Phone Guy

Ralph, best known as the Phone Guy, is the tritagonist of the ScottGames era of the franchise. He returns as the main protagonist of the tie-in interactive novel The Week Before. 
A senior employee of Fazbear Entertainment, Phone Guy gives advice for the new night guards at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (such as Mike Schmidt and Jeremy Fitzgerald) on the behavior of and survival tactics against the different animatronics. He essentially acts as the game's tutorial.
He is voiced by the game's creator himself, who also voices Phone Dude.
==Personality==
The Phone Guy is somewhat nonchalant, and there is absolutely no explanation as to why. Throughout the game, he does his best to inform the player that there's "really nothing to worry about," despite the obvious danger. It's unknown if he's lying to the guards out of free will, if he's obligated to do so, or just trying to make Mike Schmidt feel better.
He seems to be very hesitant and awkward at times, often stuttering and nervously laughing, implying that he might be worried about the possibility of someone hearing his warnings and advice regarding the animatronics. Of course, it's also likely that he is generally anxious and on edge because of the imminent chance of death at their hands.
In Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Phone Guy seems to be genuinely comfortable with working at his job and doesn't seem to be concerned about the animatronics being hostile. This is likely because he was working the day shift during the time, and didn't truly understand the danger until taking over the night watch himself.
Despite this, he still makes a point to give the player advice for surviving the first few nights, but he also maintains that the restaurant is dedicated to employee safety and that "there is nothing to worry about."
==Biography==
===Backstory===
Not much of his backstory is known. However, when Freddy Fazbear's Pizza opened in 1983, the Phone Guy took the job somewhere afterwards. He was making tapes about the spring lock suits, explaining how to properly use them to prevent any employees from accidentally dying. However, after a spring lock failure at Fredbear's Family Diner, a sister location, the spring lock suits were banned in all locations in the restaurant. Two years later in 1985, William Afton would use the Spring Bonnie suit to abduct and murder five children at Freddy's. The restaurant would later close down.
=== Five Nights at Freddy's 2===
In 1987, a new Freddy's was opened with new animatronics. The Phone Guy would be re-hired, possibly even as the manager. A person with an unknown name would be hired as the night guard, heavily implied to be a disguised William Afton. After his week finished, he was moved to the day shift while Jeremy Fitzgerald took his job. During this, the building was put on lock down after the revelation that someone (Afton) used a yellow suit and murdered another set of children. Jeremy was meanwhile moved to the day shift while Fritz Smith would take the job. The location would later close down due to the Bite of '87, an incident where an animatronic bit off someone’s frontal lobe.
===Taking the Night Shift and Death ===
A new location would eventually open, presumably in the year 1988. After a few deaths, the Phone Guy would eventually take the job. On his last week, in late 1993, he left instructions for his successor of his shift. In what is presumably his penultimate or last night, he was attacked and killed by the animatronics when they surrounded his office. While it's not made clear as to who specifically killed him, the moaning and jump scare sound effect heavily implies that it was Golden Freddy.
===Five Nights at Freddy's===
A few days after his death, Mike Schmidt would become the new guard, hearing all of his tapes during his first 4 nights, including the one where he died. On his fifth night, Mike was left a distorted and disturbing call. Mike would get fired on the end of his first week for tampering with the animatronics (which implies that Mike checked for Phone Guy in the suits), and the restaurant closing down later.
===Five Nights at Freddy's 3===
The Phone Guy's instruction tapes for the spring lock tapes were found 30 years after his death, with the intention of being played throughout the Fazbear's Fright attractions. They were listened to by the Security Guard before the place burned down.
===Ultimate Custom Night ===
The Phone Guy is a selectable antagonist. If he is enabled for the night, he will call the player occasionally. Should they fail to mute him in time, Phone Guy's call will become unmutable and continue on, generating noise which will anger Music Man, should the latter also be present.
=== Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted===
In the VR recreations of the first three games, the Phone Guy's old calls can be heard yet again.
==The Week Before==
TBA
==Dialogue==
=== Five Nights at Freddy's===
=== Five Nights at Freddy's 2===
=== Five Nights at Freddy's 3===
==Trivia==
*The FNaF 1 Night 5 phone call is a reversed excerpt from Autobiography of a Yogi.
*It was theorised he is Fritz Smith due to the fact there is no phone call on Fritz’ night, and Phone Guy's comment about taking over the night shift after Jeremy. However, this is unlikely, since the firing slip says, "First day on the job, seriously?" and Phone Guy was already working in Fazbear Entertainment long ago.
*Before the release of the third game, it was theorized that Phone Guy was the Purple Guy, because he was killed by the animatronics, since they wanted revenge on him. However, when the third game was released, it was shown how the Purple Guy died, debunking this theory.
*Many theories suggest that Phone Guy is the Brother from Five Nights at Freddy's 4. Some things to suggest this are that they both like Foxy, they are both nervous towards the robots (the older brother becomes scared of them due to his younger brother's unfortunate demise). However, as part of the Afton Family, the Brother would be British, while the Phone Guy is American. Additionally, the Brother is already all but outright stated to be Michael Afton.
*In the Survival Logbook, Jeremy Fitzgerald refers to Phone Guy as his "boss", implying Phone Guy is part of Fazbear Entertainment's management.
**He could be an assistant manager, being high up enough to instruct employees, but not to know for sure that the building is on lockdown.
==External Links==
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*Phone Guy on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
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