| The Yellow Rabbit |
The Yellow Rabbit is the main antagonist of Into the Pit, both the story and the game. He's also the main antagonist in the interactive novel version of the story, Five Nights at Freddy's: Return to the Pit. He is a supernatural entity that stalks Oswald during his visits to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and eventually follows him home.
Physical Appearance[]
In the story, the Yellow Rabbit is described as a yellow version of Bonnie with fuzzy yellow fur and big paws and feet. It's unclear if he's an animatronic or a living creature. The Yellow Rabbit has blank and dead eyes that "didn't feel like a living creature's eyes."[1] He usually has an unchanging grin, but he can unhinge his jaw and open it incredibly wide to reveal double rows of sharp fangs. The Yellow Rabbit is wearing a purple bow tie. After his death, he's nothing more than a dirty, empty yellow rabbit costume.
On the cover and in the unused illustration, his head is large and body rotund, similar to Nightmare Fredbear's. His eyes are blue, with organic material surrounding them. Inside of his grinning jaw are huge square-ish teeth. He also has two black buttons under his purple bow tie. On the cover, a black liquid - possible physical manifestation of agony - is leaking out of his right eye socket.
History[]
Book[]
In Fazbear Frights: Into the Pit, at Jeff's Pizza, Oswald had an argument with his dad and decided to hide in the ball pit. However, upon emerging from the pit, he found himself in the year 1985, in which Jeff's Pizza used to be the establishment of the original Freddy Fazbear's Gang. Nobody seems to notice the golden rabbit except for Oswald. During another visit, Oswald spots Spring Bonnie standing lifelessly in the corner of a room, staring.
On Oswald's last visit to Freddy's, something is amiss, as customers escape the pizzeria. Spring Bonnie lures Oswald to the back room of Freddy's, where he sees Spring Bonnie's six other child victims, who were murdered and had party hats put on their heads. Spring Bonnie pursues Oswald towards the present day, where Oswald's father is waiting. Suddenly, Spring Bonnie drags Oswald's dad down the pit and emerges from it, taking Oswald into his dad's car and quietly driving off.
For a couple of days, Spring Bonnie seems to just impersonate Oswald's father, even the child's mother finds nothing wrong with him. It watches television, sleeps in a bed, and drives like a normal person. Only Oswald can see Spring Bonnie for what he truly is. One night, Spring Bonnie beckons Oswald downstairs where he offers him pizza. Spring Bonnie never says a single word to Oswald.
Finally, Oswald sneaks off to Jeff's Pizza, entering the ball pit for the last time, where he finds his dad and is confronted by Spring Bonnie. Spring Bonnie and Oswald begin to fight, with Oswald getting a few good pushes in. Spring Bonnie manages to bite into Oswald's arm with his unhinged, fanged jaw, drawing plenty of blood from Oswald, who punches the animatronic to get free. In the end, Spring Bonnie ends up tangled into the ball pit's netting, with part of the net strangling him. Noiselessly, he struggles and begs Oswald for help, ending up asphyxiated and hung in the ball pit. Suddenly, Spring Bonnie appears empty and rotten, his hung form almost appearing like it was there all along.
Game[]
Spring Bonnie returns as the main antagonist. He kills six children in 1985, and kidnaps and replaces Oswald's dad like in the original story. But, in this new iteration of the story, Oswald goes back to Jeff's Pizza over five nights, traveling back to 1985 to find his father and save five other kids who have been captured by the animatronics. Spring Bonnie tries to stop him from escaping his house and follows him into the pit, hunting him down. Oswald must distract Spring Bonnie using noisemakers (loud objects) and hide. If Spring Bonnie suspects Oswald is in a room, a quick time event occurs (holding breath or swatting spiders) and must be completed to avoid being detected. However, if you have a flashlight, Oswald can blind Spring Bonnie via another quick time event and be able to run from him.
Once a kid is rescued, Spring Bonnie attacks, going after Oswald while the kid escapes to the exit. Oswald must go back into the pit to return to the present, go home, and the gameplay repeats the next night. Things get harder as the core band starts activating. Chica, in particular, is a main cohort, alerting Spring Bonnie of Oswald's location when he goes near her. Eventually, on the final night, Oswald finds his dad but he is taken by Spring Bonnie before he can rescue him. How the game ends depends on how many secrets and collectibles are found.
