Top 10 Scariest Animatronics in the Five Nights at Freddy's Games

If you don't think that Puppet is scary, then I hate you. This guy is by far the creepiest character from FNAF I have ever seen. He shouldn't even be given the title "creepy," seeing as he isn't technically an animatronic at all, and the fact that I am giving him that title personally just scares me on a lot of different levels.

Okay, she's my second favorite character (next to Toy Bonnie), but when you get that screen where you're Freddy on stage, she's just following your gaze wherever you go. It's terrifying.

However, I feel bad that she was the creator of the robots' daughter. Her soul was forced to live on in the Puppet. Considering the neglect shown by the other children in the cake minigame and how her father just replaced her with the robot version of her without searching for her actual body, she has a right to be angry.

His eyes that steal your soul, his lack of eyebrows, and the unshakeable feeling he knows who's watching him make Bonnie particularly unsettling. Unlike the other animatronics, which look stereotypically scary with dark circles and dead expressions, Bonnie appears as though he would relish listening to your innards squish out of your suit.

He was less scary in FNaF 2 without a face, but with his original face, he's much more terrifying. It's a shame he didn't appear in FNaF 3, even as a hallucination. That might have been a mercy, though. I'll have nightmares for weeks.

The first time I saw him, he was pretty scary, but the more I followed the game, I got accustomed to him and the rest. But yeah, he does seem quite scary. I mean, even the creator himself admitted he was scared of him.

But there's still one question left unsolved... Why do people find it creepy that Bonnie has no eyebrows, or even anyone without them for that matter?

Guys, I am horrified of Mangle on a billion different levels. The fact that she has two faces kind of contradicts whether or not one of the faces will miss biting off yours, only for the other one to lean in and finish the job. I hate Mangle.

Though the other animatronics are all creepy in their own ways, Mangle would have been scary even before he was ripped apart by toddlers. Now he's just a convoluted, spider-like thing with two heads that is able to travel along the ceiling like a spider. Considering that his jump scare is extremely unpredictable, it's a wonder how he is deemed less scary than Bonnie and Foxy.

In my mind, Springtrap is the scariest of the bunch. Firstly, because I can't seem to escape the fact there's a dead guy inside the animatronic. There's also the fact that he occasionally appears to be possessed by the aforementioned dead guy. This is suggested by the fact that, in spite of his sometimes twitchy movements, the way he moves the rest of the time is almost too human. Look up "uncanny valley" if you need an explanation.

However, I'd say the possession idea is something of a best-case scenario, as the alternative is that Purple Guy is somehow still alive inside, just about. And that seems so much creepier to me.

In my opinion, Foxy is by far the scariest of all the animatronics. He is fast, creepy, and always out to kill the night guard. In Joy of Creation, he always creeps right behind you with his flashing white and red eyes. He is different from the other animatronics, which makes him even more deadly.

He does not go easy on you, as he forces you to check on him and his curtain in the first game to stop him from sprinting down the hall at an abnormal speed and then poking his creepy face into your office, letting out an ear-splitting shriek. Never underestimate Foxy the Pirate, because he will just keep on surprising you.

I am literally so scared of Golden Freddy. I mean, this guy just sits around doing nothing, except staring into your soul. The reason he doesn't move is because he is a springlock suit, and the springlock was turned off, so now he's stuck like this forever.

But what if a different animatronic (or even a kid, for all we know) turned on the springlock suit? That would be so creepy in real life! Imagine being the night guard, walking past Golden Freddy, knowing that his springlock suit was turned off so that he could never move until you turned it on again. Then, the next night, you walk past him and realize that Golden Freddy is standing up.

You think for a bit (half horrified, half confused) about how he is standing up. Then, without you noticing, he takes a step towards you. You turn around to inspect the animatronic to see if one of the springlocks broke inside him, but then you see him taking another step towards you. That would literally be so creepy! But I guess it's also great inspiration for Scott if (and when) he makes his next FNAF game.

In every game, his jump scares are terrifying and always scare me. In the first game, when the power goes out, the screen goes dark, his face glows, and his jingle is played. Then, if you're unlucky enough and just miss out on finishing the night, he will jump scare you!

