The story of serial killer William Afton from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
NOTE: Everything detailed is in chronological order, not order of release. However, due to Scott Cawthon's mostly vague storytelling, a lot of this is based on speculation combined with known facts about the Afton Family and everything else.
Biography[]
Background[]
Very little is known about William's life before 1983 or earlier, although he seems to be of Southeastern English origin judging by his accent. At one point he met an unnamed woman who presumably became his wife, having up to three children - his eldest son Michael, his only daughter Elizabeth and his unnamed younger son. William was also a skilled robotics technician and mechanical engineer who founded Afton Robotics, LLC. At some unknown point, his wife disappears from the picture. It's been implied that she and William divorced.
At an unknown point before 1983 (likely before 1979 given the date of the Mimic's creation), he meets a man named Henry Emily and they become business partners together, opening a restaurant called Fredbear's Family Diner and starting Fazbear Entertainment, with William's company as an associated business. Henry created two spring-lock animatronics for the restaurant which were both animatronics and wearable suits -the star of the diner Fredbear and his companion Spring Bonnie. In 1983, another restaurant is opened titled Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, which had four animatronics - Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken and Foxy the Pirate. At an unknown point in time, William somehow manages to construct an underground facility beneath company property, including his own house.
The Murder of Charlotte Emily[]

Afton preparing to murder Charlie.
Somewhere in that same year (unknown if before or after his youngest son's death), William would go to Freddy's and see Henry's daughter Charlotte locked outside. Seeing her vulnerable, Afton takes the opportunity to kill her for unknown reasons. William then drags her body into the nearby alleyway and drives off. However, Charlotte's soul possesses the Puppet, which Henry made to protect her, as the animatronic crawls to her corpse and shorts out in the rain. After he drives off, he makes his way home to his house in the woods. He stops at an establishment called Jr’s (presumably a bar) but he is turned away at the entrance, heavily implying William is an alcoholic and is also banned from the establishment. As he enters his home, someone watching television (likely either Michael or William's wife) tells him to leave "him" (likely one of his two sons) alone as he had a rough day. Afton ignores this and goes to the person's door anyway. William bangs on the door and demands the person open it as he specifically told him never to lock his door. He then decides to find another way in the room and exits the house. Going to the back of the house he finds that the boy escaped by breaking his window. Afton figures he ran off to "that place" again and he will be sorry when he gets back.
Five Nights at Freddy's 4[]

William helping one of his employees into the Spring Bonnie suit.
During the events of the fourth game in 1983, William only appears in the third post night mini-game, whilst performing his managerial duties at Fredbear's Family Diner. If the player - playing as Afton's youngest son - heads toward the left side of the section of restaurant with the double doors, and then heads back via proceeding right, they will see William placing the head of a Spring Bonnie costume on one of his employees. He does not respond to his distressed son and swiftly shuts the door.
Two days after that, Michael and his friends put his younger brother into Fredbear's mouth as a prank, but it goes horribly wrong when Fredbear crushes the child's head. The child later dies in the hospital, Fredbear's Family Diner is closed down, and the event is dubbed the Bite of '83. An unknown individual, heavily speculated/implied to be William, promises to put the child "back together".
While never truly confirmed, it's heavily implied that Afton is the true identity of the Fredbear Plush his son kept carrying around via a radio playing pre-recorded messages.
The Missing Children Incident[]

