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| 5 | [[folder:Johnny C.]] |
| 6 | The main character, but [[VillainProtagonist not the hero]]. Johnny is the titular homicidal maniac, and, unwittingly, a cosmic entity helping to hold in all of humanity’s evil. |
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| 8 | * AffablyEvil[=/=]FauxAffablyEvil: 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. |
| 9 | * AlasPoorVillain: It's hard not to feel a little twinge of sadness when [[spoiler: he finally commits suicide]]. |
| 10 | * AntiRoleModel: To Squee, and to the audience, though a good chunk [[DracoInLeatherPants didn't get]] [[MisaimedFandom the memo]]. |
| 11 | * AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Constantly. He once forgot about killing himself because a commercial he liked came on. |
| 12 | * AuthorAvatar: 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. |
| 13 | * AxCrazy: He ''is'' a homicidal maniac, after all. |
| 14 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: After killing himself, and belonging in neither [[FluffyCloudHeaven Heaven]] nor [[FireAndBrimstoneHell Hell]]]]. |
| 15 | * BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: 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. |
| 16 | * BadassLongcoat: He picks up one of these [[spoiler: in Hell]]. His disappointment over not being able to keep it causes him to ignore the opportunity to learn about his MysteriousPast, much to Sr. Satan's chagrin. |
| 17 | * BarrierMaiden: Apparently, since [[spoiler: his one successful suicide releases the Monster Behind the Wall and initiates TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]] |
| 18 | * BerserkButton: '''''[[IWillShowYouX I'LL SHOW YOU WACKY! I'LL SHOW YOU WACKEEEEEE!]]''''' |
| 19 | * TheBerserker: Once he starts killing, there's no reasoning with him. |
| 20 | * BewareTheSillyOnes: He’s goofy as can be but… [[AxCrazy don’t make him angry]]. |
| 21 | * BigBrotherMentor: ''Thinks'' that he's this to Squee. He really, really isn't. |
| 22 | * BroughtDownToNormal: After [[spoiler: coming BackFromTheDead]] |
| 23 | * BungledSuicide: Many of them, as a result of his invulnerability. |
| 24 | * TheCameo: Makes various small appearances throughout ''Squee'', either as a drawing in Squee's room or in person as a FunnyBackgroundEvent in crowd shots. [[spoiler: He gets to make a proper non-cameo appearance during the last moments of the final issue.]] |
| 25 | * CantGetInTroubleForNuthin: Depending on your view of Johnny's trip [[spoiler: to Hell,]] it's either one of his many [[PowerBornOfMadness Powers Born of Madness]] or a side effect of his status as a waste-lock for [[EldritchAbomination the Thing Behind the Wall.]] He can kill a person in broad daylight surrounded by horrified witnesses and still somehow avoid getting arrested. |
| 26 | * CharacterDevelopment: 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. |
| 27 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Along with his AxCrazy, he’s got a variety of other, more benign quirks, like the fear of Chihuahuas and an immense love for [=Spaghetti-Os=]. |
| 28 | * ConspiracyTheorist: To a ludicrous degree. |
| 29 | * ConsultingMrPuppet: His styrofoam figurines and the rotting corpse of his pet bunny, more particularly. |
| 30 | * TheCorruptible: In contrast to [[HeroicWillpower Devi]], Johnny lets his demons chew him up and spit him out. |
| 31 | * DeathSeeker: For most of the comic, usually when he collides with the "depressive" part of his, well, manic-depression. [[spoiler: Eventually he succeeds, but ends up [[TooSpicyForYogSothoth too spicy for death]].]] |
| 32 | * DependingOnTheWriter: 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. |
| 33 | * DisproportionateRetribution: 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" |
| 34 | * DoesNotLikeGuns: More specifically, does not like ''killing'' with guns. He doesn’t mind if they’re being aimed at [[DrivenToSuicide himself]]. |
| 35 | * DyingAsYourself: [[spoiler: To an extent, since he seems to have a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment as he's bleeding out - though in the afterlife, he's [[AxCrazy back to normal]].]] |
| 36 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: 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. [[WordOfGod Calling him pale]] is a minor BerserkButton 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. |
| 37 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: "Do you know where I can find the disinfectant? Some of this blood is mine." |
| 38 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: He's positively horrified when Tess accuses him of [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil 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. |
