History Fridge / FiveNightsAtFreddys1

** If you pay more attention, the phone guy doesn't say "nothing will be left of your body except your eyes and teeth", he says "only your eyes and teeth will see the light of the sun again". This, along with the fact that your eyes are still connected to the suit in the game over screen, implies that your body is actually inside the suit (dead or dying, of course), not destroyed by the suit, so it makes perfect sense. (Your body, then, is either removed from the suit by the company, which also washes the suit, as per the terms of agreement, or disappears due to paranormal activity, if the suits are haunted and the ghosts bother.)

*** Look at [[http://freddy-fazbears-pizza.wikia.com/wiki/File:Backstage_Bonnie.png Bonnie backstage]]. Imagine a human standing in that doorway. Now look at the size of Bonnie in comparison. These animatronics are ''huge''. Moreover, check out the size and elevation of Bonnie's mouth. Yeah, the Bite of '87 probably happened ''just because someone wasn't watching where they were walking''.

* At one point in the game, Phone Guy suggests simply playing dead to trick the animatronics into thinking you're an empty costume. He then points out that might just make them try to shove an endoskeleton into you and wonders how that would work. Now, take into consideration that the costumes are put on by inserting an animatronic into an opening in the back. And, the only opening we humans have in the back is... [[AssShove oh, dear...]]

** There might even be a sadder possibility. When Phone Guy explains the behavior of the animatronics to you, he says that they aren't malicious and their behavior is just part of their programming, but you also know he's been there long enough to have seen first-hand Foxy's behaviour, as well as the events of night 5, which imply just the opposite. Then you realize that Phone Guy outright states in his first call that "they don't tell you these things when you sign up." He likely had to find out about their violent behavior without any guidance from a predecessor or any warning from the owners, and so had no idea what was going on whatsoever. The programming excuse was the only thing he could think of to justify their behavior. Since taking this job means that both Phone Guy and the player were likely in desperate need of money ($4 an hour is way below minimum wage), Phone Guy needed some sort of reasoning which would help keep him sane through each night, and left the messages for the player so that they would have an understanding of what they were getting into before it was too late to get out.
*** On the minimum wage part, that's only true if the game took place today. It seems to be set in the late 80's or early 90's. The minimum wage was raised to $4.25 in 1991, so if the game is set in that year or up to five years after (when it was raised by 50 cents), you are not ''that'' criminally underpaid (and if it is set before, you're paid well).

** This troper is fairly certain that they're just Freddy's animatronic eyes, after close examination. Plus, in th Game Over screen, your eyes are dangling out of the sockets, unlike the Freddy head's.

** Youtuber Tech Rules decompiled the game and confirmed that this strategy does not work. Nothing in the game checks to see whether or not you're moving during the light's out section.

** This seems more like Fazbear's Entertainment still managing to pass the minimum wage requirement than anything shady, though. In 1987, the minimum wage ''was'' $3.35 per hour, and it is logical that it rises to $4 per hour in the first game, which is set several years afterward. [[PragmaticVillainy They are not going to risk forced closure simply because they are too cheap to pay their employees]].

* Another reason for the insanely low paycheck, despite it being 1983? Power consumption. Despite you being a night guard, you're using an incredible amount of power throughout your week, which the restaurant has to pay for to get it back up again. It's likely that you're not ''just'' using the power in your station either, but for the ''entire restaurant'' (remember that you can also turn the lights on in the other rooms. Plus, as you run out of power, the entire place appears to shut off. Not just your station). They probably literally cannot afford you as much as they'd want to. The same probably goes for the other games as well, except for Sister Location, where they purposefully appear to antagonize you.

** Actually, the former still seems likely. In future games, the Animatronics have facial-recognition designed to detect ''criminals''. So clearly they're at least weary of burglars sneaking in at night. Plus, it wouldn't make a lot of sense for them to hire someone as bait, when they actually '''do''' need security guards- considering the fact that they're still a ''restaurant''.

*** Actually, this is a common misunderstanding of the fourth game. That wasn't the infamous Bite of '87. That was the springlock suit failure that put springtrap Bonnie and Fredbear out of commission and sealed up also the fourth game takes place in 1983 four years earlier. We still Have NO IDEA who was responsible for the bite of '87.

** Confirmed to have at least more than one establishment by the end of the third game, so it's highly possible we'll see more animatronics in the future. Given the fourth game's teaser images..the mind has a lot to think about how the Nightmare looks came to be.

** Oh wait, it's just set in a horror attraction...and it's stated that the Pizzeria was abandoned. No KarmaHoudini for the management.

* At the end of the [[LevelEditor Custom Night]], Mike will still get fired, partially for tampering with the animatronics, even if they are left on their default AI settings. Could this mean that (in at least one possible outcome) the company that runs Freddy's is [[CorruptCorporateExecutive deliberately lying about their reasons for firing Mike?]] It adds fuel to the fire when you realize the management in the rest of the game proper hasn't been the most morally sound one... Or perhaps, did something or someone else jack up their AI just before Night 7?

* Nowadays, it's nearly impossible to not know about Foxy before [[ItWasHisSled playing the game]] due to him being such an EnsembleDarkHorse and how active the fandom is. But InUniverse, Mike and other guards aren't informed about him until the second night. It may seem odd, even cruel, that Phone Guy didn't do that earlier, until you realize that it may because he found out on the second night himself, and couldn't add the info in the first call. Which means that, especially if one played the game before Foxy became so well-known, you may had survived the first night by ''sheer luck''. Just how many unlucky guards thought they got a handle on the situation on the first night, only to learn too late that there's a ''fourth'' animatronic? It suddenly makes sense on why [[TrollingCreator Scott]] kept him a secret at first...