Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia

by Scott Cawthon

An in-depth look at all the characters from Five Nights at Freddy's in a beautiful, deluxe hardcover format!

The massive roster of characters from Five Nights at Freddy's is presented here in a giant hardcover that will make the perfect addition to any fan’s library. From the games to the novels and short stories, all the characters are here and laid out in awesome detail that will deepen the knowledge of even the most enthusiastic player. With over 200 pages of full-color art, this encyclopedia is not to be missed!

Genres: Horror, Video Games, Nonfiction, Art

224 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 7, 2023

About the author

Scott Cawthon is an American independent video game developer, animator, and writer, best known for his creation of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.

Reviews

[Emma (littledollreads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oh, how I have a love-hate relationship with the FNAF books.

I was really hoping for more from this one. Should I have hoped for more, probably not, but the internet was really hyping this one up. Spoiler alert not as much lore as everyone was thinking, but still some.

So what is actually in this book? Well as it says it is a character encyclopedia, it covers all of (for the most part) the animatronics from the FNAF universe. So it has all the games FNAF 1- Security Breach (minus FNAF World), the Silver eyes novel trilogy, and The Fazbear Frights novels (sort of). Near the end, it leans more towards characters as we have humans included but that is ok.

I would also like to mention here that the book is pretty funny. It has 1-3 little jokes per character separated out like little one-line zingers. Like Vanny's say "Giving you a false sense of security", "Isn't cosplay meant to be a bit of harmless fun", and "Wow, eating carrots really does help you see in the dark." Like some of these are pretty funny for certain characters. Some feel a little lore-ish but they are mostly jokes for kids. They more than anything set the tone of the book.

Now for my ,for the most part, comment. Not every character is in here as you would think from the title. Sure most characters are here and there is a surprising amount of Special Delivery skins, which I really don't think should count unless someone can give me a good reason for them to be here instead of other distinct characters from the books. The main cast of all the games is here as well as a lot of minor players like, JJ and Dark Springtrap. But there are definitely people missing. For example, Ella, Stanley, and Theador from the novel trilogy are not included despite them being in the Freddy Files. This book does have the silver eyes trilogy included because it covers all of the twisted animatronics, though I don't think in really mentioned the charlie bots. It was also kind of selective with which of the Fazbear's Frights characters got to be included. It had sea bonnies, yarg foxy, and Lonley Freddy but it didn't have things like Fetch, Ella (again), the bunny from Bunny Call, and a few others. That part really does confuse me. Most of the Fazbears frights do just reuse characters already discussed like Ballora, glitchtrap, and Foxy but several have new animatronics that just for some reason don't make the cut. It is weird how they picked some to include and others to exclude at seemingly random. Again like why include the Yarg foxy, which is literally just a plush, and not the actual animatronic dog Fetch?

Now the important question that we have all been waiting for, is there lore? The answer is sort of. The lore in this book is a lot more in the area of confirmation of details and hints as to importance. Like both Shadow Freddy and Shadow bonnie's pages say some interesting things about those two. Implying that they are creatures of remnant. Is that necessarily stated outright, no but it is implied and a thing we have speculated about. The crying child's page also confirms that he is the playable character from fnaf 4, and as I am typing this I realized that Michal Afton does not have a page at all while both Elizabeth and William do, again another weird omission because he is definitely in the games. I also thought that a line from William's page was interesting. It said that the bit at the beginning of sister location where Afton is explaining the features of Circus Baby that is him talking to a "member of the Fazbear Entertainment Board". Just throwing that out there because I think that a solid thorough line of a good timeline is built on the corporate side of Fazbear entertainment and I find them as a corporation amusing and deserving of further study. And it really is just things like that, occasionally a character has an interesting line snuck in that can be telling about things like timelines or mysteries but not all of them do and most of them don't.

I also want to take a moment to discuss the weird organization of this book. Like it starts out in a sort of character-by-character arrangement with all of the Freddys together and all of the Bonnies together. But then it kind of devolves. Mangle is near the end and not by Foxy which they should be. Twisted wolf was not next to Roxy, but the sea bonnies got to be in the bonnie section. William Afton is not next to the spring trap, glitch trap, and dark spring trap but he is near burntrap. The character's from sister location and pizza sim are mixed together wierdly. The human characters in the book are near each other but again Michal Afton is not in here at all but Henry is.

