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If you're looking for him by his real name in the games, see Michael Afton.
Michael ''Mike'' Schmidt is the main character of Five Nights at Freddy's and is the character that the player controls. Mike Schmidt is the security guard who works the night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Mike also acts as the protagonist of the Movie adaptation.
Appearance[]
You're the Band[]
Sylvia described Mike as a young Caucasian man in his early twenties, wearing shorts and a T-shirt, and having an appearance akin to that of a college student.
Movie[]
Mike presents as a young, light-skinned male with brown hair and eyes. He also tends to have a big tired face, due to his messy personality and lack of sleep throughout the night.wearing a black shirt under a jacket that had 'SECURITY' in yellow bold letters on the left side along with some blue pants and black shoes.
Personality[]
You're the Band[]
Mike is selfless and brave, as shown when he shields Timmy Collins from The Puppet.
He is described as having a gentle voice.
Movie[]
Mike in the movie is sarcastic and has a snarky sense of humor, evident from his reaction to the training tape at the beginning of the trailer. He seems tough on the outside, but on the inside he's vulnerable and well meaning. He is very eager to dig up the truth about Freddy's. Mike seems to struggle letting go of the past and his guilt, shown from him being obsessed with dreaming of the day Garret was abducted by William Afton, wanting to see what he could've done to prevent it and find out who had done it, as he spent the entire movie trying to do so.
Mike is also seen as persistent, shown from the start of the movie when he tried to get Abby to eat dinner, tried to get answers from the Missing Children, and kept asking Vanessa Shelly questions.
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Story[]
Games[]
Michael Afton took up the name Mike Schmidt to work at the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, presumably to avoid any questions about his identity. He was paid $120 dollars for his first week for doing his job, as known by a check given after finishing Night 5. He worked from the 8th to the 14th of November 1993. On Night 1 of the job, Mike listened to the recordings made by the Phone Guy, his predecessor, giving him advice on the night shift, while fending off the Animatronics. While on shift, Mike suffered Hallucinations caused by all the paranormal activity going on around him. However, on Night 4, he heard Phone Guy die, and on Night 5, only a disturbing message is left. He also spent time writing in his security logbook, which he dubbed the Survival Logbook.
After Night 6, he was called "Employee of the month", due to his dedication, and praised for overtime. On Night 7, however, Mike tampered with the AI of the animatronics, and was subsequently fired. As well as this, other reasons included unprofessionalism, and odor.
Mike Schmidt also appears in the Help Wanted game over room, although it is unknown where this image comes from as Mike survives all the nights he works at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. It is most likely that Steel Wool Studios did not consider this when creating the game over room, alternatively, the in-universe developers photoshopped Schmidt's eyes from his file photo (that should exist as part of Fazbear Entertainment paperwork records) to cut costs.
You're the Band[]
Mike is seen stalking around Sylvia Collins' yard to find a stolen Freddy Fazbear Mask by pretending to look for his "dog." But she catches him looking through the kitchen window, and he makes the excuse that his dog ran off his leash. He makes small talk with her, and his curiosity sparks when he spots Freddy Fazbear birthday decorations. His eagerness accidentally scares Sylvia off.
The next evening, Mike returned to look for the mask, but was caught again by Sylvia, this time getting the police called on him.
After Sylvia and her son Timmy left to go to her father's house, Mike breaks into her house and takes the Freddy mask. Later, Mike eventually finds Sylvia running after Timmy, who was being lured into the woods by a shadow, and stops her from chasing him, and tries to calm her down and introduces himself. He explains that the Freddy mask was stolen from Freddy's weeks ago, and may have harmed Timmy.
