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Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit (2024)

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This is as close as I intend on getting to making a model showcase video for Springtrap, because this variant of the design has a completely different interior that doesn't entail any technical headaches figuring out the spring lock mechanisms.

As opposed to being a costume worn by Afton, Springtrap from Into the Pit is an animalistic monster, with the costume being the outer ‘skin’ of a living creature. Beneath the suit is flesh and blood and even (presumably) lungs, exemplified by how it gets hanged to death at the end. It doesn't have a proper name to distinguish it from the real Springtrap as far as I know, but I have heard the fan nickname Pit-trap used to refer to it.

Its lore is fairly straightforward and self-contained by the standards of Five Nights at Freddy's: It's a manifestation of how the confused child victims would have perceived Afton as he took them away from their parents to kill them, not as a man in a suit, but as a big scary monster. That misunderstood idea of the yellow rabbit is what gets preserved in the ghostly memories that taint the place.

The game adaptation of Into the Pit doesn't completely adhere to this lore, since visiting the past there is treated as a very literal form of time travel which no longer accounts for how this distorted memory creature could come to exist. But that's a minor nitpick that's easy to excuse for the sake of having more interesting time travel as a gameplay mechanic, by being able to take physical objects from the past into the present and back again.