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I love springlock suits as a concept but one thing that drives me crazy about so many interpretations/recreations of them (including in the movie!) is that they seem more designed for murder than practicality.

Remember, springlock suits are a hybrid of animatronic and wearable costume. All the metal parts that impale and crush people in the event of a failure? That’s the animatronic’s endoskeleton, taken apart and folded back into the sides of the suit. Those parts all snap into place when the springlocks fail. So the damage doesn’t necessarily come from how sharp the parts are, it’s more from the force they hit you with. It’s less like getting stabbed and more like getting shot at by a large, blunt, awkwardly shaped metal bullet.

Yet in basically every time we see the interior of a springlock suit—which so far has exclusively been to show how dangerous a failure would be—they look more like iron maidens than anything else.

Like really look at these clips of William getting springlocked in the movie. What purpose do these jagged blades serve when it comes to forming an animatronic’s endoskeleton?

And like yeah you could say that William intentionally designed these things to torture/kill people but A) imo that doesn’t make sense like at all and B) if that was the case why the fuck would he ever wear one