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    Johnny C. 
The main character, but not the hero. Johnny is the titular homicidal maniac, and, unwittingly, a cosmic entity helping to hold in all of humanity’s evil.
  • Affably Evil/Faux Affably Evil: Pretty difficult to pin down which, since he's genuinely polite to some of his victims while he brutally murders them. A great example is Issue 2, where he politely talks to Edgar Vargas and even apologizes for feeling like he has to kill him. In general, if you're polite to him, he'll be polite to you but will still try to kill you without hesitation if he becomes convinced that he has to.
  • Alas, Poor Villain: It's hard not to feel a little twinge of sadness when he finally commits suicide.
  • Anti-Role Model: To Squee, and to the audience, though a good chunk didn't get the memo.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Constantly. He once forgot about killing himself because a commercial he liked came on.
  • Author Avatar: Zig-zagged. Jhonen Vasquez has gone on record several times as saying that Johnny is not in any way meant to be a stand-in for himself, and that he always intended for everything that ever comes out of Johnny's mouth, goofy and dramatic alike, to come across as hypocritical, overly-generalized and stupid rather than any kind of reflection of his own worldviews. At the same time, though, Johnny's appearance, fashion sense and name are all quite similar to Jhonen's own, and he also writes comics about a crazy person who is implied to be an avatar for himself. Parodied in a "Meanwhile..." strip, where Jhonen describes a normal day in his life and it ends up being what can only be described as a remake of a JTHM story that happened earlier in the same issue with him in the place of Johnny.
  • Ax-Crazy: He is a homicidal maniac, after all.
  • Back from the Dead: After killing himself, and belonging in neither Heaven nor Hell.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: Murdered the pet rabbit that became Nailbunny after feeding it only once (possibly for the same reason he tried to kill Devi, that it made him feel genuinely happy and he wanted to end things on a high note before they had a chance to accumulate bad memories of each other). Also repeatedly squashes any cockroaches he finds out of sheer jealous rage at them for their simple nervous systems being incapable of experiencing human emotions, though in his madness he believes it's the same bug coming back to life over again to torment him. Given how reality works (or doesn't) in his house, he may not be wrong. There's also the dead rats in the blender incident, but it's unclear whether Johnny killed them or if they were already dead when he found them.
  • Badass Longcoat: He picks up one of these in Hell. His disappointment over not being able to keep it causes him to ignore the opportunity to learn about his Mysterious Past, much to Sr. Satan's chagrin.
  • Barrier Maiden: Apparently, since his one successful suicide releases the Monster Behind the Wall and initiates The End of the World as We Know It.
  • Berserk Button: I'LL SHOW YOU WACKY! I'LL SHOW YOU WACKEEEEEE!
  • The Berserker: Once he starts killing, there's no reasoning with him.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: He’s goofy as can be but… don’t make him angry.
  • Big Brother Mentor: Thinks that he's this to Squee. He really, really isn't.
  • Brought Down to Normal: After coming Back from the Dead
  • Bungled Suicide: Many of them, as a result of his invulnerability.
  • The Cameo: Makes various small appearances throughout Squee, either as a drawing in Squee's room or in person as a Funny Background Event in crowd shots. He gets to make a proper non-cameo appearance during the last moments of the final issue.
  • Can't Get in Trouble for Nuthin': Depending on your view of Johnny's trip to Hell, it's either one of his many Powers Born of Madness or a side effect of his status as a waste-lock for the Thing Behind the Wall. He can kill a person in broad daylight surrounded by horrified witnesses and still somehow avoid getting arrested.
  • Character Development: Somewhat. While he manages to overcome the voices in his head and the negative impulses that they were associated with, he's still a homicidal maniac by the end of the series. At the very least, it seems like he doesn't kill nearly as much as he used to.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Along with his Ax-Crazy, he’s got a variety of other, more benign quirks, like the fear of Chihuahuas and an immense love for Spaghetti-Os.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: To a ludicrous degree.
  • Consulting Mr Puppet: His styrofoam figurines and the rotting corpse of his pet bunny, more particularly.
  • The Corruptible: In contrast to Devi, Johnny lets his demons chew him up and spit him out.
  • Death Seeker: For most of the comic, usually when he collides with the "depressive" part of his, well, manic-depression. Eventually he succeeds, but ends up too spicy for death.
  • Depending on the Writer: Whether or not he kills children. In the comics, he won't, and even bashes a pedophile's brains in for trying to hurt Squee, but on his Twitter he makes offhand comments about killing babies more than once. But even if he's willing to cross this particular line, the one child he'll never hurt is Squee.
  • Disproportionate Retribution: Most of his murders. Case in point is when he killed everyone in a fast food restaurant just because one of the patrons called him "wacky"
  • Does Not Like Guns: More specifically, does not like killing with guns. He doesn’t mind if they’re being aimed at himself.
  • Dying as Yourself: To an extent, since he seems to have a My God, What Have I Done? moment as he's bleeding out - though in the afterlife, he's back to normal.
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Looks like one because of the black-and-white art, but he's actually consistently given a sickly yellow skin tone whenever he's colored. Calling him pale is a minor Berserk Button for Jhonen Vasquez since he believes it to be one of the primary reasons why the series has been labeled a "goth comic about a goth guy who kills other goths" when he intended it to be a sweeping social satire about the toxicity of all of urban America.
  • Establishing Character Moment: "Do you know where I can find the disinfectant? Some of this blood is mine."
  • Even Evil Has Standards: He's positively horrified when Tess accuses him of having raped a woman, and again when Jimmy admits to the same rape later. He's equally furious at the pedophile who attempts to kidnap and molest Squee.
  • Evil Is Hammy: See ‘Large Ham’.
  • Evil Is Petty: He’ll kill people for being terrible, but also for calling him “wacky”.
  • Expecting Someone Taller: When Jimmy finally meets him face to face, he mentions that he expected him to be both taller and paler than he actually is. This is likely intended to be a case of Leaning on the Fourth Wall, as Jhonen Vasquez has stated on multiple occasions to get annoyed when Johnny is mistaken for an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette.
  • Expressive Accessory: If his shirt has a design on it, it will change from panel to panel, often to reflect what’s currently happening.
  • Extreme Mêlée Revenge: At least once an issue, but usually a lot more.
  • For the Evulz: Johnny doesn’t have an exact reason for what he does, but his motives are a bit more complicated than this. See ‘Freudian Excuse’ and ‘He Who Fights Monsters’.
