In Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, there are four main animatronics: Scrap Baby, Scraptrap (William Afton), Molten Freddy, and Lefty. As well as this, in the non canon Custom Night, there were new variations, such as Bonnet and Electrobab.

In Sister Location, there are seven Funtime Animatronics that are added: Circus Baby, Funtime Freddy and Bon Bon, Funtime Foxy, Ballora, Minireenas, Ennard, Bidybabs, as well as Easter egg characters Yenndo and Lolbit. In Five Nights at Freddy's 4 the Nightmare Animatronics were added: Nightmare Fredbear, Nightmare, Nightmare Freddy (and Freddles), Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Foxy, Nightmare Chica & Nightmare Cupcake and Plushtrap, Nightmare Balloon Boy, and the Non-Canon Halloween DLC which includes Jack-O-Bonnie, Jack-O-Chica, Nightmare Mangle and Nightmarionne. He is also accompanied by hallucinations strongly resembling various animatronics from FNaF 1 and 2, known as the Phantom Animatronics. In Five Nights at Freddy's 3 a single physical animatronic is added, that being Springtrap.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 2, new animatronics are added: Shadow Freddy, RWQFSFASXC, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica & Toy Cupcake, Mangle, Balloon Boy, Toy Freddy, and The Puppet, as well as worn-down versions of the original animatronics known as Withered Animatronics. In Five Nights at Freddy's, there are five animatronics, Bonnie, Chica & The Cupcake, Foxy, Freddy and an easter egg, Golden Freddy. In the Five Nights at Freddy's series, various animatronics and a few humans are introduced as characters.

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