| 39 | * EvilIsHammy: See ‘Large Ham’. |
| 40 | * EvilIsPetty: He’ll kill people for being terrible, but also for [[BerserkButton calling him “wacky”.]] |
| 41 | * ExpectingSomeoneTaller: 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 LeaningOnTheFourthWall, as Jhonen Vasquez has stated on multiple occasions to get annoyed when Johnny is mistaken for an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette. |
| 42 | * ExpressiveAccessory: If his shirt has a design on it, it ''will'' change from panel to panel, often to reflect what’s currently happening. |
| 43 | * ExtremeMeleeRevenge: At least [[OnceAnEpisode once an issue]], but usually a lot more. |
| 44 | * ForTheEvulz: 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’. |
| 45 | * FreudianExcuse: [[SubvertedTrope 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 [[spoiler: Satan]] as an accurate account, this might be less subverted than one might initially think: [[spoiler: that Johnny started off as a regular, albeit mentally ill artist, who was selected in error by the PowersThatBe to become a wastelock for the EldritchAbomination 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.'' |
| 46 | * GlassCannon: 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. |
| 47 | * HairAntennae: Sports a prominent pair of scythe-like hair antennae throughout volume 6. After [[spoiler: he comes back from the dead]] they're ''all'' that remain of his hair. |
| 48 | * HairTriggerTemper: Lots of stuff sets him off; use of the word “wacky,” talking during movies he likes, implying that [[ItMakesSenseInContext he drinks blood]]… and most particularly, messing with [[MoralityPet his neighbor]]. |
| 49 | * HatesBeingTouched: Which he makes exceptionally clear, and seems to go hand-in-hand with his abject disgust towards sex. |
| 50 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: 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. |
| 51 | * HearingVoices: He's very prone to this, though it may or may not be a MindVirus. |
| 52 | * HellishPupils: They'll often go full-on cat-eyes, especially while he's [[TalkativeLoon mid-rant]]. |
| 53 | * HeWhoFightsMonsters: Initially seems to be his problem, since he mostly goes after {{Asshole Victim}}s, but eventually it’s clear his motives are more complex than this. |
| 54 | * HiddenDepths: |
| 55 | ** 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. |
| 56 | ** 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. |
| 57 | ** [[spoiler: Nailbunny claims that all of the complex and horrific paintings that decorate his house were drawn by ''him'' prior to losing his mind.]] |
| 58 | * {{Hypocrite}}: He’s at least as judgmental and nasty as any of his victims, and usually far more so. |
| 59 | * IdentityAmnesia: 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. |
| 60 | * ImportantHaircut: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 61 | * ImprobableWeaponUser: He once slaughtered a restaurant full of people via Spork, and claims to be able to kill a person using ramen noodles. |
| 62 | * InsaneEqualsViolent: Seems to be a legitimate equation in this ‘verse. |
| 63 | * InsaneTrollLogic: Much of his rationale for his day-to-day actions. |
| 64 | -->'''Johnny''': It's Tuesday, and you know what that means - U.F.O.s! |
| 65 | * InSeriesNickname: “You can call me Nny. Not ‘knee’ as in ‘knee-cap’…” |
| 66 | * TheInsomniac: Sleeping just aggravates his difficulties with [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness reality]]. |
| 67 | * IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 68 | * KarmaHoudini: He never gets any real comeuppance for what he does. |
| 69 | * KickTheMoralityPet: His attempt to [[spoiler: kill Devi]]. |
| 70 | * KidWithTheLeash: For the [[EldritchAbomination Monster Behind the Wall]], assuming it is real. |
| 71 | * LargeHam: He often uses made-up words and [[PunctuatedForEmphasis extra exclamation points]] to express himself. |
| 72 | * LaughablyEvil: This comic being [[SadistShow what]] [[BlackComedy it]] [[Creator/JhonenVasquez is]], of course he’s this. |
| 73 | * LeanAndMean: He's a tiny guy, even for the NoodlePeople art style. And he's awfully nasty. |
| 74 | * ALighterShadeOfBlack: Than the Monster Behind the Wall and the Doughboys, at any rate, though that's [[EvilVersusOblivion not saying a lot]]. |
| 75 | * LonersAreFreaks: And occasionally they’re also serial killers. |
| 76 | * LossOfIdentity: Underwent this as a result of his MindVirus. ([[UnreliableNarrator 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. |
| 77 | * LunaticLoophole: It seems to be what keeps him out of trouble; eventually, it's what allows him to [[spoiler: come BackFromTheDead]]. |
