FNAF Fans Should Get To See This Infamous Moment Onscreen

The Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 movie has wrapped on filming, and leaks indicate that it’s taking heavily from the second video game in the franchise. There is a very old piece of lore that still remains unresolved onscreen and in the games. Is the sequel film about to finally give audiences a depiction of this infamous FNAF moment?

When the second chapter in the video game franchise first came out in 2014, it expanded the hidden backstory of the FNAF universe into unexpected, mind-boggling, and perplexing places. FNAF 2 answered some lingering questions that were established in the first game. Namely, how the animatronics came to be possessed in the first place. Between each night, the player can be given the option to play a series of Atari-style minigames. Some of these included scenes where the Puppet (an eerie new marionette animatronic introduced at the FNAF 2 location) can be seen putting Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy masks on the bodies of what are presumably the murdered children, alluded to in hidden Easter eggs throughout the first FNAF title. The minigame prompts the Puppet to ‘give life’, suggesting that it resurrects the children and puts them in animatronic suits. But as the second game answered questions, it also opened a bottomless pit of unresolved lore queries, fan theories, and mysterious references.

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One of the most confusing elements of FNAF 2 was its placement in the timeline. Initially, it was believed that the events of the second game came chronologically after the first, as the author of the games, Scott Cawthon, had advertised it as a ‘Grand Reopening’. The first entourage of animatronics from FNAF 1 also appeared to be decaying and withered. They had seemingly been replaced with a set of new toy animatronics: Freddy, Chica, and Bonnie. These replacements roamed the night as usual but weren’t possessed, instead using a sophisticated security technology that could detect the presence of individuals considered harmful to children at the Pizzeria.

All evidence pointed to this location being after the first, with Freddy Fazbear’s rebranding as a company in an attempt to hide its checkered past. However, as more of the game progresses, the player slowly discovers that it is a prequel, set in 1987, revealed through the main character’s payslip on Night 5. Eagle-eyed theorists like YouTuber MatPat uncovered that, since the minimum wage on the payslip from FNAF 1 was higher, fans could reverse-engineer the year the paylsip was issued. So, the community was able to realize that FNAF 2’s events were earlier in the franchise’s history.

The Mysterious So-Called “Bite Of ’87”

In FNAF 1, an ominous moment was mentioned by the Phone Guy (a.k.a. Ralph), who called in each night to check in with the player. In a failed attempt to downplay the threat of the animatronics, Ralph drops a number of sinister instances where the FNAF mascots attacked other people. Horrifyingly, he mentions a historic event that has apparently lived in infamy at Fazbear Entertainment. Previously, the animatronics “used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of ’87. Yeah. I-It’s amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?” This terrifying name-drop stirred a great amount of speculation. What had caused the Bite of ’87, and who was the victim?

Since FNAF 2 was confirmed to take place in 1987, fans of the series believed that on the additional bonus nights they would finally get to see this legendary event. But it sadly happens offscreen, after the game concludes. There are hints from Ralph on Night 6 that the animatronics were becoming more aggressive due to the presence of a strange individual:

“The place is closed down… At least for a while… Someone used one of the suits… We had a spare in the back, a yellow one… Someone used it… Now none of them are acting right…“

The mysterious figure who dons the “yellow one” has long-since been believed to be the overarching villain of the franchise, William Afton (a.k.a. the Purple Guy), sneaking into the Pizzeria in his iconic yellow Spring-Lock Bonnie suit to dismantle the possessed animatronics; haunted by the very same children that Afton murdered. With the place being closed down, Ralph eerily mentions that “We have one more event scheduled for tomorrow. A birthday… You’ll be on day shift. Wear your uniform and stay close to the animatronics. Make sure they don’t hurt anyone, okay?” That foreboding last line points to this being the day the Bite of ’87 takes place. When an agitated animatronic harms a customer and places them in a vegetative state.

Will The Sequel Film Do The Moment Justice?

There is a lot of potential for the sequel film to finally deliver on a moment long-time fans of the series have been itching to see since the beginning. Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 has had set photos leak that show the story will be taking audiences to an older pizzeria with the Toy animatronics branded on the main sign. So, there is every chance that audiences will get to see the Puppet, the rebranded Freddy cast, and the withered designs. While the second film has been confirmed to be PG-13 again, instead of R-rated, the lead of the film, Josh Hutcherson, has strongly indicated that FNAF 2 will be darker and scarier.

Nothing encapsulates the horrific and uncanny feeling of FNAF than incidents like the Bite of ’87. For one, it takes place during the day at a birthday party. So, whichever unlucky soul is the victim of the accident, their head is going to be imploded in front of a room full of excitable and cheering children. The Phone Guy goes into specific detail that the aggressive animatronic who bites takes the whole “frontal lobe“, meaning that this is not a graze or minor affair. It is described as a brutal, violent, bloody, and traumatic scene. In many ways, it would be the perfect way to deliver on the sequel film’s greater scares and contribute something original to the wider FNAF universe, bringing the franchise full circle.

Fans have long speculated that the bite was caused by Mangle, a Toy animatronic version of Foxy that is repeatedly torn apart and put back together again by children during the restaurant’s opening hours. If this holds in the film, one of the children during the birthday party may be the Bite of 87’s victim. But again, it’s all purely speculative, and in a fandom that prides itself on answering every unsolved FNAF mystery, Five Nights At Freddy’s 2 would attract a strong audience wanting to finally see a notorious chapter in the franchise fully realized onscreen.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

Release Date

December 3, 2025

Director

Emma Tammi

Writers

Seth Cuddeback

Producers

Jason Blum

Prequel(s)

Five Nights at Freddy’s