50 Fun Facts About Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Which FNaF 2 animatronic never attacks the guard but giggles while disabling his lights?

Balloon Boy cannot kill anyone, yet letting him in is often fatal: he stays laughing in the office for the rest of the night, leaving the guard blind to whatever comes down the hall.

The date on the guard's paycheck in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 points to which infamous incident?

The Bite of '87 is known only from a passing remark about an attack that cost someone their frontal lobe. The paycheck here is dated 1987, yet the bite itself is never shown.

In FNaF 2, Mangle became a take-apart attraction because who kept ripping it to pieces?

Toddlers pulled the animatronic to pieces so often that staff, tired of rebuilding it after every shift, stopped trying. Employees nicknamed the leftover tangle of limbs and wires the Mangle.

Which defence from the first game is missing from the security office in Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Doors are gone, so nothing can be shut out: the office has an open hallway and two vents. The guard has to bluff instead, hiding inside an empty Freddy head.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, what must the guard keep winding by camera so the Puppet stays put?

A music box plays the 1876 song My Grandfather's Clock and runs down faster with each night. Let it stop and the Puppet climbs out, and no disguise will fool it.

Which Transformers actress voices Toy Chica in the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Megan Fox was announced as Toy Chica two months before the film opened, in the same casting news that gave YouTuber MatPat a voice role as another of the toy animatronics.

Which FNaF 2 animatronic ignores the Freddy mask and must be driven back by flashing the hallway light?

Withered Foxy waits at the far end of the hall and lunges unless the light is flashed at him several times. The mask means nothing to him, which is why losing the light is so dangerous.

Whenever Toy Chica leaves the stage in FNaF 2, her eyes vanish along with what else?

Her beak comes off the moment she steps down, exposing a row of human-looking endoskeleton teeth. With blacked-out eyes and no beak, she seems to be grinning on every camera.

Which solo developer made and published Five Nights at Freddy's 2 only three months after the original?

Scott Cawthon built the sequel alone and released it weeks ahead of his own schedule. He had turned to horror after players found the characters in his earlier family game frightening.

The story of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 turns out to be set at what point relative to the first game?

Before it, despite the number in the title. The closing newspaper says the old animatronics will be saved for a reopening, which sets up the smaller, poorer pizzeria of the original game.

Withered Bonnie in FNaF 2 has lost his left arm and which other part of his body?

His face has been torn away, leaving only a lower jaw and two red points of light where the eyes were. The caller says the old models were judged too ugly to stay on stage.

The child murderer glimpsed in the retro minigames of FNaF 2 is drawn in which colour?

Purple from head to toe, the smiling sprite steps out of a car in one minigame and lurks at the edge of the room in another. Fans simply called him Purple Guy until later stories gave him a name.

The employee who leaves the guard a recorded message each night in FNaF 2 is known to fans by which nickname?

Phone Guy sounds breezy all week, waving away each new danger he describes. By the sixth night he is rattled, and says he will take the night shift himself.

With the cameras on unlimited power in FNaF 2, which tool is the only one whose battery can run out?

The flashlight is the one thing that drains, and a dead battery leaves the guard defenceless. Its beam also slows any animatronic caught on a camera feed, which tempts players to waste it.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Mangle mostly gets around the pizzeria by crawling across what?

The ceiling is where it hangs once inside the office, swinging its head down at the guard. From up there the Freddy mask no longer works, so the night is usually lost.

Midway through the week in FNaF 2, the caller admits the restaurant has become the subject of what?

A police investigation hangs over the second half of the week, and by the fifth night the whole building has been put on lockdown after an incident the caller will not describe.

The hidden minigames in FNaF 2 copy the blocky look of games from which vintage console maker?

Atari-style graphics hide the darkest chapters of the story: four crude minigames in which the player becomes an animatronic and watches children come to harm.

Which horror studio produced the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, as it had the first film?

Blumhouse confirmed the sequel within six months of the first film's release and built it around the second game. It took about $240 million at cinemas worldwide.

Which nursery tune warns FNaF 2 players that the Puppet has got loose and is coming for the office?

Pop Goes the Weasel starts up only when it is too late: once the tune plays, rewinding does nothing and the mask will not help. The guard can only hope the clock reaches six first.

Toy Bonnie finishes his route to the office in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 by crawling through which entrance?

The right vent ends a route that never changes, and he is always the first animatronic to leave the stage. If the mask is on when he arrives, he slides across the guard's view, stares, then vanishes.

After leaving the stage in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, Toy Freddy first wanders into which room?

Game Area is his halfway point on the walk to the hallway outside the office. Unlike the original Freddy, he is already on the move during the first two nights.

Which FNaF 2 character first becomes active on Night 6 and can appear as a giant head floating in the hall?

Golden Freddy can also materialise slumped inside the office. Unlike in the first game, his attack no longer closes the program; it ends in an ordinary game over screen.

The newspaper shown after Night 6 of FNaF 2 says the new toy animatronics will meet what fate?

Scrapped after only a few weeks on stage, the toys were blamed for possible malfunctions. The article adds that the older animatronics would be kept in the hope of a reopening.

In FNaF 2, the toy animatronics' recognition software is said to be linked to what kind of records?

A criminal database is meant to let the toys spot a predator in the crowd. The older animatronics were being fitted with the same technology until the refit was abandoned.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2 reached PC players through the Greenlight community vote of which games store?

Steam users approved the sequel within two days of its listing, and it went on sale weeks ahead of the planned date. A free demo followed on IndieDB a day later.