| 78 | * MadArtist: The closest thing to a hint that we get to his past is [[spoiler: 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 [[AllThereInTheManual 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''.]] [[WordOfGod Jhonen himself]] has stated that even this shouldn't be taken at face value, though, and Johnny's conversation with Satan even implies [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 79 | * MadEye: One of his eyes tends to become much bigger than the other when he's giving a rant. |
| 80 | * MessyHair: While his hair's exact appearance changes from comic to comic, it's always shown to be somewhere between spiky and scraggly. |
| 81 | * MoodSwinger: Ridiculously so, as a result of his HairTriggerTemper. He's all but stated to be manic-depressive on top of being a homicidal maniac. |
| 82 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Like Creator/JhonenVasquez, he's a comic artist, albeit a [[DadaComic very, very bad one]]. |
| 83 | * MotiveDecay: He had a reason for killing people at some point. He thinks. Maybe. |
| 84 | * TheMovieBuff: 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. [[BerserkButton Disrupting his enjoyment of them is not a good idea]]. In particular, he's a big fan of Creator/TerryGilliam and is said to have wept uncontrollably while watching ''{{Film/Kafka}}''. |
| 85 | * MyGodWhatHaveIDone: |
| 86 | ** 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. |
| 87 | ** He experiences a deeper case of this after [[spoiler: 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 [[StrawNihilist so much of his time and focus toward hating the world]] when [[CrapsackWorld 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 [[spoiler: "taking the easy way out" via suicide]], effectively reaching the conclusion that ''both'' the manic and depressive sides of his personality are stupid. [[spoiler: 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 TheStoic so that he can completely disconnect himself from the rest of society, suggesting that it stuck with him to some extent.]] |
| 88 | * MysteriousPast: He doesn't even know how he moved into his house. |
| 89 | * NighInvulnerability: No matter what he does, nothing will ever hurt him; [[spoiler: later revealed to be a result of cosmic intervention, and to be related to his [[PowerBornOfMadness insanity]]]]. |
| 90 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: As demonstrated via his interactions with Squee, he's thoroughly terrifying even when he's not physically threatening. |
| 91 | * ObviouslyEvil: He's pretty sinister-looking and doesn't do much to hide the fact that he isn't someone you should associate with. |
| 92 | * OddFriendship: A one-sided example with Squee. Johnny is genuinely incredibly fond of the kid despite Squee being justifiably terrified of him. |
| 93 | * OddNameNormalNickname: {{Inverted}}. For whatever reason, Johnny prefers to go by "Nny" instead of his ordinary real name. |
| 94 | %%* OmnicidalManiac: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Right there in the title.]] |
| 95 | * PapaWolf: Just ''try'' hurting his little [[MoralityPet Squee]]. [[SchmuckBait We dare you]]. |
| 96 | * ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: Claims to be averse to all physical desires, including ones of a sexual nature, but also [[AlmostKiss nearly kisses Devi]]. WordOfGod 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 [[NoodleIncident a sexual encounter that Johnny had with a girl at some point in the past]], but it's unclear when exactly this occurred [[UnreliableNarrator or if it even actually happened at all]]. |
| 97 | * TheParanoiac: He seems perpetually convinced that the entire world is out to get him. Considering his status as a [[spoiler: cosmically-selected wastelock for the Thing Behind the Wall]], he may not be too off in that assumption. |
| 98 | * PetTheDog: 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. |
| 99 | ** PlayedForLaughs 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. |
| 100 | * PintSizedPowerhouse: 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. |
| 101 | * PreMortemOneLiner: Very prone to these as a general rule. |
| 102 | * PsychoKnifeNut: He owns quite a lot of knives, which are his primary method of killing people. |
| 103 | * PsychopathicManchild: The current trope image. While he's rather introspective and intelligent, he has ''terrible'' impulse control and has an affinity for junk food and ToiletHumor. |
| 104 | * ReluctantPsycho: 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. |
| 105 | --> '''Nny, in tears:''' Oh... I wish... I wish someone would just switch me off and... fix me. |
| 106 | * SanitySlippage: Gradually becomes scarier and kookier over the course of the series, almost certainly courtesy of the Doughboys and the Thing Behind the Wall. |
