz]

Why did I read that in Ballon boys voice 😭☠️

[@Knifeimpale]

exactly!

[@spectralknight7142]

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

[@amayakhler1551]

@@Sebs_daily_dollz i read it in Dracula's voice

[@akamered4483]

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

[@OneTopic]

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

[@ic3yr0]

OT!!!! didnt expect to see you here

[@tanglekelp1857]

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

[@Cairo40000]

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

[@JPEG_cat]

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

[@amel888]

Good to see you OT! :D

[@sarahanaya8850]

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

[@CaptinHavoc1]

Not even exaggerating, this is probably the best way to look at Fnaf's story. People like Matpat look at these events from a very, VERY analytical perspective. This isn't outright bad, but it misses what they're examining: a story. That's why people are so hung up on if the Crying Child's name is Evan, when in reality it doesn't matter what his name was. What matters is, if Wendigoon is correct, he was a son who died tragically which caused a father to spiral into madness. I honestly think that's beautiful

[@pickedceasar1216]

I'm glad they did a soft reboot with the VR games as it allows them another chance to tell a more coherent story. But they're not starting off so good without Scott

[@CaptinHavoc1]

@@pickedceasar1216 I feel like they still continued the story though, so not really a reboot

[@pickedceasar1216]

@@CaptinHavoc1 that's why I said soft reboot. I guess technically a continuation is true but VR introduces a bunch of new stuff to the lore that I'd still call it a soft reboot

[@char1363]

​@@pickedceasar1216ngl i would be fine with spin off games based on the books

[@LateNightTableCo]

The lore of this series is far more interesting than the games themselves, and I LIVE for lore videos like this.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

Same, I'm glad that he is doing that since I've recently unsubscribed from game theory but I still like the games

[@kermitdathug3953]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real whyd you unsub from gt?

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@kermitdathug3953 didn't like the content anymore + they made some really bad theories + they have made a lot of homophobic/ableist stuff on the past that they haven't apologized for

[@kermitdathug3953]

@@airplanes_aren.t_real Fair enough. They haven't made any bad theories recently tho. The robot one was controversial but it fits in with everything.

[@airplanes_aren.t_real]

@@kermitdathug3953 I meant more stuff like what was talked about in kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXu8nnSBe5WZask and kzbin.info/www/bejne/nHjPiGikltqCiZI + a lot of the other videos about mat pat's bad theories I think that the problem is that the team has to keep a consistent schedule with a lot of views in order to stay relevant on the platform so inevitably they have to make incredibly clickbaity and poorly researched videos so they can keep up with the algorithm His ableist videos started to pop up on the 2010's where a lot of people were talking about mental disorders so a lot of content creators started to jump on the bandwagon and made incredibly harming videos and posts about mental disorders, saying that they were murderers and sociopaths Example: kzbin.info/www/bejne/a6jEc3uKo62Kbtk

[@skrilllfury2120]

9:45 Henry's son is actually not even an actual character in the books. He's just a construct made in the mind of Charlie to keep her from realizing that she died and is a robot. In other words: There's no son.

[@DexDexter0]

Actually, mom took him to live far elsewhere. Apparently. The fourth closet was such a bizarre bit of exposition

[@roseheiman1682]

I love Wendi and all his content sm but for some reason I literally cannot stay awake through this video specifically and I come to watch it when I can't sleep sometimes. it always works.

[@cosmorahbee]

I have never played the games or anything, but I’ve always been intrigued by the story. This video was perfect and it satisfied my curiosity lol

[@Justsumdude.]

Same exact thing for me

[@markthespark7919]

Sameee

[@chaii2885]

samee, i have never once played a fnaf game bcs im a pussy but the lore has me on a chokehold jhdshdsh

[@ameballz9366]

MEEE RN

[@ITSTIMETOSAYGOODBYE]

as someone whos barely played night 3 of the first game I can agree

[@tanglekelp1857]

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]

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

[@mattygee6852]

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

[@threehundredandtwo5991]

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

[@PLAGUE-KARM]

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

[@lsghost5805]

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

[@marimbaZulu]

You have no idea how many times I’ve thought to myself “Damn, I wish Wendigoon made a FNaF timeline video”

[@KadinNation]

:))

[@headofpretzels]

SAME

[@ellaehayward]

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

[@19nmiller1]

"Although for one of you, the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting, old friend" is one of the most incredible lines ever crafted and its from FNAF. Absolutely iconic

[@mworld2611]

That whole speech in general. I'm not even that big of a FNAF fan but that's a darn good piece of dialogue from a game

[@bagusamartya5325]

That is one of the best monologue I've heard

[@emikoch5096]

for real, that's some poetic deep shit

[@fartquaviasdingle7876]

@@mworld2611 yeah I was never a huge FNAF lover but since I've heard it, that's the coldest monologue known to man

[@awhryan]

That speech has got to be the best speech I've ever heard in my life. The writing, the way it's delivered by the VA. It's all perfect.

