“Want to play a game?”
— PlushBaby,Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
PlushBabies are three antagonists in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted and Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2. They are plush versions of Circus Baby.
“Small plush doll animatronics, made with Circus Baby's design. The classic PlushBaby comes in red, yellow, and blue dress colors. There's also a variation that's modeled after Scrap Baby. A third variation, the Plushkin, dons a BB, Chica, Foxy, or Freddy mask. Much like other plush animatronics, they flee from light.”
— The Ultimate Guide, page 279
Normal[]
The PlushBabies are three plushies based on Circus Baby. They are small and white with orange hair, red noses, red cheeks, and blue eyes with eyelashes. They are distinguished by the colors of their dress - red, blue and yellow. The blue PlushBaby has red stitching on her torso. The yellow PlushBaby is missing her right eye. Around their eyes they have black outlining sewn on resembling the faceplates on Circus Baby.
In Help Wanted 2, her appearance is almost identical. The black outlining is more realistic looking and her head seems more tightly sewn together. Her head is also slightly thinner and her smile is smaller to accommodate. Her features appear to be more pressed on and her pigtails have drooped slightly. The fan on her midsection is also more circular. In addition, she now makes rattling sounds when moving.
In Tales From the Pizzaplex, a PlushBaby makes a cameo appearance in Epilogue 6 and Epilogue 7 inside the storage room. In Epilogue 6, Jayce notices it sitting next to a box and picks it up before putting it back down and stating it looks unsettling. In Epilogue 7, after the Mimic kills Jayce, it notices the PlushBaby on the ground. The Mimic picks it up and examines it before ripping its arms, legs and head off.
Scrap[]
In their Blacklight Level, the PlushBabies are replaced by their blacklight counterparts, the Scrap PlushBabies. Their appearance is based on Scrap Baby, with green eyes and red, blue and gray stripes running through their hair. They have a print on their right hand representing Scrap Baby's claw. The blue variant now has more noticeable stitching on her torso, as well as some shading around her eyes. The yellow PlushBaby, aside from missing her right eyeball, has what appears to be black liquid seeping from both eyes.
PlushKins[]
In the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, the PlushKins are the "Halloween"-themed counterparts of the original PlushBabies. Plushkins are essentially PlushBabies, but they now wear the masks of Freddy, Chica, Foxy, and Balloon Boy from the Trick or Treat minigame. The red variant can wear either a Freddy or Foxy mask. The blue variant wears a Balloon Boy mask. The yellow variant wears a Chica mask. Red eyes can be seen from the mask's eyehole.
Damaged[]
In RUIN, the PlushBabies can be found in the real world, appearing damaged and torn. Most take the appearance of Scrap PlushBabies, though there are some red normal PlushBabies, which have tears across their eyes and faces. Half of the Scrap PlushBabies have tears across their mouths that make them appear to have unsettling wide grins, as well as a hole in the middle of their right eyes.
Personality[]
As with the Bidybabs from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, the PlushBabies all share the same personality traits, which are similar to their primary counterpart, Circus Baby. The only difference being that their voices are much higher pitched. They are also shown to be somewhat mischievous, as evidenced by their laughter. In Curse of Dreadbear, The PlushBabies' personalities are expanded upon by the adding of the Plushkins. Their quotes in the Afraid of the Dark: Plushkin Patch, suggest that they are snippy, pushy, and childlike, in contrast to the animatronic that they are based upon.
The PlushBabies appear in their own Dark Rooms level. Three of them will appear throughout the level trying to approach the player. To deal with the PlushBabies and avoid a jumpscare, the player must find the PlushBabies in time and shine their flashlight on them to repel them. The player must survive until 6AM without being jumpscared by a PlushBaby to complete the level.
Several Red PlushBabies also appear in Circus Baby's Night Terrors level. When the player closes the closet doors to hide from Circus Baby, they start to twitch violently. If the player keeps the doors closed for too long, the PlushBabies will jumpscare them and end the game.
In their Blacklight level, all of the scattered plushes from the normal level have been replaced with Baby plushes. In contrast, the hostile PlushBabies now resemble Scrap Baby. The player must fend off the three Scrap PlushBabies like in the regular level to win.
The PlushBabies return as the PlushKins in the Curse of Dreadbear DLC, in the Afraid of the Dark's Plushkin Patch level, wearing masks of Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Foxy, and Balloon Boy. They act similarly to how they do in their Dark Rooms level.
