Withered Bonnie is a perfect example of how truly effective these animatronics can be when broken. Withered Freddy was barely broken compared to chica, foxy, and Bonnie. Like the fact his entire face is gone and has one arm is so creepy and just seeing red eyes.
I didn't mention it in the video, but when that original teaser was revealed with Toy Bonnie and Withered Bonnie, when it wasn't even confirmed that Withered Bonnie WAS going to be a threat because of how broken he was, he was pretty much... the creepiest thing. That gaping maw was just so jarring.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 One detail often overlooked is that the damage is very, very consistent, with stiff and small threads protruding from an otherwise nearly flat damage section. They resemble, more than anything (including threads, really), needle-like teeth, and combined with the endoskeleton being barely visible and the top endoskeletal jaw piece just being missing entirely, it makes a side profile of Withered Bonnie's head look like a jaw unhinged completely. Definitely a terrifying concept.
I find it notable that Scott thought Bonnie was the scariest and actually had nightmares about him. Makes a lot more sense when you remember Bonnie and all his forms are aggressive. Pretty sure fnaf+ Bonnie is how Scott's sees him lol
The disappearance of glamrock Bonnie is extremely sad, considering that Bonnie and Freddy have been together in EVERY single iteration other than them. Og Freddy? Og Bonnie. Shadow Freddy? RXQ. Funtime Freddy? Bon Bon. Fredbear? Spring Bonnie. They're inseparable, and glamrock Freddy being so upset over losing his best friend hits very hard
Freddy is the titlecard, Chica is the girl, Foxy is the unique mechanic, making Bonnie the sort of “tutorial” enemy who sets the stage for what’s to come. He makes his move first, he’s got an uncanny look (especially without his eyes) and his lack of a voice or personality means that he doesn’t have to try too hard to be quirky or memorable. Bonnie just does his job, and we all appreciate him for it.
Tbh I also get Older Than The Others vibes, kinda mentorly with how often he's our tutorial. Those vibes got stronger with Security Breach and Ruin, since older mentor types tend to be Too Smart to keep a mystery plot rolling in their general vicinity, and reasonably good at recognizing Shinanigans. One of the biggest tropes associated with mentor types is They Are The First To Die When Shit's Getting Real. I think Bonnie mighta noticed employees getting replaced by staff bots, saw the message about the All Staff Midnight Meeting, and figured out what was gonna happen. Mayhap he went to Monty to ask for his help getting into the basement? Additional Mayhap, Vanessa overheard or found out, took over Monty, and used him to destory Bonnie. And Monty is endlessly reactive and upset and destructive because HE WANTED TO HELP, but now he's DONE SOMETHING HORRIBLE, ain't good at expressing, afraid of judgement or accusations, and his friends Have Their Own Problems. And the termoil of that likely makes him easier to control when needed.
Bonnie has always been my favorite of the original group mostly for how unsettling he is. The others try to be more intimidating but Bonnie's mere presence is something that still sends chills.
*Let’s not forget that even Scott considers Bonnie the scariest, because, while developing the first game, he had a nightmare that Bonnie was trying to break into his bedroom.*
I still love the ironic twist with Funtime Freddy and BonBon, As MatPat pointed out, William and Henry have their own unique ways of design, and something I immediately noticed after that is that Funtime Freddy shares William's design, as do all the other Funtime animatronics, but BonBon has Henry's desgn, with the bars connecting the Jaw. When I look at that it feels like William trying to say that Henry will always be his puppet, that he thinks he has the ultimate control over Henry. But then when you think about who the characters are, Freddy being Henry's creation / Henry's suit and Bonnie being William's creation/springlock suit. It paints William as the one being puppeted. That no matter what he does Henry will always have a hold over him because Henry was the more successful one.
i thought william created fredbear, and henry made the mediocre melodies + chica. then henry acquired fredbears and the larger fazbear franchise was formed
I genuinely agree about Freddy's line about Bonnie. That singular moment carries so much emotional weight, and with how open fnaf interpretations can be, it can be emotional for nearly any reason.
@@BloodyJoker234 in Security Breach, there's a "secret" dialogue u can find in Bonnie's Bowl place, if you approach the small stage there, Glamrock Freddy will say "I don't come up here anymore, I miss him" referring to Bonnie or Glamrock Bonnie!
I just find it funny how Bonnie was no one's favourite, but by the time of Security Breach everyone realised the games weren't the same without him and everyone started missing him. I remember Markiplier mentioning he missed Bonnie in like the first 20 minutes of the game.
hes always been my favorite, i was always sad when he wasn't properly included in the games, first fnaf 3 then sister location (i dont count bon bon), uc was just sad. it always seemed like they moved bonnie to make space for springtrap or now vanny
Honestly, he wasnt my favorite, but i definitely liked him. When i found out Glamrock Bonnie Was killed by Monty, i INSTANTLY Hated monty from then on. Never gave him a single like or love.
Freddy gets to be the leader, Chica the girl, Foxy the cool one, and Bonnie the chill one when he isn't being possessed by a serial killer who jacked his image. Funnily enough though, because of that people might actually pity Bonnie the most. He's always the one associated with death when he was literally the second one made after Freddy. Hopefully the FNAF Origin thing still happens because I want to know about how OG Fredbear and Spring Bonnie act.
Imo the withered animatronics were the peak of creepy designs in the series. The way they were so broken but still moved, and just how unsettling good lighting could make them… it was genuinely terrifying, and Bonnie in particular was very creepy, with his glowing dots for lack of eyes. While he’s lost his popularity in recent years he’s still gotten very good exposure in the games, him and bunnies in general, and I love how rabbits are the ones with the most effective scares in the franchise, ie: Springtrap’s rare screens, fnaf 1 Bonnie in the backroom etc. Great breakdown of his history and character, like always! I’m looking forward to the next video!
Fnaf 4 designs are the best to me (withered bonnie not withstanding). With a lot of the others, you see a machine first, something capable of being taken apart and put together, tons of personality and story that makes you think "maybe there's something deserving of pity behind those eyes". The ones in 4 don't dress up. They're the fear-inducing, hateful, supernatural forces they absolutely could have been, had the story gone a different way.
The effectiveness of Bonnie is honestly kind of interesting. Rabbits are the least aggressive of any of the species depicted in the animatronics. Even chickens have a surprising aggressive streak compared to them.
... chickens being aggressive is not a surprise. Their ancestor is the literal T-Rex for one. And uh anyone who has interacted with real chickens can tell you. Theyre rude
I don't feel like Bonnie is overlooked, he's consistently one of the favorites of the franchise outside of Foxy. Probably why there's so many "where is glamrock Bonnie?" theories over "where is glamrock Foxy?"
Okay I have a random little theory about Glamrock Foxy's disappearance. Foxy was always the kind-of odd one out of the group. Everyone's in bow ties or top hats in FNaF 1, Foxy's a pirate. Everyone's doing well as Toy animatronics in FNaF 2, Mangle got freakin' destroyed. It always holds up, whether it be differences in mechanics or themes in the animatronics. Then we have Security Breach. Every animatronic we see seems to hold up the retro '80s theme one way or another. Freddy also appears to be the only one with the power station gimmick (if that isn't exclusive to when he's just had a Windows crash like in the SB intro), so who's to say that Foxy just got bored of everything and broke out? The Glamrocks have complex personalities and sentience, so wanting to get out of a place they don't feel they belong is absolutely possible. It makes no sense in some ways, even to me, but I just like to think about a Glamrock Foxy who ran away from the Pizzaplex and is trying to live the life he wants to live.
@@ZirconiaGacha I just feel like they had yet to implement Glamrock Foxy, as there is zero visual clues or message logs hinting to his existence, as opposed to Bonnie, who had about 4 different logs, some actual dialogue from Freddy and Gregory, and a stage in Bonnie Bowl that was clearly meant for him. I think they had Kids Cove, but were planning on introducing Foxy into the Pizzaplex at some point in the future.
I like how Bonnie is almost always aggressive, but in various different ways. They can be a serial killer (Springtrap of course), trying to get even (classic Bonnie), or maybe even just defending someone (BonBon, who may have some sort of attachment to Funtime Freddy other than physical). It's a consistent thing, but they still find varying ways to do it. Also, I like to think that Withered Bonnie can see because the actual part that gives him vision is behind the eyes, meaning the "eyes" can be removed and we aren't having him crashing into walls. But for Roxy they made it so the eyes are what allows the animatronic to see instead of something behind them that's harder to damage, so if you take her eyes she could jump off a cliff after hearing something that sounded a bit too much like Gregory.
The idea of Bob Bon having an attachment to Funtime Freddy and maybe vice versa oddly sound adorable for a murderous animatronic made to kidnap kids by a narcissist abusive father serial killer now that possessed his fursuit and now controlling some random woman
@@smt64productions40 My thought process behind it is that, for the Funtimes in the SL bunker, everyone just bonds over the shared experience of controlled shocks and the scooper. BonBon being smaller makes it even harder on the poor bean
Bonnie's always been my favorite character. I love his design, the way his eyes don't fit in their sockets and his permanent smile give him a much more subtly creepy design compared to many others in the series. His dark blue/purple color scheme works extremely well with the dingy lighting of the FNAF 1 location. He's also the only member of the FNAF 1 cast who plays an instrument, which further sets him apart from his bandmates.
something missed is his ability to break your door in FNAF 1. jamming it so you can't close it. Mix this with how he was rarely surprised in the cartoon. With how he contemplates who is trapped. How he is chill yet sadistic. Bonnie is also Afton's most original concept. Its his character, and when golden bonnie was the sole bonnie, his guise. Bonnie is the methodical, intelligent, and sadistic one. Bonnie is the direct product of William Afton
@@maas1208 True. Bonnie was 100% Quiet and Mischievous for sure. With him being Quiet and not making unique sounds unlike the others, All the sounds and Moves Bonnie makes are Shared with Chica, Foot Steps, Growns, Door Jaming you name it. His also Mischievous and Unotisable Bonnie can makes his way fast though the Pizzaria, With him somethings "teleporting" to different rooms. Him being the First one to wake up in Night 1 is also something I should count. Bonnie is a tricker and is very bored as his blan-sad looks suggest.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Bonnie and all of his variants. The original was the most effective of terrifying you and also the most aggressive of the four. Always staring with a soulless expression. The shadows being at just the perfect angle to emphasize that sinister imagery that the original FNAF1 Bonnie has. Even if this one is the most controversial, I can’t help but like Toy Bonnie’s design the most. He can be both creepy and cute. I always thought of Toy Bonnie as a porcelain doll. My parents had a collection of porcelain dolls and they always creeped me out. I remember watching many different SFM animations with Toy Bonnie in them and I loved how expressive they can make him. Not to mention that I also am a bit scared of clowns and this makes Toy Bonnie a freakish clown porcelain doll hybrid in a light blue robotic rabbit form. That is literally every creepy thing from my childhood combined into one. Withered Bonnie is equally as good design wise. So good was the design that the Joy of Creation’s version of Bonnie is an even more withered down version of Withered Bonnie. Nightmare Bonnie was like this carnivorous beast. The prey animal was transformed into a predator. Jack O’ Bonnie gives me serious Ghost Rider vibes. Bonbon and Bonnet are okay Bonnie variants though they were pretty much playing second fiddle to Funtime Freddy. Though I always felt like Bonbon was simply a puppet that the Funtime Freddy AI deluded itself into believing was real and the voice mimicry in the blueprints helped Freddy give Bonbon his own “voice”. Rockstar Bonnie is my second favorite design. He really does feel like the Rockstar he was designed to be and his lines in UCN were fun because he always sings a nice little song when he kills you. And although we never saw Glamrock Bonnie, you can tell that he was an important part of the Pizzaplex and the mystery of how he got decommissioned is still unsolved. It’s easy to say that Monty did do it, but how and why? It could be because of his anger issues, or was it because of something else? Or maybe Bonnie was decommissioned by a different culprit? Overall, I love Bonnie. He may just be that “extra” member of the band, but he’s the guitarist of the band and a beloved character to this day. Maybe his role this entire time was Freddy’s Best Friend? Even Fredbear was always with Spring Bonnie from the very beginning. The bear and rabbit are always friends with each other. Bonnie is definitely my favorite animatronic in the entirety of FNAF… even if I don’t like Toy Bonnie’s Special Delivery voice. Though the irony of Toy Bonnie having this haughty prideful full of himself personality when his restaurant only lasted for a week or two before closing and then proceeding to get scrapped is ironic. And as for the books, I tend to avoid them. I just feel like they muddle up the games for me, so I tend to ignore them.
