The Truth about Foxy

Who is Foxy in the franchise Five Nights at Freddy's (FNaF)? Since the first game, Foxy has always been a fan favorite and one of the more mysterious characters in FNaF lore. From Foxy to Mangle (Funtime Foxy, Toy Foxy), how did Foxy get to where he is today?

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[dylanhudec]

Remember those old times when we thought William used a bear suit to lore his victims in

[marcoanton]

he saw William kill another 5 children, thinks that you're the killer, and you put a mask on, hoping he gets fooled. I'd be mad too

[Bearman]

Foxy is typically associated with Michael and Fredbear is associated with the Crying Child. Maybe that's why they are paired together. Of course, that's retrospective but still.

[redguy]

The reason why Foxy and Fredbear are shown together, it's meant to represent Michael and Fredbear during the Bite of 83.

[greg]

"foxy=quirky puppet=creepy"

[rllycldg_]

My personal theory is that he is more aware than the other animatronics, but not to the level of the puppet. In his ucn voice lines, he shows awareness of where he is and what state he is in. His voice lines are fun and charismatic. But he stays in character the whole time. I don't think Frits is aware of the fact he's a ghost possessing an animatronic, or maybe he doesn't want to accept it and stays in character as a coping mechanism

[NlsnBckr]

I always felt the reason we die when Foxy attacks us is because the jumpscare causes us to have a heart attack. Like you said he’s clearly not as aggressive and erratic as the others ( especially Chica and Bonnie ), and just slightly enters in the room leaving his head stick out from the corner but literally do nothing else. I feel like it’s the stress and panic of seeing him running through the hallway and arriving without having the time to close the door that causes the heart attack and kills us.

[justlisteningtofnafstuff-lvjj]

They made a restored Foxy for the movie, so I guess he wasn't always a bionic pirate.

[MollyDollyy]

10:55
Yeah in UCN the Puppets says stuff like _"The others are under my Protection"_ _"The others are like animals, but I am very aware"_ _"I recognise you, but I'm not afraid of you, not anymore"_
The Puppet thinks...

[AnaReginaNica]

I loved this video. And I agree, Foxy is clearly different from the others. He's the only armed animatronic, and I'm not reffering to just his hook. He has notably different, very sharp and big teeth, he also has the speed and strengh to move very quickly to one place to another. The fact he can run, and even more impressively, jump, makes me think he's there not just as a performer, but some kind of security animatronic as well.
If we think about it, Foxy has another curious trait: He's a babysitter, a caregiver. As Mangle's lifestory very clearly states, even with all their sharp parts, the Foxy models can be very careful to the point of handling very little children and taking care of them. Mangle is a prime example, by far the most dangerous, physically, from the Toy line, but never hurt the kids, even after being heavily traumatized by them (God knows no one would blame her). Even Funtime Foxy is not really willing to kill you if you just follow his rules. So, it would make sense for Foxy to feel protective of the kids.
The only other animatronic with a similar trait is the Daycare Atendant, from Security Breach, both cases being the most dangerous animatronic around (even being smaller and thinner, Moon literally knocked Glamrock Freddy with a single hit, and is the only animatronic who has the uncanny hability of finding Gregory anywhere, including inside Freddy's chest), but also can be surprisingly caring and protective of the children (like Sun tried to care and protect Gregory from Moon until he turned off the lights, forcing their transformation).
Foxy seeing the bodies totally adds to this theory. If he really has the caregiver trait, he would be very bothered by it, get very "twitchy", like Phone Guy said (like Sun's anxiety... wait, thinking about it, Foxy has a lot in common with Sun and Moon, even more than Roxy), and would totally try to make sure it never happens again.
There is even a little detail on the movie that kind of adds to our points... There is a moment where William is ready to get to Abby, but Foxy very clearly puts himself between her and the murderer, ready to protect her. No other animatronic ever acted to physically fight or disobeyed William's direct orders, until that. But Foxy did. And like he wanted to do in Run Run Foxy, he protected a child from William. Personally, I see that scene as Foxy finally winning that minigame we all wanted so much for him to win.
PS: Sorry for any grammatical errors, English isn't my most used language

[shadowskullmage]

A thing to notate is that it also is mentioned in Fnaf 2 that Foxy seems to have a glitch involving his memory being reset under flashing or strobing lights, which is why he was decommissioned as well as him being creepy unlike the others. They couldnt find what caused the glitch in that game, and it seems to have followed into fnaf 1.

[calebhibbert]

This was a pretty good theory. I like how you was able to tie in the fact that foxy and puppet can't be fooled by the mask because of the fact that their more self aware than the others.🦊🤡

[morgann]

My interpretation is that Withered Foxy is more self-aware than the others because his endoskeleton appears to be completely intact. The Withered were scrapped for parts to create the Toys. But Foxy was completely redesigned. So it’s possible that Mangle was built from entirely new parts. This would be another thing that Foxy and the Puppet have in common; their souls are still in just one body.

[ImaFnT-Rex]

And that "Go Go Go" he's down that hall in no time lol

[ohseaman]

A bit late on this but my theory on why fredbear and foxy are on the same slide on the television is probably because of that foxy is a villian on the show and like others said, foxy is to present michael and crying child/evan presenting as fredbear.

[thatweirdkid]

They put foxy and fredbear together to reference Michael and The crying child

In my opinion

[BananaArt]

I LOVE THIS THEORY! I think phone guy said that Foxy wasn't tricked by the mask because the face recognition was not installed.

[rrueful]

this is so clever. especially how you pointed out the similarities between the puppet and foxy. that really made me think!

[apairofhands]

For me, the reason why the freddy head doesn't work on withered foxy is actually explained by the phone guy

He states that the facial recognition programming the Toy Animatronics use were intially retrofitted onto the older animatronics, but they stopped because they were "too ugly" so my guess is they stopped at Foxy, which explains why the freddy head works on the other withered animatronics, and not Foxy

[Darkblastz]

I feel like this theory only works if without the knowledge of foxy stuffing you in fnaf 1