Your Fnaf Hot Takes! (And my salty ones too) 

I think one thing the guy that said "putting the lore in the books isn't bad" kinda missed is the fact that, usually, when you shove lore that is relevant to a game into a book, the average player would NOT go out of their way to read a book for lore. Not only cuz its a paywall but the experience is entirely different. On top of that, FNAF books aren't like other games where they write novels telling you about canon events, FNAF books are/were not 1 to 1 with the game story which makes the paywall worse since buying a book without a guarantee for the correct lore is a gamble that only the most hardcore of fans would be willing to take

I'm gonna be frank, if Scott just came out and gave the most satisfactory conclusion to the lore that he could muster, people would still not accept it, because it's simply too late. The movie is obviously going to go a completely different route with the lore, while still keeping the basic characters. Also my mild hot take is that Scott should have stuck to making games like the desolate hope. He loves sci-fi a lot, and it shows.

For the whole Micheal isn’t in Pizza Sim, I think since there was an exit for the person hired, I think Henry was just looking for anyone to run the pizzeria and bring in the scrap animatronics. When Henry saw Micheal apply he decided to put him to rest as well.

My hot take is that the series is hurting itself by refusing itself the traditional “Sherlock Holmes explains the crime to the police” moment. In writing a mystery that’s not meant to be solvable they are deliberately writing clues that don’t line up together. And actually giving us the answers would allow them to set in stone what did and did not happen and what cards are actually on the table for the future so they can actually write a quality horror-mystery going forward. The series was its most fun when it felt like there was a solution and now it feels like there never will be.

Here's not so much a hot-take but rather something that they should've done in SB. They should've made it so that the animatronics slowly lose their personality and become more blatant killers throughout the game. (Hear me out) This is assuming that the robots are more characterized at the beginning of the game. I'd imagine that Gregory actually meets the glamrocks before they became eerie. Then, as you progress through the game, they slowly lose themselves to the virus until they've completely transformed into a killing machine. It would be subtle. They act a little out of character here, they do something that they otherwise wouldn't do there. Then it gets worse. Then it gets *really* worse. They start threatening Gregory with phrases like "nobody will miss you" and "I bet you don't even have friends." It would be like seeing a loved one slowly devolve into a monster.

If we're really going to forgive the glamrocks' behaviour based on mentality and dialogue I feel like Chica is probably the most forgivable. As has been pointed out, Roxy is constantly belittling Gregory with very few lines of encouraging him to come out. Which also doesn't make sense for an animatronic built to entertain and interact with kids. Just makes it look like she's bad at her job. Monty on the other hand seems to be fighting between acting friendly to coax a lost kid out and genuinely getting frustrated because he was already in a bad mood and now he has to go out of his way to find someone who keeps escaping. His dialogue and actions don't line up but it is somewhat understandable, even if that may not have been the intention. Meanwhile Chica is primarily acting in the interest of turning Gregory over the Vanessa, her dialogue consisting of either promising Gregory food and sweets as a reward, or acting in obligation to a higher authority. I feel like that makes it all the more jarring when she does kill you, thus a better indication of the glitch taking over. Aside from Freddy who has the advantage of safe mode, Chica gives the impression of being the best intentioned of the glamrocks. Her more outwardly obedient nature (aside from eating garbage) feels like it could give more insight into what her personality was supposed to be, but she gets shafted so bad. So much of the personality we do get of Chica and Monty specifically come from headcanons based on the potential fans see in them, rather than the game itself. Also, why is it when Cassie gives Chica her voice box the first thing she thinks to say is "I smell pizza"? They really couldn't be bothered to give her a single moment of depth in her last moments with a voice? And yes, she is my favourite, always has been.

I disagree on Micheal not being at FFPS, since Henry says “I have a feeling you are right where you want to be”, I don’t think it would make sense if it was someone else who was probably still fully alive to want to stay there

Hard agree with 17:05. Monty and Chica deserved better for real. Freddy and Roxy feel like people, because they're given a chance to flesh out their personalities through diologue. Monty and Chica just feel like animatronics with a single personality trait gimmick (eating trash and being angry respectively) Also yes, I wouldn't want Bonnie to be gone forever, but Monty just works SO WELL for the theme of SB. What's more 80's than an ALLIGATOR WITH SUNGLASSES?

I think the core of the issue with Gregory is that the cut up plot and quests paint him in a worse light than I think the devs intended. People don't hate him out of nowhere. Freddy directly states that the other bots are his friends and that something must be wrong, and that he cares about their safety, and Gregory ignores his sentiments and lies to him about destroying them and installing their parts onto him, instead of talking to him to find a solution to the problem and get to the bottom of what is causing them to act strangely. (You know, like puzzles and mysteries to be solved in some kind of puzzle-y, explore-y game with mysteries, but what do I know?) The dialogue sort of implies that there was supposed to be either a follow-up conversation between the two, or a payoff to Greg installing infected parts onto his friend that was initially safe. His actions weren't supposed to be without consequence, and it would have paid off in a way that still kept him likeable. Gregory isn't the spawn if Satan or anything, but the way the game went out of it's way to set up the animatronics to be more like people than in any other game, and then had Gregory brush off his friend's request to save his other friends, and then twist the knife on them despite being directly told that they were dear to his friend felt very...weird, and I'm not surprised people disliked him more than I did after that. Ruin highlighted this further by having Cassie be more avoidant of/helpful to the animatronics, and I've been wondering if that was meant as a course correction. They even added that VR poster of Gregory drying her tears. I think his portrayal in the base game was partially a mistake, and they attempted to fix it. He even gives an overly apologetic speech before he drops Cassie down the elevator shaft. They knew they couldn't have him pull that off without people pinning him as a potential villain at this point.

My hot take: Sometimes ignoring canon for the sake of a better story is fine. The FNAF story is so messy and full of contradictions, retcons, and unresolved plot threads that filling in the gaps and trimming off the excess is necessary for telling an actual story. Just because something doesn't entirely line up with what we know/assume to be true doesn't mean it's bad. Do the details we have imply that Cassidy is the most likely candidate for the "vengeful spirit" that's torturing William in UCN? Yes. Do I think it's more interesting to think it's Evan(the crying child, I know it's not confirmed but this kid is relevant enough that he deserves a name), because then his tormentor is someone personally connected to him instead of just another one of his list of victims? Also yes. Does it make sense that a stinking, rotting, somehow still alive and kicking corpse like post-scooping Michael Afton would be hired for multiple security jobs in the same company he's been fired from multiple times? No. Is it more interesting if most of the protagonists are Michael rather than an assorted cast of one-and-done nobodies? Yes. Do we have any reason to assume that William only started killing after Evan's death? No, he could have been killing at any time. But is it more interesting if we assume that it was his son's death that lead to him becoming a serial killer, likely to bring his son back? Absolutely. We've reached the point where, at least in my opinion, we will likely never "solve" this story. There are always going to be loose threads and details that may or may not be relevant anymore that muddy the waters. I'm more interested in trying to interpret the story in a way that's interesting and makes sense from a story telling perspective, rather than one that's 100% accurate to what we've been told.

I don't find Roxy inconsistent. Just because she's nasty to Gregory doesn't mean she has to be a meanie to every child she meets. If we see her as a bully, well, bullies have friends, too. They don't bully everyone they meet, just those they perceive as weaker - and not even all of them, necessarily. Personally, I didn't interpret her as a bully any more than all the other animatronics are. Almost everyone (other than Glamrock Freddy) is trying to kill the player in every game. A few mean voice lines before she STRAIGHT UP MURDERS YOU doesn't make her worse, imho.