  • Freudian Excuse: He has none. He doesn’t even remember why he started killing people, let alone anything about his life before that. He mentions at one point having faint memories of being bullied as a child, but the story makes it clear that they are unrelated to his mania. Though if you take his conversation with Satan as an accurate account, this might be less subverted than one might initially think: that Johnny started off as a regular, albeit mentally ill artist, who was selected in error by the Powers That Be to become a wastelock for the Eldritch Abomination living behind the walls of his house. Unfortunately for Johnny, wastelocks are meant to be chosen for, at bare minimum, a base personality that is calm, introverted, and of no threat to anyone but themself, which Johnny presumably wasn't even prior to the start of the series, which gave the Thing Behind the Wall both ability and reason to slowly destroy Johnny's sanity and to turn him into what amounted to little more than a conduit for the Thing's desires. Try to remain even slightly sane after that.
  • Glass Cannon: Is very strong for his size and can expertly kill a person with a ridiculous number of things, but he's also as frail as he looks and tends to go down quickly on the rare occasions when someone fights back.
  • Hair Antennae: Sports a prominent pair of scythe-like hair antennae throughout volume 6. After he comes back from the dead they're all that remain of his hair.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: Lots of stuff sets him off; use of the word “wacky,” talking during movies he likes, implying that he drinks blood… and most particularly, messing with his neighbor.
  • Hates Being Touched: Which he makes exceptionally clear, and seems to go hand-in-hand with his abject disgust towards sex.
  • Hates Everyone Equally: The number of people who aren't on his shit list is very limited, and can quickly be reduced the second one of them does something to annoy him.
  • Hearing Voices: He's very prone to this, though it may or may not be a Mind Virus.
  • Hellish Pupils: They'll often go full-on cat-eyes, especially while he's mid-rant.
  • He Who Fights Monsters: Initially seems to be his problem, since he mostly goes after Asshole Victims, but eventually it’s clear his motives are more complex than this.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • He's a major cinephile with a pretty extensive knowledge of both classic and contemporary directors, and was visiting the bookstore Devi worked at long before she worked there, not to mention the fact that he managed to provide engaging enough conversation with her when he went that she wound up asking him out after three months of it.
    • He's extremely protective of Squee, and many of his more lucid and reasonable moments occur in attempts to either make him feel better or keep him safe.
    • Nailbunny claims that all of the complex and horrific paintings that decorate his house were drawn by him prior to losing his mind.
  • Hypocrite: He’s at least as judgmental and nasty as any of his victims, and usually far more so.
  • Identity Amnesia: He's not totally sure where he came from or why he's in his current situation. Actually, he's not even a little bit sure. He has no idea.
  • Important Haircut: Loses almost all of his hair upon returning to reality after his trip through heaven and hell, along with a considerable amount of mental baggage that he once had.
  • Improbable Weapon User: He once slaughtered a restaurant full of people via Spork, and claims to be able to kill a person using ramen noodles.
  • Insane Equals Violent: Seems to be a legitimate equation in this ‘verse.
  • Insane Troll Logic: Much of his rationale for his day-to-day actions.
    Johnny: It's Tuesday, and you know what that means - U.F.O.s!
  • In-Series Nickname: “You can call me Nny. Not ‘knee’ as in ‘knee-cap’…”
  • The Insomniac: Sleeping just aggravates his difficulties with reality.
  • I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: In an interesting variation of this, it is implied that Johnny's primary motivation for his eventual resolution to completely detach himself from his emotions is so that he'll stop having feelings for Devi and allow her to continue living her life without being in constant fear of him. Devi is less than moved by the gesture.
  • Karma Houdini: He never gets any real comeuppance for what he does.
  • Kick the Morality Pet: His attempt to kill Devi.
  • Kid with the Leash: For the Monster Behind the Wall, assuming it is real.
  • Large Ham: He often uses made-up words and extra exclamation points to express himself.
  • Laughably Evil: This comic being what it is, of course he’s this.
  • Lean and Mean: He's a tiny guy, even for the Noodle People art style. And he's awfully nasty.
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: Than the Monster Behind the Wall and the Doughboys, at any rate, though that's not saying a lot.
  • Loners Are Freaks: And occasionally they’re also serial killers.
  • Loss of Identity: Underwent this as a result of his Mind Virus. (Maybe). The closest thing we get to any concrete knowledge of his backstory or life before are the paintings on the walls of Johnny's house that Nailbunny claims he created, a few vague references on Nny's part to getting bullied as a child, and the implication made by Satan that Johnny's wastelock-induced insanity probably only occured because Johnny was already severely mentally ill and not doing super well in the first place.
  • Lunatic Loophole: It seems to be what keeps him out of trouble; eventually, it's what allows him to come Back from the Dead.
  • Mad Artist: The closest thing to a hint that we get to his past is Nailbunny's suggestion that he was once a gifted artist, and that he was driven to madness after somehow being drained of his creative ability. This is further supported by supplementary materials revealing that Johnny was the person who gave the doughboys their psychedelic paint jobs and Devi experiencing a very similar thing during I Feel Sick. Jhonen himself has stated that even this shouldn't be taken at face value, though, and Johnny's conversation with Satan even implies that the madness came first, that he was mentally ill before becoming a wastelock for the Thing Behind the Wall, and becoming one destroyed his sanity so utterly that the his talent and will to create went with it.
  • Mad Eye: One of his eyes tends to become much bigger than the other when he's giving a rant.
  • Messy Hair: While his hair's exact appearance changes from comic to comic, it's always shown to be somewhere between spiky and scraggly.
  • Mood-Swinger: Ridiculously so, as a result of his Hair-Trigger Temper. He's all but stated to be manic-depressive on top of being a homicidal maniac.
  • Most Writers Are Writers: Like Jhonen Vasquez, he's a comic artist, albeit a very, very bad one.
  • Motive Decay: He had a reason for killing people at some point. He thinks. Maybe.
  • The Movie Buff: Loves all kinds of movies, from experimental art house dramas to lowbrow comedies, and likes to see them in theaters when he's in a particularly good mood. Disrupting his enjoyment of them is not a good idea. In particular, he's a big fan of Terry Gilliam and is said to have wept uncontrollably while watching Kafka.
  • My God, What Have I Done?:
    • His suicidal episodes always come about by him becoming horrified by his actions. His short attention span and overall mental instability prevent these moments from ever lasting, though.
    • He experiences a deeper case of this after he finally succeeds at killing himself. Compared to his usual bouts of self-pity, he actually reflects on how pointless it is for him to devote so much of his time and focus toward hating the world when the world will just continue being awful and never take the time to acknowledge his hatred. To top that off, he also berates himself for "taking the easy way out" via suicide, effectively reaching the conclusion that both the manic and depressive sides of his personality are stupid. While he seems to largely forget this moment of lucidity as soon as he enters the afterlife, he notably stops having suicidal thoughts after he is resurrected and starts to aspire to become The Stoic so that he can completely disconnect himself from the rest of society, suggesting that it stuck with him to some extent.
