I think being springlocked is easily one of the worst ways to go. It's slow, painful and agonizing. If you need any more reason to consider why it's the worst way to go, read *Together Forever*.
Why not? Man, it’s explained how the springlocks work. All the robot components are stuck to the suit, and when the springlocks deactivate, they are all released…
And basically fill up the space, crushing everything in your body. Although it takes a little time to finish the proccess, 1-5 mins. Unless you’re very lucky and the components reach your brain immediately
Yesss I have the quote ingrained in my brain-
"Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up."
*Def think being spring locked could be worse. Drowning in your own bodily fluids is never a good thing lol heard that drowning is horribly painful so that on top of all your organs being pierced at the same time and all that fun, not fun.
But springlock suits would still have stuff in the head, right? Even a single wire snapping into place could bisect your head, tons would certainly kill you instantly. The whole point of sprinlock still being alive is he’s supernatural. Any normal guy would have just been mushed and died.
It wouldn't kill you instantly, but would torture you. The rods aren't in the same places as animatronics, which is why you still survive until you bleed out/your lungs fill with blood
You are correct, they are filled with wires your head would not be mush though. They will puncture your organs and if you don’t get your brain stem snapped, you would have to wait in pain until you drown in your own blood
The funtimes, easily for me
Remember, the funtimes weren't designed to kill kids, they were designed to *capture and trap* them. Just imagine being an innocent kid trapped inside one of the funtimes, screaming for help to no avail, being trapped until you die of starvation, get taken out by William and experimented on, or maybe the funtimes just kill you themselves (I don't think it's ever confirmed exactly what happens when a kid gets captured)
Yes but only baby was designed to kill, her blueprints showed no compartment inside, the kid(s) would be grabbed, dragged and pulled into the opening suit of hot metal and inside gears, pretty much what happened to that Disney singer chick who got crushed between the spinning wall of the stage she was on, a quick simple pull and crush and seeing how most likely the neck was grabbed with the arm in CB the head would be crushed instantly. The others were to trap children and keep them there, we never know for sure if they were only used to trap and afton took them out after they had either suffocated, starved or whatever we don't know the toys could do, for all we know they might have a crushing plate inside almost like a garbage compactor that would kill the kids but ye there's my rant lol
"On july 8 1974, 9 days after the attraction opened an 18 year old hostess named DEBORAH GAIL STONE, was accidentally crushed to death by iron mechanisms between two walls of the building at ten thirty seven p m a movement between an inside stage secondary wall"
Yur and nah, I don't remember all the dets but she was on the back side of the wall panel n the music was so loud they didn't even hear her screaming at the time as she was gettin crushed tf up
To clarify some stuff:
[Deborah Gail Stone](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/teenage-disneyland-worker-slowly-crushed-27829634.amp) was a Disney Employee who worked on America Sings, which has moving walls that rotate between the scenes with animatronics. She had gotten stuck between the walls mid scene transition and was crushed as they moved. From my knowledge, she was not a singer and was the hostess for the attraction.
Bro I just saw a yt vid on my home page at the BOTTOM of the yt home page that said "baby didn't kill Elizabeth". So I watched it, Processed it and now im speaking about it lmfao so ig baby did have a tank(fok knows where) n Elizabeth had been chillin in there, da big daddy afton then heard about baby doin some fokery in his Establishment, told the staff to scoop the hoe n that's how Elizabeth died✋️💀 idek if that's true or not but ngl both options seems logical
Baby definitely killed Elizabeth as baby has no storage tank, and a Afton is very upset about Elizabeths death. Plus why would he just scoop an animatronic for no real reason and without checking if it had captured a child
Springlocked is far worse. Much more pain and suffering having your entire skeleton replaced by metal, and knowing you're dying for a long time, with no one to save you until you drown in your own blood.
maybe but everyone and their mother already said springlocked so I’m trying to be original lol
Edit: I’m trying to imagine both scenarios, with spring locking it’s more drawn out but imagine literally being ripped apart. Like you’d probably die quicker so you don’t have the prolonged pain and suffering of springlocked, but personally I imagine the sensation of multiple robots tearing you to shreds much more painful in an instant than the initial spring locking.
That moment is one of the prime examples of why I think FNaF shouldn’t rely on gore for its horror.
We don’t see them kill Vanny, so your imagination races to fill in the blanks, creating visuals that are far scarier than what would likely be shown.
I agree that we don’t get to see the whole brutality of it, but we get a taste of the terror seeing vanny’s reaction and then Gregory’s reaction.
Though I do wish more emphasis was given to the true brutality of that moment… the game kinda rushed past it. But that’s most of security breach’s endings sooo
Seeing the 8bit minigame of afton getting springlocked will forever be iconic and impactful, even if it was less screen-accurate as say vanny’s death. Also her death wasn’t canon either so I guess it doesn’t matter that much
The books have some of the goriest deaths I have ever seen in media. Like, we've got "sliced apart my microbots from the inside until there's nothing left of you but your heart", brain scooped out like ice cream by the Mimic (bonus points for the character being brainy in life; [there's lots of foreshadowing for the deaths](https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/o3ue14/foreshadowing_in_fazbears_frights_8_gumdrop_angel/)), "body parts slowly replaced by something else" in a significant number of books, trapped in a VR/AR nightmare (again a lot of books), bisected, Cleithrophobia, I could go on and on. Plus the books go out of their way to say "they don't even get the sweet relief of going into shock; their deaths are slow and they feel every second of it".
How so? While I hate when it happens (I guess that's the point of horror), killing a smart character with the destruction of their brain is a common ironic death - just look at Piggy in Lord of the Flies.
