Warning: SPOILERS forward for 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 (2025)!5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 director Emma Tammi has defined how the sequel’s ending and post-credits scene twist units up the horror franchise’s third chapter. After the Toy animatronics are defeated by the originals, 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 ends with Mike telling Vanessa to depart him and Abby alone. This leaves her in a susceptible sufficient place for Charlotte, the Marionette, to own her.
Alongside her possession, a post-credits scene sees three folks going to the Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from the primary film seeking gadgets they’ll use in a haunted home. They find yourself discovering the decayed Springlock Bonnie go well with William Afton (Matthew Lillard) died in on the finish of the primary film, taking it with them.
Talking with Selection, Tammi unpacked William’s return on the finish of 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2. The ending lays the groundwork for his arrival within the third installment, mirroring the occasions of the 5 Nights at Freddy’s 3 online game:
We finish Film One with [William Afton] being dragged off, and the concept was at all times that he could be teed up on the finish of Film Two for a 3rd movie, ought to we be lucky sufficient to make one. That basically hyperlinks to the place Film Three and Recreation Three enter the scene. We get these nice glimpses of William Afton all through this movie which are actually extra by means of the lens of Vanessa and her reminiscences and PTSD from her relationship with him. To then get a glimpse in direction of the top of what he’s now changing into and has turn into, when the belief is, at the very least from our characters throughout the movie, that he’s useless … it’s simply such an effective way to convey it again to Afton.
As well as, Tami mentioned the ultimate post-credits scene, an audio log from Henry Emily, Charlotte’s father, who reveals he was William’s enterprise associate. She defined how the tape was impressed by these within the video games, whereas additionally explaining how becoming Ulrich’s efficiency was given his previous work with Matthew Lillard in Scream:
That was impressed by among the tape recordings from the sport. It was a mishmash additionally of choosing up the Marionette on the finish, because it intersects with Henry, and definitely as he’s reaching out to Mike. This movie is basically an introduction to Henry, with out going too deep into his backstory. That recording felt like the right tease to nod our hat to the truth that we might be going deeper with him in a 3rd movie.
As soon as [Ulrich’s] title was introduced up for the primary time, it simply clicked so arduous, and all of us acquired so enthusiastic about it. I feel each crew member who began catching wind that this was one thing that was going to occur had such an overwhelmingly excited response. It was an across-the-board validation for a way cool this was going to be, and the way well-received that reunion was going to be.
Michael’s transformation right into a possessed Springlock Bonnie is pulled proper from the third recreation. In 5 Nights at Freddy’s 3, gamers a lot survive in Fazbear’s Fright, a haunted home impressed by Freddy Fazbear’s. The one animatonic there’s Springtrap, the kid killer now confined to his springlock go well with. If a 3rd film occurs, it appears its story will pull this instantly from the sport.
As for Henry, the audio recording makes it sound like he was killed by Charlotte, his personal daughter. She’s at present possessing Vanessa, one thing the previous Freddy’s enterprise associate tried warning Mike about earlier than his assumed dying. This implies she’ll even be a menace within the third movie, her physique puppeteered by the soul of one in every of Michael’s first victims.
Since 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 has its characters separated by the top of the film, it is unclear how everybody will come again collectively for the following chapter. It is cheap to imagine Mike and Abby will catch wind of the haunted home, probably studying about Michael’s return. With the youngsters saying they could not include him anymore, the pair will doubtless know what’s occurring instantly.
As for Charlotte, her anger in any respect mother and father might venture onto William, leading to a father-daughter confrontation as Vanessa lastly comes face-to-face with a household reckoning. Since 5 Nights at Freddy’s 2 included so many features of the bigger recreation lore, a large variety of storylines might be coming to a head if a sequel will get confirmed.
- Launch Date
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December 5, 2025
- Director
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Emma Tammi
- Writers
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Scott Cawthon
- Producers
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Jason Blum, Scott Cawthon
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Matthew Lillard
William Afton