Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-32182236-20190608215840

The Mysterious Retcon is probably something simple.

In FNAF2, there was a spare suit in the back-A yellow one. Golden Freddy.

FNAF3, Golden Freddy and SpringBonnie are a set. So both would be in the back.

Pre-FNAF3, Golden Freddy was the suit Purple Guy used. Post-FNAF3, it was Springtrap. That's the retcon. There wasn't "a" suit in the back anymore, there were two.

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But if we take this retcon to its logical extreme, the entire story was likely different back then. Because Springtrap didn't exist. ..But that doesn't explain every contradiction in FNAF's story. As I explained, Phone Guy's death doesn't actually make any sense. Not before the retcon, and not after the retcon. If you take a close enough look on what happened, you'll see it doesn't match how the animatronics actually act in FNAF1. Go on, model Phone Guy's death. I can guarantee there will be at least one problem with your model, because either the recording will be contradicted, or you'll contradict the rules of FNAF1.

The oldest, first, and arguably one of the most famous mysteries of FNAF... And there is no plausible answer to it. The jumpscare doesn't match anyone except for Golden Freddy. But Golden Freddy doesn't appear when the power is out, nor when you're looking in the kitchen, and we know one of those two things were happening at the time, because we heard Freddy's music. Also, when he does appear, we hear a garbled noise first, before the jumpscare. This jumpscare was instantaneous, like the jumpscare the rest of the animatronics made.

Here's the timeline of events again.

First, we hear knocking, that sounds very similar to Foxy's knocking. As soon as Toredor March begins, we hear an "oh no", a moan, before a jumpscare that matches Golden Freddy.

If it was indeed Foxy knocking, Chica was the one that moaned, because the left door must have been closed.

Seriously, what happened? Did the AI just magically turn into 1/9/8/7, and trigger an instant GF jumpscare? (Note:This secret was added in as a patch, and wasn't always there at all. The instant GF jumpscare from Phone Guy was always there.) Does Springtrap have some super-secret way of going through the wall of the Safe Room, before it was torn down, and that was what killed Phone Guy? If he faked his death, how did he manage it?

..Also, how do robots (like Mike) eat and breathe? (He's seriously eating popcorn.. And let's not forget Charlie.) Science facts, Scott.

If the answer is "it's just a game, you should really just relax", then we've just stepped outside the realm of theorizing. So I'm hoping you have a better answer than that. -

A story with contradictions is a story that can't be solved. Every detail matters. That's why I stopped theorizing FNAF. Fortunately, Undertale is far more promising...

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...I should probably get back to analyzing Mother. It's been a while since Part 2 of that, after all.