Ikr! This is exactly why I hate the fact that Scott and FNAF are basically forgetting Jeremy (the kid who possesses Bonnie) because you would think that the kid who possesses such a fan-favorite animatronic to have a significant amount of lore
a little detail me and my friend noticed in ruin is that in bonnies old room, there was a poster signed by freddy saying something along the lines of "youre awesome" and such but signed "love, freddy" and i find it really sad that freddy cared so much about bonnie, more than we thought, and it made us so sad to find but a really neat detail
'Bonnie's the first and the weakest' I always liked him because he was the most aggressive tbh. It would've been nice to see that elaborated on in SB. It wouldn't surprise me if both Roxy and Monty are inheriting traits from their predecessors, either via similar coding chips or spooky ouuuuu stuff, and that the aggression is what Monty got from Bonnie in the first place.
Bonnie is a good one, though I do fully agree on the sentiment on him being overlooked yet essential. He comes from Spring Bonnie who is connected to Springtrap, making him rather important in that sense, and he's one of the original 4, yet he's often first and easiet threat to deal with, as you've established, and he tends to have the least speaking lines. I do love his design in the Tour shorts, though. His Toy variant freaks me out a bit with his maniac expressions. And I like what you managed to uncover on Glamrock Bonnie based on depictions and mentions of him, I like that kind of character that's show and no tell! (Also, embarrassing fun fact but as a kid, I thought Bonnie was a girl. I was like 12 or 13 with minimal internet access and I never heard of a guy named Bonnie before)
I'm sure this is the case for most people and has likely been said before, but I know for sure the reason I like Withered Bonnie is because he falls under the trope of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". His lack of an entire face minus the lower jaw is unsettling because we as humans tend to look for anything resembling a face in humanoid creatures. There being nothing but a void and two pinprick dots of red totally activates this strange unsettling feeling. It also feels almost like body horror. With the wires sticking out of him and the way he's sort of slumped over, giving this idea that he is barely holding himself upright. Before Ultimate Custom Night, I was convinced that if Withered Bonnie ever tried to talk, it would just be static or a sad garble of noises similar to Chica after losing her beak in Security Breach. Bonnie low-key peaked with that design. It's unfortunate though because every member of the Faz Crew has potential, and it's mostly been realized for each of them. But with Bonnie it just feels like it hasn't yet.
Bonnie really is the quintessential bassist - he sets the tempo and is foundational to the background of the experience, but nobody notices how good he is or remembers his name until he's gone.
Y'know, I'm 100% convinced that Scott refuses to put ANY lore for Jeremy (the one who possesses Bonnie) because he, well, possesses Bonnie, the animatronic that scared the crap out of Scott.
Toy Bonnie might be easy to get rid of but he frequently ends up killing players with his long animation timing out the music box. At least in max mode he does.
For some reason, Toy Bonnies voice reminded me of the time when the fandom thought that Toy Bonnie was a female animatronic, meybe because is so high that sounds like a female voice. Bonnie has always been that one animatronic with a hot temper, so him being replaced with Monty who is also a very angry animatronic is very apropiated. I don't really believe the theory of Monty destroying Bonnie but meybe that is just me not wanting to think badly of my favorite animatronic from Security Breach (Monty, despite the fact that i never played the games but i love the FNAF lore)
One other aspect of Bonny I find interesting is that the child assumed to possess him-Jeremy- has a shared name with not only Jeremy Fitzgerald the nightguard, but Jeremy from Help Wanted who got his face sliced off just like Withered Bonnie.
And Jeremy Fitzgerald is theorised to be the victim of the Bite of '87, while Jeremy from HW got his face sliced off. I think I'm seeing a pattern here....
I've actually had a compltely different experience with Bonnie, so a lot of this video was a surprise for me. For me Bonnie was always the most dangerous of the default group (Chica barely ever seems to do anything), he was the one to cause most jumpscares, and was almost as popular as Foxy while Freddy and Chica were just kind of there. That's pretty impressive considering Foxy was popular almost exclusively off the fact he was not like the other -gi- animatronics. The same applied FNAF2 onwards, except for FNAF3 for obvious reasons. He just seems to be more active and look more iconic than Chica, plus there's Scott's bias towards him that ultimately made him look a little cooler. I say all this as a Chica fan who was pretty sick of Bonnie overshadowing her to this extent, even before Bonnie was basically taken over by various -traps.
when I was a kid, I had a strange obsession with toy bonnie. I don’t know why he was my favorite (probably because not a lot of people liked him and I didn’t want to be like the others and pick the “popular” ones) but I chose him as my favorite and stuck HARD with it. I would draw him, collect things that reminded me of him, roleplayed as him online… Now looking back it definitely makes me cringe but the nostalgia is strong enough that I don’t want to forget about it.
My favorite one was Spring Bonnie. The whole idea of wearable animatronic suit becoming something akin to a meatgrinder and torture chamber combined made me as a child shiver... And his unsettling, shark or pirahna-like grin was something I spent much time forgetting
Yeah that is cringe but we don't have to be embarrassed about the dumb stuff we did as kids everybody's gotta grow up and everybody has done something embarrassing
bonnie was my favorite by far, until security breach. I remember when I was younger it was right around the release of silver eyes. my friend at the time gave me an original sanshee bonnie plushie, and it still sits on my bed to this day, it's got some very obviously repaired stitches. bonnie reminds me of that friend that i can't even remember the name of, but we shared everything. we both had the same blanket of the original poster for the og game and we'd sit with our blankets and talk about lore during free time. in short bonnie feels like an old friend, like nostalgia.
Bonnie will always be on of my favorite animatronics throughout the series. While his roles are generally forgettable, there something about him that I could never let go of. This video is a perfect example of how underrated and interesting Bonnie really is. Pretty much all of his withered or nightmare-ish forms are creepy enough to give anyone a jump. Great video, and an amazing way to give Bonnie the spotlight.
Bonnie has always been my boy. Especially Withered Bonnie, there is just something about him just scares me. His stance, mangled face or torn off arm. I’m not sure what but Withered Bonnie has been my favorite animatronic since he was released. Loving the video!
What I found interesting, is that even though Bonnie's last known location was gator golf, the other places he went to stuck out to me. Particularly, the East Arcade. Cause I believe the East Arcade and Gator golf are on opposite sides of the atrium. and he was there for around two hours before he went to gator golf. There's really no reason for him to be in the East Arcade around 2am. I was trying to think what was in the East Arcade and why he would go there, but then I remembered that's where the fire escape was. Maybe Bonnie was trying to help a child escape after close like Freddy was? I don't know, it's a thought.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476Monty has also been noted to have been avoiding performances and gone running off to the catwalks instead multiple times, so idk if his interest in stardom is true or nearly that intense at all
I feel like Bonnie became the true face of the franchise more than the titular Freddy Fazbear, considering that he shows more screen time in the trailers and not to mention that he was the first animatronic that Scott made during the development, which gave him nightmares. Too bad the Gator did the Bonnie boy dirty.
I like to think the original animatronics had semi-specific roles when it came to their vocals. Chica and The Marionette the female vocals obviously. Fredbear was the countertenor Bonnie (most relevantly) was the lead tenor and (ironically) often sang the main melody. Spring Bonnie had a voice like Jimmy Dodd from The Mickey Mouse Club Foxy was the baritone Freddy Fazbear was the bass (I like to think he was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft in-universe)
I like to think Toy Bonnie's AR lines as being directed at the original Bonnie. A snide overconfident punk who demands the spotlight because it's "his turn," makes him a more interesting counterpart to the laid-back original. And it fits how he never escaped any other Bonnie's shadow.
29:56 Bonnie actually does have a moment in the Silver Eyes. At some point in the book, he chases Charlie and she hides in a bathroom stall to avoid him, and Bonnie eventually finds Charlie before ripping off the stall door.
thank you for adding subtitles to some of the dialogue! so many of the animatronics have such hard to understand voices and as someone whose neurodivergent and often needs subtitles to keep me on track, i really appreciate it.
"I know he'll be back, he just needs a chance to do something a little more... significant, a little more bold." Don't worry NRN, if there's one thing we know about rabbits in FNAF, it's that _they _*_always_*_ come back._
You were right, this is longer than the Chica video. He is probably my favorite animatronic and I'm happy you covered him. All we need is Freddy to complete the main four!!!
Withered Bonnie is my absolute favorite withered animatronic, maybe even my favorite animatronic in FNAF 2 in general. All of his design aspects are just perfection. One detail I love is how he’s always leaning over, like the weight of his only arm left is just pulling his body down.
I would think Chica is closer to being an overlooked character. Considering fanvased wise he's often treated more favorably then Og Freddy or og Chica. Like Foxy is the break out character but I'd say fanbase wise he tends to be far from overlooked.
Bonnie was always my favourite. He was the first one you always saw, the most agressive. He gave me the creeps in that perfect horror way that leaves you checking if your front door is closed and dreading going to the bathroom at night. There was something that just made me more excited to fight against him in games than the others, especially the sister location additions. I was crushed when he wasn't in security breach, I thought he could have such cool mechanics that involve a lot of jumping twoards you unexpectedly or trying to hunt you down the most in a "the prey becomes the hunter" kind of style. I hope he'll have his return
Both of the Bonnies always seemed to be the most popular of the FNAF 2 cast, actually. Toy Bonnie was pretty much the poster child and I remember quite a few popular videos where he was treated as the main character or the leader of the band. Withered Bonnie was similar, everyone loved him and felt bad because of his missing face and arm. I never got the impression that either of them were overlooked - in fact, I think the only more popular FNAF 2 characters were Mangle and the Puppet, and maybe Toy Chica or Balloon Boy just for the memes.
What i think is most intriguing about Rockstar Bonnie absence is that he is said to be decommissioned, but other notes give the implies that the same already happened to Chicka at the trash compactor, but she was just repaired, and we also have lines from freddy and vanessa that implies that the shell of an animatronic can be placed in a random endoskeleton who will be programed to "become" such animatronic, so, if all of them are replaceable, why bonnie wasn't?
Your delivery of "One of the FNAF AR emails implies that Bonnie might have eaten a cat. How and why is unclear." is a remarkable example of a dense irreverence. Lovely!
28:08 This section is so spot on. Like I said in your Sun and Moon video, Kellen Goff is just such an amazing voice actor, the man always does a fantastic job. Also Whitered Bonnie has a cool design lol
Withered Bonnie is, to this day, my favorite animatronic of all time. He's the epitome of animatronic horror design, and his voice in UCN is just perfect. I love him so much.
As a withered bonnie cosplayer (Full suit) I have to admit that I agree with you. The messed up one has always been my favroite. Foxy in the first one, Withered Bonnie in the second... Had a lilarious scene when there was someone behind me at a convention who cried out "It's Bonnie!" And I turned around and they screamed. Perfect FNAF moment. But, Bonnie made a big impression on me in the Silver eyes. The scene in the bathroom was delightfully tense. I wish more of the book had been like that. :3
One more thing to note about Rockstar Bonnie in UCN, is he strikes more or less the same pose as Withered Bonnie when in the office. This may imply the rockstars were planned in-universe to be the old models from the restaurant in FNAF 2, but spruced- up. May not seem like much to go on, but smaller details have been important before.