| 107 | * SealedEvilInACan: [[spoiler: Nny is the vessel for the cosmic buildup of all Human Evil]]. |
| 108 | * SlasherSmile: It's his favorite way of saying LetsGetDangerous. |
| 109 | * SophisticatedAsHell: His speech is a liberal mix of eloquent philosophical pondering, childish swearing and nonsensical rambling. |
| 110 | * StalkerWithACrush: 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. |
| 111 | * TheStoic: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 112 | * StrawNihilist: And he loves to jump up on his soapbox about it, too. |
| 113 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[UnreliableNarrator Ambiguously]], Psychodoughboy and Mr. Fuck appear to be this for him. On a larger scale, [[spoiler: ''he himself'' is this to humanity as a whole]]. Of course, it’s possible he’s just nutty. |
| 114 | * SweetTooth: Has an affinity for cherry-flavored junk food. |
| 115 | * TalkativeLoon: 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. |
| 116 | * TerribleArtist: If the Happy Noodle Boy comics are any indication, he can only draw deranged stick figures. [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 117 | * TerrifyingRescuer: Rescues Squee from a pedophile, only to traumatize him by dissecting said pedophile's brain in front of him. |
| 118 | * ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: 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 [[spoiler: whether he actually died, destroyed the universe and traveled through heaven and hell before being resurrected or if it was AllJustADream is deliberately brought up and left unanswered.]] |
| 119 | * TrademarkFavoriteFood: Cherry Brainfreezies. Cherry Fizzwizz also seems to be a valid substitute. |
| 120 | * TranquilFury: In his two absolute angriest moments – killing [[spoiler: the pedophile that tried to kidnap Squee]] and [[spoiler: his copycat killer Jimmy]]. |
| 121 | * UnlimitedWardrobe: [[FunTShirt 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. |
| 122 | * UnreliableNarrator: Possibly; it’s left purposely ambiguous whether or not his supernatural experiences are ThroughTheEyesOfMadness. |
| 123 | * UnstoppableRage: If you've made him angry, it's time to make your peace with God. |
| 124 | * UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: ''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 {{Ubermensch}}. |
| 125 | * VillainProtagonist: 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 [[DracoInLeatherPants romanticize him]]. |
| 126 | -->'''Johnny''': You fucking idiot!! ''Admire me''?!! You SHIT!!! ''I'm the villain of this fucking story''! |
| 127 | * VillainsOutShopping: When he's not out on a killing spree, torturing someone or brooding in his house, he's probably out buying snacks. |
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| 130 | [[folder:Todd "Squee" Casil]] |
| 131 | Johnny's six-year-old neighbor and unfailing MoralityPet. Squee [[RuleOfSymbolism 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 SpinOff found [[ComicBook/{{Squee}} here]]. |
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| 133 | * AbusiveParents: He lives with a pair of them. His dad openly hates him while his mom tends to forget that he even exists. |
| 134 | * AccidentalMisnaming: His name is not “Squee,” contrary to popular belief – that’s just the sound he makes when he’s too scared to pronounce his name. |
| 135 | * AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Todd is shown to be an outcast, mostly as a result of his passive acceptance of any and all torment. |
| 136 | * AllThereInTheManual: Many aspects of his life are revealed in his SpinOff comic. |
| 137 | * AmbiguousInnocence: He’s certainly innocent, but he’s also an accessory to several murders and thoroughly un-disturbed by [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear Shmee]]. |
| 138 | * BedlamHouse: He ends up in one of these at the end of ''ComicBook/{{Squee}}''. |
| 139 | * BigScrewedUpFamily: Aside from having a pill addicted mother who forgets he exists most of the time and a father who outright hates him and unfairly blames him for his own suffering, his dads entire side of the family isnt any better. His father has little to no contact with his own father and siblings and they all only bother interacting with their dad in hopes of getting inheritance from him. As his grandfather puts it, they don't like him [[LackOfEmpathy "just because"]] he [[AbusiveParent doesnt like them]]. Squee's [[TheSociopath grandfather]] is also a cyborg who is cruel and mentally ill, [[ToServeMan believing that consuming his descendants (which he then decides to do to Squee after telling him this) makes him look young when in reality he still looks old)]]. [[EvilIsPetty Also, while he claims he only has to chew on his grandchildren, he reveals that he only eats them because he LIKES too.]] |