A few hot takes: I firmly disagree with the idea that every choice scott makes in his games are intentional. Specifically all the theories to do with colours, especially with earlier fnaf. Colours of text and clothes have sometimes been so relied upon in theories but i think some (if not, most) connections were entirely accidental and, contrastly, disconnections with colours as well (take the pink guy vs purple guy issue way back). Also I think the story of fnaf has been changed a few times due to popular theories matching too close with the intended story so alterations were made just to not appeal to expectations. This could be why fnaf has become so convoluted over time. Lastly, fnaf world is a great game 😌

My hot take that I've been waiting for a chance to share: Michael getting his skin worn + decaying is an even better body horror moment to me than the springlock failure.

I think the Pizza Sim job listing was intended for William. Henry probably didn't know William was dead until a mangled Spring Bonnie suit with an adult-sized corpse in it showed up. If William has been missing for years, the easiest way for Henry to lure him out of hiding is with the promise of running another Freddy's establishment.

My hot take that I got from this video is that DeeDee is necessary to ultimate custom night for the fear factor alone. The panic that sets in trying to figure out who was added whilst still juggling the already active animatronics is great, without her the nights would become tedious once you’ve found your balance, DeeDee brings that necessary spice back into the night just when you’ve gotten comfortable.

"Dumptruck, Hot Chicken, Chipmunk, Trash Pile, Sock Monkey, and the one from beyond the sleepless veil" is the best line I have heard in a long time.

My main hot take is I am kind tired of people treating William Afton as some sad, misunderstood man who loved and cared about his kids, or how he only turned evil because of grief and tragedy. People treat this as though this is his canonical origin story because of MatPat.

I understand not forgiving Roxy for her behavior in bullying Gregory. But the sympathy for her character and the change/how she used to be before the virus we see in Ruin just really solidified her as a favorite character of mine. I like her competitiveness, she reminds me of Princess Daisy. I mean, this is probably just the feminist in me but Roxanne is literally the owner of a salon and constantly encouraged other kids in their appearances as we saw with Cassie. But the tragic thing is, in Security Breach we see that despite this she's still insecure about her own image. I think that personally speaks volumes about what her true character is.

To be fair, Glamrock Chica does have a little bit of implied personality. She's shown to be more empathetic, considering the fact that she runs over to Freddy after he falls over on stage, and, possibly a bit of a stretch, but she's the only one other than Freddy to keep a bowling ball in her room, possibly to remember Bonnie (i think I heard about both of these in an Easter egg video somewhere. Please correct me if I'm wrong). Of course, if this is what they were going for, they didn't really do it that well, and definitely buried this character trait under "oOH! pIZZAAA"

One of my biggest pet peeves in Ruin is that Roxy went from having the personality she had in SB to being wayyy to similar to Freddy. It just seems like they sanded down her abrasive self-loathing and inferiority/superiority complex because they didn’t know how to write her sympathetically. Everyday I think about what could have been if they had her act aggressive and abrasive and horrible as she does in game, and then have her react very emotionally to Cassie’s presence, instead of having her become Freddy. And anyway, they shouldn’t have had her act as though she thought nothing was wrong and that the pizzeria was still open. She knew her eyes were gone, that Gregory took them, and that things were wrong, if she has that deductive reasoning, she should at least be able to tell that the pizzeria was closed for a long time, if not realizing that her Raceway was completely trashed. It would have hit way harder if her personality didn’t turn a 180, and if she actually noticed and observed her surroundings. TLDR: They turned Roxy, known hot mess Roxy, into a Freddy clone that they didn’t even allow to notice the pizzeria was done for, thus making her turn good less impactful.

FNAF World is actually really fun. I enjoyed playing it a lot, although you could chalk that up to me loving RPG's. The soundtrack is really memorable, and it's just some simple fun.

The scraps are definitely underrated, they have cool designs and everything, yet people don't really seem to care about them,

I sort of have a head cannon that Eclipse was an unfinished program after Sun and moon were moved from the theatre to the daycare that would’ve been his daycare attendant persona, but the kids liked Sun and moon enough that they just decided not to go through with him. Hence the lack of advertisement and his slight loopiness, and the fact that he’s what shows up when you reboot Sun and Moon, because he was probably gonna be set as the default but they just didn’t finish his program. Do I think this is what Steelwool was thinking? No. But I think it explains a lot of issues with his sudden appearance and makes me feel less guilty for liking him.

Tbh I don't know if it's just me assuming, but I feel like Monty does have the potential for some personality we can gather through environmental storytelling rather than outright voice lines. From all the cutouts and his stuff in Gator Golf, Monty to me seems like the cool, chill character for kids who are a little more reserved to latch on to. A little aloof, but friendly and respectable. I guess he doesn't really have much depth besides the character, but I think it being there is enough to say he's not got any. I would like more though, obviously, I love Monty and will always want more. Speaking of environmental storytelling, Sun and Moon's room in Ruin definitely felt like it was saying something. Not sure what exactly, but something. Something like what Sun (and Moon?) desire their room, their daycare to look like contrasted with reality. That was some real depression room. I do wonder what exactly was going on with that animatronic. It seemed very strange that they'd let the whole place into disrepair when cleanliness is so important to them.

It’s nice seeing people in the FNAF community having there own opinions on certain aspects that they agree or disagree on because remember not everyone thinks William Afton is actually purple.

Honestly, the idea of 1-3 being an Afton that kills kids for the sake of it, then dying to them and then a brother that wants to use technology to bring back his brother and have that be the plot for 4-6 would have been awesome. Makes Elizabeth idolizing the idea of her deceased father that was said to be great by her uncle and going onto becoming Baby would have been really cool. Micheal working with Henry to put everything to rest also works. Even makes the Orange guy thing work, as still an Afton, but not William. The more modern era focusing on the legacy they left with a crazed copycat taking on the mantle. Sounds kinda cool

I think the reason why people dislike Fnaf shipping is because of the MCI or the fact they’re robots. I personally don’t care if they are shipping the Fnaf characters, but then it’s a weird grey line if it’s the Fnaf 1 characters with a kid stuffed inside the suit or Springtrap because he’s literally a zombie

Hot take in two parts: 1: The animatronics being self aware in Security breach was a can of worms that this series should have never opened *especially given it is basically never acknowledged or written with it in mind* 2: Following up from this, I think it would have been cool if there had been an alternate path where you could free them from the [hacking?/virus?] instead of shattering them. ...I don't know it... just didn't sit right with me

My personal small hot take is that if the "You and Me, Forever and Ever. Love, Freddy" poster was in either Roxy or Chica's room. No one would've denied the implications of it or would try to say "they're just besties". Not really an important take just smth that's been on my mind.

I don't know if it's a hot take, but after reading the FNAF Charlie-trilogy novels in graphic novel form, the best part of the stories was Jessica each and every single time. Mostly because everybody else would make the usual horror movie decisions, especially our main protagonist of whichever book we're on, and Jessica is always telling them 'What are you stupid!? You're going to DIE!" but is a good enough friend to make sure they'll be okay too. Carlton and the police officer are also pretty good, but Jessica was weirdly *consistently* the voice of reason, stuck in a B-movie horror flick.

"They're robots why are you shipping them" Tell that to transformers.

About the take of 'Michael wasn't the protagonist in FFPS', there's another point that has to be considered. If Michael wasn't the one who took the job, then why would Henry say 'There was an exit planned out for you to escape. But I have a feeling this is right where you want to be.' If Henry didn't know it was Mike and didn't know of his wish to burn alongside everything else, then who else would he have said that to?