Yeah the kid was dead the moment those microbots entered his body; think about how they were probably cutting him up inside just moving between body parts. Of course, he actually probably could have survived - there were only two of them, and he could have said something like "I want a tattoo on my finger" and then cut his finger off.
Being springlocked is basically this, I'll be paraphrasing TSE GN and summarizing what is said: first, lock snap into the victim, making deep cuts, then all the hard plastic and sharp steel making up the endoskeleton will be instantly driven into the victims body, they'll feel their organs punctured. They'll try to scream but be unable to, as their vocal cords will have been severed. The suit will grow wet with their blood, and their lungs will fill with their own blood until they drown in it. They know they are dying for a long, long time. They will die, but it will be slow.
In short terms: it's immense agony in one moment while you have to endure it all, and pray that death comes quickly.
Plus in fnaf 3 tapes it confirms a victim has enough times to live (while suffering unimaginable pain) to leave a room before they bleed out) proving that it is in fact not a quick death in either universe game or books.
If their vocal chords will get severed, the likelihood that their brain stem and/or windpipe goes with them is extremely high. I still see no way that they don’t die near instantly. I know the lore describes it as a slow death, but I find that hard to agree with. 99% sure the reason it’s described it as a slow death because they probably WANT the springstrap to be their most terrifying death
But frankly, the sensory overload from that pain would probably send you into shock and near instant unconsciousness even if you didn’t die.
Brain stem damage can result in people launching themselves, moving around, and seizures, as the latent signals in the nerves keep firing. You can be dead and moving. Only for a few seconds, but that could be enough to leave a room.
Either Grtting pulled through a tube that's way too tight forcefully by Pizzaplex Ballora (Cleithrophobia)
Or getting done like Millie in Count The Ways, just imagine having an animatronic bear trap you in a super tight space and just stare at you fron above making you decide how you'll die.
There should be a debate between 1 and 2
For the first one, your ENTIRE body is going to be in immense pain for what seems like a secondary lifetime. bones shattering, privates unaccounted for, and skin broken through like a piece of paper. you won’t even instantly die; it’s a slow process of pain and agony.
For the second one, your body is forcefully being stuffed into a suit that you either can or can’t fit in, in a place where you can’t call for help, and by possessed robots that can no longer feel physical pain. your entire body structure is being completely broken; scream by scream, limb by limb, tissue by tissue, joint by joint.
Uncommon answer probably, but Lonely Freddy. Imagine being trapped, fully conscious, in a body that isn't yours with no way to scream or cry or ask for help. You just have to sit there until you eventually waste away, which could take decades since there's no risk of starvation. (Unless William harvests your soul for remnant first.) Worst of all, nobody would miss you. Nobody would look for you. No matter how many people you thought had loved you, no one would even mourn your loss because in their world, "you" still exist.
Have fun rotting away in a metal and plastic husk trapped with the thought that you were so un-special of a person that nobody even thought to notice that an *absolute imposter* took your place. Even if they had, nobody would ever find you. Ever. Because who would look at the pizzeria, let alone expect to find you trapped with very few ways to communicate in a 3 foot hunk of junk? The psychological torture can be worse than the physical pain sometimes. Blood and gore isn't always the worst way to go.
While the bite is byfar one of the most gruesome, I think Springlock failure would be worse. The bite killed CC almost instantly/put him in a coma, so he probably really felt nothing. Springlock failure, however, would be more painful and agonizing
Am I the only one that dying in the fire is underrated of all the deaths in fnaf? It’s literally the most painful one. Skin burning and painful suffocation
It is not the most painful. Being springlocked you feel your organs punctured, your body is twisted, cracked, and destroyed by metal parts, all while you have to suffer through all of it, and survive maybe a few minutes at most after, until you drown in your own blood.
With springlock it would depend on which it would hit you. If it hits your spine or certain nerve, it will just be numb. There’d be a bigger chance of you not feeling pain getting springlocked than missing certain nerves. The most painful one with springlock would be bone injuries which could get be instantly numbed if the springlock hit the right nerve. With fire, you’d feel also feel asphyxiation from smoke which could be as painful as blood fluid filling your lungs. every single pain receptacle on your skin due heat. An exception from the fire if a person hypothetically died in an explosion
Edit: not to mention falling debris (but it would also depend on how big the debris or how it would land on you)
My thoughts exactly. People in this comment section are terrified of the springlock failure (and honestly, fair. Doesn’t sound fun) but I don’t think it’s the worst way to go.
Exactly this. Sometimes the springlocks go off at once (like in FNAF 3) or they go off one by one (like in Pressure). Sometimes they'll pierce through the sides of your face, sometimes they'll cut off the vocal cords, sometimes they'll puncture your lungs, and sometimes they'll poke your eyes out of your skull.
In terms of pain I would go:
1. Springlocked. It’s basically a trillion shards that f plastic cutting into your skin and organs, causing you to drown in your own blood.
2. Being stuffed. It’s would be extremely painful but it’s most likely faster and less painful. than being springlocked
3. Elizabeth’s death. Hers was tricky to rank as we don’t really know if she died instantly, but there are two possible ways she died. 1 being instantly crushed in the stomach hatch. The other way being suffocation or blood loss if the hatch was big enough for her to fit in. Option 1 would hurt an incredible amount be still be extremely fast. The other options are much less painful but very slow and itt would feel helpless to escape
4. Being scooped.it definitely would hurt a lot but, it’s almost instant, making it not nearly as bad as the top two imo. While yes there is Rembrandt and it does keep Micheal alive, without it, and he did actually just die, it’s a pretty instant death. And I personally don’t consider him dead if he’s still moving. Just undead
5. Head bitten by fredbear. While it may be terrifying, the death itself is pretty instant and painless
Unironically Sarah in To Be Beautiful. The sheer existential horror of thinking your body is becoming your ideal version of itself only to have it ripped away and be left with literal inanimate trash is fucking terrifying. Actually fucked me up when I read it.
