In the fourth short, "Fetch," a neighbor's dog is killed by the dog animatronic, with the protagonist finding its corpse. Said animatronic also gets beaten with a baseball bat but recovers.
No other short stories have dead dogs.
"To Be Beautiful": Sarah spends a lot of time wishing she had bigger breasts and thinking about other girls' more attractive bodies. One of Eleanor's magical makeovers gives her big breasts, which give her a lot of attention from the boys at school. No adults give her sexual attention but the narrative focus is disconcerting.
"Out of Stock": The Plushtrap toy has eerily realistic eyes that are most likely from a real human. A boy touches one and recoils. At the end of the short, when the toy is destroyed by a train, one of the eyes is torn to tissue, while the other still stares at the sky.
Shorts with sad/unpleasant endings:
- "To Be Beautiful"
- "Count the Ways" (ambiguous, confirmed to be a bad ending in epilogues)
- "Fetch"
- "Lonely Freddy"
- "1:35 AM"
- "Room for One More"
- "The New Kid"
- "Step Closer"
- "In the Flesh"
- "The Man in Room 1280"
- "The Real Jake"
- "Hide-and-Seek"
- "The Breaking Wheel"
- "He Told Me Everything"
- "Gumdrop Angel"
- "Sergio's Lucky Day"
- "What We Found"
- "The Puppet Carver" (ambiguous)
- "Jump for Tickets"
- "Pizza Kit"
- "Friendly Face"
- "Sea Bonnies"
- "Together Forever"
- "Prankster" (ambiguous)
- "Kids at Play"
- "Find Player Two!"
- "Felix the Shark"
"What We Found": In the past, the main character's stepfather and mother were burned in a house fire. He later crawls into an oven to hide from Springtrap and is burned alive as it turns on.
"Jump for Tickets": The main character is trapped underneath the Ticket Pulverizer and crushed as the kids inside push the floor down onto him. This is technically offscreen but it's clear what happened.
"Pizza Kit": It turns out at the end that Payton DIDN'T eat Marley, but she is convinced that her friend had been baked into a pizza and her eating the slice is graphically described. She later throws up and has a nightmare about her friend crawling and exploding out of her.
"Hide-and-Seek": Toby attempts to drown the Shadow off of him by holding himself underwater. The Shadow then tries to drown him back by locking his weighted vest in place, but he's saved.
"Hide-and-Seek": Toby attempts to drown the Shadow off of him by holding himself underwater. The Shadow then tries to drown him back by locking his weighted vest in place, but he's saved.
"In the Flesh": .......in a way. A man has several symptoms of pregnancy and then cuts his own stomach open after realizing there's a parasite inside of him. A baby Springtrap then crawls out and calls him "Daddy" as he dies.
"The Real Jake": Jake has a PNET, and his struggle with it is the main focus of the story, leading to his death. He later appears in the epilogues as a ghost.
"Step Closer": Pete is cursed to lose an eye and an arm, and his arm is nearly sliced in several detailed accidents. It's eventually removed after he dies for an organ donation.
"Jump for Tickets": Colton develops mild claustrophobia after hiding behind a closet. Then, a large part of the story features Colton being trapped under the Ticket Pulverizer before he's crushed to death.
"Fetch" has the titular animatronic constantly stalk the protagonist, somehow connecting to his phone and delivering all his desires to his front porch.
"Out of Stock": The Plushtrap has what appears to be human teeth, described multiple times. They start bleeding from the gums as it chews through wood and metal and are later found in the train tracks after the toy is destroyed.
Most of the shorts have the police being useless at best. The epilogues has a police detective investigating a string of disappearances as its protagonist, but it reads more like a detective story than a police procedural.
"Sea Bonnies": Technically, as Mott does flush the living Sea Bonnies down the toilet in attempt to kill them. In his defense, they were psychologically torturing him the whole time and continued to do so after the attempted killing.
"Out of Stock": Oscar helps care for a man in his mom's nursing home who seems to have dementia. It's not made explicit, but he suffers from paranoia and delusions.
"To Be Beautiful": The main character clearly has an eating disorder due to her low self-esteem. It stops becoming relevant after Eleanor starts transforming her, but is still present and disregarded by everyone around her.
In the epilogues, a policeman pulls a gun on a mysterious animatronic. It doesn't end up going off. Later, a man does shoot the animatronic and hits its battery pack, injuring it.
"Fetch": It's never described in detail but it's implied that Greg's father is at the very least emotionally abusive. At the end of the story he grabs him roughly by the arm.
"The New Kid": Devon remembers his father being abusive to his mother. It's unclear if he was abusive to him as well, but his mother currently neglects him.
"Blackbird": The protagonist, Nole, is a former bully, and one instance in his childhood where he threw burrs onto two girls is referenced multiple times. His friend, Sam, briefly mentions that he "played a prank" on one of his bullies that makes him feel like he became a bully in the process, but it's not specified what it is.
"Hide-and-Seek": Toby self-harms multiple times in an attempt to detach the Shadow from himself. Notable instances involve scrubbing his back raw and trying to drown it off. This does end in suicide.
"Count the Ways": Millie often fantasizes about death and thinks about how it would free her, but does not make any attempt to act on her fantasies and upon being confronted confirms that she doesn't want to die.
"Kids at Play": The main conflict stems from the protagonist hitting a child with his car and trying to cover it up. The kid later turns up injured but alive.
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No other short stories have dead dogs.