One opinion of mine is that its weird william was the first person to discover remnant. Are you telling me that no one else killed multiple children and discover it. Another is that perhaps william poisoned the children. Hear me out, i know lots of people say he stabbed them but that would make noise and risk a springlock failure. He couldve lured them in, slipped some cyanide in the cake, and boom no noise.

I also got a second hot take: Michael is a morally grey character. His speech at the end of Sister Location's Custom Night is very interesting to me, and it feels like people have ignored/haven't noticed certain words and phrasing when he speaks. For the long and short of it, I believe Michael knew about the murders before SL and knew William was doing it, but decided to look the other way (probably like Henry does). Michael says this: "...they (the animatronics) were all there. They didn't recognise me at first, but then... they thought I was you. *scoffs/bitter laugh/sigh*" What's interesting about this is that Michael shouldn't be surprised that there are animatronics in the rental facility they are stored at, and it's odd that he comes to the conclusion that they only targeted him because he looked like William. (The two technicians that we find dead could have been used as skin suits, but they weren't used. The animatronics were targeting Michael specifically.) Michael also doesn't seem to care about them, either. He doesn't say "They're free now." he says "She's (Elizabeth) free now." even though all of them got out. I think what has happened is that while Michael wasn't working for William, he did know about the murders and simply turned a blind eye. It would be very easy to manipulate him into doing something like this. Michael's killed his brother, and William has found a way to 'bring things to life' by killing others. All he would have to say to Michael is that he could bring the Crying Child back if he committed these murders, and all Michael would have to do is keep his mouth shut about what was going on, because if William is a suspect, the police would have questioned Michael as well to confirm things like allibies and stuff. Keep in mind that Michael went into this job knowing that the animatronics were haunted because of what he said before, and he comes to the conclusion that they only attacked him because he looked like William. I think Michael knew what William was doing, but was manipulated into staying quiet. Then after he dies in SL, he basically decides to switch teams and go after him. Not to help him, but to kill him. It's like the sport's teacher watching a game of soccer and seeing one team getting bodied by the other, so they decide to join the losing team to curb-stomp the winning team. He decided to switch teams mid-game. That's also why I never bought the idea that he didn't know what was going on before SL took place and that was why he went after William because if that was the case, Michael shouldn't know about other ghosts (aside from Elizabeth) possessing robots. If that is the case, I would be perfectly fine with it, and it's a really interesting thing to think about. Whether it is true or not, it adds a nice layer to his character, because, unlike Henry, he decides to go after William earlier than him. Whether that was out of revenge or because he realised he had made a mistake and wanted to atone for what he did, is up to you.

I think the big issue with Roxy's behavior is something that comes up a lot: a lack of a transition state. People are in places and do things, but we often don't get any indication of how they got there or why. Roxy's behavior in SB makes sense in the context of SB, and her behavior in Ruin makes sense in the context of Ruin, but there's not a lot of thought put into how she's "supposed" to behave outside the games. I think a large chunk of the local problem goes away if you just cut the lethal jumpscare from Ruin, so you _could_ believe that, on her own, Roxy wouldn't _kill_ Gregory (but is still very angry for perfectly understandable reasons). Honestly, going through all these takes has given me a new hot take of my own: I don't think Ruin was an improvement on some of the flaws of Security Breach, I think it actually undermined a lot of what SB accomplished. Sure, SB a lot of execution issues and story gaps, but it still stands out as having a more complete identity. It's a well-realized setting, Gremlin and Bear Dad are distinct characters with defined personalities, and it has clear stakes and goals. A lot of Ruin seems to be focused on pulling it back into the old standby of being "mysterious" and "spooky" without trying to be cohesive. When your expansion causes people to debate whether what it's expanding on even happened, you have serious story issues.

Nah, Mikey was at FFPS, the hot taker is just misinterpreting dialogue. Henry says "my brave volunteer, who somehow found this job listing not intended for you". That does _not necessarily_ mean that there was a specific intended target. (if that was the case, saying "this job listing, intended for someone else" would make more sense) It could instead mean that the volunteer is a *significant person Henry was not expecting.* It wasn't intended for Michael, but he showed up anyway. I also would assume Henry doesn't know about the specifics of the scooping, Michael being a zombie, etc. As far as he knew, Mike was just irrelevant, but then turns up and surprisingly wants to die alongside his family, so Henry rolls with it

@19:50 yes... that is how deeper characterization works... i literally do not understand what this point is supposed to be. "you only sympathize with her because she is one of the only characters to be deliberately displayed with insecurities and complex emotions!" like, yeah, i guess you're right, you sure explained what endears an audience to a character all right.

Roxy could’ve been developed if they just had a scene where she acknowledges the things she said to Gregory and apologizes for it. It would make the “hacked animatronic” story actually mean something, rather than basically just “these robots just really hate Gregory” I can literally imagine it, something like “When I was under that ‘thing’s control, I said and did some really horrible things. I was acting like a… loser.”

The idea about Roxy just turning good and there is no virus, isn't true. She found Cassie but notices she's not Gregory then says "I'm sorry... Error". When Freddy had an error at the beginning, he rebooted into safe mode. Eclipse was having severe malfunctions and needed to be manually rebooted. How do people play the games and ignore things *LITERALLY* IN THEIR faces! 🙄

It's not that Roxy is nice now, it's that she is nice to Cassie, is probably programmed to be nice to guests in general. She isn't just magically no longer a narcissist anymore because we saw her be nice to one person. I feel like people need to understand that.

You know the thing that I really find interesting about fnaf is that nothing is cannon. Elizabeth being William's daughter, michael foxy bro... all of it is a theory that fandom has made together. I'm pretty sure we never even hear the names William, Charlie or Henry. We hear thier dialoge, but never their names. Every ultimate timeline or whatever is just one massive headcannon, and I find that very interesting

My hot take is very recent. I HATE that gas is what causes the FNAF 4 nightmares. I looked into the story and it works and fits well in the story. What I hate is that they used gas and not the sound illusion disk I love that mechanic and it's a shame it's not used in the series more.

the thing with filling in previous plotholes is that FNAF's story constantly changes with every new installation. it's the exact reason why Scott won't confirm what was in the FNAF 4 box, so he can hold on to it until he finally sets his heart on what he wants the contents (and the entire story as a whole) to be. even if the box was during the dead children era, Scott would've revealed it by now if he didn't need it to be relevant for a future era. Scott probably won't confirmed anything until the end of the franchise. MatPat theorized that Scott's secret retcon was changing the Puppet from representing the Crying Child to representing Charlie, and I honestly believe it. Crying Child's role completely changed from being Afton's first victim to being his son. I guess Scott changed his mind on who he wanted Crying Child to be during the development of FNAF 4 and chose Charlie as the convenient replacement.

I think the whole inconsistency of Roxy in Ruin is a good point from a writing standpoint, and it's pretty clear it's pandering to the fandom. Not to mention Roxy showing up just in time to attack Mimic... after somehow finding her way around the underground bunker and cave system... while blind. lol Now all that said, I don't really hold her words in SB specifically against her, because the possession/infection aspect overrides that. As it does for the behavior of all the Glamrocks (including Freddy in the books). I mean, Gregory was a full-fledged murderer when he was possessed lol. But I don't hold that against him either. The fact that she can bodyslam who she thinks is Gregory is a stronger argument... even though I'm iffy on "non-canon" jumpscares that are meant to serve as a game-related consequence only. It's like when Ennard attacks Michael in Night 5 of SL while he's trying to get to the scooping room. The Funtimes would have to be pretty stupid to set up this elaborate scheme, and then blow it by killing him too soon lol. Although granted, they could... probably still make it work. Eugh.