| 140 | * BornUnlucky: ''Extraordinarily'' unlucky. |
| 141 | * BreakTheCutie: Every moment he’s onscreen, though it never seems to stick. |
| 142 | * TheChewToy: Maybe the most so in the entire Creator/JhonenVasquez verse, which is [[SadistShow saying something]]. |
| 143 | * ChildrenAreInnocent: In stark contrast to everyone else involved in the story. |
| 144 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: On the rare occasions where he isn't too scared to speak, he's shown to have an adorably bizarre imagination. It probably helps that he has interacted with dozens of weird and terrifying supernatural horrors throughout his day to day life; when his reality is so insane, his imagination has to step up its game. |
| 145 | * CloudcuckoolandersMinder: To Johnny, reluctantly. |
| 146 | * ConditionedToAcceptHorror: To an extent. Being constantly terrified of everything in his CrapsackWorld would be... a lot of energy. |
| 147 | * CosmicPlaything: Horrific things just seem to constantly happen to or near him. |
| 148 | * CreepyChild: Can border on this when talking to [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Shmee]]. |
| 149 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: He's very pale and has black hair. |
| 150 | * EstablishingCharacterMoment: First appears timidly telling his mom that he heard a noise, only for her to completely ignore him and leave him alone and terrified in the darkness. Moments later, we find out that his fears were well-founded and that the noise belonged to Johnny. This sequence collectively establishes him as a LovableCoward with AbusiveParents who is ProperlyParanoid that the world is out to get him. |
| 151 | * {{Foil}}: To Johnny. He's ForcedToWatch every single unspeakable horror the world has to offer and yet always manages to bounce back and retain a relatively optimistic worldview, in contrast to Johnny, who has long since given into his despair and becoming a psychotic and self-loathing StrawNihilist. |
| 152 | * HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: Squee's suffering is so over the top that it's ''hilarious''. |
| 153 | * HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He can tell [[ObviouslyEvil Johnny]] is no good. His [[AbusiveParents parents]] and [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear teddy bear]]? They seem perfectly fine to him. |
| 154 | * IncorruptiblePurePureness: Though Johnny's worried that his terrible life and exposure to SealedEvilInACan (both Shmee and [[spoiler: Johnny himself]]) will eventually turn Squee [[AxCrazy like]] [[DeathSeeker him]], he shows no signs of being anything but a fairly cheerful and sweet little boy. According to WordOfGod, in the long run, "Squee is gonna be alright." |
| 155 | * KidHero: In his SpinOff. |
| 156 | * KidWithTheLeash: One of the few things that can make Johnny hold back (i.e. the time when [[spoiler: Johnny, despite his anger, refused to kill Squee’s father because ‘a kid needs a dad’]].) |
| 157 | * LittleBrotherIsWatching: And Johnny is acutely aware. |
| 158 | * LovableCoward: Spends almost all of his screen time screaming in terror, but we love him for it. |
| 159 | * MrImagination: He has a wild imagination and likes to write stories. Unfortunately, this has the adverse effect of giving him ''very'' vivid nightmares. |
| 160 | * MoralityPet: Somewhat functions as this to Johnny, who seems to act more calm and stable when in his presence. It's a ''very'' tenuous case, though, since Johnny is still willing to graphically dissect a person in front of him for the sake of teaching him (what he believes to be) an important life lesson. |
| 161 | * NiceGuy: He’s probably the most harmless, gentle-spirited, benign character in the entire [[Creator/JhonenVasquez verse]]. |
| 162 | * PajamaCladHero: Since a sizable chunk of his encounters with Johnny and other supernatural terrors occur at night in his room, he usually appears in his pajamas. |
| 163 | * ParentalAbandonment: Apparently his parents have made it a habit to abandon him places and [[HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood tell him to get kidnapped]]. |
| 164 | ** In the final issue of Squees own miniseries, his dad uses his “insanity” as an excuse to send Squee to a mental institution to keep him out of his life and begs the doctors to keep him longer even after he’s cured. Even as a lab monkey. |
| 165 | * PintsizedKid: Small enough to be held up with one hand and apparently weighs less than a cheeseburger. |
| 166 | * ProperlyParanoid: Squee's a scaredy cat by nature, no doubt about it. Too bad for him that his reality is far scarier than anything he could ever dream up. |