  • Mysterious Past: He doesn't even know how he moved into his house.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: No matter what he does, nothing will ever hurt him; later revealed to be a result of cosmic intervention, and to be related to his insanity.
  • Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: As demonstrated via his interactions with Squee, he's thoroughly terrifying even when he's not physically threatening.
  • Obviously Evil: He's pretty sinister-looking and doesn't do much to hide the fact that he isn't someone you should associate with.
  • Odd Friendship: A one-sided example with Squee. Johnny is genuinely incredibly fond of the kid despite Squee being justifiably terrified of him.
  • Odd Name, Normal Nickname: Inverted. For whatever reason, Johnny prefers to go by "Nny" instead of his ordinary real name.
  • Papa Wolf: Just try hurting his little Squee. We dare you.
  • Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: Claims to be averse to all physical desires, including ones of a sexual nature, but also nearly kisses Devi. Word of God states that he's more afraid of his own sexuality than he is entirely without it, which is supported by Reverend Meat seemingly being an embodiment of his carnal desires. Reverend Meat also alludes to a sexual encounter that Johnny had with a girl at some point in the past, but it's unclear when exactly this occurred or if it even actually happened at all.
  • The Paranoiac: He seems perpetually convinced that the entire world is out to get him. Considering his status as a cosmically-selected wastelock for the Thing Behind the Wall, he may not be too off in that assumption.
  • Pet the Dog: He tries to be a good influence on Squee, an example is him trying to teach Squee genuinely useful and subversive life lessons, like not turning scary, dangerous, people like the pedophile that almost molested him into boogeymen, but to recognize that they, like him, are just as vulnerable and flawed as he is, and not terrifying monsters, just bad people. The problem is is that when doing so, he decides the best way to demonstrate this is by violently eviscerating said pedophile in the most graphic fashion possible right in front of him.
    • Played for Laughs in one strip, where he kidnaps a random guy, very clearly intending to kill him........But it turns out that he just intended to force him to check if the food in his fridge was still good, which it was, causing him to let the guy he kidnapped free without any harm done to him.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Johnny is rail-thin and not especially tall (he's 5'9''), and even Devi weighs more than him, but can cut through bone with a single swing of a knife.
  • Pre-Mortem One-Liner: Very prone to these as a general rule.
  • Psycho Knife Nut: He owns quite a lot of knives, which are his primary method of killing people.
  • Psychopathic Manchild: The current trope image. While he's rather introspective and intelligent, he has terrible impulse control and has an affinity for junk food and Toilet Humor.
  • Reluctant Psycho: He's still got enough mental faculty to recognize that he's a monster, and to be absolutely devestated by that fact in his more lucid moments.
    Nny, in tears: Oh... I wish... I wish someone would just switch me off and... fix me.
  • Sanity Slippage: Gradually becomes scarier and kookier over the course of the series, almost certainly courtesy of the Doughboys and the Thing Behind the Wall.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: Nny is the vessel for the cosmic buildup of all Human Evil.
  • Slasher Smile: It's his favorite way of saying Let's Get Dangerous!.
  • Sophisticated as Hell: His speech is a liberal mix of eloquent philosophical pondering, childish swearing and nonsensical rambling.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Devi thinks that he's this, but from what we see, Johnny has made a conscious effort to avoid trying to reconnect with her after their date didn't work out. She does mention a single brief instance where she believes she saw him looking into her bookstore from outside, but it's unclear if this actually happened or if it was merely her paranoia getting the best of her.
  • The Stoic: Resolves to become this at the end of the comic. By detaching himself from all of his carnal instincts, he hopes to free himself of instability.
  • Straw Nihilist: And he loves to jump up on his soapbox about it, too.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Ambiguously, Psychodoughboy and Mr. Fuck appear to be this for him. On a larger scale, he himself is this to humanity as a whole. Of course, it’s possible he’s just nutty.
  • Sweet Tooth: Has an affinity for cherry-flavored junk food.
  • Talkative Loon: Likes to ramble. His speeches generally make sense (though they tend to make gross generalizations and be at least somewhat hypocritical), but are punctuated by non-sequiturs.
  • Terrible Artist: If the Happy Noodle Boy comics are any indication, he can only draw deranged stick figures. Nailbunny hints that he was at one point he was actually a very good artist, and that his insanity may in fact be rooted in him becoming sapped of his talent.
  • Terrifying Rescuer: Rescues Squee from a pedophile, only to traumatize him by dissecting said pedophile's brain in front of him.
  • Through the Eyes of Madness: Since he's the central protagonist and also very insane, it's hard to tell which of the more supernatural aspects of the series actually happen and which are just his hallucinations. In particular whether he actually died, destroyed the universe and traveled through heaven and hell before being resurrected or if it was All Just a Dream is deliberately brought up and left unanswered.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Cherry Brainfreezies. Cherry Fizzwizz also seems to be a valid substitute.
  • Tranquil Fury: In his two absolute angriest moments – killing the pedophile that tried to kidnap Squee and his copycat killer Jimmy.
  • Unlimited Wardrobe: If he's wearing a shirt with a logo on it, it will change from panel to panel. While a few designs, like Happy Noodle Boy's head and the Z? symbol, pop up multiple times, many more only appear once. To a lesser extent, his haircut tends to change between stories, ranging from spiky to scraggly to droopy.
  • Unreliable Narrator: Possibly; it’s left purposely ambiguous whether or not his supernatural experiences are Through the Eyes of Madness.
  • Unstoppable Rage: If you've made him angry, it's time to make your peace with God.
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Intended to be seen as such, as a criminally insane murderer who has the gall to believe himself to be worthy of judging whether or not a person deserves to die and then complain about it, but the series is so dark and he possesses just enough sympathetic qualities that many readers have mistaken him to be some kind of gothic Übermensch.
  • Villain Protagonist: He's a homicidal maniac, and while he's sympathetic to a fault, the story makes no attempt at trying to excuse his behavior. It got to the point that the creators made him lampshade it to readers who began to romanticize him.
    Johnny: You fucking idiot!! Admire me?!! You SHIT!!! I'm the villain of this fucking story!
  • Villains Out Shopping: When he's not out on a killing spree, torturing someone or brooding in his house, he's probably out buying snacks.

