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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysProtagonists Protagonists]][[note]]Mike Schmidt, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, Fazbear's Fright Guard, The Child, "Eggs Benedict", The Beta Tester, Gregory[[/note]]

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Though starting off small, the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise has greatly expanded its list of characters. Pity that nearly all of them are trying to kill you, though.

'''Don't take everything here at face value.''' Because of a lack of proper information surrounding some of these characters and the vagueness of some of the information we ''do'' have, some of these tropes can be a tad speculative.

'''Beware of spoilers.''' More than half these characters are tied to the franchise's backstory, with some of them ''only'' showing up in said backstory. As a result, many characters on this page and the subpages are {{Walking Spoiler}}s, so tread carefully if you don't want to be spoiled. Also be aware that '''none of the trope titles are (or will be) spoiler-tagged''' and most of the pages won't have a separate section for the cast that are spoiler heavy, so be extra careful when navigating the folders for certain characters. Since some characters are packed to the brim with spoilers, their folders/pages have ''no spoiler tags'', so especially browse them with caution.

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheAftonFamily The Afton Family]][[note]] William Afton, Elizabeth Afton, Michael Afton[[/note]] ('''spoilers unmarked!''')

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysOtherHumans Other Humans]][[note]]The Day Shift Guy, The Missing Children, The Child's Brother, The Neighborhood Kids, The Brother's Friends, Fredbear Plush, Vlad and Clara, The Vengeful Spirit, Jeremy, The Indie Developer, Vanny, Luis Cabrera, Pizzaplex Staff[[/note]]

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFirstGeneration First Generation]][[note]]Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, Chica, Golden Freddy[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecondGeneration Second Generation]][[note]]Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle, BB, The Puppet, Bare Endoskeleton, JJ, Shadow Bonnie, Shadow Freddy[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'')

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysAdventureCharacters Adventure Characters]][[note]][[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Pretty much every character to appear in the first four games of the series, a few who only did off-screen, and some that don't even exist in the main franchise]] (and a couple who quite simply ''can't'' exist in the main franchise).[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's World'')

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]][[note]]Includes his Springtrap, Scraptrap, Glitchtrap, and Burntrap forms.[[/note]]

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysAdventureCharacters Adventure Characters]] [[note]][[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Pretty much every character to appear in the first four games of the series, a few who only did off-screen, and some that don't even exist in the main franchise]] (and a couple who quite simply ''can't'' exist in the main franchise).[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's World'')

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]][[note]]Includes his Springtrap, Scraptrap, Glitchtrap and Burntrap forms.[[/note]]

'''Don't take everything here at face value'''. Because of a lack of proper information surrounding some of these characters and the vagueness of some of the information we ''do'' have, some of these tropes can be a tad speculative.

'''Beware of spoilers'''. More than half these characters are tied to the franchise's backstory, with some of them ''only'' showing up in said backstory. As a result, many characters on this page and the subpages are {{Walking Spoiler}}s, so tread carefully if you don't want to be spoiled. Also be aware that '''none of the trope titles are (or will be) spoiler-tagged''' and most of the pages won't have a separate section for the cast that are spoiler heavy, so be extra careful when navigating the folders for certain characters. Since some characters are packed to the brim with spoilers, their folders/pages have ''no spoiler tags'', so especially browse them with caution.

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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysProtagonists Protagonists]][[note]]Mike Schmidt, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, Fazbear's Fright Guard, The Child, "Eggs Benedict", Gregory[[/note]]

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysOtherHumans Other Humans]][[note]]The Day Shift Guy, The Missing Children, The Child's Brother, The Neighborhood Kids, The Brother's Friends, Fredbear Plush, Vlad and Clara, The Vengeful Spirit, Jeremy, The Indie Developer, Vanny/Vanessa (spoilers unmarked!), Luis Cabrera, Pizzaplex Staff[[/note]]

Though starting off small, the ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'' franchise has greatly expanded its list of characters. Pity that nearly every of them are trying to kill you, though.

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysInstructors Instructors]][[note]] Phone Guy, Phone Dude, HandUnit/TutorialUnit/Dread Unit, Cassette Man, Tape Girl/QA[[/note]]

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysInstructors Instructors]]
* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheAftonFamily The Afton Family]] ('''spoilers unmarked!''')

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysOtherHumans Other Humans]]

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysCompanies Companies]]

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* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton William Afton]][[note]]Includes his Springtrap, Scraptrap, Glitchtrap and Burntrap forms.[[/note]] ('''spoilers unmarked!''')

'''Beware of spoilers'''. More than half these characters are tied to the franchise's backstory, with some of them ''only'' showing up in said backstory. As a result, many characters on this page and the subpages are {{Walking Spoiler}}s, so tread carefully if you don't want to be spoiled. Also be aware that '''none of the trope titles are (or will be) spoiler-tagged''' and most of the pages won't have a separate section for the cast that are spoiler heavy, so be extra careful when navigating the folders for certain characters. Since some characters are packed to the brim with spoilers, these folders have ''no spoiler tags'', so especially browse them with caution.

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[[folder:The Day Shift Guy]]
->''"Uh… you're only the second guard to work at that location. Uh, the first guy finished his week, but complained about… conditions. Uh, we switched him over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right? Uh, mainly he expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office."''
-->-- '''Phone Guy'''

Another unnamed character who Phone Guy refers to several times in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2''. You inherited his job after he was moved to the day shift because he complained about the animatronics moving around.
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* TheCameo: Possibly. In ''4'', we get to see a total of three Fazbear Entertainment employees, one of whom is wearing a guard uniform [[spoiler:and is colored purple]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Heavily implied to be '''William Afton'''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Remember, this guy survived a whole week before you. ''Without a Freddy Fazbear mask.''
* TheScapegoat: If we assume he's ''not'' William. Phone Guy's dialogue implies Day Shift Guy was arrested for the murders, but Afton was still at large later on.
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[[folder:The Missing Children]]
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[[caption-width-right:118:[[FriendlyGhost Less like]] [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more like]] [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Jasper.]]]]

Fazbear Entertainment was flourishing, providing entertainment to many families... then disaster sent the company into a downward spiral. At least six[[note]]The exact number is ambiguous. The first game says two, then a total of five. The second game implies anywhere from five to eleven. The "Happiest Day" minigame in the third game when the children finally pass on shows eleven children in total, but only six are monochrome and pass on to the great beyond (the ones haunting the original four, plus Golden Freddy and the Puppet), indicating that the party is for living children, while the ghosts merely "tag along". ''4'' implies that there was a seventh ghost involved in the Fazbear hauntings via its [[DownerEnding unexpected ending.]] ''Pizzeria Simulator'' seems to stick with "Happiest Day", as there are six gravestones shown in the "Lorekeeper" ending.[[/note]] children were murdered, and soon afterwards, the Fazbear animatronics began to smell and act up during the nights. The most common theory is that the first victim was an isolated incident, and that child inhabited the Puppet, as both are known for their faces that look like they have streaks of tears. When the Murderer killed five other children, the haunted Puppet placed them into the Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Golden Freddy animatronics, causing them to become haunted as well.
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* AmbiguousGender: No gender is ever really given for the children, and their only appearances -- in the minigames -- does not show them with anything indicative of gender. However, ''Pizzeria Simulator'' implies there were [[spoiler:three boys and two girls]]. Golden Freddy's gender remains unknown.
* AndIMustScream: Their bodies were stuffed into the animatronic suits, badly damaging the corpses, and trapping the childrens' souls in the animatronics. Ironically, they ''can'' actually scream, and the sound file from the first game in its entirety turns into a human child's scream. As indicated by the light of the animatronics' heads still being on, the bad ending of the third game strongly implies that they will ''stay'' this way, forever. Fortunately, the good ending is implied to be canon.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The good ending shows them leaving their robotic bodies and ascending to heaven after getting their justice]].
* CameBackStrong: From helpless children to robots more than capable of [[strike:fending off]] brutally murdering adults. Unarmed, immobile adults that were caught off-guard, at least.
* CameBackWrong: Possibly what happened to Golden Freddy. His behavior is quite different from the other animatronics', but the suit the child was stuffed into lacks a proper endoskeleton.
* DeathOfAChild: They're possessed by the spirits of murdered children.
* {{Determinator}}: All six children have been haunting their animatronics for 40 years in an attempt to avenge their murders.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the original, drawings of crying children can sometimes be seen in one of the hallways. These pictures greatly resemble the crying child's sprite.
* GhostlyGoals: '''Type B''': Get revenge on their murderer for, you know, murdering them. They succeeded in this goal, thus moving on... or at least, five of them did, while [[spoiler:the Puppet]]'s child hung around for a while longer.
* HauntedTechnology: It's confirmed by the third game that the children were haunting the animatronics.
* TheHeavy: Pretty much, considering the animatronics are haunted by them (and their desire for vengeance being a major reason for the animatronics being {{Killer Robot}}s).
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Came back from the dead to avenge their undeserved death by William Afton (which, if their killing methods are any indication, involved the suits somehow). However, this correlates into the deaths of a lot of innocent guards in the process, turning the children into ruthless murderers themselves.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The children's bodies were unable to be recovered according to the newspaper reports.
* NoNameGiven: Until ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'', [[spoiler:where we learn that four of them are named Fritz, Gabriel, Jeremy, and Susie]], the Missing Children are nameless. In the books' AlternateUniverse, ''The Fourth Closet'' has them retain these names, with the additional revelation that [[spoiler:one of them is named Michael Brooks, whose spirit manifests as Golden Freddy]]. However, it's unknown if [[spoiler:Michael Brooks]] is canon to the games.
* OcularGushers: What one of the children is known for, and why people connect it to the Puppet.
* PromotedToPlayable: The last post-night minigame of ''3'' has you play as one of the children's spirits. Also, along with the animatronics, a child's spirit can be used as a party member in ''Five Nights at Freddy's World''.
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:It's implied one of the children is the Child from ''4'', haunting Golden Freddy following his death.]]
* StylisticSuck: In ''FNAF World'', the Crying Child still has the blocky sprite-like appearance from the retro-style minigames.
* ThrowTheDogABone: The player can help them finally get their revenge on Afton, after that, [[spoiler:the children are at peace, and ascend to heaven]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Why the spirits remain. [[spoiler:When they finally avenge their murders, they have no need to haunt the Murderer or the Fazbear companies.]]
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Implied, they watch their killer horrifically die but they were unable to move on. It took [[spoiler:kindness from the Fazbear's Fright security guard and the Cassette Man for them to rest]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** It seems that they attack security guards because the Murderer was one. The second game also hints that the possessed animatronics are very protective of children. The Marionette's spirit also seemed to believe that putting the dead children into the suits was giving them a new life (which was... ''technically'' true).
** If [[spoiler: Michael Afton being the protagonists of all/most games in the series is indeed true]], then that means [[spoiler:the children are attacking the guards because they are in one way or another the son of their killer. Most likely, they could not differentiate him from the other Afton. It helps that William and Michael Afton are hinted to have a StrongFamilyResemblance. Even if he is trying to possibly fight his father's evil... they don't know any better.]]
** Then entirely averted by [[spoiler:The Puppet]], who reveals that [[spoiler:she is "aware"]], but that the other children are [[spoiler:"animals"]], which means they're attacking so violently because they can't tell any different. They're too stupid and rabid to realise that all the security guards they're killing are ''not'' the same man - especially as the security guard ''keeps coming back''. Someone intelligent would realize ''something'' is going on. They are, unfortunately, too broken to put 2 and 2 together and get 4.
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[[folder:The Child's Brother]]
[[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foxy_bully.png]]
[[caption-width-right:166:''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Good going, douche, your bro's dreams have come true...]]'']]

The older brother of the child in ''4''. [[BigBrotherBully He's a complete asshole]]. May or may not also be Michael Afton.
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* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:In the sixth night, after the prank of his goes horribly wrong and his brother has severely damaged his brain, the first words that flash on screen are the brother asking whether the child can hear him, and immediately apologizing for what he's done. Even more so if he is Michael Afton, as his actions in ''Sister Location'' and ''Pizzeria Simulator'' (if not even letter) demonstrate that he has dramatically changed for the better]].
* BigBad: The events of the fourth game are basically him being a BigBrotherBully towards the Child. [[spoiler:Keep in mind that this includes [[BrainFood the accident at the end of the game]], which '''[[TheHeroDies is heavily implied to kill him.]]''']]
* BigBrotherBully: He relentlessly tortures the child by using the latter's fear of the animatronics. This doesn't end well at all for the child.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to The Child's Abel. Though this is PlayedWith, since [[spoiler:he did not mean for his brother to have his brain horrifically injured, and tries to apologize for it.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He and his friends are ''horrified'' after [[spoiler:their prank [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when the Fredbear animatronic bites down on his brother's head harder than they thought.]]
* EvilLaugh: Mocking laughter can be heard whenever the brother pulls one of his pranks, but it's rather muted.
* TheFaceless: We never get to see his face. Every time he appears on-screen, he's wearing a Foxy mask. All we know about his appearance is that he has black hair.
* HateSink: The animatronics in this game are just figments of the protagonist's imagination ([[spoiler:[[AmbiguousSituation well...maybe]]]]). In addition, in his only appearance in this game, the killer isn't doing anything bad. As a result, he and his friends are the only things you truly have to hate in this game. At the very least though, [[spoiler:he's remorseful of what he has done. Unlike his most-likely father.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Torments his younger brother by locking him in his bedroom, randomly scaring him while wearing a Foxy mask, leaving the restaurant without him when he ''knows'' the Child doesn't like it there, locking him in the animatronics' storeroom, and along with his buddies carrying him closer and closer to Fredbear when he's clearly shouting he doesn't want to get close.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Deconstructed. Though he did actually love his brother, his actions are too atrocious to make him sympathetic. [[spoiler: Possibly reconstructed if and ONLY if he's also Michael Afton, in which case his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment might be seen as the first step to his HeelFaceTurn who would try to find William, who in a sense is a reflection of himself, except far, FAR worse and without any shred of remorse.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Is absolutely relentless when torturing his Brother; if it hadn't been for his [[spoiler:remorse for causing the bite, and possible death of his brother]], he could have been something [[TheSociopath much worse]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:The Night 6 minigame starts off with dark grey text, symbolizing the brother is talking. Here's what he says:]]
-->[[spoiler:"Can you hear me? I don't know if you can hear me."]]
-->[[spoiler:[[{{Tearjerker}} "...I'm sorry."]]]]
* OhCrap: He and his friends ''immediately'' stop laughing when [[spoiler:Fredbear crunches down on his brother]].
* TeensAreMonsters: This {{Jerkass}} doesn't ''just'' torment his brother by jumpscaring him at random intervals, not ''only'' does he lock him up in the storage room with the animatronics the poor kid is terrified of, but he's the one who ultimately causes his little brother to [[spoiler:hallucinate some crazy nightmares]], and ultimately [[spoiler:might have even gotten him killed. Though, at least, when shit hits the fan and that last one happens, he has [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the decency to apologize for it.]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not unlike his brother, considering that [[spoiler:he was the one who directly caused his brother's mental downfall (and possibly death).]] As of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'', he [[AmbiguousSituation might be even more important:]] [[spoiler:if he's Michael Afton, then he is [[PromotedToPlayable the player character]] of not only ''Sister Location,'' but possibly also of the sixth game and the nights of the fourth game (maybe even more).]]
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[[folder:The Neighborhood Kids]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/neighborhoodkids_3.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''"Are you going to the party? Everyone is going to the party."''']]
The other kids seen around the [=FNAF 4=] Child's neighborhood during the Night 3 minigame.
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* CallForward: Some of these kids reference previous games in the franchise (all of which take place chronologically after [=FNAF 4=]).
** One child has a green-ish Spring Bonnie plush that he compares to a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 finger trap]].
** Another child is surrounded by toy versions of the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 toy animatronics]] - complete with Toy Chica's beak detached.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the kids looks remarkably similar to Circus Baby from ''Sister Location''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Two of the kids laugh at the [=FNAF 4=] Child, but assure him that they will be at his birthday party. Strangely, we do not see them there.
* KidsAreCruel: Most of these kids disregard the [=FNAF 4=] Child's fear of the animatronics - some of them even laugh at him.
* OneSceneWonder: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up anywhere except the Night 3 minigame. They could be children from [=FNAF 3=]'s Happiest Day minigame, but that is not known for certain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up to the [=FNAF 4=] Child's birthday party. What makes this most egregious is that some of them assure him that they - and other children - will be there. Come the day of the party, only the Child's Brother and Brother's friends apparently show up.
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[[folder:The Brother's Friends]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fnaf4_bullies.png]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Maybe the masks aren't such a good idea.]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The friends of the Child's brother]]. [[{{Jerkass}} They're all assholes too, naturally]].
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* CoDragons: All three of them act as this to the brother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like the brother, they are all ''horrified'' when [[spoiler:the Fredbear animatronic crushes the child's skull]].
* TheFaceless: Like the brother, all three of them wear masks of the animatronics, in this case Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy. The only things we can see are their skin color (the one wearing the Chica mask is black) and hair (one of them has blonde or brown hair while the rest have black hair).[[note]]One of them ''might'' appear without his mask in one of the previous minigames, though. Not that it really tells us much.[[/note]]
* {{Jerkass}}: All three of them.
* KarmaHoudini: While they ''did'' regret [[spoiler:killing his friend's brother]], they appear to face no punishment for it, unlike the Brother, who [[spoiler:doesn't need a punishment because he quite likely did a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: To the brother.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Unlike the brother, these three don't appear until the day of the party.
* TerribleTrio: Not counting the brother, there are three of them.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Downplayed on the {{Crossdresser}} part. One of the bullies wears a Chica mask.
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[[folder:Fredbear Plush]]
[[quoteright:120:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fredbear_plush_follow_3.gif]]
[[caption-width-right:120:[[ArcWords Tomorrow is another day.]]]]

A manifestation in the form of a plush-toy and implied to be the Child's favorite character of the Fazbear crew even with his crippling fear of the animatronics. For the actual animatronic, see Golden Freddy in the first game's character page.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Played with and possibly subverted. He expresses a desire to help the Child get better when it is implied [[spoiler:he's a living creature unto himself, making him ObliviouslyEvil at worst.]]
* AscendedExtra: In the sense that the last time this plush-toy appeared, it was simply a bonus reward for Night 7 of the second game.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:A plush with the exact same design appears in the hidden room in Night 5 in ''Sister Location''.]] And it has a [[spoiler:walkie talkie]] which raises the question whether it was really imaginary or not...
* FanNickname: The fanbase refers to him nigh-exclusively as [[labelnote:*]]He's here, he's there, he's everywhere, who you gonna call? [[/labelnote]]Psychic Friend Fredbear, a name popularized by ''WebVideo/GameTheory''.
* HauntedTechnology: Well, not ''technology,'' per se, but it's not hard to imagine what might be going on with this thing. [[spoiler:While it initially seems to be talking at the end of the game, the color of its speech is identical to that of a girl that appeared earlier in the game, who appears precisely nowhere else in the entire franchise. Coupled with the fact that Golden Freddy had audio of a girl giggling play whenever he appeared in the first game, and the slight implications that the Child witnessed ''the Purple Man's first murders'' before the events of the game, and...]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Seems to be one to the Child in the between-night games, trying to warn him away from danger or comfort him in its own way. [[spoiler:Although ''Sister Location'' [[RealAfterAll suggests otherwise]]...]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Seems like a simple, fear-driven hallucination or imaginary friend[[spoiler:, but Night 6's ending leaves this a touch ambiguous, as do several other, subtler hints throughout the game.]] [[spoiler:''Sister Location'' [[DoingInTheWizard only complicates this]] [[RealAfterAll still further]].]]
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler:Heavily implied in the Night 6 ending, as it seems to ask the Child whether he still views him and the other plushies as his friends, and it seems to tell the Child that they will help fix him up. The words "seems to" are used in this trope because "Fredbear's" text in the ending is a noticeably lighter color than it usually is, implying that someone else is speaking to the child instead of the Fredbear Plush.]][[note]][[spoiler:On further inspection, it's identical to the speech of a young girl that appeared earlier in the game. Coupled with the hints that the Child witnessed the Purple Man's first murders, the fact that Golden Freddy has a little girl's laugh[[/note]]]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: It can jump from screen to screen without anything touching or moving it. It can also somehow wind up [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a flower.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Maybe, considering that he's an ArtifactOfDoom that, despite that, genuinely cares about the Child.
* ToughLove: He can be interpreted to be a practitioner of this, as in the minigames he leads the Child to his older brother, who is waiting to JumpScare him. Given how he genuinely seems to care about the Child, it seems as though he's encouraging the Child to confront his fears instead of cowering in terror, which will only make things worse and prolong the fear.
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[[folder:Vlad and Clara]]
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[[caption-width-right:135:[[LampshadeHanging This is some kind of weird couple.]]]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCullough=] (Vlad) and Creator/AmberLeeConnors (Clara)

The leads of ''Sister Location'''s SoapWithinAShow, ''The Immortal and the Restless''.
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* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:The secret ending shows them making up in the season finale after Vlad reveals he got Clara's diamond ring in a kids meal.]]
* BurgerFool: Vlad works the graveyard shift at a taco joint.
* CatchPhrase: Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" and other such variants.
* ChocolateBaby: Vlad claims that his son is really this. It's pretty obvious that the baby is his son.
* {{Dhampyr}}: The baby.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Clara's response to Vlad not accepting his son? ''She sets the house on fire.''
* EasilyForgiven: Clara forgives Vlad for denying his son and refusing to pay child support when [[spoiler:Vlad reveals he got her diamond ring in a kid's meal]], and Vlad forgives Clara for burning down his house. Yeah... ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. Though the outro for the show hints that he may not be so easily forgiven come the next season.
* HouseFire: Clara set the house on fire to get back at Vlad for not supporting his son.
* ImplausibleDeniability: No matter how much proof that the baby is a vampire and his son Clara gives him, Vlad continues to insist that he's not.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Vlad insists that the baby is not his son. Despite ''all'' the evidence proving he is.
* MayDecemberRomance: Clara is clearly a young woman in the prime of her life, while Vlad is an immortal vampire who describes himself as an old man.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Vlad's reaction to Clara's "You suck!" insult.
-->'''Vlad:''' Wait, was that a vampire joke? That was ''so'' lame, Clara. Like I haven't heard that a million times.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vlad is one, and passed that down onto his son. Apparently, it's a type that can turn liquid milk into powdered milk.
* PhraseCatcher: For Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" variants.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Vlad wears purple. Considering what purple is usually associated with, this raises ''several'' questions.
* VampiresAreRich: Subverted. Despite looking and acting like a ClassicalMovieVampire, Vlad is a total ([[{{Pun}} and literal]]) blue-collar stiff who works nights at a taco joint to make ends meet and constantly skimps on his child support payments.
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[[folder:The Vengeful Spirit]]
->'''Voiced by''' Tabatha Skanes

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''"I have seen him - ''the one you shouldn't have killed."''''']]

