How Ruin Secretly SOLVED The Burntrap Debate 

A few people are mentioning that Burntraps Model was actually made pretty EARLY on in SB's Development. I'll mention this in a planned Future Video analyzing The Mimics Model itself. However the fact that Burntraps Clawmark is in a place only The Mimic ever visits is still substantial enough evidence, despite model discrepencies.

Actually a great theory, but now I’m imagining this scene. “Okay, Gregory, you lure The Mimic in and distract it! I’ll pour the concrete and trap it!” “Wait, doesn’t concrete take like, days to set?” “Do a really good job.”

One error I would like to point out is that Burntrap's model wasn't made late in development, He was actually made pretty early on in development.

Help Wanted 2 basically seemed to indicate that the Mimic no longer had William's programming/influence. The giant Vanny crushing Glitchtrap was likely Vanessa not only overcoming her own mind control, but helping remove the same influence from the Mimic by either removing it manually or hacking it with the system we see in Ruin. So the Mimic basically got tired of that 'costume' and sought out a new identity, which happened to be Gregory. Which explains its new costume and why it did so much to copy him. The Mimic is honestly EXTREMELY similar to Ennard the more you think about it and I really wish theorists would focus on those details.

As much as the idea of Gregory just sitting around while Vanessa does the work cuz he's just a kid sounds absolutely adorable, something tells me his personality won't really allow him to just sit tight and not help out. And I feel like he's more than capable.

I still find it strange how the particular purple hue that appears around the vent in Burntrap's room where the clawmark is, is only present in one other place, that being where we find the Mimic during the final reveal sequence, which just so happens to be close by the only other vent that has the claw marks and connects to Mimic's room.

I’m slightly confused. The claw mark in the Burntrap area implies Burntrap climbed out of his area through that vent. Why is he down in the basement with the mascot costumes? (Also slight correction the M.X.E.S. system is supposed to be extremely old according to JTop in the Steelwool interview so I doubt Vanessa made it)

It even explains the symbolism of Fazerblast 3: destroying a paper thin imitation of William

It never occurred to me that the Mimic could only replicate Gregory's voice by hearing it ie, both of them meeting at some point. Having the mimic lure Cassie with the walkie-talkie is brilliantly ironic if you believe Gregory did the same to the mimic

I don't know about Gregory not having much of a hand in setting up the security system. In Tales from the Pizzaplex, he's been shown to be a talented enough hacker to have hacked the Glamrocks without anyone noticing.

While we’re on the topic of environmental storytelling, someone noticed an interesting detail that might further prove Burntrap is The Mimic. In Security Breach, Burntrap’s room has purple lighting, symbolizing the presence of “Afton”, or Glitchtrap. In Ruin however, the room is dark orange, which could symbolize the fact that Burntrap is no more, and now it’s just The Mimic, who as we see in Ruin dropped the Afton persona. It’s a neat little detail, and I personally believe that it was in fact meant to have significance.

I love how Ruin was built off of the fact that Steel Wool made us believe the Burntrap ending was the cannon one. It was a twist that we weren’t expecting. Popular post, Tehe :)

Also, another key point of the Mimic showing physical damage from the vent collapse is that its right leg appears to have its best idea of a bolted legbrace, trying to keep itself intact

Something i want to mention is that in a Tales from the PizzaPlex epilouge, one of the exact plans to trap the mimic is to lure him into a room, escape through a vent, and seal the door. Of course it failed in the book and the bait person died, and the mimic escaped, but it could be a narrative parallel.

I was waiting for someone to finally take a closer look at this room, and you finally did. Excellent work.

it’s crazy how much environmental story telling is in sb and the dlc.Its also probably the reason we haven’t found everything in sb yet

ngl, i love that afton actually died at ffps, it just makes the ending (fpps's one) so much better since we know that it actually killed william

Visual Storytelling in Ruin is AMAZING. I'm glad Steel Wool actually improved after their mistakes. Gives me hope for their next game

7:37 I don’t really know about that… in an interview with the CEO of steel wool, he revealed that MXES is an OLD machine, so I don’t think Vanessa and Gregory built it, maybe they just upgraded it

I would like the bring up the first scratch in the burner rooms. The Burner rooms themselves are illuminated by orange lights, no doubt signifying that the Mimic is present, however the ventilation shaft that has the Burntrap scratch mark is illuminated entirely by a purple light instead of orange. Even though the Burntrap ending doesn’t technically happen, something happened here in the burner rooms. We can’t see to the other room through the vent and both doors are blocked by rubble. Whatever happened, I believe the other side of the vent is where Afton ended up(the corpse on Burntrap is undoubtedly William Afton and you cannot convince me otherwise). Because when looking at the purple vent, the light has a spotlight effect and it’s coming from the end of the vent specifically. There’s a reason we can’t see that room.

