Glamrock Chica: The Pizzaplex's Most Tragic Victim

There's plenty of people who have gotten the short end of the stick when it comes to Freddy's, but out of all of the animatronics- Freddy, Roxy, Sun- there is one animatronic who truly got an unfortunate hand dealt. Today we will be talking about Glamrock Chica and how she was set-up to fail from the get go. What do I mean? Well, let's see...

Music:
A Wheel of Shadows - Chica in Space
Concealed Coolness - Security Breach
Security Breach Theme (Organ) - Security Breach
Landing - Godmode
Mi Dispiace - Mini Vandals
Summer Retreat - Bendy and the Dark Revival

0:00 The Crimes of Fazbear Entertainment
1:36 The Conditioning of the Pizzaplex Bots
2:46 Who is Glamrock Chica?
3:57 Chica's Behavior & Quirks
4:50 Her Relationship with her Bandmates
5:18 Chica's Ransacked Cupcake Shoppe
6:29 Mazercise's Dark Implications
8:16 Chica's Voice & Scrapped Accent
9:49 Chica's Role in Security Breach
11:14 Shattering Glamrock Chica
12:42 Shattered Chica
13:36 Who's Fault is it?
15:09 A Sweet Gal with a Sour Temper (Help Wanted 2)
17:49 A Shattered Facade (Shattered Chica, Help Wanted 2)
19:17 Chica's has an Eating Disorder
22:00 I tasted dying and it tasted Good (Ruin)
22:45 A Tragic End for Glamrock Chica

[JDrawsStuff]

Today is great. Guys im not kidding, a screenshot i took and i uploaded onto the wiki was used in this video. Its the image where shes lifting up the hiding spot. Im a big notrealname notatall fan so being in one of her vids by technicality makes me so unbelievably happy! Ty not realname

[eNCy.]

Since the food falls out of her almost immediately in her ruined form, theres a chance that the sensors cant find it, so she cant even satisfy her intense hunger. Shes always starving, and she cant fix it.

[Guyfrom]

It’s wild when you consider Chica and Freddy are what’s kinda left from the older cast. It’s probably what makes them close.

[DoeDaae]

I feel so bad for Glamrock Chica. Her character deserved so much more care and depth in Security Breach and Ruin and while I’m glad she gets more development in Help Wanted it’s really a shame that her introduction was butchered like that

[FTZPLTC]

I have a theory that modern FNAF is meant as a satire of how companies demand massively overqualified staff to do relatively menial work, and then demands that they use as little of their intelligence as possible in order to do it. Fazbear Entertainment has incredibly sophisticated AI, but what's it using it for? Nothing that any random guy in a suit couldn't.

[Cerderius]

The bathroom scene is honestly became more horrifying the moment you opened my eyes to the fact that it was referencing, or least thematically similar, to how drug users commonly overdose in the bathroom.

The more and more I look at her model in this pose makes it very obviously, at least to me, that is was 100% intentional. Her head is lulled off to the side and her eyes are void of life, almost like she is fluttering between the state of being high and on the verge of passing out/dying. If you look at her right arm, the gunk just above the elbow is very reminiscent of when certain users tie off their arm with a belt prior to using their drug of preference.

This has got to be the most horrifying imagery this franchise has ever pain, and it is too close for comfort when aligned with our reality.

[scorcher]

fun fact, hens have HUGE apatites due to large caloric demands in order to produce eggs everyday. i have hens and food is always on their little minds, and they will almost prioritize it above all else.

[SnowFox-gvrn]

Wow. I already felt bad for Glamrock Chica because I could tell that she had some form of an eating disorder, but this really showed just how tragic and sad her story is. Eating literal garbage to feel okay, losing her “humanity” and turning into a zombie, and her essentially dying in a bathroom and her last words being about food… not gonna lie, I almost cried

She’s a robot, but the Glamrocks are depicted to have very human personalities and behaviors, which still makes this a horrible tragedy. Poor Chica

[amyrodgers]

Her line "I need to be FIT!!" also seems to at least imply that Fazbear Entertainment might've implemented the idea into her robotic mind that gouging down on unhealthy amounts of food will keep her thin and fit, which is awful to think about, coupled with the high plausibility that she has an eating disorder.

Also, if what you said about the books mentioning that multiple pizzaplexes have the exact same Glamrocks with the exact same problems is true, then it may mean that Fazbear Entertainment is giving the sentient animatronics these issues on purpose.