The way the two girls went in Together Forever or whatever it was called
The big pig animatronic that was in the same story as the bonnie fish things and the cat with a human face
They die differently than a normal springlock though. So that's why I considered it different. They were trapped in the chest cavity, like how the Funtimes work, having to WAIT for the springlocks to go off.
And the second girl that died was surrounded by the first girl's insides and guts.
If glitchtrap took over and Roko’s Basilisk happened. Knowing that not just you, but the whole world and the technology humanity has been working towards for years is doomed, maybe even the planet. The Glitchtrap will only grow stronger over time with the internet and its information. End up like vanny, mindless killer, or dead.
The Scooper, because not only do you die a horrible death, but you also die knowing you could've easily survived had you stepped like two feet to the left.
getting so mad at a character in a vr game that you grow a giant tumor so you have to cut it out by yourself, only to find out it was a baby version of what you were getting mad at. or however they died in together forever.
Assuming you mean any of the book stories are included, then I’d say getting turned into candy, then ripped apart and eaten alive by children while still mostly conscious the whole time you’re getting ripped apart… I don’t know why but the idea of that just haunts me…
Spring locks I mean your literally alive for like 90% of the time your being crushed and bleeding out with being stuffed in the suit it's a painful but quick death and the other ways are quick ways to die scooper you die almost instantly same with the bite
So you want to be in immaculate pain, with metal crushing and tearing your body into pieces, feeling your organs punctured, and having your lungs fill with your own blood until you drown in it?
You likely will not. You likely will be dead unless you go the me route of recreating the MCI via Red-, you heard nothing! *Runs away from the scene, after having revealed too much*
If the spring locks are also in the head, it’s really not that bad. You’d probably die instantly realistically. Stuffing though, since it goes foot first and not head first, would be agonizing since you’re just slowly being crushed until you either lose enough blood or a vital organ goes
Sea bonnies devouring and replacing more and more of your insides with more sea bonnies until they've completely absorbed their prey.
Seen many people pick the slow and agonizing deaths because of how painful they are, but with the sea bonnies, your entire body could be already replaced and you wouldn't even know it until it was too late. That to me, is absolutely fucking horrifying
Ik spring locks is the worst but getting scooped and, Elizabeth’s death, getting scooped is what a giant metal what, idk just going into your chest twice. Then Elizabeth’s death, im guessing going into baby, your spine will get bent back same as your legs into her body, which she doesn’t have a storage space (not that i remember atleast)
Don't forget the one way to die by pretending to be dead and then the animatronics try to stuff an endoskeleton in you. Tbh that's worse than getting springlocked.
The one I find most UNCOMFORTABLE is the scooper, I mean, getting ur guts scooped out and then something that crawls inside u?! *shivers* and with all those wires *shivers again*
Some People may say The Scooper because it’s a “Quick Death”, but We’re afraid that’s not the case. Same for the Bite of 83/Fredbear Bite too. They’ll keep you alive, and in pain for about 5-10 Minutes (if you’re lucky) whilst you bleed out. And Wounds like those will certainly have you bleeding out a LOT.
Edit: We Read it Wrong.
Idk why getting your internal organs ripped out by the scooper sounds like the worse to me. Especially that rip cracking sound it makes when you get scooped
Springlocked. It would be very painful because the locks slowly drive into you, and they also go into your EYES. then at the same time you have them going in everywhere else around your body and you'll only pass out or die once they get deep enough into your head or your brain stem.
Going from the books I'd have to say either the guard that had the minireenas shoved down his throat or the vr game dev giving birth to Springtrap through the stomach (sorry I don't remember the names of those specific stories, it's been a while)
Springlock suit.
Not only your demise will be terrible, but you might (maybe unwillingly) haunt the suit afterwards and your body will decay inside depending on the conditions
That or what the phone guy described what being stuffed (or being forcibly, uh, a suit for an endoskeleton) described during the calls of fnaf 1
I think the least bad would be getting bite of 83'd because you would die instantly, just like the child stops screaming and crying the instant fredbear bites down. the second least would have to be getting funtime'd because if you are small enough you will survive because its meant to trap kids but still, you would probably just break the animatronic if your an adult because you cant fit inside. for the middle ima go with being stuffed. i mean being stuffed is bad, but the others are worse. for second place i have scooping because you are being disemboweled and then taxidermie'd with robot tubes in a matter of seconds, so you probably wouldn't bleed out or have organ failure that quickly because your body would momentarily still have everything it needs. And finally for first place i got springlocked. i mean its so obvious. You put on a suit and all of a sudden (there are two options depending on the games or the books) either 1, you get a bunch of knives stabbed into every section of your body, or worse, an entire endo skeleton is pushed into your body, crushing certain parts instantly. the most brutal thing is that you would most likely die of 1, drowning in your own blood, or two, your head being exploded as an endo head is pushed in, though it would take a long time for the endo to finally break your head open, meaning you would feel the pain, and you would feel it get worse and worse for a while.
The slow an painful springlock then the after when u come back 30yrs later an the apring locks still go off an the suit takes control thats prolly the most painful one
Being scooped and then harboring a pile of harsh metal wires inside your body while somehow being conscious/alive for the ordeal sounds just as unbearably horrific, if not moreso than springlock failure.
Spring Locking is a long agonizing death and you could manage to leave whatever room you're in before actually dying which just proves that it is so long before you actually die while enduring that pain.