Mike leads Sylvia to his car, and they drive to the old Freddy Fazbear's Pizza where he suspects Timmy went. When they enter the ruins, they see Timmy on the show stage between Bonnie and Chica. Mike sees Slyvia run for Timmy and tries to stop her just before the tentacles of The Puppet shoot out from the walls and wrap around her body. Mike tries to free her, but she calls for him to rescue Timmy instead. Mike waits for a specific part of the song, then runs up and quickly puts the mask on Timmy, making its eyes glow, before taking the mask off him and pulling Timmy off stage. The Puppet comes down from the ceiling towards Timmy, but Mike comes in and shields him. The Puppet then stops midair as Freddy walks out and puts on his animatronic mask. The Puppet lets Sylvia go, and Freddy takes his place on stage and sings. They all ran out of the pizzeria, not looking back.
On the way back to Sylvia's house, Mike believes that something was alive inside the Freddy mask and possessed Timmy when he wore it. Mike tells them to keep everything that happened a secret.
Movie[]
Mike Schmidt had a younger brother named Garret, he was taken when Mike was only 12 and he saw it all unfold. He keeps dreaming the moment to try and figure out who took Garret. Fast forward years later, his mother has died and it's said that his father couldn't handle it, implying that he either left or committed suicide, resulting in Mike looking after his younger sister, Abby Schmidt, all on his own. He gets kicked from his old security job working as a security guard in the local mall after beating down a man in public after he thought the man was trying to abduct a child.
Mike goes to a career counsellor, William Afton posing as Steve Raglan, to search for a job. Steve offers Mike a nightly guard shift at Freddy Fazbear's. Although originally refusing to go there because he couldn't work nightshifts due to having to take care of Abby, he decides to go there because he thinks having a job would make him look better if Jane attempted to gain custody of Abby. Mike goes to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, exploring the old pizzeria before he goes to his office and tries to do what he always does, figure out who took Garret. Mike sleeps on the desk of the office and dreams as usual. His dream is now different though, with five children appearing before him.
He attempted to ask them if they knew who took Garret but they run off into the trees in Mike's dream. Mike runs after one with blonde hair, but after tripping on a rock on his dream, he falls on the floor in real life. He wakes up to see a police officer at the door of the pizzeria through the cameras. Mike opens the door to Vanessa and lets her in. She tells Mike all about the history of the place and shows him the animatronics. Mike and Vanessa go home, with Vanessa warning Mike not to let Freddy's get to his head. A gang of delinquents orchestrated by Jane in an attempt to get Mike fired so she could take custody of Abby more easily. The gang go to Freddy's and decide to thrash the place and rob it.
They wreck the entire place but the animatronics turn on and kill each one of them one by one including Abby's babysitter. Vanessa goes to Mike’s house and tells him that the place was trashed. After trying to call Max to look after Abby he decides to bring Abby along to his next shift. He tells her to stay out in the office and sleep while he works. When they get there Mike sees the full extent of the break-in. Mike puts Abby in the office and starts cleaning up the pizzeria while she sleeps.
After he cleans the place up he goes back to the office to attempt and dream again. In this dream however there was only one child. Mike spoke to the child asking who took his brother. The child asked him "What will you give us in return?" Mike replied with "Anything" and he woke up to Abby screaming. He runs over on the direction of Abby's screaming and see the animatronics swarming her. He picks up a chair to try to defend himself against Freddy as he walks towards Mike but backs up when he realises how big they are.
Abby then tells Mike to "meet her friends". The animatronics weren't actually attacking her, they were playing with her. Freddy backs down and Mike is in a state of confusion as he didn't believe that the animatronics could move on their own. He thinks someone is playing a practical joke but quickly finds out it's not. The next day he realises Abby can talk to the animatronics and tells her to speak to them about Garrett, since the children told Abby about Garrett's kidnapping, something neither Mike or their parents told her.
He drives there the next day to see Vanessa is already there. Abby greets Vanessa and Mike has a quick talk with her to see if she knew about the children. She did know about them. Abby suggests to make a big fort so they and the animatronics can lay down, with Vanessa goes to the storage room to get table cloths to make a roof. Mike follows her and he tries asking her how she knows all about this. She clearly ignores him until Mike sees a springlock suit and tries to touch it. Vanessa stops him and hits the springlocks with a broom, causing the springlocks to go off and snap a piece of the broom with ease.
