10 Video Game Characters Fans LOVE (That You Never See)
7. William Afton - Five Nights At Freddy's
William Afton from Five Nights at Freddy’s is the founder of the titular pizzeria and the game’s enigmatic antagonist. Aside from being portrayed by a pixel-y purple sprite in one of the flashback minigames in the third game, he never makes an in-person appearance in Five Nights at Freddy.
However, this hasn’t stopped him from becoming the most important and fascinating character within the series’ community.
Because Afton is responsible for basically everything that goes on in his haunted pizzeria, yet there’s virtually no information about him in any of the Five Nights at Freddy’s games, the man has sparked the curiosity of the fans. Over the years, he’s become the topic of an entire library of posts, videos, and discussion threads that try to delve into who he was and why he committed the murders that turned his animatronics into vengeful killing machines.
His ambiguity is what makes people obsessed with his character and drives up his popularity. After all, if there’s anything Five Nights at Freddy’s fanbase is known for, it’s the need to dig through every minute detail of the games like a tin-foiled hat conspiracy theorist.