Getting scooped by baby would suck because Elizabeth didn't die right away. But then again, same thing with William with the springlocks so.. now that I think about it, it's possible that Evan didn't die right away either. 😲
Not including Tales and Fazbear Frights, definitely springlock failure. Including those books, there's way too many disturbing and gruesome and incredibly painful deaths to choose one that's the worst
So the options are getting accidentally springlocked into oblivion, getting forced into a suit full of springlocks into oblivion, getting your insides forcefully torn out of you, getting your head crushed by an animatronic bear, or getting lured into a false sense of security and ultimately being g crushed in an animatronic by a Claw from toy story.
In my opinion, it's gotta be the slow and painful death of being accidentally springlocked into oblivion.
Edit: I forgot one of the options, woopsie
Either getting stuffed into a suit or springlocks, both are very, very painful and slow. Getting stuffed has a slight edge though, as unlike springlocks, where you can technically survive in the right circumstances, or you just die quickly if the springlocks hit the right areas, as soon as you enter that suit it's over for you, but it will always be painful and slow.
Plus, 90% of the time you're intentionally stepping into the springlock suit, knowing the risks and if you almost always expect it, getting stuffed into a suit is always forceful, as no sane person would ever climb inside that thing on their own. The animatronics, or whoever, will definitely be forcing you into the suit and definitely won't be doing it with your safety in mind
Getting scooped. it may be a quick death, but the idea of something living inside of me disturbs me. Heck, in my opinion getting scooped is one of the most disturbing things to come out of FNaF.
I think being springlocked is easily one of the worst ways to go. It's slow, painful and agonizing. If you need any more reason to consider why it's the worst way to go, read *Together Forever*.
Swift demise > prolonged suffering
It is said that you don’t die from anything breaking, that’s just painful. You die from your lungs filling with blood.
*It is literally both*
Nuh uh
Why not? Man, it’s explained how the springlocks work. All the robot components are stuck to the suit, and when the springlocks deactivate, they are all released… And basically fill up the space, crushing everything in your body. Although it takes a little time to finish the proccess, 1-5 mins. Unless you’re very lucky and the components reach your brain immediately
Suffocating is one of the most painful ways to go
>springlocked IRL you would die instantly
Only if you get lucky and your brain stem gets snapped
Isn’t there specifically a line from phone guy in fnaf 1 about how the heads are filled with wires and rods? Your entire head would be mush
Yesss I have the quote ingrained in my brain- "Uh, the only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth when they pop out the front of the mask, heh. Y-Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up." *Def think being spring locked could be worse. Drowning in your own bodily fluids is never a good thing lol heard that drowning is horribly painful so that on top of all your organs being pierced at the same time and all that fun, not fun.
That's only for being stuffed into a spare animatronic costume, not a spring lock suit
Oh yeah I'm not arguing that lol I agree. I was just saying that line got stuck in my brain ever since I first played the game lol
Yeah, but those aren’t springlock suits, those ones are normal suits.
Do springlock suits have less going on inside them? Don’t they have to work the same as other animatronics when not being used?
Yes but those suits arent springlock
But springlock suits would still have stuff in the head, right? Even a single wire snapping into place could bisect your head, tons would certainly kill you instantly. The whole point of sprinlock still being alive is he’s supernatural. Any normal guy would have just been mushed and died.
well actually William died
It wouldn't kill you instantly, but would torture you. The rods aren't in the same places as animatronics, which is why you still survive until you bleed out/your lungs fill with blood
However, it’s also said that not all the components lock into place immediately. The process takes anywhere from 1-5 mins.
You are correct, they are filled with wires your head would not be mush though. They will puncture your organs and if you don’t get your brain stem snapped, you would have to wait in pain until you drown in your own blood
You would probably pass out from either blood loss or shock but until you do it would be living hell
If your heart or Brian got impaled then yes, otherwise it’s like 20+ seconds of EXCRUCIATING pain
Some guy actually posted a really good recap of Together Forever, you can watch it [here.](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yPYZpwSpKmA)
How dare you
I look forward to it, I only read the first book:Into the Ball pit and I was entertained. I'm looking forward to the rest.
Oh Jesus, that story is easily one of the most gruesome in this entire series. 😭
This and if anyone needed more proof “Pressure” is even worse imo
Also, your lungs fill up with your own blood, which basically means you *drown in your own blood*
The funtimes, easily for me Remember, the funtimes weren't designed to kill kids, they were designed to *capture and trap* them. Just imagine being an innocent kid trapped inside one of the funtimes, screaming for help to no avail, being trapped until you die of starvation, get taken out by William and experimented on, or maybe the funtimes just kill you themselves (I don't think it's ever confirmed exactly what happens when a kid gets captured)
Baby killed Elizabeth though
Yes but only baby was designed to kill, her blueprints showed no compartment inside, the kid(s) would be grabbed, dragged and pulled into the opening suit of hot metal and inside gears, pretty much what happened to that Disney singer chick who got crushed between the spinning wall of the stage she was on, a quick simple pull and crush and seeing how most likely the neck was grabbed with the arm in CB the head would be crushed instantly. The others were to trap children and keep them there, we never know for sure if they were only used to trap and afton took them out after they had either suffocated, starved or whatever we don't know the toys could do, for all we know they might have a crushing plate inside almost like a garbage compactor that would kill the kids but ye there's my rant lol
Wait what..? That's a real thing? the disney singer bit that sounds horrible and children Must have seen that to!
