| “ | Seeing you powerless is like music to me. | „ |
| ~ The Puppet showing her sadistic side. |
| “ | I recognize you. But I'm not afraid of you. Not anymore. | „ |
| ~ The Puppet to William Afton. |
The Puppet is the deuteragonist of the ScottGames era of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
She is the daughter of Henry Emily, co-founder and co-owner of Fazbear Entertainment, who was killed by William Afton and now haunts the animatronic that was, ironically enough, made to protect her.
Unlike most, if not all of the animatronics, the Puppet's intentions are truly good, seeing as she is more focused on freeing the spirits than killing, although she's not against getting her hands dirty to get what she wants.
Personality
Puppet is often sadistic and while she does have a good side she is still quite evil. Many people often think that Puppet is pure good but she's not as she likes seeing those who have done "wrong" suffer. Because of this it can be argued that Puppet is somewhat of a vigilante and she also likes music. Puppet loves music as it seems to calm her down and when the Puppet no longer has her music it seems to anger her and makes her hostile to anyone that she deems "evil" such as characters like Afton.
Despite her evil she is still somewhat good as she did give the missing kids a "second life". Despite this that would mean that she's responsible for the deaths that they have committed and because of that this would put her in the Grey Zone.
History
Note: Given that the Five Nights at Freddy's story is told out of chronological order, the history of the Puppet is presented in the order the events occur to her.
Backstory
As seen in the FFPS minigame Security Puppet, the original Puppet was made as a guard of Charlotte, the daughter of Henry, and it would only respond to the child wearing a green bracelet, signifying that said child was Charlie. However, the Puppet ended up being trapped by boxes being put on top of the gift box. After Charlie was killed by William Afton, the Puppet goes outside, but is damaged by the rain. The Puppet encountered her dead body, but the Puppet had slowed to a crawl. Once the Puppet crawled up to the dead child's body, it deactivates, hugging Charlotte's corpse, thus allowing her to possess it.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2
In 1987, Fazbear Entertainment, the company behind the original Freddy's, created a new restaurant with new and original animatronics. The Puppet, however, was reused. After William infiltrated the Pizzeria, and committed a massacre, the Puppet led Freddy around the Pizzeria, as seen in the minigame SAVE THEM. The Puppet and Freddy tried and failed to save these new victims. The Puppet, just like it did 4 years ago, gave life to the new animatronics.
In this location, the Puppet existed within a Music Box that could be wound remotely by the Night Guard in CAM 11, which if left unwound for too long, could allow the Puppet to roam freely. This is due to all the Animatronics having a feature where a lack of sound will cause them to try to find sources of noise or potential customers, and thus, the Office. The Phone Guy mentions that he "never liked" the Puppet because he felt it always seemed to be "thinking". If the player fails to keep the Music Box wound up, then the Puppet leaves the Prize Corner and heads to the Office. The Puppet does not show up on any camera feed during its attack, aside from briefly seeing it (for one frame) on the Main Hall and Party Room 2 cameras. Once it reaches the Office, "Pop! Goes the Weasel" begins to play, and the Puppet jumps at the guard, lethally jumpscaring and killing him.
The location was later closed down due to The Bite of '87, in which an animatronic attacked a person, making them lose their frontal lobe, although they survived. The location was closed down, and the new animatronics were scrapped. That being said, the Puppet managed to avoid being scrapped and was seen in the fourth nights' cutscene, set at the first game's Pizzeria. There, the Puppet follows Freddy's movements, which is the player's point of view, until the cutscene ends, ending up as a black screen with the "it's me" text from the top left.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3
Minigames
The Marionette will be encountered twice. In the Mangle's Quest minigame, upon glitching through the wall, a gigantic version of the Marionette can be found, kneeling down and crying. The Puppet is the playable animatronic in the Happiest Day. In this minigame, the player plays as the child possessing Puppet and is only capable of walking left and right. Walking right, the player will pass by several children wearing masks of unknown animatronics, and on the very far right, a crying child can be found next to a table. Also next to the table are several children wearing gray masks. If the player has not completed all the Cake Endings from all previous minigames, the only exit will be via the Exit door to the far left.