After Cassie Escapes the Mimic, I can't remember if his hand was cut off by the elevator door too. Making him lose another hand. So chances of the Models of both Mimic and Burntrap not being similar is because the Mimic was yet to become the Burntrap at some point. They'd keep getting damaged in which they'd find replacement parts

If this is the case, why would he remove the Springbonnie suit? Also, fun fact! Before Glitchtrap, they were originally going to use Springbonnie, and when he was scrapped, they reused some parts for Burntrap.

This debate should have ended a long time ago with the Tales from the Pizzaplex books. People always skip this for some reason, maybe because they don't like the reveal, but The Mimic in the Epilogues of these books is described like Burntrap's endo, rabbit ears included! The workers even thought he was a Bonnie endo! I also thought Help Wanted 2 solved it with the Mask bot ending, but apparently people were not convinced. The light in Burntrap's room also changes from purple to orange in Ruin. And the design change can also be explained by The Mimic's ability to reconfigurate his body (He turned into a spider once!). I believe that if they straight-up confirm it somewhere, fans would say that it's a retcon because they debunked their headcanon.

Additionally on the thought of alternative endings that still could’ve happened, the Scooper Ending of Ruin is a mirror to the Burntrap ending, with the clawed scooper acting as the Funtime face-plated Tangle picking up Burntrap, but instead it’s the Mimic Endo, which shows us what could’ve happened after Burntrap was scooped up by the Tangle, with the costume being ripped off and the Endo being spat out. With the Scooper ending being the inverse. In Ruin however, the Tangle escaped without tearing up Burntrap, thus it’s the vent collapse that damaged him instead of the Tangle.

The scratch marks are very interesting for sure, but why is the entire rest of the body (except for one hand) completely different as well?

A good explanation for burntraps corpse suit is the flesh corpse theory Basically when glitch trap is put inside mimic The agony is so strong that it grow the corpse and suit. It’s shown in the books, agony creatures, like pittrap and in the fleshtrap that and they can have flesh and suits from pure agony. The purple smoke is the stench of agony because agony smells bad according to fright. Now I do think glitch trap is also mimic so that does ask the question why mimic is corrupt mimic so here’s my best answers 1. To make himself stronger 2. to reactivate himself and heal himself. (most likely I think since burn traps asleep in the pod) As for what happens to the corpse and costume mimic just takes it off like how he takes off Kelly’s flesh after it gets on him The reason he doesn’t do this on the burntrap ending is because he gets distracted by Gregory and Freddy As for burntrap behavior in the boss fight I think it’s just because he’s not fully charge so he needs to rely on the animatronics to get rid of Gregory

I enjoyed listening to this theory! Using the tool steel wool uses (environmental story telling) as a way to figure out the lore is such a fun idea. Back in the veteran days of fnaf, Scott would always leave codes and clues to help us solve the lore in places we wouldn't expect. (Although a bit more obvious) I'm glad steel wool can keep this franchise going. Even when some don't want it to. Thank you for sharing!

Once again something new is discovered and helps us theorize. However consider this: The mimic endo was in the Pizzaplex before it even opened to the public meaning it would of had to of been sealed early on in the Pizzaplex construction otherwise it would cause trouble. What is more likely imo is that the Burntrap ending is canon along with the Princess Quest ending with it happening before Princess Quest as it is still labeled as the true ending in Security Breach and with Princess Quest having 3 stars means it's the best possible ending meaning everything that could be dealt with was dealt with meaning Burntrap was taken by the Blob and the Mimic could of found the remains of Burntrap after the Blob unalived him and torn off his limbs like it was programmed to do as well as replaced parts of them with Burntrap's thus explaining why the Mimic endo is uneven in design. With that the Blob escapes, Gregory finds the mimic sealed but the earthquake allowed the Mimic an opportunity to escape and Gregory then tricks the Mimic resulting in it getting Gregory's voice and walkie talkie leading uo to Ruin. This also works well with other things like how Gregory knows the Mimic was down there for so long, how Gregory and Freddy got out, why theres a drawing of Burntrap right before the Blob takes them and how all the animatronics are missing the parts used for Freddy which can only be done when doing the Burntrap ending.

