The Scooper is a machine introduced in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, the fifth main game in Scott Cawthon's horror series, released in 2016. Built to dismantle animatronics, it becomes infamous in the game's real ending when Ennard lures Michael Afton into the scooping room. Clips of the scene spread quickly through YouTube let's plays, theory videos and FNAF meme compilations, and the harsh mechanical audio became shorthand for sudden betrayal. It endures because the moment remains one of the franchise's most quoted twists.