    Todd "Squee" Casil 
Johnny's six-year-old neighbor and unfailing Morality Pet. Squee represents both Johnny’s self-loathing – in his desire to prevent Squee from turning out like himself – and his shot at redemption. Ultimately, Johnny leaves him behind. He later received his own Spin-Off found here.

    Devi D. 
A struggling graphic designer who works at a bookstore Nny frequented. The two steadily struck up a friendship across his visits as they learned that they shared much in common with each other. Their relationship was brought to an abrupt end during their first date, where Nny was pushed by the voices in his head into trying to kill her. While she managed to escape him with her life, the experience traumatized her severely and she now lives as a paranoid shut-in. She later received a Spin-Off of her own known as I Feel Sick, which details her life following her date with Johnny.
  • Accidental Murder: She unintentionally killed the boy who was fated to become her husband by spitting chalk dust at him and giving him a fatal asthma attack when they were in 1st grade.
  • Action Girl: Manages to beat up Johnny when they break up.
  • Action Survivor: She's the only person in the entire series to escape completely unscathed once Johnny goes on a rampage.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Subverted. The minute she discovers Johnny’s true nature, she’s out of there.
  • All There in the Manual: Again, much about her comes from her Spin-Off comic.
  • Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She's fairly tall (5'9''), pale and dark-haired and has a rather morose and sardonic personality.
  • Ambiguously Brown: While she herself is an Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette, her father calls her "hija" in a flashback, suggesting that she is of Hispanic descent.
  • Art Initiates Life: In her own story, she manages to create an evil entity called Sickness by painting it.
  • Birds of a Feather: Her relationship with Johnny began as a result of them learning of their numerous overlapping interests, both in terms of pop culture and their views of the world in general. Appropriately, Devi ends up being the perfect target for the same kind of entity that attached itself to Johnny.
  • Boyish Short Hair: She sports this during her first appearance. Her hair is slightly longer in all of her following ones.
  • Cassandra Truth: She's called the police dozens of times to try and do something about Johnny, but they're inevitably unable to find anything about him due to his ability to evade all punishment.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Gives an absolutely brutal No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to Johnny that leaves him as a bloody twitching heap after he tries to kill her, and manages to avoid getting physically harmed by him the entire time. Especially impressive considering that there's no indication that she has any kind of fighting experience, while Johnny has killed who knows how many people and caught her off guard.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Her favorite brand of humor.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: Devi walked away from her one-time date with a very nasty virus.
  • Easily Forgiven: Subverted. Johnny calls her with an apology, and she makes it exceptionally clear that she will never forgive him. He then comments that he didn’t know what he expected to happen there.
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: She has white skin and dark hair.
  • Executive Meddling: In-universe; it's what makes Devi hate her new job as a corporate artist.
  • Goth: Is shown to have been one as a teen, and definitely still has traces of being one as an adult. That said, she tends to find those who buy into the goth subculture to be annoying.
  • Hates Everyone Equally: She's a bit of a misanthrope.
  • Heroic Willpower: She uses it to overcome Johnny's Mind Virus.
  • Hikikomori: To the annoyance of Tenna.
  • Infectious Insanity: She catches it from Johnny, though she manages to shake it off.
  • Kick Chick: It's how she takes Nny out, anyway.
  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Her potential dates usually turn out to be zombies, vampires, serial killers, etc. One of them pooped his pants mid-dinner and tried to pass it off as someone else's fault. This turns out to be because she accidentally killed her soulmate when they were children.
  • Love Interest: Johnny's. While their one and only date ends with Devi terrified of him, she still clearly occupies a big part of his mind throughout the rest of the series and his final resolution to become The Stoic is implied to have been partly motivated by his desire to make her be able to live her life without having to constantly worry about him coming back.
  • Mad Artist: She's a painter, and becomes pretty loopy in I Feel Sick
  • Madden Into Misanthropy: During her issues with Sickness she doesn't ever leave the house.
  • Most Writers Are Writers: Like Jhonen Vasquez, she's an artist.
  • The Movie Buff: Like Johnny, she's a huge movie fan. Unlike him, though, we see her (cheerfully) tearing apart a bad movie that she watched on a date, suggesting that her perspective on film is quite different.
  • Only Sane Man: She's one of the more reasonable, rational characters we meet. Not to say that she doesn't suffer from her own crippling psychoses, though.
  • Rejected Apology: Johnny's attempt at apologizing to her is met with a Cluster F-Bomb rant about how she'll never forgive him.
  • Reluctant Psycho: In I Feel Sick, at least. And only temporarily.
  • Room Full of Crazy: Her studio room in the back of her apartment.
  • Sanity Slippage: Over the course of her Spin-Off, though she gets out of it.
  • Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After discovering that Johnny is a serial killer, not just a goofy Mad Artist.
  • Shut Up, Hannibal!: Her appearance in a strip generally indicates that Nny is going to get knocked down a few pegs during it.
  • Sir Swears-a-Lot: While not unusual for Jhonen Vasquez comics, she does get a number of notable Atomic F-Bombs.
    Devi: Holy f-
    Sickness: Fuck, right? You really need to get a new word.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears in a few chapters and only interacts directly with Johnny in one of them, but remains a major influence on his actions till the very end of the series.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Like Johnny's (just as obnoxious and just as ambiguously real). Apparently, it's contagious.
  • The One That Got Away: Referred to as such in her character profile in the Director's Cut; despite their brief romance ending in irreparable disaster, Johnny still holds a place in his heart for Devi for the duration of the series. This phrase also has an additional meaning in the context of their relationship, as Devi is also the one person to ever successfully escape a murder attempt by Johnny.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Her attempting to call Johnny's house to see if he was still living in it ends up triggering the gun that he had earlier rigged up to his phone in order to commit suicide, which leads to his death, which leads to the Wall Monster breaking out from its prison, which leads to the universe getting destroyed.
  • Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about her without revealing that her relationship with Johnny doesn't work out.
  • Weirdness Magnet: Devi constantly manages to cross paths with incredibly strange individuals and situations, such as Johnny, a hobo in a wagon stalking her, and coming under attack from the same supernatural forces that plagued Johnny. This leads Devi to temporarily become a shut-in.
  • Workaholic: In her constant efforts to placate NERVE Publishing.

