The Bite of '87..Who dunnit?

Hello and welcome to another in depth analysis of the Five Nights at Freddy's games. This time I focus on the infamous Bite of '87. It was never blatantly stated who the culprit actually was but there was enough info given for us to figure out who did it.

And in the end....the butler did it!!
I'm sorry..I just really wanted to say that. I actually wasn't the butler. There isn't even a butler to have done it. But there is a pirate who certainly seems guilty..


We're first introduced to the Bite of '87 in the first Five Nights by the Phone Guy.

The fact that it happened while the animatronics were allowed to walk around during the day points to the idea that the Bite occurs during the week that Five Nights 2 takes place.

So based on this knowledge we have a rough list of suspects who could be the culprit. Any of the characters from Five Nights 2, listed below.

Now we have ten suspects as to who it could be, now to narrow them down.

It's fairly obvious that it couldn't have been Bonnie, being that Bonnie is missing an upper jaw, and for a similar reason we can eliminate Chica since it appears that Chica's mouth is frozen open, which would take away any biting ability. Similarly, Balloon Bit....Balloon Boy's mouth is too small to bite into someone's head.

That leaves us with seven possibly culprits, Freddy, Foxy, any of the Toy characters, Mangle, and Golden Freddy. But looking at calls from Phone Guy in the second game can narrow it even farther.

This particular call is a lot of reading to do, but I'm not interested in the entire thing. What I'm interested in is the second half of the call.

At this point in the game it is implied that the Bite of '87 has already occurred and that there's a lot going on trying to sort out the legal issues. What interests me is the fact that to sort out these issues, the owners of the original restaurant. This fact would seemingly point to the idea that it's one of the older animatronics that is the guilty party. So updating our suspect list now we only have 3 possible culprits.

Freddy, Foxy, and Golden Freddy.

The next character we can cross off of our list is Golden Freddy. The reasoning behind this elimination is that Golden Freddy is actually not an animatronic.

And this phone call on night six proves it. Golden Freddy is obviously a yellow colored Freddy suit so it would make sense that this would actually just be a person in the suit. (I have a theory on who it might be and will talk about that next time I go in-depth)

More proof of this point is Golden Freddy's posture when he appears in the office. He's slumped over, and very limp. Almost like a dead body. Taking info from Five Nights 3, we know there are two special animatronics that double as suits, utilizing spring locks to keep the animatronic parts out of the way. I've come to the conclusion that Springtrap is actually the spring lock suit of Bonnie which means that Golden Freddy would likely be the second. It makes sense that these two would be the spring lock suits because they're both a yellowish gold rather than what we know as the normal color for them, because these two we're actually made at the same time. So Golden Freddy is actually a dead body, killed by faulty spring locks, and also a decommissioned animatronic that shouldn't be able to escape a secret boarded up room inside of the pizzeria.

This leaves Freddy and Foxy as our two main suspects. I went back to the first Five Nights game to see if I could dig up an clues in the phone calls or even the animatronics themselves but no such luck. Truth be told, I realized that the animatronics in the first Five Nights actually are not the same ones that are in Five Nights 2. The main difference I notices was that in the first game, you can't see the endoskeleton's teeth. So with no direct clues left in the games I did some more research on that first phone call. Mainly, this exact line.

From this one statement we can tell that whoever was attacked, lived and lost a majority of their frontal lobe. So I went and looked up relative lobe sizes.

This picture here is the best that I found and sheds a lot of light on the capabilities our attacker must have had.

The frontal lobe takes up the front of the brain (DUH!) but more than that, it goes halfway back into the head. And to warrant the comment above, again, a majority of that lobe must have been taken off. And this leads us to the conclusion that our attacker had to have a mouth long enough to allow for a 5 inch long bite.

With my estimation for Freddy's snout around 3 or 4 inches long, while he would be able to do a lot of damage, he would not be able to completely remove the frontal lobe. Besides, with his flat teeth, he would crush the frontal lobe more than separate it, so we can eliminate Freddy.

That leaves us with only one final suspect for the Bite of '87. The pirate. Foxy the animatronic pirate finally lost it and bit some's face off. He could separate the frontal lobe as well, with my estimation for his snout being around 7 inches long, and his sharp, canine-like teeth it would have been easy for him.

So while it may be Five Nights at Freddy's, it turns out that Foxy is the real murderous villain of them all. The rest of them are just wannabes.

Well this has been another in-depth game analysis, I'd love to hear about your proof for or against what I said. Thanks for reading and I'll see you next time!