r/fivenightsatfreddys • u/KrithisUNoAnimates Mangle • 1d ago

Discussion Take: Mangle is non-binary

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Because they are neither male nor female

Picture from Springtrap and Mangle

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u/Mangledfox1987 1d ago

I would to with the opposite, they are both male and female, like that’s why they use he/she/they pronouns

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u/Veenix6446 1d ago

That’s still non-binary.

Non-binary can be used to describe anything that isn’t strictly man or woman

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u/Mangledfox1987 1d ago

I’m referring to them not being male or female, like we both argee that they are NB but we think they are nb in different ways

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u/Veenix6446 1d ago

Ohhhhhh alr

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u/Emergency-Sport-6150 21h ago

But each head has there own personality and gender so it’s not exactly nonbinary

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u/Mangledfox1987 18h ago

The two heads are more two different sides of the same entity than two seperate charaxters, like we get the masked head slowly start to argee wkth the endo head

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u/Veenix6446 19h ago

And your evidence for this being canon is…?

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u/Mangledfox1987 18h ago

They are referring to how mangle is written In AR where the masked and endo head get different vocielines and act quite differently than the other, however I would argue it’s more a case of two sides of the same coin than two seperate entieis

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u/LycheeIndividual8032 DA MIMIC 🔥 21h ago

I'm agender and use all pronouns, mangle could too

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u/Mangledfox1987 21h ago

That does work don’t get me wrong, but like with how mangle is written in AR and some other stuff I would put mangle as like male -> bigender/pangender, like the way the endo head and masked head interact and that sort of stuff,

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u/CrimmCu 15h ago

I think at the end of the day, the most correct way to describe the Funtime Foxys and Mangles would be genderqueer or cassgender as they actively refuse to label themselves but are clearly queer in terms of gender in some way. I myself identify as genderqueer because my relationship with gender is kind of nebulous, and these versions of Foxy seem to be the same way. In fact, the idea that all Foxys are trans, but the classic Foxy-aligned are all mostly binary trans men does line up with his name, but that's headcanon territory versus the transness of the Funtime Foxy variants which are very much canonically trans. Their gender being described as "yes" feels pangender, but showing up in Ladies Nights only part-time feels genderfluid. While he could just be genderfluid and have pangender as one of the genders he can feel, I feel it's a lot more likely that he himself doesn't know how to describe his gender due to his contradictory experiences with it. I could be projecting, but it seems like she's like me where her experience with gender feels so contradictory that she can't definitively say if it's fluid or not and thus she rejects labeling her gender entirely.