We Were WRONG About Burntrap... He's NOT The Mimic! - FNAF Theory

In this video I attempt to solve and prove why Burntrap from Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach, is NOT The Mimic from FNAF Ruin, remember this video is just a theory and nothing is confirmed. So what do you guys think? Are Burntrap and The Mimic the same character? Make sure to comment down below any thoughts or theories! Also make sure to Like and Subscribe for more content like this and thank you guys so much for watching!

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[bronzefilms]

Thank you to everyone who joined the premiere and thanks for watching! But what do you guys think? Are Burntrap and The Mimic the same character? Make sure to leave your thoughts or theories below!

[anorak]

(warning in advance for the length of this response lol, sorry)
1. We know from Scott's recent interview with Dawko that almost everything with Burntrap in SB was essentially unintentional. He refused to properly tell the whole intended story to Steel Wool, and so they were left to try and then piece it together themselves. Scott literally talked about and confirmed that in his original visi on, Burntrap was never even supposed to move, and instead was supposed to appear at random like a discarded movie prop, hiding nearby while the player progresses (so like a random sighting thing I guess) the point is that considering how knowing that, there's no way to know if even Burntrap's actual design was intended/intentional, things like very specific exact details especially with Burntrap's model, are now a lot more questionable to try and use to prove anything
2. Whether Burntrap is now down there at any point at all is debatable, since with both Ruin and HW2, I'm pretty sure SW's taking the chance, now that it's been confirmed the Burntrap ending isn't the canon route, to change how things were there. Like how we see Candy Cadet in the dining room in HW2, which would allow it to more closely/accurately line up with FFPS, where Mike would've put Candy Cadet in that spot in the dining room, a storage closet in HW2 where it was a bathroom previously in SB, how in HW2 we see a kitchen at the back that wasn't there in SB, and also the absence of the planks leading down the hole in the middle of FFPS. Things have clearly already been changed, taking advantage of that the Burntrap route wasn't the canon official one, so who knows what else
3. There's quite a few other pieces of evidence to say Burntrap and the Mimic are the same, that aren't brought up here. In SB, Burntrap's model has springlocks on it, and in Ruin, on one of the Mimic's legs, you can see metal bolts piercing its leg, which could be a result of a springlock failure, implying it had springlocks at some point, lining up with Burntrap, which then also lines up with the Mimic getting springlocked at the end of the epilogues. There's also the detail of how in SB, the burner rooms where Burntrap and his station were, had purple lighting, matching up with Burntrap's eye colours. But in Ruin, those burner rooms have orange lighting, now instead matching up with the Mimic's eye colours. Towards the end of Ruin also, when you go into the pause menu, in the bottom left hand corner you can find random text acting like a guide/hint to your next objective, but while you're heading down the sinkhole at the end, sounding like it's from the Mimic, the text then starts talking about that you're warming/heating up, with a lot of references to heat. Hence possibly pointing as a connection to Burntrap and the burner rooms. In Ruin, in its scooper ending, the last few frames of the Mimic you see in that ending then also almost exactly line up with the last few frames of Burntrap in his ending. In both scenes, the characters are getting closer to the POV while reaching a hand out, before both then paused, as something dropped down from the roof behind them, and lifted them up into the air. It's almost an exact visual parallel.
4. The point about Kelly doesn't make sense. No, that scene's never used to try and say Burntrap's the Mimic. The Mimic literally takes both the suit and corpse off at the end of the seventh epilogue, he gets trapped in a jester springlock suit at the end of the eighth one. The main point used here is that although no, the Mimic doesn't keep Kelly's corpse on, it still also shows the Mimic is regardless very much capable of wearing someone's corpse
5. The exact differences between Burntrap's endo and the Mimic's endo, as previously brought up, is questionable now, now with what we know from Scott about SB's development. And besides, the point also still stands that Burntrap and the Mimic have the exact same left claw, like it's not vaguely similar or whatever, like its literally exactly identical, which feels like a weird point to just brush off.
6. Burntrap's also technically made of numerous parts, since his model doesn't just have glam endo parts, he clearly has parts from HW Springbonnie, Glamrock Freddy, and also parts that seem to resemble the Nightmare animatronics. So you can't bring up and try to use the glam endos parts thing as a valid point, since you're then also gonna have to explain all those other parts as well. Besides, how do we know that Burntrap's endo ALSO isn't old?
7. Something to add on about the Mimic's changing abilities; It can do much more outside of just changing around its size and limb size. In the 7th epilogue iirc, it transforms itself into a multi-limbed spider creature that crawls around, with several limbs, and with one even poking out of its mouth. So those abilities of the Mimics' are clearly very advanced
8. The metal parts don't make any sense to be somehow there to help keep "William alive", they're just there to hold the suit together, and clearly don't actually affect the corpse inside. Although funnily enough, particularly the metal parts on Burntrap's back as well, it actually lines up with something about the Mimic, which is that it's always shown entering a suit through its back. Hence then, we also see that Burntrap's back specifically was bolted shut. It's admittedly a bit more of a stretch, but still
9. "We are essentially retconning Burntrap's design" We literally know from the Scott interview most likely most of everything about Burntrap in SB was just a misunderstanding on SW's part and them just trying to make sense of stuff themselves from Scott told them, so yes I think it's almost certain there's going to be a certain amount of retconning. Hence also why things like the epilogues literally show a Mimic endo with rabbit ears, and why the Mimic in Ruin has the exact same left claw as Burntrap. Jeez I wonder why they included those things.
10. Another thing, more a question for you; If Burntrap isn't the Mimic, then where's Burntrap in Ruin? He's not in his charging pod anymore, and you said yourself he needs the charging pod. But he's not anywhere else in FFPS, and he's not anywhere down below near the Mimic. And we see in Ruin the path to the elevator outside FFPS is blocked by rubble, so he couldn't have gone that way, especially since the elevator's one time use isn't used when we go to it in Ruin. And if he went through the elevator we see at the end of Ruin, that means he had to get past the Mimic, get the forklift out of the way, and then also at some point get his hands on a faz-wrench to call the lift. So tell me, where did Burntrap go?
11. Afton's corpse in FF literally blows up, and even then, he was still burnt at the end of FFPS, so you'd think his corpse would be damaged if not just entirely gone. But no if anything, the corpse seen on Burntrap is literally in a physically BETTER STATE, than what the corpse on Scraptrap seemed to be in. And the whole "remnant" excuse is bs and hardly makes any sense, because you'd think it would actually properly regenerate his whole body. But no, with Burntrap's corpse, it literally looks the exact same with it's state in correlation to Scraptrap's, except for the fact it now has some added skin. So if so, they must've somehow used some of the most useless remnant. The same point also applies with the Scraptrap suit, and that it should've essentially at the least been badly damaged, or at most destroyed, from FFPS. But Burntrap's suit looks completely different to it. You also said yourself Burntrap's endo must be a new one instead of Scraptrap's, but then also that Burntrap's corpse is Afton's. But would it even be possible to remove the corpse from one endo, and then fuse it to another like that?