I know they aren’t a fan favorite, but I’ve always loved Toy Bonnie. I think they have that perfect blend of cute enough to be for children, but also creepy enough to be a horror character, I think they are my example for what the Glamrocks lack in horror. (I also like their voice but I can see why others wouldn’t, but I also haven’t seen The Masked Singer so I didn’t get the reference)
Well.... why bonnie tho? The endoskeletons on the basement are the most likely option, since william probably didn't want another ia messing with his mind
I have a bittersweet feeling about Glamrock Bonnie not being in Security Breach, because as much as I adore Monty, I really wanted to see him with lines and a defined personality, since Withered Bonnie is one of my favorite animatronics, but I guess we'll have to wait to see what other fnaf media may do him justice
And now with the movie out, Bonnie's popularity has spiked due to his laid-back nature in the film. His cute factor really have many saying he's their favorite film animatronic
Its a little sad that Bonnie's always got the short end of the stick. I've always found him to be my favorite in all of his forms. Spring Bonnie/Springtrap elevated the series' lore, but Bon himself seems to have been cast to the wayside especially with Security Breach.
Bonnie's arguably only the second easiest in FNaF 1. Chica moves linearly from room to room, making her more predictable (Bonnie chooses a random room and moves to it regardless of his previous position), and has audio cues telling you when she's not near you, and her door light view is very visible when it's closed. Bonnie's, conversely, is hidden by the door and you have to rely on his strangely reflected shadows of his towering ears, rather than simply seeing him. He's more erratic and a bit stealthier than Chica, although his AI level actually stays rather low throughout the game, whereas the others rise fairly quickly. Withered Bonnie is a case of excellent character design for uncanniness, just like Withered Chica. With his complete lack of a face, even on the endoskeletal level, he gives no recognizable expressions, and his posture never changes unless he's crammed into the vents - always standing tall, his ears giving him even more height, with his arm hanging loosely and his torso cocked somewhat to the side. The missing arm and trailing wires give him a very distinct silhouette, even amongst the Withered. Many people don't remember his slightly damaged right hip, or missing left foot casing - they remember that prone, yet listing posture, the missing arm, and the black void of a face with teeth below and tiny red lights inside. I feel like Spring Bonnie is a real missed opportunity, both in terms of a character for the games to have (admittedly Springtrap takes that role, but only Burntrap actually uses the same model and it's hardly recognizable, so they kind of separated from that too), and, more importantly, the idea of a character both as a counterpart to and antithesis of William. Now, I've seen a lot of fan interpretations for what personality Spring Bonnie's stage persona would have, but a lot of them lean one of two ways - either about as gentle as they get, or sort of a wild, rambunctious counterpart to Fredbear, with the whole 'the rabbit and the bear' thing leaning well into that. Still, we've never gotten a canon take on this, even in FNaF World, the only game to give us Spring Bonnie as an actual 3D character. Spring Bonnie, and whether there's any animatronic left in there - which, presumably, there is, given FNaF 3 outright says it functioned as an animatronic intended to walk from room to room to interact with the children - but more importantly what view said animatronic has of William. The suit he wore for the opposite of its intended purpose, the one eventually responsible for killing him - even if death didn't manage to stop him - and perhaps, now a voice in his head as he shambles along, possessing both his own broken body and the half-functional wreck of an animatronic, left for decades unmaintained in back rooms and for thirty years rotting in a safe room, its endo not fitting together around the fragmented skeleton it's meant to mimic. It definitely would be a very interesting idea that they could work with or against one another and would have to for something as simple as moving from place to place. But we've never had that, and unless William gets dumped into a new replacement suit which starts with its own AI, than there's not much they can do about that with how far gone the physical Spring Bonnie is. Except for one thing, and that's Glitchtrap - in Help Wanted, it's stated that Fazbear Entertainment uploaded actual programming from the animatronics, and inadvertently also William himself or some copy thereof, into the game rather than trying to replicate these things - Spring Bonnie could well have ended up either finally separate from William, roaming as a different technological entity; or been incorporated into Glitchtrap, and still come back in some such form. I personally hope we see it happen, because that's definitely among the most major forgotten characters in the series. Funtime Bonnie definitely would've been a cool idea to see, though what the point would be of course varies. In line with the Funtimes' actual purpose, perhaps he would've been able to accurately detect everyone in a massive area, using those ears more like amplifiers for some sort of small-scale radar system, or something of the sort. An easter egg of the character in a later game, sort of how Funtime Chica eventually showed up, would've been a cool reference, since Bon-Bon according to the blueprints is just a part of Freddy with a color-complimenting shell slapped on. Presumably, this is why Molten Freddy just doesn't have him, as much as him slapping long blue ears onto a vaguely head-shaped tendril sticking off one shoulder might've been. FNaF AR wouldn't be the first to put Bonnie, Chica and Freddy all as one - that would go to FNaF 2. For the Toys, the line's variants of Bonnie, Chica and Foxy (that being Mangle, of course) all function pretty much identically, even though for no given reason, Toy Freddy functioned like the Withered do. But for the Withered themselves, while Foxy is unique, those versions of Freddy, Bonnie and Chica all function more or less the same save for their angles of approach - Freddy from direct front, and the other two flanking him through the vents. Still, they have the panic-inducing 'get the mask on before they get a look at you' mechanic that they're all known for, and they all use it the same. Toy Bonnie's voice is a funky one. I think it leans into the 'trap bonnie' joke, given both the original and Toy versions had a reputation for being mistaken as females, for whatever reason - though with the Toy one, it's a lot more obvious why that assumption would be made what with the blushing cheeks, the makeup-accented eyelids, and the long lashes, as well as the slimmer form far more comparable to Chica than Freddy - though we, of course, never see what body shape Toy Foxy had. Honestly, to me, Toy Bonnie's voice sounds like a mean-spirited and spoiled child's more than anything - unless 'anything' includes a synthesizer, because it definitely seems like it's going through some heavy audio warping, even if Withered Bonnie's echoing and metallic voice remains far less discernable among the noise. Anyways, Toy Bonnie seems like he's a little too focused on the whole 'star' thing, both with the puns and the insistence on him being better than everyone else. He seems like he's in denial, though whether that's of being possessed, of possessing an animatronic, of not being the leader of the band, or of not being the best I couldn't tell you. It definitely seems like he's distracting himself with it. Bonnie in TSE does get one real moment of his own, comparable to Chica getting her hallway scene - at one point, some of the group is hiding in some side room, an office or possibly a storage room; I can't recall what exactly. Afton's in there with them, although I think by that point he's seriously out of it what with the concussion and all, but while the others in the room begin to make a break for it, they're stopped by a vivid flash of blue light coming through the door, and Afton screaming in terror, or possibly pain. They, of course, look at each other, shrug it off, and say he probably deserves whatever Bonnie does to him, although Afton later slips back away somehow which is never explained (just like most times). It's a weird and interesting scene, particularly as it basically implies Bonnie either pulled a FNaF 1 Freddy and snuck in, or that he just teleported in there using spirit powers or whatever, possibly as a reference to his patterns in FNaF 1. Hard to say. They also mention briefly that one of the characters, I believe it might be Jessica, thought he 'had a trustworthy face' or something like that and would whisper one-sided conversations to him back when the location was open. In the brief characterization we get, he's described as aggressively stomping in challenge when he approaches, whereas the others have a lot quieter movements for the most part, aside from things like Freddy's music or Foxy's unabashed destruction of property. Twisted Bonnie has a cool but unutilized design, with those mandible jaw things. Perhaps he would've been cooler if he'd echoed Withered Bonnie and had a massive, gaping maw around his entire head that his face was also contained within, as well as more rows of teeth less suited to brutal damage and more suited to both chewing and taking in. Bon-Bon isn't in TFC - that graphic novel doesn't get hardly anything right, whether it's the weird half-and-half between Mangle and Funtime Foxy or the fact that Blacktime Freddy (so named because Freddy's purple accents are on him a very dark greyish-black, with the white unchanged) is literally Yenndo in a casing, specifically having yellow eyes and two hands - one for a mic and one for his nearest target, or one for each nearby target if he drops the act and lets his speaker do the job it's meant to. The.. amalgam.. thing.. whatever it is, the slag pile with the souls in it, doesn't have any heads or visible casings at all in the novel. That's just a weird detail added to just remove the mystery of what it even is outright from the graphic novel, despite that and its vague descriptions (admittedly it's difficult to describe an only somewhat humanoid pile of melted metal just hot enough for the nearly half a dozen souls in it to move, but that's what it is in the novel) being a big part of the book. Spring Bonnie in both his pristine suit-worn-by-Afton form (simply called Bonnie by the kids, since they know no better, and implying that Afton never called it Spring Bonnie either to them), and his cameo appearance as dancing Springtrap, both appear more than Bonnie himself - which is saying a lot in the latter case.
These vents are like reverse liquids at this point. They grow or shrink in size to accommodate whatever seven foot tall monstrosity is put inside of them. Seriously though, how do vents that big even fit in a run down old pizzeria?
another thing: why are they in the floor? Isn't the vent supposed to be mounted into the ceiling? I get that in FNaF 3 they, perhaps, could've been used as service ducts or tunnels for quick roaming around the facility...but in FNaF 2...what are they? they aren't exactly the vents as they connect two rooms and allow no air conditioning due to the lack of the A/C unit in question...they aren't used to supply oxygen from the surface as the Diner is located on surface...they can't be used for maintenance access because of the LITERAL hallway connecting the security office and the rest of pizzeria. What are those L-shaped tunnels then in the first place? What is their function? Why are they mounted into the floor? And why do the animatronics crawl even into them when there's a WIDE GOD DAMN HALLWAY WHICH THEY CAN USE TO ENTER THE OFFICE?
I think the reason that the main villain took on the appearance of a Bonnie. Is because to Scott Bonnie is the scariest animatronic. he had nightmares about Bonnie when he was creating the first game. Heck he even put in a super rare Easter egg that's specifically references his nightmares that he had about Bonnie. the Easter egg I'm talking about is the eyeless Bonnie screen. Whenever the player is being loaded into the main menu there is a 1 in 1000 chance that the eyeless Bonnie screen can appear all sound will cut out and a close-up of Bonnies face will appear on screen with his eyes completely hallow and for that Last 3 seconds his face is on screen white pinpricks will appear in the eye sockets before you are booted to the menu. I got it on the mobile version a few days ago.
Withered Bonnie has been one of my favorite animatronics for quite a while now. Somehow his lack of face makes him pretty adorable when he's trying to do face puns despite his situation. (his ultimate custom night voice is somehow as exactly as I thought it would be too) Plus I appreciate him for scaring me when i was younger lol.
I enjoyed this probably more than I should have lol Bonnie is my fav and my hyperfixation, so I sponge any and all knowledge and lore of him. He's precious and always felt he deserved better, which is why that line from Freddy in SB is my favorite line as well! If the timeline is to be believed, it was Freddy and Bonnie against the world from the very beginning. Ain't no tighter bond than that of the one who had your back from day 1.
If I remember correctly, Bonnie had the bathroom scene in The Silver Eyes. I think he was bashing down doors trying to find Charlie and a creepy scene him looking at her through the door.
I actually wanna point out something with Toy Bonnie's voice in Fnaf:AR! I never watched masked singer so idk how close that description could be. But when I heard his lines I thought of how many art and songs portrayed Toy Bonnie "taking" Whithered Bonnie's fame. His high voice could be fitting for him as a thinner and smaller Toy animatronic. His lines about "now I'm the star" found be referring to his he's often was marketed heavily in FNAF 2 to being a replacement more then the rest. It's feels more like they took that fandom interpretation and built it to his personality. He's proud and feels mighty at earning the spot he now has. Which in makes sense given how more damaged Withered Bonnie is. That could just be me looking too into it 😅
Bonnie is my favorite of the original four animatronics. He is definitely the scariest one out of them, because he looks the most child friendly. Thus making you feel more uneasy around him.