A PlushBaby is an obtainable collectible in Security Breach in a party room in the Superstar Daycare. There is a room full of PlushBabies in the Utility Tunnels, as well as a hole featuring PlushBabies in the Monty Golf AR-Cade. In the RUIN DLC, an AR PlushBaby collectible can be obtained in Roxy Raceway, as well as an AR Golden PlushBaby collectible near the Glamrock Beauty Salon.
Damaged PlushBabies appear as cameos in the RUIN DLC, hidden in a utility room beneath Bonnie Bowl. The PlushBabies will laugh and disappear as soon as Cassie looks away from them.
Multiple red PlushBabies appear as recurring antagonists throughout the Fazcade category of levels. They first appear in Bonk a' Bon, as well as its hard mode version: Bonus Round. They are first introduced in Round 2, and are worth five points. But it comes with the caveat that they take three hits to take down, and will jumpscare the player if they aren't hit enough.
More red PlushBabies appear in the Western Fazerblast level, and appear in all subsequent Fazerblast levels. After a couple show scenes, Carnie says that he has a "gift" for the player. When the cutout giftbox is shot, it falls over revealing a red PlushBaby. The power goes out and the player hears the actual Circus Baby say "You should've known I'd find you." From this point on, PlushBabies will lurk towards the player and must either be shot or hit by a ball to stop them in their path. Some PlushBabies will invade from the air, hanging onto balloons. They must be shot down in order to prevent a jumpscare.
A single red PlushBaby appears as a random challenge in Bonnie Bowl. She runs down the lane, and must be hit by a bowling ball to avoid a jumpscare. Once hit with the bowling ball, she rolls down the lane and may hit pins depending on the direction the ball is thrown.
All three original variants of PlushBaby return in the Sister Location's Job Interview level. Circus Baby sends them out to test the player in a pretend job interview. The player must best the PlushBabies in three different challenges in no specific order; Hide and Seek, Red Light Green Light and Flashlight Tag. Hide and Seek consists of finding them on the cameras and shocking them. Red Light Green Light has one PlushBaby come from both doors, as well as the vent. The red light is the player's provided flashlight, and the darkness is the green light. The player must strategically aim their flashlight to each PlushBaby enough so that none can reach the office and jumpscare. Flashlight Tag is reminiscent of their original game, with the player having to listen to the sound cues of laughter and shine their light on a PlushBaby, making them disappear.
There is also a rare chance for PlushBaby to jumpscare the player upon trying to get a prize at the end of a minigame, in a fashion similar to Plushtrap in the original Help Wanted game.
Trivia[]
The Blacklight level decoy Plushbabies, as seen in-game.
In their Blacklight level, the plushies of other characters are replaced by both the regular PlushBabies, alongside two other ones - one in a dark blue/aqua-green dress and another in an orange/yellow dress with both eyes.
In the files, the blue variant is referred to as "Stitch" and the yellow as "Blind", while the Blacklight level's decoy orange/yellow variant is strangely referred to as "green".
The nicknames of the blue and the yellow variants refer to their defections, with the yellow variant being blind in one eye, and the blue variant having a stitch on her torso.
The sound a PlushBaby emits when jumpscaring the player is also a pitched up version of the sound heard when Circus Baby grabs Elizabeth Afton in the death minigame from Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location.
The sound they make when the player holds the closet door shut for too long is a sped up version of the distorted phone call that played on Night 5 in Five Nights at Freddy's, itself a modified excerpt of Autobiography of a Yogi.
Their models have a very strong resemblance to Funko's Circus Baby plushies, almost certainly being based on their design.
It is currently unknown if the PlushBabies are actually animatronics, or just living plushies.
The PlushBabies are referred as plush doll animatronics in the The Freddy Files Ultimate Edition, indicating that they are actual animatronics.
The line "come play with us" is a reference to Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of the Stephen King novel The Shining.
Despite there being six Plushkins with six different masks, the ones with the Bonnie and Mangle masks are absent. However those two can be viewed in the files.
Due to the Plushkins being classed as Halloween Animatronics, this makes PlushBaby the only animatronic with two classes.
The unused Survival Mode in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach was planned to bring back PlushBaby by having her have a chance to be in a Prize Box, and then jumpscare the player when the box was opened.
In Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2, PlushBaby has the most appearances out of any animatronic, acting as an antagonist in eight levels.
Unused instructional text for Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted indicates that PlushBaby was called "Babytrap" in an earlier stage of development.
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