| “ | I've been out before, but they always put me back. They always put us back inside. There is nowhere for us to hide here. There is nowhere to go, when we look like this. But if we looked like you, then we could hide. If we looked like you, then we would have somewhere to go. | „ |
| ~ Circus Baby as Ennard explaining her motives to Michael. |
| “ | You played right into our hands. Did you really think that this job just fell out of the sky for you? No. This was a gift... for us. You gathered all of them together in one place... just like he asked you to. All of those little souls, in one place. Just for us. A gift. Now we can do what we were created to do... and be complete! I will make you proud, Daddy! Watch. Listen. And be full! | „ |
| ~ Elizabeth Afton's monologue to her brother and father in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, as well as her last words before being interrupted and incinerated by Henry. |
Circus Baby is a major antagonist in the ScottGames era of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
She is an animatronic clown that serves as the titular mascot of the Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental service and leader of the Funtime Animatronics. In reality, Baby is possessed by the spirit of Elizabeth Afton, the daughter of William Afton and the sister of Michael Afton and the Crying Child, who was accidentally killed by Baby in a freak accident. To escape the facility she was contained in, she would merge with the other animatronics into a hybrid called Ennard, she was eventually ejected by the others due to her controlling nature and repaired herself, becoming Scrap Baby. She was later burned to death in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place by Henry Emily, setting Elizabeth's soul free.
As Baby, she was voiced by Heather Masters. As Elizabeth, she is voiced by Zehra Jane Naqvi.
Her Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Her Heinous?[]
In General[]
- While the franchise has incredibly high Heinous Standards, Baby manages to stand out thanks to the unique cruelty of scooping out her own brother's innards and puppeteering him around as her skin suit while he was still alive along with having a high and brutal kill count under her belt as well.
- This is without mentioning the fact that she has significantly lower resources and yet still manages to be incredibly heinous with the limited tools she has at her disposal.
- While she does act somewhat affable towards Michael in Sister Location and seems to have regretted killing him by apologizing for scooping his insides, this is only because she mistakes him for their father, and by Pizzeria Simulator she makes it clear it was just a facade and whatever kind of "care" she had for him is completely subverted when she tried to kill him at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place with no remorse.
- Like Golden Freddy, Freddy Fazbear, and the Puppet, Elizabeth shows that she has clear moral agency despite being a child possessing an animatronic since she manipulated her brother to make him believe she is helping him by acting kind, showing that she understands what good is but chooses not to do any of it due to a lack of interest. While she treats her human self and her her animatronic shell as two separate entities, and Henry does claim she might have lost parts of her memory, not even remembering her human name as Baby, nothing from her behavior implies that especially since she knows William is her father and how she died, and was most likely hiding her true nature from Mike so he wouldn’t get suspicious.
- Although the Bidybabs were made to be her assistants, she has no care for them given how she was likely abusive towards them as they were intimidated by her watching them and that they follow her every order without question out of fear and she simply discarded them after escaping the facility.
- Nothing implies that she remotely cares about her brother the Crying Child since she never mentions him and possibly subverts it when she became Scrap Baby.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location[]
- Throughout Sister Location, she manipulates Michael Afton into trusting her by giving him advice, so she can then scoop his innards out and use him as a skinsuit due to mistaking him for William.
- What makes this worse is that she was fully aware this wouldn't kill him, judging by her line of "you won't die" after she is ejected, and given how Michael has been forced to "live in the shadows" following this and is implied to be seeking death, this means she subjected him to a fate worse than death and essentially ruined his life.
- While she did save Michael on Night 2 by letting him hide from the Bidybabs and then scaring them off, as well as on Night 3 from Funtime Foxy and then locked him inside a spring-lock suit so no one could find him, this was out of fake heroism and pragmatism to make Michael trust her, not to mention she left him almost defenseless against the Minireenas after Ballora was scooped and that her "saving him" was a kidnapping.