| 167 | * TheQuietOne: Doesn't speak much, due to spending the majority of his screen time cowering and/or screaming in terror. |
| 168 | * ResentfulGuardian: Both of his parents. His dad is much more bitter and acerbic, but his mom also has no problem telling him that she'd rather ignore him than listen to his problems. |
| 169 | ** Squee's own grandfather (his dads dad) outright admits that he doesnt like any of his children himself (hence why they dont like him). So its possible that this serves as his fathers FreudianExcuse for his own abusive parenting. |
| 170 | *** Aside from that, his dads dad is mentally unstable to the point that he engages in cannibalism and thinks that (just chewing on them alittle) makes him look young. |
| 171 | * TheScapegoat: For his parents, who blame him for their miserable lives. |
| 172 | * ShrinkingViolet: He’s very quiet and timid, most of the time. |
| 173 | * SnapBack: No matter what horrific thing he witnesses in one comic, he's back to being a (relatively) CheerfulChild by the next. [[spoiler: His SpinOff reveals that Shmee absorbs any and all trauma he experiences in order to allow him to continue facing reality.]] |
| 174 | * {{Squee}}: He makes this sound when he’s afraid. Johnny thinks it’s his name. |
| 175 | * StaringKid: His primary function in the story is to stare on in horror at whatever terrifying thing is currently happening near him. |
| 176 | * TraumaCongaLine: The entire comic is this for him – the first strip alone is titled ‘Traumatize Thy Neighbor’, and it goes downhill from there. |
| 177 | * TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: Very little, but occasionally he dabbles in this; some of the conversations he has with Shmee, for example, and his general ConditionedToAcceptHorror demeanor. |
| 178 | * TheUnfavorite: His parents prefer ''no child at all'' over him. |
| 179 | * VerbalTicName: "Squee," is a nickname. His real name is Todd. |
| 180 | * WeirdnessMagnet: Exaggerated in his SpinOff. As it turns out, Johnny is probably the ''least'' disturbing thing he has to deal with in his day-to-day life. |
| 181 | * WhatYouAreInTheDark: Turns down a literal DealWithTheDevil, among other things. |
| 182 | * WiseBeyondTheirYears: As a result of his perpetual TraumaCongaLine. |
| 183 | * YankTheDogsChain: A victim of this. In the final issue, Squees father enters his room to talk to him about his attitude towards him. You would expect it’s because he feels guilty over being a bad father and wants to apologize and reassure his son that deep down he still loves him…NOPE! He just wants to properly and calmly explain WHY he hates him so he lets it all out and feels better. Though he acknowledges that his attitude towards his son is harsh [[ItsAllAboutMe he asks Squee to look at it from his point of view]]. Being that he has a [[SoulCrushingDeskJob job he hates]] and a [[AwfulWeddedLife pill addicted wife]] so he’s already miserable but having a kid around to support just adds to that. [[{{Jerkass}} He even goes as far as to ask Squee to acknowledge that all his own (extra) misery is Squees fault for just existing, outright admits he despises him]]. [[LaserGuidedKarma Johnny knocks him out right after]]. |
| 184 | |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Devi D.]] |
| 188 | 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 [[BirdsOfAFeather 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 SpinOff of her own known as ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'', which details her life following her date with Johnny. |
| 189 | ---- |
| 190 | * AccidentalMurder: 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. |
| 191 | * ActionGirl: Manages to beat up ''[[NighInvulnerability Johnny]]'' when they break up. |
| 192 | * ActionSurvivor: She's the only person in the entire series to escape completely unscathed once Johnny goes on a rampage. |
| 193 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Subverted. The minute she discovers Johnny’s true nature, she’s out of there. |
| 194 | * AllThereInTheManual: Again, much about her comes from her SpinOff comic. |
| 195 | * AloofDarkHairedGirl: She's fairly tall (5'9''), pale and dark-haired and has a rather morose and sardonic personality. |
| 196 | * AmbiguouslyBrown: While she herself is an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette, her father calls her "hija" in a flashback, suggesting that she is of Hispanic descent. |
| 197 | * ArtInitiatesLife: In her own story, she manages to create an evil entity called Sickness by painting it. |
| 198 | * BirdsOfAFeather: 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. |
| 199 | * BoyishShortHair: She sports this during her first appearance. Her hair is slightly longer in all of her following ones. |