Bonnie has always been my favorite. I don’t quite know why but his design has always just stood out to me. His underdog treatment also called to me bc I’m a sucker for those kind of characters.
Bonnie was one of my favourite of the group. He was just a staple that was always there and looked cool. EthGoesBoom gave him the funniest voice. I hope we see him in the Ruined DLC for SB.
as someone who tortured myself thru all the books -i love your character overviews. i swear you have the best fnaf theory vids on YT. and your comments section is actually nice
bonnie has always been my fave, hands down, i love every variation of bonnie, but my faves are og bonnie, toy bonnie and withered bonnie, i was always under the impression bonnie was more popular but i guess not lolol, with chica i felt like she felt very alive in terms of her mannerisms and facial expressions, and bonnie works so well in contrast as he seems very lifeless in comparison, i always found him to be pretty unsettling
honestly i've always been a bonnie girl, i think i found his design evolution over time the most interesting and varied- chica gets shoved into the 'sexy chicken' box because she's the only girl in the OG band (correction: chica's design gimmick is either sexualization, or just TEETH IN YOUR FACE) freddy has some variations in his designs but overall it really just is the same freddy in different fonts (think about it, OG freddy, toy freddy, withered freddy, and to an extent golden freddy all look really similar and they become kind uninteresting to look at), and foxy is constantly in the shadows or in an active state of disrepair. of course this isn't true for all versions (there's SO MUCH content out at this point its impossible to make overarching statements like that), but in the first few games that set the series in motion, bonnie didn't have a particular design gimmick like the rest. bonnie was always the one going through the most change- the switch from OG bonnie to withered bonnie was huge, and toy bonnie gets an entire color palette revamp as well as an overall shape change that was interesting to me, since freddy stayed in his generally round shape. even nightmare bonnie was visually super interesting to me because it felt like i was finally getting to see withered bonnie with his face, and seeing bonnie full of teeth was new! it was a new dimension of threat- bonnie in general was the least threatening, and while he was at his scariest (withered bonnie) the scare factor was in the fact that the face teeth were Gone. we finally got to see bonnie as scary in a new and different way. every new game was like an "oooo what are we gonna get from bonnie this time" especially since they had to take measures to separate him out from springtrap. idk man i just love bonnie he's just some guy who's been through some bullshit he didn't need to and he's so real for that
I think the one thing I remember the most about Bonnie is that quote from Scott, being that he is who scared Scott the most. Part of me wonders if one day we’ll get that Bonnie scare factor again. But for now, he’s currently dead somewhere in a pizzaplex
2:30 I would disagree that Toy Bonnie is one of the weaker ones, in higher difficulties he is the biggest threat because of his inconsistency in when he moves from the vent. In later nights if he waits and then goes into blackout he can be followed by other animatronic which will certainly get you killed to the puppet.
Seeing the cut Bonnie Bowl mini game made me release how incredible Security Breach could’ve been. Imagine just free roaming the mall playing all the games, wearing all the merch and running and hiding from the animatronics. If staff bots didn’t exist in every corner of the pizzaplex making it feel so crowded and annoying to traverse. The pizzaplex could’ve felt so isolating being in a place that should have thousands of people but is completely empty. Such a shame
I think the reason is that Bonnie fizzled out very quickly. He was clearly the Animatronic that got the most attention in the first few games. He's the central showcase of FNAF 1 Trailer, the only character to teleport in FNAF 1 while also being the most common jumpscare, He was also the only Animatronic that had a unique screen, He was the only animatronic besides Freddy during the "It's Me" hallucination in the first game. He was the most withered in FNAF 2, Toy Bonnie having the least generic design compared to the other Toys. Bon Bon being the only hand puppet, Also having the most tense and longest jumpscare in UCN. Lastly, he's also the only Animatronic to be completely replaced with an entirely new Character in Security Breach, as Roxanne Wolf is somewhat close to Foxy. But he eventually fizzled out. Ig Scott decided this because he didn't want people to feel fatigued by his character. Maybe he just decided to Prioritise Foxy more, as he has always been a Unique character consistently from the start. I have hots for your voice btw. I guess we'll never know Scotts original purpose. But Bonnie is definitely the most deranged and unsettling Animatronic in FNAF Plus.
Just for the record I do think it was Monty who destroyed Glam Rock Bonnie I mean there's no other explanation Monty is the one with the most destructive personality out of all of the animatronics and I know he didn't have his claws when Bonnie was alive but just because Monty didn't have his claws that doesn't mean he wasn't able to do significant damage to Bonnie cuz even though Monty didn't have his claws yet he still had his anger and resentment to Bonnie and his anger is the one thing that makes Monty strong
Tbh, i think Scott makes some of his best character design choices on Bonnie. Having withered Bonnie's face plate removed was such a great idea. It made him memorable, cool-looking, scary, but also a bit pitiful, all at once. I also really love having Bon Bon as Freddy's hand puppet: its cute enough of a concept to attract children, but it also gives Freddy a unique advantage against his victims. Theyre my favorite fnaf animatronics, personally.
He never had to go for shock factor like Foxy or Chica, he never had to be a menacing figure like Freddy, it was just his unnerving presence, the waiting at the end of a hallway or the standing in the corner of our vision, and when he was seen it was because he wanted to be seen and he always told us that he could see us back. It's no wonder he still stalks some of us in our dreams. Its also worth mentioning he does not apply to space, time, or physics, and also has a jaw-line that could shatter Diamonds.
th reason toy bonnie's eyes change is becasue all of the toy animatronics have the ability to flip their eyes backwards into their heads, with most of them just having the back of their eyes painted black, bonnie has smaller irises on the other side. this is why toy freddy, chica, and the mangle all have black eyes at some point or another, with chicas quite possibly being the only ones that actually have glowing white dots, the rest are just due to reflecting a light source also the withereds and fnaf 1 animatronics seem to have black glowing eyes due to scotts poor lighting mixed with the animatronics having glowing pupils by default, examples being withered freddy having a shadow on his right eye and fnaf 1 freddy's jumpscare being backlit
14:20 WHAT?! Why is this the first time I’m hearing of this? I expected SOMEONE (Matpat, RyeToast, NotRealName, etc.) to go over this or mention it and how it’s a parallel to what Afton did in the FNaF Save Them mini games, but apparently no, no one did (that I know of, at least) and this is left as a giant shock to me Holy crap Chica, calm down and stop killing your crushes
Oh yeah, that whole section is rather questionable. One of them even mentions something about, if I recall right, her pretending to lose a puppy to lure a guy. I plan on going through the whole thing in the Chica video perhaps. Seems like the best place for it!
Bonnie is my favorite! Such a good character, I was disappointed when he wasn't in Security Breach, but I actually think that adds more to his mystique
At 5:30 somewhere around there. The suit William afton is in “spring trap” was constructed before Bonnie and therefore make Bonnie modeled after spring trap.
Bonnie is one of my favs. I have a bunny conditioning from having a bunch of beloved books with rabbit characters and one especially dear bunny plush as a toddler and now seeing rabbit characters and probably any other animal with really long ears and a lil snout makes me instantly feel like I wanna be their friend. Anyway back to Bonnie feels dumping. I pretty much just love all iterations of him, even the rancid yellow colored Afton rabbits, wherever one can still imagine them seperate from his body and just as characters that is. I was actually kinda mad at them for 'downgrading' him into being mostly 'just a hand puppet' in Sister Location, but later forgave that as it does make sense in-universe that there's the different and exclusive versions of characters compared to "normal" Freddy's. Glamrock Bonnie is the most upsetting thing Scott has done to me. We might never get shown what he was like when still fully functional at the 'plex and not laying in trash in a coma, but I sure hope we do :( 💜💙
Bonnie has always been my favorite. He’s definitely the most creepy in my opinion, and my first jumpscare, it was like love at first game over.
He ate a cat 💀💀💀
@@pond_hub WHAT
Same here!
@@pond_hub cant blame him cats are tasty
Wait jeremy is chinese?
Withered Bonnie is a perfect example of how truly effective these animatronics can be when broken. Withered Freddy was barely broken compared to chica, foxy, and Bonnie. Like the fact his entire face is gone and has one arm is so creepy and just seeing red eyes.
I didn't mention it in the video, but when that original teaser was revealed with Toy Bonnie and Withered Bonnie, when it wasn't even confirmed that Withered Bonnie WAS going to be a threat because of how broken he was, he was pretty much... the creepiest thing. That gaping maw was just so jarring.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 One detail often overlooked is that the damage is very, very consistent, with stiff and small threads protruding from an otherwise nearly flat damage section. They resemble, more than anything (including threads, really), needle-like teeth, and combined with the endoskeleton being barely visible and the top endoskeletal jaw piece just being missing entirely, it makes a side profile of Withered Bonnie's head look like a jaw unhinged completely. Definitely a terrifying concept.
The missing face is iconic to Bonnie, it’s why in the dayshift games his main request is to and I quote.
“Find my fucking face!”
His words not mine.
i wonder how his face looks like ?
LEAVE WITHERED FREDDY ALONE!🥺
He's trying his best okay!😢
I find it notable that Scott thought Bonnie was the scariest and actually had nightmares about him. Makes a lot more sense when you remember Bonnie and all his forms are aggressive. Pretty sure fnaf+ Bonnie is how Scott's sees him lol
aka the Bonnie effect
this is why rabbits are evil in fnaf
this makes me wonder.. what if scott had a nightmare about chica instead..?
@@nametheocmaker Spring Chicken
@@nametheocmaker Afton would've got a bucket of chicken
@@plaguenplay3516 Now I'm imagining him as a purple Colonel Sanders
The disappearance of glamrock Bonnie is extremely sad, considering that Bonnie and Freddy have been together in EVERY single iteration other than them. Og Freddy? Og Bonnie. Shadow Freddy? RXQ. Funtime Freddy? Bon Bon. Fredbear? Spring Bonnie. They're inseparable, and glamrock Freddy being so upset over losing his best friend hits very hard
Phantom Freddy: ight ima head out.
You can argue Springtrap for Phantom Freddy though. There is no Bonnie counterpart for Glamrock Freddy
@@Forzamon42069 true... Glamrock Bonnie went missing. Maybe you can argue that he HAD a Bonnie counterpart.
"Best friend" bro was in love with him ❤
@@Forzamon42069 There is hinted MANY times during SB that there was a Glamrock Bonnie though.
Fun Fact: Scott said that Bonnie defies the laws of physics, this is because in the "Celebrate!" poster, Bonnie is seen slightly floating
I just checked, lol he is XD
AND scott had nightmares abt him,bonnie is the coolest of em all
@@i.l0v3_sh4rks she literally said that at the end of the video
@@mr_fredfyre9121 yeah i know lol i was just saying that bonnie is the coolest
Freddy is the titlecard, Chica is the girl, Foxy is the unique mechanic, making Bonnie the sort of “tutorial” enemy who sets the stage for what’s to come.
He makes his move first, he’s got an uncanny look (especially without his eyes) and his lack of a voice or personality means that he doesn’t have to try too hard to be quirky or memorable.
Bonnie just does his job, and we all appreciate him for it.
Tbh I also get Older Than The Others vibes, kinda mentorly with how often he's our tutorial.
Those vibes got stronger with Security Breach and Ruin, since older mentor types tend to be Too Smart to keep a mystery plot rolling in their general vicinity, and reasonably good at recognizing Shinanigans.
One of the biggest tropes associated with mentor types is They Are The First To Die When Shit's Getting Real.
I think Bonnie mighta noticed employees getting replaced by staff bots, saw the message about the All Staff Midnight Meeting, and figured out what was gonna happen.
Mayhap he went to Monty to ask for his help getting into the basement?
