The V Nights at Freddy's franchise has always been ane steeped in lore and engrossing backstory detailing the tragic history behind the pizza parlors that players monitor while trying to evade murderous animatronics come to nightmarish life. One of the more enigmatic figures appearing throughout the game serial is the unnamed man that leaves phone messages for the thespian character offering them pointers and observations each night as they run the respective facility's security room after-hours. And with the unnamed phone guy abruptly disappearing and their truthful identity never fully disclosed to the player, this leaves a couple of glaring questions: who exactly is the telephone guy and what happened to them prior to the events of the games?

On the first night of the original game, the role player character -- whose name is revealed to be Mike Schmidt if all five nights are completed successfully -- begins their shift receiving a phone message. The unidentified telephone guy welcomes Mike to their new task and reveals the animatronics' bloodthirsty truthful nature before advising him on monitoring the monsters through the pizza parlor's closed-circuit security cameras and to lower the blast doors if they approach the security part to kill him. The prequel game V Nights at Freddy'southward 2 reveals that the telephone guy usually works the day shift and isn't completely aware of how lethal the animatronics are at night. Archival sound featuring telephone guy is heard in 5 Nights at Freddy's 3, set in the dilapidated pizza parlor afterward the first game'south events and in the VR experience title,Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted.

Past the sixth night of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, the phone guy appears to comprehend that the animatronics are becoming more lethal than he initially realized every bit he leaves a message for the histrion to come in for one last shift. Following the incident that shuts the game's location downwards, the phone guy indicates he will brainstorm working the night shift himself, setting up his role in the original game. Phone guy'due south fate is even more than ominous in the original game, with the phone message he leaves at the beginning of the fourth night revealing the security office is being besieged by several of the animatronics before the mysterious Gilt Freddy is overheard attacking him, abruptly cut off the message. The fifth night, a garbled recording message with a demonic vox plays instead of phone guy'south familiar voice, suggesting he has been killed.

The vocalism thespian behind the phone guy across the entire serial is actually franchise creator Scott Cawthon, who has worked on every title, including last year'due south mobile AR installment Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery. The phone guy himself has never been explicitly named in any of the coincident cloth, just archival audio found in V Nights at Freddy's three reveals that, in addition to his duties as a security guard, he is also has taken on responsibilities every bit a mentor for new employees, recording formal grooming tapes. While the character has no new dialogue in Five Nights at Freddy's four, the phone message from the starting time dark in the original game tin be heard playing in reverse as an audio cameo.

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In add-on to a feature film adaptation that has been in various stages of development for years, Five Nights at Freddy's is poised to continue on the PlayStation 5 and PC this yr in the announced title Five Nighttime's at Freddy's: Security Breach. Piddling is known about the details and mechanics of the upcoming game, just hopefully, phone guy will make a return in some chapters and potentially unveil new tidbits near his identity and final fate. And with Cawthon involved in both the motion picture's and upcoming video game installment's development, the voice of phone guy is never too far away from the franchise.

Developed by Steel Wool Studios, Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach volition exist released for Playstation five, PlayStation 4 and PC in 2021.

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