The book also has a weird amount of knowledge about how characters relate to the ones they turn into at different times. Like it acknowledges that Elizabeth is Circus Baby on Elizabeth and Ennard's pages but not on Circus Baby's or Scrap Baby's page. Also, Elanore made the cut and is in Curcus Bab's section but the version of Baby from the novels that is the last Chalie bot is not here.

Some other miscellaneous things of interest: All found while doing a final flip-through of the book backward to get some more small things that didn't make it into the overarching scope of the review but are interesting and I want to share.

- Vanny/Vannessa are put together
- Henry has a new look (and one of his pictures on his page is I think Afton from the graphic novel adaptations but I could be wrong)
- Charlie's page uses images from the novel trilogy but only discusses Charlotte in terms of the game universe and her possession of the puppet. With only a passing mention of her Silver eyes role.
- New Elizabeth art, and an implication that she is in the fourth closet novel.
- crying child also has new art and an all-around interesting page of confirmation
- The Blob and Burntrap are both not cannon names yet used in this book.
- The book doesn't appear to want to commit to William Afon being Springtrap followed by him turning into burn trap but we 100% know that he is.
- all of Williams images are of scrap trap and none of his purple sprite
- Vendor Bots: interesting classification, Fruit Punch for Everyone, SpiggJAM
- some of the inclusions from Sister location & Pizza Sim are strange and require further study for their importance
- Music Man, DJ Music Man, and mini-music man were apparently not different enough to warrant separate pages instead being squished into just one appearance of music man from Pizza Sim (but chocolate bonnie got a page)
- Old man consequences continues to go very much unexplained
- I like to think that the call out of Nedd Bears tie is in reference to a Backseat video
- The Mediocre Melodies have a stand-alone page as a group and then each of them is discussed and it describes their group in an interesting way
- it is apparently Mr. Cupcake
- the Stitchwraith looks cool
- the book didn't play the mangle pronoun game and it makes me sad
- I'm shocked the minirina page doesn't mention them crawling inside of people
- Ballora's page may have a picture of her crawling around but it doesn't mention that she crawls around like a spider which is a fact more people need to know
- I really don't think all of these AR skins deserve pages or count as characters
- is Elanoe a version of Baby, mixed signals
- it is really weird that Circus Babies page does not mention Elizabeth but it does say what she does to her
- Springtrap's page is very cagey and acts like we all know nothing. Like yes this is the spring bonnie suit and yes William Afton is dead inside of it, don't be coy
- do endo skeletons count as characters?
- lucky boy = balloon boy ?
- Shadow Puppet- you know from the fnaf 3 secret 8-bit mini game mangle's quest, again weird choice/confirmation/inclusions.
- Funtime Foxy: dual personality

And as a final addendum I definitely though up at leat 10 animatronic characters from Faxbear's Frights novels that definitely should have made the cut over if not along with the sea bonnies and all of the AR skins definitely don't count as different characters that should have made the cut over these guys.

[Jenna · Rating 4 out of 5]

Although my fondness for literature has always been apparent, I also love video games. While I lack the skill and funds to play them myself, I take great pleasure in watching others complete the game. The genesis for this hobby harkens back to watching my brother play Legend of Zelda and Grand Theft Auto on the family television. Nowadays, I stick to my daily Youtube subscriptions to Jacksepticeye, SuperMega, Funhaus, and most recently Markiplier. Five Nights at Freddy's has taken the internet by storm and I enjoyed the unique new genre of mascot horror it spawned. Lately I've been watching theory videos about the franchise's lore by creators like TheGameTheorists and SuperHorrorBro. This catalog was as straightforward as it gets by naming each character in the series. It tackles the video games and the novels. No paw is left unturned. Some were the expected players like the core characters, but it also mentioned strange holiday skins like St. Patrick's Day or Statue of Liberty. My favorite character is Circus Baby from the FNAF Sister Location. I learned a lot from this fun book as I read it in tandem with a FNAF timeline video that mentioned this particular encyclopedia. I love short little art books that help give my brain a break in between heavier novels. I'm so excited for the upcoming movie and games I can watch skilled creators play instead of me!

[Brett Eden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative. Helped me recollect my memory of the other animatronics.