The corpses of the five kids William killed.
Two years later on June 26th, 1985, Afton goes to Freddy’s and dons his Spring Bonnie suit. Using the suit Afton pretends to be a benevolent mascot and lures away five children starting with a girl called Susie, who was distraught after her dog was run over, "Spring Bonnie" assured her that her dog was not really dead, and he can bring her to him as long she followed him. After Susie, William then lured away four more kids - Gabriel, Jeremy, Fritz and Cassidy - one by one into the hidden safe room at Freddy's and remorselessly murdered them all.
Afton would proceed to stuff the corpses into the animatronic suits, causing the souls to return by haunting the animatronics (excluding Cassidy, who instead became the ghostly apparition, Golden Freddy). The animatronics then developed a thirst for revenge against William for taking their lives and began to attack any adults they found in the restaurant after hours in a blind rage. The Puppet, haunted by Charlie's spirit, would become a guide and leader to the other children, taking care of them and trying to set their spirits free.
The next day, authorities investigated the disappearances and caught William on camera luring the children to their deaths, leading to him being arrested and charged as a suspect. However, despite clearly being guilty, he was let go by the authorities as the bodies of his victims were never found, thus there was no proper evidence to prove he was liable for the murders. However, Afton seemed to be aware the animatronics were haunted by his victims. Eventually, people begin to notice foul odors and bodily fluids coming from the robotic entertainers; Freddy's closes sometime after this by order of the health department.
The Opening of Circus Baby's[]
After Freddy's shut down, William created his own restaurant, Circus Baby's Pizza World, which had its own group of animatronics known as the Funtimes. However, William actually built them to kidnap and kill children. On the opening day, Elizabeth's curiosity gets the best of her, causing Circus Baby to activate while they were alone in the same room, dragging Elizabeth into her stomach and killing her. After realising his daughter was killed, Afton shuts down the building while blaming nonexistent gas leaks. He would then build Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental, an underground location where William experimented on the Funtimes while also renting them out for birthday parties. He eventually finds out Elizabeth's soul possessed Circus Baby.
Presumably through the Funtimes, Afton would find a way to kidnap several children, including a boy named Rory. He would put them inside observatories before making lifeless mannequins that looked like nightmarish variants of the Fazbear animatronics. He would then use hallucinogenic gas to make the children think the mannequins are alive in order to experiment on their fear, and kept recordings that would manipulate them into re-entering their traps if they ever got out.
Five Nights at Freddy's 2[]
The Minigames from the Past[]

William Afton in the Take Cake to the Children and Go! Go! Go! minigames.
Afton makes his official debut in three of the four minigames that can randomly appear after getting a game over, although this isn't his first chronological appearance. Two of them show the backstory of Freddy's.
- In the third "level" of the Foxy Go! Go! Go! minigame, William can be seen standing next to the Pirate's Cove curtain, smiling to himself or at Foxy. When Foxy approaches the children that were happy and excited in the previous two levels, they are instead grey and lifeless. The minigame ends with Withered Foxy's jumpscare. This minigame presumably depicts the Missing Children Incident.
- In the Take Cake to the Children minigame, the player is Freddy trying to give cake to six impatient children in a small room, while a lone child is crying outside of the building. After a short time has passed, a purple car drives up to the crying child and William exits the vehicle. The child begins to cry more and more while he stands next to them until they suddenly turn grey and lifeless. The minigame ends with a jumpscare by the Puppet as William gets back into the car and drives off. This minigame was showing the previously mentioned murder of Charlotte Emily, the girl who possesses the Puppet.
The Present[]
In 1987, Freddy's is re-opened in Hurricane featuring the new and advanced Toy animatronics while the old ones were kept in the backroom for parts. William learns of the new restaurant and decides to strike once again. William masquerades as a security guard to gain access to the building and presumably using the Fredbear suit stored in the backroom, lures away and murders five more children.

Willaim Afton encounters Freddy and the Puppet in ''SAVETHEM''.
William's final minigame appearance is as an easter egg. In this minigame the Puppet leads Withered Freddy to the prize corner in the FNaF 2 pizzeria, while a robotic voice spells out the letters of the minigame's name, SAVE THEM. Occasional pools of blood and the dead bodies of the five children William killed can be found scattered around the map. Very rarely while entering a new room William will appear and attack Withered Freddy. If he touches him, blue static instead of the usual red will fill the screen with William mocking Freddy and the Puppet for trying to save his victims, spitefully responding with "You Can't." instantly ending the minigame and crashing the game. However, the player has a chance of just moving out of the way, thanks to which Afton will simply run to the other side of the room and disappear for the rest of the minigame. The minigame implies that William was the day shift guard before Jeremy Fitzgerald, and shows that he killed another set of children. The children are implied to have possessed the Toy animatronics.
Outside of the minigames, Phone Guy mentions an investigation going on at the newly opened pizzeria from Night 3 onwards, becoming increasingly concerned and uncomfortable with every message. He mentions someone may have tampered with the facial recognition software of the new Toy animatronics due to them getting increasingly aggressive towards staff members and adults, but interact with children just fine. It's implied to be William's doing, but whether or not someone actually tampered with the animatronics or these are the actions of the spirits is unknown.
By Night 5, Phone Guy tells the player that the building is now on lock down with nobody being allowed inside or outside the building, "previous employees" in particular. He mentions Jeremy Fitzgerald will be moved over to day shift next week since the position just became "available", when he previously stated that the day shift guard reported nothing unusual (the guard was previously on the night shift and complained about the conditions of animatronics trying to get into his office). In his Night 6 message, Phone Guy mentions that a spare yellow suit in the back of the restaurant has been used since it wasn't in its original position and that now none of the animatronics are working properly anymore. This further heavily implies that William was the first guard who later went on the day shift. The restaurant closes down two weeks after opening. Either way, William would vanish sometime before the pizzeria closed down, once again getting away with his crimes.
Five Nights at Freddy's[]