I think you're onto something with the vent textures, but there is a few things going against burntrap being the mimic. First, the model differences, specifically the torso area. Underneath peepaw aftons suit has the weird ribcage like thing that springlock suits have. Second I dont know how the mimic would just ditch a random corpse and have 0 trace of it whatsoever but this could just be overlooked as a thing to keep ruin PG13 or something. Third, as someone else mentioned, the claw mark in burntraps area was going towards the place we fight him as Gregory in SB, therefore I'd be weird that he'd just turn around or something, fight Gregory down in the mimic lair area and get trapped. Now I dont have a explanation as to why the claw marks are in the mimic vent, but im sure someone could come up with something. lastly and most importantly, in a the official SB files book, it says this: "Gregory eventually ends up in a secret office where he faces off with burntrap----a withered spring bonnie animatronic merged with the body of Five Nights at Freddy's antagonist William Afton. Defeat Afton, and this ending is yours." (Page 94 btw) so the a official book outright CONFIRMS this is William Afton, now idk if this has been confirmed wrong or something because I haven't really been keeping up with fnaf lore lol BUT YEAH just thought I'd point this out!

Here’s has a theory Vanny found a very destroyed scrap trap and then gathered a bunch of parts to fix him up and that created burn trap

I've watched this video three times now and I'll never reach the high I did when you first revealed the claw mark in the Mimic Tunnel. I gasped out loud and then started screeching "I KNEW IT. I KNEW MIMIC WAS BURNTRAP" on repeat.

One thing that contradicts a part of this theory is the fact that, during FahNaf’s interview with Steel Wool, they confirmed the machine is REALLY old. So they couldn’t have set that system up. That aside this is a pretty solid theory!

The only thing that still hasn't been commented on about Burntrap is: How does he have decaying flesh? on a sidenote, Burntrap's endoskeleton should've been a human skeleton with metal joints and wires and his suit could've been stitched up fabric to look like a rabbit

I hate to say it but I think they really just threw that Afton ending together just to call it done because of time constraints because I can't see them trying to hint the mimic at all in SB

While were talking about reused assets, mimic also reuses a lot of assets, he has nightmare chicas leg and hand, and an endo 01 head, but modified, as an exsample. Which isnt exsactly un common for ruin given that practicly every character is an asset flip, even cassie herself seemed to use gregory as a base, which is why her ruin modle just looked so... off, tho that ones speculation only. I guess here keeping the tradition of physical mimics only being asset flips

Wait, but what happened to all of the dead and rotted skin that was covering Burntrap in SB? Did the Mimic rip it all off while it was chasing Gregory?

Huh... interesting. I've seen people saying Burntrap isn't the Mimic. I've seen people say he is the Mimic. But this is some interesting environmental storytelling. I bet someone will find a way to disprove it somehow but this seems pretty convincing to me. The thing is why do this though other than the obvious "people hated that Afton came back so we're gonna pretend that's not Afton"?

Princess quest 3 wasnt really shocking as the confirmed ending. It was pretty obvious it was the cannon ending as its the only ending that has an achievement behind it, and the only 3 star ending.

I don't know if Burntrap and Mimic are the same, since with the exception of the left hand, they have nothing in common, and it's not even completely the same, and Mimic has no traces of flesh, or anything like that.

Why do they always just try to trap the animatronics, get some dynamite and blow them back to the hell they came from

So steel wool didnt know how too explain burntrap so they came up with a whole different character just too solve it?

i remember thinking that vanny was just insane and wanted to bring her favorite fictional killer to like like me with jeff the killer when i was 12

Theory - Mimic’s replacement arm and foot in Ruin came from one of the mass produced Mimics referenced in the Tales epilogues Mimic’s room not only has old costumes he or his clones presumably wore, but Steel Wool confirmed in John Fuhnaff’s interview the MXES machine was intentionally designed to look old. What if Fazbear Ent used that room and MXES to contain/destroy the Mimic 2 endos?