The spirit appears in ''Ultimate Custom Night'', sometimes seen flickering in the background of the Game Over screen. Barely anything is known about the spirit, except that they are one of William Afton's many victims, and it's all but stated that they are the spirit that possessed the Golden Freddy animatronic suit.\\
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Some animatronics refer directly to the spirit, usually as 'The One You Shouldn't Have Killed', revealing that they are the one behind the torture going on in ''Ultimate Custom Night''. The spirit can be heard in the background during certain Game Over lines of the Mediocre Melody troupe.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The spirit's name gets [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] revealed as part of a larger puzzle in the ''Survival Logbook''. Their name might be [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* AmbiguousGender: Voiced by a woman, but with instructions to not make the gender clear. Several animatronics refer to them as 'He', though nothing in the games is ever stated.
* DeathActivatedSuperPower: Some normal child gained the power to torment its killer for as long as they wish, now that William Afton is finally in their grasp.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Used to be a regular child and had nothing revealed about them, only that they are one of William Afton's victims. Now they have the power to torture William for the crimes he committed, making sure he'll regret things.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of William Afton's victims now inflicts pain and death upon him.
* NightmareFace: Only half of it is illuminated, with strange saturation all over, and its eyelashes gleam white out of the shadow with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* NoNameGiven: No name is revealed in-game for them. The logbook implies it was [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: A spirit that has become powerful enough to keep another soul trapped within a sort of purgatory or dream of their own creation, with the sole purpose of torturing its murderer.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Dialogue from Old Man Consequences reveals that the spirit could move on and no longer remain trapped as Golden Freddy, that there's nothing more to be done for William Afton because he's dead and bound for Hell, but it's possible the spirit refuses. If we go with this theory, they are so consumed by hatred that they refuse to move on, until they feel like they've tortured William enough for having killed them.
* StrangerBehindTheMask: The identity of the spirit possessing Golden Freddy has been a mystery for several games, until this game revealed that this is the one. But nothing about them is known, they are no pre-established character. Just one of the many victims of William Afton, whose name wasn't even revealed in-game.
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[[folder:Jeremy]]
An employee at the game company Tape Girl worked at. He was a beta tester for ''The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience''. Emphasis on "was". The events that led to his, shall we say, "departure" are what spurred Tape Girl to make the audio files. He is probably not the same Jeremy from [=FNaF=] 2.
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* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Implied. Tape Girl recalls a moment where she saw him standing in the testing room covered in what she describes as "ink". If it was indeed blood, then [[BlackBlood that raises more questions than it answers]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He's heavily implied to have killed himself with a guillotine paper cutter after the glitch did... ''something'' to him.]]
* EmptyShell: He became this in the time leading up to [[spoiler:his suicide]]. Tape Girl notes that he looked like he hadn't been eating when she saw him coming out of their boss's room, he was unfazed by anything in the game he was testing, and she recounts seeing him in the testing room early one morning, just... standing there.
-->'''Tape Girl:''' He turned his head in my direction, but I don't think he knew I was there.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Implied to have no skin covering his face anymore, after he sliced it off with a guillotine paper cutter.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His bosses were making preparations to fire him, but were just as happy with [[spoiler:him killing himself]], since he was out of their hair one way or another.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:His suicide is what tipped Tape Girl off to the fact that something was very wrong with the game they were working on.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: We only learn about him long after [[spoiler:he kills himself]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Despite the name, he doesn't actually appear to have anything at all to do with Jeremy Fitzgerald from ''2''.]]
* TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:It's implied that, in his Glitchtrap-induced insanity, Jeremy cut off his own face with the paper slicer, which would explain the "ink", the "Halloween mask" on the floor, and the fact that Tape Girl never sees Jeremy without the VR headset obscuring his face. This also could've led to his death, through infection or bleeding out.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His very presence in the story ties into the nature of the data Tape Girl is trying to purge from the system.
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[[folder:The Indie Developer (spoilers unmarked!)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SelfDeprecation A complete lunatic (lawsuits pending)]]]]

A game developer who created a series of survival horror games starring Freddy and the Fazbear crew. Before you ask, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/daxx9z/a_lore_question_about_help_wanted_and_an_answer/ he's not Scott Cawthon]] and the games aren't the FNAF series... but they might as well be. You see, Fazbear Entertainment's reputation was experiencing a bit of a setback, what with the child murders that dogged every business venture they made. They needed a way to put it all behind them... and to do that, they hired this guy to make games based on the rumors. That way, anyone who tried to seriously look into the murders could be dismissed as an overzealous fan. The perfect cover-up... until Tape Girl entered the scene.
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* AuthorAvatar: He may not literally be Scott in-universe, but it's hard to deny the parallels of an indie developer making games about Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: His purpose was to make the people believe this in-universe about the Fazbear murders.
%%* DirectLineToTheAuthor: If his games are indeed the ones we've been playing.
* HiddenInPlainSight: A reasonably famous indie developer... who is secretly covering up one of the most horrifying series of events in recent memory, using the very games that made him famous, no less.
* PunchClockVillain: Maybe. We don't know if he knew what his games would be used for, but if he did, then he had no problem covering up murder in exchange for being paid.
* UnknownCharacter: We see his face in the intro, but we don't know [[NoNameGiven his name]][[note]]Scott has confirmed that it's not "Scott Cawthon"[[/note]] or indeed anything concrete about him.
* UnwittingPawn: May have been this, depending on whether or not he knew the purpose for which his games had been commissioned.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence throws ''everything'' we know about the series into question. It's so spoilery that if we tagged his file like normal, we'd have to blank out the whole thing.%%So don't get any ideas.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Downplayed, but a non-lethal version depending on whether or not Fazbear Entertainment actually intends to sue him.
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[[folder:Vanny/Vanessa (spoilers unmarked!)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.]]]]
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->''"[[NewhartPhonecall Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down.]] '''[[SequelHook It will be fun.]]'''"''

->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Tang (''Help Wanted''), Heather Masters (Vanessa, ''Security Breach''), Marta Svetek (Vanny, ''Security Breach'')

Also known as "The Reluctant Follower", Vanny is a mysterious female figure who appears to be working with Glitchtrap. Her mask can be found in the Corn Maze through an Easter Egg in ''Help Wanted'''s "Curse of Dreadbear" DLC. If put on while holding Glitchtrap's plush, her voice will be heard. She makes a full appearance for ''Security Breach'', and it looks like [[JackTheRipoff she may bring back an old Fazbear tradition]]...
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* AdvertisedExtra: Played with. For being so hyped-up as the main threat of ''Security Breach'', her Vanny identity shows up less than Vanessa, though she is a major threat when she does.
* AmbiguouslyRelated: A list of employees on the third floor refers to her as "Vanessa A.", raising the possibility that her last name is "Afton". Whether she [[MeaningfulRename changed it as a show of devotion]], is a relation of the Afton family, or it being a RedHerring is unclear. Her father was apparently named "Bill", which could possibly imply that she's William's daughter[[note]]For context, "Bill" is a nickname given to people called "William".[[/note]]. That said, the later Retro [=CDs=] reveal that her traumatic childhood doesn't line up with her actual personal details, leaving it ambiguous whether she was making it up, ''thinks'' it happened, was trying to subtly talk about Glitchtrap using an analogy, or something else entirely.
* AmbiguousSituation:
** Her introductory EasterEgg in ''Help Wanted'''s Halloween DLC raises the possibility that she was the player character all along, since her dialogue is only heard when you wear her mask while holding the Glitchtrap plushie. The game's premise also has you as a beta tester, and the ending where Glitchtrap is sealed is fairly ambiguous itself. That said, it hasn't been officially confirmed.
** With the reveal of the blonde guard being called Vanessa it's unknown whether they just happen to have a similar name or are the same person. Even the ending where Freddy sacrifices himself to kill Vanny and reveals that they're the same person doesn't help much as the post-credits scene for the ending shows a Vanessa above the burning Pizza Plex looking down, muddying the actual connections between the two even more.
** According to the Retro [=CDs=], Vanessa had a [[DarkAndTroubledPast troubled childhood]] where her AbusiveDad forced her to testify against her mother during a custody battle. However, it's later revealed that the details don't match up with other facts: when her therapist did a background check, she found signs Vanessa actually had a happy childhood with loving parents. It's unclear if she made it up entirely, ''[[FakeMemories thinks]]'' it happened, was trying to talk about Glitchtrap in a way [[AllTherapistsAreMuggles a normal person would understand]], or if there's some truth to it after all. The fact that her father's name was apparently Bill, a nickname for "William," only adds to the ambiguity.
** The secret ending depicting Springtrap getting strangled by the mass of tendrils with Funtime Freddy's face on it as the old structure comes down on them leaves nothing to go on for Vanessa's fate. It's possible that with Afton perishing, the bit of his soul that made Vanny in Vanessa is gone and she's free of his Glitchtrap influence, but without her there like in the Golden Ending, there is no way of knowing for sure.
* AssholeVictim: In the 2-Star Vanny and 2-Star Fire Escape endings, where she dies. Special mention goes to her death in the 2-Star Vanny Ending, where she gets [[CruelAndUnusualDeath horribly dismembered]] by the S.T.A.F.F. Bots in the same way she ordered them to do to Freddy.
* BerserkButton: Vanny normally skips like a schoolgirl while pursuing Gregory, but if he pulls out the Faz Blaster and attempts to shoot her, [[https://youtu.be/B7Ofs53h3E8?t=1420 she'll immediately break out into a fast sprint.]]
* BigBad: Of ''Security Breach''.
* {{BFS}}: Her butcher knife, as seen above. The blade is almost as long as her ''arm''.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The "Reluctant" part in her title, coupled with the fact that Glitchtrap's plan was to rewrite the player's personality with his own, hints that she's not quite serving him completely out of her own free will. "Princess Quest" is implied to be an allegory for her attempting to fight off Glitchtrap.
* BrownNote: Inexplicably, Vanny's presence causes Gregory's perception to devolve into a distorted, hellish red landscape, almost paralyzing him. Some theorize that she might have an illusion disk on her.
* ChildHater: Some of Vanessa's EnemyChatter shows a clear disdain towards having to deal with Gregory, even muttering under her breath how much she hates children. Downplayed, in that this seems to be due more to frustration and her own SanitySlippage than her own hatred towards children in general, as well as the fact that she's heavily influenced and mind-controlled by Glitchtrap/William Afton. In the GoldenEnding, she opens the front door for Gregory and Glamrock Freddy to escape and even buys them ice cream afterwards while watching the sunrise in thanks for freeing her from her EnemyWithin.
* ColorMotifs: A close look at Vanessa's model reveals she painted her nails [[PurpleIsPowerful purple]], further connecting her to William Afton.
* ContinuityNod: A shot of her peeking out from the side of a doorframe in the gameplay trailer is similar in composition to Springtrap doing the same in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3''.
* CorruptTheCutie: The emails imply that Vanny was a fairly normal person with GlurgeAddict tendencies prior to her run-in with Glitchtrap. There's also this quote from the gameplay trailer:
--> "When I first found you, you were nothing. You were small, pathetic. Now, you are more. Are you ready?"
* TheCracker: It's revealed in later unintended emails that she pretended to be a Senior Technical Support Representative from Fazbear Entertainment to gain access to their systems. She also created another false credential, "_pizzaplex" to override safety protocols and allow a data packet through.
* CreepyBallet: If you look closely towards the end of the "State of Play" trailer she appears to do ballet poses before skipping towards the camera.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: One of the endings in Security Breach has her get dismembered by S.T.A.F.F. Bots in the same way she ordered them to do so to Freddy.
* DeathGlare: Her JumpScare as the guard has her give the mother-of-all glares as she shines a flashlight in Gregory's face.
* DissonantSerenity: The gameplay and state of play trailers of ''Security Breach'' show that she has a habit of skipping and dancing throughout the Pizzaplex [[WouldHurtAChild as she hunts down Gregory]].
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Luis mentions in one of the later emails that Vanny once ordered chocolate and flowers for herself, while claiming that it's from [[GirlfriendInCanada her nonexistent boyfriend named Brad]]. However, Luis notes that the letter that came with it reads "Flowers for your grave," which is [[DomesticAbuse suspect]]. Note that it's implied that "Brad" is an alias for Glitchtrap, someone Vanny already has a [[BrainwashedAndCrazy questionable dynamic to begin with]].
* DroneOfDread: An ominous droning sound plays in the background whenever Vanny is on patrol as the rabbit suit killer.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Vanny makes an appearance through her mask and voice in ''Help Wanted'''s Halloween DLC, then is teased some in ''Special Delivery''. ''Security Breach'' is her first official onscreen appearance.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: If you manage to find and beat all three Princess Quest arcade machines in ''Security Breach'' [[FightingFromTheInside (which are heavily implied to be depicting Vanessa's attempts to fight off Glitchtrap's influence on her psyche)]], the ending that follows will show her waiting for Gregory at the Pizzaplex entrance holding the exit door open, suggesting that after however many years of [[MindRape mental torture]] Glitchtrap put her through, she's finally free. Bonus points for the final ending slide depicting her, Gregory and Glamrock Freddy (well, his decapitated-but-still-sentient head, anyway) [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments eating ice cream and peacefully watching the sunrise together.]]
* EnemyWithin: Vanny is a split personality of Vanessa created by Glitchtrap's mental reprogramming of her mind; by herself Vanessa is something of a GlurgeAddict who is rather unfriendly when frustrated, but otherwise a [[PunchClockVillain normal security guard who genuinely just wants to help Gregory get out of the Pizzaplex]], but is unaware of Vanny's actions.
* FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: The emails describe her as a GlurgeAddict who wears [[MulticoloredHair rainbow hair extensions]], and [[DoggedNiceGuy Luis]] comments on her attractiveness in-universe. She is also heavily implied to be the blonde, freckled security guard, and her speaking voice is [[SoftSpokenSadist on the softer side]]. That doesn't change [[BrainwashedAndCrazy her dangerousness]]. Subverted in that this is because of Glitchtrap's influence; at her ''natural'' worst, Vanessa is just kind of grumpy.
* FairytaleMotif: She's heavily associated with princess imagery, most prominently in the "Princess Quest" minigames. This only serves to highlight the tragedy of [[CorruptTheCutie her situation]], as well as playing a [[NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice direct contrast against her villainous actions]].
* FauxAffablyEvil: In the teaser trailer, she speaks to Gregory in a polite way despite her true intentions. Her default walk cycle as the killer is her happily skipping while in full costume. When she finds Gregory inside the Lost and Found she takes a moment to wave through the window before entering. Looks like she picked up more than a few things from Afton.
* FightingFromTheInside: One line from the unintended emails suggests that among her odd web searches is simply "help." Additionally, she was originally referred to in ''Help Wanted'''s voice credit as "Reluctant Follower", further hinting that she is trying to actively resist Glitchtrap's influence.
-->'''Luis:''' "I also thought it was strange that these were immediately followed by searches that couldn't possibly have any relevant answers for you. Did you search for 'help' by itself?"
* {{Foil}}: Surprisingly, to Elizabeth. Both are female villains who happen to work in favor of William Afton. Additionally, both Elizabeth and Vanessa, Vanny's implied guard persona, have blonde hair and green eyes. There's also a chance that Vanny [[AmbiguouslyRelated is an Afton]], which is confirmed for Elizabeth. However, while Elizabeth is a long-dead child possessing an animatronic, Vanny is a still-living adult woman who happens to be BrainwashedAndCrazy.
* GoodIsNotNice: Vanessa is pretty rough when it comes to talking to Gregory and Freddy, however the most she does is lock Gregory in an office (and judging at how they never arrive, her threat about his parents or the police coming is an empty one), and for Freddy, she leaves him in a repair area, in a fixable state. After both these events she's an active enemy, but one that's far less lethal than Vanny (a distinctly seperate personality) or the animatronics she's hacked
* TheGhost: We see only the mask but not the person who speaks through it in ''Help Wanted.'' She appears in-person for ''Security Breach''.
* GlurgeAddict: It's implied her true personality fits the super-sweet GirlyGirl variety. Luis mentions that she likes things like cupcake recipes, glittery pink notebooks with pictures of puppies, [[MulticoloredHair rainbow hair extensions]], flowers, and bees. This only makes her [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant erratic Internet history]] more concerning.
* HairRaisingHare: She continues Afton's motif of [[AnimalMotifs rabbit-themed]] villainy.
* HeroAntagonist: {{Subverted|trope}}; when she first appears in ''Security Breach'', Vanessa is working in a security guard position just like the playable characters of past installments, and [[TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse nothing about her looks particularly off]]. Gregory doesn't elaborate why he's so apprehensive about her, leading the player to believe the worst she could do is report him to his parents or the police (which she even states as such after capturing him the first time). Even Freddy initially believes that Vanessa would help Gregory out, but nonetheless lies to her at Gregory's insistence. Over the course of the game, it becomes clear that [[FauxAffablyEvil this was all a facade]]: not only is she the same MalevolentMaskedWoman attempting to murder Gregory, but also the one who programmed the animatronics to do the same.
* InterfaceScrew: In ''Security Breach'' being near Vanny will distort and screw with your vision, becoming more intense the closer she is. If your vision starts to get trippy, it's a sign she's nearby and you need to hide.
* JackTheRipoff: An odd variant of this: she's copying Afton's MO to some extent, but it's been established that she's been working with what amounts to his VirtualGhost, implicitly [[BrainwashedAndCrazy not entirely of her free will]].
* JekyllAndHyde: This is the relationship between her and Vanessa, the blonde nightguard. Luis mentions in a later email that it feels like there are two different sides of her: the kind, positive GirlyGirl and the NightmareFuelStationAttendant interested in ColdBloodedTorture.
* KarmicDeath: She gets "[[CruelAndUnusualDeath disassembled]]" by the S.T.A.F.F Bots in the 2-Star Vanny ending, after ordering the bots to do the same to poor Freddy.
* KnifeNut: A large butcher knife appears to be her weapon of choice, as seen in the above image. Worth mentioning is that a later ''Special Delivery'' email has a supervisor harshly remind employees to keep the office kitchen clean and organized, as the kitchen rules hadn't been followed recently. Combined with the fact that the knife appears to be the kind you'd find in a kitchen setting, this seems to suggest she took it out from there, leaving a mess in the process.
* LegacyCharacter: For whatever reason, Vanny seemingly wants to carry on the will of [[BigBad William Afton]] with the help of whatever remains of him, even bringing her very own signature, homemade rabbit costume.
* MalevolentMaskedWoman: She wears a mascot-like rabbit mask and matching suit, with lots of visible crude stitching on both. Her EasterEgg in ''Help Wanted'' indicates she made it herself.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: For the most part, Vanny is a normal human being wearing a rabbit costume like Glitchtrap. Yet for whatever reason, whenever she draws near Gregory, she causes a severe InterfaceScrew, especially as she closes in. Bear in mind that it's not outright stated how she can do this, and Gregory's a normal human child, so it's ambiguous as to what's really happening.
* MeaningfulBackgroundEvent: In one version of Glamrock Freddy's teaser, her silhouette can be just barely spotted on the skylight.
* MulticoloredHair: One of the first hints on her physical appearance under the mask is a mention in the "red flag" emails in ''Special Delivery'', which features the line "I thought your hair looked nice today, the rainbow streaks brightened up the office - and the office is always in desperate need of some brightening!". Later emails elaborate that these are hair extensions.
* NeverTrustATrailer: The game's PS 5 gameplay trailer suggests that the security guard would be an ally, even promising that she would get Gregory out of there in a reassuring voice. In the actual game Vanessa acts only as another patrolling enemy and spends the entire time seemingly unaware that the animatronics are out to get him. When she's not out to kill him herself at least.
* NightmareFace: Much like Glitchtrap, [[NonStandardCharacterDesign she's not an animatronic]]: but what you find of her in her first appearance (in the "Curse of Dreadbear" Halloween DLC from ''Help Wanted'') is a rabbit mask with similarly huge, lifeless ([[RedEyesTakeWarning and red]]) eyes and a ''very'' unsettling [[SlasherSmile rictus grin]], fixed into a permanent DeathGlare. Her JumpScare in ''Security Breach'''s teaser trailer shows that [[GlowingEyesOfDoom her eyes glow]], and the mask also has very crude, organic-looking stitches and skin graft-like patchwork across it.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: A series of emails that can be found in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysARSpecialDelivery'' detail an employee's attempt to reach out to "Ness", who is Vanny[[note]]"Vanny" and "Ness" are both nicknames for "Vanessa" and in some later emails she is referred to as Vanessa A.[[/note]]. Apparently, she has a habit of searching up terms like "how far can a human being be cut in half before losing consciousness," "how to induce compliance in human subjects," and "self-compliance" during work hours. Her orders are equally suspect, such as a "Viking Blood Eagle Twelve-Month Calendar" and " three lifelike, human male rubber masks". Understandably, the employee is concerned for her health and has been trying to reach out. It starts to paint a picture of [[SanitySlippage the psychological toll of Glitchtrap's influence]]. To say nothing of one particular line from the admin in those e-mails:
---> '''Luis:''' "[[FightingFromTheInside Did you search for 'help' by itself?]]"
* NoSell: {{Zigzagged|Trope}} with the stun weapons in ''Security Breach''. Vanessa will react predictably to getting a bright light shined in her eyes, but Vanny... she just gets mad.
* NothingNiceAboutSugarAndSpice: Some of the emails imply that she likes conventionally [[GirlyGirl "girly"]] things like cupcake recipes, hair extensions, flowers, and glittery pink journals with puppies on them. She is also represented as a princess in a minigame, is shown [[FauxAffablyEvil skipping]] down a hallway in the gameplay trailer, and in her nightguard uniform as Vanessa, wears dark [[ColorMotifs purple]] nail polish. None of these changes the fact that she's a servant of Glitchtrap (albeit not entirely willingly).
* PunnyName: Glamrock Freddy notes that her name sounds similar to Vanessa... and the less obvious "bunny." He declares that this cannot be a coincidence.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Her mask has red eyes.
* ReligionOfEvil: The title "Reluctant Follower" seems to imply this.
* RogueProtagonist: May be this, if she is indeed the player character from ''Help Wanted''.
* SanitySlippage: While we mostly hear about it from Luis's descriptions in ''Special Delivery'', they do not paint a pretty picture of Vanny's psyche after ''Help Wanted''. Aside from her bizarre and morbid online activity, she also stares into her computer screen without paying attention to anything around her, seemingly orders flowers and chocolate with a threatening message for herself, potentially trashed the office kitchen in search of knives (based on an email about keeping it clean), and, if Security Breach TV is supposed to represent her work desk, littering it with trash and uneaten food as well as damaging the screens to the point one is unusable. This is ''before'' she donned a rabbit costume and terrorized a young child.
* ScaryStitches: Vanny's costume has very crude, almost organic-looking stitching across her entire body, with different-textured patterns in certain places that are highly reminiscent of skin grafts. Not only does it make it abundantly clear that she made said outfit herself, but it also brings to mind [[Literature/{{Frankenstein}} another violent, stitched-together creature in an undead-like form]].
* SoftSpokenSadist: Her voice lines thus far tend to use a softer speaking voice.
* TokenHuman: Vanny is notable in that she is the first, and so far only, (living) human character presented as a direct threat, complete with not just one JumpScare, but two (one as the guard, the other as the masked killer).
* TortureTechnician: It's implied that, at the very least, Afton is corrupting her to become not just a killer, but a torturer. Her online activity includes looking up such things as 'inducing compliance in human subjects' and 'how far can a human being be cut in half before losing consciousness', as well as ordering items such as a 'twelve-month Viking Blood Eagle calendar', anatomical models of organs, a book on human dissection, and literal [[{{Fingore}} thumbscrews]].
* VillainBall: Her being tossed one gets her killed in two endings of ''Security Breach'':
** In the "Disassemble" Ending, Vanny has complete control of the S.T.A.F.F. bots and effortlessly has them destroy Freddy, but instead of doing the same thing to Gregory, she leaves the control for them casually laying around in her hideout, where Gregory can easily turn the bots against her. Needless to say, she meets her end [[HoistByTheirOwnPetard via the same method]].
** In the Fire Escape Ending, instead of attempting to leave the burning mall and cut her losses, she makes one last attempt to get Gregory, despite the fact she knows Freddy has been following and protecting him the whole time. As such, it's somewhat unsurprising that when Freddy sees his friend in danger, he sacrifices himself to kill her and save Gregory.
* VillainousBreakdown: In one of the endings, Vanny throws up her hands in surrender and lets out a RapidFireNo as the S.T.A.F.F. bots converge on her to "disassemble" her, clearly desperate and terrified. Her pleas fall on deaf ears.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Vanny/Vanessa completely disappears from the plot of Security Breach without even confronting her in the True Ending where you confront Springtrap/Afton below the Pizzaplex, with little to no explanation of what happens to her in this ending.
* WouldHurtAChild: Like Afton, she goes after children.
* YouthfulFreckles: Early teaser artwork showed her with a spattering across her cheeks. While downplayed on her actual character model, they're still visible if you look closely. This further highlights her FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon aspects and [[BrainwashedAndCrazy how she got there to begin with]].
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[[folder:Luis Cabrera]]
An IT employee at Fazbear Entertainment who is the writer of several unintended emails you can read in ''Special Delivery''. His emails deal with his co-worker, Ness (AKA Vanessa, AKA Vanny), and her increasingly bizarre behavior. Unfortunately, Ness... [[SanitySlippage isn't doing so well]].
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: A variant in that he has a distinctly Hispanic name, but so far there has been no major indication of his cultural or racial background aside from that, nor has he been given an official appearance. A common fan art trend is to depict him with [[LatinoIsBrown brown skin and dark hair]].
* DoggedNiceGuy: It's implied he has feelings for Vanny, as he often compliments her and asks her out for coffee. Unfortunately, it's, well, ''[[BrainwashedAndCrazy Vanny]]''. Needless to say, he ends up an UnwittingPawn.
* DramaticIrony: His emails are ''full'' of it:
** One of his emails states that "It's weird, I feel like I know you so well, but I guess you don't know so much about me. We're just going to fix that!" He does not know about Vanny's true nature.
** Later emails mention that apparently, Vanny ordered flowers for herself while claiming it's from [[GirlfriendInCanada her imaginary boyfriend named Brad]] with the letter [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything "Flowers for your grave]]". Luis, after expressing concern, jokingly offers to beat Brad up since he's "beaten tougher imaginary guys than Brad." 'Brad' is heavily implied to be an alias for Glitchtrap.
** Another email has him mention that when people hear he works at Fazbear Entertainment, they think he works directly with the games and get disappointed when he says he doesn't. Vanny has beta-tested a Fazbear game as part of her job, [[BrainwashedAndCrazy which didn't turn out too well for her]].
* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: Played with. He does seem to be aware of ''something'' going on with Vanny, but he believes that her odd search history is simply her doing research for a stageplay or some other hobby. At worst, he seems to see Vanny as troubled rather than potentially dangerous and has no problem with trying to ask her out. Thing is, he's ''technically'' right. Later emails have him wise up after seeing Vanny do even stranger things and [[spoiler: potentially realizing that she manipulated him into getting access to Senior IT credentials.]] It's also implied that he's either the first to notice her SanitySlippage or the first to comment on it, and that their co-workers don't notice something's wrong.
* LoveMakesYouDumb: Luis does not report Vanny's odd behavior to his supervisors, and instead messages her on her personal email about it. He even notes that if he had to file an incident report on her, he'd probably quit his job out of guilt. Needless to say, this trait of his [[UnwittingPawn gets exploited pretty badly]].
* SmallRoleBigImpact: While he's a comparatively minor character, [[spoiler:his being used as an UnwittingPawn did play a part in the animatronics being hacked]].
* StalkerWithACrush: Implied to be a comparatively benign example. It's mentioned that, despite his frequently sending emails, Vanny never responds. Additionally, it's ambiguous how much exactly he's checking her search history because of his job or because of his feelings.
* StepfordSmiler: While his emails are generally friendly, it's apparent he has self-esteem issues. In one of the later ones he essentially admits to feeling burnt out due to focusing all his time on studying and then working his entire life, not realizing the value of socializing.
--> Some days, I'm unstoppable, and some days I'm just... stopped.
* UnwittingPawn: His feelings for Vanny [[spoiler:allowed her to swindle him into IT access by making an email address with the IT department and pretend to be a Senior IT representative, which in turn allowed her to hack the systems.]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pizzaplex Staff]]
The human workers that helped keep the Pizzaplex somewhat running smoothly before being replaced by the S.T.A.F.F. bots... or worse. Messages from them can be found all over the Pizzaplex.
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* ApocalypticLog: Their messages that Gregory can find all over the Pizzaplex can be counted as this, given how most of them have been long fired by the events of the game...or befell worse fates if you read too much into some of their messages.
* TheGhost: Gregory almost never encounters any of them in person. Vanessa is an exception.
* RefugeInAudacity: The numerous excuses corporate began to give for firing their human staff in droves to cut costs with their S.T.A.F.F. Bot replacements are all outrageous to the point it would be considered illegal if not for Fazzbear Entertainment's KarmaHoudini status. One staff member was fired by his manager due to a customer complaint about him not making a guest's daughter alfredo...when the restaurant doesn't even ''make'' Alfredo. Hilariously enough they then fired the ''manager'' for firing the employee due to the fact the S.T.A.F.F. Bots couldn't make Alfredo either.
* SoulSuckingRetailJob: Few of the messages have little if any positive things to say about working at the Pizzaplex: Between cleaning up after the numerous incidents with the animatronics, having to deal with the headache-inducing security protocols, handling the typical unsafe work conditions that are a trademark of Fazbear Entertainment chains, and dealing with *numerous* complaints (some petty, some reasonable) from volatile guests, the fact that most of them got the pink slip due to the S.T.A.F.F. bots is almost a mercy.
* UncertainDoom: A mysterious note can be found talking about a mandatory all staff meeting at the faculty cafeteria at strangely 11pm of all times. When inspecting the cafeteria the area is in complete disarray: tables overturned, scratches on the floor, and the lights completely out. What exactly occurred at this staff meeting and what happened to the staff members is left to the player's imaginations.
** The fate of the excavation team that went down the cavern found under Roxy Raceway [[spoiler: and discovered the abandoned Freddy Fazbear Pizzaria]] is never revealed, but they most likely met a gruesome end.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fazbear Entertainment Management]]
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->''"These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters ''will'' live on."''
-->-- Press statement by '''Freddy Fazbear's CEO'''

