Game Theory: FNAF, A Family REBUILT (Ultimate Timeline Finale)

Scott, Matpat and Markiplier made this franchise what it is in the best way possible for us to experience let’s be honest

I love the idea of Clara Afton being the new main villain. She was just a mother who wanted her family back, the world be damned. In doing so, she became just as bad as her husband.

Matpat: _"Finally... The Ultimate Timeline is FINIS-"_
The Mimic:
*"I wouldn't say 'finished', more like... under new management."*

The only issue I have with this storyline is the timeline (ironically)
William Afton was alive around 1930s, and in here, Security Breach is set in 2030s. So unless Clara Afton was uncomfortably younger than William, She has to be around 100 years old if She's even still alive

MatPats voice is both therapeutic and terrifying.. we need to have him be a voice over for a scary movie that has no voice lines, only story telling and sound effects

I love how you turned it into a narrative. Having it has a complete story makes it so much more interesting and also satisfying. Great job Team Theorist!

Have I played a game? No.
Did I watch every episode, some multiple times, because I love timelines and Matpats creative take? YES.

I literally grew up watching Mapat's FNAF videos on Game Theory. This series on FNAF was my entire childhood. I'm so glad I got to grow with these videos. It's nice to see a cohesive, mostly complete theory to put this franchise to rest.
That is, until the DLC and the movie come out.
Also the trailer--

The dedication this man has for this franchise is immeasurable

Usually, some of Mattpats FNAF theories tent to be kinda far fetched, but really, the way this he explained it all and analyzed it makes this final timeline theory actually seem like a coherrent narrative!
Especially considering this is FNAF we're talking about!
The only big whole I currently see here is that, if you do the math, Mrs. Afton is most likely somewhere way over 70 years old, considering she was old enough to have a teenage son in the 1990s, which would most likely be somewhere between 30 and 50! Add 40 years up to Security Breach and you get an at least 70 years!
Though I gotta say, since she had the formula for Remnant, and maybe even some leftover doses from William, she could've easily injected herself with that stuff! The Remnant let Michael live, move around, tamper with animatronics and (In FNAF 6) let him move such big robots into a building, for years on end, all despite being a literal rotting corpse!
So I'd be suprised if that stuff couldn't keep an old woman alive and kickin!

These last few timeline videos have been amazing. Not just how everything comes together but the way it’s narrated. I’d totally buy it if it was released as an audio book

Revisiting these after the release of the first movie teaser, and I also wanna give a hats off to the editing team! Thank you for all that you do for this channel!

Watching Matpat's descent into madness in trying to solve or make a narrative sense of this franchise is a joy honestly.

Crazy how it took years to finalize the entire timeline because of how intense and complicated FNAF is. It’s amazing

Everyone: "Thank you for solving the lore Matthew!"
The Mimic, in the form of MatPat: "I wouldn't say *solved* more like, under new implications."

This was my childhood, I’ve been watching Matt since I was seven. I cried after watching this series because I feel like Matt finally did it, and most importantly, he’s happy. 9 whole years, and Matt’s happy with a fnaf theory. He changed the narrative we all knew, but in a logical way. Congrats, Matt, Steph, everyone on the team. You did it.

After 3 whole days I finished a collective 60 videos of fnaf lore my brain hurts but I’m glad I did it anyway s thanks MatPat

I am so happy I got to understand this whole lore so well. I was never allowed to watch game-plays or was too scared. My friend is a huge fan but couldn't find the words to explain it to me. We're going to see the movie as well when it comes out and I'm just so glad I understand this whole thing, sounds like a really cool story too! Thanks 🙏

Matt BETTER be in the FNAF movie as a cameo. He deserves it for all the work he's put into making sense of this franchise

It sounds crazy but it all makes sense! Thank you MatPat

Whether the theory is correct or not, you tell a great story! Thanks for the dedication!!

I have no words, this was an absolute delight to watch. Thank you Mat Pat and the team for putting this all together!