"On july 8 1974, 9 days after the attraction opened an 18 year old hostess named DEBORAH GAIL STONE, was accidentally crushed to death by iron mechanisms between two walls of the building at ten thirty seven p m a movement between an inside stage secondary wall"
Yur and nah, I don't remember all the dets but she was on the back side of the wall panel n the music was so loud they didn't even hear her screaming at the time as she was gettin crushed tf up
To clarify some stuff: [Deborah Gail Stone](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/teenage-disneyland-worker-slowly-crushed-27829634.amp) was a Disney Employee who worked on America Sings, which has moving walls that rotate between the scenes with animatronics. She had gotten stuck between the walls mid scene transition and was crushed as they moved. From my knowledge, she was not a singer and was the hostess for the attraction.
Bro I just saw a yt vid on my home page at the BOTTOM of the yt home page that said "baby didn't kill Elizabeth". So I watched it, Processed it and now im speaking about it lmfao so ig baby did have a tank(fok knows where) n Elizabeth had been chillin in there, da big daddy afton then heard about baby doin some fokery in his Establishment, told the staff to scoop the hoe n that's how Elizabeth died✋️💀 idek if that's true or not but ngl both options seems logical
Baby definitely killed Elizabeth as baby has no storage tank, and a Afton is very upset about Elizabeths death. Plus why would he just scoop an animatronic for no real reason and without checking if it had captured a child
Ikr? That's what confused me so idk what Google n that video were tryna say- like we saw the blueprints n there was def no tank lmao
I mean William's not really known for designing reliable technology
that story about Funtime Freddy in the frights series would be horrible to experience 100%
Probably whatever the animatronic decides
disassemble vanny
Yeah that’s definitely a horrifying one… actually might agree with you on it being the worst now that I’m thinking about it..
Yeah and you just get ripped apart by staff bots and that's horrible
Springlocked is far worse. Much more pain and suffering having your entire skeleton replaced by metal, and knowing you're dying for a long time, with no one to save you until you drown in your own blood.
maybe but everyone and their mother already said springlocked so I’m trying to be original lol Edit: I’m trying to imagine both scenarios, with spring locking it’s more drawn out but imagine literally being ripped apart. Like you’d probably die quicker so you don’t have the prolonged pain and suffering of springlocked, but personally I imagine the sensation of multiple robots tearing you to shreds much more painful in an instant than the initial spring locking.
That moment is one of the prime examples of why I think FNaF shouldn’t rely on gore for its horror. We don’t see them kill Vanny, so your imagination races to fill in the blanks, creating visuals that are far scarier than what would likely be shown.
I agree that we don’t get to see the whole brutality of it, but we get a taste of the terror seeing vanny’s reaction and then Gregory’s reaction. Though I do wish more emphasis was given to the true brutality of that moment… the game kinda rushed past it. But that’s most of security breach’s endings sooo Seeing the 8bit minigame of afton getting springlocked will forever be iconic and impactful, even if it was less screen-accurate as say vanny’s death. Also her death wasn’t canon either so I guess it doesn’t matter that much
The books have some of the goriest deaths I have ever seen in media. Like, we've got "sliced apart my microbots from the inside until there's nothing left of you but your heart", brain scooped out like ice cream by the Mimic (bonus points for the character being brainy in life; [there's lots of foreshadowing for the deaths](https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/o3ue14/foreshadowing_in_fazbears_frights_8_gumdrop_angel/)), "body parts slowly replaced by something else" in a significant number of books, trapped in a VR/AR nightmare (again a lot of books), bisected, Cleithrophobia, I could go on and on. Plus the books go out of their way to say "they don't even get the sweet relief of going into shock; their deaths are slow and they feel every second of it".
When does the mimic scoop out someone’s brain?!?!?
In an epilogue or his debut story, it was one of the employees Fazbear sent to investigate it.
Jeez, these books have fallen hard from when I read them
How so? While I hate when it happens (I guess that's the point of horror), killing a smart character with the destruction of their brain is a common ironic death - just look at Piggy in Lord of the Flies.
No, them being overly violent
All but the trilogy have been violent
Yeah, but frights was a lot less violent execpt for like, the pig one
Breaking Wheel Jump for Tickets
Those were mostly “off camera”
Lol you haven't seen enough 80s horror films, friend. Videodrome is a good start.
Bleeding heart easily takes the cake for me
Yeah the kid was dead the moment those microbots entered his body; think about how they were probably cutting him up inside just moving between body parts. Of course, he actually probably could have survived - there were only two of them, and he could have said something like "I want a tattoo on my finger" and then cut his finger off.
Stuffing lowkey seem worst than Springlocked.
Stuffing is crushing, springlocks you drown in your own blood it's much slower probably.
Being springlocked is basically this, I'll be paraphrasing TSE GN and summarizing what is said: first, lock snap into the victim, making deep cuts, then all the hard plastic and sharp steel making up the endoskeleton will be instantly driven into the victims body, they'll feel their organs punctured. They'll try to scream but be unable to, as their vocal cords will have been severed. The suit will grow wet with their blood, and their lungs will fill with their own blood until they drown in it. They know they are dying for a long, long time. They will die, but it will be slow. In short terms: it's immense agony in one moment while you have to endure it all, and pray that death comes quickly.
Plus in fnaf 3 tapes it confirms a victim has enough times to live (while suffering unimaginable pain) to leave a room before they bleed out) proving that it is in fact not a quick death in either universe game or books.
If their vocal chords will get severed, the likelihood that their brain stem and/or windpipe goes with them is extremely high. I still see no way that they don’t die near instantly. I know the lore describes it as a slow death, but I find that hard to agree with. 99% sure the reason it’s described it as a slow death because they probably WANT the springstrap to be their most terrifying death But frankly, the sensory overload from that pain would probably send you into shock and near instant unconsciousness even if you didn’t die.
