Mike Schmidt

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.

In the Five Nights at Freddy’s Movie, he is played by Josh Hutcherson. Josh himself being about 5’9, caucasian, brown eyes, stubble, and brown short messy hair. While Hutcherson is in his early thirties, Mike in-film, is supposed to be in his mid to late twenties.

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 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. Mike looks after his younger sister, Abby. He gets kicked from his old Security job working as a security guard in the Supermarket after falsely accusing a man of being a child predator.

He goes to his career counsellor Steve Raglan to search for a job, he gets Mike a job at Freddy Fazbears Pizza. Although originally refusing to go there because he couldn't work nightshifts 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 Fazbears Pizza and keeps feeling unusual , but he goes to his office and tries to do what he always does, figure out who took Garret. Although this time was different. When he was in his dream, he saw 5 kids.

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.