Couple of things I hope you consider. First, in your timeline, William sold his ownership stake (at least a significant percentage of it) in the Fazbear Corporation. So the trademarks, patents, and all other IP would belong to the corporation, not Mrs. Afton upon his death. Also the company went bankrupt, so that stuff would have all been sold to pay off corporate debts. Now given that a decent percentage of his research is about child murder, those probably weren't listed as corporate assets, so maybe she found that stuff while going through his belongs or something. The IP needed to reopen the pizzeria, however, she would have had to purchase from the bankruptcy. Given that it was associated with child murder, she could have gotten it on the cheap. But she wouldn't just inherit it. Second, as for the emails referencing management trying to stop the spread of the Springtrap virus, I have two potential explanations. She could have only wanted to target Vanessa, but prevent it going anywhere else. Or she could have been replaced as the head of the company. Not sure how that fits in the timeline, but it's possible one person approved the plan to scan the boards, but a new person replaced her (or whoever) and ordered the scanning stopped. Food for thought. Keep up the great work. I'll never play these games, but I feel like I know plenty about them from your videos.

Putting those theatrics to work. Regardless if it ends up standing or not, I LOVE this story you’ve written from the pieces.

If the live action film ever comes out it needs Matpat as a conspiracy theorist warning everyone about the pizzeria

You made my childhood with this Mathew... Thank you so so much for your crazy dedication, way of thinking and simply mad theories ❤

Personally I love that mrs afton in your theory has played such a huge role it’s really nice that she’s finally getting some actual attention

This man never ceases to amaze me with how well put together his work huh.

Don’t know if anyone else has noticed this yet but in the cast credits for the FNAF movie there is a character simply named ‘female villain’. She’s played by Mary Stuart Masterson. What other female villain could we have in the fnaf lore? I think MatPat is right on the money with ‘Clara’ Afton being the new big bad

i binged all of the episodes and they were so interesting: i think the way mat narrates the videos like he’s reading a short story makes it all the more interesting and now i’m invested and i can’t wait for the movie

matpat’s dedication to this series is unlike no other. mad respect to mat for raising a generation of fnaf nerds 😭

My last 2 hours have been filled with chills and uneasiness but at least I know a little more about the fnaf lore now.

You know the more you watch this channel you can see how much madness That's in Mat's mind.

Love how Scott put himself in the game lore, very cool

... I'm pretty sure that even though he has plenty of other things to make videos about, MatPat will feel that thing we're all familiar with when ending a series you love or being done with a huge project you loved working on and then going "Finally, done!... Now what?"

It actually makes so much sense, I’m honestly surprised you managed to put FNAF VR into the timeline because I couldn’t myself think of this game possibly being an important and relevant part of the lore. I knew some infos were important and were not here for nothing but I never could come up with something. You did an amazing job Mat, we’re proud of your work and how you made all of this. Also the editing is always on point, great job to everyone who worked on this video 🙌🏻

The fact that this man, found a way to make Special Delivery canon is why I will forever be impressed with Matpat and his videos.

As for the mom suddenly turning back and trying to stop her husband from coming back after opening the pizza plex, I can see it being out of fear of the puppet. That fear could have even led her to reprogram gregory herself to turn against william and undo everything she had done up until that point.

I would argue it would make alot more sense for afton to have built a ROBOTIC version of his wife, and she’s the one that took over with relentless determination

love watching these videos because FNAF is so entertaining with its lore, im not a big fnaf fan but god damn this game franchise has made the most entertaining lore!

I like how mrs afton despite how insane her husband was she still loved him enough to bring him back.Honestly this seems like an amazing timeline that actually makes sense.

Congrats on this video series matt. Incredible work.

MatPat is so focused on this series I wouldn’t be surprised if he became the next afton

You don't have to believe in the theory, you need to feel it. Amazing work! keep it up!👍

Clara being the architect of this new era of fnaf is something I am quite interested about.