Voices

     Mr. Eff 
One of Johnny's many little voices; he's the one that's most prone to advocate homicide, and therefore the one most likely to be listened to.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Volume 3 was written with the intention of being about Johnny embracing Mr. Eff's ideology, even having him prominently featured on the cover, and is filled with much more senselessly gratuitous violence and gore as a result.
  • Affably Evil: He's a pretty funny, almost charismatic guy, but is also a complete sociopath.
  • Ax-Crazy: Loves nothing more than getting Johnny to butcher large swathes of people.
  • Better Living Through Evil: His general stance on what Johnny should be pursuing.
  • Co-Dragons: Serves as this alongside Psychodoughboy to the Monster Behind the Wall. Unlike Psychodoughboy, he is eventually revealed to be a Dragon with an Agenda.
  • The Corrupter: Encourages Johnny's worst instincts.
  • Creepy Doll: He's a strangely painted and weird little figurine.
  • Dragon with an Agenda: Unlike D-Boy, he wants to stall Johnny from releasing the Wall Monster, giving him enough time to Become a Real Boy.
  • Embodiment of Vice: The embodiment of Johnny's manic violence.
  • Evil Is Easy: He generally has a much easier time convincing Johnny to engage in mindless carnage than either Psychodoughboy or Nailbunny have at convincing him to do otherwise.
  • Evil Plan: Plans to continue encouraging Johnny to kills others in order to ensure that he continues repainting the wall of blood that seals the Monster Behind the Wall away from the world. The longer the monster remains sealed, the more sentient he becomes, with his ultimate goal being to gain full independence apart from Johnny and the monster so that he can continue wreaking havoc as he pleases. He fails.
  • Freudian Trio: With D-Boy and Nailbunny. He's the Id.
  • Gaslighting: When it suits his purposes, he's not afraid of outright lying about what he just said/did.
  • Jerkass: Doesn't care about anyone but himself, and takes great pleasure in seeing others suffer.
  • Lady Macbeth: To Johnny, to an extent. While he doesn't need any outside assistance to want to kill people, Mr. Eff certainly encourages him to do it much more than he otherwise would. Once he's gone, Johnny notably stops killing people nearly as frequently.
  • Laughably Evil: While he's a terribly evil guy, he's also just as prone to trailing off into completely unrelated subjects as Johnny is while ranting.
  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: He's a styrofoam figure of the Pillsbury Doughboy, but it never really seems to matter.
  • Made of Evil: Assuming, of course, that he's made of anything but Johnny's imagination.
  • Mind Virus: Maybe. If so, he's an especially nasty one.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Toward Johnny, given that he's at the center of all Eff's plans.
  • Murder Is the Best Solution: He encourages Johnny to vent out his frustrations at himself and the world by killing some more.
  • Non-Indicative Name: Mr. Fuck is the doughboy who doesn't have the word "fuck" written on his shirt.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: He eventually starts moving, and talking out loud - it's unclear whether or not that's real, though.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Apparently his full name is "Mr. Fuck".
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Psychodoughboy's Blue. Fittingly, his eyes glow red on the few occasions where they're shown in color.
  • The Rival: To D-Boy, and vice versa. They're seemingly equivalent beings with opposing goals and worldviews, which naturally causes them to butt heads every time they appear.
  • Sir Swears Alot: To be fair, you probably would too if you were named Fuck.
  • The Starscream: To the Monster Behind the Wall, in contrast to D-Boy.
  • Terms of Endangerment: He tends toward these, usually presenting himself as looking out for Johnny's happiness or best interests.
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite hating each other and having conflicting goals, the doughboys never appear apart.
  • Toxic Friend Influence: To Nny, to the short extent that Nny actually trusts him. He has a tendency to keep Nny manic, paranoid and aggressive.
    Mr. Eff: Don't expect anything but nastiness from anyone you didn't create.
  • Villainous Breakdown: Not that he was all that stable to begin with, but he really loses it when the Wall Monster breaks free.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The first thing the Monster Behind the Wall does upon being freed is rip the doughboys apart, seemingly because they have fulfilled their intended purpose of releasing it from its prison. Mr. Eff, who wanted to gain full sentience of his own, is naturally very upset by this.

