EVERY 'Nightmare Critter' EXPLAINED (Poppy Playtime Chapter 4)

Let's talk about EVERY nightmare critter and what they might mean!

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Description (From Wikipedia) Poppy Playtime: Chapter 1 - A Tight Squeeze, commonly known as Chapter One or abbreviated as CH1, is the first chapter for Poppy Playtime. It was released on October 13 on Steam. It revolves around the unamed player, an ex-employee of the toy manufacturing business Playtime Co. whose employees when missing abruptly one day, and receives a letter from an anonymous sender stating that 'we're still here'. This incites the protagonist to go back to the abandoned factory and investigate it to find out what is happening. Playtime Co. is a toy-making company, and the location where the game takes place. It was likely established in the 1950s, considering the aesthetic and lack of deeply advanced technology. However, the factory likely made its demise some time past the 80s depending. In this game, you play as an ex-employee of a company labelled "Playtime Co." Playtime Co. was once a corporate giant company that was in the toy manufacturing industry - that was until everybody inside the factory went missing. Now, years later, you return to the factory to investigate these unknown missing cases. One of the main mascots of PlayTime Co, he was one of the best sellers and found a place in the hearts of many children across the globe due to the fact that he was programmed to hug people, or because he was found to be cute. Nobody really knows what made him so appealing. However, due to experimentation on the toys at Playtime Co., a Huggy Wuggy seems to have come to life and gone rogue, killing everyone that crosses its path. The Player is the main protagonist of Poppy's Playtime and is the person you currently play as during Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze. There is not much to say about The Player since we never get an introduction to who they could be. However, there's a recurring theory that the live toys, such as the murderous HH, were actually human experiments. There's a theory that the player has ties to whoever was running the operation, or looked similar to them, which is why they were so ferociously attacked. This is not canon, and this may be disputed later on as more lore is revealed. Poppy Playtime is a minor character inside Chapter 1, and will most likely be an important character for the upcoming chapters. Poppy is a highly intelligent toy, she has the ability to properly converse with a child. She's also programmed to talk and communicate like a real little girl. Her first debut is in Chapter 1 and is featured inside the first VHS tape the player receives in the game, in which she appears in her own commercial tape. The Grab Pack was shown to have been used by factory workers to do heavy lifting and general tasks that would have been hard for the average man to do alone, or even in groups. Not to mention, that in the chase scene, the player used it to pull a huge box over an entrance to deter a murderous Huggy Wuggy, and instead destroys the entire mesh floor with the box and takes Huggy Wuggy down with it. This shows that it's incredibly powerful, managing to pull down a box like that with ease. In VHS 2, it's also shown that it can easily decapitate a person with relative ease. In VHS 2, because of this, it was strongly advised to use these with care for that very reason. Decapitating your coworker is not ideal. (Steam Page) You must stay alive in this horror/puzzle adventure. Try to survive the vengeful toys waiting for you in the abandoned toy factory. Use your GrabPack to hack electrical circuits or nab anything from afar. Explore the mysterious facility... and don't get caught.

[elijahpatterson]

3:30
I can't help but note that he used "Gluten" instead of "Glutton."

[cubingfun_]

2:07 The vine boom effect at toullie 💀

[thatnoname]

Maggie Mako loves sweets because she can eat them without consequences, she's a shark and sharks have teeth falling off and growing back all the time, attention to detail.

[pokepew]

Maggie Mako's description saying "and believe us, she's NOT picky." and then the next sentence including "but veggies? Yuck" is a bit contradictory lol

[oholybologna]

The irony of calling them the nightmare critters when it was the nightmares from Catnap that ruined the smiling critters for the kids and parents being sold to. I wonder if the naming is intentional

[Jadinite-]

Poe & Rabie Baby - Flying Enemies
Allister Gator & Maggie Mako - Aquatic Enemies
Simon Smoke & Icky Licky - Long Range Enemies
Baba Chops - Leader
Touile - Possible Ally for The Player?

[markbruk]

We got the seven deadly sins in poppy playtime before gta 6, let that sink in

[jhenderson]

The Nightmare Critters are opposites to the Smiling Critters.

Touille- Bubba Bubbaphant
Catnap- Poe
Dogday- Baba Chops
Allister Gator- Hoppy Hopscotch
Maggie Mako- Picky Piggy
Simon Smokes- Crafty Corn
Rabie Babie- Bobby Bearhug
Icky Licky- Kicken Chicken

One was officially made products and the others were scrapped.

Chapter 4's enemies could potentially revolve around scrapped/rejected toys. There have been mentions of a place from both Project Playtime and Poppy Playtime so the Prison is a perfect match for the 'Island of Forgotten Toys' comment. Plus the successful toys were treated like garbage so imagine how bad these guys were treated?

[EzekielBread-fvxc]

funny story, I had this idea for a spin off title for poppy playtime going around the smiling critters, but an RPG game like the Mario & Luigi series, you start off with catnap and dogday, and slowly get the other critters, pulling off "critter combos" which are just bros attacks, and then for special attacks are the pendant powers which with each character will pull off a move that will either stun enemies, heal others, or dish out tons of damage. and the nightmare critters are the enemies of the game, being able to pull off their own critter combos and pendant powers, honestly, I want to put this idea into a game tbh.

[youtubewontletme]

It bothers me a bit that they are all in almost the same standing poses. The smiling ones are more thoughtful like hoppy in midair and piggy sitting down

[nobodyimportant]

Allister speaks to me on a personal level.

[IggyIsOuttaHere]

If we aren’t going to focus on the Nightmare Critters are side characters, I don’t see a point in them being in the game if they’re smaller.

[zoo]

Honestly, the nightmare critters could’ve been the Monster High of the 90s.

[kerem_yilmaz]

8:12 from the looks of these messages they didn't say main villian won't be a nightmare critter they said baba chops is not the main villian and there will be villians other than nightmare critters

[vectorwolf]

I don't think they have to be the 'main' thing to have value to the IP. I mean, Boxy Boo isn't even in the game hardly at all and people still like him.

I'm pretty sure the main baddy is going to be the scientist guy, myself.

[MistCellaneous-]

Has anyone noticed that some of these sound more like bad employee reviews and traits that accompanied would not want?

[featherguardian]

Is safe to say that the Nightmare Critters are a Popular Trope from the 80s and 90s or the Pular Opposite of Characters like the Smiling Critters with Negative Traits that we shouldn’t do and perhaps the NC are Teenagers to the Bigger Bodies Version as Playtime might taken the advantage of Orphans that are at Age to Experiment in their Twisted Work but was Scrapped because of the Catnap Controversy and the Issues in the Experiments.

[karinaochoa-ievj]

I think that ollie is maybe rabie Baby cause she gossiped to the player all the time and then it says "can't keep a secret if her life depended on it" so she is tell the prototype where the player is going

[laurenplayss]

i just replayed the games last night. in ch2, you can hear catnap groaning/moaning or maybe the prototype just as you hit the swirly stairwell that you go up. you have to stop moving and turn the volume up! i thought that was a super cool lil thing if its true, like he's been listening/watching the whole time!
in ch3, i dont think anyone really noticed it, and if they have i haven't seen anyone talk about it, but you can go into where catnap sleeps just before the dogday chase! it's like his bedroom in the playhouse. not much lore in there, just a bed, catnap pillows, lots of scratches along the walls. i never noticed it on my first playthrough cause it is SOOO easy to miss!! let me know if you guys knew about this! am i super late??? lmao

[kaitlynwalkerthegalraanima]

I would have love a nightmare critter wolf