| 200 | * CassandraTruth: 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 [[CantGetInTroubleForNuthin ability to evade all punishment]]. |
| 201 | * CurbStompBattle: Gives an absolutely ''brutal'' NoHoldsBarredBeatdown 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. |
| 202 | * DeadpanSnarker: Her favorite brand of humor. |
| 203 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Devi walked away from her one-time date with a very nasty [[MindVirus virus]]. |
| 204 | * EasilyForgiven: Subverted. Johnny calls her with an apology, and she makes it exceptionally clear that she will ''never'' forgive him. He then comments that [[LampshadeHanging he didn’t know what he expected to happen there]]. |
| 205 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: She has white skin and dark hair. |
| 206 | * ExecutiveMeddling: In-universe; it's what makes Devi hate her new job as a corporate artist. |
| 207 | * {{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. |
| 208 | * HatesEveryoneEqually: She's a bit of a misanthrope. |
| 209 | * HeroicWillpower: She uses it to overcome Johnny's MindVirus. |
| 210 | * {{Hikikomori}}: To the annoyance of Tenna. |
| 211 | * InfectiousInsanity: She catches it from Johnny, though she manages to shake it off. |
| 212 | * KickChick: It's how she takes Nny out, anyway. |
| 213 | * LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: 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. |
| 214 | * LoveInterest: 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 [[spoiler: his final resolution to become TheStoic 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]]. |
| 215 | * MadArtist: She's a painter, and becomes pretty loopy in ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'' |
| 216 | * MaddenIntoMisanthropy: During her issues with Sickness she doesn't ever leave the house. |
| 217 | * MostWritersAreWriters: Like Creator/JhonenVasquez, she's an artist. |
| 218 | * TheMovieBuff: 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. |
| 219 | * OnlySaneMan: 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. |
| 220 | * RejectedApology: Johnny's attempt at apologizing to her is met with a ClusterFBomb rant about how she'll never forgive him. |
| 221 | * ReluctantPsycho: In ''ComicBook/IFeelSick'', at least. And only temporarily. |
| 222 | * RoomFullOfCrazy: Her studio room in the back of her apartment. |
| 223 | * SanitySlippage: Over the course of her SpinOff, though she gets out of it. |
| 224 | * ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After discovering that Johnny is a serial killer, not just a goofy MadArtist. |
| 225 | * ShutUpHannibal: Her appearance in a strip generally indicates that Nny is going to get knocked down a few pegs during it. |
| 226 | * SirSwearsALot: While not unusual for Creator/JhonenVasquez comics, she does get a number of notable [[AtomicFBomb Atomic F-Bombs]]. |
| 227 | -->'''Devi''': Holy f- |
| 228 | -->'''Sickness''': Fuck, right? [[LampshadeHanging You really need to get a new word.]] |
| 229 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: 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. |
| 230 | * SuperpoweredEvilSide: Like Johnny's (just as obnoxious and just as [[UnreliableNarrator ambiguously real]]). Apparently, it's ''contagious''. |
| 231 | * TheOneThatGotAway: Referred to as such in her character profile in the [[CompilationRerelease 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. |
| 232 | * UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 233 | * WalkingSpoiler: It's impossible to talk about her without revealing that her relationship with Johnny doesn't work out. |
| 234 | * WeirdnessMagnet: 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. |
| 235 | * {{Workaholic}}: In her constant efforts to placate [[ShoutOut NERVE Publishing]]. |
| 236 | |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | |
| 240 | !!Voices |
| 241 | |
| 242 | [[folder: Mr. Eff]] |
| 243 | One of Johnny's many [[HearingVoices little voices]]; he's the one that's most prone to [[MurderIsTheBestSolution advocate homicide]], and therefore the one most likely to be listened to. |
| 244 | ---- |
| 245 | * ADayInTheLimelight: 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. |
| 246 | * AffablyEvil: He's a pretty funny, almost charismatic guy, but is also a complete sociopath. |
| 247 | * AxCrazy: Loves nothing more than getting Johnny to butcher large swathes of people. |
| 248 | * BetterLivingThroughEvil: His general stance on what Johnny should be pursuing. |
| 249 | * CoDragons: Serves as this alongside Psychodoughboy to the Monster Behind the Wall. Unlike Psychodoughboy, he is eventually revealed to be a DragonWithAnAgenda. |