I definitely think mimic is burntrap and glitchtrap as well Mimic is literally the only endo in the basement and he can shapeshift his endo to fit any costume mimic ends his story with him getting springlocked and leaking oil And the first place we see burn trap is in a “recharge station” And burntrap couldn’t have been killed by tangle in ruin since the office is still intact and the burnttrap ending has tangled, destroy it And another thing is that Cassie goes down the elevator, however glamrock Freddy states the elevator is a one-way trip

It can't be. Burntrap's head is different. And his structure. The Mimic has that bar on his shoulders,plus those ringlets on his limbs. Burntrap doesn't.

some people may think that just even though burntrap could very well be the mimic that that means that William isn't still around, he always comes back after all, but beside that William is a very strong spirit and can control more than just the spring bonnie suit as is seen in the fazbear frights books, thus meaning that he still can come back.

3:16 TANGLE?! THATS THE BLOB!

To many differences to convince me that Burntrap and the Mimic are the same character.

scott basically just confirmed this. In the original intent, however, Burntrap was seemingly meant to be a new form of Glitchtrap both Gregory and Vanessa saw in their heads. Steel Wool got confused, so now, the explanation is "Vanny gave them Lucas corpse from Pressure. Idfk."

Honestly, on their way down to the Pizza Place Gregory and Vanessa probably saw The Blob escape the sinkhole before luring and trapping Burntrap/Mimic in the costume room. Then once he was sealed Vanessa set up the MXES terminal while Gregory drew the Burntrap Ending panel, incorporating the two monstrous robots he had just encountered.

New theory to explain Gregory and his different ending drawings: Gregory is secretly frisk Undertale and has the ability to reset timelines and shit and that's why he knows about the different endings and draws them... for some reason. idk.

I was staunchly opposed to Burntrap = Mimic, but those claw marks have convinced me

"but burntrap and mimic dont look the same" No, no way? Really? Oh I guess all the mismatched parts couldnt be, idk. Replaced?!

the Scott interview kinda verified this

Guys burntrap's eyes are black and the mimic's are white.

so in the recent Dawko and Scot Cawthon interview Scott mentions how he would of called MXES ar trap or vr trap jokingly meaning he confirmed MXES is glitchtrap/William

Your discovery is really interesting, but I don't believe it's enough to prove that Burntrap and the Mimic are the same. Your point was that the claw mark was the same on both characters, and that their claws were practically the same, but you yourself said that Steel Wool reused assets they already had for Help Wanted, which probably also happened with The Mimic , use an asset they already had. I believe that Burntrap and The Mimic are two distinct characters, with The Mimic being the creation of Edwin (or perhaps Henry in the games' timeline), probably dating back to the 1980s or later, while Burntrap is literally what's left of William Afton as Scraptrap from Fnaf Pizzeria Simulator (considering that Scraptrap was just a bad design and was retconned by making Burntrap have parts of Springbonnie's original design), but enhanced with new parts possibly Glamrock or from another model line, but not being William Afton is the one possessing it. Analyzing Burntrap's design, we can see that the disproportionate shoulders do not connect with the rod of the original Springlock model, as if they had been placed later, in addition, Burntrap's eyes are very similar to Torture Freddy's eyes from the Fnaf film, who is speculated to be a Springlock. We know that the eyes of Springbonnie (with William Afton), Springtrap and Scraptrap are gray, but in Burntrap they are purple, which leads me to believe that Burntrap does not have the spirit or soul of William Afton controlling him, but rather the program Glitchtrap, as if he were remotely controlling a physical body. With his discovery of the claw marks, it leads me to believe that Burntrap escaped, just as shown in the Fnaf SB trailer, where we see his hand outside the sinkhole. Regarding Burntrap's whereabouts, it is possible that he found the Amalgamolten (Blob), explaining how Blob suddenly started moving around inside the Pizzaplex. Any error or flaw you find in my theory, feel free to point it out! By the way, great video!