I do agree with that Ruin take. The story doesn't work with what SB had set up and you can tell with how they slowly added that story tree from the books the closer we got to Ruin in small little spots as engravements or stamps on things. Mimic,who I think is the first FNAF character I hate,being Burntrap still doesn't make sense because they say it's been sealed up for a long time,yet it was free to be Burntrap? Vanny broke concrete,gave him the flesh and suit of William,it suddenly got bored with being William and ripped the suit off,and somehow Vanessa and Gregory shoved him back in his hole then sealed him up again? Plus if Burntrap is just Gregory imagining things cause he found the Burntrap room when they were sealing/found Mimic,why would he imagine Burntrap and not Springtrap since he was featured in all the cover ups Fazbear Ent. had created or even Scraptrap since he's on the arcade games in the Pizza Plex. I do believe that Glitchtrap was a copy of William,but he's just that. William. He's not the Mimic Program 1.2067. It's William being stitched together. I also still find it odd Chica's voice box is in the Pizza Plex,but our Freddy is gone with it still attached to him despite being a head,since he's able to talk in PQ ending. I guess that issue just depends on whether fixing her voicebox will be canon or not,but it's still so weird that our Freddy is gone with it,but it's still there. I also might be a little bias because Glamrock Freddy is my favorite Freddy designs,as well as being one of my favorite Freddy alongside Funtime Freddy,and i'd be really bummed out that it's gone after one game. Also also,Glamrock Bonnie was clearly shoved in as Easter Egg solely so they could focus on the Mimic.

Hot take: I wish Scott did another FNAF World, that shit was lit. If not, another Desolate Hope. I just want another rpg from Scott or another of his sci-fi games cuz the atmosphere is quite unique and i love them.

I actually really like Glamrock Bonnie's design. I think it fits in just enough. And in fact, I never saw a fan design I was fully on board with, which I think gives credence to your theory that people that did are just holding the new one to an unfair standard, even if subconsciously. The thing that gets me is that from what I remember from back in the day, shipping was pretty damn big in the fandom in the very early days. Before the animatronics actually had defined characters, really. Foxy and Mangle, Bonnie and Chica... I think the modern backlash against it is the fandom wanting to seem more "mature" by casting out things they view as teenage tumblr fanfic bullshit, such as shipping. But maybe I'm just salty and biased because I was a VanGuard shipper before they turned out to be the same person 💀 Monty and Chica *did* get majorly shafted in both Security Breach and Ruin, which really, really doesn't leave all too much for me to work with in terms of personality for my rewrite fanfic. No deeper insights I just need to vent about is somewhere. M.X.E.S. _is_ attractive. Say it. Coward. Oh and my own personal hot take is that Fnaf World is a good, fun game. It's not _deep_ and I fully understand that at the time that it came out, with the lore it was trying and failing to solve, and especially with how much worse it was on release than it is now, the backlash at the time was understandable and well-earned. But I actually love that game and in retrospect I feel like people should be more lenient with it. It's hardly Scott's magnum opus, he's literally made better free to play RPGs (play The Desolate Hope it's legitimately pretty good if you get past the jank and obtuse mechanics), but Fnaf World is still a dumb, stupid, fun game to turn your brain off and have fun with. Or Nuzlocke if you're Astral Spiff. But presumably you're not. Anyways I agree with that one hot take, I hope the game gets some sort of spiritual sccessor, whether official or fan-made. Well actually I hope it gets an update 3 but that boat sank ages ago so I'll settle for the next best thing.

It's interesting that people will hold Roxy's words against her, and won't accept the explanation that she was hacked into/posessed. And yet people are more than willing to defend the likes of William Afton, or even Monty even though they did far worse than Roxy ever did. I think murdering people/costars out of their own free will trumps a few mean things said while under the influence of a hack or possession. Also I like to look at her portrayal in Ruin as this is the "real" Roxy, as in how she is towards people when not being controlled. If it wasn't Gregory it would have been anybody, so it's not like it's _him_ specifically she hates. Also, I would bet my house that if someone crashed a car into you, mangling your body and then stealing an organ from you, you'd probably go off the deep end too. Especially if you were already struggling with self-esteem/self-loathing issues.

This is gonna be long. Back in the day, Crying Child being the Puppet was inconceivable to me, simply because of the SAVE HIM minigame. However, when I think about it today, it really could have been a nice alternative, even if it meant retconning a part of FnaF 2. The design similarities, "giving life" to the plushies, the grandfather clock... It all makes sense. And with Scott saying he didn't put any random Easter eggs in the game, it was a valid interpretation. CC didn't even need to be Purple Guy's son. Heck, even though I'm a Mikevictimer (flexible, because I'm opened to other takes) I don't even think CC and his family HAVE to be Afton. That's one of my hot take : characters don't have to be Afton or Emily to be important. When it comes to other takes presented in this video : • Ennards and Mimic were brought up and I'm gonna say this : they should have been the same. Ennards has a far more interesting design, has a lot of untapped potential and was the first animatronic to use mimicry abilities, so Mimic isn't special. The thought of this nightmarish amalgamation of a machine using Elizabeth's voice to manipulate Michael is honestly still terrifying and twisted as far as I'm concerned. Imagine hearing your little sister's voice begging you to trust her. You know she's dead, you know it cannot be her. But she's somehow out there, because this monster is toying with you. In a perfect world in which Mike gets to be someone and actually emote, he's crying and yelling "You're not her !" at Ennards while he's trying to survive in the secret room. Ennards needed and deserved some spotlight as a villain. • Speaking of villain, I was as disappointed as anyone else when SB came out and Vanessa didn't show up as much. I was hyped for her and was certain Vanny and Security Girl would be different people, and I still think them being separate people could have worked better. Maybe mix possession and Vanny being already fucked up in the head before Afton began influencing her. Idk. One thing that frustrates me HORRIBLY in SB is how it's clearly established that both Gregory and Vanessa killed people... And yet, nobody cares ? Vanny murdered kids, Greg murdered like 4 therapists and possibly one of his friends (GGY). But it's okay, because they were being manipulated ! So there are no consequences. Nothing. Victims are not brought up, ever. Their murderers are free, that's all that matters. Like yeah, okay, that's not their fault, but STILL. • I'm kinda mean to scientist William because I think it's handled really badly, especially in TFC where it's straight up laughable. However, him being aware of possession and maybe trying to use it in some way to bring a family member back or something could have been interesting. • I don't give a f*ck about Glamrock Bonnie. •FNaF WORLD was good and y'all are just mean. • Mikevictim is fine stop being d*cks. • Huge lore pieces and reveals SHOULD be in the games, screw the books. EDIT : There are also far too many ghost kids who are all underdeveloped.

If FNaF wants to continue, each game should have its own self contained story instead of one continuous plot with maybe some world building elements here and there carrying over. The biggest problem with the lore is the attempt to continue one story, which means they have to find a way to jam things into an existing plot. The latest games have to co-exist with the older games, which just doesn't make sense when they have extremely different approaches to the story

Im really think that the motive from why scrap animatronics are hated is because of certain character that has a jimmy neutron/peanut design head ruins other character from other game of the series that is considered "the worst one"

Number Four is just straight up wrong,the fans didn't do anything,Sony did,or they wanted to be greedy and just rushed it,it's one of the two. Like,come on,the fan base doesn't have any power when it comes to release dates,so why are they blaming us for?

I'm pretty sure Henry was just intending for some rando to take the job, and was surprised when Michael stepped up. The job wasn't intended for Michael, but he considers that part a happy accident as it allows yet another piece to finally come to rest. That seems like the simplest explanation.