You'll never see them, but these are the [[BlatantLies wonderful people]] who hired you to watch over their restaurant. Pity they didn't mention that the animatronics would be trying to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shove you into a metal-lined animatronic shell]], but we guess that ''would'' scare off some people. You'll only see them mentioned on the safety rules sign and your paycheck, not that this stops them from having a whole host of tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: For a time, the company had an unseemly habit of covering up any bodies it discovered and disguising the crime scenes behind drywall.
* BadBoss: It ''starts'' at paying you $120 a week; even though this is "salary pay" for a "part-time job", it works out to ''$4 an hour''. Wanna work [[BrutalBonusLevel the Saturday shift]] for overtime pay? A whopping '''fifty cents''' more. Gets worse in the second game, where it's down to $100.50 a week. And if you don't make it through the night, they'll do everything in their power to keep the police and news media from finding out. The paychecks, at least, turn out to be justified, since they're the United States minimum wages for 1993 and 1987, respectively. Still, minimum wage for a [[HomicideMachines job like this…]]
* BlatantLies: "Safety is top priority at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza." [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, bullshit.]]
* TheBusCameBack: After chronologically being gone since the events of the first game, Fazbear Entertainment makes their big comeback with the Mega [=PizzaPlex=] in ''Security Breach.'' [[spoiler:They had a convenient location after someone set up a fake one impersonating them, after all.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Can't even afford a decent paycheck, and prefers to clean up your remains and file a "missing persons" report rather than fix the animatronics. Everything that happens is the unspooling consequences of the executives cutting costs and skating by on the least possible effort.
** And then ''FNAF VR: Help Wanted'' reveals that they commissioned a VR game to try and captalize on the events of the previous games ''and'' attempt to discredit them. [[spoiler:They also hired an indie developer (NOT Scott) to make the previous horror games to also make the previous incidents seem like tall tales. They're also willing to go to the effort to attempt to discredit anyone who could potentially derail this effort, even if it means letting a ''serial killer'' back into the world, and it's heavily implied that they ''knew'' the virus was in the VR game, but were not willing to actually deal with the actual problem, as it would potentially involve restarting development and erasing ''all'' the files to ensure the threat was destroyed, because, you know, [[SunkCostFallacy that'd just cost more money.]]]]
* DangerousWorkplace: It's not clear whether they have any actual ties to the killer parts of the animatronics, and even if so, it's not clear [[HanlonsRazor whether it's out of malice or stupidity]], but they ''do'' still give you the job, and thus the hell that ensues, and you're far from the first to take the job.
* {{Determinator}}: In spite of literal decades of child murder, missing persons, and other incidents and atrocities linked to their brand name coupled with enough lawsuits to bankrupt a rich man multiple times over, Fazbear Entertainment will stop at ''nothing'' to try and make the big time with Freddy and co. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard And they'd have succeeded within multiple attempts by now were it not for their comically flagrant corruption impeding them on almost every rung of the corporate ladder.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While not evil per se, they still have quite a history of ignoring worker safety. However, when the spring suit's major… [[CruelAndUnusualDeath flaws]] became apparent one day, the company ''immediately'' takes them out of service and puts them away where no one can find them. Mind you, from the tone of their memo about this (and the mention of "insurance representatives"), it's implied that it's less about moral concerns and more about [[PragmaticVillainy thinking of the bottom line.]]
** PlayedForLaughs when they express sheer disbelief that they had to fire Fritz Smith on ''his first day of the job'' for tampering with the animatronics.
** One of the endings to ''Pizza Simulator'' requires you have horrid managerial skills, horrid skills even by ''their'' standards.
* FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}, of course. Time and time again the biggest thing that brings down the company is its extreme corner-cutting in the search for profits, resulting in faults and accidents that usually brings their latest establishment down in flames; usually in the literal sense. The robots usually go haywire, sanitation is really not up to code, and, oh yeah, the same serial killer keeps on coming back through their lax security. Even the Pizza, their most successful venture to date, is filled with flaws and corruption abound, which results in its destruction or closing in some endings.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Technically outranks even William Afton in this regard; it's through ''their'' poor business, technical, and hiring decisions that make the plots of the main games happen but they never make any sort of physical appearance.
* HateSink: It's pretty clear you are not meant to like these people. They give you a job that puts you in life threatening danger, refuse to pay compensation if you are injured on the job, hide your corpse if you get killed, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and don't even pay you well]].
* IncompetenceInc: Oh boy howdy, where do we even begin? The possessed animatronics that viciously kill anyone they catch on company premises at night, for starters. [[spoiler:But how about the faulty wiring that causes the attraction to burn down in ''3'']], assuming it's owned by the company? Or the fact that they let a serial murderer killing children run loose without reprisal? Perhaps the fact that said animatronics were so dangerous that they [[spoiler:crushed a child's skull?]] It's a miracle the company continued on for as long as it did in the face of such ''lethal'' incompetence!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:They successfully covered up the events from the first few games, repaired their reputation]] and are rich enough to build a mall.
* NoOSHACompliance: Customer safety is not a top priority here. Neither is workplace safety. And that's not even getting started on the spring suits...
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler: They appear to have made a return in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', but it's actually an impersonation and a fake location meant to lure in Afton and the remnants of his misdeeds.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: ''Most'' of what happens at Freddy's under their watch- The Bite of '87 [[spoiler:and '83]], the murders taking place under their nose, [[NoodleIncident whatever happened with the "multiple simultaneous springlock failures"]], the generally perilous conditions facing their nightguards- can be chalked up to the company being either too lazy to police itself or too incompetent to do so well, rather than outright villainy. [[spoiler:Then FNAF VR reveals they were also involved in a much more active form of villainy: apparently they have been ''actively covering these things up'' by hiring an indie developer to make video games about the events (which would in turn suggest that they knew a ''lot'' more about the events of the games than they let on), thereby allowing them to discredit any rumors about the ''actual'' incidents.]]
* PetTheDog:
** They at least ''try'' to make improvements in the second game. New animatronics that'll be on the look out for criminals, giving more of a heads up warning about their "kinks" and not really sure what's causing their behavior, finally springing for a light source that doesn't run on everything so the power won't cut out on you (just the flashlight) and supplying a Freddy mask to at least protect yourself. It can be assumed the lack of a doorway is just something they can't afford at the moment due to trying to update the animatronics.
** A lot of their policies from the first game make sense after seeing the second game. For example: they fire Mike for tampering with the animatronics. In the second game, it's revealed that the animatronics had facial recognition to spot potential threats within the restaurant, thus it's understandable why they'd fire Mike; it might actually be them making sure Mike isn't a threat.
** The good ending to ''Pizzeria Simulator'' [[spoiler:has them thank you for working with them, and admitting that they were trying to tie up loose ends on their part. They add one last thank you as they say that their company is now officially disbanded... until the VR game.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: One possible explanation as to why they've stayed in business is that no one will believe that killer animatronics haunted by the ghosts of children actually exist.
* RichesToRags: The company has been on a downward financial spiral following the murders, The Bite of '87, and the money they wasted building the second restaurant and the animatronics that would later [[spoiler:be scrapped.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When shit hits the fan for Fazbear Entertainment, they have a tendency to just drop everything and leave. Most iterations of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza have been left to decay immediately after closure, with almost everything left where it was.
* SkewedPriorities: One of the policies regarding the springlock suits is that, in the event that the spring locks come loose and the animatronic components inside cause any [[ExactWords accidents/injuries/death/irreparable and grotesque maiming]], employees should do their best to maneuver away from populated areas before bleeding out so as to not ruin the customer experience.
* StartOfDarkness: The second game (actually a prequel) is this for Fazbear Entertainment, as another set of children dissapears and it all goes downhill from there. The robots finally start hunting night guards, the restaurant is shut down mere weeks after opening, despite the company's desperation to assure that nothing bad is happening as seen through Phone Guy, the state-of-the-art animatronics which the company blew most of the restaurant's budget on are [[spoiler:to be destroyed following the tumult they caused]], and the restaurant's life is highly implied to culminate in The Bite of '87 during one last birthday party.
* ThereIsAnother: The third game reveals that at one point during the company's life, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza had been a franchise instead of a single location.
* {{Unperson}}: Their corruptness reaches outright [[CardCarryingVillain cartoony levels]]. If an employee is discovered dead by the janitors, they shampoo the carpets, hide the body, and ''then'' file a Missing Persons report in a few months. This isn't some clandestine cover-up; it's their ''[[VillainousDemotivator advertised company policy]]''.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Their reaction when they fired Fritz Smith on ''his first day of the job'' for tampering with the animatronics.
-->"First day on the job? [[EpicFail Really]]?!?!"

[[folder:Afton Robotics, LLC]]
Mr. Afton's own robotics company.

* EvilCounterpart: To Fazbear Entertainment. Sure, it's not like they're quite the saint either but at least they're just trying to be a successful company, while Afton Robotics' robots are outrightly programmed to kidnap children (then again, the robots were designed by William and how much the employees were aware of their employer's actions is ambiguous).

[[folder:Fazbear's Fright Management]]
While Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has finally kicked the bucket [[TemptingFate for good]] this time, it seems that its dark legacy lives on in "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction". And of course, what's a building without its owners? But they want an authentic experience, and thus have searched far and wide for any remnants of the old business. All they found were empty shells, a hook, a hand, a paper plate doll… and eventually, an animatronic.

* AscendedFanboy: It's very possible the whole reason anyone would ever want to bring back Freddy Fazbear, in any format, was that they enjoyed the original restaurants as a kid. Anyone who was a kid between 1987 and 1993 of the first two games would be in their mid-thirties or forties by the time of the third game. The beginning newspaper even says that they're hoping to bring your childhood back "in the worst way possible". [[SarcasmMode Yay...]]
* FailedASpotCheck: They don't seem to notice that the new animatronic they found has the remains of a human being in there, even though there's obvious innards hanging off the endo-skeleton. Or the fact that lifting up the mask reveals a ''mummified face.''
* IdiotBall: Good ''gravy.'' Building the place with deliberately faulty wiring?! A ventilation system so run down that it needs to be rebooted, lest either a lack of air or some unknown gas starts making people hallucinate?! The fact that [[spoiler:the place goes up in flames before even opening to the public is a '''godsend'''!]]
* IncompetenceInc: They give '''Fazbear Entertainment''' a run for their money with the sheer idiocy that went into the construction of Fazbear's Fright. Here's hoping that they don't follow their corpse policies as well.
* MainliningTheMonster: The whole point of their business; to create a "horror museum" based upon the {{Urban Legend}}s of the creepy, and reputedly murderous/haunted, animatronics at the now-dead Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. This isn't just their love of the old pizza joint, they genuinely expect to make money by cashing in on these stories. And then they find Springtrap, who is the mutilated carcass of William Afton possessing the suit he died in. Let us repeat: they took the ArtificialZombie of ''[[RefugeInAudacity a goddamn six to eleven-time child murderer...]]'' and [[RefugeInAudacity made it part of a haunted house]]. Can't get more mainlining than ''that.''
* NoOSHACompliance: Fazbear's Fright somehow manages to be more of a giant middle finger to common sense and safety than Freddy's could ever dream of being, built with crappy wiring and a dangerously inept ventilation system that goes offline easily.
* SelfDeprecation: Turning a children's entertainment industry into a horror attraction? Sounds an awful lot like Scott Cawthon turning his kid-friendly ''VideoGame/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo'' art style into his horror success story.
* StylisticSuck: The attraction has intentionally low-quality materials to keep things "Fazbear Authentic".
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Building Fazbear's Fright with a ridiculous amount of fire hazards bites them when [[spoiler:the place goes ablaze due to either arson or the faulty wiring and destroys nearly everything inside.]]
* TooDumbToLive: For starters, they've ''deliberately'' built the attraction with poor-quality materials, computer systems that crash extremely easily, ventilation systems that either leak noxious fumes or lack sufficient oxygen and causing hallucinations either way, just to keep it "Fazbear authentic". They then manage to find one of the animatronics, most likely with the intention to let it roam around the place and scare visitors once the place opens, despite knowing well about the murderous lore behind the Freddy's franchise. You'd also think they'd check the animatronic they found and notice there was a petrified corpse inside, which they haven't seemed to have done. It isn't all that surprising when [[spoiler:the place is immolated within a couple of hours after disaster inevitably strikes]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Day Shift Guy]]
->''"Uh… you're only the second guard to work at that location. Uh, the first guy finished his week, but complained about… conditions. Uh, we switched him over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right? Uh, mainly he expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office."''
-->-- '''Phone Guy'''

Another unnamed character who Phone Guy refers to several times in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2''. You inherited his job after he was moved to the day shift because he complained about the animatronics moving around.

* TheCameo: Possibly. In ''4'', we get to see a total of three Fazbear Entertainment employees, one of whom is wearing a guard uniform [[spoiler:and is colored purple]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Heavily implied to be '''William Afton'''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Remember, this guy survived a whole week before you. ''Without a Freddy Fazbear mask.''
* TheScapegoat: If we assume he's ''not'' William. Phone Guy's dialogue implies Day Shift Guy was arrested for the murders, but Afton was still at large later on.

[[folder:The Missing Children]]
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[[caption-width-right:118:[[FriendlyGhost Less like]] [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more like]] [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Jasper.]]]]

Fazbear Entertainment was flourishing, providing entertainment to many families... then disaster sent the company into a downward spiral. At least six[[note]]The exact number is ambiguous. The first game says two, then a total of five. The second game implies anywhere from five to eleven. The "Happiest Day" minigame in the third game when the children finally pass on shows eleven children in total, but only six are monochrome and pass on to the great beyond (the ones haunting the original four, plus Golden Freddy and the Puppet), indicating that the party is for living children, while the ghosts merely "tag along". ''4'' implies that there was a seventh ghost involved in the Fazbear hauntings via its [[DownerEnding unexpected ending.]] ''Pizzeria Simulator'' seems to stick with "Happiest Day", as there are six gravestones shown in the "Lorekeeper" ending.[[/note]] children were murdered, and soon afterwards, the Fazbear animatronics began to smell and act up during the nights. The most common theory is that the first victim was an isolated incident, and that child inhabited the Puppet, as both are known for their faces that look like they have streaks of tears. When the Murderer killed five other children, the haunted Puppet placed them into the Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Golden Freddy animatronics, causing them to become haunted as well.

* AmbiguousGender: No gender is ever really given for the children, and their only appearances -- in the minigames -- does not show them with anything indicative of gender. However, ''Pizzeria Simulator'' implies there were [[spoiler:three boys and two girls]]. Golden Freddy's gender remains unknown.
* AndIMustScream: Their bodies were stuffed into the animatronic suits, badly damaging the corpses, and trapping the childrens' souls in the animatronics. Ironically, they ''can'' actually scream, and the sound file from the first game in its entirety turns into a human child's scream. As indicated by the light of the animatronics' heads still being on, the bad ending of the third game strongly implies that they will ''stay'' this way, forever. Fortunately, the good ending is implied to be canon.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The good ending shows them leaving their robotic bodies and ascending to heaven after getting their justice]].
* CameBackStrong: From helpless children to robots more than capable of [[strike:fending off]] brutally murdering adults. Unarmed, immobile adults that were caught off-guard, at least.
* CameBackWrong: Possibly what happened to Golden Freddy. His behavior is quite different from the other animatronics', but the suit the child was stuffed into lacks a proper endoskeleton.
* DeathOfAChild: They're possessed by the spirits of murdered children.
* {{Determinator}}: All six children have been haunting their animatronics for 40 years in an attempt to avenge their murders.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the original, drawings of crying children can sometimes be seen in one of the hallways. These pictures greatly resemble the crying child's sprite.
* GhostlyGoals: '''Type B''': Get revenge on their murderer for, you know, murdering them. They succeeded in this goal, thus moving on... or at least, five of them did, while [[spoiler:the Puppet]]'s child hung around for a while longer.
* HauntedTechnology: It's confirmed by the third game that the children were haunting the animatronics.
* TheHeavy: Pretty much, considering the animatronics are haunted by them (and their desire for vengeance being a major reason for the animatronics being {{Killer Robot}}s).
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Came back from the dead to avenge their undeserved death by William Afton (which, if their killing methods are any indication, involved the suits somehow). However, this correlates into the deaths of a lot of innocent guards in the process, turning the children into ruthless murderers themselves.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The children's bodies were unable to be recovered according to the newspaper reports.
* NoNameGiven: Until ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'', [[spoiler:where we learn that four of them are named Fritz, Gabriel, Jeremy, and Susie]], the Missing Children are nameless. In the books' AlternateUniverse, ''The Fourth Closet'' has them retain these names, with the additional revelation that [[spoiler:one of them is named Michael Brooks, whose spirit manifests as Golden Freddy]]. However, it's unknown if [[spoiler:Michael Brooks]] is canon to the games.
* OcularGushers: What one of the children is known for, and why people connect it to the Puppet.
* PromotedToPlayable: The last post-night minigame of ''3'' has you play as one of the children's spirits. Also, along with the animatronics, a child's spirit can be used as a party member in ''Five Nights at Freddy's World''.
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:It's implied one of the children is the Child from ''4'', haunting Golden Freddy following his death.]]
* StylisticSuck: In ''FNAF World'', the Crying Child still has the blocky sprite-like appearance from the retro-style minigames.
* ThrowTheDogABone: The player can help them finally get their revenge on Afton, after that, [[spoiler:the children are at peace, and ascend to heaven]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Why the spirits remain. [[spoiler:When they finally avenge their murders, they have no need to haunt the Murderer or the Fazbear companies.]]
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Implied, they watch their killer horrifically die but they were unable to move on. It took [[spoiler:kindness from the Fazbear's Fright security guard and the Cassette Man for them to rest]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** It seems that they attack security guards because the Murderer was one. The second game also hints that the possessed animatronics are very protective of children. The Marionette's spirit also seemed to believe that putting the dead children into the suits was giving them a new life (which was... ''technically'' true).
** If [[spoiler: Michael Afton being the protagonists of all/most games in the series is indeed true]], then that means [[spoiler:the children are attacking the guards because they are in one way or another the son of their killer. Most likely, they could not differentiate him from the other Afton. It helps that William and Michael Afton are hinted to have a StrongFamilyResemblance. Even if he is trying to possibly fight his father's evil... they don't know any better.]]
** Then entirely averted by [[spoiler:The Puppet]], who reveals that [[spoiler:she is "aware"]], but that the other children are [[spoiler:"animals"]], which means they're attacking so violently because they can't tell any different. They're too stupid and rabid to realise that all the security guards they're killing are ''not'' the same man - especially as the security guard ''keeps coming back''. Someone intelligent would realize ''something'' is going on. They are, unfortunately, too broken to put 2 and 2 together and get 4.

[[folder:The Child's Brother]]
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[[caption-width-right:166:''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Good going, douche, your bro's dreams have come true...]]'']]