Also, he has another jump scare in the first game where he creeps into the office (when you're normally trying to find him or someone else) and then from behind gets in front of the night guard, eyeless (with just a tiny white dot) and jump scares you from really close up!

Definitely the creepiest animatronic for me in the entire franchise. It's not her behavior but her appearance that's so disturbing. The soulless stare from her browless eyes, combined with the oversized eye sockets and the loose, giant beak, are already terrifying.

But then, there are also those stretched-out, handless arms exposing massive wires, which were once covered by her now-missing hands and somehow remind me of veins. That's what I call nightmare fuel!

Withered Chica really creeps me out and scares me. Something about her appearance, especially her face and her broken arms, really scares me. She has an extremely threatening demeanor and looks like a living killing machine. Her soulless eyes are terrifying.

I definitely can't stand to look at her for very long.

When I played FNaF 2, Withered Bonnie was such a pain to deal with, and he also terrified me. When he toggles the lights, it makes me a little baffled when he enters the office. One time, I was playing the custom night on FNaF 2, and I only had the toy animatronics selected, but for some odd reason, Withered Bonnie still came out and jump-scared me at 5:58 AM, even though I did not have him selected for the custom night.

That kind of creeps me out.

His face is completely gone, which makes him scary as is. But when he is in the vents, the way he looks at the camera with no space in a cramped space makes him even scarier.

Imagine turning the corner and seeing this guy on the ground, leaning against the wall. You think nothing of it but still find it a bit creepy. You continue down the path, but then you hear ramping behind you. You turn around and discover that the thing is now chasing you! You dash down the hall as fast as you can.

You finally reach your office and put your key in with shaky hands. You swing the door open, and you see that someone else is in your office. You ask them who they are, but they just turn around. You see that it was the thing chasing you earlier!

When I first played Five Nights at Freddy's 3, I looked at the camera on the second night, and his face was there. I didn't know what it was, and I just sat there waiting for him to go away.

I finally closed the game out and was like, What the heck?!

So creepy! I think the creepiest thing is the eyes, and they say they are the windows of your soul. So, that means he has a creepy soul.

Those eyes, just staring at me, are so incredibly creepy.

I bet if anyone recorded themselves playing FNaF 3, they wouldn't say that he's not scary at all. It's just so unexpected since in the first game, he just takes your batteries. So creepy and weird.

I mean, his name is Nightmare, and even the shadow seems to fear him, despite him essentially being made of shadows. And regarding what someone else said about joking around to make him less scary, well, I played FNaF 4 one time and started hyperventilating before anything even happened.

The night with Nightmare just made it worse. I can't imagine being Chris. I'm surprised Chris even made it through the first night without having a heart attack. I feel bad for the guy.

Look guys, he is by far the scariest. His creepiness is second to none. Not even Nightmare Fredbear, who is second. Fredbear is not as scary only because he's not black and doesn't blend with the background. Since he's yellow and bright, Fredbear is more expected. No one expects Nightmare, and he's always switching from one hall to another.

All of the animatronics have lackluster creepiness compared to Nightmare. Did I mention his voice in Ultimate Custom? Creepiest voice on the roster, even more than Fredbear. He stares at you from the right side like a demon. Definitely the scariest! "The sun fears me..."

Really, I love the Puppet. There's so much story, and it makes the game better! But hey, this one just freaks me out. The body looks like a skeleton, and then, from that picture being cut off, it looks like it has horse hooves.

But still, the way its head is just tilted scares me, like it's trying to look into your soul and find your secrets. After I saw this, I decided that the Puppet would take its place behind Bonnie.

How is this thing not at least in the top ten? Why is Toy Bonnie before this nightmarish thing? This guy gives me super-ultra-nightmares. Imagine Toy Bonnie standing over you, watching you as you sleep. Now think of Nightmarionne looming over you, staring into your soul.

Chica was super scary in almost all the FNAF games, except for 4. In FNAF 1, the way Chica looks at the camera next to the girls' bathroom is super horrifying! I would never use the bathroom in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. And her eyes... something about them just scares the hell out of me.

