Graveyard Shift at Freddy's - TV Tropes (2024)

Graveyard Shift at Freddy's contains examples of:

Abnormal Limb Rotation Range: When on the prowl, Freddybear is shown to bend his back impossibly far, looking as if he snapped himself in twain.
Adaptation Name Change: Freddy takes on his FNaF 1 beta name Freddybear, while Carl Cupcake is named Cream here.
Adaptational Gender Identity: The original FNaF cupcake is referred to as Carl or Mr. Cupcake, with masculine pronouns, but in GSaF she's named Cream and is referred to with feminine pronouns.
Can't Move While Being Watched: Averted. In the original FNaF, the animatronics wouldn't move on camera, with any movement being out of view with glitches or camera switching... but here, they'll gladly look at the camera or run off in plain sight. Sheriff Slithers is the closest to playing it straight, not being able to move while the camera is on him and instantly dashing to the office for a Game Over if the feed changes to a different room before he leaves. Even then, all the matters is that the camera keeps an eye on him, the player doesn't need to look at it.
Closed Circle: The animatronics are unable to leave the building without suffering an horrific death. Wolfgang attempted to leave anyway, and its stated that... whatever happened to him left nothing but ash and bones.
Content Warnings: Launching the game gives one to warn the player of potential flashing lights and fast imagery that may affect epilepsy-prone players, as well as the topics present in the game and its story.
Death by Adaptation: Wolfgang, this game's counterpart to Foxy, doesn't even appear in gameplay, having been killed before the game even began while attempting to leave the pizzeria.
Development Gag: Several elements in this game are lifted from beta and pre-release concepts for the original Five Nights at Freddy's, such as the name Freddybear, Bonnie having a black bowtie, and a wolf character in place of Foxy.
Downer Ending: At the end of Night 5, Dreadybear breaks into the office and kills Rodriguez. His disappearance sparks an investigation into Freddybear's and Steve Raglan, resulting in the discovery of hundreds of bodies in the facility's basement and Raglan's disappearance.
Double-Meaning Title: A "graveyard shift" is a work shift that starts at midnight and ends in the morning, but the wording could also allude to the fact that Freddybear's is essentially a graveyard thanks to the hundreds of bodies hidden beneath the facility.
Easter Egg: If you decide to idle on the main menu in the demo for too long, the game's logo disappears as audio of someone screaming begins to play... before the game crashes and opens a tab in your browser with an image of Freddybear staring at you from the dark with bloodshot eyes. In the full game, this plays out much the same way but displays an image of the pile of bodies underneath the Playplace instead.
Fooled by the Sound: Appropriately, much like Five Nights at Freddy's 3, the way to handle Bonnie is via an alarm via each room's loudspeaker. The catch is that you're not trying to prevent him from reaching your office outright (you can't do so), but rather prevent him from going the wrong way - there are in fact two hidden doorways behind you and to your right that you can't block off in any way whatsoever, and if Bonnie reaches either door, it's game over. The player needs to watch for when Bonnie is going the wrong way and use the alarm to distract him so he moves towards the window instead, where he can be blocked off and reset. Further complicating things is that using the alarm too much will cause Bonnie to start ignoring it entirely, and the alarm only actually works at two designated locations. Thankfully, on Night 1, the game will indicate when Bonnie is in the wrong position and when to use the alarm to distract him, which is helpful for knowing when to trigger the alarm later on.
Freeze-Frame Bonus: After getting killed by an animatronic, some text quickly appears on-screen, its scale and position rapidly changing to the point where there is only a very small window where it is actually readable. In the demo, the text is a statement from Raglan to a "Mr. Schmitt" lamenting the sad fate that befell him. In the full game, it's a second person description of Rodriguez getting brutally murdered by the animatronics before Raglan cleans up his body.
The Ghost: Out of all the animatronics shown around the theming and artwork of the restaurant, Wolfgang is absent. It turns out he attempted to escape, which ended in his agonizing death.
Monstrous Mandibles: When attacking the player, Cream is shown to have three finger-like appendages inside her mouth, which she uses to puncture their flesh.
Multiple Endings: There are two endings, one for beating the game normally and one for beating it again on Grave Danger mode.
- In the standard ending, Dreadybear kills Rodriguez at 6 AM. His scream is heard, but the police are only able to find his ID card and a destroyed office at the scene. Suspecting foul play, an investigation is launched into Freddybear's and its owner Steve Raglan.
- In the Grave Danger ending, Dreadybear still kills Rodriguez, but the police are able to find the hatch in the playroom and subsequently all the bodies of those who went missing at Freddybear's, including Rodriguez. The police raid Raglan's house to arrest him, only to find it empty with signs of a struggle in his bedroom, kickstarting a statewide manhunt for him.
"Ray of Hope" Ending: If you complete Grave Danger, a hatch under the playroom is discovered containing all the bodies - including Rodriguez - and Mr. Raglan is pinned as the suspect. However, when police raid his house, they only find evidence of a scuffle and no sign of Raglan... but while the trail has gone cold, a statewide manhunt is out to look for him... or whatever might have finally gotten to take a few pounds of flesh from him after all these graveyard shifts.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: While hunting you down, the animatronics' eyes are notably a sickly, bloodshot red, reflecting their more organic origins.
Slow-Loading Internet Image: The monitoring system utilizes Wi-Fi, and on occasion the camera feed's quality will get throttled or the connection will drop entirely. To fix this, you need to restart the router located on your desk.
Super Window Jump: Played for Horror. Should you fail to close the shutter door while an animatronic is behind it, they throw towards the player with frightening velocity, tackling you to the floor before tearing you to ribbons.
The Insomniac: During the first shift's phone call, Steve Raglan will mention Rodriguez's resume. Claiming that the reason he applied for the job was that he "Couldn't sleep well at night."
There Is No Kill Like Overkill: After dying, you're given a Game Over screen with flashing distorted text and a flickering black and white image of what's implied to be your body with its eyes gouged out and barring an expression frozen in terror. The text itself, when read clearly, also states that your ribcage was also completely exposed and one of your hands was torn off.
Unstoppable Rage: More accurately, unstoppable "hanger." By the end of Shift 5, Freddybear hasn't eaten in so long that he turns into Dreadybear and rips the shutter open to get at Rodriguez - after 6 AM, no less.
Video-Game Lives: Grave Danger mode, unlocked after completing the game, introduces these into the mix. You're given 3 lives to complete the entire game from start to finish. Lose them all at any point and you're back to Shift 1.

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