The older brother of the child in ''4''. [[BigBrotherBully He's a complete asshole]]. May or may not also be Michael Afton.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:In the sixth night, after the prank of his goes horribly wrong and his brother has severely damaged his brain, the first words that flash on screen are the brother asking whether the child can hear him, and immediately apologizing for what he's done. Even more so if he is Michael Afton, as his actions in ''Sister Location'' and ''Pizzeria Simulator'' (if not even letter) demonstrate that he has dramatically changed for the better]].
* BigBad: The events of the fourth game are basically him being a BigBrotherBully towards the Child. [[spoiler:Keep in mind that this includes [[BrainFood the accident at the end of the game]], which '''[[TheHeroDies is heavily implied to kill him.]]''']]
* BigBrotherBully: He relentlessly tortures the child by using the latter's fear of the animatronics. This doesn't end well at all for the child.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to The Child's Abel. Though this is PlayedWith, since [[spoiler:he did not mean for his brother to have his brain horrifically injured, and tries to apologize for it.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He and his friends are ''horrified'' after [[spoiler:their prank [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when the Fredbear animatronic bites down on his brother's head harder than they thought.]]
* EvilLaugh: Mocking laughter can be heard whenever the brother pulls one of his pranks, but it's rather muted.
* TheFaceless: We never get to see his face. Every time he appears on-screen, he's wearing a Foxy mask. All we know about his appearance is that he has black hair.
* HateSink: The animatronics in this game are just figments of the protagonist's imagination ([[spoiler:[[AmbiguousSituation well...maybe]]]]). In addition, in his only appearance in this game, the killer isn't doing anything bad. As a result, he and his friends are the only things you truly have to hate in this game. At the very least though, [[spoiler:he's remorseful of what he has done. Unlike his most-likely father.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Torments his younger brother by locking him in his bedroom, randomly scaring him while wearing a Foxy mask, leaving the restaurant without him when he ''knows'' the Child doesn't like it there, locking him in the animatronics' storeroom, and along with his buddies carrying him closer and closer to Fredbear when he's clearly shouting he doesn't want to get close.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Deconstructed. Though he did actually love his brother, his actions are too atrocious to make him sympathetic. [[spoiler: Possibly reconstructed if and ONLY if he's also Michael Afton, in which case his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment might be seen as the first step to his HeelFaceTurn who would try to find William, who in a sense is a reflection of himself, except far, FAR worse and without any shred of remorse.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Is absolutely relentless when torturing his Brother; if it hadn't been for his [[spoiler:remorse for causing the bite, and possible death of his brother]], he could have been something [[TheSociopath much worse]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:The Night 6 minigame starts off with dark grey text, symbolizing the brother is talking. Here's what he says:]]
-->[[spoiler:"Can you hear me? I don't know if you can hear me."]]
-->[[spoiler:[[{{Tearjerker}} "...I'm sorry."]]]]
* OhCrap: He and his friends ''immediately'' stop laughing when [[spoiler:Fredbear crunches down on his brother]].
* TeensAreMonsters: This {{Jerkass}} doesn't ''just'' torment his brother by jumpscaring him at random intervals, not ''only'' does he lock him up in the storage room with the animatronics the poor kid is terrified of, but he's the one who ultimately causes his little brother to [[spoiler:hallucinate some crazy nightmares]], and ultimately [[spoiler:might have even gotten him killed. Though, at least, when shit hits the fan and that last one happens, he has [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the decency to apologize for it.]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not unlike his brother, considering that [[spoiler:he was the one who directly caused his brother's mental downfall (and possibly death).]] As of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'', he [[AmbiguousSituation might be even more important:]] [[spoiler:if he's Michael Afton, then he is [[PromotedToPlayable the player character]] of not only ''Sister Location,'' but possibly also of the sixth game and the nights of the fourth game (maybe even more).]]
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[[folder:The Neighborhood Kids]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''"Are you going to the party? Everyone is going to the party."''']]
The other kids seen around the [=FNAF 4=] Child's neighborhood during the Night 3 minigame.
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* CallForward: Some of these kids reference previous games in the franchise (all of which take place chronologically after [=FNAF 4=]).
** One child has a green-ish Spring Bonnie plush that he compares to a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 finger trap]].
** Another child is surrounded by toy versions of the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 toy animatronics]] - complete with Toy Chica's beak detached.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the kids looks remarkably similar to Circus Baby from ''Sister Location''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Two of the kids laugh at the [=FNAF 4=] Child, but assure him that they will be at his birthday party. Strangely, we do not see them there.
* KidsAreCruel: Most of these kids disregard the [=FNAF 4=] Child's fear of the animatronics - some of them even laugh at him.
* OneSceneWonder: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up anywhere except the Night 3 minigame. They could be children from [=FNAF 3=]'s Happiest Day minigame, but that is not known for certain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up to the [=FNAF 4=] Child's birthday party. What makes this most egregious is that some of them assure him that they - and other children - will be there. Come the day of the party, only the Child's Brother and Brother's friends apparently show up.

[[folder:The Brother's Friends]]
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[[caption-width-right:310:Maybe the masks aren't such a good idea.]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The friends of the Child's brother]]. [[{{Jerkass}} They're all assholes too, naturally]].

* CoDragons: All three of them act as this to the brother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like the brother, they are all ''horrified'' when [[spoiler:the Fredbear animatronic crushes the child's skull]].
* TheFaceless: Like the brother, all three of them wear masks of the animatronics, in this case Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy. The only things we can see are their skin color (the one wearing the Chica mask is black) and hair (one of them has blonde or brown hair while the rest have black hair).[[note]]One of them ''might'' appear without his mask in one of the previous minigames, though. Not that it really tells us much.[[/note]]
* {{Jerkass}}: All three of them.
* KarmaHoudini: While they ''did'' regret [[spoiler:killing his friend's brother]], they appear to face no punishment for it, unlike the Brother, who [[spoiler:doesn't need a punishment because he quite likely did a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: To the brother.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Unlike the brother, these three don't appear until the day of the party.
* TerribleTrio: Not counting the brother, there are three of them.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Downplayed on the {{Crossdresser}} part. One of the bullies wears a Chica mask.

[[folder:Fredbear Plush]]
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[[caption-width-right:120:[[ArcWords Tomorrow is another day.]]]]

A manifestation in the form of a plush-toy and implied to be the Child's favorite character of the Fazbear crew even with his crippling fear of the animatronics. For the actual animatronic, see Golden Freddy in the first game's character page.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Played with and possibly subverted. He expresses a desire to help the Child get better when it is implied [[spoiler:he's a living creature unto himself, making him ObliviouslyEvil at worst.]]
* AscendedExtra: In the sense that the last time this plush-toy appeared, it was simply a bonus reward for Night 7 of the second game.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:A plush with the exact same design appears in the hidden room in Night 5 in ''Sister Location''.]] And it has a [[spoiler:walkie talkie]] which raises the question whether it was really imaginary or not...
* FanNickname: The fanbase refers to him nigh-exclusively as [[labelnote:*]]He's here, he's there, he's everywhere, who you gonna call? [[/labelnote]]Psychic Friend Fredbear, a name popularized by ''WebVideo/GameTheory''.
* HauntedTechnology: Well, not ''technology,'' per se, but it's not hard to imagine what might be going on with this thing. [[spoiler:While it initially seems to be talking at the end of the game, the color of its speech is identical to that of a girl that appeared earlier in the game, who appears precisely nowhere else in the entire franchise. Coupled with the fact that Golden Freddy had audio of a girl giggling play whenever he appeared in the first game, and the slight implications that the Child witnessed ''the Purple Man's first murders'' before the events of the game, and...]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Seems to be one to the Child in the between-night games, trying to warn him away from danger or comfort him in its own way. [[spoiler:Although ''Sister Location'' [[RealAfterAll suggests otherwise]]...]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Seems like a simple, fear-driven hallucination or imaginary friend[[spoiler:, but Night 6's ending leaves this a touch ambiguous, as do several other, subtler hints throughout the game.]] [[spoiler:''Sister Location'' [[DoingInTheWizard only complicates this]] [[RealAfterAll still further]].]]
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler:Heavily implied in the Night 6 ending, as it seems to ask the Child whether he still views him and the other plushies as his friends, and it seems to tell the Child that they will help fix him up. The words "seems to" are used in this trope because "Fredbear's" text in the ending is a noticeably lighter color than it usually is, implying that someone else is speaking to the child instead of the Fredbear Plush.]][[note]][[spoiler:On further inspection, it's identical to the speech of a young girl that appeared earlier in the game. Coupled with the hints that the Child witnessed the Purple Man's first murders, the fact that Golden Freddy has a little girl's laugh[[/note]]]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: It can jump from screen to screen without anything touching or moving it. It can also somehow wind up [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a flower.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Maybe, considering that he's an ArtifactOfDoom that, despite that, genuinely cares about the Child.
* ToughLove: He can be interpreted to be a practitioner of this, as in the minigames he leads the Child to his older brother, who is waiting to JumpScare him. Given how he genuinely seems to care about the Child, it seems as though he's encouraging the Child to confront his fears instead of cowering in terror, which will only make things worse and prolong the fear.
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[[folder:Vlad and Clara]]
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[[caption-width-right:135:[[LampshadeHanging This is some kind of weird couple.]]]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCullough=] (Vlad) and Creator/AmberLeeConnors (Clara)

The leads of ''Sister Location'''s SoapWithinAShow, ''The Immortal and the Restless''.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:The secret ending shows them making up in the season finale after Vlad reveals he got Clara's diamond ring in a kids meal.]]
* BurgerFool: Vlad works the graveyard shift at a taco joint.
* CatchPhrase: Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" and other such variants.
* ChocolateBaby: Vlad claims that his son is really this. It's pretty obvious that the baby is his son.
* {{Dhampyr}}: The baby.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Clara's response to Vlad not accepting his son? ''She sets the house on fire.''
* EasilyForgiven: Clara forgives Vlad for denying his son and refusing to pay child support when [[spoiler:Vlad reveals he got her diamond ring in a kid's meal]], and Vlad forgives Clara for burning down his house. Yeah... ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. Though the outro for the show hints that he may not be so easily forgiven come the next season.
* HouseFire: Clara set the house on fire to get back at Vlad for not supporting his son.
* ImplausibleDeniability: No matter how much proof that the baby is a vampire and his son Clara gives him, Vlad continues to insist that he's not.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Vlad insists that the baby is not his son. Despite ''all'' the evidence proving he is.
* MayDecemberRomance: Clara is clearly a young woman in the prime of her life, while Vlad is an immortal vampire who describes himself as an old man.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Vlad's reaction to Clara's "You suck!" insult.
-->'''Vlad:''' Wait, was that a vampire joke? That was ''so'' lame, Clara. Like I haven't heard that a million times.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vlad is one, and passed that down onto his son. Apparently, it's a type that can turn liquid milk into powdered milk.
* PhraseCatcher: For Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" variants.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Vlad wears purple. Considering what purple is usually associated with, this raises ''several'' questions.
* VampiresAreRich: Subverted. Despite looking and acting like a ClassicalMovieVampire, Vlad is a total ([[{{Pun}} and literal]]) blue-collar stiff who works nights at a taco joint to make ends meet and constantly skimps on his child support payments.

[[folder:The Vengeful Spirit]]
->'''Voiced by''' Tabatha Skanes

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[[caption-width-right:350:'''"I have seen him - ''the one you shouldn't have killed."''''']]

The spirit appears in ''Ultimate Custom Night'', sometimes seen flickering in the background of the Game Over screen. Barely anything is known about the spirit, except that they are one of William Afton's many victims, and it's all but stated that they are the spirit that possessed the Golden Freddy animatronic suit.\\
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Some animatronics refer directly to the spirit, usually as 'The One You Shouldn't Have Killed', revealing that they are the one behind the torture going on in ''Ultimate Custom Night''. The spirit can be heard in the background during certain Game Over lines of the Mediocre Melody troupe.

* AllThereInTheManual: The spirit's name gets [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] revealed as part of a larger puzzle in the ''Survival Logbook''. Their name might be [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* AmbiguousGender: Voiced by a woman, but with instructions to not make the gender clear. Several animatronics refer to them as 'He', though nothing in the games is ever stated.
* DeathActivatedSuperPower: Some normal child gained the power to torment its killer for as long as they wish, now that William Afton is finally in their grasp.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Used to be a regular child and had nothing revealed about them, only that they are one of William Afton's victims. Now they have the power to torture William for the crimes he committed, making sure he'll regret things.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of William Afton's victims now inflicts pain and death upon him.
* NightmareFace: Only half of it is illuminated, with strange saturation all over, and its eyelashes gleam white out of the shadow with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* NoNameGiven: No name is revealed in-game for them. The logbook implies it was [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: A spirit that has become powerful enough to keep another soul trapped within a sort of purgatory or dream of their own creation, with the sole purpose of torturing its murderer.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Dialogue from Old Man Consequences reveals that the spirit could move on and no longer remain trapped as Golden Freddy, that there's nothing more to be done for William Afton because he's dead and bound for Hell, but it's possible the spirit refuses. If we go with this theory, they are so consumed by hatred that they refuse to move on, until they feel like they've tortured William enough for having killed them.
* StrangerBehindTheMask: The identity of the spirit possessing Golden Freddy has been a mystery for several games, until this game revealed that this is the one. But nothing about them is known, they are no pre-established character. Just one of the many victims of William Afton, whose name wasn't even revealed in-game.

[[folder:Jeremy]]
An employee at the game company Tape Girl worked at. He was a beta tester for ''The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience''. Emphasis on "was". The events that led to his, shall we say, "departure" are what spurred Tape Girl to make the audio files. He is probably not the same Jeremy from [=FNaF=] 2.

* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Implied. Tape Girl recalls a moment where she saw him standing in the testing room covered in what she describes as "ink". If it was indeed blood, then [[BlackBlood that raises more questions than it answers]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He's heavily implied to have killed himself with a guillotine paper cutter after the glitch did... ''something'' to him.]]
* EmptyShell: He became this in the time leading up to [[spoiler:his suicide]]. Tape Girl notes that he looked like he hadn't been eating when she saw him coming out of their boss's room, he was unfazed by anything in the game he was testing, and she recounts seeing him in the testing room early one morning, just... standing there.
-->'''Tape Girl:''' He turned his head in my direction, but I don't think he knew I was there.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Implied to have no skin covering his face anymore, after he sliced it off with a guillotine paper cutter.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His bosses were making preparations to fire him, but were just as happy with [[spoiler:him killing himself]], since he was out of their hair one way or another.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:His suicide is what tipped Tape Girl off to the fact that something was very wrong with the game they were working on.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: We only learn about him long after [[spoiler:he kills himself]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Despite the name, he doesn't actually appear to have anything at all to do with Jeremy Fitzgerald from ''2''.]]
* TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:It's implied that, in his Glitchtrap-induced insanity, Jeremy cut off his own face with the paper slicer, which would explain the "ink", the "Halloween mask" on the floor, and the fact that Tape Girl never sees Jeremy without the VR headset obscuring his face. This also could've led to his death, through infection or bleeding out.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His very presence in the story ties into the nature of the data Tape Girl is trying to purge from the system.
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[[folder:The Indie Developer (spoilers unmarked!)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[SelfDeprecation A complete lunatic (lawsuits pending)]]]]

A game developer who created a series of survival horror games starring Freddy and the Fazbear crew. Before you ask, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/daxx9z/a_lore_question_about_help_wanted_and_an_answer/ he's not Scott Cawthon]] and the games aren't the FNAF series... but they might as well be. You see, Fazbear Entertainment's reputation was experiencing a bit of a setback, what with the child murders that dogged every business venture they made. They needed a way to put it all behind them... and to do that, they hired this guy to make games based on the rumors. That way, anyone who tried to seriously look into the murders could be dismissed as an overzealous fan. The perfect cover-up... until Tape Girl entered the scene.
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* AuthorAvatar: He may not literally be Scott in-universe, but it's hard to deny the parallels of an indie developer making games about Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: His purpose was to make the people believe this in-universe about the Fazbear murders.
%%* DirectLineToTheAuthor: If his games are indeed the ones we've been playing.
* HiddenInPlainSight: A reasonably famous indie developer... who is secretly covering up one of the most horrifying series of events in recent memory, using the very games that made him famous, no less.
* PunchClockVillain: Maybe. We don't know if he knew what his games would be used for, but if he did, then he had no problem covering up murder in exchange for being paid.
* UnknownCharacter: We see his face in the intro, but we don't know [[NoNameGiven his name]][[note]]Scott has confirmed that it's not "Scott Cawthon"[[/note]] or indeed anything concrete about him.
* UnwittingPawn: May have been this, depending on whether or not he knew the purpose for which his games had been commissioned.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence throws ''everything'' we know about the series into question. It's so spoilery that if we tagged his file like normal, we'd have to blank out the whole thing.%%So don't get any ideas.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Downplayed, but a non-lethal version depending on whether or not Fazbear Entertainment actually intends to sue him.
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[[folder:Vanny/Vanessa (spoilers unmarked!)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote:Click here to see Vanessa]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanessa_71.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''"[[NewhartPhonecall Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down.]] '''[[SequelHook It will be fun.]]'''"''

->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Tang (''Help Wanted''), Heather Masters (Vanessa, ''Security Breach''), Marta Svetek (Vanny, ''Security Breach'')

Also known as "The Reluctant Follower", Vanny is a mysterious female figure who appears to be working with Glitchtrap. Her mask can be found in the Corn Maze through an Easter Egg in ''Help Wanted'''s "Curse of Dreadbear" DLC. If put on while holding Glitchtrap's plush, her voice will be heard. She makes a full appearance for ''Security Breach'', and it looks like [[JackTheRipoff she may bring back an old Fazbear tradition]]...
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The human workers that helped keep the Pizzaplex somewhat running smoothly before being replaced by the S.T.A.F.F. bots...or worse. Messages from them can be found all over the Pizzaplex.

!The Afton Family (spoilers unmarked!)
[[folder:In general]]
[[Series/TheAddamsFamily This creepy, kooky, mysterious, and altogether spooky family]] serves a big role in the backstory to the games, ''especially'' [[GreaterScopeVillain their father, William Afton]]. The Child from ''4'' may or may not be part of the family; however, since we're not truly sure, he's not included in this list.
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* AmbiguousSituation: Whether it be mistaken identity or the presence of their soul within an animatronic, all known members have a case of this.
* AmbiguouslyAbsentParent: The children's mother and William's wife is conspiciously the only member of the family who's never been mentioned.
* AmbiguouslyRelated:
** The Crying Child is heavily implied to be a third child, with Michael as the BigBrotherBully. However, this isn't as explicit as the other siblings.
** According to later ''Special Delivery'' emails, Vanny's last name starts with an 'A', which may stand for 'Afton.' It's unclear if she changed her name as a show of devotion to William, is a relative (and if so, what), or if this is a RedHerring.
* BackFromTheDead: It's hinted that ''every single one of them'' has come back as a ghost after being killed: William Afton died in Spring Bonnie (becoming Springtrap), Michael Afton repossessed his hollowed-out corpse, Elizabeth's soul possesses Circus Baby, and if the child from FNAF 4 is an Afton, then he may have possibly become either Golden Freddy or Shadow Freddy.
* BigBad: The Afton family, in general, except for [[AmbiguouslyEvil maybe Michael]], are the primary villains of the franchise.
* BigScrewedUpFamily: Well, let's start with the fact that they've, intentionally or not, ''killed'' one another and work our way from there...
* EvilBrit: They're the main antagonists of the video games' series, and they're a British family.
* KillEmAll: All three known members burn to the ground alongside the fake pizzeria in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', putting an end to the Afton name. Well, except [[JokerImmunity William]].
* MeaningfulName: "Afton" is Swedish for "Night" or "evening".
* RedHerring: Michael is ''probably'' the same person as "Eggs Benedict" from ''Sister Location'', who ends that game as a literally purple RevenantZombie, thereby heavily implying that some (or ''all'') of the previous appearances of [[FanNickname Purple Guy]] have actually been Michael, rather than William - and[=/=]or that William Afton was ''also'' a zombie (even before he got Springtrapped), and that's why he's also purple. However, this never goes anywhere: ''Pizzeria Simulator'' confirms William as the guy inside Springtrap, and heavily implies that he was the sole party responsible for the child murders and the eventual destruction of the original animatronics, and his purple appearance is never hinted to be anything except a stylistic choice.
* TheFamilyThatSlaysTogether: William is a SerialKiller, and Elizabeth wants to become DaddysLittleVillain (with Michael being the possible WhiteSheep of House Afton).
* WalkingSpoiler: ''Every'' member, due to the vast prevalence they have in the games' story, is this in some way:
** William is barely mentioned in the first game, in a place few (if any) would ever see, and it requires some — admittedly, a small amount of — luck to see him in the second game, though he is alluded to in passing in the final phone call. He is also the sole antagonist of 3 — is again an antagonist in Pizzeria Simulator — the creator of at least the Sister Location animatronics and responsible for almost, if not everything bad that happens in the entire franchise. He's this in Sister Location, too. It's sort of hard to talk about either the main game or the Custom Nights without mentioning who he is, the fact that he's the CEO of the company who owns the rental facility the game takes place in, the creator of the Circus Baby animatronics, and programmed them to kill children, as well as being the father of Michael Afton, and the girl who was killed by Circus Baby.
** Elizabeth is a pretty big one for Sister Location, since not only she's the daughter of a murderer, but she was killed by Circus Baby and may have become a part of Ennard. Her death drives the entire plot of Sister Location, and may very well have been the cause of either her father or her brother's Start of Darkness.
** Michael is also a particularly large spoiler, since he is the ''son'' of a murderer, the {{Player Character}} in ''Sister Location'' and likely ''Pizzeria Simulator'', may also be the player in ''all'' of the other games, and is the OnlySaneMan of the family.
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[[folder:William Afton]]
See [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysWilliamAfton his page]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Elizabeth Afton]]
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[[caption-width-right:225:[[DaddysLittleVillain I will make you proud, daddy]].]]

->''"Daddy, why won't you let me play with her?"''

->'''Voiced by:''' Zehra Jane Naqvi

The daughter of the serial killer, William Afton. She is heard at the beginning at every night in ''Sister Location,'' begging her father to let her play with Circus Baby. She eventually sneaks off to do it without her father's permission... and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath gets herself murdered for her trouble.]]

