Why This Animatronic Is The Most Underrated Villain In Five Nights At Freddy’s

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has an entire cast of iconic characters since the first game introduced Freddy Fazbear and the gang. Alongside the more sympathetic animatronics present throughout the series are some downright heinous villains, like William Afton and his later predecessor (or still him), Glitchtrap. However, there’s one villain who, while being much more sympathetic than the purple guy, deserves much more attention in the series: Circus Baby.

First appearing in, Circus Baby is the smooth-talking animatronic who guides the player through their new job. While she begins the game comforting the players and helping them overcome dangers presented by the other animatronics in , her true intentions come out by the time players enter the Scooping Room. Beautifully voiced by Heather Masters, Circus Baby has an enthralling backstory and motivation that should be further explored in future games.

Circus Baby is the central animatronic in, alongside Funtime Foxy and Ballora, living in an underground branch of Fazbear Entertainment, called Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rental. Circus Baby speaks about a key portion of her backstory in a monologue about halfway through the game. The animatronic once attended a children’s birthday party, where she automatically killed a lone little girl who ventured too close. Since then, it has been confirmed that the little girl was Elizabeth Afton, who possessed the Circus Baby animatronic and has been stuck inside ever since.

Five Nights at Freddy’s has a notoriously messy timeline that’s built on speculation, but it’s possible to guess a chronological order for the games.

Circus Baby, AKA Elizabeth Afton, has one of the saddest backstories in the entire series. Not only was she murdered by her own father’s creation, which was programmed with the sole intent of killing children, but her father seemingly knew that she had possessed the animatronic and continued to let his company mistreat her with electric shocks.

Instead of attempting to hunt her father