     Psychodoughboy 
One of Johnny's many little voices; he's the one usually pushing for Johnny to die, though his attempts to see Johnny killed are usually thwarted by Nny's Nigh-Invulnerability or Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!.
  • A Day in the Limelight: Volume 4 was written with the intention of emphasizing Johnny's introspection and self-loathing, causing Psychodoughboy to take on a more prominent role and get featured on the cover. Fittingly, it is also the volume where Johnny finally succeeds in killing himself.
  • Affably Evil: Less so than Mr. Eff, as he plays up Johnny's fear of being an irredeemable monster in order to push him into killing himself, but he still generally tries to frame himself as a concerned friend when doing so.
  • Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the "Depressive" half of Johnny's insanity.
  • The Bad Guy Wins: Ultimately, he manages to kill Nny, release the Wall Monster, and experience the absolution of death; his three main desires. Possibly subverted if you assume that his true goal was to cause the end of all existence, as Nny ultimately ends up undoing it.
  • Bait the Dog: While it's clear from the outset that he's a despicable monster, it can be easy early on to take him as being A Lighter Shade of Black than Mr. Eff for encouraging Johnny to kill himself rather than continue harming others. This gets completely turned on its head after Johnny finally goes through with committing suicide, after which it is revealed that Psychodoughboy's true motivation was to break the barrier of blood that Johnny had used to seal away the Monster Behind the Wall and cause the complete destruction of the universe.
  • Co-Dragons: Serves as this alongside Mr. Eff to the Monster Behind the Wall. Unlike Mr. Eff, Psychodoughboy's loyalty is genuine.
  • Cold Ham: He's more quiet and aloof than Mr. Eff, but is no less dramatic. He begins to show more bombastic emotions after Johnny dies.
  • Creepy Doll: Or creepy Styrofoam figure, at any rate.
  • Death Seeker: His dream is to reach oblivion. He gets his wish once the Wall Monster is freed.
  • The Dutiful Son: To the Wall Monster, in contrast to Mr. Eff. His one and only goal is to ensure that his master is freed from its prison, and he is completely willing (and in fact very eager) to sacrifice his own life to accomplish it.
  • Embodiment of Vice: The embodiment of Johnny's self-loathing, more precisely.
  • Evil Plan: Plans to convince Johnny to commit suicide in order to prevent him from continuing to repaint the wall of blood sealing the Monster Behind the Wall away from the rest of the world. With the blood dried, the monster can break free from its prison and cause the extermination of all life in the universe. He succeeds.
  • Freudian Trio: With Mr. Eff and Nailbunny. He's the Superego.
  • In-Series Nickname: He's often called D-Boy for short.
  • Jerkass: His sole interest in life is talking Johnny into suicide.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Johnny is a miserable danger to himself and everyone around him. That doesn't make D-Boy any better for telling him to kill himself, though.
  • Karmic Death: He's killed by the Wall Monster, which he spent most of the story attempting to set free. Although, he's absolutely fine with this.
  • Knight of Cerebus: While both of the doughboys are evil, Psychodoughboy's detached obsession with self-destruction and oblivion is generally presented as being more sinister than Mr. Eff's fixation on mindless slaughter is. The story starts to take on a more dramatic tone once he begins to gain influence over Johnny.
  • Lady Macbeth: To Johnny. Though unlike Mr. Eff, the only person that Psychodoughboy encourages him to kill is himself.
  • Laughably Evil: While he's more consistently sinister than Mr. Eff, he's still prone to moments of absurdity.
  • Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: He's pretty blatantly a figurine of the Pillsbury Doughboy, but he's been mutilated to the point where it doesn't matter.
  • Made of Evil: In much the same sense at the Monster Behind the Wall is.
  • Manipulative Bastard: In the same vein as Mr. Eff.
  • Mind-Control Eyes: Has a swirly pattern drawn over each of his eyes, and while he lacks any real powers of mind control, his appearances mostly consists of attempting to compel Johnny into giving in to his suggestion that he kill himself. He also lacks any of Mr. Eff's independence, making his eyes also symbolically reflective of his slavish devotion to the Wall Monster.
  • Mind Virus: Maybe. If so, he's a very rude one.
  • Not-So-Imaginary Friend: Like his counterpart, he eventually starts moving and talking aloud, though again it's unclear how real that is.
  • Obviously Evil: If the giant "FUCK" written across his chest isn't an indication, it's hard to say what would be.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Mr. Eff's Red. Fittingly, his eyes glow blue on the few occasions where they're shown in color.
  • The Rival: To Mr. Eff, and vice versa. They're seemingly equivalent beings with opposing goals and worldviews, which naturally causes them to butt heads every time they appear.
  • Smug Snake: Really obnoxiously so. Compared to Mr. Eff, he tends to condescend to Johnny as though he knows better than him. Considering his goal is to make Johnny give in to his self-loathing and kill himself, it makes sense that his approach would involve making him feel small.
  • Straw Nihilist: Doesn't believe in anything but the inevitability of death, and considers doing anything to prolong existence to be a pointless act. Notably, he would rather die for the sake of erasing all of existence than acquire full sentience, and spends all of the series actively working to make sure he gets his way.
  • Suicide Is Painless: If you take him to be a reliable source, which you shouldn't.
    D-Boy: Try something else! Put your head in the trash compacter! That should work!
  • Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite hating each other and having conflicting goals, the doughboys never appear apart.
  • Underdog Victory: Mr. Eff holds more consistent sway over Johnny at the beginning of the series, and it's not until volume 4 that Psychodoughboy manages to really get Johnny to begin seriously considering suicide. He ends up winning out, with Johnny accidentally killing himself before the doughboys are able to gain full sentience.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The first thing the Monster Behind the Wall does upon being freed is rip the doughboys apart, seemingly because they have fulfilled their intended purpose of releasing it from its prison. Psychodoughboy is more than happy to oblige, and welcomes his death with glee.

     Nailbunny 
Another of Johnny's little voices; he's the closest thing Johnny has to a conscience. That is, until the other voices murder him.
  • Back for the Finale: Johnny hears his voice for the first time since volume 4 during his final confrontation with Reverend Meat, where he tells him to keep resisting him.
  • Captain Obvious: Nny sometimes needs some basic, basic moral reminders.
    Nailbunny: She liked you and you tried to kill her. That was impolite.
  • The Conscience: To an extent. He's rarely very effective, since he's usually out-voted.
  • Dead Guy on Display: He's Johnny's old pet bunny, nailed to the wall. Hence the name.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: If he issues a decent What the Hell, Hero?, he makes D-Boy's job a lot easier; if he makes Nny feel good about himself, he puts Mr. Eff at an advantage. Of course Nny has to be at one extreme or the other, or there would be no story.
  • Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted. After his death, Nny doesn't seem to really acknowledge much of anything about Nailbunny, right up until he hits another nasty depressive spiral and it turns out that he's clearly been thinking about his absense quite a bit, which leads to both the complete meltdown of anything resembling civility between Nny and the remaining voices, and Nny's semi-accidental suicide.
  • Freudian Trio: With Mr. Eff and D-Boy. He's the Ego.
  • Hair-Raising Hare: By virtue of being dead and decaying.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Most of what he brings on for Nny.
  • Living Emotional Crutch: To an extent, considering he's not living and doesn't hold Nny up particularly well.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: He doesn't seem to share the same origin as Mr. Eff and Psychodoughboy, and may in fact actually be Johnny talking to himself.
  • Morality Chain: For a time, at least, he manages to be this.
  • No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: His attempts to help Nny don't get him anywhere, really, except decapitated, and later faded out of existence.
  • Offing the Annoyance: Seems to be why the other voices kill him despite him not being all too effective to begin with.
  • Spirit Advisor: His voice miraculously rings through Johnny's head to tell him to resist just as he's beginning to give into Reverend Meat's influence.
  • Token Good Teammate: To Johnny's brain.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: He's pretty decent at doling these out, albeit a little too late.