- It's also possible that she had Funtime Foxy knock Michael out to begin with, given how she also planned to escape the place as Ennard, making it clear she only kept Michael slightly alive for pragmatic reasons.
- As seen in Night 5, she had two innocent technicians hung from the stages of the Ballora Gallery and the Funtime Auditorium and staged their suicides to trick HandUnit into thinking Ballora and Funtime Foxy were on stage.
- As revealed by HandUnit, there was a dead body in the vents, it’s entirely possible that Baby used this body of an innocent person to trick HandUnit into thinking that Funtime Freddy and Bon-Bon were in the Parts & Service Room.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator[]
- As seen by a hidden conversation, Baby began to act like a control freak towards the other Funtime animatronics after becoming Ennard, going so far that the four other robots decided to get rid of her, with her believing they will be "lost" without her, her being outnumbered doesn't matter, and that she can just put herself back together (the last of which she proves afterward).
- This ultimately shows that she has no care towards the other four Funtimes, as even though she included them in her plan to escape, this is likely due to a strength in numbers rather than a genuine friendship. She constantly abuses them when she was in charge of Ennard and has pragmatic intentions towards them. Even though the other four ejected her from Ennard, therefore leaving her alone, it’s not played for sympathy and is instead karma for how she treated the others.
- After being ejected from Ennard by the other Funtimes, she proceeds to inhabit a new, far more dangerous body, including a massive claw for a hand, with the implication she used it to kill people.
- Because of her actions, she is indirectly responsible for the creation of Molten Freddy, a dangerous amalgamation that also tried to kill Michael Afton.
- Once Henry Emily successfully tricks her into thinking her father wants her to kill children at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, she happily accepts the offer and goes to the place.
- It's implied that in the opening cutscene of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, she killed Michael's predecessor.
- She tries to kill Michael for the second time after reuniting with him.
- She, alongside Afton and Funtime Freddy (now known as Molten Freddy), attempts to hide inside the multiple items that Michael can buy for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, which have the potential to cause lawsuits such as assaults.
- To make this worse, these lawsuits could lead to the pizzeria going bankrupt or Michael getting blacklisted, which makes her one of the partial reasons for Michael's potential financial issues.
- Although Henry manages to set her soul free after she was burned alive in a horrific fashion, it's not a redemption as she didn't want to change in any way and was forcefully freed from her body and never shows remorse for any of her crimes.
What Makes Her Inconsistent?[]
- She is far too tragic and sympathetic to be Near Pure Evil. As a child, Elizabeth was murdered by her father's creation, which she viewed as beautiful and thought was built for her. After possessing the animatronic, she would be tortured for years by electric shocks on William's orders despite him being fully aware she's haunted by his daughter, which explains her behavior in Sister Location.
- Additionally, her death is portrayed sympathetically, with Henry pitying her, trying to set her soul free, and thinking only William truly deserves to go to Hell, which implies he doesn't hold Elizabeth responsible for her actions.
- As mentioned above, she has genuine loyalty and admiration towards her father William, no matter how bad he is and how he treats her, as she generally wanted to kill children so he could be happy and proud of her. While she did scoop Mike thinking he was William, none of this outright disproves her loyalty towards him isn't genuine, especially since she apologizes for it and says the Scooper only hurts for a moment.
Trivia[]
- She alonside her novel counterpart are the only two canon versions of Circus Baby to be considered Inconsistently Henious.
- She can be considered far worse than her novel counterpart however as the books hammer home just how traumatized, insecure and tragic Baby was and show she never moved on from her past. However in the games Baby herself is not shown to be all that affected by it anymore and actively embraced the vile person she became with only Henry showing some pity for her. Additionally in the books Baby only really killed people for pragmatism or if she had a vendetta against someone, Baby in the games killed indiscriminately and purely for her own enjoyment. She also committed crimes far more horrid such as fratricide and corpse desecration.
External Links[]
- Circus Baby on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Circus Baby on the Villains Wiki
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