[holl mitch · Rating 5 out of 5]

sooo many divas in the fnaf universe 💜 coffee table book for my flat next year with dougal fr

[Gabbo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Now I normally don’t like to write reviews, I just wanted to poring out some of the issues I had with the accuracy of some of the appearances of the characters in the novels and short stories.

The biggest issue I have is that the author credited Funtime Freddy for being in “Room For One More” and not Ballora or Funtime Foxy, when they’re both in the nightmare sequences that the main character has? Now I might just be pulling hairs at this point but I feel that’s kind of odd to forget?

And the only other issue I had was that there were a few more grammatical errors than what I would like to see, missing transitional words that make sentences make sense.

And as I don’t plan on playing or looking into the AR game anytime soon I don’t think I needed so many one off skins to be explained in more detail than some of the main characters in the games and novels, I do not care for all the exposition provided on them. (Ok so it was more than just 2 main issues but I’m too lazy to go back and re write all of that lol)

Even with all of those points being brought up, I still really enjoyed this book. As a large fan of both the games and the books, I see this as an excellent addition to my collection.

[Haley]

I got bored ok

[Avery · Rating 3 out of 5]

A massive step up from previous guidebooks, however,. It is still not exactly great.

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Guidebooks from FNaF, in general, are usually not great; they often use fan-made content and have blatant misinformation. Surprisingly, I'm pleased to say that I was quite positively surprised; as far as I can tell, it does not use a single fan-made asset. The book is filled with never-before-seen art and 3D renders of the characters, which was quite nice to see. Most of the characters are laid out in great detail (with the questionable exception of some). And the writing is good (although it can get a bit weird).

But that does not mean that it doesn't have its flaws. Sometimes characters are listed under games they do not appear in, getting some information about the games wrong (although I should note just small things), and sometimes getting small information about the characters wrong. These don't matter too much, but they still shouldn't be here.

Regardless, I would recommend this to newcomers wanting to get into the franchise. overall; I'm excited to see how the next guidebooks will turn out.

[Garrett Emile · Rating 3 out of 5]

Supposedly the info is wrong in a lot of places. But if I was a FNAF kid growing up, I would’ve adored this.

[Emmy · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you're looking for a character encyclopedia of all the different characters in the franchise (including the assorted skins from FNAF AR), then this is a great book for you. If you're looking for lore drops, I'm not sure how much you're going to find. I certainly don't recall seeing anything. I did, however, learn that Mangle is in fact, male, even though he (she?) was featured in the "Ladies' Night" Challenge in FNAF 2.

I don't think all the alternate AR skins needed their own listings (could have been lumped together either by character or by theme (like all the Heatwave skins listed on one page), but it was still cool to see them all, especially as I haven't played that game.

As a final aside, I found two typos (although, now I can't remember what page) and I secretly suspect that might lead to some sort of hidden message. They weren't misspelled words so much as "the wrong word," like if it was supposed to say "...Happiest Day Minigame" and it said "Happiest Time Minigame" and either Time or Day would be part of the hidden message. I'm not entirely sure, but with a series like FNAF, it's hard to say that a typo is just a typo.

[Valeria Herrera · Rating 1 out of 5]

In one word: disappointing. Many unimportant characters like the heads in Sister Location or Twisted Chica (a character who's only speculated to exist) or a random Toy Freddy skin. The book doesn't say anything or confirm anything new. In fact, some parts even dance around information that has been confirmed already. Like saying that "no one seems to know how" Glitchtrap infected the hHelp Wanted (when the game shows it came from using old circuit that were scanned), or refusing to mention William Afton when talking about the Spring Bonnie accident. Also, a lot of the pictures used are almost identical to each other, straight-up defective (like Chica having the wrong colors), or almost way too dark to see anything.

Don't waste your money. Just read the online Wikipedia.

[Jessica · Rating 5 out of 5]

We are a gamer family so when my daughter introduced me to the FNaF series, I was instantly hooked!! She gave me all the lore and told me all the stories! So when I saw this book available, I knew I needed to add it to the collection! My only “set back” with the book is how many characters are stated as being in Security Breach…..when they are just magnets or plushies you can win. I wouldn’t really count that as being in the game, but oh well! All in all, I really enjoyed this book!