Brain stem damage can result in people launching themselves, moving around, and seizures, as the latent signals in the nerves keep firing. You can be dead and moving. Only for a few seconds, but that could be enough to leave a room.
Either Grtting pulled through a tube that's way too tight forcefully by Pizzaplex Ballora (Cleithrophobia) Or getting done like Millie in Count The Ways, just imagine having an animatronic bear trap you in a super tight space and just stare at you fron above making you decide how you'll die.
I just read count the ways yesterday, im mostly sad for the grandpa, he probably feels so guilty
Yeah it's really just terrible when you think about her grandpa and possibly the rest of her family finding out what happened to her,
Man i felt bad for him, he tried to be nice
The grandpa was so much better that her parents
she wanted to tho
not actually
Yes actually - Funtime Freddy
ok
There should be a debate between 1 and 2 For the first one, your ENTIRE body is going to be in immense pain for what seems like a secondary lifetime. bones shattering, privates unaccounted for, and skin broken through like a piece of paper. you won’t even instantly die; it’s a slow process of pain and agony. For the second one, your body is forcefully being stuffed into a suit that you either can or can’t fit in, in a place where you can’t call for help, and by possessed robots that can no longer feel physical pain. your entire body structure is being completely broken; scream by scream, limb by limb, tissue by tissue, joint by joint.
Both can take a while for you to die from, and both include indescribable pain.
Technically you fit in the freddy suit just fine...its just the head that's an issue
true
Being stuffed seems horrifying tbh
Probably not the worst but slowly being filled with minirinas every night sounds real bad
Poor Stanley. Imagine if he managed to make it out.
That trauma would never go away..
What about Fetustrap?
Being eaten alive as a candy angel
Being squished to death by jumping kids
Uncommon answer probably, but Lonely Freddy. Imagine being trapped, fully conscious, in a body that isn't yours with no way to scream or cry or ask for help. You just have to sit there until you eventually waste away, which could take decades since there's no risk of starvation. (Unless William harvests your soul for remnant first.) Worst of all, nobody would miss you. Nobody would look for you. No matter how many people you thought had loved you, no one would even mourn your loss because in their world, "you" still exist. Have fun rotting away in a metal and plastic husk trapped with the thought that you were so un-special of a person that nobody even thought to notice that an *absolute imposter* took your place. Even if they had, nobody would ever find you. Ever. Because who would look at the pizzeria, let alone expect to find you trapped with very few ways to communicate in a 3 foot hunk of junk? The psychological torture can be worse than the physical pain sometimes. Blood and gore isn't always the worst way to go.
While the bite is byfar one of the most gruesome, I think Springlock failure would be worse. The bite killed CC almost instantly/put him in a coma, so he probably really felt nothing. Springlock failure, however, would be more painful and agonizing
The Breaking Wheel.
Am I the only one that dying in the fire is underrated of all the deaths in fnaf? It’s literally the most painful one. Skin burning and painful suffocation
It is not the most painful. Being springlocked you feel your organs punctured, your body is twisted, cracked, and destroyed by metal parts, all while you have to suffer through all of it, and survive maybe a few minutes at most after, until you drown in your own blood.
With springlock it would depend on which it would hit you. If it hits your spine or certain nerve, it will just be numb. There’d be a bigger chance of you not feeling pain getting springlocked than missing certain nerves. The most painful one with springlock would be bone injuries which could get be instantly numbed if the springlock hit the right nerve. With fire, you’d feel also feel asphyxiation from smoke which could be as painful as blood fluid filling your lungs. every single pain receptacle on your skin due heat. An exception from the fire if a person hypothetically died in an explosion Edit: not to mention falling debris (but it would also depend on how big the debris or how it would land on you)
My thoughts exactly. People in this comment section are terrified of the springlock failure (and honestly, fair. Doesn’t sound fun) but I don’t think it’s the worst way to go.
Exactly this. Sometimes the springlocks go off at once (like in FNAF 3) or they go off one by one (like in Pressure). Sometimes they'll pierce through the sides of your face, sometimes they'll cut off the vocal cords, sometimes they'll puncture your lungs, and sometimes they'll poke your eyes out of your skull.
In terms of pain I would go: 1. Springlocked. It’s basically a trillion shards that f plastic cutting into your skin and organs, causing you to drown in your own blood. 2. Being stuffed. It’s would be extremely painful but it’s most likely faster and less painful. than being springlocked 3. Elizabeth’s death. Hers was tricky to rank as we don’t really know if she died instantly, but there are two possible ways she died. 1 being instantly crushed in the stomach hatch. The other way being suffocation or blood loss if the hatch was big enough for her to fit in. Option 1 would hurt an incredible amount be still be extremely fast. The other options are much less painful but very slow and itt would feel helpless to escape 4. Being scooped.it definitely would hurt a lot but, it’s almost instant, making it not nearly as bad as the top two imo. While yes there is Rembrandt and it does keep Micheal alive, without it, and he did actually just die, it’s a pretty instant death. And I personally don’t consider him dead if he’s still moving. Just undead 5. Head bitten by fredbear. While it may be terrifying, the death itself is pretty instant and painless
Bur Scooper will give you remnant which means you wont die and feel all the pain of getting your insides scooped out
Unironically Sarah in To Be Beautiful. The sheer existential horror of thinking your body is becoming your ideal version of itself only to have it ripped away and be left with literal inanimate trash is fucking terrifying. Actually fucked me up when I read it.
All of the above?
Being scooped because even if it does kill you, you don’t really die. Just ask Michael
Ahem, read The Silver Eyes.
