Special:Badtitle/NS90:User talk:DocColress/Some more discussion/reply (14)

Yeah, I saw the example when it went up, and I'm quite happy! It's like I said, outside of the four already on the list, he's the only other villain who I believe fits this trope as of now.

I would have taken a break from this, but I have another example to propose mainly because the game I'm talking about came out very recently: he's an unnamed serial killer who is usually called the Purple Man/Guy (Not to be confused with Zebediah Killgrave of course) by fans who inhabits an animatronic costume called Springtrap. Whichever you prefer, this guy is not just the Big Bad of the recent Five Nights at Freddy's 3, but the Bigger Bad to the series as a whole. However, I should tell you all about what he's done, huh?

Basically, our dear friend Purple Guy was a child murderer that moonlighted as a security guard who worked at the restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (And maybe its earliest incarnation Fredbear's Family Diner, but that's not important) presumably so he'd have access to a constant supply of victims. Donning a yellow costume of the restaurant's mascot Freddy Fazbear, Purple Guy lured five children backstage and murdered them, going on to hide their bodies inside of the animatronic suits of the restaurant's mascots before running for it. He's also heavily implied to be responsible for the deaths of six other children... but we'll get into that later. The children that he murdered came back as vengeful spirits, possessing the animatronics and used their bodies to murder security workers at the Pizzeria due to them thinking that all adults are evil thanks to the circumstances of their death, unable to find peace until the murderer came back to the restaurant to hide the evidence of his murders (The children's bodies were never found) and hid in one of the costumes from them when they came after him, getting himself killed in the process since the suit he hid in was full of dangerous components that gave him a brutally horrific yet very deserving death. However, his spirit in turn was tied to the Springtrap animatronic he died in, and in the third game he serves as the main antagonist, doing all he can to murder the night watchman protagonist.

He seems like a straightforward example, but the lore in the FNaF games is handled... interestingly. Basically, in these games you basically spend all of your time trying to prevent haunted animatronics from getting in your room and murdering you, so the backstory is found via odd newspaper clippings/weird ATARI-esque games (Where the murderer is represented by a purple guy, hence the name). In the first game we knew about the Missing Children Incident (The murder of the five children) via newspaper clippings, though we do see the dead bodies of the children in one of the sequels Atari games in a gruesome aftermath. And since we do see his victims in the form of the vengeful animatronic, his actions speak for themselves.

However, he could easily be worse but due to the vague nature of the ATARI games, it's hard to be sure. The sequels minigames show a purple man murdering a little boy outside of the restaurant, one stopping the titular Freddy Fazbear from saving the murdered children (This one is the one hinted the most at being the killer) while another has a purple man hanging around an area where five other dead kids can be found. It's never truly made clear if all of these purple men are our murderer or not, this means that our killer has eleven child victims that we know about if we assume that all representations of a purple man are him.

It should also be noted that he's not really explored too indepth: it's not known why he murders children, though given the fact that the purple men who represent him smile widely, it's likely that he does it for fun.

In case if this was way too long, we basically have a child-murdering madman who definitely killed at least five children, and very likely may have his body count at eleven confirmed kills. And since he haunts the Springtrap animatronic that serves as Five Nights at Freddy's 3's villain, his hateful, murderous nature is still intact even after death. It's the rather odd way the game presents it's backstory that makes me come to you for wisdom.