The Mimic is the main antagonist of the Steel Wool era of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. An intelligent animatronic endoskeleton created by Edwin Murray, and the main antagonist of the new Five Nights at Freddy's games.
Appearance[]
The Mimic[]
The Mimic endoskeleton stands at 7 feet tall. Its entire body is discolored as if it has survived a fire, aside from its shiny head. It has two long antennae atop its head that resemble rabbit ears, and it is filled with pistons and moving parts to expand and contract its body at will, as well as a metal ribcage. It has white eyeballs with black pupils, which glow orange in the first epilogue. It has a large mouth full of white teeth, which was made from a pair of novelty chattering teeth. It has sharp, pincer-like claws on its hands. It has wires along its body including wires that connect to its mouth and eyes. When Edwin Murray first created it, it had no legs.
The Storyteller[]
The Storyteller is a large animatronic white tiger head with no stripes and four arms protruding from its neck, two angled upward and two angled downward. It has one eye painted green and the other one blue.
History[]
The Mimic[]
The Mimic was created as an attempt to create an AI that would learn by mimicking what it observed, the program it ran on being called Mimic1. It was also built with the secondary purpose to entertain and befriend Edwin's son, David, with him being the Mimic's main role model.. During this time, the Mimic picked up several traits, including having his arm bent to hold a plushie, as Edwin's son usually carried one. When the boy dies after running in to traffic to get his ball, Edwin attacks him due to him reminding him of his dead son. Edwin then runs leaving mimic deactivated. Two teams of Fazbear Entertainment employees go to the factory Edwin worked and lived in after he abandoned it. The first team repaired the Mimic and gave it legs, and both teams were violently murdered by the Mimic after it had inherited Edwin's violence from his attack against it. It also wears various costumes, something it had learned from David, while it kills the Fazbear Entertainment employees.
At some point, Fazbear Entertainment got ahold of him, mass producing the Mimic endoskeletons for the animatronic costumes. One of the Mimics saw something that resembled a game of Hide and Seek, which turned violent, implied to be either the Missing Children's Incident or the kills from SAVE THEM. For unknown reasons, likely because of this game of hide and seek, these mass produced Mimics were deactivated. The original Mimic, however, remained active.
Epilogues[]
He was later used for The Pizzaplex. At first, he was intended to be the guitarist of the Glamrock Animatronics, being given a new head and a voice box. An employee took him and reprogrammed him to clear out endoskeletons in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, as Fazbear Entertainment wanted to repurpose it into a museum. He was working fine at first, tearing the heads and arms off of the endoskeletons and putting them in a pile. However, he ended up malfunctioning, killing most of the employees. The entrance was sealed off, but The Mimic remained active underground.
The Storyteller[]
Wanting to cut corners in their creative department, Fazbear Entertainment aims to replace its human writers with an AI program called The Storyteller. They put a giant baobab tree in the middle of the Pizzaplex atrium meant to house the Storyteller animatronic, which uses the Mimic1 program, inside. They let The Storyteller decide what it should look like, and it takes the form of a white tiger head, mimicking the white tiger head around David Murray's bed and the white tiger plush David carried with him everywhere. The Storyteller is connected to many wires, being the "roots" of the tree, that are connected to attractions all throughout the Pizzaplex. The Mimic1 virus infects the animatronics in the Pizzaplex, majorly amplifying their worst personality traits to make them not act how they're supposed to.
RUIN[]
Following the events of Security Breach, The Mimic somehow finds a way to contact Cassie, luring her to the Pizzaplex. He uses the voice of her friend, Gregory, and makes it seem like Gregory is trapped, and that Cassie has to save him. Throughout the game, he guides Cassie through the Pizzaplex, instructing her to disable security nodes to progress through. He presumably also communicates through the Helpi AI in the V.A.N.N.I. mask, having used it to inject himself into Cassie's head.
Near the end of the game, he informs Cassie that Roxanne Wolf is the final security node keeping him trapped underground, and must be deactivated. Cassie is reluctant, as Roxy is her favorite animatronic, but ends up deactivating her anyway.