A very nice video that brings in many different points of view together! As for my own hot take: I kind of preferred it when the lore was more murky to a degree. With some concrete confirmations ala Sister Location and Pizza Sim, but the way things were told with little detail that still confirmed important events was neat, and allowed for more varied interpretations rather than just "the correct interpretation." One example I'd bring is the night guards, who long ago were thought of as their own beings, only for the theory of Michael being pretty much all but one of them to become widely accepted and considered canon. Or maybe that was confirmed in one of those ultimate guide books, I don't know, I'm here for whacky animatronic fun. It even had interesting ramifications on the fanfiction scene, where I bet you could track the most widely believed theories and interpretations by how the fanfiction of the time were being written, with what details they used and characterizations chosen. Plus, I thought it was a lot more fun. The uncertainty of what means what was neat, but now we're bogged down with details, confirmations, and probably worst, people believing certain theories to be canon due to their acceptance. Although, I suppose that could just be a side effect of there being less overall possibility in favor of some level of linearity, "drawing in the edges of the map," as it were. But then that brings me to modern era FNAF, Help Wanted through to Ruin, and how it's felt off in terms of lore and their story telling vibe to me, a weird back and forth on distancing the modern era from the past while dragging the past forward kicking and screaming. I feel they should either fully embrace the past lore and tell more dynamic stories with it, even if it turns the Pizza Sim fire into a big ol' joke, at least make something out of that consequence, or they should have gone fully the other way and tell their own stories of killer animatronics with optional murdered child possession. The half and half kneecapped Security Breach heavily (along with other things), Vanny, Burntrap and Glitchtrap, The Blob, the Glamrocks. I really feel Steel Wool should have started smaller if they wanted to tell a coherent story. I just hope the semi success of Ruin can turn things around and allow them to do cool things with the franchise. Bonus hot take that's probably lukewarm: There totally should have been a semi classical FNAF game where you played as an animatronic (my bias says Puppet), and honestly I wouldn't mind if Steel Wool or others made spin offs confirmed to take place outside of the main game canon. Take the possessed animatronic idea and go crazy with it I say. With how freakish the fandom is I could see a dating sim at least getting a laugh out of people. More little beat em ups, more Freddies in Spaces, more FNAF Worlds! Let not the whims of canon limit the madness we all truly desire! Apologies for the rambles, and thanks ye again for this fun video.

6:59 I confess, I used to be really into FNAF shipping stuff when I was a teenager messing around on DeviantArt. So I totally agree that people can be very harsh towards it. The way I see it, as long as its more in an AU setting, where you're using the characters to tell a different story than the one they originated from; and you genuinely enjoy seeing certain characters in a romantic relationship, then there's no harm done. That's exactly what I did when I got back into writing FNAF fanfiction. Sure, people may think it's weird, but if it makes you happy and you have a supportive circle, then that's all that should matter.

While I agree gregory was in the right to fight back against the animatronics. The big issue is his attitude towards them. Freddy is constantly vouching for the animatronics. Convinced there must be something affecting them. And he's Right. Yet for as much as they like eachother at the end. Gregory never seems to take freddys words seriously. Just destroying the animatronics and not even having the decency to be honest to freddy about what he did.

I like the take that Chica's "lack" of personality is more in so referencing how when getting taken over by the glitch, she'll become the most robot like out of all, all her dialogue feels somewhat generic, like "our security staff can help" and the fact she walks like a zombie. Sort of alluding to the animatronics of pasts games, as aside from Freddy, she's an incarnation from an old school character.

I think burntrap was 100% supposed to be Afton because Steel Wool was left in the dark on a lot of things. They said during the Dawko interview that Scott just told them to put things in the game without much more context than that. Then since Scott saw the very negative reception to Afton coming back again, he backpedaled HARD by making that ending non-canon and introducing the mimic. Not even to mention the plot holes between base SB and RUIN that would have been caused by that ending being canon in the first place.

My Hot Take: I really hope that it was actually the real Gregory, and not the Mimic, who dropped the elevator in Ruin. If it's true, I feel like it adds a lot more depth to Gregory's character that expands upon how he acted in the base game with destroying Freddy's friends and lying about it. Not only that, but it would also open the door for an interesting antagonist dynamic between a frightened and guilty Gregory and a Cassie who feels angry and betrayed.

Hot take, Willam ripped off Dr. Robotnik. I mean come on, shoving living things into robots? Totally an Eggman move!

Hot take: Sister Location is a horrible entry in the series. Yeah, it's entertaining and neat for the first time you play, but it is practically impossible to replay the base game of SL without being bored out of your mind. I think the problem is the scripted-ness of SL. There should have been more elements to SL's base game to keep it fresh. In terms of story, I think SL is one of the best in the series, and the Custom Night is a nice addition to the bland gameplay of Sister Location. It also has some of my favorite characters of the series. (Justice for Michael)

I can admit, Ruin is flawed in many ways. However, once you compare it to the base game, it looks a lot better doesn't it? I enjoyed ruin.

I don't know if anybody will see this, but how the hell do you expect me to believe the Mimic had the capabilities to convince Vanessa; to make up a story about her family background to her physiatrist. That's supposed to be based off of the divorce of Mrs. and Mr. Afton. From Elizabeth's perspective!

35:10 i can't help but feel reminded of the pink guy/two killers theory back in the day when you bring this up. I could see a mad scientist and henchman dynamic going on with the purple guy being the latter.

I find the hot take about the books kinda interesting. For the most part I agree with some of it. While I like the whole idea of the “yo dude brighten image” stuff, I think that can be very strange to casual fans. I also feel like this can also take away from the story. My biggest example being Ennard fighting themself in the source code. To a casual player you’ll play Fnaf Sister Location and be like “oh snap there’s a new villian that’s a spaghetti man? That’s sick I can’t wait to see them in the next game!” Then in the next game Baby is separate, and you see what fans would just see as destroyed Funtime Freddy, and be like “What happened to Ennard?” As for the part I disagree with, I think the books cause their own problems. Yeah sure it’s more direct with lore than “look at the source code.” But it’s locked behind a paywall, incredibly misleading at times, and also some of the lore is stuff that was later retconned into the story. For the first 5 games there was no mention of any family besides William, then out of nowhere in Pizza Sim we hear about a man named Henry and their daughter, who is the Puppet. Those are 2 characters you wouldn’t know about unless you read the books, and were never brought up because until the books they didn’t exist. Sorry about how long this was. Wanted to share my opinion on this whole thing.

Honestly, a more creepy and eerie design of Burntrap would’ve been a better design for The Mimic and would make Ruin that more scarier while also explaining that it’s not William Afton. Just thought that since the mimics hand gets cut off and so does Williams

I like the chill approach this video has, no yelling, no just telling people off like some other RU-vidrs would Just feels like old school discussion of hot takes on FNAF

My personal hot take is that if Steel Wool would have taken as much time as they needed then Security Breach would've taken place within 5 Nights (and Night 6 for the "Secret Ending(s)" and possibly Night 7 as its version of the RUIN DLC). Then it would've really amazing with the extended backstories of Gregory, Vanessa/Vanny, and the Glamrocks and where he came from, possibly 16-Bit Mini-Games in-between nights, and obviously, more lore & secrets for what this game has to offer. Then of course, they'll focus on Help Wanted 2 as per normal. (Also, That last Hot Take you have caught me off guard. XD)

Alright, here's my hot take:I feel many other FNaF fans will agree with me on this, The way Vanessa/Vanny was handled with the whole glitchtrap possession. I personally wish we could've gotten a more in depth view from Vanessa's perspective, like how if she was able to fight back control from Glitchtrap for a little while before finally losing control of her own body, becoming Vanny. Sure, we get hint's via the Email's but still it pales in what the FNaF community has explored content wise Vanny fan songs the best one in my option Kitten sneeze's-Already Dead which dives deep into what or how Glitchtrap's permanent scaring and damage affected. Vanessa sure we can all believe that by the events of Ruin Vanessa has recovered, however all that trauma and using fear an intimidation alongside mentally psychological torture that is forever Vanessa she'll have to deal with. Personally, possession in horror movies will always be horrifying to me and others may agree.