     Reverend Meat 
The last of Johnny's little voices, which only appears after all the others are dead.

Victims

     Edgar Vargas 
One of Johnny's early victims, sacrificed to the Wall Monster, who managed to engage him in a short philosophical debate before dying.
  • Crucified Hero Shot: In Johnny's Torture Cellar, he's strung up like this.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Naturally. He's gutted and used as specialized paint, like most of Johnny's victims.
  • Doomed Moral Victor: It's a pretty one-sided struggle, anyway.
  • Dying Moment of Awesome: His only scene, which ended with his death, involved him engaging in a short philosophical debate with Johnny.
  • Face Death with Dignity: More so than anyone else depicted in the comic. Which is a lot of people.
  • Gory Discretion Shot: His death is notable for being some of the only carnage not depicted in graphic detail onscreen.
  • Heaven Seeker: Based on his short dialogue, he's one of these.
    Edgar: A heaven for me, and a hell for you.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: That's what the contraption he's strapped to seems to do, anyway.
  • Knight of Cerebus: An unusual example as he appears very early on and for only a single brief instance, but the tone of his appearance is almost completely somber and lacking in the series' usual black humor (something that is otherwise present during even its bleakest moments), and he is treated with a level of dignity and gravitas not given to any other character.
  • Messianic Archetype: An altogether good-hearted man who dies in the place of other, more deserving people and manages to counter Johnny's Humans Are Bastards speech effectively enough to make him reconsider his viewpoint. He also shows no fear of dying due to his faith making him confident that he would be sufficiently compensated and Johnny sufficiently punished for their actions in the afterlife. To drive the point home, the shape of the torture device that he's attached to causes him to resemble Jesus on the cross.
  • Not Afraid to Die: He outright says so. Although, he makes it very clear that he would prefer to keep living, thanks.
    Edgar: Fuck fear. I have nothing to fear.
  • Obi-Wan Moment: He has no fear of death, and by proxy, no fear of Johnny.
  • Restored My Faith in Humanity: He seems to have at least reminded Nny that not all people are needlessly cruel or Dirty Cowards, though he does ultimately fall under the "accepts simply that this person in particular is not so bad" umbrella.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Wears glasses and is one of the most well-spoken and insightful characters to every appear in the series.
  • Staring Down Cthulhu: Is able to match Nny's speeches about the disgustingness of humanity tit for tat, and even manages to call him out on over-generalizing in his judgements. Johnny can do nothing but relent that he has a point, but still ends up killing him.
  • The Stoic: Keeps his wits about him after being captured by Johnny and is able to remain calm enough to Face Death with Dignity. In comparison, every one of Johnny's other victims has some kind of emotional outburst, whether it be fear, despair, regret or anger.
  • Villain Respect: From Johnny, as a result of his contentment under pressure.
  • Wowing Cthulhu: Manages to do this to Johnny, enough so that he's declared Nny's "bestest friend".

     Tess R. 
A young goth woman who has the misfortune of being out on a date with a man who harasses Johnny, causing him to imprison both of them in his basement to later be executed. While she miraculously manages to escape from his basement, she quickly learns that her troubles are far from over.
  • Accomplice by Inaction: The only reason Johnny captured her was because she was dating a guy who acted like a dick to him during a movie. According to him, dating an asshole and not doing anything to correct his behavior makes her just as much of an asshole. Tess is disturbed to realize that Johnny may have been right.
  • Action Survivor: Grows into this over the course of the fifth volume.
  • A Day in the Limelight: The main protagonist of volume 5.
  • All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played with. Tess dates Dillon specifically because of the cred dating an edgy musician gives her in the goth community. In reality, she's disgusted by him and is unhappy in the relationship, but is too obsessed with being seen as cool by her peers to be conscious of it.
  • Anti-Hero: She's flawed for sure, but she's also the most heroic character in the series as well as the only one who manages to actually experience positive Character Development over time.
  • Ascended Extra: She's secondary to her boyfriend Dillon in her debut appearance, but goes on to be the main protagonist of volume 5.
  • Back from the Dead: After getting destroyed along with the rest of the universe at the end of volume 5, she is mentioned as being alive and well during volume 7, presumably as a result of the universe resetting itself following Johnny's resurrection.
  • Boyish Short Hair: Her hair just barely comes down off the sides of her head.
  • Character Development: Introduced dating a clearly shitty guy for the sake of fitting in with her peers, by the end of volume 5, she's stopped caring about social acceptance and declares that she will live for herself moving forward. A brief mention of her in volume 7 reveals that she broke up with Dillon and abandoned her goth lifestyle, suggesting that she managed to do exactly that.
  • Cool Shades: Sports a pair in her debut appearance.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Manages this even while trapped in a Torture Cellar and while running from an Eldritch Abomination.
    Tess: I can't believe this. I'm escaping a house full of assholes so I can live in a world where they're not in chains.
  • Determinator: Manages to run up who-knows-how-many flights of stairs while being chased by an incomprehensible mass of tentacles and keep her wits about her all the while.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: After all she goes through, volume 7 suggests that she managed to break off from the toxic lifestyle that she found herself a part of.
  • Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: As all self-respecting goths should be.
  • Foil: To Devi. Even Jhonen himself notes their general similarities as characters, but where Devi became a paranoid shut-in as a result of her near-death experience with Johnny, Tess grows into a stronger person and gains a greater understanding of herself. Tess is essentially what Devi could be were she not weighed down by her own psychoses.
  • Freudian Excuse: Moved around a lot growing up and so has struggled to make friends across her life. By the time we first meet her, she is willing to completely debase herself for the sake of acceptance from others.
  • Friendless Background: Part of her Freudian Excuse. She moved around a lot as a kid, which has caused her to have problems forming connections with others.
  • Goth: Dresses like one and associates with others, but doesn't appear to care about the lifestyle beyond being viewed as cool for taking part in it. A brief mention of her by Anne Gwish in volume 7 implies that she stops being one.
  • Hidden Depths: Initially introduced as a shallow goth stereotype, she steadily reveals herself to be one of the few genuinely good people in the entire series.
  • High-Voltage Death: Johnny ties her to an electric chair after capturing her, though his death allows her to escape before he manages to kill her with it.
  • Hypocrite: Notes the inherent hypocrisy of mocking others when the entire goth movement is based around the union of marginalized outcasts. Despite this, while dating Dillon, she still takes part in doing so, mostly so that the other goths think that she's cool.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Tess is shallow and acerbic, but has a good heart that isn't too deeply buried.
  • Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places: Has a history of dating assholes.
  • Only Sane Man: The single most reasonable and stable character in the entire series.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Dillon and later Krik's Red.
  • "Shaggy Dog" Story: Zig-zagged. After narrowly avoiding death countless times and overcoming her own personal flaws to reach the entrance of Johnny's house, Tess is horrified to learn that the entire universe has been destroyed as a result of his death, and quickly evaporates along with it. After the universe is reset following Johnny's revival, though, Tess is also brought back to life, seemingly having retained the Character Development she gained as result of her experiences in his house.
  • Take That!: Her Character Development essentially consists of viciously tearing apart goth culture, which Jhonen Vasquez is noted to have several problems with despite often being called a part of it himself.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Learns to stop caring about what others think about her and take initiative for herself by the end of volume 5.
  • Women Are Wiser: Portrayed as being far more rational, competent and sympathetic than either of her male companions.