''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' (''Five Nights at Freddy's 6'' by any other name) confirms that her name is Elizabeth.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: While Elizabeth in the games is still a child, ''The Fourth Closet'' has her able to perform experiments with her father and even deceive the rest of the main cast into thinking that she's Charlie. Jessica does see through her facade, though. She also seems to be more mature than her game counterpart, and her dialogue is surprisingly philosophical.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While she was more desperate than truly evil (which is also debatable) in ''SL'', Elizabeth has much less reservations about murder in the novels, and even threatens Jessica at one point when holding her captive.
* AmbiguouslyEvil: Definitely expresses evil behavior in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', but it's unclear as to how much of it was voluntarily from her. Considering that the Cassette Man only condemns her father to Hell, it's possible that she wasn't in, at least, complete control.
* BigBad: Like her father in Springtrap in ''3'', she's essentially this in ''Sister Location'', as she's the one possessing Baby.
* BigBadDuumvirate: She reprises her villainous role once again in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', this time with her father, William, who possesses Springtrap.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: A plausible interpretation of her malevolence, as the possessed animatronics throughout the series, though [[HauntedTechnology haunted]], are still restricted by the [[AIIsACrapshoot animatronic's programming]] to some extent. It's possible that since Baby, and all of the other animatronics that compose Ennard were programmed by her father to kill children, that Elizabeth's evil could be a result of the A.I. influencing her actual soul's intentions.
* CainAndAbel: If Michael really is the protagonist of ''6'', she's the younger Cain to his older Abel.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Had no idea her father was a monster. [[FaceHeelTurn Not that she minded in the end.]]
* CorruptTheCutie: Another interpretation for how she goes from an innocent little girl, to a TragicVillain who only wanted freedom, to an openly homicidal machine out to please her father, may have steemed from Papa Afton's influence.
* DaddysGirl: Her lines in ''Sister Location'' indicate that she's close with her father, which says a lot considering he's a serial child murderer. Unsurprisingly, this is upgraded into DaddysLittleVillain.
* DaddysLittleVillain: After possessing Baby, she wished to follow in William's footsteps as a SerialKiller. This carries over to the novels as well.
* DeathOfAChild: Killed by Baby after approaching her despite her father's warnings.
* TheDragon: Seems to be her primary role in the franchise, as in both the games and novels, she’s always trying to assist her father in achieving his goals.
* DragonInChief: The antagonist of ''Sister Location''.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: "Where did the other children go?" are the final words she speaks before Baby kills her.
* {{Foil}}: To the Cassette Man’s daughter. Both died when they were children, followed by their souls possessing an animatronic. While the Cassette Man’s daughter wants to "[[MonsterProgenitor help]]" murdered children, Elizabeth wants to follow in her father's footsteps and be a child killer. Interestingly, their fathers also serve as {{Foil}}s to each other.
* TheGhost: She only appears in a minigame, the rest of the time her voice is also heard in between nights. She may have also appeared again as a part of Ennard, having [[ExactWords literally become "the ghost."]]
* GreenEyedMonster: In ''The Fourth Closet'', William is more fixated on Charlie, believing her to be the perfect daughter he wanted. Elizabeth hates and is jealous of Charlie as a result, since she was never perfect in her father's eyes.
* IfICantHaveYou: What she says to Charlie in regards to her father before attacking her in ''The Fourth Closet''.
--> Elizabeth: I know it may sound very childish of me... but if he doesn't want me; then he won't get you either.
* LaserGuidedKarma: While her death was tragic, of course, it could be seen as karma for what her father did.
* ManipulativeBitch: Managed to trick the others into thinking she was Charlie when impersonating her.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's unclear as to whether her soul is actually possessing and in control of Baby, or if Baby acts of her own A.I. Evidence can be seen for either possibility. ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' confirms that it's the former, with her expressing her wish to be 'complete' and follow in her 'Daddy's' footsteps of being a serial child murderer.
* MeaningfulAppearance: Her green eyes serve as a {{Foreshadowing}} to TheReveal. Before the ice cream/trapping incident, Circus Baby had blue eyes. However, by the time ''Sister Location'' starts, she has green eyes. While Circus Baby still recognizes Elizabeth as a separate entity, this signifies the fact that her and Elizabeth's consciousnesses are slowly merging, a process that is completed by the time of ''Pizzeria Simulator''.
* MoralityPet: The love that her child-murdering father had for her was his only redeeming quality. Not so much in the novels, though.
* NoNameGiven: Her first name is not revealed in ''Sister Location'', but it is in ''Pizzeria Simulator''.
* PinkMeansFeminine: She's the only female Afton seen, and is shown wearing pink as a human instead of the shades of purple that her father and brother are known for.
* PureIsNotGood: Cassette Guy's final speech suggests that William will be the only one rotting in Hell for what happened. Presumably, this means that part of the reasoning for Elizabeth's evil is a pure-intentioned desire to please her father. That said, she's still DaddysLittleVillain.
* SanitySlippage: The only possible explanation for why she turned evil by the time she became Scrap Baby, deciding to make her father proud.
* TheShapeshifter: In ''The Fourth Closet'', Elizabeth, due to the mechanisms in her robotic body, can switch between three forms; Circus Baby (as seen in SL), a slender, grown up version with a red dress and a nurse outfit, and her impersonation of Charlie.
* SplitPersonality: Implied this in the games when Baby referred to her as another person, despite being possessed by her. This is more apparent in ''The Fourth Closet'' when Elizabeth explains her origin to Jessica, which understandably confuses her.
--> Elizabeth: One night I snuck out of bed to see her. I’d been told not to a hundred times. I pulled the sheet away. She was gleaming bright, beautiful, standing over me. She had happy red cheeks and a lovely red dress. It’s odd, because I remember looking down at the little girl as well. It’s strange seeing through both sets of eyes now. But as I said, one is no more than a data tape, a record of my first capture, my first kill.
* TragicVillain: She died pretty gruesomely when she was killed by Baby, and in ''Sister Location'', all she wanted was to be free. Unfortunately, her [[FaceHeelTurn goals have changed]] to pleasing her [[BigBad father]] in ''Pizzeria Simulator''.
** Retains this in the novels as well. Much like the games, she wants to please her father, though this is because in the novels, William doesn’t truly love Elizabeth, and doesn’t see her as the perfect daughter, even wanting to replace her. Elizabeth is deeply saddened by this and wants to earn her father's affections, which leads to her assisting her father in his experiments, as well as trying to kill Charlie.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Her death is what causes William to send Michael to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which ultimately gets the latter killed.
* UnwittingPawn: If you believe that William employed reverse psychology to tempt Elizabeth into disobeying him, so that she would go see Baby, and eventually possess her after her death.
* VocalDissonance: Averted before the ice cream incident, as she talks like what you'd expect from a preschooler-age English girl. Played straight post-incident, where she uses Circus Baby's adult voice and American accent.
* WellDoneDaughterGirl: In ''The Fourth Closet'', Elizabeth is motivated by her need to gain her father's affection and her reason for wanting to kill Charlie is because William is obsessed with her and not Elizabeth.
* {{Yandere}}: In ''The Fourth Closet'', Elizabeth has become a platonic version for her father, wanting to earn William's affection, and kill Charlie purely because envies her father's obsession with her.
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[[folder:Michael Afton]]
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[[caption-width-right:168:[[BackFromTheDead I should be dead...]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:139:[[TheUndead ...but I'm not]].]]
->''"Father. [[ArcWords It's me]], Michael."''

->'''Voiced by:''' PJ Heywood

That is to say, William Afton's ''son''. He was tasked by his father to find "her" (presumably his sister) and "put her back together". He succeeded, but died along the way... [[BackFromTheDead kind of]].
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* AmbiguousSituation:
** His role in any other games is left ambiguous. Is he Mike Schmidt from the first game? Is he the Brother from ''4?'' Do those two have any relation to him at all? It's unclear.
*** [[AllThereInTheManual The official logbook]] confirms that he is ''probably'' Mike Schmidt.
** Does he want to save the kids? He ''is'' aware possession is a thing, but besides that, nothing.
** Does he want to kill William? Besides one line, there's not much things pointing to this.
* AndIMustScream: After Ennard has vacated Michael's body, his soul repossessed his corpse, and is unable to move on to the afterlife.
* AnimalMotifs: While not as immediately obvious as his father, Michael is often associated with [[CunningLikeAFox Foxy]]. He's heavily implied to by the Foxy mask-wearing BigBrotherBully from the fourth game, and artwork in [[AllThereInTheManual The Survival Logbook]] depicts Foxy as a stand-in for the employees. Some of the ''Fazbear Fright'' stories that are allusions to his dynamic to the Crying Child reference Foxy either directly or offhandedly for RuleOfSymbolism. One of the animatronics that made up Ennard, who wore his corpse as a suit, was also a Foxy. Said animatronic line has a tendency to end up the most damaged throughout the games, possibly tying into Michael's RevenantZombie status at the end of ''Sister Location''.
* ArchnemesisDad: Possibly. His father sent him to get his guts pulled out. [[IWillFindYou He has a few questions to ask after this.]]
* TheAtoner: A huge maybe. Michael's goal is finding his father, and what that means is a mystery, it might mean undoing the horrors his father inflicted, by freeing his sister and ultimately salvaging the last active Fazbear animatronics and burning to (re)death with them. If he's the Brother from ''4'', he may also be trying to atone for his DeadlyPrank. He manages to fulfill his mission by the time of ''Pizzeria Simulator''.
* BackFromTheDead: As his hollowed out, repossessed corpse. From his words, even ''he's'' confused on why he's still around and kicking.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The tone of his voice during his speech suggests he has no problem finding (at least the soul of) his sister and putting her back together, and that he's happy she's free... if "her" does mean his sister, that is. The sixth game implies he put her together so he could destroy her and finally grant her peace.
* BigGood: In ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'', Molten Freddy and Scrap Baby imply that he is also the protagonist of that game (since both of them recognize the protagonist). Working with someone (identified as "Cassette Man" who is Henry, William's old friend and partner), he seeks out the remaining animatronics by creating a new restaurant, and later Henry burns it, the animatronics (including Elizabeth and William), and Michael down, forever destroying the restaurant chain's reputation [[OverlyLongGag until the VR game]]. Not only that, but it is heavily implied that he is the protagonist of FNAF 1, FNAF 2 (''both'' of them, or at least Fritz Smith since Jeremy Fitzgerald is likely the Bite of '87 survivor), FNAF 3 '''and even''' FNAF 4 (as shown in [[AllThereInTheManual his logbook red-ink drawing of Nightmare]] and the distorted phone call.)
* ButtMonkey: He's '''definitely''' this. The fact that he's heavily implied to be TheUnfavourite and sent to die in his father's place doesn't help either.
* CainAndAbel: If he really is the protagonist of 6, he's the older Abel to Elizabeth's younger Cain.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He got scooped out by Ennard, came back to life, then burned to death in a building with no escape, though it would seem that he [[FaceDeathWithDignity embraced]] that last bit.
* DaytimeDramaQueen: You [[HiddenDepths wouldn't think it]], but when not at work, he loves watching TV SoapOpera vampire romance and eating popcorn as he does so.
* DeadpanSnarker: The shred comments he writes about the Fazbear Corporation in the ''Survival Logbook'' paints him as one of these.
* DeathByDisfigurement: Well, technically he ''already'' died, but after getting scooped, his body decays into a thin, bald, noseless purple-skinned mess. He sticks around for one more game and an unknown amount of time in between then and ''Sister Location'', but after that, he goes out with the final animatronics.
* DeathSeeker: ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' suggests he may be one, since he stays with the animatronics to burn. Not that you can blame an undead sack of rotten flesh and organs for that.
-->'''Cassette Man:''' Although there was a way out planned for you, I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be.
* {{Determinator}}: If he is the true identity of few of the protagonists in the series (if not all of them), then absolutely nothing will stop this fellow as long as his father isn't found (or if he's alive, depending on his motivation). Not over a dozen different animatronics, not scooping, not death, not decomposition, not 30 years, not fire, nothing. ''NOTHING''.
-->'''Michael:''' I'm going to come find you. '''I'm going to come find you'''.
* DistressedDude: He gets captured by Funtime Foxy and forced into an old, decommissioned springlock suit.
* TheDutifulSon: Was this to his father, as he was willing to risk certain death in order to "put her back together" on his dad's demands. However, after that certain death became all too real, he's a little too ticked off to be this anymore...
* EdibleThemeNaming: "Eggs Benedict", his "name" for the majority of the ''Sister Location'', isn't as random a name as it seems; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggs_Benedict it's a real dish consisting of English muffins and Canadian bacon]]. Also, while it's probably a coincidence, [[http://slakingfool.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/eggs-michael-at-original-pancake-house.html there's a variation of it]] called "Eggs [[spoiler:Michael]]".
* ForcedToWatch: In Night 3, Baby puts him in a springlock suit and a night later makes him watch the horrifying scene of Ballora being scooped.
* TheHero: He's the protagonist of ''Sister Location'', and strongly implied to be that of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' (as Molten Freddy/Ennard and Scrap Baby both recognize him). In the latter game, it's him who ultimately undoes the Freddy Fazbear legacy of nightmares by destroying the final animatronics. In fact, the "Lorekeeper" ending and the Logbook suggest that he's the hero of the first game, having applied to the Freddy's location under a false name to undo his father's evil and/or find him.
* HeroicSacrifice: He salvages the remains of every animatronic, puts Baby back together, and even fulfills his promise to find his father again, only for Henry to burn the pizzeria from the sixth game down, Michael staying inside.
* HiddenDepths: [[https://imgur.com/a/SxYkr As shown in the official logbook (using red ink)]], Michael has a talent for drawing stuffs.
* IHaveManyNames: The updated ending of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' suggests that some, if not all of the previous night guards were actually Michael under various pseudonyms, as part of his extended quest to find William.
* IWillFindYou: Promises to find his father in the final cutscene of ''Sister Location''[='=]s Custom Night. He fulfills this promise in the next game.
* RevenantZombie: A surprisingly classic depiction of this. Regardless of what cybernetics or AppliedPhlebotinum was involved, his single-minded determination keeps him going.
* {{Scapegoat}}: It's implied that his father intended to use their StrongFamilyResemblance to get him killed in his place in the underground facility.
* SelfMadeOrphan: His final lines give off a ''really'' strong implication of this being his goal.[[note]]Whether he's doing it to [[{{Revenge}} get back at his dad for getting him killed]] or [[HeroAntagonist to kill him in his victims' stead]] is left ambiguous. Either way, he burns him, along with every other remaining animatronic, down in the next game.[[/note]]
* StrongFamilyResemblance: Is hinted to have one. Which actually bites him in the ass, as the Circus Baby gang might have mistaken him for his father and scooped him for it. This might also be why the animatronics are hunting him (if the theory that he is the night guard of all games is true), as they might not be able to see a difference between him and William and assume for the worst. Mike and William share a voice actor, so there may be foundation for this despite both being relatively TheFaceless to the player.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: It's implied by one of the minigames that having no vital organs and being nothing more than a pile of flesh being worn by a robot ended up rotting his body to the point of deformity, which causes his neighbors to hide in fear of his twisted appearance.
* TokenGoodTeammate: So far, he seems to be the only member who hasn't succumbed to evil.
* TranquilFury: His line in the Golden Freddy cutscene conveys a tone of utter menace directed at his father while sounding ''positively bored''.
* TheUnfavourite: William Afton was extremely protective of his daughter, certainly, but the same cannot be said for Michael; it's implied that he sent Michael to die in his place. Given that he might have held Ennard, and by extension, Baby, inside of him for a while, his possible disliking of Michael is (sort of) understandable.
* WhiteSheep: It's suggested he's the protagonist of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' (as well as ''every other game''), and that, by extension, he's the only non-evil member of the Afton household.
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Back to VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys1 ([[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 2]], [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 3]], [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys4 4]], [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysSisterLocation Sister's Location]], VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator).

!Instructors

[[folder:Phone Guy]]
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[[caption-width-right:150:[[Music/{{Mika}} Ring ring, is that you on the phone...]]]]

->''"Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay?"''
-->-- '''Phone Guy'''
->'''Voiced by:''' [[DescendedCreator Scott Cawthon]]

Your character's predecessor in the graveyard shift for the first game. He knows that the employee orientation they gave you left out a few things — okay, a ''lot'' of things — so he's left you a series of pre-recorded messages that play over the telephone in your office. Just a few pointers to show you the ropes. He returns for the second game, managing to guide you through the first six nights, although he spends just as much time doing that as he does trying to reassure you that all is well in the pizzeria. He (''technically'') returns in the third game, in the form of old audio logs, and appears as an EasterEgg in the fourth game, but doesn't appear after that until ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelPWanted''.

* ActionSurvivor: Well, almost a survivor.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Shows up as an enemy in Ultimate Custom Night, though [[ObliviouslyEvil whether or not he's trying to hinder you on purpose]] remains to be seen. [[spoiler: Considering just who the player character in Ultimate Custom Night [[BigBad is implied to be]] and [[IronicHell where he is]]]], he might be entirely justified in hindering you on purpose.
* AgentScully: Why are the robots attacking Mike/Jeremy? They think they're endoskeletons without their costumes. Why are they strong enough to drag someone around? Basically, they're Franchise/RoboCop by way of FunnyAnimals. Who in their right minds let these things be around children? A RestrainingBolt built into their "Entertain" mode makes them safe to be around during the day. Why do they smell like rotten meat and drip blood and snot everywhere? Um... Good question. But rest assured there is a rational explanation. [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial They are not haunted by dead children]].
* AngstWhatAngst:
** Is perfectly capable, ''somehow,'' of bouncing back from ''multiple children being murdered at the hands of a coworker,'' who, all things considered, may or may not have been his ''friend.''
** Zig-zagged, as when he mentions The Bite of '87 in his messages in the first game, he sounds a bit hesitant, and then there's the BreakTheCutie entry below.
* ApocalypticLog: The pre-recorded voice messages are revealed to be such when Golden Freddy puts an abrupt end to his shift.
* AscendedFanboy: ''2'' reveals that he's a big fan of the animatronics, Foxy in particular, and he gets to work with them! Sadly, this gets him killed.
* BadNewsInAGoodWay: Phone Guy is fanatically loyal to the company, seems incapable of absorbing any bad news, and shrugs off each gruesome event as though it's a common occurrence in any workplace.
* BlahBlahBlah: He says this at one point in his Night 1 phone call in the first game.
* BreakTheCutie: He's so legitimately chipper in ''2'', and sounds depressingly distraught and upset at the end of the week, after [[spoiler:the second murders transpire]].
* TheBusCameBack: Makes a reappearance in "Ultimate Custom Night" after being absent from 5 and 6 (he's an EasterEgg in 4).
* CasualDangerDialogue: He's recording those messages for you ''during his shifts'' — which means that he's checking the cameras, manning the doors, and in general keeping himself alive in a horrific and terrifying situation while being totally chill about explaining how to survi— sorry, get through the night. Nobody's died, after all. That's not what he meant. Even on Night 4, when he ''doesn't'' make it through the night, he's relatively calm when he explains to you that he might not be able to record another message for you because it "hasn't been a good night" for him. Oh, and could you please check the suits in the back room at some point? Thanks.
* CatchPhrase: He begins almost every phone call/recording with "Hello, hello?"
* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: Considering how he tells you about the animatronics' nighttime activities with nonchalance, even trying to explain they need "respect." When he seemingly dies on Night 4, he only dully says "Oh no".
* DisconnectedByDeath: His phone call in the first game's 4th Night meets an abrupt end when the animatronics get him.
* DissonantSerenity: He tells you about all the dangers you're going to face in a very calm tone and not even sounding too worried about it.
* EveryoneHasStandards: Even he admits that the Puppet creeps him out. Can't say we blame him.
* ExplainExplainOhCrap: In ''[=FNAF2=]'', on Night 2 when he's explaining things.
--> '''Phone Guy:''' Heh, I love those old characters, did you ever see Foxy the Pirate? Oh wait, hold on... Oh yeah, '''Foxy'''.
* ExpositionFairy: You're his trainee, so it's his duty to make sure you do the job right. Even his lamer suggestions turn out to hold water, such as playing dead.
* FourIsDeath: Phone Guy is by all indications suited and booted on the fourth night, apparently after running out the generator during a harried standoff with Foxy. This is quickly followed by a collaboration from Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Golden Freddy.
* GenkiGuy: Lapses into this in ''2'' with his genuine enthusiasm and fondness for the animatronics.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: He was the previous night guard for an indeterminate amount of time, which is implied by ''2'' to be [[ActionSurvivor multiple]] ''years!'' In addition, it's also implied he [[spoiler:might be the second protagonist of the second game, Fritz Smith, who (depending on how you set it) managed to get through the night on ''[[HarderThanHard Golden Freddy mode]]''.]]
* JustFollowingOrders: How he acts in Ultimate Custom Night. Phone Guy will call the office at random (essentially doing the same job he did when he was alive), and if you fail to mute the call in time, you have to endure the whole thing...which wouldn't be that big of a deal if not for [[RightBehindYou one animatronic in particular that's not a big fan of noise]]...
* ManChild: Keeping in mind that Freddy Fazbear's is inspired by the Creator/ChuckECheese restaurants, and he seems to be a big fan of the franchise -- of the UndyingLoyalty variety of "big fan" -- it's entirely possible.
* MauveShirt: Following three nights of successfully -- even casually -- fending off the animatronics from the inside of his control booth while recording helpful messages for his successor, he's seemingly killed by what sounds like all ''five'' of them converging on him at once.
* MinnesotaNice: Phone Guy has an accent along these lines and plays to the type by being incredibly calm about his rather disturbing situation.
* NiceGuy: Is always polite, happy to help and give you advice.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He seems awfully chill about telling you the rather horrifying basics of the parts of the job not told to you prior to starting.
-->'''Night 1 Message''': Now concerning your safety: the only real risk to you as the night watchmen here, if any, is the fact that these characters... Uhh, if they happen to see you after hours, probably won't recognize you as a person. They'll -- they'll most likely see you as a metal endoskeleton without its costume on. Now, since that's against the rules at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, they'll probably try to... forcefully stuff you inside a Freddy Fazbear suit. Umm, now, that wouldn't be so bad if the suits themselves weren't filled with crossbeams, wires, and animatronic devices, especially around the facial area, so you can imagine how having your head forced inside one of those could cause [[{{Understatement}} a bit of discomfort]]... [[BlackComedy and death]]. Uhh... The only parts of you that would likely see the light of day again would be your eyeballs and teeth that would pop out the front of the mask... Yeah, they don't tell you these things when you sign up.
** This also extends to his role in ''3'', where he very calmly tells someone how to retract the animatronic skeleton in the special suits.. and that if not put in place properly, then there's a very high chance that "injuries slash grotesque maiming slash death can occur". He says all of this in a tone of someone telling another person how to put together a couch. What is ''with'' this guy?
** He also mentions that, if such an accident were to happen, the victim should drag their maimed body away from the customers before they bleed out so as to not ruin the customer's experience. Again, this is said in the most mildly pleasant tone imaginable.
* NoNameGiven: Unless he's actually [[spoiler:Fritz Smith]].
* ObiWanMoment: On the 4th Night, he only asks Mike Schmidt if he could "check inside of those suits in the back room?" and that he's "gonna try to hold out until someone checks... Maybe it won't be so bad." He knew exactly what fate awaited him.
* ObliquelyObfuscatedOccupation: Falls into this in the second game. While in ''1'' he's a night guard (like you) and in ''3'' he instructs people on how to wear the Spring Suits and also reads out official company memos, his job in ''2'' isn't really elaborated on: he calls you, gives you some information of what's been going on with the pizzeria, and hangs up. It's also notable in that he never actually claims to be a security guard in the first place. His stints as a guard are under apparent duress with the company (the sudden loss of the day shift guard in 2 and financial near-ruin in 1), implying that he's really more of a pinch-hitter for the company. Like most things in the series, it leads to a ''lot'' of WildMassGuessing.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Managed to work a few nights — or possibly even ''years'' — and survive.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: You never really get to know his name. At least in the first game; his real name ''might'' have been revealed in the second — [[spoiler:Fritz Smith]].
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: His call during Night 6 of the second game has him sound genuinely disturbed and on the verge of tears as he tells Jeremy that "[[spoiler:someone used one of the suits... we had a spare in the back — [[WhamLine a yellow one]] — someone ''used'' it...]]". This panic takes on a whole new justification after playing ''Five Nights at Freddy's 3''. [[spoiler:The yellow suits were decommissioned wearable prototypes that were so dangerous that ''[[CorruptCorporateExecutive Fazbear Entertainment]]'' actually went through multiple hoops to ''erase all trace of their existence''. His shock likely wasn't the murder, it's that ''someone found those suits'']], essentially a worst-case scenario for this company. Remember, these are the guys that brush off unexplained brutal murders of their employees.
* PhoneCallFromTheDead: Despite his apparent demise on Night 4, the phone is still rings the following evening. Instead of Phone Guy's jocular voice, [[spoiler:the receiver blasts gibberish and static directly into your ear... with fragments of the animatronics' scream cut in]].
* PosthumousCharacter: He seems to be long dead before the fifth and final phone message, which were established as pre-recorded during Night 1. His legacy lives on in the third game, thirty years later, thanks to some more never-before-heard prerecorded messages.
* RealisticDictionIsUnrealistic: Averted ''entirely''. He stutters, hesitates, stumbles over some words, repeats himself, goes silent as if to think, offers random interjections of 'okay?', says 'um' and 'uh' quite a bit, and generally really does sound like some guy who's just recording a message for the player without a script and just going off the top of his head. On the training tapes in the third game, he speaks much more clearly. Since these are official training materials rather than friendly greetings, he most likely was reading from a script.
* {{Retirony}}: "Just finishing up his last week" when he's cornered at the end of the fourth message.
* ScullySyndrome: Perhaps he's in denial, but claiming that there's nothing to worry about when there are killer animatronics walking around is deluded at best. This ''might'' be a case of the management forcing him to keep quiet about the situation, however. He slips up quite a bit for someone who genuinely thinks there's nothing to worry about.
* SuspiciouslySpecificDenial:
** He tries to be encouraging, but he frequently [[FreudianSlip slips up]] in his messages. His attempts to cover up these slips are pretty blatant. (No doubt due to contractual obligations.) Though oddly, considering the prequel, he could be telling the truth. Both Jeremy and his substitute each got through the five days alright, not to mention Fritz surviving a night before getting fired (assuming [[spoiler:Fritz and Phone Guy are separate characters]]).
** His dialogue in the sequel is chock-full of this for the first few nights, [[spoiler:until the sixth night]].
* SympathyForTheDevil: He insists that you should give the mascots a little bit of respect and understand that anyone who has to "sing those same stupid songs" without bathing for years would get "a bit irritable at night too."
* TagTeam: He encounters this approach by the animatronics during his final phone message. All of the animatronics can be heard just before he seemingly gets offed, including Golden Freddy.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: The moment of his death.
--> ''(Freddy's theme plays.)'' "Oh no..." ''(Golden Freddy screams.)''
* {{Understatement}}: In his first message, he states the animatronics get "quirky" at night.
* UndyingLoyalty: He's very dedicated to Freddy's and honestly just wants it to be a fun family-friendly establishment. So much so that [[spoiler:he sounds audibly distraught on the sixth night in the second game due to the second child murders. And he personally takes the night shift job himself when the place re-opens in the first game just to find out what's going on with the animatronics.]]
* UnexplainedRecovery: He returns in ''2'', despite the events that transpire in the first game. This is actually your big hint that Part 2 is a ''prequel'', set before the events that led to his seeming death.
* UnreliableExpositor: According to WordOfGod. In addition, his "malfunctioning suit-stuffing programming" explanation falls short if you see Bonnie in the same room as an unclothed endoskeleton and not doing a thing about it. Completely justified in that he never had a clue what was going on; sometime after The Bite of '87, he took up the vacant position as the night guard and had to try and figure out the hows and whys while just struggling to survive.
* VerbalTic:
** Often begins his phone calls with two hellos.
** Downplayed, but he also says "you know" in some of beginning or end of his sentences.