Additional Mayhap, Vanessa overheard or found out, took over Monty, and used him to destory Bonnie. And Monty is endlessly reactive and upset and destructive because HE WANTED TO HELP, but now he's DONE SOMETHING HORRIBLE, ain't good at expressing, afraid of judgement or accusations, and his friends Have Their Own Problems. And the termoil of that likely makes him easier to control when needed.
Bonnie has always been my favorite of the original group mostly for how unsettling he is. The others try to be more intimidating but Bonnie's mere presence is something that still sends chills.
Dat’s what I’m sayin
I think it's his lack of eyebrows triggering the uncanny valley feel same with jeff the killer
When it comes to FNAF1, Bonnie & Chica are easily the creepiest.
Bonnie has always been my favorite of the original
Scott Cawthon thought Bonnie was the scariest too
*Let’s not forget that even Scott considers Bonnie the scariest, because, while developing the first game, he had a nightmare that Bonnie was trying to break into his bedroom.*
Fun Fact: Rabbits in nature tend to have very disturbing behavior and I think FNAF takes advantage of that with every iteration of Bonnie
I still love the ironic twist with Funtime Freddy and BonBon, As MatPat pointed out, William and Henry have their own unique ways of design, and something I immediately noticed after that is that Funtime Freddy shares William's design, as do all the other Funtime animatronics, but BonBon has Henry's desgn, with the bars connecting the Jaw.
When I look at that it feels like William trying to say that Henry will always be his puppet, that he thinks he has the ultimate control over Henry. But then when you think about who the characters are, Freddy being Henry's creation / Henry's suit and Bonnie being William's creation/springlock suit. It paints William as the one being puppeted. That no matter what he does Henry will always have a hold over him because Henry was the more successful one.
i thought william created fredbear, and henry made the mediocre melodies + chica. then henry acquired fredbears and the larger fazbear franchise was formed
I genuinely agree about Freddy's line about Bonnie. That singular moment carries so much emotional weight, and with how open fnaf interpretations can be, it can be emotional for nearly any reason.
What was his line?
@@BloodyJoker234 in Security Breach, there's a "secret" dialogue u can find in Bonnie's Bowl place, if you approach the small stage there, Glamrock Freddy will say "I don't come up here anymore, I miss him" referring to Bonnie or Glamrock Bonnie!
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I just find it funny how Bonnie was no one's favourite, but by the time of Security Breach everyone realised the games weren't the same without him and everyone started missing him. I remember Markiplier mentioning he missed Bonnie in like the first 20 minutes of the game.
Bonnie has always been my favorite even before Security Breach
Bonnie has always been my fave and I was so sad when he wasn’t in security breach
hes always been my favorite, i was always sad when he wasn't properly included in the games, first fnaf 3 then sister location (i dont count bon bon), uc was just sad. it always seemed like they moved bonnie to make space for springtrap or now vanny
He does get shipped with Bonnie so I can’t really blame him :shrug:
Honestly, he wasnt my favorite, but i definitely liked him. When i found out Glamrock Bonnie Was killed by Monty, i INSTANTLY Hated monty from then on. Never gave him a single like or love.
Freddy gets to be the leader, Chica the girl, Foxy the cool one, and Bonnie the chill one when he isn't being possessed by a serial killer who jacked his image. Funnily enough though, because of that people might actually pity Bonnie the most. He's always the one associated with death when he was literally the second one made after Freddy. Hopefully the FNAF Origin thing still happens because I want to know about how OG Fredbear and Spring Bonnie act.
Chica is the hungry one.
@@redpanda6497 Chica is the real discarded one.
@@redpanda6497 Aah. I still remember the sounds of clanging pans from the kitchen, which always had a broken camera.
@@Red_MOON187Bonnie mess with the Camera's when he moves, Chica really didn't like the Kichen Camera and broke it.
Imo the withered animatronics were the peak of creepy designs in the series. The way they were so broken but still moved, and just how unsettling good lighting could make them… it was genuinely terrifying, and Bonnie in particular was very creepy, with his glowing dots for lack of eyes. While he’s lost his popularity in recent years he’s still gotten very good exposure in the games, him and bunnies in general, and I love how rabbits are the ones with the most effective scares in the franchise, ie: Springtrap’s rare screens, fnaf 1 Bonnie in the backroom etc.
Great breakdown of his history and character, like always! I’m looking forward to the next video!
Thank you, Bud! ^_^
I personally think Springtrap was the peak.
@@corey4370 design was solid until pizzeria simulator where he got a huge forehead for some reason lmao
Fnaf 4 designs are the best to me (withered bonnie not withstanding). With a lot of the others, you see a machine first, something capable of being taken apart and put together, tons of personality and story that makes you think "maybe there's something deserving of pity behind those eyes". The ones in 4 don't dress up. They're the fear-inducing, hateful, supernatural forces they absolutely could have been, had the story gone a different way.
@goodboi1725 he became a peanut
The effectiveness of Bonnie is honestly kind of interesting. Rabbits are the least aggressive of any of the species depicted in the animatronics. Even chickens have a surprising aggressive streak compared to them.
... chickens being aggressive is not a surprise. Their ancestor is the literal T-Rex for one.
And uh anyone who has interacted with real chickens can tell you. Theyre rude
@Katie_Todd
Tell me you haven't seen a chicken irl without telling me you haven't seen a chicken irl.
Well rabbits in nature tend to have very disturbing behavior and I think FNAF takes advantage of that with every iteration of Bonnie
@@elvingearmasterirma7241T.rex aren't chicken ancestors.
@@themalcahtwinz4743 They are. We worked this out a long time ago. The other one the T-Rex is the ancestor of, is the ostriches!
I don't feel like Bonnie is overlooked, he's consistently one of the favorites of the franchise outside of Foxy. Probably why there's so many "where is glamrock Bonnie?" theories over "where is glamrock Foxy?"
That’s because foxy got replaced by roxy
Okay I have a random little theory about Glamrock Foxy's disappearance. Foxy was always the kind-of odd one out of the group. Everyone's in bow ties or top hats in FNaF 1, Foxy's a pirate. Everyone's doing well as Toy animatronics in FNaF 2, Mangle got freakin' destroyed. It always holds up, whether it be differences in mechanics or themes in the animatronics.
Then we have Security Breach. Every animatronic we see seems to hold up the retro '80s theme one way or another. Freddy also appears to be the only one with the power station gimmick (if that isn't exclusive to when he's just had a Windows crash like in the SB intro), so who's to say that Foxy just got bored of everything and broke out? The Glamrocks have complex personalities and sentience, so wanting to get out of a place they don't feel they belong is absolutely possible.
It makes no sense in some ways, even to me, but I just like to think about a Glamrock Foxy who ran away from the Pizzaplex and is trying to live the life he wants to live.
@@ZirconiaGacha I just feel like they had yet to implement Glamrock Foxy, as there is zero visual clues or message logs hinting to his existence, as opposed to Bonnie, who had about 4 different logs, some actual dialogue from Freddy and Gregory, and a stage in Bonnie Bowl that was clearly meant for him. I think they had Kids Cove, but were planning on introducing Foxy into the Pizzaplex at some point in the future.
Thats probably because glamrock bonnie is mentioned and there is even a place deticated to him, while glamrock foxy was replaced by roxy.
My theory is that there never was a Glamrock Foxy. He was Pirate Metal-themed, and exclusively played Alestorm songs.
I like how Bonnie is almost always aggressive, but in various different ways. They can be a serial killer (Springtrap of course), trying to get even (classic Bonnie), or maybe even just defending someone (BonBon, who may have some sort of attachment to Funtime Freddy other than physical). It's a consistent thing, but they still find varying ways to do it.
Also, I like to think that Withered Bonnie can see because the actual part that gives him vision is behind the eyes, meaning the "eyes" can be removed and we aren't having him crashing into walls. But for Roxy they made it so the eyes are what allows the animatronic to see instead of something behind them that's harder to damage, so if you take her eyes she could jump off a cliff after hearing something that sounded a bit too much like Gregory.
Nice job steel wool!
Fun Fact: Rabbits in nature tend to have very disturbing behavior and I think FNAF takes advantage of that with every iteration of Bonnie
The idea of Bob Bon having an attachment to Funtime Freddy and maybe vice versa oddly sound adorable for a murderous animatronic made to kidnap kids by a narcissist abusive father serial killer now that possessed his fursuit and now controlling some random woman
@@smt64productions40 My thought process behind it is that, for the Funtimes in the SL bunker, everyone just bonds over the shared experience of controlled shocks and the scooper. BonBon being smaller makes it even harder on the poor bean
@@ZirconiaGacha Make sense
Bonnie's always been my favorite character. I love his design, the way his eyes don't fit in their sockets and his permanent smile give him a much more subtly creepy design compared to many others in the series. His dark blue/purple color scheme works extremely well with the dingy lighting of the FNAF 1 location. He's also the only member of the FNAF 1 cast who plays an instrument, which further sets him apart from his bandmates.
something missed is his ability to break your door in FNAF 1. jamming it so you can't close it.
Mix this with how he was rarely surprised in the cartoon. With how he contemplates who is trapped. How he is chill yet sadistic.
Bonnie is also Afton's most original concept. Its his character, and when golden bonnie was the sole bonnie, his guise.
Bonnie is the methodical, intelligent, and sadistic one.
Bonnie is the direct product of William Afton
Honestly in My Headcanon the kid who posseses Bonnie who is Jeremy was a Quiet but Mischievous kid
@@maas1208 True. Bonnie was 100% Quiet and Mischievous for sure. With him being Quiet and not making unique sounds unlike the others, All the sounds and Moves Bonnie makes are Shared with Chica, Foot Steps, Growns, Door Jaming you name it. His also Mischievous and Unotisable Bonnie can makes his way fast though the Pizzaria, With him somethings "teleporting" to different rooms. Him being the First one to wake up in Night 1 is also something I should count. Bonnie is a tricker and is very bored as his blan-sad looks suggest.
I’ve always had a soft spot for Bonnie and all of his variants. The original was the most effective of terrifying you and also the most aggressive of the four. Always staring with a soulless expression. The shadows being at just the perfect angle to emphasize that sinister imagery that the original FNAF1 Bonnie has. Even if this one is the most controversial, I can’t help but like Toy Bonnie’s design the most. He can be both creepy and cute. I always thought of Toy Bonnie as a porcelain doll. My parents had a collection of porcelain dolls and they always creeped me out. I remember watching many different SFM animations with Toy Bonnie in them and I loved how expressive they can make him. Not to mention that I also am a bit scared of clowns and this makes Toy Bonnie a freakish clown porcelain doll hybrid in a light blue robotic rabbit form. That is literally every creepy thing from my childhood combined into one. Withered Bonnie is equally as good design wise. So good was the design that the Joy of Creation’s version of Bonnie is an even more withered down version of Withered Bonnie. Nightmare Bonnie was like this carnivorous beast. The prey animal was transformed into a predator. Jack O’ Bonnie gives me serious Ghost Rider vibes. Bonbon and Bonnet are okay Bonnie variants though they were pretty much playing second fiddle to Funtime Freddy. Though I always felt like Bonbon was simply a puppet that the Funtime Freddy AI deluded itself into believing was real and the voice mimicry in the blueprints helped Freddy give Bonbon his own “voice”. Rockstar Bonnie is my second favorite design. He really does feel like the Rockstar he was designed to be and his lines in UCN were fun because he always sings a nice little song when he kills you. And although we never saw Glamrock Bonnie, you can tell that he was an important part of the Pizzaplex and the mystery of how he got decommissioned is still unsolved. It’s easy to say that Monty did do it, but how and why? It could be because of his anger issues, or was it because of something else? Or maybe Bonnie was decommissioned by a different culprit? Overall, I love Bonnie. He may just be that “extra” member of the band, but he’s the guitarist of the band and a beloved character to this day. Maybe his role this entire time was Freddy’s Best Friend? Even Fredbear was always with Spring Bonnie from the very beginning. The bear and rabbit are always friends with each other. Bonnie is definitely my favorite animatronic in the entirety of FNAF… even if I don’t like Toy Bonnie’s Special Delivery voice. Though the irony of Toy Bonnie having this haughty prideful full of himself personality when his restaurant only lasted for a week or two before closing and then proceeding to get scrapped is ironic. And as for the books, I tend to avoid them. I just feel like they muddle up the games for me, so I tend to ignore them.