[Personian]

One thing I will say is that in Tales Kelly does not become the Burntrap body. After Epilogue 7 came out we all assumed that, but in Epilogue 8 The Mimic does not have Kelly's body (or any body) fused with it, so Kelly was not the Burntrap body

[scottcockton]

Personally I believe glitch trap is Afton soul or part of his soul or remeant or something sentient that escaped hell due to Cassidy being stupid to leave him do pass Afton soul then bonds or merged to the mimic one hard ware or code basically possessing it while the actual mimic take a back seat. Burn trap is what left of scrap trap melted corpse grafted on too the mimic endo. Afton/ glitch trap is destroyed in hw2 awakening and releasing the mimic. But that’s my theory. Scott is a man who has to be careful of what he says and him taking about glitch trap with possessing ai. Plus I think it satisfies both parties of people who want it to be mimic and afton. But that’s my 2 cents

[TyianGamingGuy]

Thank you for going so in depth about how burntrap isn't the the mimic. I get really frustrated sometimes because just about everyone thinks that burntrap is the mimic, when, in reality, they're two completely different characters.

[JoenilEDITS]

I think he just got built for glitchtrap from Vanny but that plan failed the place burned down and the blob took him but when we Went their in ruin it’s still intact but the mimic isn’t burn trap cause Gregory said it’s been here for a long time but burn trap was getting built so yeah the mimic isn’t burn trap.