[LadyBernkastel]

As someone with an eating disorder, I connect to Chica a lot, especially since HW2 made it very very clear she has an eating disorder, at least to someone who's been in that position. People primarily focus on the binging and purging of Bulima, but what doesn't get as much attention is Exercise Bulimia, characterized by binding and then exercising to excess. People don't take it seriously because 'exercise is good', not really knowing how damaging too much of it can be ESPECIALLY when combined with binge eating and sometimes other disorders. I'm really glad you noticed and brought attention to this, and the eating disorder thing as a whole I think it's really important and a lot of the times I feel like it's glossed over.
I love your character deep dives, keep up the great work!

[TheGoggleheadneo]

I always found it interesting that when you give Freddy her voice box he immediately confronted Greggory about it. With all of the others he gave him the benefit of the doubt but with chica he immediately say that it belongs to her. It’s the only time in the game where he confronts Greggory about his behavior.

[Scolipendrake]

As someone with an eating disorder myself, Glamrock Chica feels all the more tragic. Like a form of Ednos. (Eating disorder not otherwise specified.) Or BED (binge eating disorder.) Constantly ravenous, but not because she's actually hungry, But because her programming is telling her to. If she has the capacity to think freely, she's probably utterly miserable, even when she's seeking out more food she *knows* she doesn't want. Her need to be "fit" but her inability to say no to these programmed cravings.
It almost makes me think that Chica was programmed this way. with the thought of "If kids see this almost sentient animatronic wolfing down so much food, theyll beg their parents to buy some. Because it must be good."

One thing I wanted to mention as well was with her design. All of the other animatronics seems to have a body shape that makes sense. It flows, and looks natural enough to be believable. While chica's was always... off. Around the waistline, it has this use, unnatural looking dip. It makes me think of a corset or waist trainer, further suggesting the idea of body image issues.

[samthepancake]

God, the second you froze that image of Chica in the bathroom my heart SANK. It hadn't occurred to me until you brought it up but I got it instantly... Memories of my high school health classes to be honest. It's horrifying to think that she might've been programmed with "hunger" and never be "full".

[Stelthily]

Glamrock Chica would be my favorite animatronic if not for Sun & Moon. There’s something that hits me so hard about a robot who keeps gorging herself on pizza and trash as it hurts her more and more until she inevitably falls apart.

[cacaumassipanoficial]

Fazzbear's lack of care also affects the animatronics, much like real-life star stories in fact, besides Freddy, all the other glamrocks have some habit that a real person can use to deal with pressure and it turns into something harmful, Chica eats compulsively, Monty has excessive anger that only goes away when he breaks something, and Roxy belittle others and feeds her desire to be the best because she seeks approval and in reality feels bad about herself. They all also have attractions that ironizes or encourage their bad habits, and even Sun and Moon were placed in a difficult position for their personalities, like, dealing with children is already complicated and two different and also so intense personalities for the same animatronic wouldn't help, they would need supervision or at least be separate to operate the daycare together.

[SesarioYT]

I like the fact that it shows in ruin that chica has a trash bag in her stomach for the food she eats, and that shows how she can keep eating. I would probably think she would open her stomach hatch and replace the trash bag when she’s full.

[brawlstar]

Glam Chica turned from a Corporate ditz with no personality, to a struggling addict, and honestly I think it was a very well done transition. You can see how Chica walks robotically and her dialogue seems designed by committee, and as you keep watching her eat out the garbage and pushing away staff bots to get her fix, I started to emphasize with her.

In her Shattered State, she probably just doesn’t know what to do, and is likely furious and desperate that she can’t taste or eat anymore without her beak.

They did her well imo

[wafagdplqs]

The tragic case of Glamrock Chica makes me wish for a future game to have Fazbear Entertainment shown as an actual antagonist. Although I feel like the series prefers dealing with how awful this company is in more subtle ways (like here).

[marcosigual]

im glad more people are realising how tragic glamrock chica is. In security breach she was already showing really concerning signs.

From the moment we first see her we can see that she doesnt act normal like the other animatronics, she walks around like a mindless zombie and has lost all her personality traits apart of eating. When you enter mazercise you can hear a recording of her voice introducing you to the attraction, in which she sounded much more energetic and lively, while in the actual gameplay her voice is more robotic and doesnt give off any energy most of the time, it seems like she has actually lost her mind.

All of this really stood out to me, specially after I found out that if you get close to her and pay attention, you can hear constant crying noises coming out of her.
She was a "food addict" with no self-control but at the same time, she was *conciously suffering* as she kept damaging and losing herself in this spiral of self destructive eating habits

[chopchopzz]

I always thought that Glamrock Chica had not only the potential, but the resources to become just as great of a character as Roxy or Freddy. They kind of wasted her in some way, but thankfully we did get to see our favourite chicken with an eating disorder back in Help Wanted 2, and it actually improved her character. Good job Steel Wool!
Now it should be a good time to give Monty some love too. He was my favourite animatronic pre-release and now he's kind of left behind. I still love him though.