[Shainlock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mkay. As I write this I am on novel #3 The Fourth Closet and I have seen the movie twice. My husband fell asleep on me the first time so there I was watching it in the dark, alone. He is like a pile of logs. Sometimes I draw on him. He doesn’t wake easily … I say this to illustrate how truly alone I felt. He wasn’t gonna be any help unless whatever comes at me is terrified by sleep apnea noises. So I rewatched it w him later.
Why am I interested in this at all? Well, here goes: I loved Showbiz Pizza as a kid. The shows were my favorite part. It was the robots. I would always see if I could get a look at anything showing me they were robots. A couple of them had tongues that flapped around that looked real from where I sat.
Then I saw this freaky a$$ Santa that was possessed on a show and chasing after ppl and half melted and his voice was distorted (side note: my nana collected Santas that moved, sang, some life-sized); I saw parts of this Nicholas Cage movie with bloodthirsty possessed pizza mascots and throw in a couple more experiences and I don’t care for animatronics.

Well; after watching this movie… I was confused. No spoilers but I had to know so I looked it up and saw there was lore aka a story.
I can tell you it’s not for the faint of heart. Not for kids. Not sure why it is marketed towards kids. The games may be less macabre and twisted but I doubt it. Reading this character guide alone with the first book was a real eye opener.
Ppl actually buy stuffies of these things ! Shudder.
So now I have a love / hate relationship with this franchise. It’s complicated but we’ll just take it one step at a time.

[Tex Afton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hard to rate, I had a lot of fun reading everything, but there are a lot of errors and mistakes. I also dislike that LadyFiszi did the art for the book. She's even worse than PinkyPills...
The errors and missing characters however could be hints to hidden lore, but things like Toy Chica's beak MUST be a mistake right? Like 🤠💀
I'm sad Michael and/or FoxyBro didn't have a page.

[Luna Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Informative, not that the information was all that important for me to know; I was just curious about certain variations of the animatronics that I'd never been aware of. I was into this book more so for the art inside it, not the information. Nonetheless, I think I'll almost always enjoy content from Five Nights at Freddy's.

[HJ ✰ 🇵🇸 (inactive)]

idk how to rate a book that is literally just a compilation of previous characters 🤷‍♀️

however what i DO want to say (although unrelated to the book lol) is that:

- FNAF has a guy named "Henry Emily" who's basically the engineer behind most of the animatronics 🤖

- ...and his first/last name switched around would make...

💖 EMILY HENRY 💖

😭

ok bye

[Finn · Rating 3 out of 5]

Relatively accurate but not completely. Despite being written by the creator of the games it has some minor inaccuracies that aren't even recons more so some characters being labelled as being from a game they aren't in or missing games they are in. It's minor but does bring up the question to how trustworthy it is lore-wise

[opal · Rating 4 out of 5]

So I had bought this when it came out. I’ve been a fnaf fan since day one and I genuinely thought this is great for ppl to learn more from the world of fnaf. One thing, fredbear was missing he wasn’t even in this book and that made me sad:(

[Kacy]

I love it but..

I love the detailed information about the characters! But it's missing a few characters I'd like to see like Michael Afton he has a really cool story but I still love the book!

[Karlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seems to have been written by a sarcastic little punk. Very funny and informative.

[Zim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super good! Has tons of information and helped a lot. The only issue i had was with the 8-bit puppet in the FNAF 3 Mini-game, it showed the 8-bit one as a 3d model, instead of 8-bit.

[Dalia DJ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Wt…it’s good to learn the characters but now I finally understand FNAF. No thanks ❌

[Remington Schjoth]

Good

[Kaley Hood · Rating 4 out of 5]

Me and my daughter found this book at “Wally World” since the movie, she’s been really interested in all of it. I found this good especially since it showed different skins as well.

[Hannah Filby · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great view on all the animatronics!

[finley(toby) Pence · Rating 5 out of 5]

U find out the gender of so many characters it amazing

[Kunga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Loved it, there's so many information about the animatronic!

[Willow Burk · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love all the cool information about al the characters i like how they included the skins as well

[Fereshta · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fireeee have my kids foxyyy

[molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

Five nights at Freddy’sssss

This book actually made me laugh out loud

[maddie · Rating 5 out of 5]

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