Shadow Lockjaw

For other uses, see Lockjaw (disambiguation).

Shadow Lockjaw is a mysterious shadow variant of Lockjaw who makes a minor appearance as an easter egg and hallucination within The Return to Freddy's Classic.

Appearance[]

Shadow Lockjaw appears to be identical to The Puppet for the most part, except for the fact that he is completely black and is wearing a fedora, similar to his original counterpart.

Behavior[]

Even though Shadow Lockjaw never appears in the main gameplay (unlike his later appearances), he still does make a few minor cameos. Shadow Lockjaw first appears in the Night 4 cutscene, standing and staring at what is presumed to be one of the security guards. In a "Take the Cake to the Children"-like mingame, in which the player controls Sugar. At the end of the minigame, Shadow Lockjaw will jumpscare the player, ending the minigame.

Trivia[]

Shadow Lockjaw's jumpscare is just a simple edit of The Puppet's jumpscare from Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
Before Shadow Lockjaw's name was confirmed, many fans thought his name was the Shadow Puppet.

Shadow Lockjaw (also referred to as ........... in the Custom Night) returns as a minor antagonist and as a rare hallucination in The Return to Freddy's 2.

Appearance[]

Shadow Lockjaw's appearance is very similar to Lockjaw's appearance within the game, except for the fact that his entire body is black and has a glossy texture applied to it (giving him an appearance similar to the Toy Animatronics). He also appears to have eyebrows unlike his non-shadow counterpart within the game as well. Not only that, but he also appears to lack a nose and he does not appear to be wearing shoes either. His eyes are also completely pitch black, although he has white pupils that appear within them occasionally.

Behavior[]

Shadow Lockjaw will start to appear on Nights 5 and onwards. He will randomly appear within the player's office. Shadow Lockjaw doesn't appear to be able to do much, other than just standing there (much like Shadow Bonnie) but if he isn't fended off in time he will crash the game.

Shadow Lockjaw's face will also randomly flash (along with Lockjaw's), with the text "IT'S ME" around him . Moments later, the hallucination will disappear, and a scream will play as he leaves. If the player wears the Freddy Mask, he will disappear and the scream will not play.

Shadow Lockjaw is incapable of killing the player (other than crashing the game), however, his hallucination can be distracting, and when in the player's face, it obstructs your vision.

Trivia[]

The screams that the player hears in Night 5 and 6 come from Shadow Lockjaw according to a post from Tyler in 2015 posted on the TRTF 2 Game Jolt page. ^[1]
- Also according to the same post, Shadow Lockjaw was intended to be "the very first prototype animatronic" originally. Lockjaw is stated to be the world's first ever animatronic in TRTF 4, so this may mean that TRTF 2 Lockjaw and TRTF 2 Shadow Lockjaw were intended to be the same character originally.
When The Return to Freddy's 2 first came out, many fans of the series believed his name was "Shadow Golden Lockjaw" (and occasionally just "LEGEND"); this info was falsely given out by one of BFP's friends, The Other Toy Freddy and has been debunked by Tyler since.
He is in the custom night setting "Legend" set to 20, along with Golden Freddy, who is set to 15.
Shadow Lockjaw being referred to as .......... within the game's Custom Night suggests that the creator of the game wanted to keep his name a secret.
Shadow Lockjaw is the only character who does not have a jumpscare in the second game, but he still emits a scream when he crashes the game.

Shadow Lockjaw makes his third and last appearance in The Return to Freddy's 3.

Appearance[]

Shadow Lockjaw is a pitch black version of Lockjaw with glowing white eyes and pupils. He also appears to have glowing white teeth and multiple wires hanging out of his body.

Behavior[]

Shadow Lockjaw appears very rarely at any night. If the player stares at him for too long, the game will crash. To prevent the game from crashing, quickly bring up the monitor or the maintenance panel. That way, he'll leave the office. Sometimes he will return the game to the title screen. Shadow Lockjaw also appears in a minigame if you click on his poster, which appears on Night 5.

Trivia[]

Shadow Lockjaw was originally intended to reuse his TRTF 2 model within this game as per a teaser for TRTF 3 that includes him and an early version of Lockjaw within it that can be accessed within TRTFSR.
When BFPFilms was asked about if Shadow Lockjaw still remained being canon to the TRTF Lore, he replied that he does "partially".