Although he doesn't appear directly in the first game, there are hidden newspaper reports which mention him and his murders during the Missing Children Incident. Additionally, his son Michael is the game's protagonist under the alias "Mike Schmidt". In the newspapers it is mentioned that because of William’s horrid actions, Fazbear Entertainment’s reputation has been irreparably damaged, thus Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza is set to close by the end of the year.
Dittophobia[]
The short story focuses on Rory, one of the kids Afton kidnapped and subjected to terrible experiments. Rory believes himself to be a seven year old tormented each night by night terrors involving the Nightmare Animatronics, while during the day his distant parents keep ignoring him. One day, the machine pumping hallucinogenic gas malfunctions, and, as a result, Rory manages to finally realize that most of his life was actually a gas-induced hallucination: he himself is actually seventeen, not seven, his parents and most of his memories are not real, the Nightmare Animatronics are actually simplistic mannequin-like robots moving on a railtrack. After leaving his fake house, he discovers a desk, with several papers documenting the experiment he was subjected to; the last paper was written ten years before, and the experiment itself has been seemingly abandoned since then. Rory keeps wandering around, finding himself in a currently out-of-power underground facility, and decides to restore the power so he can leave the place. When he returns to the fake house (where the generator is kept), he hears Afton's recorded voice telling him to turn the gas back on, claiming that nobody cared for or loved Rory in the real world, while here he's been kept safe and watched over for years, and is so persuasive that Rory actually decides to fix the machine pumping the hallucination gas: as a result of the latter, he seemingly forgets everything he has learnt since the beginning of the short story, and returns to believing he's a seven-year old haunted by nightmares.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location[]
Sometime after Mike was fired from Freddy's, Afton sends him on a suicide mission to Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental so he could "put her [Elizabeth] back together". There, Mike falls for Elizabeth's trickery, resulting in the Funtimes being destroyed and merging into a hybrid-endoskeleton called Ennard before "killing" him, ripping out his insides and wearing him as a skinsuit before eventually escaping from his body. Despite the fact he should be dead, Mike survived due to the Remnant injected into him. He promises that he will "find" his father, who has seemingly disappeared (having most likely fell victim to the Spring Bonnie suit at this point, as explained below).
Five Nights at Freddy's 3[]
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 is split into two separate time frames: the present, where regular gameplay and secret minigames take place in 2023, and the post-night-minigames set in the past, somewhere after 1993.
The Minigames and First Death[]
After each and every shift, the player takes control of one of the four members of the Fazbear Gang inside of the now closed and dilapidated Freddy Fazbear's Pizza from the first game. In the first four minigames, Shadow Freddy appears to the active animatronic and tells them to follow him, leading them to the hallway where the bathrooms used to be. There, the safe room stands wide open and Shadow Freddy enters it every time. But when the animatronic tries to follow, they just get an error message and cannot move inside. As soon as they turn around to walk away, William will jump out of the room and attack the animatronic. One after the other, he dismantles each of them, first Freddy, then Bonnie, Chica and finally Foxy. If the player doesn't enter the room for long enough, William will leave the safe room and unexpectedly charge at the animatronic.