Once Cassie descends into the sinkhole, and through the charred remains of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, Cassie finds herself below where Gregory once battled Burntrap. She disables the final security protocol, and M.X.E.S. appears behind her, only to get pulled into a machine nearby. Cassie then activates a forklift, destroying a concrete wall where The Mimic was sealed. Cassie walks inside, calling for Gregory, and The Mimic reveals himself using his voice.
Cassie quickly realizes it's not Gregory, as The Mimic stands over her, his eyes glowing. Roxanne Wolf suddenly shows up, in an attempt to save Cassie from The Mimic. When the fight between the two is initiated, it gives Cassie a chance to escape the room. The real Gregory manages to contact Cassie through her Roxy Talky, and he guides Cassie through the tunnels as The Mimic begins chase, after defeating Roxy. If Cassie successfully enters the elevator, she slams the elevator door on The Mimic, locking him out. It's unclear what happens to him after this incident.
In an alternate ending, the Mimic chases Cassie through a series of doors. He follows her into what appears to be the Scooping Room. Cassie then locks herself behind a door and the Mimic is dismantled by the Scooper.
Gallery[]
An animatronic head seen in the FNaF VR teasers, which may represent the Mimic's original head.
The Mimic in the Scooper ending.
Voice Lines[]
RUIN[]
With Gregory's voice[]
“
Over here!
”
“
SOS!
”
“
Is someone there? Help! Can you hear me?
”
“
Are you there? Are you there? I'm trapped.
”
“
Help! Something grabbed me... It... won't let me... go! You have to find me. I'm trapped in the sinkhole under the raceway!
”
“
Don't stop looking for me. I need your help.
”
“
If you can hear me. Turn off all security. Turn it all off.
”
“
Security nodes! Find them and turn them all off! I can't get out until that happens!
”
“
Cassie! Stay away from that thing! It's sending out some sort of distress signal and Monty is responding.
”
“
I figured it out. That signal was leading Monty to your location. You got out of there just in time.
”
“
If you see it again, keep your distance
”
“
The Gator Grub door is open. You should be able to find a path to the Daycare through the security office.
”
“
Where are you?
”
“
Get to the Daycare Theatre. There's a way down to the catwalks. Should help you get to the Raceway...
”
“
Cassie? Where are you?
”
“
Hold on... The schematics say there's a way to redirect the Gondolas to the Maintenance room.
”
“
Deactivate the security node. Then use the track controller.
”
“
The security system won't let you leave until you deactivate the child nodes first.
”
“
Yeah, with MY help. I upgraded Helpi with a signal jammer. That rabbit thing won't bother you anymore.
”
“
You did great! You're getting closer!
”
“
I'll explain it all when you get here.
”
“
That thing is here again. I gotta hide. Save me, Cassie, Please.
”
“
Cassie! I'm ok. I found a spot to hide.
”
“
Turn off the nodes in the Salon to follow Roxy.
”
“
Hurry! She's close.
”
“
I can hear you. Can you hear me?
”
“
Something tunneled out... Broke everything. Now I'm stuck here!
”
“
What? How is that supposed to help? There's no time!
”
“
...Down there. Sinkhole under the raceway.
”
“
Almost. There is still one more node left that's keeping the underground sealed.
”
“
Roxy is the final node. You need to deactivate her.
”
“
Deactivate her and save me. Save me Cassie. Please. It's so dark down here.
”
“
The stupid door won't open.
”
“
You saved me! You saved me!
”
“
I'm Gregory.
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“
It's not your fault. I know you did it for me. To save me... But we can't risk being followed. I'm sorry.
”
“
Cassie, I hope you get this message. I'm trapped here at the Pizzaplex, or... what's left of it. I don't have time to go into how I got here, but you've got to help me out. Save me, Cassie... Please. It's so dark down here...
”
“
Don't give up on me yet.
”
With Roxy's voice[]
NOTE: Most of these lines play faintly while Roxy fights The Mimic, and are spoken over by Gregory and Cassie
“
Give up. You can't win.
”
“
If only I...
”
“
I... Cassie...
”
AR Messages[]
The Mimic communicates to Cassie though both taking over and impersonating Helpi, and leaving messages in the game's pause menu in the latter part of the game.
As Helpi[]
“
New user detected. Pairing occipital transponder. Stay calm. This won't hurt a bit.
