| “ | IT'S ME. | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy's catchphrase. |
| “ | He tried to release you. He tried to release us. But I'm not gonna let that happen. I will hold you here. I will keep you here. No matter how many times they burn us... | „ |
| ~ Golden Freddy talking through Orville Elephant to William Afton. |
Fredbear better known as Golden Freddy is the secondary antagonist of the ScottGames era of Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
He is a supernatural springlock suit who served as the precursor to Freddy Fazbear and titular mascot of the original Fazbear restaurant, Fredbear Family Diner. The animatronic (or at least a variant of it) was infamous for an incident name the Big Bite, or later the Bite of '83, where it accidentally bit and killed the youngest son of William Afton. He is possessed by a dead little girl name Cassidy, one of Afton's victims. Cassidy holds a burning hatred towards Afton for taking their life and once he died, she tormented him as revenge for all eternity.
As Cassidy, his voice was provided by Tabatha Skanes in Ultimate Custom Night.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- Even before he became vengeful, he killed the Crying Child, William’s youngest son, this would later result in Michael being psychologically tormented by his father and more dead children appearing after the closure of Fredbear's.
- He along with the other animatronics tried to kill several night guards including Michael Afton and Jeremy Fitzgerald for mistaking them from William Afton.
- He successfully killed Ralph the phone guy who was interacting with the player on how to do their job in the pizzeria.
- In Ultimate Custom Night, he endlessly tortures William Afton in his nightmares by reviving the animatronics then they give him death threats and jumpscare him over and over and over again. What is even worse is that Golden Freddy also trapped the souls of others victims and forced them to torment William, even if it prevents any of them from moving on.
- He isn't even doing this out of justice, but instead for personal revenge since William Afton killed him and his friends. The other animatronics don't agree with his method. Henry and the other animatronics don't want to see William suffer; they just want to see him dead. And even Old Man Consequences outright tells Golden to leave William Afton alone and "resting their own soul".
- Even Withered Bonnie out of all animatronics (who doesn't have a face) said "What is this new prison? Is it me trapped, or is it you? Perhaps, it's us both". Which means what Golden Freddy is doing to Afton is no better than what the Missing Children themselves had to go through in the past games. This also shows that Golden Freddy not only trapped William's soul but also the souls of the other victims and forced them to torment William, even if it prevents any of them from moving on. it also highlights that the other souls feel like prisoners from Golden Freddy's actions.
- Although some of the tortures are comedic like when William Afton has to listen to Mr. Hippo funny long speech for 3 minutes or when William Afton has to help Toy Freddy in playing a video game, he is still played dead seriously especially during the Old Man Consequences cutscenes where you can here in the background of William Afton screaming in agony for his old friend and buisness partner Henry and his son Michael to help him and the countless death threats that the animatronics gave him before jumpscaring him proves that Golden Freddy is taken completely seriously.
Why Doesn't He Stand Out?[]
- While he most certainly does enough to pass the baseline thanks to killing several night guards and his brutal torment of William Afton, he still fails the wider Heinous Standards of the franchise to Gregory who brutally killed Vanny’s therapists and even his own killer William Afton (while it's true that he definitely has higher resources, he held back on them given he only used the Spring Bonnie suit to murder 11 children and stuffed five of them into animatronics, thus nullifying this argument).
- On top of this, he relies on Fridge Horror, as it is unclear how many guards he went after and even if he killed them, as the only confirmed ones are Michael Afton, Jeremy Fitzgerald, and Ralph the Phone Guy.
- He even fails the Heinous Standards to the Funtime animatronics (four of whom fail the heinous standards themselves), who all five put Michael Afton in a fate worse than death by scooping out his innards and wearing his body as a skinsuit.
- He is extremely tragic, as he was an innocent child that was murdered by Afton and put in a fate that's worse than death, with no one helping him. Even him deciding to torture Afton is played for sympathy, as Golden Freddy has a chance to finally move on but he decided he can't because he couldn't let go of his hatred for William Afton and still couldn't move on from his past tragedy which is still played heavily for sympathy. Even other people such as the Puppet and Old Man Consequences heavily understand his anger and treat him with understanding as they try to help him move on. Ultimately, Golden Freddy never truly subverts his tragedy and is heavily played for sympathy.
- Additionally, his defeat of being forced to move on is somewhat also played sympathetically as he fades away frantically stuttering and feeling chained to his own tragedy, acting like it can never be undone and feels unsatisfied with his revenge, no matter the cost.
- He does care for The Missing Children as he was willing to help them get revenge on William Afton for murdering him and his friends.
- This was proven in Fnaf 3, Happiest Minigame, where he feels emotional when the Puppet hands him cake, and he moves on together with the other animatronics in the afterlife showing his affection to them.
Trivia[]
- He was previously approved as being Inconsistently Heinous as it was discussed that his torture on William Afton was brutal and everyone in-universe disagrees with Golden Freddy's method and they just want William Afton to suffer, and they told him to just let go of the past, until it was further discussed that, similar to Vanny, who was also cut from being Inconsistently Heinous, he fails the Heinous Standards to other villains in the series. This lead to Golden Freddy to being cut from Inconsistently Heinous and moved to this wiki instead.
External Links[]
- Golden Freddy on the Villains Wiki
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