As much as I love this theory how old does that make Clara? In the first video Mat says that William was a child in the 1930s and Clara begins her work to ‘rebuild the family’ in 2035 so assuming she is around the same age as William she would be roughly 100 years old

you did a great job on this everyone! Congrats :)

I’m not a fan of FNAF but the lore has always been interesting to me. Absolutely loved these videos.

Imagine if Scott just throws random lore at us, waits for MatPat to make a timeline that makes sense, then uses it as the actual lore, wouldn't that be funny

man i love how charlotte and michael just continue on as long as william existed, and how each character eventually turns to the destruction of the franchise.

i pray that the new devs decide to prove his theory wrong and yet make it link, that way continuing this chaotic masterpiece which is mat pat’s FNAF series

An issue I have with this is that even assuming Clara is a bit younger than William, say she's born in 1940, that would still make her more than 80 years old when she rebuilds the corporation

These videos always had amazing quality but this series blew me away! 10/10

I feel like this timeline makes sense. I can see another filling in that position of the CEO for FF LLC, but I have to agree that it is the mother. I feel like after everything the family's been through, I wouldn't be surprised if the mother had a psychotic break and made everything happen. And it's too much of a coincidence with the parallels between everything already covered and what's happened in Security Breach.

I can’t believe Mat somehow made FNaF AR a part of the timeline and also made it make a relative amount of sense is honestly impressive, great job Mat. :)

So, curious question. Have you thought about doing a theory as to why Roxanne Wolf has unique eyes, compared to the other Pizzaplex animatronics? What was the point of making her eyes unique to all the other characters, other than plot convenience for Gregory giving Freddy new eyes?
I've been looking around to see if anyone talked about it, but I didn't find anything. Or did you already explain it in an earlier video that I didn't catch it?

I love this entire timeline sooooo much

This was really well done. I'm proud of you all

Round of applause for this! ♥ great work!

I used to dislike security breach as I struggled to understand it. Until this video. And I am once again satisfied with the fnaf lore 😎

Can’t wait to come back in 2 years and see how much of this timeline is still kept

If MatPat isn’t a detective in the FNAF movie who tries to figure out who the killer is then they are missing out on one heck of an opportunity.

Amazing, i agree with this timeline vid and it makes the most sense tbh, Keep up the great work Mtpat :)

Can't wait to see if they take this story any further or if it truly is over with SB

This is the best theory ever. Im so happy yall made it. Its so amazing how well this story has come around. It just makes me so happy. Gg everybody, well played

Mat’s dedication to piecing together this mother of a franchise is immaculate

The fact that no one tried to fit the mom into any of the other theories outside of Sister Location is wild. She's part of the main family yet the one we know/seen the least so it makes since that she's been influencing the world behind the scenes

Woo! Finally, the end! This series of videos has been phenomenal !

I'm really proud of you for figuring out the timeline, Matpat! But I feel like now that there's nothing to speculate about I feel… empty? Can anyone else relate? It's not like one of those "I mIsS tHe OlD fNaF" situations, it's just that back when nobody knew who Golden Freddy was we had something mysterious to talk about at shcool, college, heck even work. I really like the lore and timeline you’ve all created, yet I still don't feel satisfied I don't crave more, I wish there was less, I just feel empty inside now that theres nothing to speculate about.

I’ve only recently got into the lore of fnaf and am loving it the bite of 83 spring trap everything it’s so interesting

My childhood feels complete, now I feel like a happy sad
Scott, matpat, markiplier and more have made this franchise what it is today

Magnum opus! 🎉 Well done you guys!

Security Breach is one of those games that just creeps up on you. Unnerving when you find a spot on the map you've never been... that post-it room is quite freaky!

Very interesting conclusion to the Game Theory FNaF Timeline. Great work everyone.

I'd say for the part where they try to contain a bit of the Glitchtrap virus is for the Mom to want the family back together but not want William to go off and do his own stuff again. By trying to contain him to a single body limits his control and brings back the family. :)

You nailed it. The final episode (hope not). From 2016 and 9 years old until today, I watched your FNAF videos because I'm addicted to it, hope I will see you do some gameplay and even reach 8000 points in UCN live on GTLive.