William's first defeat.
Destroying the animatronics turns out to have been a critical mistake for William, as doing so released the spirits from their metal prisons. The ghosts of his victims were no longer bound by the animatronics' programming and could enter the safe room. One of the spirits (most likely Cassidy), controlled by the player, starts chasing after William, with him running around the room and away from the ghost in terror. He quickly realizes that four of his other victims are blocking the exit and rushes towards the empty Spring Bonnie suit slumped against the wall, the same suit he lured his victims to their deaths with.
Afton quickly puts on the suit and believes it to give him safety. As an act of spite, William starts to maniacally laugh at his victims; A fatal error, as the moisture of the rain outside dripping into the derelict building, the suits old and withered condition, combined with his laughing and frantic movements causes the suit's spring-locks to malfunction. As a result, the endoskeleton and its numerous mechanical parts lining the inside of the suit snap back into place, crushing, mutilating and puncturing William's entire body. Afton then screams in pain and collapses against the wall in a pool of his own blood, twitching in utter agony. Satisfied with their revenge against their nemesis his victims fade away and leave Afton trapped in the safe room to slowly bleed out in a painful and deserving death.
However, Afton's body and soul soon merged with the Spring Bonnie suit, causing his spirit to possess the animatronic just like his victims had possessed the others, thus being reborn as Springtrap.
The Nights[]

William Afton as Springtrap.
In 2023, 30 years after Freddy's shut down, a small group tries to cash in on the legends and rumors surrounding the Fazbear name by opening a horror attraction called "Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction". They travel to the old pizzerias and scavenge them for genuine props to use in their house of horrors and even manage to get one of the architects on-board. The architect re-opened the safe room for them and to their delight they find Springtrap within, a genuine Fazbear Entertainment animatronic and the perfect addition to Fazbear's Fright because of his horrific appearance. Once placed inside, Springtrap awakens and instead of simply leaving the building he opts to play a sick game of cat and mouse with the night guard. Springtrap then dedicates the entire week to trying to hunt down and kill the night guard. It's implied through the Fazbear Frights books that he's responsible for the Phantoms, burnt hallucinations of the Fazbear animatronics that he supernaturally created.
Springtrap will go through each camera and vent. Each day, Springtrap becomes more aggressive and likely frustrated as the player has to lock him out of the air vents and lure him around the building with voice recordings of Balloon Boy, who speaks with the voice of a child, to keep him from reaching the office. It is unknown whether Springtrap follow the sounds of these recordings because of his own blood lust or, the suit functionality requiring the wearer to move towards noise, although it's more likely to be the former. It's also worth to note that Springtrap seems surprised when jumpscaring the protagonist, assuming that Michael is his son.

The brightened newspaper showing Springtrap's survival.
On the fifth day after Springtrap's arrival, the barely functional wiring of the building catches fire and burns it to the ground before it could be opened to the public, likely preventing disaster in the process. Most of what remained of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is gone, with any trinkets left being sold at a public auction, but Springtrap himself survived the fire and escaped. It is unknown if the night guard made it out alive, though it is likely since their shift ended before the building caught fire. It is also possible that the night guard themselves, who is heavily implied to be Michael, lit the place on fire in an attempt to kill Springtrap.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator[]
The Minigames[]

Afton luring away Susie.
He also appears in all of the secret minigames, although he makes a confirmed physical appearance in two.
- He appears as Spring Bonnie in the Fruity Maze minigame in which he "helps" Susie find her dead dog. This is how he convinced her to follow him in the Safe Room, where he killed her.
- In the Security Puppet minigame, next to Charlotte's corpse and there are tracks indicating a car was driving. The tracks obviously belong to William's car, as he killed Charlotte.
- In a slight shift from the norm, William takes on the role of main protagonist of the third minigame, Midnight Motorist, as the so called "Orange Guy", who drives home only to discover animatronic-like tracks and that one of his sons jumped out of his bedroom's window and went to an unknown place, presumably Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. This minigame is heavily implied to take place directly after Charlie's death due to the name of the minigame's name in the files being "Later That Night", and the rain sprites of the minigame being the exact same as in the Security Puppet minigame.
The Nights[]
Following the destruction of Fazbear's Fright, Springtrap was damaged and needed to repair himself. Using various parts and a second Spring Bonnie suit, he repaired himself and became Scraptrap. Meanwhile, a still-alive Henry opens a new restaurant called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place with Michael as the manager, and the former calls Scraptrap, Scrap Baby (the remains of Elizabeth after being kicked out of Ennard), Molten Freddy (Ennard without Baby) and the mysterious Lefty to the pizzeria. Scraptrap knew he was being lured into a trap, but still went out of curiosity and his own blood lust. While the player has the choice of not salvaging even a single animatronic, Michael canonically salvaged each of them from the pizzeria's back alley and defended himself in an underground maze disconnected from the rest of the building.