Ikr! This is exactly why I hate the fact that Scott and FNAF are basically forgetting Jeremy (the kid who possesses Bonnie) because you would think that the kid who possesses such a fan-favorite animatronic to have a significant amount of lore
Fun Fact: Rabbits in nature tend to have very disturbing behavior and I think FNAF takes advantage of that with every iteration of Bonnie
a little detail me and my friend noticed in ruin is that in bonnies old room, there was a poster signed by freddy saying something along the lines of "youre awesome" and such but signed "love, freddy" and i find it really sad that freddy cared so much about bonnie, more than we thought, and it made us so sad to find but a really neat detail
Man, I love Withered Bonnie. There's just something so unnatural and ominous about his faceless, red-eyed stare that I absolutely adore 👌
I feel the same way😋
'Bonnie's the first and the weakest' I always liked him because he was the most aggressive tbh. It would've been nice to see that elaborated on in SB. It wouldn't surprise me if both Roxy and Monty are inheriting traits from their predecessors, either via similar coding chips or spooky ouuuuu stuff, and that the aggression is what Monty got from Bonnie in the first place.
Bonnie is a good one, though I do fully agree on the sentiment on him being overlooked yet essential. He comes from Spring Bonnie who is connected to Springtrap, making him rather important in that sense, and he's one of the original 4, yet he's often first and easiet threat to deal with, as you've established, and he tends to have the least speaking lines. I do love his design in the Tour shorts, though. His Toy variant freaks me out a bit with his maniac expressions. And I like what you managed to uncover on Glamrock Bonnie based on depictions and mentions of him, I like that kind of character that's show and no tell! (Also, embarrassing fun fact but as a kid, I thought Bonnie was a girl. I was like 12 or 13 with minimal internet access and I never heard of a guy named Bonnie before)
i thought he was a girl too as a kid XD
Yeah, Bonnie being female was a pretty common take in FNAF 1...
I remember my friends thinking Foxy was a girl. As well as Toy Bonnie
@@plaguenplay3516 Toy Bonnie? Sure. Foxy? Huh?
@@inciniumz4671 one of their "arguements" was that Foxy "is a female name" or smth like that
I'm sure this is the case for most people and has likely been said before, but I know for sure the reason I like Withered Bonnie is because he falls under the trope of "I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream". His lack of an entire face minus the lower jaw is unsettling because we as humans tend to look for anything resembling a face in humanoid creatures. There being nothing but a void and two pinprick dots of red totally activates this strange unsettling feeling.
It also feels almost like body horror. With the wires sticking out of him and the way he's sort of slumped over, giving this idea that he is barely holding himself upright. Before Ultimate Custom Night, I was convinced that if Withered Bonnie ever tried to talk, it would just be static or a sad garble of noises similar to Chica after losing her beak in Security Breach.
Bonnie low-key peaked with that design. It's unfortunate though because every member of the Faz Crew has potential, and it's mostly been realized for each of them. But with Bonnie it just feels like it hasn't yet.
You know those MRI scan? I'm pretty I could slap one on Bonnie's face and call it scary.
Bonnie really is the quintessential bassist - he sets the tempo and is foundational to the background of the experience, but nobody notices how good he is or remembers his name until he's gone.
Y'know, I'm 100% convinced that Scott refuses to put ANY lore for Jeremy (the one who possesses Bonnie) because he, well, possesses Bonnie, the animatronic that scared the crap out of Scott.
Toy Bonnie might be easy to get rid of but he frequently ends up killing players with his long animation timing out the music box. At least in max mode he does.
For some reason, Toy Bonnies voice reminded me of the time when the fandom thought that Toy Bonnie was a female animatronic, meybe because is so high that sounds like a female voice.
Bonnie has always been that one animatronic with a hot temper, so him being replaced with Monty who is also a very angry animatronic is very apropiated. I don't really believe the theory of Monty destroying Bonnie but meybe that is just me not wanting to think badly of my favorite animatronic from Security Breach (Monty, despite the fact that i never played the games but i love the FNAF lore)
"not wanting to think badly" what series do you think this is
Think about what toy bonnie says
I like that the entire fandom has just decided that Bonnie fought back against William before dying
he's iconic
kind of sad that he got destroyed again by the man who killed him
One other aspect of Bonny I find interesting is that the child assumed to possess him-Jeremy- has a shared name with not only Jeremy Fitzgerald the nightguard, but Jeremy from Help Wanted who got his face sliced off just like Withered Bonnie.
And Jeremy Fitzgerald is theorised to be the victim of the Bite of '87, while Jeremy from HW got his face sliced off. I think I'm seeing a pattern here....
everyone is jeremy atp but that actually makes sense omg
I've actually had a compltely different experience with Bonnie, so a lot of this video was a surprise for me. For me Bonnie was always the most dangerous of the default group (Chica barely ever seems to do anything), he was the one to cause most jumpscares, and was almost as popular as Foxy while Freddy and Chica were just kind of there. That's pretty impressive considering Foxy was popular almost exclusively off the fact he was not like the other -gi- animatronics. The same applied FNAF2 onwards, except for FNAF3 for obvious reasons. He just seems to be more active and look more iconic than Chica, plus there's Scott's bias towards him that ultimately made him look a little cooler. I say all this as a Chica fan who was pretty sick of Bonnie overshadowing her to this extent, even before Bonnie was basically taken over by various -traps.
when I was a kid, I had a strange obsession with toy bonnie. I don’t know why he was my favorite (probably because not a lot of people liked him and I didn’t want to be like the others and pick the “popular” ones) but I chose him as my favorite and stuck HARD with it. I would draw him, collect things that reminded me of him, roleplayed as him online…
Now looking back it definitely makes me cringe but the nostalgia is strong enough that I don’t want to forget about it.
My favorite one was Spring Bonnie. The whole idea of wearable animatronic suit becoming something akin to a meatgrinder and torture chamber combined made me as a child shiver... And his unsettling, shark or pirahna-like grin was something I spent much time forgetting
Yeah that is cringe but we don't have to be embarrassed about the dumb stuff we did as kids everybody's gotta grow up and everybody has done something embarrassing
Like a child in FNAF restuants. Dressing as their fave characters, drawing them all the time and having plushies.
I thought I wrote this comment for a moment 😭 still love Toy Bonnie the most to this day lol
bonnie was my favorite by far, until security breach. I remember when I was younger it was right around the release of silver eyes. my friend at the time gave me an original sanshee bonnie plushie, and it still sits on my bed to this day, it's got some very obviously repaired stitches. bonnie reminds me of that friend that i can't even remember the name of, but we shared everything. we both had the same blanket of the original poster for the og game and we'd sit with our blankets and talk about lore during free time. in short bonnie feels like an old friend, like nostalgia.
sorry that got incredibly personal lmao its weird going through almost all of your entire teenage years with one franchise
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I hope we get somewhat of Bonnie content in Ruin, that’s very heartwarming tbh man
@@SSMp315 especially for them lol
Reminds me of Theodore from the Silver Eyes, funnily enough.
Bonnie will always be on of my favorite animatronics throughout the series. While his roles are generally forgettable, there something about him that I could never let go of. This video is a perfect example of how underrated and interesting Bonnie really is. Pretty much all of his withered or nightmare-ish forms are creepy enough to give anyone a jump. Great video, and an amazing way to give Bonnie the spotlight.
Bonnie has always been my boy. Especially Withered Bonnie, there is just something about him just scares me. His stance, mangled face or torn off arm. I’m not sure what but Withered Bonnie has been my favorite animatronic since he was released. Loving the video!
What I found interesting, is that even though Bonnie's last known location was gator golf, the other places he went to stuck out to me. Particularly, the East Arcade. Cause I believe the East Arcade and Gator golf are on opposite sides of the atrium. and he was there for around two hours before he went to gator golf. There's really no reason for him to be in the East Arcade around 2am. I was trying to think what was in the East Arcade and why he would go there, but then I remembered that's where the fire escape was. Maybe Bonnie was trying to help a child escape after close like Freddy was? I don't know, it's a thought.
It is suspicious. From what we know there's nothing notable in the East Arcade- except, again, the path to the fire escape. So... it's very weird.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476Monty has also been noted to have been avoiding performances and gone running off to the catwalks instead multiple times, so idk if his interest in stardom is true or nearly that intense at all
I feel like Bonnie became the true face of the franchise more than the titular Freddy Fazbear, considering that he shows more screen time in the trailers and not to mention that he was the first animatronic that Scott made during the development, which gave him nightmares.
Too bad the Gator did the Bonnie boy dirty.
I like to think the original animatronics had semi-specific roles when it came to their vocals.
Chica and The Marionette the female vocals obviously.
Fredbear was the countertenor
Bonnie (most relevantly) was the lead tenor and (ironically) often sang the main melody.
Spring Bonnie had a voice like Jimmy Dodd from The Mickey Mouse Club
Foxy was the baritone
Freddy Fazbear was the bass (I like to think he was voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft in-universe)
I like to think Toy Bonnie's AR lines as being directed at the original Bonnie. A snide overconfident punk who demands the spotlight because it's "his turn," makes him a more interesting counterpart to the laid-back original. And it fits how he never escaped any other Bonnie's shadow.
except its more directly about the guard
@@Orcinus-s4z Well, early animatronics aren't exactly the best at parsing one person versus another ;)
"It's not MY fault I'm so much more famous than you"
This is why toy bonnie is my favorite bonnie version
He canonically can’t count he’s so goofy
29:56 Bonnie actually does have a moment in the Silver Eyes. At some point in the book, he chases Charlie and she hides in a bathroom stall to avoid him, and Bonnie eventually finds Charlie before ripping off the stall door.
thank you for adding subtitles to some of the dialogue! so many of the animatronics have such hard to understand voices and as someone whose neurodivergent and often needs subtitles to keep me on track, i really appreciate it.
I think Rockstar Bonnie says "I'll make slippers out of you." Instead of slivers. Like bunny slippers.
Could be! Wiki says it's slivers, but they could be wrong. Kind of sounds like slithers, but slippers definitely makes the most sense of the three. XD
"I know he'll be back, he just needs a chance to do something a little more... significant, a little more bold."
Don't worry NRN, if there's one thing we know about rabbits in FNAF, it's that _they _*_always_*_ come back._
You were right, this is longer than the Chica video. He is probably my favorite animatronic and I'm happy you covered him. All we need is Freddy to complete the main four!!!
Withered Bonnie is my absolute favorite withered animatronic, maybe even my favorite animatronic in FNAF 2 in general.
All of his design aspects are just perfection.
One detail I love is how he’s always leaning over, like the weight of his only arm left is just pulling his body down.
Only chads likes withered bonnie
I would think Chica is closer to being an overlooked character. Considering fanvased wise he's often treated more favorably then Og Freddy or og Chica. Like Foxy is the break out character but I'd say fanbase wise he tends to be far from overlooked.
Bonnie was always my favourite. He was the first one you always saw, the most agressive. He gave me the creeps in that perfect horror way that leaves you checking if your front door is closed and dreading going to the bathroom at night. There was something that just made me more excited to fight against him in games than the others, especially the sister location additions. I was crushed when he wasn't in security breach, I thought he could have such cool mechanics that involve a lot of jumping twoards you unexpectedly or trying to hunt you down the most in a "the prey becomes the hunter" kind of style. I hope he'll have his return
Both of the Bonnies always seemed to be the most popular of the FNAF 2 cast, actually. Toy Bonnie was pretty much the poster child and I remember quite a few popular videos where he was treated as the main character or the leader of the band. Withered Bonnie was similar, everyone loved him and felt bad because of his missing face and arm. I never got the impression that either of them were overlooked - in fact, I think the only more popular FNAF 2 characters were Mangle and the Puppet, and maybe Toy Chica or Balloon Boy just for the memes.