[[folder:Phone Dude]]
->''"Hey, hey, glad you came back for another night! [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall I promise, it'll be a lot more interesting this time!]]"''
-->-- '''Phone Dude'''

->'''Voiced by:''' [[DescendedCreator Scott Cawthon]]

A new person has taken up the task to tell you the machinations of Fazbear's Fright. He's much more laid-back than the old Phone Guy, but retains that same passion for all things Freddy Fazbear.

* {{Foil}}: To the Phone Guy, despite sharing similar qualities, like both being laid-back, being {{Ascended Fanboy}}s and friendly-sounding. There's also a contrasting characterization between the two.
** The Phone Dude has a SurferDude accent in contrast to the Phone Guy's MinnesotaNice accent.
** The Phone Guy disposed a lot of somewhat helpful tips and tidbits on multiple occasions, while the Phone Dude only got to do it once.
** The Phone Guy's calm but was [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror detached to all the horrors]], while the Phone Dude was startled to find that Springtrap wasn't where he left it.
** The Phone Dude stops leaving messages after Night 2, effectively leaving the story; Phone Guy stayed at a crappy, deadly job for years because he loved the characters so much.
* NightmareFetishist: The only viable reason why he'd agree to work at Fazbear's Fright, especially since he probably heard the backstory of the place when he signed up as well as sounding unusually happy when he says some employees found Springtrap and decided to make him a part of the attraction.
* NoNameGiven: Like Phone Guy.
* OhCrap: Subtle, but his sudden ditching of the Night 2 phone call and vague remarks about "in there somewhere" suggest he just realized the animatronic he got isn't where he left it...
* PutOnABus: He only gets two nights to speak before he's never heard from again, instead leaving you old audio recordings to listen to. Either [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere he got out of there right fast as soon as he realized what he was dealing with]]... or he personally wasn't involved with moving Springtrap, meaning he honestly doesn't know where he is in the attraction, and he actually has something important he needs to go to.
* SurferDude: He's got the accent and TotallyRadical slang.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: He's an obvious replacement for Phone Guy, though not a very long-lived one (completely disappearing after Night 2).
* TooDumbToLive: One of the very few aversions of the franchise: he very likely immediately scrammed from the building, never to come back, the moment he realized that Springtrap is moving while he should very clearly not. Quite justified, however, as Phone Dude, as an employee of Fazbear's Fright and an enthusiast of all the relative urban legends, has arguably very few difficulties in accepting that something may be REALLY wrong with the animatronic, rather than react with disbelief.

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[[caption-width-right:125:SomedayThisWillComeInHandy.]]

->''"I will be your personal guide to help you get started. I'm a model five of the Handyman's Robotics and Repair Unit System, but you can call me [=HandUnit=]."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Andy Field (default setting), Jesse Adam ("Angsty Teen")

The automated guide system at Circus Baby's Pizza, [=HandUnit=] is there to help you learn about you job so you survive...[[AIIsACrapshoot right?]] A similar character, called Tutorial Unit in the credits, is present in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', who reappears in ''Special Delivery''. A third counterpart, Dread Unit, occasionally makes announcements during ''Security Breach''.

* AIIsACrapshoot: It seems to be this way as the game starts out; the [=HandUnit=] often gives you advice that would make you quickly die, the "Angsty Teen" version doesn't see anything wrong with telling a new employee about how they found a dead body in the vent they're traveling in, and Circus Baby even says that he's doing this ''deliberately'' to try to kill you. [[spoiler:However, at the end of the game, it turns out that it's [[SubvertedTrope subverted]], as Baby was only lying about his trying to kill you so that you would trust her more. He does warn you about not stepping into the Scooping Room, so it seems all of his bad advice [[HanlonsRazor was simply due to his own limited intelligence]].]]
* ArtificialStupidity: Assuming his advice isn't deliberately unhelpful and dangerous, then he's this. It's not surprising, considering that he's part of an establishment owned by [[SerialKiller Afton]] Robotics.
* CaptainOblivious: He doesn't realize a lot of obvious things, like Circus Baby's absence on the first night and [[spoiler:the corpses of two hanged technicians dangling above the stages where the animatronics should be]].
* {{Comedic Sociopath|y}}: Sounds so pleasant about electrocuting the animatronics for compliance. His "Angsty Teen" mode outright calls it "fun." Baby even tells you in no uncertain terms that the "power failures" are an act; he does this with ''every'' person who's come in your position.
* DeadpanSnarker: The "Angsty Teen" voice option. Prior to that, he may have been being sarcastic when he thanks Baby for responding to the controlled shocks despite the fact that she's clearly not there. Assuming that he wasn't just being CaptainOblivious.
* DissonantSerenity: Never loses his obnoxiously chipper inflection. Justified, as he's an artificial intelligence who doesn't have the ability to panic.
* EmoTeen: Again, the "Angsty Teen" voice option.
* {{Expy}}: [=HandUnit=] in his default setting is basically the Announcer from ''VideoGame/Portal2''.
* HanlonsRazor: [[AmbiguousSituation If]] AIIsACrapshoot is subverted, then sheer ignorance and stupidity are the most likely reasons for why his instructions and advice are more likely to get employees killed than to help them.
* {{Jerkass}}: He's essentially the personification of Afton Robotics (and by extension Fazbear Entertainment), complete with all the smarmy, sociopathic bureaucracy and greedy corporatism.
* NightmareFuelStationAttendant: He's supposed to help you, but he always makes everything even worse.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: This guy is apparently just a disembodied artificial intelligence, but his personality and voice are so expressive and human that he might as well just be an intercom announcer. The only thing that even implies he's a robot in the first place is his name, his ability to "turn off", and his ability to change his voice.
* StayOnThePath: HU often does try to watch out for you, although for pragmatic reasons, because straying into restricted areas will result in either death, injury, or even worse, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking disciplinary action]]. He can only describe termination of your employment as "regrettable".
* TeensAreMonsters: His "Angsty Teen" voice sounds a little too enthusiastic about shocking Ballora. Actually, it's probably the only thing that the "Angsty Teen" sounds excited about at all.
* UnwantedAssistance: While his advice can more often than not simply be ignored, there is one instance in which it almost directly gets you killed: while creeping through Ballora's gallery (which Circus Baby told you to go through as slowly and silently as possible), he pipes up and asks you what's taking so long. It's even worse since he said he was going to shut himself down before you entered the gallery to give you some quiet!
* TheVoice: He's pretty much become The Voice of the entire franchise, since he's essentially the Fazbear equivalent of [[Literature/NineteenEightyFour Big Brother]]. He narrates ''Sister Location'', ''Pizzeria Simulator'', ''Help Wanted'', and ''Security Breach''.

[[folder:Cassette Man (spoilers unmarked!)]]
!!Henry Emily
->''"If you are playing this tape, that means that not only have you been checking outside at the end of every shift, as you were instructed to do, but also that you have found something that meets the criteria of your special obligations under Paragraph 4."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Dave Steele

The recorder of a series of cassettes played at the end of every shift in ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator''. He instructs the player to test the response of various salvaged animatronics to audio stimuli, and is implicitly their boss. He's actually Henry Emily and the owner of the original Freddy's, alongside Afton, and is planning to end the Fazbear legacy for good.

* AntiVillain: At his absolute worst. He has purely heroic goals, but let's just say that if you find out about his plan, ''he will declare you insane''.
* TheAtoner: It's implied that he used to work with Wiliam Afton at some point and ended up horrified at the stuff he got up to. The audio diary heard in the Insanity Ending has him lamenting the fate of his robots and the kids William killed, and the Good Ending has him put an end to it for good... [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted or so he thought]].
* BadassBaritone: Has a very deep, very stoic voice and puts an end to the Fazbear horrors... or so he thought.
* BatmanGambit: His grand plan to put an end to the animatronics relies on them going to the new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza with the intention of killing children (or, in the case of Lefty/the Puppet, ''preventing'' children from being killed). He succeeds magnificently, even if it doesn't last.
* BigGood: As it turns out, he's the mastermind behind the scheme to destroy the last of the Fazbear animatronics, freeing the remaining souls while condemning William's.
* BookEnds: He was one of the two who started the Fazbear legacy...and the one who single-handedly ended it... [[RuleOfThree or so he thought]].
* CanonImmigrant: He's all but stated to be a game version of Henry, the co-founder of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and William Afton's business partner from the novels, since he refers to Springtrap as "old friend". He also had a daughter, who in this universe became the Puppet. More explicitly, the audio file from the Insanity Ending (titled "[=HRY223=]") implies he created the Fazbear animatronics.
* CoolOldGuy: This guy has been around since the very first opening of Freddy Fazbear's, probably all the way to Fredbear's Family Diner and beyond. If we assume ''Pizzeria Simulator'' is set in 2023, then there is a 40 year gap between it and the earliest confirmed operation of Freddy Fazbear's in 1983...and he personally ''designed'' the animatronics, meaning that he must be an adult even back then (so no less than 18 years old, and that's being extremely generous). That's not counting the fact that by that time, he already had a daughter who died when she was probably a preschooler. So the voice you hear talking is at least 61 years old, but likely older, and his BatmanGambit trumps everyone much younger (yes, William Afton is his contemporary, but he dies in TheNineties and thus no longer ages).
* DissonantSerenity: He clearly crossed DespairEventHorizon in his hidden audio that must be played to get Insanity Ending, especially it's implied that he recorded it some time during the earlier murder committed by Afton where Cassette Man's daughter was among the victims. But he sounds awfully calm in the audio clip.
* DrivenToSuicide: Like his novel counterpart, the tragedies that struck his pizzeria cause him to eventually kill himself. ''Unlike'' said counterpart, however, [[MilesToGoBeforeISleep he has quite the to-do list]] in order to correct said tragedies.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: He elects to burn to cinders with the animatronics, all while letting the animatronics (''[[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld especially]]'' [[GiveMyRegardsInTheNextWorld Springtrap]]) know how screwed they are with one last message.
* {{Expy}}: Try listening to his final message without thinking of Creator/RodSerling's narration for ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 The Twilight Zone.]]''
* TheFaceless: Like Phone Guy, he never makes a physical appearance.
* GreaterScopeParagon: To the entire series, much like how his co-partner Afton is the GreaterScopeVillain (and the BigBad... and TheHeavy). He does not have a direct role and isn't even ''mentioned'' in the series up until ''FFPS'' (not counting Phone Guy in the second game on night six), but it's quite clear that he's been observing everything that had transpired, before finally deciding to come and end it himself, even if he failed.
* HeroicSacrifice: He remains in the building at the end of the game to burn alongside the player (hinted to be Michael Afton) and the animatronics.
* MilesToGoBeforeISleep: His audio log notes that he could have made himself... [[UnusualEuphemism sleep]] a long time ago, but won't until he's made sure that William Afton has finally been stopped and his legacy has come to a close.
* MyGreatestFailure: The Insanity Ending has him talk about the robots he helped create, and thus the kids and night guards he indirectly killed, and he mentions that the guilt keeps him awake at night.
* MysteriousEmployer: We never see the man in person -- and if Scrap Baby's comments are anything to go by, neither does the protagonist. It's only in the Good Ending (and the Insanity Ending) that we get any clue as to who he is.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The credits only refer to him as "Cassette Man".
* PapaWolf: He knows William murdered his daughter (who became the Puppet) and dedicates a special part of his final message to let him know Hell has a special place for monsters like him and to 'not keep the Devil waiting.' Notably, of the animatronics, Springtrap/William is the only one he shows genuine malice towards, as he's only burning the others to end their threat and finally let them rest in peace.
* RealitySubtext: Henry tried to create a beloved children's franchise but found its legacy tainted by unimaginable horror. It's similar to Scott Cawthon finding that his attempt at a cute kid's game was received with fear and revulsion for its art style.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: Henry's still alive to see the end of the Fazbear nightmare in this game, unlike his novel counterpart who was DrivenToSuicide back in TheEighties.
* TakingYouWithMe: He dies while completely destroying the (seemingly) last animatronics, freeing their souls from this world and sending William to Hell.
* TranquilFury: His final monologue as the pizzeria burns down is filled with pity and sorrow for the other animatronics, but when it comes to Scraptrap, his voice doesn’t change at all and seethes with years upon years of rage as he tells Afton that his number is finally up... [[RunningGag or so he thought]].
* WalkingSpoiler: As indicated by all the spoilers, it's hard to bring up Cassette Man without major spoilers.
* WeUsedToBeFriends: He knows Springtrap was William Afton, and he refers to him as "old friend". He also knows [[WouldHurtAChild what William did]], though, and lets him know Hell has a place for him as he sets the building on fire.

[[folder:Tape Girl/QA]]
->''"Hello? Can you hear me? Don't exit this room, OK? This isn't a mistake. This ''room'' isn't a mistake. I had to hide these logs away from the core gameplay files in a place that only a beta tester would look and in a place where the files could be protected. I just really, really hope that the next development team finds this before the game is released to the public."''
-->'''Voiced by:''' Briana Kennedy

A member of the Quality Assurance team for ''[[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelpWanted The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience]]''. She worked on the game as normal until a mysterious series of events forced the team into bankruptcy. To prevent further disaster, she created a series of audio files detailing her experiences with the game and hid them throughout its code for the next beta tester to find.

* TheAtoner: She had a hand in creating the virus, and created the tapes to help the next tester (you) destroy it.
* HeroicBSOD: She enters one after [[spoiler:what happened to Jeremy]], though she's not so depressed that she can't do something about it.
* HollywoodHacking: Downplayed: she mentions using a "fragmentation program" on the area where she stored the audio files to [[spoiler:incapacitate the glitch]], which is... [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragmentation_(computing) kind of]] how fragmentation works.
* ILetGwenStacyDie: It's implied that she feels like this for [[spoiler:Jeremy]] (whether platonically or otherwise is unknown).
-->'''Tape Girl:''' I think it's made worse by the fact that Jeremy tried to tell us something was wrong. But as a dev team, we all just saw it as a challenge to find what the problem was and fix it. Who could have known that--
* ItsPersonal: She has a grudge against Fazbear Entertainment [[spoiler:for their part in creating the glitch]], and curses them out in one of the tapes.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Her attempt to hide the audio files [[spoiler:only gave the glitch the perfect hiding spot]].
* NoNameGiven: She's not referred to by any name in-game. However, a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/buhf9c/the_scrapped_silver_parasol_games_website_censored/ scrapped]] website for Silver Parasol that lists Jeremy and Dale (another employee in the tapes) also lists two women named Gabrielle and Tonya. That said, it's not confirmed which one, if any, of the two she is.
* ProperlyParanoid: Anywhere else, her rambling about a company-wide cover-up would sound insane... but she's dealing with Fazbear Entertainment, and cover-ups are practically their second-biggest product.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female instructor.
* TakeUpMySword: Her audio files are an attempt to do this with the next beta tester for the game (i.e. you).
* TokenHeroicOrc: Zig-zagged: she worked on the game which you are now trying to survive, but she's not actually a part of Fazbear Entertainment.
* TreacherousAdvisor: [[spoiler:Following her orders gets you killed, because she's already possessed by Spring Bonnie. Or, the more likely option, Spring Bonnie is merely mimicking her voice.]]
* UncertainDoom: Her final fate is left ambiguous. [[spoiler: Considering that she came in direct contact with Glitchtrap, something that resulted in her colleague's death and the [[BrainwashedAndCrazy brainwashing]] of the next beta tester, her chances don't look good. Whether she avoided SanitySlippage or is even still alive is unclear.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: It's hard to talk about her without spoiling a great deal of the game's backstory.

!Other
[[folder:Fazbear Entertainment Management]]
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->''"These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters ''will'' live on."''
-->-- Press statement by '''Freddy Fazbear's CEO'''

You'll never see them, but these are the [[BlatantLies wonderful people]] who hired you to watch over their restaurant. Pity they didn't mention that the animatronics would be trying to [[CruelAndUnusualDeath shove you into a metal-lined animatronic shell]], but we guess that ''would'' scare off some people. You'll only see them mentioned on the safety rules sign and your paycheck, not that this stops them from having a whole host of tropes:

* AdultsAreUseless: For a time, the company had an unseemly habit of covering up any bodies it discovered and disguising the crime scenes behind drywall.
* BadBoss: It ''starts'' at paying you $120 a week; even though this is "salary pay" for a "part-time job", it works out to ''$4 an hour''. Wanna work [[BrutalBonusLevel the Saturday shift]] for overtime pay? A whopping '''fifty cents''' more. Gets worse in the second game, where it's down to $100.50 a week. And if you don't make it through the night, they'll do everything in their power to keep the police and news media from finding out. The paychecks, at least, turn out to be justified, since they're the United States minimum wages for 1993 and 1987, respectively. Still, minimum wage for a [[HomicideMachines job like this…]]
* BlatantLies: "Safety is top priority at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza." [[LampshadeHanging Yeah, bullshit.]]
* TheBusCameBack: After chronologically being gone since the events of the first game, Fazbear Entertainment makes their big comeback with the Mega [=PizzaPlex=] in ''Security Breach.'' [[spoiler:They had a convenient location after someone set up a fake one impersonating them, after all.]]
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Can't even afford a decent paycheck, and prefers to clean up your remains and file a "missing persons" report rather than fix the animatronics. Everything that happens is the unspooling consequences of the executives cutting costs and skating by on the least possible effort.
** And then ''FNAF VR: Help Wanted'' reveals that they commissioned a VR game to try and captalize on the events of the previous games ''and'' attempt to discredit them. [[spoiler:They also hired an indie developer (NOT Scott) to make the previous horror games to also make the previous incidents seem like tall tales. They're also willing to go to the effort to attempt to discredit anyone who could potentially derail this effort, even if it means letting a ''serial killer'' back into the world, and it's heavily implied that they ''knew'' the virus was in the VR game, but were not willing to actually deal with the actual problem, as it would potentially involve restarting development and erasing ''all'' the files to ensure the threat was destroyed, because, you know, [[SunkCostFallacy that'd just cost more money.]]]]
* DangerousWorkplace: It's not clear whether they have any actual ties to the killer parts of the animatronics, and even if so, it's not clear [[HanlonsRazor whether it's out of malice or stupidity]], but they ''do'' still give you the job, and thus the hell that ensues, and you're far from the first to take the job.
* {{Determinator}}: In spite of literal decades of child murder, missing persons, and other incidents and atrocities linked to their brand name coupled with enough lawsuits to bankrupt a rich man multiple times over, Fazbear Entertainment will stop at ''nothing'' to try and make the big time with Freddy and co. [[HoistByHisOwnPetard And they'd have succeeded within multiple attempts by now were it not for their comically flagrant corruption impeding them on almost every rung of the corporate ladder.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards:
** While not evil per se, they still have quite a history of ignoring worker safety. However, when the spring suit's major… [[CruelAndUnusualDeath flaws]] became apparent one day, the company ''immediately'' takes them out of service and puts them away where no one can find them. Mind you, from the tone of their memo about this (and the mention of "insurance representatives"), it's implied that it's less about moral concerns and more about [[PragmaticVillainy thinking of the bottom line.]]
** PlayedForLaughs when they express sheer disbelief that they had to fire Fritz Smith on ''his first day of the job'' for tampering with the animatronics.
** One of the endings to ''Pizza Simulator'' requires you have horrid managerial skills, horrid skills even by ''their'' standards.
* FatalFlaw: {{Greed}}, of course. Time and time again the biggest thing that brings down the company is its extreme corner-cutting in the search for profits, resulting in faults and accidents that usually brings their latest establishment down in flames; usually in the literal sense. The robots usually go haywire, sanitation is really not up to code, and, oh yeah, the same serial killer keeps on coming back through their lax security. Even the Pizza, their most successful venture to date, is filled with flaws and corruption abound, which results in its destruction or closing in some endings.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Technically outranks even William Afton in this regard; it's through ''their'' poor business, technical, and hiring decisions that make the plots of the main games happen but they never make any sort of physical appearance.
* HateSink: It's pretty clear you are not meant to like these people. They give you a job that puts you in life threatening danger, refuse to pay compensation if you are injured on the job, hide your corpse if you get killed, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and don't even pay you well]].
* IncompetenceInc: Oh boy howdy, where do we even begin? The possessed animatronics that viciously kill anyone they catch on company premises at night, for starters. [[spoiler:But how about the faulty wiring that causes the attraction to burn down in ''3'']], assuming it's owned by the company? Or the fact that they let a serial murderer killing children run loose without reprisal? Perhaps the fact that said animatronics were so dangerous that they [[spoiler:crushed a child's skull?]] It's a miracle the company continued on for as long as it did in the face of such ''lethal'' incompetence!
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:They successfully covered up the events from the first few games, repaired their reputation]] and are rich enough to build a mall.
* NoOSHACompliance: Customer safety is not a top priority here. Neither is workplace safety. And that's not even getting started on the spring suits...
* NotMeThisTime: [[spoiler: They appear to have made a return in ''Pizzeria Simulator'', but it's actually an impersonation and a fake location meant to lure in Afton and the remnants of his misdeeds.]]
* ObfuscatingStupidity: ''Most'' of what happens at Freddy's under their watch- The Bite of '87 [[spoiler:and '83]], the murders taking place under their nose, [[NoodleIncident whatever happened with the "multiple simultaneous springlock failures"]], the generally perilous conditions facing their nightguards- can be chalked up to the company being either too lazy to police itself or too incompetent to do so well, rather than outright villainy. [[spoiler:Then FNAF VR reveals they were also involved in a much more active form of villainy: apparently they have been ''actively covering these things up'' by hiring an indie developer to make video games about the events (which would in turn suggest that they knew a ''lot'' more about the events of the games than they let on), thereby allowing them to discredit any rumors about the ''actual'' incidents.]]
* PetTheDog:
** They at least ''try'' to make improvements in the second game. New animatronics that'll be on the look out for criminals, giving more of a heads up warning about their "kinks" and not really sure what's causing their behavior, finally springing for a light source that doesn't run on everything so the power won't cut out on you (just the flashlight) and supplying a Freddy mask to at least protect yourself. It can be assumed the lack of a doorway is just something they can't afford at the moment due to trying to update the animatronics.
** A lot of their policies from the first game make sense after seeing the second game. For example: they fire Mike for tampering with the animatronics. In the second game, it's revealed that the animatronics had facial recognition to spot potential threats within the restaurant, thus it's understandable why they'd fire Mike; it might actually be them making sure Mike isn't a threat.
** The good ending to ''Pizzeria Simulator'' [[spoiler:has them thank you for working with them, and admitting that they were trying to tie up loose ends on their part. They add one last thank you as they say that their company is now officially disbanded... until the VR game.]]
* RefugeInAudacity: One possible explanation as to why they've stayed in business is that no one will believe that killer animatronics haunted by the ghosts of children actually exist.
* RichesToRags: The company has been on a downward financial spiral following the murders, The Bite of '87, and the money they wasted building the second restaurant and the animatronics that would later [[spoiler:be scrapped.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When shit hits the fan for Fazbear Entertainment, they have a tendency to just drop everything and leave. Most iterations of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza have been left to decay immediately after closure, with almost everything left where it was.
* SkewedPriorities: One of the policies regarding the springlock suits is that, in the event that the spring locks come loose and the animatronic components inside cause any [[ExactWords accidents/injuries/death/irreparable and grotesque maiming]], employees should do their best to maneuver away from populated areas before bleeding out so as to not ruin the customer experience.
* StartOfDarkness: The second game (actually a prequel) is this for Fazbear Entertainment, as another set of children dissapears and it all goes downhill from there. The robots finally start hunting night guards, the restaurant is shut down mere weeks after opening, despite the company's desperation to assure that nothing bad is happening as seen through Phone Guy, the state-of-the-art animatronics which the company blew most of the restaurant's budget on are [[spoiler:to be destroyed following the tumult they caused]], and the restaurant's life is highly implied to culminate in The Bite of '87 during one last birthday party.
* ThereIsAnother: The third game reveals that at one point during the company's life, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza had been a franchise instead of a single location.
* {{Unperson}}: Their corruptness reaches outright [[CardCarryingVillain cartoony levels]]. If an employee is discovered dead by the janitors, they shampoo the carpets, hide the body, and ''then'' file a Missing Persons report in a few months. This isn't some clandestine cover-up; it's their ''[[VillainousDemotivator advertised company policy]]''.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Their reaction when they fired Fritz Smith on ''his first day of the job'' for tampering with the animatronics.
-->"First day on the job? [[EpicFail Really]]?!?!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Afton Robotics, LLC]]
Mr. Afton's own robotics company.