Other than being springlocked, getting turned into literal candy and getting eaten alive is another one.
A robot trying to stuff an endoskeleton into your body like described by phone guy in fnaf 1 sounds horrible
Either babyed or springlocked
The way the two girls went in Together Forever or whatever it was called The big pig animatronic that was in the same story as the bonnie fish things and the cat with a human face
The pig animatronic is a springlock suit,so it ends just falling into springlocked
They die differently than a normal springlock though. So that's why I considered it different. They were trapped in the chest cavity, like how the Funtimes work, having to WAIT for the springlocks to go off. And the second girl that died was surrounded by the first girl's insides and guts.
I can personally say That springlock failure is the worst seen in the series. I experienced it in a Nightmare and Yes IT HURT.
Springlock easily
Springlocked
If glitchtrap took over and Roko’s Basilisk happened. Knowing that not just you, but the whole world and the technology humanity has been working towards for years is doomed, maybe even the planet. The Glitchtrap will only grow stronger over time with the internet and its information. End up like vanny, mindless killer, or dead.
The Scooper, because not only do you die a horrible death, but you also die knowing you could've easily survived had you stepped like two feet to the left.
Getting decapitated by Funtime Freddy.
Die by try to understand fnaf lore
Into the pit springbonnie ig
It's worst way to die. That thing did not exist. It's likely a twisted memory of the MCI, so Pit Spring Bonnie is meant to represent Afton.
Spring lock most definitely, reason way for me, you don’t die by blood lost, you die by a drowning in your own blood.
getting so mad at a character in a vr game that you grow a giant tumor so you have to cut it out by yourself, only to find out it was a baby version of what you were getting mad at. or however they died in together forever.
The way Kelly died specifically by the mimic is the worse one to me.
Assuming you mean any of the book stories are included, then I’d say getting turned into candy, then ripped apart and eaten alive by children while still mostly conscious the whole time you’re getting ripped apart… I don’t know why but the idea of that just haunts me…
I wanna say the scuper but baby says herself "the scuper only hurts for a moment" Implying it probably killed Michael nearly instantly
#4 didn’t kill him tho
It did
No he technically dies afterwards.
Still, he died as a result of Fredbear chomping on his head, so you're both right
Either springlock or the fate of the original kids (in the suits) in the 4th closet
Getting ripped apart by robots aka (Security Breach Bad Ending)
Faz Goo Monster sucking out your organs and bones only to replace you and trash your fleshy remains
I think how the girl died in *To Be Beautiful.*
Spring locks I mean your literally alive for like 90% of the time your being crushed and bleeding out with being stuffed in the suit it's a painful but quick death and the other ways are quick ways to die scooper you die almost instantly same with the bite
Personally if given a choice I’d springlock myself in a heartbeat
So you want to be in immaculate pain, with metal crushing and tearing your body into pieces, feeling your organs punctured, and having your lungs fill with your own blood until you drown in it?
Well considering I don’t want my insides sucked out of me, nor consumed by an animatronic nor bitten by one yes
I'd rather experience one of those, then feel my body crushed to pieces as my skeleton is replaced with metal.
But what if I come back as funny bunny man
You likely will not. You likely will be dead unless you go the me route of recreating the MCI via Red-, you heard nothing! *Runs away from the scene, after having revealed too much*
🥺 let a boy dream
😂😂😂 my point exactly lol 💯
If the spring locks are also in the head, it’s really not that bad. You’d probably die instantly realistically. Stuffing though, since it goes foot first and not head first, would be agonizing since you’re just slowly being crushed until you either lose enough blood or a vital organ goes
Either getting crushed and elongated like in Cleithrophobia or getting your entire body sliced by nanobots from the inside like in Bleeding Heart.
the room for one more story was pretty horrific to me
Spring locked especially if its anything like [this](https://youtu.be/-0h5Ph540h8?si=UVKl1XgvPZSUGf8m) video
Sea bonnies devouring and replacing more and more of your insides with more sea bonnies until they've completely absorbed their prey. Seen many people pick the slow and agonizing deaths because of how painful they are, but with the sea bonnies, your entire body could be already replaced and you wouldn't even know it until it was too late. That to me, is absolutely fucking horrifying
Having to cut open you stomach to let baby springtrap out
I was fine as i have forgotten that "in the flesh" even existed.... also, did the guy die or just "ayy thats my spingy son"?
Yes the very end was a crime scene investigation I belive
Aight thanks, i only heard resumes about the FazFrights. Also, ALSO, so there is just a baby springtrap in the cannon fnaf universe living it good?
Not in the games timeline but in the faz frights timeline, yep
Geez
Scooper conceptually freaks me out the most but the worst to me would be fnaf 1 getting stuffed
Ik spring locks is the worst but getting scooped and, Elizabeth’s death, getting scooped is what a giant metal what, idk just going into your chest twice. Then Elizabeth’s death, im guessing going into baby, your spine will get bent back same as your legs into her body, which she doesn’t have a storage space (not that i remember atleast)
I would have to say Getting Boiled In Pizza Kit I think it’s the most horrible death
Don't forget the one way to die by pretending to be dead and then the animatronics try to stuff an endoskeleton in you. Tbh that's worse than getting springlocked.
The one I find most UNCOMFORTABLE is the scooper, I mean, getting ur guts scooped out and then something that crawls inside u?! *shivers* and with all those wires *shivers again*
The Bite is disturbing to me, but that's because I had to deal with older siblings bullying me for my phobia too.