I think Toy Bonnie’s line is supposed to be a reference to how people see Withered Bonnie and Toy Bonnie as rivals
What i think is most intriguing about Rockstar Bonnie absence is that he is said to be decommissioned, but other notes give the implies that the same already happened to Chicka at the trash compactor, but she was just repaired, and we also have lines from freddy and vanessa that implies that the shell of an animatronic can be placed in a random endoskeleton who will be programed to "become" such animatronic, so, if all of them are replaceable, why bonnie wasn't?
Your delivery of "One of the FNAF AR emails implies that Bonnie might have eaten a cat. How and why is unclear." is a remarkable example of a dense irreverence. Lovely!
Bonnie: _I ate a cat._
28:08 This section is so spot on. Like I said in your Sun and Moon video, Kellen Goff is just such an amazing voice actor, the man always does a fantastic job. Also Whitered Bonnie has a cool design lol
Withered Bonnie is, to this day, my favorite animatronic of all time. He's the epitome of animatronic horror design, and his voice in UCN is just perfect. I love him so much.
As a withered bonnie cosplayer (Full suit) I have to admit that I agree with you. The messed up one has always been my favroite. Foxy in the first one, Withered Bonnie in the second...
Had a lilarious scene when there was someone behind me at a convention who cried out "It's Bonnie!" And I turned around and they screamed. Perfect FNAF moment.
But, Bonnie made a big impression on me in the Silver eyes. The scene in the bathroom was delightfully tense. I wish more of the book had been like that. :3
One more thing to note about Rockstar Bonnie in UCN, is he strikes more or less the same pose as Withered Bonnie when in the office. This may imply the rockstars were planned in-universe to be the old models from the restaurant in FNAF 2, but spruced- up. May not seem like much to go on, but smaller details have been important before.
I know they aren’t a fan favorite, but I’ve always loved Toy Bonnie. I think they have that perfect blend of cute enough to be for children, but also creepy enough to be a horror character, I think they are my example for what the Glamrocks lack in horror.
(I also like their voice but I can see why others wouldn’t, but I also haven’t seen The Masked Singer so I didn’t get the reference)
I honestly think Vanny made Monty dismantle Bonnie so it could be used for Burntrap, it makes both cases canon.
Well.... why bonnie tho? The endoskeletons on the basement are the most likely option, since william probably didn't want another ia messing with his mind
@@juancr4713cuz hes a bunny
I have a bittersweet feeling about Glamrock Bonnie not being in Security Breach, because as much as I adore Monty, I really wanted to see him with lines and a defined personality, since Withered Bonnie is one of my favorite animatronics, but I guess we'll have to wait to see what other fnaf media may do him justice
And now with the movie out, Bonnie's popularity has spiked due to his laid-back nature in the film. His cute factor really have many saying he's their favorite film animatronic
Its a little sad that Bonnie's always got the short end of the stick. I've always found him to be my favorite in all of his forms. Spring Bonnie/Springtrap elevated the series' lore, but Bon himself seems to have been cast to the wayside especially with Security Breach.
Bonnie's arguably only the second easiest in FNaF 1. Chica moves linearly from room to room, making her more predictable (Bonnie chooses a random room and moves to it regardless of his previous position), and has audio cues telling you when she's not near you, and her door light view is very visible when it's closed. Bonnie's, conversely, is hidden by the door and you have to rely on his strangely reflected shadows of his towering ears, rather than simply seeing him. He's more erratic and a bit stealthier than Chica, although his AI level actually stays rather low throughout the game, whereas the others rise fairly quickly.
Withered Bonnie is a case of excellent character design for uncanniness, just like Withered Chica. With his complete lack of a face, even on the endoskeletal level, he gives no recognizable expressions, and his posture never changes unless he's crammed into the vents - always standing tall, his ears giving him even more height, with his arm hanging loosely and his torso cocked somewhat to the side. The missing arm and trailing wires give him a very distinct silhouette, even amongst the Withered. Many people don't remember his slightly damaged right hip, or missing left foot casing - they remember that prone, yet listing posture, the missing arm, and the black void of a face with teeth below and tiny red lights inside.
I feel like Spring Bonnie is a real missed opportunity, both in terms of a character for the games to have (admittedly Springtrap takes that role, but only Burntrap actually uses the same model and it's hardly recognizable, so they kind of separated from that too), and, more importantly, the idea of a character both as a counterpart to and antithesis of William. Now, I've seen a lot of fan interpretations for what personality Spring Bonnie's stage persona would have, but a lot of them lean one of two ways - either about as gentle as they get, or sort of a wild, rambunctious counterpart to Fredbear, with the whole 'the rabbit and the bear' thing leaning well into that. Still, we've never gotten a canon take on this, even in FNaF World, the only game to give us Spring Bonnie as an actual 3D character. Spring Bonnie, and whether there's any animatronic left in there - which, presumably, there is, given FNaF 3 outright says it functioned as an animatronic intended to walk from room to room to interact with the children - but more importantly what view said animatronic has of William. The suit he wore for the opposite of its intended purpose, the one eventually responsible for killing him - even if death didn't manage to stop him - and perhaps, now a voice in his head as he shambles along, possessing both his own broken body and the half-functional wreck of an animatronic, left for decades unmaintained in back rooms and for thirty years rotting in a safe room, its endo not fitting together around the fragmented skeleton it's meant to mimic. It definitely would be a very interesting idea that they could work with or against one another and would have to for something as simple as moving from place to place. But we've never had that, and unless William gets dumped into a new replacement suit which starts with its own AI, than there's not much they can do about that with how far gone the physical Spring Bonnie is. Except for one thing, and that's Glitchtrap - in Help Wanted, it's stated that Fazbear Entertainment uploaded actual programming from the animatronics, and inadvertently also William himself or some copy thereof, into the game rather than trying to replicate these things - Spring Bonnie could well have ended up either finally separate from William, roaming as a different technological entity; or been incorporated into Glitchtrap, and still come back in some such form. I personally hope we see it happen, because that's definitely among the most major forgotten characters in the series.
Funtime Bonnie definitely would've been a cool idea to see, though what the point would be of course varies. In line with the Funtimes' actual purpose, perhaps he would've been able to accurately detect everyone in a massive area, using those ears more like amplifiers for some sort of small-scale radar system, or something of the sort. An easter egg of the character in a later game, sort of how Funtime Chica eventually showed up, would've been a cool reference, since Bon-Bon according to the blueprints is just a part of Freddy with a color-complimenting shell slapped on. Presumably, this is why Molten Freddy just doesn't have him, as much as him slapping long blue ears onto a vaguely head-shaped tendril sticking off one shoulder might've been.
FNaF AR wouldn't be the first to put Bonnie, Chica and Freddy all as one - that would go to FNaF 2. For the Toys, the line's variants of Bonnie, Chica and Foxy (that being Mangle, of course) all function pretty much identically, even though for no given reason, Toy Freddy functioned like the Withered do. But for the Withered themselves, while Foxy is unique, those versions of Freddy, Bonnie and Chica all function more or less the same save for their angles of approach - Freddy from direct front, and the other two flanking him through the vents. Still, they have the panic-inducing 'get the mask on before they get a look at you' mechanic that they're all known for, and they all use it the same.
Toy Bonnie's voice is a funky one. I think it leans into the 'trap bonnie' joke, given both the original and Toy versions had a reputation for being mistaken as females, for whatever reason - though with the Toy one, it's a lot more obvious why that assumption would be made what with the blushing cheeks, the makeup-accented eyelids, and the long lashes, as well as the slimmer form far more comparable to Chica than Freddy - though we, of course, never see what body shape Toy Foxy had. Honestly, to me, Toy Bonnie's voice sounds like a mean-spirited and spoiled child's more than anything - unless 'anything' includes a synthesizer, because it definitely seems like it's going through some heavy audio warping, even if Withered Bonnie's echoing and metallic voice remains far less discernable among the noise. Anyways, Toy Bonnie seems like he's a little too focused on the whole 'star' thing, both with the puns and the insistence on him being better than everyone else. He seems like he's in denial, though whether that's of being possessed, of possessing an animatronic, of not being the leader of the band, or of not being the best I couldn't tell you. It definitely seems like he's distracting himself with it.
Bonnie in TSE does get one real moment of his own, comparable to Chica getting her hallway scene - at one point, some of the group is hiding in some side room, an office or possibly a storage room; I can't recall what exactly. Afton's in there with them, although I think by that point he's seriously out of it what with the concussion and all, but while the others in the room begin to make a break for it, they're stopped by a vivid flash of blue light coming through the door, and Afton screaming in terror, or possibly pain. They, of course, look at each other, shrug it off, and say he probably deserves whatever Bonnie does to him, although Afton later slips back away somehow which is never explained (just like most times). It's a weird and interesting scene, particularly as it basically implies Bonnie either pulled a FNaF 1 Freddy and snuck in, or that he just teleported in there using spirit powers or whatever, possibly as a reference to his patterns in FNaF 1. Hard to say. They also mention briefly that one of the characters, I believe it might be Jessica, thought he 'had a trustworthy face' or something like that and would whisper one-sided conversations to him back when the location was open. In the brief characterization we get, he's described as aggressively stomping in challenge when he approaches, whereas the others have a lot quieter movements for the most part, aside from things like Freddy's music or Foxy's unabashed destruction of property.
Twisted Bonnie has a cool but unutilized design, with those mandible jaw things. Perhaps he would've been cooler if he'd echoed Withered Bonnie and had a massive, gaping maw around his entire head that his face was also contained within, as well as more rows of teeth less suited to brutal damage and more suited to both chewing and taking in. Bon-Bon isn't in TFC - that graphic novel doesn't get hardly anything right, whether it's the weird half-and-half between Mangle and Funtime Foxy or the fact that Blacktime Freddy (so named because Freddy's purple accents are on him a very dark greyish-black, with the white unchanged) is literally Yenndo in a casing, specifically having yellow eyes and two hands - one for a mic and one for his nearest target, or one for each nearby target if he drops the act and lets his speaker do the job it's meant to. The.. amalgam.. thing.. whatever it is, the slag pile with the souls in it, doesn't have any heads or visible casings at all in the novel. That's just a weird detail added to just remove the mystery of what it even is outright from the graphic novel, despite that and its vague descriptions (admittedly it's difficult to describe an only somewhat humanoid pile of melted metal just hot enough for the nearly half a dozen souls in it to move, but that's what it is in the novel) being a big part of the book. Spring Bonnie in both his pristine suit-worn-by-Afton form (simply called Bonnie by the kids, since they know no better, and implying that Afton never called it Spring Bonnie either to them), and his cameo appearance as dancing Springtrap, both appear more than Bonnie himself - which is saying a lot in the latter case.
These vents are like reverse liquids at this point. They grow or shrink in size to accommodate whatever seven foot tall monstrosity is put inside of them.
Seriously though, how do vents that big even fit in a run down old pizzeria?
another thing: why are they in the floor? Isn't the vent supposed to be mounted into the ceiling? I get that in FNaF 3 they, perhaps, could've been used as service ducts or tunnels for quick roaming around the facility...but in FNaF 2...what are they? they aren't exactly the vents as they connect two rooms and allow no air conditioning due to the lack of the A/C unit in question...they aren't used to supply oxygen from the surface as the Diner is located on surface...they can't be used for maintenance access because of the LITERAL hallway connecting the security office and the rest of pizzeria. What are those L-shaped tunnels then in the first place? What is their function? Why are they mounted into the floor? And why do the animatronics crawl even into them when there's a WIDE GOD DAMN HALLWAY WHICH THEY CAN USE TO ENTER THE OFFICE?