However, once the player has completed all other Cake Endings, they will then find four children (Gabriel, Fritz, Jeremy, and Susie) wearing masks of Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Pirate to the left of the table (in place of the children previously wearing gray masks). Touching the table will place a cake on it, and Cassidy will now have on a Golden Freddy mask. All five children will disappear, as well as the player character, leaving their six masks lying on the ground. The six balloons seen in the room will now float up towards the room barrier, and the game will abruptly end.
Fazbear's Fright
In 2023, Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction was made, based on the events that happened in the pizzerias decades ago. A mask of the Puppet is placed on the right side of CAM 08, close to the camera. The Puppet visited the location, at the same time Springtrap was roaming the location. The Puppet can be seen in the hallway in CAM 08, teasing Phantom Puppet's appearance. The horror attraction is set on fire, and both Springtrap and the Puppet survive.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator
Lefty in the allyway.
As revealed in the Insanity Ending's LEFTE blueprint, Lefty was an animatronic designed to contain the Puppet and bring it to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place as part of Henry's plan. At some point after FNaF 3, he captured it and brought it to the Back Alley on Thursday, to be salvaged.
Michael Afton salvaged her, seemingly for scrap. If the player chose to discard her, the completion ending on Saturday is prevented, as all the animatronics need to be present in the Pizzeria. Henry played five different audio prompts through the tapes, and Michael had to document Lefty's response times. After the fifth audio prompt, the salvage ended and Michael got $5000 for the salvage. As well as this, for $5, Lefty could be put on stage as part of the Rockstar Animatronics.
The Puppet within it still wanted to protect any children from the other animatronics, and misguidedly attacked Michael on Friday and Saturday, due to still distrusting adults. Eventually, on Saturday, it was burnt with the rest, with her father apologizing that no one was there to save his daughter, and telling her to rest. In the end, Charlotte is free from the body, and both Lefty and The Puppet were burned.
UCN
Both the Puppet, and Lefty appear as customisable animatronics in Ultimate Custom Night.
The Puppet resides in its music box, located in the Kitchen. The protagonist needs to wind up the music box to keep it tamed. However, if they neglect its music box, the Puppet will escape and attacks the protagonist. It cannot be put back into its music box, and the ventilation system will start draining much faster, causing blackouts and eventually death. If the Global Music Box is activated, the music box will automatically wind itself up, but puts a substantial drain on the protagonist's power supply.
Left sits in the closet off of the left hallway. He becomes more and more agitated if the office becomes too noisy or too hot. This state of agitation increases slowly, and will eventually end with Lefty jumpscaring the protagonist. The only way to ease his temperament is to switch on the Global Music Box. Alternatively, Lefty can be removed from the night entirely if the protagonist uses the Death Coin on him.
WARNING: As The Puppet is "dead" (The robot is destroyed and the soul is free) during the events of Help Wanted, this is NOT the real Puppet. Like the game implies, FNaF VR is a game made by Fazbear Ent. in the timeline, so this is not the real Puppet.
Help Wanted
The Puppet appears as a character in the VR game The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. It appears in the FNaF 2 levels, where the player has to wind the music box to keep it at bay. Failing to do so results in releasing it. The Puppet is shown walking down the hallway as the power goes out, before jumpscaring the player.
Quotes
| “ | I don't hate you, but you need to stay out of my way. | „ |
| ~ The Puppet |
| “ | The others are under my protection. | „ |
| ~ The Puppet |
| “ | The others are like animals, but I am very aware. | „ |
| ~ The Puppet |
| “ | Shh... I've been looking for you... and now I will never let you go... | „ |
| ~ Lefty in Ultimate Custom Night. |
| “ | Shh... There is room for one more. | „ |
| ~ Lefty |
| “ | Shh... Come spend eternity. Inside... with me... | „ |
| ~ Lefty |
| “ | Shh... I'm so glad that I found you. Let me make room for you... | „ |
| ~ Lefty |
Puppet
Lefty
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Trivia
- The Puppet is the only antagonist whose intentions are not purely selfish or malevolent in nature and is only truly an antagonist due to it being an enemy in the second game.