My hot take is that FNAF4 should have taken at Fredbear's Pizzeria. Considering that FNAF4 was the first and for a long time the only game with a child protagonist, its a waste that we dont spend much time inside the pizzeria. Considering that children are the primary target for William's murder, it would have interesting to see it from their perspective and since William has never been hinted at being a good father, it would make sense for him to forget to take his child and leave him at Fredbear's at night alone for 6 hours. There are also other cool stories that you tell with a child protagonist lost/alone at the pizzeria that im surprised it took them until SB to make one

Also I have a hot take I think Steel Wool should take the glitches and memes from SB and make them inside jokes in later games. Like imagine if there’s another Fury’s Rage game where there’s an entire wave of crazed Monty’s called in reference to Giga Monty?

Cold take: your videos are really nice and my girlfriend and I smile while we watch them. Your perspective in and on the community is appreciated

24:44 I agree so heavily on that! Like day shift at freddys had a remark by phone guy about him having to lie to the parent’s distraught faces because he knew they were stuffed in the suits. Like I’m kinda baffled that none of those kid’s parents had any lore relevance or weren’t characters tbh it’s a huge missed opportunity

Roxy and Chica were saying those nasty things under the influence of the Glitchtrap virus. We know from the Storyteller story that once the storyteller was installed the animatronics started acting more mean and weird and aggressive and I'm assuming at the point that Security Breach happens it's even worse. With the influence of Glitchtrap mostly removed from the pizzaplex by the time ruin happens, It seems like Roxy is acting more like her original self, where she's a bit of a diva as her caricature but she's not downright nasty

its wild to me that as soon as the animatronics are sentient beings on their own instead of like, haunted by murdered children is when people start hating on shipping them. Like I'm firmly in the "the MCI kids weren't actually their own characters and the animatronics had their own fanon personalities so there's nothing immoral about shipping the ogs" camp, but still, the sentient AI and the animatronics having actual personality is when you draw the line???

36:36 I don't really see it working out, The FNaF 4 Crying Child and the Take Cake kid are shown to die in different ways in FNaF 4, however, FNaF 4 is also where the Crying Child is connected to the specifically monochrome puppet-like character with no leg stripes, a removable mask, black tears, and a wide chest that can fit a person, like a springlock animatronic, unlike the Marionette shown in FNaF 2. This is why I believe the Crying Child goes on to be Nightmarionne instead, the Shadow (Puppet(/Freddy, BB, Tree, Princess, etc...)). And Charlotte being revealed to be the Marionette later on wouldn't affect this plot point at all, so it wouldn't be "retconned out"... This would mean the Crying Child is still currently Nightmarionne, which is interesting due to his presence in the Mega Pizzaplex, including how he has plushies of himself set up around the building for surveillance, learning from the tricks used on himself by other as a child. There's also Nightmarionne's line referring to themselves as the reflection of Charlotte, which is interesting, both because the Bite of '83 is a mirrored Happiest Day, with Crying Child being a direct reflection of Charlotte, and in the novel trilogy, Charlie refers to her twin as a mirror... 👀 Y'know, FNaF's devorce and custody case is really confusing at times, you can never be sure which child originally came from what parent- Anyway, I really hope Help Wanted 2 reveals the true identity of the springlock animatronic in the CBEaR bunker... going by what Room For One More tells us, it's the real body of Nightmarionne, with the large chest cavity and all, as their FNaF World model and FNaF 3 Mangle's Quest sprite shows us... but until it releases, it'll be my wishful thinking. Thanks for reading :D

I was just thinking about the hate towards shipping today. Almost feels like there's a bigger pushback against shipping characters these days than there is to being **attracted** to them lmao Also regarding the Phone Dude opinion, I really like DMuted's theory/headcanon that Phone Dude is Fritz Smith, and is just an overly enthusiastic Freddy's fan who helps construct Fazbear Frights to be as authentic as possible. It's not super groundbreaking but it's a fun way of viewing the character. I would definitely like to see another hot takes video! I couldn't think of any hot takes when you initially made the post but some have come to me since.

Ok, I'm a little late here, but I also have some hot takes, especially for the "SteelWool Era", one for the movie and two for the books. 1- They should stop making a lot of mysteries only for the fans to do a lot of theories: I know that is fun making theories, but nowadays we have A LOT of content in the franchise, and most of time the theories consist in making parallels of something in the past or something that can happen in a future game. 2- The book that has the best story is The Silver Eyes: Okay, this will be controversial, but let me explain, what we had in TSE was just a down to earth story about a group of teens invading an old Freddy's just because of nostalgia. However, after the Twisted Ones with it's Illusion Disks and The Fourth Closet with the introduction of Remnants, The Charlie Trilogy became just an ordinary si-fi story, don't get me wrong, I don't hate the si-fi way that FNAF is going, but the execution of it is a mess, especially the Charlie robot plot twist (I completely dislike this twist). And I am not going to mention FF because that's my next hot take. 3- The Fazbear Frights should have been completely different and canonical to the main games since the beggining, because I can't accept the way that FF got written, in the FF we have a time travelling ball pit, a girl made of candy and sentient goo that can take form of everyone (and I'm not mentioning In The Flesh because I completely hate that story). Honestly, I think the best way in making FF canon is making it completely different from the original, focusing on Fazbear themselves, and taking place during the 30 years timeskip between FNAF 1 and 3, not only that could give a huge world-building for the franchise, but could also explain what Fazbear Entertainment did to come back after a lot of incidents in the past. 4- The movie should not have anything that confuses the game lore (a.k.a Remnants and family relations): I know that a lot of people want remnant and Mike Schmidt and Abby being Aftons in the movie, but I don't any of these, I want Mike just being a random guy with financial problems that only accepts the job just to help his sister, not a son of William Afton that got lost during the childhood, and I want the most simple explanation for the possessed robots being "The kids are controlling them", because for me, the remnants was a shoot in the franchise's own foot. 5- Security Breach should have had only one ending: We all know that SB until this day has a lot of problems, but the one that is the worst of them all for me is the multiple endings one, because in between Ruin's announcement and it's release, all of us were thinking which ending was the canon one, only for the DLC releasing and showing that the Princess Quest ending was the canon one (even if it is a huge retcon). And that's pretty much it, even if I have some more like: The Blob being the main villain in Ruin and the unnecessary villainization of Gregory, I've been writing this for 30 minutes and I'm getting tired of writing this. Thanks for reading!

Ideally, the series should have ended with UCN. Sure, it isn't a perfect "happy ending" since the kid who possesses Golden Freddy doesn't find peace, but William is basically sentenced to eternal damnation to be tortured by his own evil creations. Poetic justice if you ask me. At that point, while the series was already needlessly complicated, it still held the spooky and messed up tone it was going for and was still about the dead kids. I find an ending like that quite satisfying. After that it just goes off the rails and the books make it even more outlandish than it already was.

Hot take: I haven't seen this video but it's good.

