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Vinnie, also known as Reverse Puppet, is the series’ overarching antagonist, and is Mary's hallucination form of The Marionette from Five Nights at Freddy's 2, as well as a former mascot in the Rat & Cat Theater.
Vinnie does make a cameo appearance in Five Nights at Candy's 2 as an Easter egg and Five Nights at Candy's 3 in the Thank you for Playing image.
Vinnie returned in Five Nights at Candy's 3's minigames, with an explanation for his existence in the Five Nights at Candy's series. During gameplay he is replaced by his counterpart Monster Vinnie.
Appearance
FNaC 1
Vinnie, like his normal counterpart in Five Nights at Freddy's 2, bears a white face, but unlike his counterpart, has a sad facial expression. He has dark purple lines down his mask, and blue blush cheeks, as opposed to the original's red blush.
Vinnie's lips are also blue, which gives Vinnie an overall gloomy feel, especially with the frown. Just like his normal counterpart, he has a skinny body with long limbs and three long, slender fingers on each hand.
Vinnie also has the same eye shape as his Five Nights at Freddy's counterpart, which makes him look angry when seen from certain angles.
FNaC 2
New Vinnie is a string/ventriloquist puppet with a grayish white face. He has brown-orange eyes, two blue cheeks and two blue lines down his face. He wears a blue bowtie. His jaw is now separate into two parts, giving him a more sad appearance.
FNaC 3
In minigames, the animatronic version of Vinnie can be seen that resembles his Monster version in gameplay, which used to be the final boss of the series (until the fourth game was announced).
In Game
FNaC 1
Vinnie is never a threat, as he never appears in any of the in-game nights; he only appears in cutscenes, in which he will do seemingly-random things before appearing in front of the camera, with eyes open wide and glowing white. His presence here seems to signify some link between Candy's and Freddy's.
FNaC 2
He appears for a single frame in the first night's Minigame of Five Nights at Candy's 2. Controlling Chester the Chimpanzee, when the player enters the Office, Vinnie will be visible for the first frame, but will immediately disappear.
FNaC 3
Vinnie appears in the Minigames as its normal version. While not appearing in the main gameplay as himself, his monstrous manifestation, Monster Vinnie, is the final antagonist of the game on Night 6.
In the Fishing with Candy's glitch minigame, while at Freddy's Fazbear’s Pizza (the main location of the second Five Nights at Freddy’s game), Mary reaches to a room where the Puppet was preforming, and upon seeing it, it reminds her of Vinnie. Just then, all of the kids in the room start to fade away, and the Puppet distorts rapidly into Vinnie.
Cutscenes
Vinnie's message from a cutscene.
In the cutscenes, a hallucination of Vinnie always appears in Rowboatics Corp. Factory. In the cutscene at the end of the first night, he is looking at the camera and approaching it from the left side. He then quickly moves in front of the camera by way of a jumpscare at the end of the cutscene.
In the cutscene that follows the third night he is looking towards what appears to be a crime scene whilst twitching repeatedly.
In the fourth cutscene, he is looking at Candy and Cindy, whom are sitting on a conveyor belt in the factory, pointing at them in an accusing manner, due to Mary being the cause of their creation.
In the fifth and final cutscene in which Vinnie appears, he comes closer to the camera similar way of the first night, only now he approaches from the darker areas behind the conveyor belt. He then stands in front of the camera in such a way that only its face can be seen, whilst showing the text: "A mistake, my mistake. A problem, your problem". All the while, he is continuously twitching spasmodically.
Trivia
- Vinnie only appears in Five Nights at Candy's 2, in the Night 1 minigame, as an Easter Egg.
- The meaning of his phrases "A mistake, my mistake. A problem, your problem" is revealed in Five Nights at Candy's 3; The Puppeteer accidentally killed an employee in The Rat costume, and later killed another employee in The Cat costume. Mary Schmidt was the witness of the incident, which Vinnie sees as being her problem. The other meaning of his phrase is after Mary fell asleep on the job at Rowboatics Corp. Factory, The Rat murdered two kids who become Candy the Cat and Cindy the Cat, and since Mary fell asleep it's partially her fault.
- As mentioned in a thread by PalomonsF, it is speculated that Vinnie was meant to play a bigger role in this game. He could be supposed to be an active animatronic in Five Nights at Candy's 2, but the reason why this was scrapped is currently unknown.
- It is just speculation as the main evidence for it comes from a dev sketch of it body in Dev Sketches section in Extra menu, since it would not make sense for Emil Macko to make a dev sketch of a minigame sprite.
- Vinnie is mostly likely inspired by The Gray Puppet Hoax from FNaF 2 that was created by RoXo1987 [1].
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