”
“
Fun trick, huh? I created it using samples of your voice.
”
— "Helpi" on creating the fake Cassie voice
“
There is nothing to worry about. Everything appears to be perfectly normal. You must be seeing things
”
— Helpi responds to Cassie's scepticism about being transported to Superstar Daycare.
Missions[]
“
Don't you care about Gregory? Why aren't you trying harder?
”
— "Find Gregory before Roxy does."
“
I'm lonely.
”
— "Deactivate the Bonnie bowl parent nodes"
“
Happy birthday, Cassie.
”
— "Deactivate the final node in Roxy Raceway"
“
Deactivate the final node! Don't think, just do it!
”
— "Deactivate the final node in Roxy Raceway"
“
Don't feel bad. It was for the best.
”
— "Deactivate the final node in Roxy Raceway"
“
You're getting warmer.
”
— "Find Gregory under Roxy Raceway"
“
Warmer...
”
— "Find Gregory under Roxy Raceway
“
Hot! Scalding!
”
— "Find Gregory under Roxy Raceway
“
You're burning up!
”
— "Find Gregory under Roxy Raceway"
Trivia[]
The Mimic is heavily implied to be the basis of what would later become Burntrap.
The Mimic's model in the Ruin DLC is made with Burntrap's, and also features some remnants of Burntrap's suit.
According to the epilogues, the Mimic was intended to be the Pizzaplex's guitarist. This implies he might've been planned to be Glamrock Bonnie's endoskeleton, before being replaced with the actual Glamrock Bonnie.
The Mimic is heavily associated with white tigers.
In the past, he mimicked the pose David had, which was due to holding a white tiger plush.
Because of the above, The Mimic was given his own white tiger plush.
His second form, The Storyteller, was a white tiger animatronic.
A tiger being used as one of it's forms may to inspired by the fact that tigers can attract prey by mimicking the call of other animals.
Additionally, one of Springtrap's voice lines in Special Delivery reference The Mimic's actions in the Epilogues.
Said line is, "Hide if you want. It did not save the others. It will not save you." While this line has no direct association with William Afton, multiple characters have died to the Mimic while hiding.
It is theorized that while The Mimic was originally it's own being, it may have been taken over by William Afton
Although The Mimic was mute under Edwin's ownership, Fazbear Entertainment gave him the ability to speak. He also has the ability to speak as Glitchtrap.
The Mimic also has unused lines in Security Breach. It is unclear if these were intended for Glitchtrap or Burntrap, however.
Circus Baby, more specifically as the chip Michael takes on Night 5.
Glitchtrap is a branch of the programming of the Mimic which was scanned into the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, which would take inspiration from Afton and continues his murder spree years after his death, essentially wishing to replicate his crimes to the point where it 'becomes' him.
Appearance[]
The Anomaly / Glitchtrap[]
Glitchtrap takes on the form of a man wearing a Spring Bonnie costume - who is a grinning, bipedal, golden-yellow rabbit. He is wearing a purple star-speckled vest, a purple bow tie, and two black buttons near the top of his chest. He also has stitches stretching across his waving hand. He initially appears translucent, progressing into a less-spectral form over time.
He also possesses vivid purple eyes with small pupils, which are the first thing visible when he starts to appear to the player's right. In Blacklight Mode, his eyes will turn blue with white, circular pupils. He also has large whiskers on each side of his face, three eyelashes on both of his eyes, and large arching eyebrows.
Burntrap[]
Burntrap's appearance is that of a Spring Bonnie animatronic, similar to Springtrap, with his lower jaw, upper arms, hands, right leg, and lower left leg all missing their suit entirely. What suit he does have is torn apart, with only his left foot being mostly intact. Wrapped around his endoskeleton is stretched human flesh, with the corpse's head entirely covering his endoskeleton head. His eyes are dark, with only two glowing purple dots being visible.
History[]
The Anomaly[]
Circuit boards from The Mimic were scanned into the game to save time on programming the animatronics' AIs. As a result, The Virus materialized while the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience was in its beta stage. It was encountered by Tape Girl, who was unnerved by it. At first she simply believed he was bugged so continued playing, however she later found it staring at her through the window, and unlike Chica or Bonnie, it actually looked like it was watching what she was doing.