Afton burning.
After the Saturday shift is completed and all the animatronics are salvaged, Scrap Baby speaks about how the pizzeria was a "gift" for her, Scraptrap and Molten Freddy as a playground to kill children in, before declaring that she will make her father proud; her speech is then interrupted by Henry. He sets the building on fire using a subterranean incinerator and informs the animatronics that they have all been lured into a trap set for them in order to destroy the last of the possessed animatronics. Henry even expressed his sincere hope that the animatronics destruction will not only free the souls trapped inside them, but allow them to pass on to the afterlife in peace. However, Henry doesn't share the same sentiment for William and tells his old friend that for his unspeakable crimes, all that awaits him is the darkest pit of hell and that he shouldn’t keep the devil waiting. The building then falls into a sinkhole due to the damaged underground vent system and everyone in the building dies and has their souls set free... except Afton.
Ultimate Custom Night[]
After the fire at the Pizza Place, a restless spirit - heavily implied to be Cassidy - refused to pass on and proceeded to keep Afton alive and torture him in his nightmares as penance for his horrific atrocities. The spirit put him in an office where over 50 animatronics come to kill him or otherwise help in his death over and over. Many of these animatronics directly mock him, with some directly channeling "The One You [he] Should Not Have Killed".
As well as this, versions of Springtrap and Scraptrap both appear as antagonists. Springtrap will come through the vents, and when he arrives to the office, his head will be seen through the vent door. The player has to close it to stop Springtrap from killing them. Scraptrap, meanwhile, will attack only once a night: When he does, a loud sound will be heard, and the player has to close the right vent to stop Scraptrap from killing them. However, it's also possible that even if turned on, Scraptrap won't attack at all.
In the Old Man Consequences minigame, where the titular character urges Golden Freddy to "leave the demon to his demons", a distorted voice heavily implied to be Afton can be heard screaming in rage, pain and/or fear. Given the theme of the minigame, and how it can only be ended through drowning in the lake (which has lead to the "Happiest Day" ending in FNAF World), it can be assumed this symbolizes the vengeful spirit moving on from their hatred and finally letting Afton die, but it’s more likely that Cassidy continued to torture William for all of eternity.
Legacy[]
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted[]
Sometime later, a reinstated Fazbear Entertainment hires a company to make a VR game that cleans their reputation. They accidentally take a circuit board with the Mimic1 program in it, causing it to come back as a virus mimicking Afton in looks and actions. He turns the game's protagonist, Vanessa, into his loyal underling Vanny.
Outside of this, a fictional-fictional version of Springtrap appears in the recreation of FNaF 3, acting just like in the original game.
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery[]
Vanny is promoted to being an employee at Fazbear Funtime Service, a delivery service that brings animatronics into someone's house. Once, the animatronics turn aggressive due to a virus' influence (most likely the Mimic), she seemingly deletes it, only for all employees to be locked out of their accounts. This was all done under the Mimic's orders so animatronics could enter people's homes and kill them, and he appears to be officially in full control once Vanny hacks into the Service.
Replicas of Springtrap appear, implied to have been added by Vanny and not the workers. To defeat him, the player has to listen closely and give him a controlled shock when he appears and charges at the player. While glitching, Springtrap's eyes will be red or white - if red, the player must look away; if white, the player must look at him. Like other enemies, Springtrap's plush suit can be put on an endoskeleton and sent somewhere else or be salvaged.
In this game, Springtrap gets four skins, those being Toxic Springtrap (who has tumor-like warts and is purple), Flaming Springtrap (a coal-colored Springtrap who is literally on fire), Clown Springtrap (who is white-colored with clown makeup, a red, black and purple suit making him appear fat, large clown shoes and a cartoonish hammer) and Curse (a blue Springtrap with Aztec-inspired armor).
Pressure[]