Gregory the stuntman of the series Also great, can i add that the burntrap ending has a lot of parallels with into the pit "functionality" wise? Theres a pit, an organic springwilly, father figure almost gets kidnapped, springwilly dies by enTANGLEment, the event is hugely speculated to be an acid trip (by agony)

but the mimic is alot more taller then burntrap? so.....does that mean burntrap some how got taller?....also did he just loos his bring bonnie suite along with his body flesh?

1:53 Not really. Because the main "argument" for PQ ending was Free Vanny and a sword in Arcade machine in Vanny's hideout However Help Wanted 2 shows that this might not be the case, because to free Vanny we had to defeat ALL games about this princess, and HW2 reveals that part 3 wasn't the last one

Nice Spring Bonnie mod you got there ;)

Personally I thought that Burntrap was just Springtrap’s remains that Vanny had put back together and put Glitchtrap into, but I like this theory too.

A very convincing theory. I like how you went over the evidence. Personally I disagree because the endoskeleton torsos are so very different but I credit your narrative regardless

A big part of me still thinks that they originally meant for Afton to come back and saw the public backlash, then changed it to the mimic between ruin.

Or. A simple observation. In Ruin, Burntrap's recharge station is still closed. And in the Burntrap ending we clearly see it open in the cutscene for Burntrap to emerge from. Not to mention the fact that the whole Burntrap area is pretty much still in tact as well. So if the recharge station is still closed, that could mean Burntrap never emerged from the recharge station at all. Also if the mimic is the one who made the claw marks, maybe it's the mimic that was roaming around those areas, between the end of Security Breach and Ruin. This can be also be supported by the fact that they only appear in Ruin, and not Security Breach. Since Burntrap didn't make them nor the Mimic during Security Breach.

Scott also likes environmental storytelling! In the very first game the entire store is hidden behind paper clippings that are only visible in one of the hallway corner cameras.

good theory.............BUT if you paid attention burntrap's charging station door was not open. if burntrap IS the mimic and the door opened before the power for it shut off, the door would be wide open. That door was not open. so there is a high chance burntrap is still in there. and as gregory says the mimic has been down there for years. that would have been before burntrap was made cause in ruin Gregory and cassie haven't aged a day. so yes I do think that Gregory knew about burntrap, but he never interacted with it so it would have never been activated. I rest my case for now

0:50 His eyes seem to be unique as far as I can tell, given that they aren't open in the front and have a little indented ring on the flat part. 1:20 They could use _literally any Glamrock endo_ for that, it doesn't have to be Bonnie. They have plenty to spare, and Vanny clearly has been down to the Endo Nursery before, she can just grab a few spare parts and be on her way. 6:08 Okay, that's a pretty nice catch! I don't think anyone else has pointed that out, as far as I've seen. 7:45 If JTop in his interview with FuhNaff is to be believed, then MXES is _oooold,_ so it probably predates Vanessa and Gregory's involvement by a couple decades - or at least, the original machine does. 10:23 It's also literally the _only piece that matches._ If they really wanted the Mimic to also be Burntrap, I'd think they'd at least make them a bit more similar, since they already have Burntrap as a base. Ruin's other characters have differences that are explainable, like Roxy's extra "endo" bits visibly being attached outside of her actual endo, or Monty's extra tooth probably coming from some spare parts, but the Mimic has virtually nothing in common with Burntrap _except_ that one hand. I remain unconvinced. This comes down to what each person values in theorymaking, though, and I applaud the research.

Dang bruh I wanted the actual William Afton not the mimic…

What I believe is burn-trap is a mix of old parts including a corpse using a little bit of afton's flesh thrown together by vanny after she was hypnotized by glitchtrap.

Burntrap is Mimic. In epilogue 7 of Tales From the pizzaplex it is mentioned that Mimic puts on a rat suit and also in Ruin we see animal suits (mimic like the rat suit and so on). That means that Mimic changed suits as we see in Ruin, Lucia in epilogue 8 turns off Mimic and we assume that Vanny activates it again since Glitchtrap is the Mimic_1 program (the one that appears in Tiger Rock, The Monty Within and GGY ) activates it and Mimic enters the recharging cabin and here we have everything (Mimic changing his suit), possibly when Blood swallowed Burntrap possibly Mimic put on his suit imitating William, his original design is shown and we have Ruin's Gameplay .