They go back and see Abby standing on the stage reaching to touch Bonnie's guitar. They yell at her to stop but she touches it and gets electrocuted. She wakes up and coughs, though she ends up okay, with Vanessa looking very distraught and hugging Abby to comfort her. They finish for the night but Vanessa tells Mike that "You can do whatever you want with your life but if you bring Abby here again, I will shoot you." Mike is worried and goes back to his car and stays there with Abby to sleep. The next morning Mike's and Abby's aunt comes over to look after her. Abby lashes out, believing him to be giving custody to Jane. She tells Mike that she hates him and scribbles his face out of all her drawings. Mike tells his aunt to tell Abby that he’ll be home soon and that he is sorry. Mike goes to Freddy's, taking his pills, using his headphones and sleeping to draw out more information of Garrett's kidnapping.
He wakes up in his dream as usual except it's different. He sees his whole family there including Garret smiling happily and his mother telling him to sit. Mike notices that his dream changed drastically. He says this isn't what he wants, but a child with blonde hair says that he knows that's what Mike wants, to be with Garrett again. The child proposes to Mike that he can make his dream a reality, and Mike agrees. He realizes the children want Abby in exchange for Garrett, and Mike quickly tries to go back on rejecting the offer. The kids run around him stabbing him as they run by and Mike wakes up in a torture room with a Freddy Mask about to rip his face off with spinnning saws. He unscrews the screws holding his arms together and lands on the bodies of the gang of delinquents stuffed into hollow animatronic suits.
Once Mike realises what happened to the gang in this place he runs to the exit but the door wouldn't open. He hears Foxy singing and panics, trying hard ot open the door but Foxy jumps to attack him. Suddenly then the door opens and Mike wakes up in a police outpost with Vanessa treating his wounds he sustained from the dream. Vanessa tells Mike that the owner of Freddy's, William Afton, the killer of the children that went missing at Freddy's was her dad and she shows a photo of her and William, donning a Spring Bonnie suit. In the photo Vanessa was holding an orange toy plane, the same one that Mike last saw Garret with.
He confronts Vanessa to see if she knew about Garrett's death, she says she knew that a child died but not until recently did she know it was Mike's brother. Vanessa gives Mike a taser and refuses to come to the pizzeria along, unwilling to come to meet her father again. Mike goes to the pizzeria and sneaks in through the ventilation system. He comes out of a vent on the main dining are anad spills water under Freddy's and Bonnie's feet and electrocutes the water with the taser. They fall to the ground, temporarily disabled as the glow fades from their eyes. Being lured into the pizzeria by Golden Freddy, Abby is lured once again by Chica, who the child follows to one of the backrooms containing the springlock suit Mike saw the other night. Chica attempts to grab Abby and shove her into the suit's torso, but Abby's screams attract Mike, who arrives to save his sister. Mike points the taser at Chica and the animatronic lets Abby go and starts walking towards Mike, but Mike easily eletrocutes Chica down. Mike and Abby share a hug, with Mike apologizing for not being better and the two flee into a hall.
Mike suddenly starts getting attacked by Carl Cupcake while he and Abby are escaping, with Mike telling Abby to flee. Abby runs away to the main playroom but Foxy walks out of Pirate's Cove and starts chasing after her. Mike fights off the cupcake by electrocuting it and searches for Abby, but he hears a loud bang and sees Spring Bonnie coming out of the shadows and walking towards him. Mike uses the taser on him, but it didn't affect the Yellow Rabbit. Spring Bonnie rips the taser prongs off him and rugby tackles Mike. Then he walks over to Mike and goes onto say with a robotic voice: "First I killed your brother, now I kill you. Symmetry, my friend." Mike replies with a "Go to hell." before Spring Bonnie knocks him out with a kick.
