Five Nights At Freddy's is filled with terrifying animatronics that leave everlasting nightmares, but which are the scariest in the franchise? While not the true villains of the FNAF, these animatronics serve as some of the main antagonists, and each one is scary in its own right. Some hide their horrifying nature behind a furry sense of cuteness, while others' mangled and wired bodies do little to hide their murderous bloodlust. Given the right timing, the games' atmosphere can even help their odds, making even the mischievous Balloon Boy an inconvenient fright.
The most recent entry to the franchise, Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach, went towards a more modern look for the animatronics, making them a little less visually frightening thanks to their glam-rock aesthetic. However, the gameplay changes assisted in remedying this as more atmospheric and gameplay events added to the fear levels.
10 The Marionette/The Puppet
Widely accepted to contain the soul of Charlie Emily, daughter of Henry Emily, the Marionette or "The Puppet", is one of the core antagonists of FNAF 2. The Puppet has an eerily simplistic yet menacing design that, coupled with its music box mechanic, makes for a frightening jump scare. The clown-like face with tear stream marks contrasts the small black body of The Puppet but makes it simply terrifying.
The Puppet is considered the caretaker of the series' original possessed animatronics and, seemingly, the reason they are possessed in the first place per the Give Gifts, Give Life minigame in FNAF 2. This power The Puppet has over much of the early part of the franchise is a massive part of its overall scariness, especially when coupled with the knowledge the Puppet is home to Charlie.
9 Springtrap
Springtrap is the withered remains of Spring Bonnie possessed by William Afton himself, one of the core antagonists of every ending in Five Night At Freddy's, and is primarily encountered in FNAF 3. Easily the scariest thing about Springtrap is the person controlling it, as William has the least self-control and the most intelligence of the animatronics.
However, the design for Springtrap is also terrifying, using the rusted remains of Spring Bonnie, coupled with the aging remains of William stuck inside the suit. The fact players have to stare at a walking corpse with FNAF 3 providing them little defense makes Springtrap a terrifying foe.
8 Ennard
Ennard is the final antagonist of Sister Location and is a collection of all the Funtime animatronics put together. This amalgamation was formed in the group's attempt to escape and was successful by hiding in the scooped-out body of Michael Afton. That alone is a terrifying act and shows the intelligence of the animatronic.
Ennard's simple design, similar to FNAF: Security Breach's Blob, showcases horror in the clump of wires that make up all of its body, save for the face that used a leftover metallic mask. Ennard did not have many gameplay opportunities and could be avoided easily, but it remains one of the franchise's more terrifying animatronics in design and lore actions.
7 The Daycare Attendant
One qualm with the most recent addition, Security Breach, is the lack of scary animatronics, save for The Daycare Attendant Sun and Moon. These two take scary clowns to another level with their intricate jester designs themed after night and day. While their actions in the game are few after the daycare level, the impact they have left on the game is immense.
Both personalities are also a bit unhinged, and their sporadic movement across the daycare makes for a terrifying experience. Simply having to see FNAF Security Breach's Sundrop and Moondrop's glowing eyes slowly spider crawl at the screen in the dark is enough to make many look away. Sun may not be an enemy to the player, but he and Moon make for a frightening experience of a duo.
6 Glitchtrap
William Afton appears again and is now in the more frightening form of Glitchtrap in Help Wanted. Glitchtrap is another variation of the yellow Spring Bonnie but made even worse by William's twisted personality. The body is simple, but the face is where the true terror lies, with occasionally purple-turning wide eyes coupled with an unhinged smile that sends shivers down the spine.
Glitchtrap mainly watches and follows the player in an attempt to merge into their body, but this behavior, coupled with a few animated scenes that creep even the more hardened payers out, makes Glitchtrap a horrifying entity.
5 Nightmarionne
Nightmarionne is one of the non-canon entries into the now AAA video game FNAF franchise, but that doesn't make its appearance in FNAF 4 any less terrifying. Added during the Halloween update, Nightmarionne takes The Puppet's design and furthers it.
The mask changes to full black makeup with sharp fangs, while its black body is made a bit bigger with sharp claws and protruding ribs. The Nightmarionne takes an already scary design in The Puppet and makes it even more horrifying, even if it is non-canon.
4 Nightmare Chica
Nightmare Chica continues the trend of animatronics from FNAF 4 having the scariest designs in the franchise. Even though all the animatronics in this game are believed to be only the imaginations of a child, which does help their fear level, they continue to be excellently designed. This is doubly important in this case as the previous Chica interpretation, Toy Chica, far missed its mark in the fear department.
Unlike FNAF Security Breach's Glamrock Chica, the body of Nightmare Chica is just worn down, and no claws are added, making the face where the true terror comes through. Its jaw becomes practically unhinged and filled with rows of razor-sharp teeth. The miscolored eyes, one of which doesn't work, add another layer of fear while showcasing the wear. Even the cupcake, which grows an evil smile filled with matching razor-sharp teeth, adds another level of terror to this notorious pair.
3 The Mimic
One of the more recent FNAF enemies is that of The Mimic. The Mimic serves as the main antagonist of the FNAF Security Breach Ruin DLC, as well as the Tales From The Pizzaplex book series. The Mimic was created by Edwin Murray, designed to keep his son Edwin occupied while his father worked. After David dies in an accident, The Mimic - whose sole purpose is to mimic - is attacked by Edwin, learning those behaviors and thus becoming evil.
There's still more to see from The Mimic in the FNAF series, but so far, it's definitely one of the more chilling villains thanks to its skeletal design and horrifying backstory.
2 Withered Bonnie
Withered Bonnie has a simple design, but one that makes it one of the most terrifying in the franchise. Its entire face is removed, leaving two soulless red bead eyes to stare at the player with two rows of teeth attached to the bottom of its mouth. Along with getting all its fur ripped off its right hand and left foot, withered Bonnie is missing its left arm entirely, leaving a mess of wires to dangle.
Withered Bonnie, one of the recurring characters left out of Security Breach, has no complicated game mechanics, but is still a troublesome enemy - and definitely one of the more frightening jump scares.
1 Nightmare Fredbear
Easily one of the scariest, if not the scariest, animatronics in the franchise is Nightmare Fredbear from FNAF 4. This creation takes the Golden Freddy form and becomes a terrifying monstrosity. First, it can move around now, with razor-sharp claws and an extra jaw in its gut. The face also gets an extreme rework with terrifying red eyes complimented by another razor-sharp mouth often forming a creepy smile. Nightmare Freadbear was also a trickier animatronic, as he could appear from anywhere and had two different methods to deal with him.
Luckily for the franchise, the majority of Five Nights at Freddy's animatronic monster designs stoke some fear in the hearts of players, and the ones that don't are forgotten about. This fear factor was a large part of why the series became one of the scariest game franchises, starting as a small indie game and now reaching the level of AAA. Much of that credit can go to these ten scariest animatronics spearheading the way for the Five Nights At Freddy's franchise.
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