Foxy

About

Foxy, or more specifically Foxy the Pirate Fox, is an animatronic mascot^[1] character resembling an anthropomorphic fox in a pirate costume and one of the four antagonists from the 2014 point-and-click horror game Five Nights at Freddy’s, who managed to gain a significant online following compared to the rest of the game’s cast. Foxy is unique to Five Nights at Freddy’s, as unlike the other animatronics he will hide for a while before coming to attack the player, making him a more surprising animatronic for first-time players.

Origin

The game Five Nights at Freddy’s was released on August 8, 2014 on Desura (and later on August 20, 2014 on steam after being greenlit)^[2] featuring 3 animatronics, named Freddy, Chica and Bonnie, along with a secret one named Foxy, due to the secret nature of Foxy, only appearing once certain events were triggered, it gained infamy amongst Lets Players of the game due to his surprising nature. Foxy the Pirate Fox, as the name suggests, is an animatronic Pirate Fox, with reddish-brown, ripped fur. He has a hook for his right hand, and an eye patch he can lift up. On the second release of the game, Foxy made another appearance in a more damaged version along with a pattern change, the game also features a genderbent and more damaged version of Foxy called Mangle (or Toy Foxy by some fans).^[3]

Foxy´s first online appearance was in Markiplier’s gameplay video of the game where he is shown (at minute 16:10) running through a hallway at the player (later on being his characteristic by fans) and promptly letting out a high-pitched scream at the player which triggered the game over screen.

Spread

After the release of the game, Foxy became one of the fandom’s favourite characters, which quickly resulted in fanworks being made of the character. A popular trope associated with Foxy is he “Bite of ’87” which is referenced in the game as an event that occurred in 1987, where Foxy malfunctioned, resulting in a child getting their frontal lobe bitten off. This accident resulted in Foxy being put “out of order” indefinitely.

On Aug 30, 2014, Youtube user Foxy The Pirate Fox uploaded a video of a comic featuring Foxy which gathered 1,768,012 views and 11,705 likes (Shown Below left), on November 29, 2014 user Vetario SFM uploaded a video featuring Foxy singing the song “You are a pirate”^[5] from the tv children show “Lazy Town” made in Source Film Maker(Shown Below right) which gathered 2,983,487 views and 17,055 likes.

On December 30, 2014 a remix of the song was uploaded by user NewBlu featuring a compilation of Foxy gifs and fanart, it gathered 529,534 views and 6,745 likes.(shown Below)

Related Memes

Fanart of Foxy was drawn, and many jokes have spawned from /vg/‘s 5N@F general thread, such as "I’m a good fox" spawning from a panel of a webcomic. This resulted in parodies of the webcomic.

Other fandom jokes around Foxy consist of the “knot”, a NSFW joke referencing an erect canine penis. The knot has also been referenced in fanart, and has become an in-joke.

An exploitable comic has also seen many variations (shown below)

On August 21, 2014, YouTuber Foxy the Pirate Fox^[4] uploaded a video of Foxy’s Running Animation, set to the tune of Matthew Wilder’s “Break My Stride”