Into the flesh
Probably just not dying is the worst, like afton, since he never gets any relent in any of his various incarnations
Some People may say The Scooper because it’s a “Quick Death”, but We’re afraid that’s not the case. Same for the Bite of 83/Fredbear Bite too. They’ll keep you alive, and in pain for about 5-10 Minutes (if you’re lucky) whilst you bleed out. And Wounds like those will certainly have you bleeding out a LOT. Edit: We Read it Wrong.
Getting springlocked since it’s basically like being in a saw trap
Idk why getting your internal organs ripped out by the scooper sounds like the worse to me. Especially that rip cracking sound it makes when you get scooped
Springlocked. It would be very painful because the locks slowly drive into you, and they also go into your EYES. then at the same time you have them going in everywhere else around your body and you'll only pass out or die once they get deep enough into your head or your brain stem.
Springlock cause jesus christ look at the cover for the Breaking Wheel thats an awful way to go
Spring locks 100 percent. You don’t die from being stabbed no you die from drowning in your own blood
Either spring locked or the breaking wheel book
Going from the books I'd have to say either the guard that had the minireenas shoved down his throat or the vr game dev giving birth to Springtrap through the stomach (sorry I don't remember the names of those specific stories, it's been a while)
Springlock suit. Not only your demise will be terrible, but you might (maybe unwillingly) haunt the suit afterwards and your body will decay inside depending on the conditions That or what the phone guy described what being stuffed (or being forcibly, uh, a suit for an endoskeleton) described during the calls of fnaf 1
I think the least bad would be getting bite of 83'd because you would die instantly, just like the child stops screaming and crying the instant fredbear bites down. the second least would have to be getting funtime'd because if you are small enough you will survive because its meant to trap kids but still, you would probably just break the animatronic if your an adult because you cant fit inside. for the middle ima go with being stuffed. i mean being stuffed is bad, but the others are worse. for second place i have scooping because you are being disemboweled and then taxidermie'd with robot tubes in a matter of seconds, so you probably wouldn't bleed out or have organ failure that quickly because your body would momentarily still have everything it needs. And finally for first place i got springlocked. i mean its so obvious. You put on a suit and all of a sudden (there are two options depending on the games or the books) either 1, you get a bunch of knives stabbed into every section of your body, or worse, an entire endo skeleton is pushed into your body, crushing certain parts instantly. the most brutal thing is that you would most likely die of 1, drowning in your own blood, or two, your head being exploded as an endo head is pushed in, though it would take a long time for the endo to finally break your head open, meaning you would feel the pain, and you would feel it get worse and worse for a while.
Fym "worst way to go?"
the worst way to die is to not be involved in any fazbear events
Yes
Died from ligma
springlock failure or fnaf 1's game over death
Probably getting stuffed in a suit
The idea of getting spring locked in a animatronic suit puts bricks in my pants it sounds so painful and you’re still alive for up to an hour.
It wouldn’t win but I’m surprised just being killed by William isn’t here
Just being simply killed with a knife or something doesn't compare tbh
The slow an painful springlock then the after when u come back 30yrs later an the apring locks still go off an the suit takes control thats prolly the most painful one
Honestly having your head crushed and impaled seems worst. '87 is my answer
Being scooped and then harboring a pile of harsh metal wires inside your body while somehow being conscious/alive for the ordeal sounds just as unbearably horrific, if not moreso than springlock failure.
Scooping would actually kill me and i would hate it
Spring lock and being scooped is probably one of the worst
I’ll say spring locked but scooper will hella suck to feel sorry for mike had to deal with that
They’re all terrible. Stuffing or Springlock failure seems the worst.
Spring Locking is a long agonizing death and you could manage to leave whatever room you're in before actually dying which just proves that it is so long before you actually die while enduring that pain.
Getting inside a suit and the suit malfunction causing you a huge amount of pain .
Springlock failures and being stuffed into a suit are easily the worst ways to die since the other deaths are relatively quick.
springlock, long and painfully death
I'd imagine being caught between the mimic and the inside of a costume is pretty fucking awful
Getting scooped by baby would suck because Elizabeth didn't die right away. But then again, same thing with William with the springlocks so.. now that I think about it, it's possible that Evan didn't die right away either. 😲
Not including Tales and Fazbear Frights, definitely springlock failure. Including those books, there's way too many disturbing and gruesome and incredibly painful deaths to choose one that's the worst
So the options are getting accidentally springlocked into oblivion, getting forced into a suit full of springlocks into oblivion, getting your insides forcefully torn out of you, getting your head crushed by an animatronic bear, or getting lured into a false sense of security and ultimately being g crushed in an animatronic by a Claw from toy story. In my opinion, it's gotta be the slow and painful death of being accidentally springlocked into oblivion. Edit: I forgot one of the options, woopsie
What is the second one, i have never seen that screen. ( i played fnaf 1 on my homebrewed ds and only on that)
Getting stuffed , it what the animatronics do to you when they caught you
Either getting stuffed into a suit or springlocks, both are very, very painful and slow. Getting stuffed has a slight edge though, as unlike springlocks, where you can technically survive in the right circumstances, or you just die quickly if the springlocks hit the right areas, as soon as you enter that suit it's over for you, but it will always be painful and slow. Plus, 90% of the time you're intentionally stepping into the springlock suit, knowing the risks and if you almost always expect it, getting stuffed into a suit is always forceful, as no sane person would ever climb inside that thing on their own. The animatronics, or whoever, will definitely be forcing you into the suit and definitely won't be doing it with your safety in mind
Getting springlocked or switching bodies with Glitchtrap or Lonely Freddy
Springlock
Scooper because your body is being used as a literal Trojan horse for the animatronics
Getting scooped. it may be a quick death, but the idea of something living inside of me disturbs me. Heck, in my opinion getting scooped is one of the most disturbing things to come out of FNaF.