Critics praised the atmosphere and scares of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 but most often faulted what?

Its difficulty drew the complaints: one reviewer said juggling so many tasks made the sequel stressful instead of scary. PC Gamer scored it 70 out of 100 all the same.

What does Toy Chica almost always carry with her in Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

A cupcake with large eyes goes wherever she does, a pink copy of the one the original chicken kept on stage. Her bib swaps a line about eating for one about partying.

Toy Freddy, the top-hatted mascot of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, is designed holding which object?

A microphone in silver and black sits in his right hand. His flatter, rounder face, red cheeks and buck teeth set him apart from the original bear.

Console versions of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 arrived on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and which other system?

Nintendo Switch owners got the sequel five years after PC players, on the same day as ports of the first, third and fourth games.

In FNaF 2, the withered original animatronics sit waiting in which back room of the pizzeria?

Parts/Service is where the old cast was left after a failed attempt to refit them with the toys' technology. Freddy's top hat can be seen lying on the floor beside him.

The Puppet waits in which room of the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 pizzeria, watched by CAM 11?

Prize Corner is the only camera where the winding button appears, so the monitor can simply be left parked there. A warning sign turns orange, then red, as the tune runs down.

On the Custom Night of FNaF 2, Jeremy Fitzgerald is replaced by which newly hired guard?

Fritz Smith lasts exactly one shift before a pink slip arrives. It calls him the third employee, a hint that someone else held the night job before the week began.

The child murderer shown in the minigames of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 is later identified as which man?

William Afton co-founded the restaurant chain. In one minigame he pulls up in a car and kills a child crying outside while Freddy serves cake indoors.

The Puppet seen in FNaF 2 is later revealed to be possessed by Henry Emily's daughter, who has what first name?

Charlotte is the crying child left outside in one minigame. As the Puppet, she goes on to give the other murdered children new life inside the animatronics.

Beating Night 5, Night 6 and the 20/20/20/20 challenge in FNaF 2 each adds what to the title menu?

A star appears for each feat, three in all. The last demands surviving all four of the old animatronics at their maximum level of 20, a throwback to the first game's toughest setting.

Winning a preset challenge on the Custom Night of FNaF 2 earns the guard what keepsake for the office?

A collectible toy appears in the office for each themed preset, such as a Bonnie doll for surviving both rabbits at once. Presets were new to this sequel's Custom Night.

The caller in FNaF 2 says the robots wander after hours because they were never given a proper what?

Night mode was simply left out, so when the building falls quiet the animatronics go looking for people to entertain. The nearest noise happens to be the guard's office.

After Night 6 of FNaF 2, Jeremy Fitzgerald is moved to days to watch the animatronics at what event?

A birthday party is the last event before the restaurant shuts, and he is told to keep close to the animatronics. The caller plans to cover the night shift himself afterwards.

Which Scream actor was reunited with Matthew Lillard in the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Skeet Ulrich plays Henry Emily, the business partner of Lillard's villain. The pair had starred together in the 1996 slasher.

Finishing Night 6 of FNaF 2 earns Jeremy Fitzgerald a second, much smaller paycheck for what?

Overtime for the extra night comes to just $20.10, on top of $100.50 for the first five. Both work out at $3.35 an hour, the US federal minimum wage of the day.

The Custom Night guard in FNaF 2 is fired for tampering with the animatronics and for what other reason?

Odor sits beside tampering on the pink slip, the same odd pairing that got the first game's guard dismissed. The match is one reason fans suspect the two men are linked.

The secret retro minigames of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 can only start at random at which moment?

After the guard dies there is only a chance that one will load, so they cannot be played on demand. Three of the four end with an animatronic lunging at the screen.

Withered Chica in Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has a jaw stuck wide open and is missing both of what?

Her hands are gone, leaving two stumps that trail long wires. The unhinged jaw exposes a second row of teeth belonging to the endoskeleton underneath.

The Game Over screen of FNaF 2 shows Jeremy Fitzgerald's view from inside what?

A Freddy suit becomes his coffin, and the screen is seen through his own eyes from within it. The first game showed its stuffed guard only from the outside.

Which sound warns Five Nights at Freddy's 2 players that Mangle is lurking close to the office?

Radio interference crackles whenever it is near, probably because the wrecked voice box keeps trying to work. The original mobile version left the sound out, so players there had to watch for it instead.

Which effects workshop created the animatronics for the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Jim Henson's Creature Shop had made the first film's robots too, and its return was announced in the same breath as the sequel itself.

Which game engine did the developer of Five Nights at Freddy's 2 use to build the sequel?

Clickteam Fusion handled the logic while the 3D scenes were made in Autodesk 3ds Max. The engine's own maker later published the console and mobile versions.

In the SAVETHEM minigame of FNaF 2 on PC, what happens if the rare killer sprite catches Freddy?

The game shuts down after flashing a two-word taunt at the edge of a blue static screen. The sprite has only a one-in-a-hundred chance of appearing when Freddy enters a room.

Which Hunger Games actor returns as Mike Schmidt in the film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's 2?

Josh Hutcherson was the first to reveal that a sequel was in the works, three months ahead of the studio's own confirmation. His character is a former guard at the pizzeria.

JJ, a hidden girl with magenta eyes, is sometimes glimpsed in which spot in the FNaF 2 office?

Under the desk she simply stares back, never attacking, and she vanishes the moment the camera monitor is checked.