[@NaraShikamaru21]

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]

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]

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]

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

[@omnitroph1501]

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

[@joanncatibod8150]

@@melissahenderlight2588 we don't talk about sb

[@TheSolarWolf]

Ugh, finally! A cohesive timeline of events that isn’t splattered in endless and convoluted videos and theories. You do not know how satisfying this is for someone who’s been in this train wreck since 2014-2015 when this game released. How long everyone waited for essential a theory of everything for this franchise. An explanation that makes sense and makes finally appreciate the story of this beloved franchise. Everything just sort of clicks and makes sense now, and now I can finally be satisfied in knowing what is going on. Thank you.

[@muppo]

I HEAVILY recommend watching Hyper Droid's timeline on fnaf. It's also a newer timeline, coming out in 2022. I've never seen any of their other videos so I can't say I'm a fan, but it is interesting to compare the two theories. Hyper's was the first coherent one for me personally. I'm not going to link the video because I don't want to be seen as a fishing bot, plus I never click links through comments anyway, so I'll just say the title of the video below: Five Nights at Freddy’s: FULL Timeline 2021/2022 (FNAF Complete Story) + AR/VR/Security Breach Again, the video is by Hyper Droid

[@firewolf4824]

.... Matpat literally is the one who solved it. And his friend Dawko had an interview with the CREATOR HIMSELF

[@kisu_ve625]

Imo the beginning with William going crazy cuz his kid died is weak I'm pretty sure he started killing before that and built animatronics to kill children and that's why he scared Evan to be afraid of them So his kids wouldn't die

[@Jo_Josuke]

@@firewolf4824 it's not about who solved it, but who makes it easier to understand.

[@oncloud9574]

I used to baby sit some neighbor kids and they loved watching FNAF theory/ explanation videos. I would watch them with them and I couldn’t follow a single thing because their script was all over the place.

[@willonilla]

The audio pause for the William -> Henry correction was pretty clever, thanks for adding that! I do chores while watching these but I still want to understand everything, and I def would have missed it otherwise.

[@spinshocker]

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]

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

[@xDanilor]

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]

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]

(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]

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

[@sansus6922]

57:23 remnant is actually also present in the games. If you take a look at the blueprints for the scooper in fnaf 6 there is something calles a remnant injector which would explain why micheal survives being scooped and used as a skinsuit.

[@SuckSwong]

That's pretty weird to me honestly, as he directly shows the blueprints for lefty in the pizzeria sim section.

[@elgato7557]

My biggest question is did Micheal look normal because as I understood it was implied his body decomposed while Ennard was inside him but he still lived afterwards and grew for 30 years and was able to get the security job at Henry's bait location when he was supposed to be a walking decomposed corpse

[@pjdianalan7934]

@@elgato7557 I'm pretty sure he used disguises(makeup, wig, and clothes).

[@cufem6313]

@@elgato7557 I don't remeber exactly so I might be wrong, but I think those two never met. And honestly, if Henry knew about children possesing animatronics why would he be weirded out about a walking corpse?

[@jstar3382]

​@@elgato7557he only had night shifts for a reason

[@tobi_talks_2_much]

I personally like the idea that Cassidy is just the most badass and vindictive little girl that ever lived. Like, everyone else, even William's own son and first victim, was able to move on, but Cassidy was just so personally offended and angry that she wants William to suffer. Love the Wendigoon take, but I believe in vindictive little girls above everything else.

[@goblinbxtch7540]

Yess, I feel like it would make sense if she did that because as she's stuck in the suit with Evan and we have evidence they would talk to one another, they became friends and she grew to care about him, she did it to William because of what he did to Evan. Evan it literally known as the "crying kid" and he was so young and innocent...I just feel like he didn't have it in him haha

[@StormbornDragon]

another detail too that her death was the most intense or gruesome and that’s part of the reason why she stays for revenge

[@SummoningSatan]

also, when golden freddy kills you in ucn, an image of cassidy pops up for a couple seconds

[@sparrowanon]

@@SummoningSatan *Fredbear

[@chars_78]

It’s because she was keeled in the most gruesome and torturous way possible

[@CatelynnDean-o9y]

“We have the puppet roaming around, which is Charlie doing God knows what” had me rolling on the floor

[@Morbid-Corvid22]

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

[@sequinjin8332]

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.

[@Morbid-Corvid22]

@@sequinjin8332 FACTS!!

[@cjaymeme]

@@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]

@@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]

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.

[@jelliottbeck]

I find it way more fascinating if Evan wanted to move on to the afterlife along with everybody else, but Cassidy couldn’t let him, since they’re both bound to Golden Freddy. So when everybody else was destroyed in that fire, Cassidy and Evan were exempt from it and they both haunt William in Ultimate Custom Night, but Evan doesn’t want to. He wants to leave, he wants to rest, but if Cassidy doesn’t, he can’t. So he’s a passenger for this torture that Cassidy is doing to his father. It makes the final shot a lot sadder, a glitching Golden Freddy filled with a soul who’s hatred and anger keeps her alive, but also a soul who can’t rest and has to bare it for the rest of their co-existence. That. Is. Sad.

[@ZebraMetal]

You know I really love that you just explained the story, no uneasy music, no jumpscares, just a good explanation.

[@SorowFame]

It always infuriates me when a lore video has a jumpscare. I don’t handle surprises well