Tape Girl then begins making tapes to document her time testing the game, but most importantly to attempt and isolate the Virus so the next person who tests the game will have a chance of getting rid of it. This backfires later though, as the Virus attaches itself to her logs.
Tape Girl attempts to destroy her logs to destroy the Virus with it, however due to her placing her logs under the VR games radar, she accidentally gave the Virus a safe place to hide from deletion. However Tape Girl uses this to its own undoing by fragmenting the logs apart, tearing apart the Virus with it and disallowing him from gaining a physical form in the game world.
Tape Girl fears that if a beta tester were to reassemble her logs, it would reform the Virus. So she makes one final log explaining a risky way to destroy the Virus for good.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted[]
The Virus becomes more visible and approaches the Player the more tapes and Faz-Coins they collect. He also appears as the main antagonist in all three endings.
Pizza Party Ending[]
Also known as the Bad Ending, if the Player manages to get to the Pizza Party on time, the Virus will appear and motion for them to follow him. Doing so will reveal that the Player has become Freddy Fazbear and is on the stage. This is likely in reference to how the missing children were stuffed into the suits. The Virus will prance around the Prize Corner as the credits roll.
16 Tapes[]
If the Player manages to collect all 16 tapes made by Tape Girl and all 30 Faz-Coins, the Virus will fully materialize, showing off that Tape Girl's attempts to destroy it were in vain.
The 30 Faz-Coins are not needed to allow the Virus to fully materialize, but doing so allows it to become more visible and use a smoother animation.
Merged Ending[]
If the Player fails to stop the Virus from merging with them, then the screen will glitch before the Player enters the Virus' body. After a while you will find yourself in front of a Game Over screen.
It can be shown through this ending that instead of actually merging with the Player, the Virus presumably switches bodies with them.
Locked Away Ending[]
If the Player successfully stops the Virus from merging with them. They will find themselves in front of a steel door with a key hole, two handprints surround the hole. If the Player slides the key hole to the side, the Virus will appear, showing that it survived the memory wipe. It will put its finger to its mouth before shushing the Player and backing away into the darkness.
The Player will be rewarded a Virus Plushie, which looks like a Springbonnie Plushie but with a glitching texture and is casually warping, after earning this Ending.
Curse of Dreadbear[]
The Virus can be found dancing on a Hill in the Hud. This doesn't have any gameplay impact.
Help Wanted Mobile[]
Glitchtrap re-appears in the Mobile release of Help Wanted. Unlike in the main game, he appears as a full antagonist, being the main threat in the minigame Princess Quest, although his original role was removed. Several shadowy clones of him appear as enemies, some biting onto the player's head, some following the player to slap her. In addition to this, he has a couple voice lines. This minigame reappears in Security Breach, with Glitchtrap having the same role.
Special Delivery[]
In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, Glitchtrap was mentioned in the E-Mails. In the e-mails, Steven Wilson, one of the employees for the Fazbear Funtime Service, stated that he got kicked off the system and is now locked out after finished scanning the last set of circuit that his co-worker Daniel Rocha gave. Dan later realized it was not a glitch but instead a virus, and informed all crews to stop the virus. In one of the unused email, after receiving an e-mail from Vanessa's fake credential, "pizzaplex", it is revealed that Vanessa used them to override security protocols and allow a data packet containing Glitchtrap into the Fazbear's systems through after it was flagged as a virus.
Security Breach[]
Under unknown circumstances, Glitchtrap ended up being uploaded into the animatronic body that would become Burntrap. Burntrap stayed in the recharge station positioned deep under the Pizzaplex, within the ruins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, though it is currently unknown how he got there. Multiple reports from employees mentioned something underneath Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizza Plex draining large amounts of power, implied to be Burntrap. Though some employees were sent down there to investigate, none seem to have ever made it back, having been murdered by The Mimic. In response, Fazbear Entertainment simply closed off the area for the time being to be dealt with some other time.