In FNAF 2, Withered Chica's appearance in the office is horrifying to even think about! Her arms are all up, with wires dangling from them. And her eyes again... they are so big. And don't forget how wide open her jaw is. Imagine seeing Withered Chica just popping up in front of your desk looking at you like that. Faceless Bonnie is not so scary compared to her, but I still find Faceless Bonnie scary.

I find all phantom animatronics creepy, and Phantom Foxy is no exception. Kinda reminds me of Withered Foxy but actually scary.

Not that high on my list though (not that I have one).

He might be everyone's favorite, but that phantom version of him almost scared me to death. And to make matters worse, he's missing an arm.

Poor Foxy!

I was on the phone once playing FNAF 3. I put down the monitor, went to the left to check for Springtrap, and Phantom Foxy jumpscared me. I screamed so loud, and the caller was like, "What happened?" So I said, "I'm playing FNAF," and the caller was like, "Oh, okay. Makes sense."

Ennard is quite a scary character, especially based on the fact that he uses manipulation and impersonation so frequently to lure you into a false sense of security while he manipulates other animatronics. He is an amalgamation of everything bad and scary, and wants revenge and to escape.

Much more disturbing than the other SL bots. Funtime Freddy and Foxy are adorable by comparison. Baby doesn't really hit home for me, and Ballora's creepy, but that's it. Ennard threw me for a loop when I first saw him. It's like, WHAT IS THAT?

This is definitely not worth exotic butters!

This character creeps me out, especially when he dies and then the next night there's a demonic voice. I think it might be Purple Man or Phone Guy who has come back to haunt you. Those were the two scariest nights in the game for me.

We all love a man whose skin is a sickly shade of purple, going slowly insane as he kills over, what, 15 children during the whole span of the FNaF series?

How cute.

Why isn't he in the top 10? He literally killed 5 children (or more), and he is haunting the Springtrap (Spring Bonnie) suit!

Imagine him stalking you at night!

All of the Foxy models are disappointing. They're not scary, just lackluster.

However, this particular Foxy gave me nightmares. One day, I loaded up the game, and there was this creepy picture of his face that scared and disturbed me. It looked like an eyeless Bonnie, but as a fox.

Okay, why does he have a stretched head with so many teeth? Like, what the hell? And him mixed with Balloon Boy makes the worst combo.

I guess he's scary because in the first game, all he does is lean in. I guess it's the uncertainty that really scares you.

This is one of the animatronics that I find the scariest. Nightmarionne is the other one that gives me heart palpitations when I get jumpscared by them.

Creepy!

If you aren't scared of him, then you are a god, and this should be number one.

Too many teeth. Hope you don't have some sort of disgust against teeth.

I used to think all the characters were cute, but the rows of teeth kind of got to me. I really liked all of the animatronics until I saw him on the internet. But I just love FNAF games.

Great job, Scott!

Freddy was bad enough. You know what? Scratch that. All Freddies are terrible. Scary!

Eh, I'm not that scared of him, but if this was a real-life situation, I would freak! Well, maybe all of us would for all the animatronics.

He stares into your eyes as if he's trying to hypnotize you. He refuses to leave, and you also see him standing in the hall. Even his reflection is present in the puddle. I mean, this thing can teleport.

This thing makes me think twice about playing FNAF 3's fifth night. It just shoves its entire head onto your screen and summons other animatronics.

The music that plays when he appears in your face is honestly terrifying.

She's like FNAF 1 Chica but scarier, and I'm honestly already scared of the first one.

I think that Nightmare Chica is the scariest animatronic in FNAF, way more than Puppet.

Molten Freddy has multiple rows of teeth.

If I had to choose a somewhat scary Chica, I'd choose Phantom Chica since in FNaF 3, the hallucinations are the scariest things in the game.

Still, she's pretty disappointing because all the Chicas are.

It isn't Chica herself that scares me. It's that face that appears on the arcade game console that really scares me.

Chica is so scary because of how the camera goes down fast and pow! An ugly duck who looks like it has piles of blood dripping down her face.

It's horrifying!

Puppet, Marionette - same thing.

She is the best.

Puppet, Marionette - THE SAME THING.

Definitely the scariest (and best) character in my opinion. His voice, though, is appalling.

His psycho voice is scary as hell.