I think the whole "Not intended for you" means there wasn't anyone specific that they were looking for, but Mike just happened to be perfect for the job. Why else would it be "Right where you want to be"?

here's my hot take: FNAF World was a good and fun game, and the build up to the announcement with characters on a banner slowly being replaced by their FNAF World models was incredibly interesting to see and follow along with. I would refresh Scott Games every day and look to see who had been swapped out, and the game (after release and backlash) being free made it the first FNAF game I actually played rather than just watch a youtube play it for me. FNAF World has a special place in my heart and is over hated.

Hot takes (and yes I know SL came out ages ago and I should probably shut up about it): 1. Elizabeth afton is a good character… in Sister location. Think about it, this little girl gets trapped in an animatronic that HER OWN FATHER made and is tortured with electricity and experimented on and then is all but abandoned (and left in the care of people who probably think she’s just a robot) for an unknown amount of time. THEN, the father (or at least that’s what she thinks) COMES BACK for seemingly no reason and she decides to use that familial connection to create an elaborate plot with the OTHER children he experimented on to kill him and steal his identity. HOW did Scott look at ALL THAT and decide to make her into a daddy’s girl who would kill to make THE MAN WHO MURDERED HER proud??? Elizabeth isn’t (or at least wasn’t) a gullible character, she wouldn’t work for William because she wouldn’t trust him. (**Warning: Tangent ahead**) Also what’s with her fallout with the other Funtimes? They literally plotted to kill a man together and the others seemed to trust her judgment so even if she was a little controlling (which she never actually showed in pizzeria sim) they probably wouldn’t care that much. If anything, the other Funtimes are the ones who actually seem gullible (Freddy believing bon bon and calming down, ballora leaving Michael alone because Elizabeth asks her to), but these are supposed to be hot takes not character dissections so I’ll stop here. 2. Sister location was a very good game when considered its own standalone story. Did it thrust the fnaf series into sci-fi hell? Yes. Did it kickstart the afton family storyline that now plagues the series like a disease? Also yes. But it was a good story about a daughter who was murdered for her father’s mad desire for immortality and a son who was mistaken for their father and died for crimes he didn’t commit so he could free his sister from torture and, by doing so, cursed himself with the immortality that his father tried so desperately to achieve. This is a story about victims who failed to get the revenge they wanted but got the freedom they deserved. Sister location was a beautiful tragedy about vengeance and freedom and is probably the closest thing anyone in this series has gotten to a happy ending besides Gregory. 3. I wish fnaf was a story that focused on the victims of the tragedies rather than the perpetrators. I don’t care about afton or vanny or Eleanor. I care about the missing children. Like how do they feel about this cruel eternity that they’ve been forced into? Do they care about each other, did they become friends? What do they think about each other? I don’t really care about who they were when they were alive, it’s been a long time since then, the only reason I would care about that is to see how they changed since then. I know fnaf won’t ever be that kind of story but I wish it was. Or at least had a fandom project that was. 4. Fnaf had (and has) a lot of potential but it suffers from its inability to move on from old plots and the fact that it never wants to confirm anything. The games sometimes feel like little happy meal toys because most of the lore isn’t in them, it’s hiding in source code and teasers and BOOKS that only sometimes match with the game lore. It never wants to confirm anything and sometimes it even retcons things for no reason other than (probably) that people predicted it and it’s no longer a surprise or that the fans (or scott) didn’t like it (anymore).

its wild how people like burntrap more than the mimic. i personally like the mimic more, but mostly because he's absolutely fascinating to me. a dead guy who keeps coming back is much less so

I really wish Phone Guy and Phone Dude got more appearances, and that Phone Guy at least got a little bit of closure. Like I get he dies in FNAF 1, but he's made so many appearances since then that it feels weird that his last completely original appearance was in FNAF 3 talking about Springlock Suits. 2 ideas I have are: 1. Make a note about an employee being killed (that would be hinted at being Phone Guy) and maybe add some stuff like money being sent to his family or something 2. Finding his rotting corpse inside an old Freddy Suit as an Easter Egg, maybe in an old storage warehouse or a junk heap. Of course there could be many other better ways I haven't thought of.

I think that it would be best if sometime down the line the series gets a hard reboot that retells and improve on the story and lore whilst taking a unique approach to surprise both old and new fans. All of this would happen after this current story was taken care of and concluded of course

Probs not a hot take: I really hope they do more with glitch trap. I’ve been a fan of the series since the start, but the only character that’s creeped me out was glitchtrap. Or at the very least they should do more characters that are that unsettling.

I agree with the final hottake about the puppet. I always found it weird that the crying child wasn't in fnaf 6. Like Molten freddy says One big happy family, but it'd missing the crying child.

Okay my hot take: Scott is great at lore, horrible at telling a cohesive story. So many conflicting details that could be fixed with a story update to each game. Changing the small details like changing “Save Him” to “Save her” in FNAF 2. Stuff like that would be so amazing for fixing the lore and telling a better story!

"Also Vanny would've been better if she was extra thick" Had to stop watching the dishes for a sec to reverse the video to see if I heard that correctly made me audibly go "huh"

Regarding Roxy saying "Nobody will miss you", it's worth noting that, according to the Tales story "The Storyteller", while Roxy DOES enjoy poking at people's insecurities to cope with her own, she didn't start acting like a cruel bully until after getting corrupted. "Nobody will miss you" is clearly a death threat courtesy of the Mimic's corruption, so "She was possessed/hacked/corrupted" is a valid argument (though it doesn't excuse the aforementioned poking, which probably wasn't any worse than calling people with glasses "four eyes", or people with braces "metal mouth". And while she does still insult Gregory in RUIN, that's because she's still mad at him). Is Roxy justified in trying to kill Gregory for stealing her eyes? No. Is she justified at being angry about it? Yes. It wasn't her fault she tried to kill him in Security Breach. Based on the aforementioned book info, combined with Roxy's interactions with Cassie, it's not hard to infer that Roxy's habit of poking at people does not extend to children (Gregory being the exception, and a special case). And Roxy's crying in her room in the main game is meant to humanize her. There's a reason she's listed on TV Tropes under "Jerkass Woobie" (meaning yes, they're a jerk, but they still have sympathetic qualities). That said, the same book story also mentions in passing that Roxy has an "inherent lack of empathy", but RUIN clearly contradicts this. If anything, MONTY seems like the one who lacks empathy.

I love hot take videos.. and fnaf.. and your channel! That means this is the best combo!

idk why but you describing toy freddy as "dumptruck" so casually legit made me burst out laughing

8:05 I like how FNAF the week before handles revealing lore, while it does reveal lore that you can't learn by playing the games the thing is 1: the lore it reveals is lore about a character that hasn't been important in the story for nine years. 2: you can play the games without reading the book and still have a perfectly fine understanding of who Phone Guy is.