* EvilCounterpart: To Fazbear Entertainment. Sure, it's not like they're quite the saint either but at least they're just trying to be a successful company, while Afton Robotics' robots are outrightly programmed to kidnap children (then again, the robots were designed by William and how much the employees were aware of their employer's actions is ambiguous).

[[folder:Fazbear's Fright Management]]
While Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has finally kicked the bucket [[TemptingFate for good]] this time, it seems that its dark legacy lives on in "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction". And of course, what's a building without its owners? But they want an authentic experience, and thus have searched far and wide for any remnants of the old business. All they found were empty shells, a hook, a hand, a paper plate doll… and eventually, an animatronic.

* AscendedFanboy: It's very possible the whole reason anyone would ever want to bring back Freddy Fazbear, in any format, was that they enjoyed the original restaurants as a kid. Anyone who was a kid between 1987 and 1993 of the first two games would be in their mid-thirties or forties by the time of the third game. The beginning newspaper even says that they're hoping to bring your childhood back "in the worst way possible". [[SarcasmMode Yay...]]
* FailedASpotCheck: They don't seem to notice that the new animatronic they found has the remains of a human being in there, even though there's obvious innards hanging off the endo-skeleton. Or the fact that lifting up the mask reveals a ''mummified face.''
* IdiotBall: Good ''gravy.'' Building the place with deliberately faulty wiring?! A ventilation system so run down that it needs to be rebooted, lest either a lack of air or some unknown gas starts making people hallucinate?! The fact that [[spoiler:the place goes up in flames before even opening to the public is a '''godsend'''!]]
* IncompetenceInc: They give '''Fazbear Entertainment''' a run for their money with the sheer idiocy that went into the construction of Fazbear's Fright. Here's hoping that they don't follow their corpse policies as well.
* MainliningTheMonster: The whole point of their business; to create a "horror museum" based upon the {{Urban Legend}}s of the creepy, and reputedly murderous/haunted, animatronics at the now-dead Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. This isn't just their love of the old pizza joint, they genuinely expect to make money by cashing in on these stories. And then they find Springtrap, who is the mutilated carcass of William Afton possessing the suit he died in. Let us repeat: they took the ArtificialZombie of ''[[RefugeInAudacity a goddamn six to eleven-time child murderer...]]'' and [[RefugeInAudacity made it part of a haunted house]]. Can't get more mainlining than ''that.''
* NoOSHACompliance: Fazbear's Fright somehow manages to be more of a giant middle finger to common sense and safety than Freddy's could ever dream of being, built with crappy wiring and a dangerously inept ventilation system that goes offline easily.
* SelfDeprecation: Turning a children's entertainment industry into a horror attraction? Sounds an awful lot like Scott Cawthon turning his kid-friendly ''VideoGame/ChipperAndSonsLumberCo'' art style into his horror success story.
* StylisticSuck: The attraction has intentionally low-quality materials to keep things "Fazbear Authentic".
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Building Fazbear's Fright with a ridiculous amount of fire hazards bites them when [[spoiler:the place goes ablaze due to either arson or the faulty wiring and destroys nearly everything inside.]]
* TooDumbToLive: For starters, they've ''deliberately'' built the attraction with poor-quality materials, computer systems that crash extremely easily, ventilation systems that either leak noxious fumes or lack sufficient oxygen and causing hallucinations either way, just to keep it "Fazbear authentic". They then manage to find one of the animatronics, most likely with the intention to let it roam around the place and scare visitors once the place opens, despite knowing well about the murderous lore behind the Freddy's franchise. You'd also think they'd check the animatronic they found and notice there was a petrified corpse inside, which they haven't seemed to have done. It isn't all that surprising when [[spoiler:the place is immolated within a couple of hours after disaster inevitably strikes]].

[[folder:The Day Shift Guy]]
->''"Uh… you're only the second guard to work at that location. Uh, the first guy finished his week, but complained about… conditions. Uh, we switched him over to the day shift, so hey, lucky you, right? Uh, mainly he expressed concern that certain characters seemed to move around at night, and even attempted to get into his office."''
-->-- '''Phone Guy'''

Another unnamed character who Phone Guy refers to several times in ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2''. You inherited his job after he was moved to the day shift because he complained about the animatronics moving around.
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* TheCameo: Possibly. In ''4'', we get to see a total of three Fazbear Entertainment employees, one of whom is wearing a guard uniform [[spoiler:and is colored purple]].
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Heavily implied to be '''William Afton'''.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Remember, this guy survived a whole week before you. ''Without a Freddy Fazbear mask.''
* TheScapegoat: If we assume he's ''not'' William. Phone Guy's dialogue implies Day Shift Guy was arrested for the murders, but Afton was still at large later on.

[[folder:The Missing Children]]
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[[caption-width-right:118:[[FriendlyGhost Less like]] [[WesternAnimation/CasperTheFriendlyGhost Casper]], [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge more like]] [[WesternAnimation/RobotChicken Jasper.]]]]

Fazbear Entertainment was flourishing, providing entertainment to many families... then disaster sent the company into a downward spiral. At least six[[note]]The exact number is ambiguous. The first game says two, then a total of five. The second game implies anywhere from five to eleven. The "Happiest Day" minigame in the third game when the children finally pass on shows eleven children in total, but only six are monochrome and pass on to the great beyond (the ones haunting the original four, plus Golden Freddy and the Puppet), indicating that the party is for living children, while the ghosts merely "tag along". ''4'' implies that there was a seventh ghost involved in the Fazbear hauntings via its [[DownerEnding unexpected ending.]] ''Pizzeria Simulator'' seems to stick with "Happiest Day", as there are six gravestones shown in the "Lorekeeper" ending.[[/note]] children were murdered, and soon afterwards, the Fazbear animatronics began to smell and act up during the nights. The most common theory is that the first victim was an isolated incident, and that child inhabited the Puppet, as both are known for their faces that look like they have streaks of tears. When the Murderer killed five other children, the haunted Puppet placed them into the Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and Golden Freddy animatronics, causing them to become haunted as well.

* AmbiguousGender: No gender is ever really given for the children, and their only appearances -- in the minigames -- does not show them with anything indicative of gender. However, ''Pizzeria Simulator'' implies there were [[spoiler:three boys and two girls]]. Golden Freddy's gender remains unknown.
* AndIMustScream: Their bodies were stuffed into the animatronic suits, badly damaging the corpses, and trapping the childrens' souls in the animatronics. Ironically, they ''can'' actually scream, and the sound file from the first game in its entirety turns into a human child's scream. As indicated by the light of the animatronics' heads still being on, the bad ending of the third game strongly implies that they will ''stay'' this way, forever. Fortunately, the good ending is implied to be canon.
* AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence: [[spoiler:The good ending shows them leaving their robotic bodies and ascending to heaven after getting their justice]].
* CameBackStrong: From helpless children to robots more than capable of [[strike:fending off]] brutally murdering adults. Unarmed, immobile adults that were caught off-guard, at least.
* CameBackWrong: Possibly what happened to Golden Freddy. His behavior is quite different from the other animatronics', but the suit the child was stuffed into lacks a proper endoskeleton.
* DeathOfAChild: They're possessed by the spirits of murdered children.
* {{Determinator}}: All six children have been haunting their animatronics for 40 years in an attempt to avenge their murders.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the original, drawings of crying children can sometimes be seen in one of the hallways. These pictures greatly resemble the crying child's sprite.
* GhostlyGoals: '''Type B''': Get revenge on their murderer for, you know, murdering them. They succeeded in this goal, thus moving on... or at least, five of them did, while [[spoiler:the Puppet]]'s child hung around for a while longer.
* HauntedTechnology: It's confirmed by the third game that the children were haunting the animatronics.
* TheHeavy: Pretty much, considering the animatronics are haunted by them (and their desire for vengeance being a major reason for the animatronics being {{Killer Robot}}s).
* HeWhoFightsMonsters: Came back from the dead to avenge their undeserved death by William Afton (which, if their killing methods are any indication, involved the suits somehow). However, this correlates into the deaths of a lot of innocent guards in the process, turning the children into ruthless murderers themselves.
* NeverFoundTheBody: The children's bodies were unable to be recovered according to the newspaper reports.
* NoNameGiven: Until ''VideoGame/FreddyFazbearsPizzeriaSimulator'', [[spoiler:where we learn that four of them are named Fritz, Gabriel, Jeremy, and Susie]], the Missing Children are nameless. In the books' AlternateUniverse, ''The Fourth Closet'' has them retain these names, with the additional revelation that [[spoiler:one of them is named Michael Brooks, whose spirit manifests as Golden Freddy]]. However, it's unknown if [[spoiler:Michael Brooks]] is canon to the games.
* OcularGushers: What one of the children is known for, and why people connect it to the Puppet.
* PromotedToPlayable: The last post-night minigame of ''3'' has you play as one of the children's spirits. Also, along with the animatronics, a child's spirit can be used as a party member in ''Five Nights at Freddy's World''.
* RogueProtagonist: [[spoiler:It's implied one of the children is the Child from ''4'', haunting Golden Freddy following his death.]]
* StylisticSuck: In ''FNAF World'', the Crying Child still has the blocky sprite-like appearance from the retro-style minigames.
* ThrowTheDogABone: The player can help them finally get their revenge on Afton, after that, [[spoiler:the children are at peace, and ascend to heaven]].
* UnfinishedBusiness: Why the spirits remain. [[spoiler:When they finally avenge their murders, they have no need to haunt the Murderer or the Fazbear companies.]]
* VengeanceFeelsEmpty: Implied, they watch their killer horrifically die but they were unable to move on. It took [[spoiler:kindness from the Fazbear's Fright security guard and the Cassette Man for them to rest]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist:
** It seems that they attack security guards because the Murderer was one. The second game also hints that the possessed animatronics are very protective of children. The Marionette's spirit also seemed to believe that putting the dead children into the suits was giving them a new life (which was... ''technically'' true).
** If [[spoiler: Michael Afton being the protagonists of all/most games in the series is indeed true]], then that means [[spoiler:the children are attacking the guards because they are in one way or another the son of their killer. Most likely, they could not differentiate him from the other Afton. It helps that William and Michael Afton are hinted to have a StrongFamilyResemblance. Even if he is trying to possibly fight his father's evil... they don't know any better.]]
** Then entirely averted by [[spoiler:The Puppet]], who reveals that [[spoiler:she is "aware"]], but that the other children are [[spoiler:"animals"]], which means they're attacking so violently because they can't tell any different. They're too stupid and rabid to realise that all the security guards they're killing are ''not'' the same man - especially as the security guard ''keeps coming back''. Someone intelligent would realize ''something'' is going on. They are, unfortunately, too broken to put 2 and 2 together and get 4.

[[folder:The Child's Brother]]
[[quoteright:166:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/foxy_bully.png]]
[[caption-width-right:166:''[[WesternAnimation/SouthPark Good going, douche, your bro's dreams have come true...]]'']]

The older brother of the child in ''4''. [[BigBrotherBully He's a complete asshole]]. May or may not also be Michael Afton.

* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:In the sixth night, after the prank of his goes horribly wrong and his brother has severely damaged his brain, the first words that flash on screen are the brother asking whether the child can hear him, and immediately apologizing for what he's done. Even more so if he is Michael Afton, as his actions in ''Sister Location'' and ''Pizzeria Simulator'' (if not even letter) demonstrate that he has dramatically changed for the better]].
* BigBad: The events of the fourth game are basically him being a BigBrotherBully towards the Child. [[spoiler:Keep in mind that this includes [[BrainFood the accident at the end of the game]], which '''[[TheHeroDies is heavily implied to kill him.]]''']]
* BigBrotherBully: He relentlessly tortures the child by using the latter's fear of the animatronics. This doesn't end well at all for the child.
* CainAndAbel: The Cain to The Child's Abel. Though this is PlayedWith, since [[spoiler:he did not mean for his brother to have his brain horrifically injured, and tries to apologize for it.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: He and his friends are ''horrified'' after [[spoiler:their prank [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]] when the Fredbear animatronic bites down on his brother's head harder than they thought.]]
* EvilLaugh: Mocking laughter can be heard whenever the brother pulls one of his pranks, but it's rather muted.
* TheFaceless: We never get to see his face. Every time he appears on-screen, he's wearing a Foxy mask. All we know about his appearance is that he has black hair.
* HateSink: The animatronics in this game are just figments of the protagonist's imagination ([[spoiler:[[AmbiguousSituation well...maybe]]]]). In addition, in his only appearance in this game, the killer isn't doing anything bad. As a result, he and his friends are the only things you truly have to hate in this game. At the very least though, [[spoiler:he's remorseful of what he has done. Unlike his most-likely father.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Torments his younger brother by locking him in his bedroom, randomly scaring him while wearing a Foxy mask, leaving the restaurant without him when he ''knows'' the Child doesn't like it there, locking him in the animatronics' storeroom, and along with his buddies carrying him closer and closer to Fredbear when he's clearly shouting he doesn't want to get close.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Deconstructed. Though he did actually love his brother, his actions are too atrocious to make him sympathetic. [[spoiler: Possibly reconstructed if and ONLY if he's also Michael Afton, in which case his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment might be seen as the first step to his HeelFaceTurn who would try to find William, who in a sense is a reflection of himself, except far, FAR worse and without any shred of remorse.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Is absolutely relentless when torturing his Brother; if it hadn't been for his [[spoiler:remorse for causing the bite, and possible death of his brother]], he could have been something [[TheSociopath much worse]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:The Night 6 minigame starts off with dark grey text, symbolizing the brother is talking. Here's what he says:]]
-->[[spoiler:"Can you hear me? I don't know if you can hear me."]]
-->[[spoiler:[[{{Tearjerker}} "...I'm sorry."]]]]
* OhCrap: He and his friends ''immediately'' stop laughing when [[spoiler:Fredbear crunches down on his brother]].
* TeensAreMonsters: This {{Jerkass}} doesn't ''just'' torment his brother by jumpscaring him at random intervals, not ''only'' does he lock him up in the storage room with the animatronics the poor kid is terrified of, but he's the one who ultimately causes his little brother to [[spoiler:hallucinate some crazy nightmares]], and ultimately [[spoiler:might have even gotten him killed. Though, at least, when shit hits the fan and that last one happens, he has [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone the decency to apologize for it.]]]]
* WalkingSpoiler: Not unlike his brother, considering that [[spoiler:he was the one who directly caused his brother's mental downfall (and possibly death).]] As of ''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'', he [[AmbiguousSituation might be even more important:]] [[spoiler:if he's Michael Afton, then he is [[PromotedToPlayable the player character]] of not only ''Sister Location,'' but possibly also of the sixth game and the nights of the fourth game (maybe even more).]]
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Neighborhood Kids]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''"Are you going to the party? Everyone is going to the party."''']]
The other kids seen around the [=FNAF 4=] Child's neighborhood during the Night 3 minigame.

* CallForward: Some of these kids reference previous games in the franchise (all of which take place chronologically after [=FNAF 4=]).
** One child has a green-ish Spring Bonnie plush that he compares to a [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys3 finger trap]].
** Another child is surrounded by toy versions of the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys2 toy animatronics]] - complete with Toy Chica's beak detached.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: One of the kids looks remarkably similar to Circus Baby from ''Sister Location''.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Two of the kids laugh at the [=FNAF 4=] Child, but assure him that they will be at his birthday party. Strangely, we do not see them there.
* KidsAreCruel: Most of these kids disregard the [=FNAF 4=] Child's fear of the animatronics - some of them even laugh at him.
* OneSceneWonder: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up anywhere except the Night 3 minigame. They could be children from [=FNAF 3=]'s Happiest Day minigame, but that is not known for certain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: None of these kids (except maybe the sitting kid - and that could just be a different character wearing the same colored clothes) show up to the [=FNAF 4=] Child's birthday party. What makes this most egregious is that some of them assure him that they - and other children - will be there. Come the day of the party, only the Child's Brother and Brother's friends apparently show up.

[[folder:The Brother's Friends]]
[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/fnaf4_bullies.png]]
[[caption-width-right:310:Maybe the masks aren't such a good idea.]]
[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The friends of the Child's brother]]. [[{{Jerkass}} They're all assholes too, naturally]].

* CoDragons: All three of them act as this to the brother.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Like the brother, they are all ''horrified'' when [[spoiler:the Fredbear animatronic crushes the child's skull]].
* TheFaceless: Like the brother, all three of them wear masks of the animatronics, in this case Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy. The only things we can see are their skin color (the one wearing the Chica mask is black) and hair (one of them has blonde or brown hair while the rest have black hair).[[note]]One of them ''might'' appear without his mask in one of the previous minigames, though. Not that it really tells us much.[[/note]]
* {{Jerkass}}: All three of them.
* KarmaHoudini: While they ''did'' regret [[spoiler:killing his friend's brother]], they appear to face no punishment for it, unlike the Brother, who [[spoiler:doesn't need a punishment because he quite likely did a HeelFaceTurn.]]
* SatelliteCharacter: To the brother.
* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Unlike the brother, these three don't appear until the day of the party.
* TerribleTrio: Not counting the brother, there are three of them.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Downplayed on the {{Crossdresser}} part. One of the bullies wears a Chica mask.

[[folder:Fredbear Plush]]
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[[caption-width-right:120:[[ArcWords Tomorrow is another day.]]]]

A manifestation in the form of a plush-toy and implied to be the Child's favorite character of the Fazbear crew even with his crippling fear of the animatronics. For the actual animatronic, see Golden Freddy in the first game's character page.
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* ArtifactOfDoom: Played with and possibly subverted. He expresses a desire to help the Child get better when it is implied [[spoiler:he's a living creature unto himself, making him ObliviouslyEvil at worst.]]
* AscendedExtra: In the sense that the last time this plush-toy appeared, it was simply a bonus reward for Night 7 of the second game.
* TheCameo: [[spoiler:A plush with the exact same design appears in the hidden room in Night 5 in ''Sister Location''.]] And it has a [[spoiler:walkie talkie]] which raises the question whether it was really imaginary or not...
* FanNickname: The fanbase refers to him nigh-exclusively as [[labelnote:*]]He's here, he's there, he's everywhere, who you gonna call? [[/labelnote]]Psychic Friend Fredbear, a name popularized by ''WebVideo/GameTheory''.
* HauntedTechnology: Well, not ''technology,'' per se, but it's not hard to imagine what might be going on with this thing. [[spoiler:While it initially seems to be talking at the end of the game, the color of its speech is identical to that of a girl that appeared earlier in the game, who appears precisely nowhere else in the entire franchise. Coupled with the fact that Golden Freddy had audio of a girl giggling play whenever he appeared in the first game, and the slight implications that the Child witnessed ''the Purple Man's first murders'' before the events of the game, and...]]
* ImaginaryFriend: Seems to be one to the Child in the between-night games, trying to warn him away from danger or comfort him in its own way. [[spoiler:Although ''Sister Location'' [[RealAfterAll suggests otherwise]]...]]
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Seems like a simple, fear-driven hallucination or imaginary friend[[spoiler:, but Night 6's ending leaves this a touch ambiguous, as do several other, subtler hints throughout the game.]] [[spoiler:''Sister Location'' [[DoingInTheWizard only complicates this]] [[RealAfterAll still further]].]]
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: [[spoiler:Heavily implied in the Night 6 ending, as it seems to ask the Child whether he still views him and the other plushies as his friends, and it seems to tell the Child that they will help fix him up. The words "seems to" are used in this trope because "Fredbear's" text in the ending is a noticeably lighter color than it usually is, implying that someone else is speaking to the child instead of the Fredbear Plush.]][[note]][[spoiler:On further inspection, it's identical to the speech of a young girl that appeared earlier in the game. Coupled with the hints that the Child witnessed the Purple Man's first murders, the fact that Golden Freddy has a little girl's laugh[[/note]]]]
* OffscreenTeleportation: It can jump from screen to screen without anything touching or moving it. It can also somehow wind up [[ItMakesSenseInContext in a flower.]]
* TokenGoodTeammate: Maybe, considering that he's an ArtifactOfDoom that, despite that, genuinely cares about the Child.
* ToughLove: He can be interpreted to be a practitioner of this, as in the minigames he leads the Child to his older brother, who is waiting to JumpScare him. Given how he genuinely seems to care about the Child, it seems as though he's encouraging the Child to confront his fears instead of cowering in terror, which will only make things worse and prolong the fear.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vlad and Clara]]
[[quoteright:135:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vladclara.png]]
[[caption-width-right:135:[[LampshadeHanging This is some kind of weird couple.]]]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher [=McCullough=] (Vlad) and Creator/AmberLeeConnors (Clara)

The leads of ''Sister Location'''s SoapWithinAShow, ''The Immortal and the Restless''.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler:The secret ending shows them making up in the season finale after Vlad reveals he got Clara's diamond ring in a kids meal.]]
* BurgerFool: Vlad works the graveyard shift at a taco joint.
* CatchPhrase: Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" and other such variants.
* ChocolateBaby: Vlad claims that his son is really this. It's pretty obvious that the baby is his son.
* {{Dhampyr}}: The baby.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Clara's response to Vlad not accepting his son? ''She sets the house on fire.''
* EasilyForgiven: Clara forgives Vlad for denying his son and refusing to pay child support when [[spoiler:Vlad reveals he got her diamond ring in a kid's meal]], and Vlad forgives Clara for burning down his house. Yeah... ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext. Though the outro for the show hints that he may not be so easily forgiven come the next season.
* HouseFire: Clara set the house on fire to get back at Vlad for not supporting his son.
* ImplausibleDeniability: No matter how much proof that the baby is a vampire and his son Clara gives him, Vlad continues to insist that he's not.
* MamasBabyPapasMaybe: Vlad insists that the baby is not his son. Despite ''all'' the evidence proving he is.
* MayDecemberRomance: Clara is clearly a young woman in the prime of her life, while Vlad is an immortal vampire who describes himself as an old man.
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: Vlad's reaction to Clara's "You suck!" insult.
-->'''Vlad:''' Wait, was that a vampire joke? That was ''so'' lame, Clara. Like I haven't heard that a million times.
* OurVampiresAreDifferent: Vlad is one, and passed that down onto his son. Apparently, it's a type that can turn liquid milk into powdered milk.
* PhraseCatcher: For Vlad's "The baby isn't mine!" variants.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Vlad wears purple. Considering what purple is usually associated with, this raises ''several'' questions.
* VampiresAreRich: Subverted. Despite looking and acting like a ClassicalMovieVampire, Vlad is a total ([[{{Pun}} and literal]]) blue-collar stiff who works nights at a taco joint to make ends meet and constantly skimps on his child support payments.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Vengeful Spirit]]
->'''Voiced by''' Tabatha Skanes

[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/svscc5094l611_8.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:'''"I have seen him - ''the one you shouldn't have killed."''''']]