William loosing more and more of himself as the story progresses is kind of sad with no background

TLDR: Burntrap is the mimic

I'd like to make the counter that gregory was never in the mimic's room (at least during the luring), it was just his voice through the walkie talkie, and that his backpack was placed next to the vent to convince burntrap that he had crawled through.

might as well put in my own piece for this Debate, being that Burntrap is still Afton, and that the Mimic wouldn't bother with pretending to be him, as it gives itself no advantages. Burntrap is still Afton, as there would be no ways the Mimic could know EXACTLY where parts for Springbonnie, Springlock Endoskeletons, NOR Afton's Corpse would be, as well as finding and getting a charging pod functional, along with having LITERALLY just Glitchtrap's ability to control tech practically just ported over. On top of this, The Mimic LITERALLY wouldn't have any help to piece everything together, as Vanny(controlled or not) either wouldn't or couldn't help them, with the wouldn't being in the case you believe Glitchtrap is Afton, and the Couldn't being the case that you believe Glitchtrap is the Mimic(for whatever dumb reason). The Mimic wouldn't bother with pretending to be him, because the Mimic and Afton are POLAR Opposites. Afton's patient, methodical, and efficient while the Mimic only ever thinks in the short-term, is Impatient, and only ever Mimics as a Means to an End. They'd get NO Advantages, and, in fact, it'd be LESS Advantageous if they were to mimic Afton as Burntrap, as they'd be sitting in the backline, doing nothing. On top of this, there's plentiful reason as to why Burntrap COULDN'T be the Mimic, while the only evidence towards Burntrap truly NOT being Afton being "The Mimic's an Old Animatronic, so the Data they pulled for HW CLEARLY belonged to the Mimic!" and "Afton died like, 8 times by now, there's no way he'll come back again!" despite the former being debunked literally by just understanding the timeline, and the later being just flat opinions. here's some extra stuff to add onto my case here just to cover some other bases. 1. The Mimic has only shown the ability to control machines in the scope of making lights flicker, and that's really just about it. 2. Springbonnie(and Afton by extension) has been company property of Fredbear's/Fazbear's significantly longer than the Mimic, and would make more sense to use THEIR code for the Pathing, Routines, and Models than some rusty, pieced-together robot. 3. It's shown that the Mimic is impatient through how it mimics Gregory, not being like Gregory actually is, but instead impatient and kinda whiney, all things considered, and it mimicking as a means to an end through literally the entire story of Ruin. 4. The Mimic would've just killed Vanny if they WERE Glitchtrap, and also wouldn't have stayed down there if Burntrap WAS the Mimic, unless a dramatic amount of people go down there on a regular basis. 5. Burntrap's movements are TOO Human for it to be the Mimic at work there, even for an advanced machine. And unless the Mimic spent years studying Limping, Feeble old men so that they can walk 10x slower and do their job less efficiently, I don't think it'd be doing that any time soon. 6. The Mimic is still, JUST a Machine. There's no Soul, no thoughts, just Do This in order to Achieve This, except the "Action" is most often "Mimic" and the Outcome is most often "To harm people", as it was taught Violence and to harm people, and it's goal is/was to disassemble. It won't care to stay in a sinkhole to wait for a single child to go down there once so it can hack into a different robot with abilities they don't have to kill them, they'd just rush people down and kill them. 7. Though the hand does line up, literally not a single other part lines up, from the extremely-vital torso and head, to the admittedly less-vital legs and arms. While sure, the Mimic might replace faulty pieces, I don't see how they could manage to literally replace their entire torso and head without destroying themselves in the process. Feel free to do whatever with this unreasonably large info-dump on why the funny Corpse Rabbit man in the quirky Robot game is a Serial Killer and not a Violent Machine.

You forgot to mention that Gregory is very good at hacking and also a bit of mechanics, it is quite possible that Gregory messed with Mxes and helped Vanessa

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As of Ruin, the underground was undergoing renovation. This was pointed out by Helpi, which explains why there's nothing there, the renovation work and eventual sealing of the mimic caused all viable fazbear property to be removed from that area, hence the many construction materials, tools and access routes passed through to reach there. Also help wanted 2 had a cutscene that appeared to show burntrap's pod before a mob of nightmare staffbots turn the player's character into maskbot. Meaning burntap still has a canon element even if his ending isn't.