My hot take is that i think we should start viewing the pre steel whool and post steel whool eras the same way star wars fans view legends and canon. They exist independently of each other, but specific events are mirrored where applicable, and the original interpretations should exist untouched from the continuing story. Additionally, i think the security breach era of games should be more overt with the sci-fi elements its including. Its very clear that the world these games take place in is explicitly a sci-fi world, but they've been subtle enough with it that a lot of people will see the absurdly advanced technology and think theyre just dumb, weird inclusions in a grounded setting, when in reality they've just established a setting that is entirely new and far removed. Essentially, it feels like the modern series wants to imply that if you walk outside the pizzaplex, the city outside is gonna look like cyberpunk, but they're being subtle enough that anyone who doesnt look into it thinks that the sudden advanced technology came out of nowhere. Its not a series thats trying and failing to be grounded, but they need to show that fact and the new normal that they've embraced. (Edit: also if you want a canon gender for mangle, then they've already been canonized as genderfluid in every way they possibly could be. Like that is a thing that people can be, that is supported by how they are described. This stopped being a mystery as soon as they started being overtly described as both masculine and feminine in the same sentence, can't get much more overt than that)

I didn’t realize how much of a hot take this was until now because I’ve mostly just stuck to the sub-fandom the DCA spawned, so here I genuinely don’t mind the sci-fi direction fnaf is taking right now. This is probably because I was never really _invested_ in fnaf before Security Breach (I just prefer more character driven stories) and don’t have a nostalgic attachment to the idea of “dead kids possessing robots” and thought that the sci-fi glitch idea works fine enough for the reason why the animatronics are acting quirky. But know that I think about it, I genuinely wish that Help Wanted and after both moved on from the games before it completely and went *full throttle* on the sci-fi. We are already seeing it with sci-fi but clinging to the past. But if it moved on but did the whole “the robots are mean because ghosts” without doing anything different with it, it would’ve felt like a retread of the last games but with a bigger budget. I like the idea that the Afton virus amplifies it’s hosts’ worst traits to a murderous degree, so imagine if instead of it being Afton, some virus infected Vanessa that didn’t turn her into a mindless follower. Instead, all the horrible things she does are _based_ on her darkest desires but ramped up to an extent that would disgust her to her very core normally. There’s a lot of potential in that idea alone, especially throwing in Security Breach’s sapient animatronics. Like, I’ve seen some people say that Sun is just as affected by virus as Moon, but instead of his traits leading him to be violent, he just becomes more anxious and smothering. And while I don’t believe that, I think having that be explicitly stated in this hypothetical would be interesting. Even without the personally modifier virus idea, maybe a sapient animatronic gets infected by some murder virus on purpose to use it as an excuse to hurt someone for some reason. Maybe they’re made at the world, and start infecting more animatronics (willingly or not) to do more damage. Maybe they just hate One Guy In Particular, but they end up hurting someone they care about under the virus’s control. Maybe even combine the two! Maybe have a ghost possess a huge computer system, or a sapient animatronic who could actually fight them for control or attempt to share the body, maybe even use the robot kid idea in an interesting way by having the major twist of a game be that your character is a recreation of a kid who died at Fazbear’s, and the most aggressive and persistent animatronic was the kid’s ghost who’s furious that they got to have a happy childhood while they’re stuck here, or that they were apparently that easy to replace Idk how to end this but ahh, sci-fi fnaf isn’t that bad of an idea

the fnaf 6 take made me realize I was being an idiot about the game this whole time. I literally unironically thought the listing was targeting William and got Michael instead. That "hot take" is what made me put 2 and 2 together on how that literally doesn't make sense rofl i play SB with a mod that replaces chica's voice lines with the valley girl variants when applicable and it genuinely makes the whole game so much more enjoyable.

My own hot takes: - I really enjoy how complex the story is. Granted it's a pain to figure out and i think in recent games/books the story is still being scrambled together but like since the first couple games one of their biggest appeals was the hard to figure out the lore. At this point it's just fun and it gives so many POVs. - The cover up story for bonnie's death ofc isn't the real deal but if people want to believe it (like me) it isn't farfetched considering how human the glamrocks are. To be honest it's probably best to just think of it as an AU. I may have more but my brain can't shake em out.

A hot take I have: Scott should have been given a little more restriction with some of the games. Starting in FnaF4, he did split the crying child into 2 possibilities, either the bite victim or a murder victim, amd he stated thats his "only retcon." In FnaF World and Sister Location, he started to get back to his roots with child friendly rpgs and his futuristic imagination. However, he would have had better story if someone would have helped him make something coherent. Hot Take 2: Roxy's change makes sense. In the books, it states how Roxy went from more of a teasing friend to be exceptionally cruel. And a personal theory, the upgraded eyes might have something to do with it. Seeing how she has a split personality and she talks to herself (until ruin) it shows that her actual self was hidden due to changes cause by the upgrade and/or the virus. (Not so)Hot Take 3: Baby could have been a great villain, wanting to get out of the pizzeria and into the living world. Maybe she would have strived to become "alive again" or even did what the puppet did. Bringing back her family, all died, trying to fix things herself. How she became the one to try pleasing William didnt feel too great

Hot take: After Fnaf 4 the games became horribly unrealistic. Okay okay, hear me out: i know the games aren't realistic to begin with, but they atleast felt somewhat grounded in reality and it wasn't too crazy. The whole springtrap thing was a bit of a stretch, but it still felt possible within the games universe. I'm not sure if i'm putting it into words correctly, but i hope you get what i'm saying and where i'm going with this: Then came sister location: underground bunker with futuristic robots, weird layout and a room with a big scooper thing that doesn't seem to serve any purpose other than killing the michael. I'm guessing it's purpose was for when Fazbears Entertainment decided they didn't want the animatronics anymore they could just destroy them, but wouldn't it be more cost effective to have them be taken apart and then have the parts sold or put into storage for future robots rather than building a special room with a large metalic claw to destroy them. That room shouldn't exist. Now i wouldn't have as much of a problem with Sister location if it wasn't for it's placement in the (widely accepted) timeline and remnant. Sister Location is simply too futuristic to be taking place before Fnaf 2. Also, remnant? Seriously? You could make the argument that ''if William survived the whole springtrap thing then how isn't reviving his son possible?'' Well i'll tell you: 'the whole springtrap thing felt more grounded because it was like a curse. Something you'd hear in old legends: ''this horrible man had a curse placed on him by the spirits of his victims that made him live and suffer for eternity.'' I feel like that could've been the end of it. Honestly Fnaf 3 would've been a great end to the storyline, but nope: we had to continue with this remnant stuff. That being said, Security breach would honestly fit in the ''realistic'' timeline. I feel like a company making huge comeback and creating a place that commemorates it's history is cool and something that could happen. Ofcourse if it were to fit in my timeline some aspects would need to change like the blob being removed. Anyways, here's my ideal timeline: FNAF 4 - FNAF 2 - FNAF 1 - FNAF 3 - Security breach. (Pizzeria Sim. not included because without Sister location it wouldn't exist). I know this was a big rant and quite hard to follow. I probably didn't do a great job of putting it into words but i hope you kinda understand what i'm getting at here. Love your content, keep it up :) Additional note: something i felt to mention is when Fnaf 4 released everybody was hyped, not just because it was the final entry but because we were finally going to get answers on everything. But, instead of finally opening that darn box Scott kept it closed and ended up releasing more Fnaf games. It honestly feels like the lore will never be solved, with constant new additions: characters, locations, new lore... yadayada. I honestly don't ever think we'll get conclusive end to the story. Edit: i know this hot take is similair to the ''It should have ended with Fnaf 3'' but like i showed in my timeline i think Fnaf 4 and Security breach should have stayed. Fnaf 4 was crucial to showing one of the most iconic moments in Fnaf: the bite of '83 (WAS THAT THE BITE OF 87??!?!?!? :O) aswell as finally showing Fredbears family diner and by extension Nightmare Fredbear who is absolutely terrifying. Also the halloween DLC was goated. And security breach feels like it could fit, so why not? I also agree with what you said on some of the games being their own thing. I think it would be for the best that the games after Fnaf 4 should've been their own 'What-if' saga of games, with Security breach, in my opinion, being somewhere in the middle (who knows, maybe it could've incorporated both aspects of the Fnaf universe?). The 'OG' Saga (Fnaf 1 to 4) could have gotten some extra games, perhaps a dedicated Fredbears family diner game (just an idea, tho the Fredbear Family diner fangames have been done to death.) Another cool idea is that instead of the books we currently have that aren't 100% connected to the lore of the games: there should've been books released for both Saga's. Just speculation ofcourse.