The spirit appears in ''Ultimate Custom Night'', sometimes seen flickering in the background of the Game Over screen. Barely anything is known about the spirit, except that they are one of William Afton's many victims, and it's all but stated that they are the spirit that possessed the Golden Freddy animatronic suit.\\
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Some animatronics refer directly to the spirit, usually as 'The One You Shouldn't Have Killed', revealing that they are the one behind the torture going on in ''Ultimate Custom Night''. The spirit can be heard in the background during certain Game Over lines of the Mediocre Melody troupe.
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* AllThereInTheManual: The spirit's name gets [[AmbiguousSituation possibly]] revealed as part of a larger puzzle in the ''Survival Logbook''. Their name might be [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* AmbiguousGender: Voiced by a woman, but with instructions to not make the gender clear. Several animatronics refer to them as 'He', though nothing in the games is ever stated.
* DeathActivatedSuperPower: Some normal child gained the power to torment its killer for as long as they wish, now that William Afton is finally in their grasp.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Used to be a regular child and had nothing revealed about them, only that they are one of William Afton's victims. Now they have the power to torture William for the crimes he committed, making sure he'll regret things.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of William Afton's victims now inflicts pain and death upon him.
* NightmareFace: Only half of it is illuminated, with strange saturation all over, and its eyelashes gleam white out of the shadow with [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]].
* NoNameGiven: No name is revealed in-game for them. The logbook implies it was [[spoiler:Cassidy.]]
* OurGhostsAreDifferent: A spirit that has become powerful enough to keep another soul trapped within a sort of purgatory or dream of their own creation, with the sole purpose of torturing its murderer.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Dialogue from Old Man Consequences reveals that the spirit could move on and no longer remain trapped as Golden Freddy, that there's nothing more to be done for William Afton because he's dead and bound for Hell, but it's possible the spirit refuses. If we go with this theory, they are so consumed by hatred that they refuse to move on, until they feel like they've tortured William enough for having killed them.
* StrangerBehindTheMask: The identity of the spirit possessing Golden Freddy has been a mystery for several games, until this game revealed that this is the one. But nothing about them is known, they are no pre-established character. Just one of the many victims of William Afton, whose name wasn't even revealed in-game.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeremy]]
An employee at the game company Tape Girl worked at. He was a beta tester for ''The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience''. Emphasis on "was". The events that led to his, shall we say, "departure" are what spurred Tape Girl to make the audio files. He is probably not the same Jeremy from [=FNaF=] 2.
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* BloodSpatteredInnocents: Implied. Tape Girl recalls a moment where she saw him standing in the testing room covered in what she describes as "ink". If it was indeed blood, then [[BlackBlood that raises more questions than it answers]].
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler:He's heavily implied to have killed himself with a guillotine paper cutter after the glitch did... ''something'' to him.]]
* EmptyShell: He became this in the time leading up to [[spoiler:his suicide]]. Tape Girl notes that he looked like he hadn't been eating when she saw him coming out of their boss's room, he was unfazed by anything in the game he was testing, and she recounts seeing him in the testing room early one morning, just... standing there.
-->'''Tape Girl:''' He turned his head in my direction, but I don't think he knew I was there.
* FacialHorror: [[spoiler:Implied to have no skin covering his face anymore, after he sliced it off with a guillotine paper cutter.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: His bosses were making preparations to fire him, but were just as happy with [[spoiler:him killing himself]], since he was out of their hair one way or another.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: [[spoiler:His suicide is what tipped Tape Girl off to the fact that something was very wrong with the game they were working on.]]
* PosthumousCharacter: We only learn about him long after [[spoiler:he kills himself]].
* RedHerring: [[spoiler:Despite the name, he doesn't actually appear to have anything at all to do with Jeremy Fitzgerald from ''2''.]]
* TearOffYourFace: [[spoiler:It's implied that, in his Glitchtrap-induced insanity, Jeremy cut off his own face with the paper slicer, which would explain the "ink", the "Halloween mask" on the floor, and the fact that Tape Girl never sees Jeremy without the VR headset obscuring his face. This also could've led to his death, through infection or bleeding out.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: His very presence in the story ties into the nature of the data Tape Girl is trying to purge from the system.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Indie Developer (spoilers unmarked!)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/screenshot_368.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[SelfDeprecation A complete lunatic (lawsuits pending)]]]]

A game developer who created a series of survival horror games starring Freddy and the Fazbear crew. Before you ask, [[https://www.reddit.com/r/fivenightsatfreddys/comments/daxx9z/a_lore_question_about_help_wanted_and_an_answer/ he's not Scott Cawthon]] and the games aren't the FNAF series... but they might as well be. You see, Fazbear Entertainment's reputation was experiencing a bit of a setback, what with the child murders that dogged every business venture they made. They needed a way to put it all behind them... and to do that, they hired this guy to make games based on the rumors. That way, anyone who tried to seriously look into the murders could be dismissed as an overzealous fan. The perfect cover-up... until Tape Girl entered the scene.
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* AuthorAvatar: He may not literally be Scott in-universe, but it's hard to deny the parallels of an indie developer making games about Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
* BasedOnAGreatBigLie: His purpose was to make the people believe this in-universe about the Fazbear murders.
%%* DirectLineToTheAuthor: If his games are indeed the ones we've been playing.
* HiddenInPlainSight: A reasonably famous indie developer... who is secretly covering up one of the most horrifying series of events in recent memory, using the very games that made him famous, no less.
* PunchClockVillain: Maybe. We don't know if he knew what his games would be used for, but if he did, then he had no problem covering up murder in exchange for being paid.
* UnknownCharacter: We see his face in the intro, but we don't know [[NoNameGiven his name]][[note]]Scott has confirmed that it's not "Scott Cawthon"[[/note]] or indeed anything concrete about him.
* UnwittingPawn: May have been this, depending on whether or not he knew the purpose for which his games had been commissioned.
* WalkingSpoiler: His existence throws ''everything'' we know about the series into question. It's so spoilery that if we tagged his file like normal, we'd have to blank out the whole thing.%%So don't get any ideas.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Downplayed, but a non-lethal version depending on whether or not Fazbear Entertainment actually intends to sue him.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Vanny/Vanessa (spoilers unmarked!)]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanny.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/FridayThe13thPartVIJasonLives I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly.]]]]
[[caption-width-right:350: [[labelnote:Click here to see Vanessa]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vanessa_71.png]][[/labelnote]]
->''"[[NewhartPhonecall Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down.]] '''[[SequelHook It will be fun.]]'''"''

->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Tang (''Help Wanted''), Heather Masters (Vanessa, ''Security Breach''), Marta Svetek (Vanny, ''Security Breach'')

Also known as "The Reluctant Follower", Vanny is a mysterious female figure who appears to be working with Glitchtrap. Her mask can be found in the Corn Maze through an Easter Egg in ''Help Wanted'''s "Curse of Dreadbear" DLC. If put on while holding Glitchtrap's plush, her voice will be heard. She makes a full appearance for ''Security Breach'', and it looks like [[JackTheRipoff she may bring back an old Fazbear tradition]]...
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[[folder:In general]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:Meet your new co-workers... before ''[[AIIsACrapshoot they]]'' [[{{Jumpscare}} meet]] ''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath you]]''.[[note]]Not pictured: JJ, the Phantom and Shadow animatronics, and any animatronics from the Halloween Update to ''Five Nights at Freddy's 4'' and onwards.[[/note]]]]
->''"Uhh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit ''quirky'' at night, but do I blame them? No! If I were forced to sing [[IncessantMusicMadness those same stupid songs]] for 20 years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be [[{{Understatement}} a bit irritable]] at night too."''

The main attraction of Fazbear Entertainment establishments, and your main foes.

* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: Nearly all of them qualify.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The supposed justification for their murderousness. [[DeathOfAChild The truth is much darker]]...
** Possibly {{averted}} in the case of the Toy Animatronics. They were programmed to look for criminals, and technically they were doing their job -- in that [[spoiler:the murderer of the children ''was'' a nightguard at Fazbear's]]. In this case, they were simply too over-zealous. And even then, even this set of robots might be possessed.
* AmbiguousGender: While technically the ''characters'' have oriented gender, WordOfGod has said the ''robots'' are "male or female". This makes sense when you consider that the endoskeletons can be taken on or off any costume for another, thus the persona they take on probably doesn't stick all the time. As for said personas, ''[=FNaF2=]'''s "Ladies' Night" custom night confirms that only Mangle (possibly) and the Chicas are female.
* BearsAreBadNews: The Freddy animatronics, which are bears, are evil and murderous for various reasons.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: They're friendly and lovable during the day. After night falls, however, they become murderous monsters that sneak up on anyone unfortunate enough to be on the premises.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: When not trying to harm you, they look pretty goofy.
* BrownNote: If one subscribes to the theory that their scream kills the poor night guards before they're iron maiden'd in an animatronic exoskeleton.
* ADeathInTheLimelight: ''3''[='=]s after-night minigames end up with the original four dismantled one by one by the murderer, after the player guides them into the sealed-off saferoom.
* DroppedABridgeOnHim: All of the original four are shown to be destroyed by William Afton, one after another. However, this frees the souls of the dead children, allowing them to get their revenge on their killer.
* EvilSmellsBad: Said to all smell like rotten meat. You'd think the health inspector would have something to say about it... [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome and they do, leading to the shut-down of the pizzeria in the first game or the original restaurant from 1983 or 1985]].
* FluffyTheTerrible: As expected from robots built to entertain children, they don't have very threatening names. {{Averted}} in the cases of Springtrap, Mangle [[spoiler:and Nightmare]], though "Mangle" is an unofficial nickname the employees of the pizzeria came up with for what is officially Toy Foxy, and Springtrap seems to officially be Spring Bonnie.
* FourFingeredHands: {{Averted}} in a few instances: Balloon Boy with his FingerlessHands, the Puppet with its three-fingered [[ObviouslyEvil claws]], Springtrap and the Nightmares with their five fingers. The rest are played straight.
* FourIsDeath: The original Fazbear Four: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy. To date, they've appeared in every single game in one counterpart or another (with the notable exception of Bonnie, as he's missing a Phantom counterpart in the third game and a Glamrock counterpart in ''Security Breach'', Chica, who's missing any kind of counterpart in the ''Sister Location'' and Foxy, who's also missing a Glamrock counterpart in ''Security Breach'').
* FriendToAllChildren:
** While adults tend to be disturbed by them, kids still enjoy the characters. Phone Guy even says "They interact with the kids just fine, but when they encounter an adult, they just... stare." The hidden death-screen minigames in the second game seem to indicate that the animatronics also are fond, and possibly protective, of children, while they seem to be suspicious of adults in return... to the point of being {{Tragic Monster}}s due to them being possessed by the souls of other dead kids.
** Very much inverted for [[spoiler:Springtrap]] and the Nightmares. The former is a robotic zombie possessed by the child killer whose actions set off a chain of events that practically destroyed Fazbear Entertainment, and the others are [[spoiler:simply nightmares hallucinated by whoever is the protagonist]].
* GameFace: In the second game, their jaws detach to reveal sharp hinges, glowing robot irises, and grooves that look like mandibles.
* GlowingMechanicalEyes: Most of them have these. They are mostly white, but we've seen yellow and red at some points.
* GottaKillEmAll: The path to FNAF 3's GoldenEnding requires an exorcism of the main four ghosts.
* HauntedTechnology: Each of the main animatronics are haunted by the spirits of the murdered children. The Puppet is implied to be haunted by the first child, and the other five were in the four mainstays and Golden Freddy. That all comes to an end, of course, when the Murderer returns to finish what he started and, inadvertently, frees the souls of the children to exact their revenge.
* HostileAnimatronics: Pretty much the whole point.
* IndianBurialGround: The first restaurant had a body count numbering in the double digits, most if not all of them children. Trouble began shortly before a birthday party in the summer of '87, and was quickly papered over by the company. It's also suggested that one of the Freddy costumes (at least) was involved in some of the killings; the golden ghost still haunts the restaurant in some form. Naturally, the management in ''3'' is at least smart enough to build their horror attraction away from the original property.
* InsistentTerminology: Real life animatronics are essentially just giant puppets, with the computers that control them usually resting in the floor underneath them. If anything these guys are semi-sentient and fully mobile robots, but outside of the Night 6 ending screen in ''2'' they're always referred to as animatronics. Phone Guy briefly calls them robots in one call of the first game, though.
* JumpScare: Their speciality that makes'em truly scary. When one of them finally enters in the office, they pop up from the screen and shrieks in the player's face.
* KilledOffForReal:
** The animatronics have been scrapped and dismantled as of ''3'', with only a few bits of them remaining. With [[spoiler:the building burning down and the children haunting them all having moved on]], it's very, very likely that they're ''all'' gone. However, this was seemingly Subverted with the Nightmares, [[spoiler:although in the end they're simply a literal nightmare originating from [[BrainFood an event in the past]], so they're all still "destroyed"]].
** A version of Freddy and Foxy exist within the ''Sister Location'' game, though, so perhaps they're not completely gone yet... [[spoiler:And, with the game's ending, they now have a GenuineHumanHide.]]
** And now as of ''Pizzeria Simulator'', [[spoiler:they're all most ''certainly'' dead. The other A.I.s inside Ennard seem to have died off, leaving only Funtime Freddy in charge, and he, Baby, Springtrap and most likely Lefty all burn to their death thanks to Cassette Man's masterful BatmanGambit. No coming back from that one, folks -- they're simply just ''dead and gone'' now]].
** Well, everyone except Springtrap. [[TheDeterminator He always comes back]].
* KillerRabbit: They're ''big furry animals!''
* LargeHam: While they never talk - at least we don't hear any of 'em doing it - they have the tendency to stare wide-eyed at the cameras with a mock-like expression. When they finally catch you they scream at the top of their lungs showing a deranged and maniacal face.
* LighterAndSofter: In ''Five Nights at Freddy's World'', they're much cuter, and Mangle isn't a complete mess.
* TheManBehindTheMan: The Puppet and Springtrap, indirectly. Between its inexplicable EasterEgg status in ''2'', its seeming role in the animatronics being dismantled in ''3'', and [[spoiler:its TrueFinalBoss role in ''4'', Shadow Freddy/[[AnimalisticAbomination Nightmare]]]] may be this to them, too.
* NestedMouths: All of the animatronics have these, but Chica's is the most visible, and that's not even counting how much of it can be seen in the sequel since her deterioration, making Chica look like [[http://puu.sh/cllVa.jpg something out of Alien.]]
* NeverFoundTheBody: Oh well sure, Fazbear Fright found their suits, and maybe an animatronic arm or two. But there's still the question of where most of their endoskeleton bodies went...
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: Friendly cartoon characters and murderous robots at the same time.
* NonMaliciousMonster: While they are frightening and aggressive, they're never portrayed as true evil. They think you're the murderer who caused their death when they were children.
* NonPOVProtagonist: The nightguards are barely characters to begin with. It's really the animatronics who are the "stars of the show", but since they're antagonists trying to kill you, you never get to see anything from their perspective.
** Averted in the second game, where you briefly get to see a cutscene from Freddy's perspective.
** Interestingly, before ''Sister Location'', the only way we could learn from their perspective are the minigames in which you can control a few of them.
* NotQuiteDead: In the second game, the original four animatronics were scrapped in favor of the "Toy" designs. However, Bonnie got hit with this hard, because his face (save for his lower jaw) is removed, he's missing his left arm with only wires taking its place, and his left foot and right hand are left completely bare. Despite all this, however, the "scrapped" ones can turn themselves on at night, and they're even more dangerous.
* PromotedToPlayable:
** The minigames in ''2'' star Freddy, Foxy, and the Puppet, while almost all of the animatronics are playable in ''3''[='=]s minigames, the original four in the night-end games and one of the dead kids after night five, possibly the one that haunted Golden Freddy and the toy generation in the mid-night games, with Golden Freddy instead of Toy Freddy and Shadow Bonnie instead of Toy Bonnie. Springtrap is the only main animatronic that is not a protagonist of any minigame, [[SealedEvilInACan with good reason]].
** ''Five Nights at Freddy's World'' promotes every single animatronic to playable, as you can set up a party consisting of almost any character in the series. This not only includes all of the animatronics seen in the "Thank You!" image, but it also includes more obscure characters (such as the Shadows, the Phantoms, and JJ). The game even includes never-before-seen animatronics such as Spring Bonnie -- that is, Springtrap before everything went to hell -- and a non-mangled version of Mangle.
* PunchClockVillain: From 12 a.m. to 6 a.m, on the dot.
* ShooOutTheClowns: The Murderer is obliquely mentioned in the first game; in ''[=FNAF 2=]''[='=]s death games, he can occasionally be spotted parked outside the restaurant or leering at Foxy (he may attack Freddy, but this is uncommon); in ''[=FNAF 3=]''[='=]s restaurant minigame, he systematically hunts down the original Fazbear mascots and disassembles them, leaving each in pieces for the next one to discover. This is fitting since the mascots are the children he nabbed in the restaurant, and the murderer himself later becomes Springtrap. The only 'working' animatronic left in ''[=FNAF 3=]'' is Springtrap, and the oldies are left floating around as charred (but essentially harmless) hallucinations.
* SilentAntagonist:
** The only animatronics who get voices are Balloon Boy (who will occasionally say "Hello?" and "Hi!") and the ''Sister Location'' animatronics (who are fully voiced). The others either laugh, make disgusting noises (usually akin to vomiting), or scream when they kill you.
** Averted in ''Sister Location'' and ''FFPS'', which uses full voice acting for three of them. Administrivia/TropesAreNotBad, though, as it gives us character development in the process.
* SpeciesSurname: All of them except Freddy, although he's named Freddy Faz''bear''.
* SuperPoweredRobotMeterMaids: For being a gaggle of animatronics built solely to entertain children at restaurants back in the seventies or eighties, these things are far, far, ''far'' stronger, quicker, and smarter than they have any right to ever be. [[UpToEleven To the point of]] ''[[UpToEleven possible sentience]]''.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Why yes, they ''are'' murderous animatronics out for your blood... but it's only because the children haunting them may truly think you're the murderer that killed them. Springtrap and the Nightmares don't have this, however, since Springtrap is possessed by said child murderer, and the Nightmares are nothing more than dreams.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Or rather, the soul; it's subtle, but it seems that the souls inside the various suits are constricted by the A.I. of the robots. For example, turning the difficulty down to 1 in Custom Night mode makes them less aggressive, flashing Foxy resets him, and playing a sound-clip of Balloon Boy near Springtrap makes him walk towards it.
* TragicVillain: If the suggestions that they're possessed by the murdered children are indeed what the creator meant about them being "haunted". And it is, with even the Puppet itself appearing to have been a suffering child. All this time, the children had been trying for decades to stop their murderer, only succeeding after the restaurant closed, and were unable to move on for a long time afterwards. However, no such distinction can be given for Springtrap, who is their murderer, and the Nightmares and Circus Baby animatronics, all of whom are doing what they do more or less out of pure malevolence.
* [[invoked]]UncannyValley: They're likened to moving corpses. Eerily enough...
* {{Undercrank}}: On later nights, when they close in on your booth, their heads start twitching and jerking spasmodically in true J-Horror style.
* UnnecessarilyCreepyRobot: While this is a common trope concerning SuckECheeses, these robots take it one step further.
* UnwillingRoboticization: The intent of the wandering Fazbear robots (apart from Springtrap) is to cram unwary security guards into the endoskeletons undergoing repair, essentially creating more of themselves. On a more comedic note, [[spoiler:Purple Guy]] accomplished this feat on himself [[TooDumbToLive without anyone's help at all]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: The death minigames imply that the animatronics' malice against adults, in particular the night guards, may have been born from their desire to protect children, especially after the murders.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Once their origins are revealed, they become this. A group of children were simply visiting their favorite restaurant, only to fall victim to an AxCrazy SerialKiller, and they were only trying to stop him. The problem is [[KnightTemplar they go too far]].
* WouldntHurtAChild: Children mean '''everything''' to these guys, and they will resort to any means to protect them from potential threats. Following the corruption of their facial recognition software, they became murderous [[KnightTemplar Knight Templars]]. And if they ''do'' end up hurting a child, it was against their will (unless said animatronic is [[spoiler:Molten Freddy or Scrap Baby]]).
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[[folder:Freddy Frostbear]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[Film/BatmanAndRobin Prepare for a bitter harvest. Winter...]] ''[[Film/BatmanAndRobin has come at last.]]'']]

A Christmas themed animatronic that only appears in ''FNAF: AR'', Freddy Frostbear is a more icy, and more deadly, version of Freddy Fazbear. He was added to commemorate Christmas 2019. A palette swap of himself, Black Ice Frostbear, was later added to commemorate Christmas 2020.
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* BladeOnAStick: As opposed to Freddy, who carries a microphone, and Freddy Frostbear, who carries an icicle, Black Ice Frostbear wields an icy spear, probably the first time an animatronic is seen carrying a legitimate weapon.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold:
** Just as deadly as the other animatronics, but also freezes up the player's screen.
** Turned UpToEleven with Black Ice Frostbear, who is named after a real natural phenomenon that can cause deadly accidents for drivers.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Ice blue, with black sclera to really set it off.
* AnIcePerson: Well, ''bear'', he is icy blue and carries an icicle (or spear for Black Ice Frostbear) instead of a microphone. He also tends to ice up the screen unless the player shakes the phone.
* PaletteSwap: Of Freddy Fazbear.
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!Instructors

[[folder:Phone Guy]]
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[[caption-width-right:150:[[Music/{{Mika}} Ring ring, is that you on the phone...]]]]

->''"Hello, hello? Uh, I wanted to record a message for you to help you get settled in on your first night. Um, I actually worked in that office before you. I'm finishing up my last week now, as a matter of fact. So, I know it can be a bit overwhelming, but I'm here to tell you there's nothing to worry about. Uh, you'll do fine. So, let's just focus on getting you through your first week. Okay?"''
-->-- '''Phone Guy'''
->'''Voiced by:''' [[DescendedCreator Scott Cawthon]]

Your character's predecessor in the graveyard shift for the first game. He knows that the employee orientation they gave you left out a few things — okay, a ''lot'' of things — so he's left you a series of pre-recorded messages that play over the telephone in your office. Just a few pointers to show you the ropes. He returns for the second game, managing to guide you through the first six nights, although he spends just as much time doing that as he does trying to reassure you that all is well in the pizzeria. He (''technically'') returns in the third game, in the form of old audio logs, and appears as an EasterEgg in the fourth game, but doesn't appear after that until ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' and ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRHelPWanted''.
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** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFirstGeneration The First Generation]][[note]]Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, Chica, Golden Freddy[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysSecondGeneration The Second Generation]][[note]]Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle, BB, The Puppet, Bare Endoskeleton, JJ, Shadow Bonnie, Shadow Freddy[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysThirdGeneration The Third Generation]][[note]]The Phantoms[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's 3'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFourthGeneration The Fourth Generation]][[note]]Nightmare Freddy, Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Foxy, Nightmare Fredbear, Plushtrap, Nightmare, Nightmare BB, Nightmarionne, Nightmare Mangle, Halloween Chica, Halloween Bonnie[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's 4'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFifthGeneration The Fifth Generation]][[note]]Baby, Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy, Ballora, Ennard, Bidybab, Minireena, Yenndo, Bonnet, Lolbit[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysSixthGeneration The Sixth Generation]][[note]]Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby, Lefty, Helpy, purchasable animatronics, XOR/Shadow Dee Dee and Fredbear[[/note]] (''Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator'' and ''Ultimate Custom Night'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysVRGeneration The VR Generation]][[note]][=PlushBaby=], Dreadbear, Grimm Foxy[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysSeventhGeneration The Seventh Generation]][[note]]Glamrock Freddy, Glamrock Chica, Montgomery Gator, Roxanne Wolf, The Daycare Attendent, S.T.A.F.F. Bots, DJ Music Man[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysAdventureCharacters The Adventure Characters]] [[note]][[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters Pretty much every character to appear in the first four games of the series, a few who only did off-screen, and some that don't even exist in the main franchise]] (and a couple who quite simply ''can't'' exist in the main franchise).[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's World'')

** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysTheSilverEyes The Silver Eyes Continuity]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes'', ''Five Nights at Freddy's: The Twisted Ones'' and ''Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet'')
** [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysFrightGeneration The Fright Generation]][[note]][[MonsterOfTheWeek Animatronics of the Week]], the Stitchwraith, the Man in Room 1280, [[spoiler:Afton's Amalgamation]], [[spoiler:the Puppet]] and the Other Evil[[/note]] (''Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights'')

[[/index]]

* [[Characters/FiveNightsAtFreddysProtagonists The Protagonists]][[note]]Mike Schmidt, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, Fazbear's Fright Guard, The Child, "Eggs Benedict", Gregory[[/note]]