- Despite being referred to as an animatronic, the Marionette isn't an actual animatronic, due to its limbs being tied by some ropes hanging from a mechanism in the ceiling in order to move and not having any mechanical part. More resembling an actual marionette.
- The Puppet's appearance resembles a Japanese kokeshi doll, and Slender Man.
- When looking in the front of Marionette's face, it seems happy. However, during its jumpscare the placement of its face makes it seem that it is actually angry. This could be an illusion, and the spirit possessing it is angry for what happened to her. In the Security Puppet's minigame, before going to Henry's daughter the Puppet is seen without the blue streaks below its eyes. In the games, the Puppet has these streaks to look like it is crying, in emulation to the child who was left outside in the rain crying.
- The Puppet cannot leave the Prize Corner as long as the player views CAM 11 and winds the music box, but, as soon as they lower the Monitor and the music box hasn't been wound for a certain amount of time, it will begin her approach.
- Some have noted Freddy will play the same jingle that plays when the power goes out in the Kitchen in Five Nights at Freddy's, leading some to theorize the Marionette may be hiding inside the Kitchen, possibly suggesting why CAM 6 is always disabled.
- It's unknown how this character is even able to move around and enter the room, as it cannot be seen moving on the cameras.
- The Puppet is one of two characters that will attack regardless of whether the player dons/wears the Freddy Fazbear Head, the other being Withered Foxy.
- Prior to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, it was generally accepted that The Puppet was male since she was never referred in feminine pronouns. This has been retconned as of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator with the existence of Lefty.
- When looking out of Freddy's eyes in the cinematic after Night 4, The Marionette appears in front of Freddy, staying near the player's face as they look around, possibly hinting that The Puppet was somehow around at the second restaurant.
- Like Toy Chica, The Marionette doesn't appear in the sequel's trailer.
- The Puppet will also cause a jump scare in the "Take Cake to the Children" Death Minigames. As soon as the player completes it, The Marionette will lunge at the player, sending them back to the Main Menu.
- The Marionette, similar to Foxy, can attack the player even if another animatronic is inside The Office.
- The Marionette is one of the few characters that does not have an unlockable plushie on the Custom Night, along with Toy Chica, Toy Freddy, and Mangle.
- The only times The Marionette can be seen with white dots in its eye sockets are during the cutscene after completing Night 4 and its jumpscare. Strangely enough, the white dots seem to appear in the eyes of other animatronics, possibly signifying possession.
- The Marionette is one of the animatronics who does not appear in the hallway before attacking (save for the rare hallucinations), with three others being Toy Bonnie, Chica, and BB.
- Since Marionette's attacks on the player are dependent on a box that is wound up and attacks by jumping at the player, it is possible that its mechanics are based on that of a jack-in-the-box.
- It is arguably the most dangerous enemy in the second game as when it escapes the music box nothing will stop it from killing the player (unless the 6 AM mark is reached). It is also the only enemy in the game whose AI cannot be changed in the custom night, which means that it will always be active.
- Similarly, in Five Nights at Freddy's 3, it is arguably the most dangerous Phantom animatronics, as it, unlike the others, stands in front of the player, prohibiting them from using the System Reboot and Camera Panels, as well as causing a Ventilation and Audio error, providing easy vulnerability to Springtrap.
- At the time, it was thought The Marionette and Golden Freddy was put to rest in Five Nights at Freddy's 3, as the child who was wearing the Marionette mask was shown ascending to the afterlife with the other children in the minigame, "Happiest Day" (which it is the playable character in). However, some scenes during the gameplay of Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and Five Nights at Freddy's Pizzeria Simulator make it seem this is not the case.
- The Minireenas physically resemble the Puppet, minus the paint on the Puppet's face. Their eyes can also be seen during their jumpscare.
- Pizzeria Simulator revealed that it is possessed by the daughter of Henry, William Afton's old friend, and business partner. It's possible that it is Charlotte from the novels adapted to the game series continuity in which Charlotte Emily was the main character of the first two books and a major protagonist of the third book in which she was the first victim of William Afton and became animatronic of sorts by her father Henry.
External Links
- The Puppet at the Protagonists Wiki
- The Puppet at the Villains Wiki
Gallery
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