I gotta say, you need more attention. You're underrated. And to me, Burntrap was just Glitchtrap being brought into the real world. We know Vanny worked under the control of Glitchtrap (which is either an entity using the Mimic's programming or an extension of the Mimic itself) and we know that Vanny went down into Freddy's Pizza Place several times. My guess was that she was building Burntrap out of the original corpse and several parts from within Pizzaplex animatronics. This body was created for Glitchtrap to take control over, which it does in the Burntrap ending, as signalled by Burntrap's purple eyes. That's how we know it isn't Afton since his eyes are silver while one of the most striking things about seeing Glitchtrap in Help Wanted and Security Breach was his glowing purple eyes. We get further confirmation this is the case since in one of the HW2 endings we see Glitchtrap coming out of a recharging pod, not too dissimilar to Burntrap exiting his pod in SB which kind of just further sements the idea. And it would make sense if this Mimic program mimicking Afton would tell Vanny to do this. After all, what better way to immitate William Afton than to actually use parts from the ORIGINAL William Afton? But the theory you posted holds more weight too as in the books it is stated that the Mimic can shapeshift its endoskeleton to fit any costume, meaning it could very well shapeshift to become Burntap. But there's still a very high possibility that Burntrap is just Glitchtrap's way of being brought into the real world. But if both these possibilities are equally likely considering there is substantial evidence to say that Burntrap is the Mimic and that Glitchtrap was using Burntrap to come into the real world as a physical entity, then we are left with the idea that the Mimic and Glitchtrap are one in the same. But... they're not. At least not at first glance. I personally think that Glitchtrap was working with the original Mimic since Glitchtrap is using the same or similar software. The Mimic is kind of using an extension of itself that just HAPPENS to be mimicking Afton to control the Pizzaplex and help it escape. Plus, if Glitchtrap is immitating Afton and the Mimic is programmed to essentially spread mindless violence, then that would kind of mean that both Glitchtrap and the Mimic's goals align pretty well in terms of motive and I think both entities are smart enough to know how to work together. But then, as seen in HW2, Vanny gets rid of Glitchtrap, thereby freeing herself and cutting off the Mimic's control over the Pizzaplex and everything in it. But I don't think Glitchtrap was just killed off. I think that Glitchtrap was REPURPOSED. My headcanon at the moment is that Vanny's crushing of Glitchtrap is symbolic of Glitchtrap's programming being removed and I believe that what was left of the Glitchtrap program actually became the MXES program. After all, it takes the form of a bluish-purple rabbit and has a great deal of control over the digitial world and can influence the animatronics to act, similar to Glitchtrap did. And I think the way it looks is more evidence of that. It looks more like a ghost that's broken up, representative of how Glitchtrap was essentially taken apart to be reused and I don't doubt that Vanessa or Gregory could reprogram it to do this and it could have all been done with that MXES machine we see down in the basement. Plus, the way it moves in contrast to Glitchtrap is further evidence of this. Glitchtrap in Help Wanted starts off moving very jittery and laggy but then becomes smoother and more realistic as we piece him together and his final form looks realistic and human-like, showing its development. And then there's MXES which still takes the basic form of a rabbit but is now much more digitised with a less defined model and it moves in a laggy and broken state. And we know that the MXES program that was formally Glitchtrap can be controlled as we see it become trapped inside the machine in RUIN, showing just how much it has lost its power and is now restricted to its security nodes. So I don't think Glitchtrap is GONE, I just think that he was reprogrammed after essentially having all the power stripped from him in SB with Princess Quest. He is now repourpsed to hide the very thing that he might have been working with. After all, it's just a program. Once you delete some code, you're left with a blank slate. What better way to deal with an enemy than to make it your ally? After all, Glitchtrap as a Mimic program was only doing what it was programmed to do - mimic whatever it was exposed to which was Afton. But THE Mimic? It as a physical entity and being a much older piece of technology from decades ago is not so easily controlled. But what do you think?

Its funny that everyone is talking about burntrap being the mimic but none are talking about how the blob is trying to destroy burntrap

I really enjoy the concept of The Mimic honestly.... I really didn't feel like dealing with Rotten British Rabbit anymore....