I think the reason that the main villain took on the appearance of a Bonnie. Is because to Scott Bonnie is the scariest animatronic. he had nightmares about Bonnie when he was creating the first game. Heck he even put in a super rare Easter egg that's specifically references his nightmares that he had about Bonnie. the Easter egg I'm talking about is the eyeless Bonnie screen. Whenever the player is being loaded into the main menu there is a 1 in 1000 chance that the eyeless Bonnie screen can appear all sound will cut out and a close-up of Bonnies face will appear on screen with his eyes completely hallow and for that Last 3 seconds his face is on screen white pinpricks will appear in the eye sockets before you are booted to the menu. I got it on the mobile version a few days ago.
Bonnie's one of my favorite characters from the series, I'm so excited to see this video!
Withered Bonnie has been one of my favorite animatronics for quite a while now. Somehow his lack of face makes him pretty adorable when he's trying to do face puns despite his situation. (his ultimate custom night voice is somehow as exactly as I thought it would be too) Plus I appreciate him for scaring me when i was younger lol.
I enjoyed this probably more than I should have lol Bonnie is my fav and my hyperfixation, so I sponge any and all knowledge and lore of him. He's precious and always felt he deserved better, which is why that line from Freddy in SB is my favorite line as well! If the timeline is to be believed, it was Freddy and Bonnie against the world from the very beginning. Ain't no tighter bond than that of the one who had your back from day 1.
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If I remember correctly, Bonnie had the bathroom scene in The Silver Eyes. I think he was bashing down doors trying to find Charlie and a creepy scene him looking at her through the door.
I actually wanna point out something with Toy Bonnie's voice in Fnaf:AR!
I never watched masked singer so idk how close that description could be. But when I heard his lines I thought of how many art and songs portrayed Toy Bonnie "taking" Whithered Bonnie's fame.
His high voice could be fitting for him as a thinner and smaller Toy animatronic. His lines about "now I'm the star" found be referring to his he's often was marketed heavily in FNAF 2 to being a replacement more then the rest.
It's feels more like they took that fandom interpretation and built it to his personality.
He's proud and feels mighty at earning the spot he now has. Which in makes sense given how more damaged Withered Bonnie is.
That could just be me looking too into it 😅
Yes, I pointed this out at well!
Bonnie has always been my favorite. Knowing he was the one that scared Scott the most doesn't hurt.
IM SO GLAD YOU BROUGHT UP WITHERED BONNIE’S UCN LINES BC THEYRE SOOOO GOOD. rockstar and withered bonnie have my favorite voicelines BY FAR.
Bonnie is my favorite of the original four animatronics. He is definitely the scariest one out of them, because he looks the most child friendly. Thus making you feel more uneasy around him.
Bonnie has always been my favorite. I don’t quite know why but his design has always just stood out to me. His underdog treatment also called to me bc I’m a sucker for those kind of characters.
Bonnie was one of my favourite of the group. He was just a staple that was always there and looked cool. EthGoesBoom gave him the funniest voice. I hope we see him in the Ruined DLC for SB.
I always thought Bonnie had somehow a big personality for some reason. Also, I'm loving these character videos. It's awesome! Thanks so much!
I always thought Chica was the weakest one. Bonnie often approached rather quickly and seemed more aggressive than Freddy or Chica.
as someone who tortured myself thru all the books -i love your character overviews. i swear you have the best fnaf theory vids on YT. and your comments section is actually nice
bonnie has always been my fave, hands down, i love every variation of bonnie, but my faves are og bonnie, toy bonnie and withered bonnie, i was always under the impression bonnie was more popular but i guess not lolol, with chica i felt like she felt very alive in terms of her mannerisms and facial expressions, and bonnie works so well in contrast as he seems very lifeless in comparison, i always found him to be pretty unsettling
honestly i've always been a bonnie girl, i think i found his design evolution over time the most interesting and varied- chica gets shoved into the 'sexy chicken' box because she's the only girl in the OG band (correction: chica's design gimmick is either sexualization, or just TEETH IN YOUR FACE) freddy has some variations in his designs but overall it really just is the same freddy in different fonts (think about it, OG freddy, toy freddy, withered freddy, and to an extent golden freddy all look really similar and they become kind uninteresting to look at), and foxy is constantly in the shadows or in an active state of disrepair. of course this isn't true for all versions (there's SO MUCH content out at this point its impossible to make overarching statements like that), but in the first few games that set the series in motion, bonnie didn't have a particular design gimmick like the rest. bonnie was always the one going through the most change- the switch from OG bonnie to withered bonnie was huge, and toy bonnie gets an entire color palette revamp as well as an overall shape change that was interesting to me, since freddy stayed in his generally round shape. even nightmare bonnie was visually super interesting to me because it felt like i was finally getting to see withered bonnie with his face, and seeing bonnie full of teeth was new! it was a new dimension of threat- bonnie in general was the least threatening, and while he was at his scariest (withered bonnie) the scare factor was in the fact that the face teeth were Gone. we finally got to see bonnie as scary in a new and different way. every new game was like an "oooo what are we gonna get from bonnie this time" especially since they had to take measures to separate him out from springtrap. idk man i just love bonnie he's just some guy who's been through some bullshit he didn't need to and he's so real for that
My favorite version of Bonnie, is Withered Bonnie. Just because of the fact that he is missing his face, which makes him more freaky.
I think the one thing I remember the most about Bonnie is that quote from Scott, being that he is who scared Scott the most. Part of me wonders if one day we’ll get that Bonnie scare factor again. But for now, he’s currently dead somewhere in a pizzaplex
2:30 I would disagree that Toy Bonnie is one of the weaker ones, in higher difficulties he is the biggest threat because of his inconsistency in when he moves from the vent. In later nights if he waits and then goes into blackout he can be followed by other animatronic which will certainly get you killed to the puppet.
Seeing the cut Bonnie Bowl mini game made me release how incredible Security Breach could’ve been. Imagine just free roaming the mall playing all the games, wearing all the merch and running and hiding from the animatronics. If staff bots didn’t exist in every corner of the pizzaplex making it feel so crowded and annoying to traverse. The pizzaplex could’ve felt so isolating being in a place that should have thousands of people but is completely empty. Such a shame
I think the reason is that Bonnie fizzled out very quickly.
He was clearly the Animatronic that got the most attention in the first few games. He's the central showcase of FNAF 1 Trailer, the only character to teleport in FNAF 1 while also being the most common jumpscare, He was also the only Animatronic that had a unique screen, He was the only animatronic besides Freddy during the "It's Me" hallucination in the first game. He was the most withered in FNAF 2, Toy Bonnie having the least generic design compared to the other Toys. Bon Bon being the only hand puppet, Also having the most tense and longest jumpscare in UCN. Lastly, he's also the only Animatronic to be completely replaced with an entirely new Character in Security Breach, as Roxanne Wolf is somewhat close to Foxy.
But he eventually fizzled out. Ig Scott decided this because he didn't want people to feel fatigued by his character. Maybe he just decided to Prioritise Foxy more, as he has always been a Unique character consistently from the start. I have hots for your voice btw. I guess we'll never know Scotts original purpose.
But Bonnie is definitely the most deranged and unsettling Animatronic in FNAF Plus.
Bonnie did have the moment in TSE with Charlie trapped in the bathroom stall. I thought that was a pretty cool moment :)
Just for the record I do think it was Monty who destroyed Glam Rock Bonnie I mean there's no other explanation Monty is the one with the most destructive personality out of all of the animatronics and I know he didn't have his claws when Bonnie was alive but just because Monty didn't have his claws that doesn't mean he wasn't able to do significant damage to Bonnie cuz even though Monty didn't have his claws yet he still had his anger and resentment to Bonnie and his anger is the one thing that makes Monty strong
Tbh, i think Scott makes some of his best character design choices on Bonnie. Having withered Bonnie's face plate removed was such a great idea. It made him memorable, cool-looking, scary, but also a bit pitiful, all at once. I also really love having Bon Bon as Freddy's hand puppet: its cute enough of a concept to attract children, but it also gives Freddy a unique advantage against his victims. Theyre my favorite fnaf animatronics, personally.
From Freddy’s right hand man to Freddy’s right hand. What a story bonbon has 🐰🐻
He never had to go for shock factor like Foxy or Chica, he never had to be a menacing figure like Freddy, it was just his unnerving presence, the waiting at the end of a hallway or the standing in the corner of our vision, and when he was seen it was because he wanted to be seen and he always told us that he could see us back. It's no wonder he still stalks some of us in our dreams.
Its also worth mentioning he does not apply to space, time, or physics, and also has a jaw-line that could shatter Diamonds.
th reason toy bonnie's eyes change is becasue all of the toy animatronics have the ability to flip their eyes backwards into their heads, with most of them just having the back of their eyes painted black, bonnie has smaller irises on the other side. this is why toy freddy, chica, and the mangle all have black eyes at some point or another, with chicas quite possibly being the only ones that actually have glowing white dots, the rest are just due to reflecting a light source
also the withereds and fnaf 1 animatronics seem to have black glowing eyes due to scotts poor lighting mixed with the animatronics having glowing pupils by default, examples being withered freddy having a shadow on his right eye and fnaf 1 freddy's jumpscare being backlit
14:20 WHAT?!
Why is this the first time I’m hearing of this?
I expected SOMEONE (Matpat, RyeToast, NotRealName, etc.) to go over this or mention it and how it’s a parallel to what Afton did in the FNaF Save Them mini games, but apparently no, no one did (that I know of, at least) and this is left as a giant shock to me
Holy crap Chica, calm down and stop killing your crushes
Oh yeah, that whole section is rather questionable. One of them even mentions something about, if I recall right, her pretending to lose a puppy to lure a guy. I plan on going through the whole thing in the Chica video perhaps. Seems like the best place for it!
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 yes please 😊
as a kid bonnie always scared me the most, as an adult now looking at him still makes me uncomfortable...
In Ruin is a secret that you can unlock and find the remains of Glamrock Bonnie.
Was happy to see Glamrock Bonnie in Ruin but sad considering the state he was in
15:09 He did WHAT to his guitar!?
I thought Bonnie was like everyone’s favorite?
@Viewer In this analogy, are foxy and roxy cats, dogs, mice or dragons?
@Viewer uh they are either a wolf or fox i think u got ur animals wrong😭
it's so interesting that Bonnie wasn't the most popular nor the most important and yet he apparently caused Scott literal nightmares.
Toy Bonnie is weak unless you’re doing 10/20 mode, then he makes you question why they called it “golden Freddy mode”
Bonnie is my favorite! Such a good character, I was disappointed when he wasn't in Security Breach, but I actually think that adds more to his mystique
At 5:30 somewhere around there. The suit William afton is in “spring trap” was constructed before Bonnie and therefore make Bonnie modeled after spring trap.
I just noticed withered bonnie has an accent
Bonnie is one of my favs. I have a bunny conditioning from having a bunch of beloved books with rabbit characters and one especially dear bunny plush as a toddler and now seeing rabbit characters and probably any other animal with really long ears and a lil snout makes me instantly feel like I wanna be their friend. Anyway back to Bonnie feels dumping. I pretty much just love all iterations of him, even the rancid yellow colored Afton rabbits, wherever one can still imagine them seperate from his body and just as characters that is. I was actually kinda mad at them for 'downgrading' him into being mostly 'just a hand puppet' in Sister Location, but later forgave that as it does make sense in-universe that there's the different and exclusive versions of characters compared to "normal" Freddy's. Glamrock Bonnie is the most upsetting thing Scott has done to me. We might never get shown what he was like when still fully functional at the 'plex and not laying in trash in a coma, but I sure hope we do :( 💜💙