     Krik 
An overly-aggressive asshole who got kidnapped and imprisoned by Johnny after harassing him with his friends one night. Becomes Tess' unlikely companion as she attempts to escape from Johnny's house.
  • Asshole Victim: He's definitely a jerk, though maybe not enough so to warrant being strung up in a Torture Cellar.
  • Berserk Button: He does not take well to Nny making fun of the shape of his head.
  • Bullying a Dragon: That's how he ended up in Johnny's basement.
    Krik: So he's shaking and whining that he only wanted a Brainfreezy and didn't want to be bothered. Just like a little girl. We pushed him around some more, for a few more minutes. And then, and I swear this happened. I swear... he shot lazer beams from his eyes!!!
  • Kick The Son Of A Bitch: It's hard to blame him for beating up Johnny, really.

     Jimmy 
A copycat killer of Nny's, who seeks him out after Johnny comes Back from the Dead.

Other

     Sr. Diablo 
Satan, ruler of Hell. Johnny meets him after dying, and being rejected from Heaven. Spoilers ahead are unmarked!
  • Affably Evil: He's a pretty chill guy who is one of the most reasonable and articulate characters in the series. Johnny is much more respectful towards him than he is to God as a result.
  • Devil in Plain Sight: While he generally assumes a human form when around his family, he doesn't make any attempts at hiding the fact that he has a pit filled with the souls of the damned in his basement. Somehow his wife didn't put two and two together until he told her.
  • Gender Bender: Is male, but can take on a female form.
  • Happily Married: He's a loving husband. While he hid his real identity from his wife throughout most of their marriage, she loves him enough that she doesn't mind when she finally finds out about it.
  • Hot as Hell: Invoked, when he takes on the form of a cheerleader to talk to Johnny. Nny does not appreciate it.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Seems to express something like this to Johnny, in explanation for the so-called terrible state of the world.
    Sr. Diablo: Know that, for all its troubles, the world is perfect. Flawless in its beauties and turmoils. Violence and nightmares being a natural product of humanity.
  • Infernal Ethnicity Lift: The devil himself is Latino in this universe, given how he goes by the name of "Juan" as a human and also prefers to be called Señor Diablo.
  • Lean and Mean: He's very, very tall and very, very thin. He's also Satan.
  • Mr. Exposition: Regarding some of the story's Cosmic Horror Story elements, at least.
  • Opposites Attract: He's Satan and is Happily Married to a perky Christian woman.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: He's a much more straightforward and reasonable guy than God is, and comes off as one of the more likable characters in the series as a result. Notably, he only makes Deals With The Devil with people who approach him interested in becoming his servants, and accepts Squee rejecting his offer to join him without any hesitation.
  • Self-Inflicted Hell: His MO. Leave bad people to continue suffering for eternity as a result of their own flaws.

     God 
God, who art in Heaven. Maybe not the way one would expect. Johnny meets him after dying.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: God is God, but has no interest in doing anything after creating the universe and instead chooses to spend eternity lounging around.
  • Eyes Always Shut: It makes him look like a fussy baby.
  • Fat Bastard: God is extremely flabby, as well as completely indifferent to the goings on throughout the universe due to being too tired to do anything after creating it.
  • God Is Flawed: He's incredibly lazy, by his own admission having done nothing since creating the universe. He considers having done so to be all the activity anyone could expect from him. Heaven is genuinely a reward for good people, and in Hell sinners are punished— or rather, they punish themselves and each other. God nevertheless sits idly by and does nothing as humanity wrecks itself, and according to Sr. Diablo, this is a feature, not a bug.
  • Godly Sidestep: God has no need or desire to answer the meaning of life.
  • Goo-Goo-Godlike: While he's the oldest being in the universe (he created it, after all), he more strongly resembles an adult-sized baby than the standard image of God. The Lemony Narrator even comments that he's pretty cute for this very reason.
  • Jerkass Has a Point: Terrible as it may be that he doesn't attempt to do anything to guide humanity away from its worst instincts, it's hard to argue that he doesn't deserve a break after, y'know, creating the entire universe.
  • Mundane Afterlife: He doesn't do anything, and neither does anyone else in Heaven. If you were eternally content, you wouldn't have to.

     The Wall Monster 
The bloodthirsty Eldritch Abomination residing in the walls of Johnny's house, which he's constantly seeking to satiate. Its eventual escape causes The End of the World as We Know It.
  • The Cameo: Various cartoon characters faces can be spotted within its mass throughout its appearances, possibly to further indicate that it is entirely a product of the human consciousness.
  • Eldritch Abomination: Subverted in that, while it certainly has the appearance and abilities of a conventional Eldritch Abomination, as it is the amalgamation of humanity's negativity, it is nothing less than completely and utterly human.
  • Greater-Scope Villain: It is, if not the cause of Johnny's insanity, the thing that drives him to continue killing. Despite this, it only appears once and Johnny himself never gets to confront it.
  • The Heartless: It's a distilled embodiment of human hatred.
  • Minor Major Character: Appears briefly in a single volume, but is the Greater-Scope Villain for much of the series.
  • Non-Action Big Bad: We only see it once, and it doesn't do all that much even then except mindlessly eat.
  • The Unseen: For most of the comic, anyway.

     Happy Noodle Boy 
The main character of Johnny's comics.

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