3:18 The tangle…? I thought everyone called it “the blob” because we already have a “tangle” which is a green and orange mangle from the game : fnaf world

The Burntrap model was one of the first to be designed, and Burntrap and The Mimic are almost nothing alike. The Mimic bears the same resemblance to Burntrap as it does to Nightmare Chica.

The lore in the newer FNAF games has so much going on I can’t tell even tell what is going on. Especially the whole thing with Burntrap and the Mimic

I don't dislike the concept of the Mimic. With how AI is dangerously growing currently, a monster that's an AI is a terrifying concept. But I hate that the Mimic retcons Glitchtrap and Burntrap. "It was an AI all along" seems like a desperate attempt at satisfying critics who got frustrated at Afton coming back. Also Glitchtrap and Mimic don't act the same at all... Glitchtrap can possess people and is smart and calculated, while the Mimic is impulsive and blows his cover almost immediately. The current story of FNAF sucks ass and I hate it, which is a shame because I like some of the elements a lot (The Pizzaplex, Vanny/Vannessa, Gregory, Cassie and the Glamrocks to name a few). It reeks of the writers just making stuff up as they went along. Nothing is clear, nothing makes sense, nothing means anything and anything can be retconned at any moment.

Well this just makes more sense

You can not convince me that Mimic and Burntrap are the same entity. LOOK AT THEM. And, Mimic acts nothing like William.

Gregory literally drew burntrap as Mr. Beast 2:28

The mimic and burntrap CANNOT be the same. There are too many physical discrepancies.

I feel like the answer is much simpler. Burntrap is Scraptrap refurbished by Vanny. She was under control of Glitchtrap so its pretty reasonable to think he told her "repair my arms and body", not to mention the purples, the rabbits, the file name saying Afton, the fact that Vanny/Vanessa 100% has been to the old pizza place before so had access to scraptraps remains, the only adult corpse in a suit we know of in the genre is from William Afton, the fact that GlamFreddy knows him and doesnt like him (Henry/Michael GlamFreddy Theory)... There is too much evidence pointing to Burntrap just being a continuation of the character; Springtrap->Scraptrap->Afton gets scanned into Fazbear tech->Glitchtrap->Glitchtrap controls Vanny->Vanny repairs whats left of Scraptrap->Remnant repairs organic flesh->Burntrap is born and secured in the Pizza Place ruins. Who is the ONLY adult corpse we know that was inside an animatronic? William Afton.

thats cool, but if they make glitchtrap being the mimic ill quit the game

Lil bit off topic but I think the mimic could be a really cool antagonist. A few things I’d hope is for 1)Steel wool make the future games’ atmosphere a lot less cartoony (Ruin is an improvement) 2) Steel Wool Drop Afton with this new timeline, his story is about paranormal stuff and ended with pizza sim. 3) Make the mimic a real scary threat in future games. The mimic is actually a pretty cool idea that I hope they don’t drop the ball with.

OMG! Burntrap is NOT the mimic, I'm SO TIRED of all these people literally saying things that are clearly wrong, the mimic and burntrap don't even look alike at all, screw the arm all the rest of the endo doesn't fit and the teeth aren't the same, besides the mimic would not have SEEN afton to mimic him and the mimic's head would NOT fit in that corpse head.

8:55 Either the arm being modeled that way was because it was replaced as you said or it was for when it eventually will get cut off in the elevator ending of Ruin.

modern fnaf is actually so underrated😭the way the story is told is so peak

I have a theory that because of Gregory seeing the other animatronics he had them stuck in his mind then he mixed them together and like you said “glamrock endo” “glamrock freddy” the bunny parts being from Vanny he mixed them together to create burntrap

burntrap is william afton you cannot change my mind.

I KNEW BURNTRAP WAS THE MIMIC! BUT NOBODY BELIEVED ME 😭 Lmfao

I really like this theory, and I think it might be canon. But, if Burntrap was really the Mimic (Which I would be happy about because that makes Fnaf 6 relevant to the timeline) how would we add all the human corpse stuff? How could he fit a whole gosh darn skull on his head?

Personally, i think that using The mimic, they had retconned Burntrap and glitchtrap by making Burntrap not real and glitchtrap probably being the mimic mimicing William afton (i dont know if this is really related but decided to throw it out there)