“ | Springtrap was the alter ego — the evil persona — of William Afton, the man who had kidnapped and killed little children at a Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. The real Afton had apparently gotten trapped in a rabbit suit and had eventually died — sort of — inside of it. In the most nightmarish rumors associated with Freddy's, Afton's corpse had come back to life somehow, and in doing so, he'd turned into Springtrap. Fazbear Entertainment made light of this "fable" as they called it, and that's why they made the character part of the game. | „ |
~ A description of the urban legends surrounding Afton. |
William Afton is mentioned in the Tales from the Pizzaplex story "Pressure". It is said that he was a serial killer who murdered several children at Fazbear-themed restaurants, and eventually died inside a rabbit suit. According to unconfirmed rumors, he ended up possessing it, becoming Springtrap. Fazbear Entertainment made light of this story by making Springtrap part of the Fazbear brand; one of the scenarios clients of the Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex could interpret as part of the Urban Legends Role Players Auditorium was the Green-Eared Killer Scenario, in which one player would roleplay as Springtrap and try to catch the other players, who would roleplay as teenagers who broke inside Fazbear's Fright Haunted House.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach[]
The Mimic and Vanny continue their evil plots, trying to kill a child named Gregory. Outside of this, Scraptrap appears on the cover of an arcade game, although he's called "Dr. Scraptrap", and the Mimic makes a recreation of his Springtrap form, called "Burntrap", which might be using Afton's corpse.
Spin-Offs[]
FNaF World[]
In the (seemingly) non-canonical RPG, Afton is a playable character in both his FNaF 3 minigame sprite and Springtrap forms, including Spring Bonnie.
Springtrap has the attacks "Bite 2" (massive damage to two enemies), "Spring-locks" (a replica of Spring Bonnie's head that does massive AOE damage) and "Rainy Day" (temporarily decreases all enemies' defense), overall making him a good and useful character.
Spring Bonnie has the attacks "Spring-locks" (already mentioned), "Happy Jam 2" (heals all party members instantly) and "Cosmic Song" (spawns a bunch of powerful comets that attack the enemies), which overall makes Spring Bonnie a great character, and possibly the best one before Update 2.
William's minigame sprite, called Purpleguy, was added in Update 2 and is unlocked by unlocking all the weapon upgrades one can get in the FNaF 57: Freddy in Space minigame, and then beating it. His attacks are "Speed Song" (temporarily increases the party's speed), "Slasher" (an 8-bit sword that has 1/10 chance to deal 99999 damage) and "Hocus Pocus" (has a chance to change the enemies into weaker enemies), overall making him powerful against normal enemies, but close to useless against bosses. Purpleguy himself says that he's just a game sprite, not the man himself.
Security Breach: Fury's Rage[]
In this spin-off, Clown Springtrap serves as a basic enemy. Scraptrap also appears in one of the backgrounds.
Books[]
The Novel Trilogy[]
- Main article: William Afton (Novel Trilogy)
William Afton appears as the main antagonist of the original novels under the alias of Dave Miller. Like in the games, he dies and becomes Springtrap, but ends up leaving the suit and abandoning the identity.
Fazbear Frights[]
The game tie-in novels introduce three versions of William.
- William Afton (Fazbear Frights) - The overarching antagonist introduced in the fifth book after being foreshadowed in the fourth one. For once, he is actually not the biggest threat, with that role going to Eleanor.
- The Yellow Rabbit - The main antagonist of the first story in the series, "Into the Pit", and its adaptations; an organic animatronic creature coming out of a ball pit from the year 1985.
- Springtrap (Fazbear Frights) - The main antagonist of the stories "In the Flesh" and "What We Found". Noticeably enough, the two versions of Springtrap have nothing in common; while the latter has more connections to his original counterpart, the former instead comes across as a Mimic parallel.
Five Nights at Freddy's (2023)[]

William as he appears in the movie, possibly reflecting how he appears in the games.
- Main article: William Afton (Films)
William Afton appears in the 2023 film adaptation of Five Nights at Freddy's as the main antagonist. This version masquerades as Steve Raglan, a career counselor, and hires Mike Schmidt (the film’s protagonist) as the security guard before trying to kill him in the film's climax.
He is portrayed by Matthew Lillard, who also played Stu Macher in Scream, Lizard King in Axel: The Biggest Little Hero, Chet Sulloway in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and David Roy Turner in Criminal Minds.