Mike wakes up from Abby shaking him, he stands up and sees William Afton inside the suit confronting Vanessa, whom Afton remorselessly stabs in the stomach and throws her to the floor. Mike creates a plan with Abby to draw a new image to show the animatronics who killed them, and that the Yellow Rabbit isn't their friend, to help them all kill William. Abby drew the photo of William killing all of them and Mike turned on the pizzeria's electricity and allowing the lights of the dining room to shine onto Abby's drawing, making the children finally realize their killer. They corner Afton, with Chica's Cupcake jumping and biting at Afton's suit, activating the springlocks and killing him in a gruesome and slow way. Mike runs back to take Abby and pick up Vanessa, dragging her out of the pizeeria as it was starting to fall apart. A couple days later Mike asks Abby what she wants to eat but says that he has to make a quick stop before they go home to have dinner. He enters the hospital where Vanessa is in a hospital bed unconscious. Mike talks to her, and holds her hand before leaving. Abby asks if Mike said hi from her and he says yes.
Character Description (Movie)[]
“Riddled with guilt over a tragedy in his past, and now struggling to take care of his younger sister on his own, Mike is low on options when he lands a new job to pay the bills; the night security guard at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria. Mike is vulnerable with a tough exterior. Though he means well, his obsession with digging for truth may have potentially disastrous consequences.”
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He is named after famous baseball player with the same name.
- He is the first human character to be named.
Games[]
- Mike Schmidt is never seen in-game, except for his blue eyes when he is stuffed in the Freddy suit during a Game Over.
- Mike Schmidt is the only security guard to be seen in the game over screen, seen in the first game. In FNaF 2, Jeremy's death is in first person (with Fritz' as well), and in FNaF 3, only a Game Over screen in big red bold text is shown.
- In FNaF 4, the Game Over screen is the same thing as the previous game, but a bit of a blood spatter is added.
- Sister Location is a static screen, while Pizzeria Simulator and UCN are the same as FNAF 3.
- Help Wanted's game over screen is a room that appears to be Foxy's Pirate Cove, although with only a table containing a TV. The TV contains an image of the FNAF 1 Game Over screen, and some text.
- Special Delivery's game over screen is a static screen, followed by a blue screen with text saying "You lost!" and removing the player's streak.
- In FNaF 4, the Game Over screen is the same thing as the previous game, but a bit of a blood spatter is added.
- The Five Nights at Freddy's: Survival Logbook, written by Michael Afton, heavily implies that Mike Schmidt and he are the same person. As well as this, Mike draws Nightmare Fredbear under "recent dreams", heavily implying he is the player character of FNaF 4's main gameplay.
- It is theorized that Schmidt is the maiden name of Mrs. Afton.
- His dead body is shown in the Help Wanted Game Over.
- This should be impossible, as Mike survives all 7 nights.
- This suggests this screen is non-canon, or that Fazbear Entertainment photoshopped Schimdt's eyes from his employment photograph to cut costs.
- This should be impossible, as Mike survives all 7 nights.
- He was confirmed to be the one of the characters from Five Nights at Freddy's 4 in the Survival Logbook and the Character Encyclopedia.
Movie[]
- In the movie, he drives a sixth generation Honda Accord.
- Some aspects of his personality in the movie universe overlap with Michael's personality in the game universe.
- Unlike his counterparts in the games, Mike Schmidt in the movie is not an Afton
- Mike bears similarities to Charlotte Emily from the novels.
- Visual similarities include having brown eyes and brown hair.
- Both had their brothers kidnapped by William Afton as children.
- During the story, both look for their dead brothers and feel a connection to them through their dreams.
- Their aunts also have similar names; Jane Schmidt and Aunt Jen.
- While unconfirmed, it's also theorized that Mike's father in the movie timeline is Henry Emily, who was Charlotte's father in the games and novels.
- This theory in question suggests that William Afton and Henry Emily's families were swapped in the movie.
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Mike Schmidt, formally known as Michael Schmidt, is the main antagonist of The Joy of Creation.
Story[]
To be added.
Trivia[]
- Unlike his original series counterpart, Mike has no known association with William Afton.