The Glitchtrap virus would go onto infect the systems of the PizzaPlex, turning the Glamrocks and other animatronics hostile. This is represented by a purple-painted outline of him on one of the murals of a Glamrock Endo in the endoskeleton warehouse. In the Princess Quest ending, Gregory led the Princess to Glitchtrap within the game, and at the end of Princess Quest 3, it could be heard screaming, freeing Vanessa and the PizzaPlex from it's control.
Burntrap Ending[]
In the Burntrap ending, after reactivating, he saw two intruders, Gregory and his companion Glamrock Freddy. Burntrap, somehow retaining his power from the digital realm to corrupt humans and objects, attempted to take control of Glamrock Freddy and sent the damaged Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf and Montgomery Gator to kill Gregory. However, Gregory was able to reactivate the burning room trap in the old pizzeria that Henry used to kill William beforehand. Burntrap attempted to leave the building, but before he could escape, the Blob, an amalgamation of the animatronics from the Fazbear Funtime Service, grabbed him by the neck and dragged him away into the ceiling, heading to the surface and leaving his fate unknown as of now.
Help Wanted 2[]
Glitchtrap appears in a couple levels as a distraction.
After completing all levels, a cutscene plays where Glitchtrap opens a Recharge Station in the AR world. After his hand appears, the scene changes to feature several S.T.A.F.F. Bots moving toward the player. The scene then changes again to show Mask Bot giving Cassie the V.A.N.N.I. mask from Glitchtrap's perspective, controlling Mask Bot.
Gallery[]
Glitchtrap[]
Glitchtrap in Pizza Party, motioning for the player to follow him.
Ditto
Glitchtrap attempts to merge with the player.
Glitchtrap in the Locked Away ending if the player successfully manages to repel him.
— Glitchtrap's decoded message at the end of Princess Quest
Security Breach[]
“
When I first found you, you were nothing. You were small, pathetic. But now, you are more. Are you ready?
”
Trivia[]
Both Glitchtrap and Burntrap were stated to be temporary names used in pre-production, which were intended to be replaced later on. However, as Steel Wool used these names in the source code, once they were found in the code, Scott deemed their names as out of his control.[1]
Glitchtrap[]
It is theorized that the Virus was a digital version of the suit William Afton used to kill the children.
Similar to Lefty before Ultimate Custom Night, the Virus' only voice line is a shush.
One of the Virus' nicknames, Malhare, is a combination of malware (malicious software) and hare (a mammal resembling a rabbit)
Though there is no confirmation, people theorize that the room he locks the player in is a Safe Room.
However, others theorize that the room is a sealed away section of the protagonist's head.
There are some people theorizing that some of Tape Girl's tapes were actually fakes, made by Glitchtrap.
Specifically, these include tapes 1 and 16.
When looking closer at the textures of Glitchtrap, tears and drool can be seen around the eyes and mouth.
This matches up with the last thing The Mimic had seen of Edwin Murray before being reactivated.
It has been theorized that after his removal from the PizzaPlex's systems, Glitchtrap became the Entity believed to be M.X.E.S., due to their resemblance, how the non Mimic influenced Helpi refers to them as "anomalous" much like Tape Girl, and hostility towards Cassie.
This was later debunked, as in the 10th anniversary interview, Scott Cawthon directly referred to the entity as M.X.E.S., confirming the entity and security protocol are one and the same, and as a result, confirming the entity isn't Glitchtrap.
Burntrap[]
Burntrap was first teased when his hand was seen in Security Breach's trailer.
Burntrap's design is very similar to that of Ignited Springtrap from The Joy of Creation.
There are various references to The Joy of Creation throughout Security Breach, indicating that Burntrap's design may have been based off of Ignited Springtrap.
Given how the flesh in Burntrap's body seems to be growing around the metal endoskeleton, this has led to speculation that Burntrap is the combination of Glitchtrap and Afton's leftover Agony.
While Burntrap does not speak, he can be heard chuckling. These are presumably performed by Matthew Curtis.
Both Burntrap and the Mimic use the same musical sting during their respective boss battles.
Burntrap was originally never intended to move. Instead, his role was intended to be more as a randomly appearing secret, occasionally being visible while walking past corners or past gaps in the machinery.[2] This role makes him more akin to a stalker antagonist, always following the player, though without being an actually present threat.