On a normal run, you can get the one star ending, where Oswald is taken into the pit after saving his dad. It's implied Spring Bonnie kills him. In the two star ending, unlocked if you find five of your dad's belongings, Oswald finds a photo in the party room where Spring Bonnie murdered the children; a photo of Afton and Henry. During the final battle, Spring Bonnie sees the photo and freaks out. This leads to where he gets caught in the neck and hangs himself like in the book. However, after Oswald and his dad leave, planning on moving away from town, a post credits scene shows Spring Bonnie surviving and killing Jeff. In the three star ending, unlocked if you also find the three secret minigames based on To Be Beautiful, Count the Ways and Fetch, the ending stays the same but Spring Bonnie stays dead. Oswald and his family stay in town and Jeff revitalizes his pizzeria.
Return to the Pit[]
Spring Bonnie returns as the main antagonist of the original story's retelling. The canon route has Spring Bonnie do the same things as he did in the original; kill the Missing Children, follow Oswald to his time, replace his Dad and eventually be defeated and hung to death. However, the interactive nature of this novel has many new routes and outcomes for the demonic rabbit. One ending has Oswald win over the yellow rabbit by flashing him with a flashlight, causing him to stumble backwards and be impaled by a sharp object on the floor. This also causes the ball pit to disappear. There are also endings where Oswald is brainwashed by Spring Bonnie, using hypnotic birthday hats and plastic bunny ears.
One route sees Oswald join forces with Chip, a friend he made in 1985 now all grown up in his time. Chip reveals that he was aware of Spring Bonnie's evil potential and the power of the ball pit. Chip takes Oswald to join a group assembled to take down the rabbit, only for it to be revealed that Spring Bonnie had already infiltrated the ranks, disguised as the group's leader. Regardless of what the reader chooses, all paths end with Spring Bonnie attacking and killing the people hunting him inside Jeff's Pizza, along with Oswald.
Another route sees Oswald get sucked into an arcade game titled "8-Bit Escape", being hunted down by an 8-bit version of Spring Bonnie. Failure does lead to Spring Bonnie attacking and killing Oswald on most instances, but since he's in a video game, he respawns immediately. This route leads to a secret ending where Oswald frees pixelated version of the children Spring Bonnie planned on killing. Giving these kids birthday cake causes Spring Bonnie to convulse and explode. Oswald is returned to his own time, in a world where the children were never killed.
Speculation[]
- As revealed in the final Stitchwraith Stinger, the ball pit contains the memories of people who had died in agonizing ways, many by the hands of Eleanor. Since Oswald's experience at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza isn't literal, shown by the tokens manifesting in his pockets, it can be assumed that he is actually living through the collective memory of the pizzeria's victims. Under this, the Yellow Rabbit would be a monstrous manifestation of William Afton created by the warped memories of his victims, which is why the yellow rabbit is an organic creature rather than a man in a suit.
- In the series, when something is possessed by agony, it's represented by a black liquid similar to blood. As the Yellow Rabbit shows "black blood" coming out of the eye on the cover, it is implied that he's possessed by agony. He is most likely possessed by the exact same agony that had been infecting most of the objects throughout the Fazbear Frights universe after the death of William Afton at the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, which is further supported by the Stitchwraith Stinger from Fazbear Frights 8: Gumdrop Angel and Fazbear Frights 9: The Puppet Carver.
- This story could potentially be another case of illusion discs being used. Only Oswald saw the Yellow Rabbit for what he really was, which could be because he had seen him in the 1985 Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Every other person saw the Yellow Rabbit as Oswald's father, because that's what they expected to see. Jinx, Oswald's cat, also saw the Yellow Rabbit for what he was because Jinx has no expectations as to what will walk through the door.
Trivia[]
Original Return to the Pit cover.
- Curiously, Yellow Rabbit's design was changed in the Fazbear Frights: Graphic Novel Collection 1 and Five Nights at Freddy's: Return to the Pit.
- In the graphic novel, his bow tie and buttons are now red. Possibly, that change was made to make him more fitting to the design of Spring Bonnie from the graphic novel adaptations of the novel trilogy.
- In the cover of Return to the Pit, his blue eye's are now yellow.
- Before the Five Nights at Freddy's: The Ultimate Guide and the game adaptation officially named the creature "Yellow Rabbit", fans referred to the being as "Spring Bonnie" due to it having a very similar appearance to the suit of the same name that was used by William Afton to commit his murders.
- In response to a fan's claim that Spring Bonnie's black fluid on the cover of the book was meant to be blood, LadyFiszi corrected them and said it is intentionally supposed to look like "black fluid".[2]
- Yellow Rabbit has voice-lines in the game Five Nights At Freddy's: Into the Pit, however the voice actor is unknown.
- ↑ Fazbear Frights #1: Into the Pit | Into the Pit | Page 62
- ↑ "Nope, it is supposed to be black. Black fluid." https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/emw4pc/comment/fduaed0/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button