[kevinahm]

I agree with your points but my personal thinking on how the body of burntrap came to be is by using aftons corpse, the scraptrap suit and his endo and repairing t with a glamrock endo, bassically mixing these two together. What many people seem to overlook are the fact that mimics head is stated to be new and shiny in the epilogues, so the antenas would be whole while burntrap misses one part of his right ear. So I am still on the Afton side.

[batmandalin]

The claw marks in the vent near the mimic are from the right hand meaning they left the room not enter it, meaning something else was trapped in there before escaping which probably caused it to collapsed

[oskarbergkvist]

1:09 About Burntrap's black eyes. I have come to the conclusion that those eyes are actually glamrock animatronic eyes.
After you go down the garbage shoot with glamrock Chica, when you end up in that garbage room with Shattered Chica on the ground, if you look closely at her eyes you can see the same black eye balls as Burntrap has. Also if you look at ruined monty you can see that he has a black eye ball that looks just like Burntrap's eyes.

[thealtrauniverse]

U brought up solid points, but we can see that the mimic has parts from other animatronics. We know form ruin and the books that the mimic likes to take things apart that put them back together, which is why Mimics hand is different. Now, just to circle back, I think the mimic is burntrap, but that's just from things I've gotten from over analyzing. Great video, BTW

[Aidan_minotti]

If burntrap is the mimic, William lied! He doesn’t always come back

[artofcosplay]

You are comparing them and saying that they are different charecters, but seems you forgot to compare springtrap and scraptrap or scraptrap and burntrap cuz they have even more differences then burntrap and mimic

[chillyracoon]

I don't care how people hate Wiiliam's come backs, Burntrap as William works perfectly especially as Perfect Desigh

[Skwish]

I didn't think people thought burntrap was the mimic. I thought burntrap was kinda put back together by vanny and then glitch trap/the mimic program was downloaded into burn trap mimicking Afton. I'm sure part of a scrap trap was used as he was in the pizza simulator building. I also thought that mimic had been trapped and Gregory and Vanessa just found him but didn't let him out.

[retrov]

I completely agree, while burntrap and the mimic do have some similarities, it's not much, and when you stop and point out just how many differences they have, its hard to believe that they're one in the same (especially considering just how different they act) great theory!

[lpfan]

Tbh, he probably is. We spent the last few years wondering why none of it makes sense, but now we know that Ruin and HW2 were basically just retcon course corrections rather than their own creative works because they had to fudge a fix for why Burntrap is suddenly gone and Mimic(The intended story built up by secondary materials before SB's release) was suddenly here.

We don't even know what SB was originally supposed to look like because Scott said that Burntrap was just meant to be an easter egg in a corner...but what corner exactly? Logic tells me that we were still intended to go down to the Fnaf 6 building that was built up to sink down by a lawsuit text in said game, but for what reason exactly if the only major thing we know of was a mistake? We have never even remotely seen the original idea and never will and we just got out of a duology to punch the dislocated pieces back into place.

[Teoriak]

you forget the fact that steel wool ruined the whole point of burntrap

burntrap was supposed to just stand there and watch because he was probably sitting in the pizza plex systems himself so he didn't need a body at that moment

so all the discrepancies end with Ruin filling in and explaining the mimic and therefore burntrap

[cassettefuturism]

the thing about burntrap's design is that all of the effort clearly went to the corpse and the springbonnie suit, while the endoskeleton was made out of recycled parts. if i were scott and i wanted to foreshadow my next big antagonist, i'd tell steel wool to make the endoskeleton an unique piece, but he didn't.

there's also the fact that they'd want to at least keep mimic's design consistent after that, but not even that happens lol

[theredchannel]

I had a dumb theory When security breach came out I thought Gregory was dead and he possessed glamorock freddy I thought it was like circus baby AI mixed with soul That's how glamorock Freddy had his own will to do stuff because that explains how Gregory can go into Glamrock Freddy and completely control him and Vanny are William afton or mimic wanted to take remnant from him but ruined disproved that

[Wizardjones]

If stitchline or frights games is confirmed
Then burntrap HAS to be the mimic