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William Afton says:"I ALWAYS come back" William says This article The Missing Children is a Spoiler and may contain information which may spoil something for you.If your new to the series please read at your own risk thank you.Antagonists Wiki is NOT responsible for any spoilers you see again you have been warned. |
| “ | Five children are now linked to the incident at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured them into a back room. While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found. Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has been fighting an uphill battle ever since to convince families to return to the pizzeria. | „ |
| ~ A newspaper report on the murders. |
| “ | Why did you reopen? Everyone remembers what happened to those kids. | „ |
| ~ A customer complaint found in Freddy Fazbear's Mega PizzaPlex, possibly referring to the Missing Children's Incident decades ago. |
The Missing Children are the secondary antagonists of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
They are the ghosts of William Afton's victims who were lured into the backroom of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and murdered. However the Puppet, stuffed the children in the suits of the animatronics to give them a chance for revenge. The first four possessed Chica, Freddy, Bonnie, and Foxy, while the fifth, Cassidy's spirit possessed Fredbear and became Golden Freddy.
After their resurrections, and due to their deaths, the spirits of the five children became consumed with anger and vengeance. Because they were blinded by rage, they began mistaking adults, including Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, Phone Guy, and Michael Afton/Mike Schmidt, for William Afton. Because they are driven by a hunger for revenge, they will stop at nothing until they kill the man who is responsible for murdering them. Eventually, Afton returned and destroyed the animatronics the five children were possessing, which would backfire as he awoken and freed their spirits, causing them to make an attempt to attack him, which led him to his own death when he tried to hide in a springlock spring bonnie suit.
After the events of FNaF 3 their souls were finally put to rest by Charlotte Emily.
History[]
While nothing about their background has been revealed as of now, the Missing Children were killed on/around June 26, 1985, when two and later all five of them were reportedly lured into the backroom of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and murdered by William Afton, who wore a Spring Bonnie costume to gain there trust. However the Puppet a animatronic possessed by Afton’s first victim Charlotte Emily saved the childrens souls by stuffing their corpses into the restaurants animatronics: Gabriel into Freddy Fazbear, Jeremy into Bonnie the Bunny, Susie into Chica the Chicken, Fritz into Foxy the Pirate Fox, and Cassidy into Fredbear, who eventually become known as Golden Freddy. Chica's quotes from Ultimate Custom Night imply that Susie was the first to be killed by William. As the corpses of the five children were never found, they would apparently begin to fester and decompose as blood and mucus seeped from them and through the animatronics suits they were placed in, which in turn, caused the animatronics to emit a foul smell. This was noticed by parents, who proceeded to file a complaint to the health department.
Two years later in 1987, the animatronics had been decommissioned and left to wither in the Parts & Service room of the newly opened successor to the original pizzeria (though not before being refitted with criminal detection tech before they were replaced with the Toy Animatronics) and they would attempt to kill the night guard Jeremy Fitzgerald and later successor Fritz Smith due to mistaking them for William because of their purple uniforms.
A year later in 1988, after the successor was closed, the animatronics would be modified as they once again became the mascots of the reopened Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. From 1988 to 1993, they would kill numerous night guards working at the establishment, including Phone Guy. Michael, William's son, would work at the location under a fake name, presumably to try to uncover the mysteries. However, the animatronics, mistaking him for his father, spent seven nights trying to get to Michael before he was fired for tampering with them and bad odor.
After Michael's firing, the pizzeria would go out of business and close down, with the animatronics being abandoned in the establishment. After each night when Fazbear's Fright opened up, one by one, they were lured to the pizzeria's backroom by Shadow Freddy, only to be ambushed and wrecked by William himself, who is speculated to have used their leftover remnant from the metal suits they possessed to give life to the Funtime Animatronics (either that, or the Funtimes were possessed by a new of set of murdered children) and make them sentient, who would later become Ennard, then Molten Freddy. This would be a fatal mistake, however, as the ghosts of the Missing Children were freed from the animatronic endoskeletons and chased William into the backroom. He equipped the Spring Bonnie costume in an attempt to protect himself, only for it to malfunction and fatally mutilate him. The spirits would disappear as William died, though he would eventually become Springtrap.
Decades later in 2023, with the help of the Fazbear's Fright night guard (the identity of whom is implied to be Michael), Shadow Bonnie, and 8-bit versions of Balloon Boy, Mangle, Toy Chica, and Fredbear, the Puppet would organize a spiritual birthday party of "Happiest Day" for the Missing Children, allowing their souls to move on to the afterlife. However. Cassidy would stay behind to enact further vengeance on William. The party would only happen if the night guard goes through with the good/intended ending, rather than just going straight through his shift without bothering to help.
Sometimes after the event of the FNaF 3, Molten Freddy (haunted by the children's leftover remnant), Lefty (containing the Puppet, who is possessed by Charlie), Scrap Baby (Elizabeth Afton), and Scraptrap (William Afton) were lured to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place by Henry Emily, the original founder of Fazbear Entertainment and former business partner of William Afton. After Scrap Baby explains to everyone (the other Scrap animatronics, Henry, Michael) her plan to come together and be complete, Henry reveals that the vent system has been disconnected from the main building, thus trapping them before burns down the building using remote burners built in the floor, with himself, Michael, and the animatronics inside, destroying all of them. Henry says nothing to Molten Freddy and nothing more to Elizabeth, but hopes that Afton will end up in the "darkest pit of Hell," and that he had better not "keep the devil waiting, my friend." He apologizes to Charlotte (who is inside of Lefty) that he was unable to save her and that he wants to save her now. The tape ends as they burn with all of the possessed animatronics being destroyed and had their souls set free, except William. Following the Pizza Place fire, Cassidy would later proceed to leave William alive in order to torture him endlessly in his nightmares as comeuppance for his actions.
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Trivia[]
- According to evidence from both the Novel Trilogy and the Fazbear Frights series, the Missing Children Incident (the event where the children were murdered by William) took place in 1985.
- It is theorized that the children that the Crying Child meets in Five Nights at Freddy's 4 minigames, are the missing children before being killed by William, Crying Child's father. Almost all of the kids match (the boy wearing a shirt with a heart on it and holding a Spring Bonnie finger trap being Jeremy, the older boy laughing and one of bullies wearing the Freddy mask being Gabriel, the girl playing with toys of the Fazbear gang being Susie, and another boy wearing a red shirt and holding a balloon being Fritz), except for another girl who resembles Circus Baby, possibly Elizabeth Afton. One evidence to back this up is that the girl playing with the toys bears resemblance to Susie. This could mean that the missing children incident happened after 1983, possibly indicating that they died in 1985 as suggested in Fazbear Frights: Into the Pit and the Novel Trilogy.
- It's heavily implied that the Toy Animatronics are possessed by second set of missing Children incident, evidence supports these in FNAF 2 Save Them minigame. Then these would explained why Toy Animatronics begins to aggressive according to Phone Guy.
- This theory was later debunked when it was confirmed that they are aggressive because purple guy tampered with them.