GOD i love this its so cool! mrs afton being a linchpin is so interesting and fascinating! i cannot wait to see where this goes i am so exited this ALMOST makes me wanna refine my personal fnaf au but no i'm far past doing that but reguardless this episode is amazing and i love it

And then a new book comes which changes the timeline entirely. MatPat takes another 11 years and it repeats.

I’m glad that Mat made this whole timeline story. I don’t even care if/that he got something wrong here or there, it’s just a story and I’m here to enjoy hearing it come from MatPat.

Matpat: I'm done with the theories
Scott: *releases more FNAF games*
Matpat: *Finding FNAF theories*

Really feel like he got a hold of the Fnaf script and is showing us what's gonna happen in the movies

Fantastic job again mat, and everybody else ofc!

This was amazing but a really interesting take showing how William’s wife took the pieces that are left

i have something to say, because those security bots that jumpscare you, and calls for the other robots reminds me of the fnaf four animatronics, bc they kinda keep you away from there where you want to go, and the nightmares they were made to keep micheal in the room.
thanks for reading this =).

I honestly love the way you made Afton's wife as an actual character with narative importance! It tied her in quite well.

Matpat sounds like he’s just born to be a story teller

Sheesh. Why would Afton’s “wife” want anything to do with her lunatic husband to the point she would revive the company and become the NEW big bad after everything William did? If I was her, I’d abandon the Afton name and divorce him.
And I still find the “Gregory is Robot” thing to be the biggest conundrum to why he is hiding from Vanny or why Burntrap/the possessed animatronics would be after him. One more thing: about the whole “bad childhood” for Vanessa being the best means to control her, CD 16 LITERALLY has the therapist say they LIED when confronting about their family. This is Vanessa. Glitchtrap was trying to keep himself from being found and his grip broken. I purposefully think Matt overlooked this.

This new style of episode, with all the storytelling, is actually my favorite video format.

I look forward to the fnaf movie and see how well they capture this series

Hello fellow theorists! I'm going to other FNAF channels, because seeing more perspectives gets more answers. So, please share your theories! This is to help everyone get their ideas down, so please, even if it's the most controversial theory, PLEASE Share! I'd love to hear more theories and their reasoning, ( Also, if you do find a FNAF theory you don't agree with, instead of replying to them, make an opposing theory instead of making arguments-) and have an amazing day everyone!

This was amazing

Amazing theory and it’s great to see the timeline, after all of it I have a burning question. How old would that make mrs afton? Wouldn’t that make her some where between her late 50s/early 80s?

MatPat: Finally, it's been more than a decade, and I finally finish this god forsaken horror game franchise
Scott: Are you sure about that?
Also MatPat, when the movie comes out with its own lore (I know you are gonna be mad if that happens) you have to release the video here bc this is where the FNaF theories started, and will end.

THANK you. This answers so many UNANSWERED questions left by Steel Wool, and sews together any and most threads together quite nicely.

no but honestly the concept of springtrap still freaks me the hell out after all these years. i think it was my first introduction to any sort of body horror and left me forever horrified :'D

I swear I solved the entire FNAF lore book on my own, from endings, to rebuilds, to deaths, to game phrase, to the songs, and watching this video is making me dive deeper into the entire lore. I am onto something about these theories, I swear I am, and I think I'm headed in the right direction

I’m so happy that all your work finally paid off. You’ve done so much for this community, and I’m so happy that you have stuck around to do all this. Thank you.

I can't beleive I never played one FNAF game! But enjoyed others play the game and the amount of Lore/Theories about this game. I really can't wait for the FNAF movie and FNAF Security Breach DLC!

even if it doesn’t turn out to be right, i really like the ideas in this video!

This little series was a joy to listen to.
Eat your heart out George R. R. Martin, make way for a REAL storyteller.