| 250 | * TheCorrupter: Encourages Johnny's worst instincts. |
| 251 | * CreepyDoll: He's a strangely painted and weird little figurine. |
| 252 | * DragonWithAnAgenda: Unlike D-Boy, [[spoiler: he wants to stall Johnny from releasing the Wall Monster, giving him enough time to BecomeARealBoy]]. |
| 253 | * EmbodimentOfVice: The embodiment of Johnny's manic violence. |
| 254 | * EvilIsEasy: 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. |
| 255 | * EvilPlan: Plans to continue encouraging Johnny to kills others [[spoiler: 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]]. |
| 256 | * FreudianTrio: With D-Boy and Nailbunny. He's the Id. |
| 257 | * {{Gaslighting}}: When it suits his purposes, he's not afraid of outright lying about what he just said/did. |
| 258 | * {{Jerkass}}: Doesn't care about anyone but himself, and takes great pleasure in seeing others suffer. |
| 259 | * LadyMacbeth: 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. [[spoiler: Once he's gone, Johnny notably stops killing people nearly as frequently.]] |
| 260 | * LaughablyEvil: 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. |
| 261 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: He's a styrofoam figure of the Pillsbury Doughboy, but it never really seems to matter. |
| 262 | * MadeOfEvil: Assuming, of course, that he's made of anything but Johnny's imagination. |
| 263 | * MindVirus: [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe]]. If so, he's an especially nasty one. |
| 264 | * ManipulativeBastard: Toward Johnny, given that he's at the center of all Eff's plans. |
| 265 | * MurderIsTheBestSolution: He encourages Johnny to vent out his frustrations at himself and the world by killing some more. |
| 266 | * NonIndicativeName: Mr. Fuck is the doughboy who ''doesn't'' have the word "fuck" written on his shirt. |
| 267 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: He eventually starts moving, and talking out loud - it's unclear whether or not that's real, though. |
| 268 | * OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Apparently his full name is "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mr. Fuck]]". |
| 269 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Red to Psychodoughboy's Blue. Fittingly, his eyes glow red on the few occasions where they're shown in color. |
| 270 | * TheRival: 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. |
| 271 | * SirSwearsAlot: To be fair, you probably would too if you were named Fuck. |
| 272 | * TheStarscream: To the Monster Behind the Wall, in contrast to D-Boy. |
| 273 | * TermsOfEndangerment: He tends toward these, usually presenting himself as looking out for Johnny's happiness or best interests. |
| 274 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Despite hating each other and having conflicting goals, the doughboys never appear apart. |
| 275 | * ToxicFriendInfluence: To Nny, to the short extent that Nny actually trusts him. He has a tendency to keep Nny manic, paranoid and aggressive. |
| 276 | -->'''Mr. Eff''': Don't expect anything but nastiness from anyone you didn't create. |
| 277 | * VillainousBreakdown: Not that he was all that stable to begin with, but he ''really'' loses it when [[spoiler: the Wall Monster breaks free.]] |
| 278 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 279 | |
| 280 | [[/folder]] |
| 281 | |
| 282 | [[folder: Psychodoughboy]] |
| 283 | One of Johnny's many [[HearingVoices little voices]]; he's the one usually pushing for [[DrivenToSuicide Johnny to die]], though his attempts to see Johnny killed are usually thwarted by Nny's NighInvulnerability or AttentionDeficitOohShiny. |
| 284 | ---- |
| 285 | * ADayInTheLimelight: 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. [[spoiler: Fittingly, it is also the volume where Johnny finally succeeds in killing himself.]] |
| 286 | * AffablyEvil: 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. |
| 287 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: Of the "Depressive" half of Johnny's insanity. |
| 288 | * TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 289 | * BaitTheDog: While it's clear from the outset that he's a despicable monster, it can be easy early on to take him as being ALighterShadeOfBlack than Mr. Eff for encouraging Johnny to kill himself rather than continue harming others. This gets completely turned on its head after [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 290 | * CoDragons: Serves as this alongside Mr. Eff to the Monster Behind the Wall. Unlike Mr. Eff, Psychodoughboy's loyalty is genuine. |
| 291 | * ColdHam: He's more quiet and aloof than Mr. Eff, but is no less dramatic. He begins to show more bombastic emotions [[spoiler: after Johnny dies.]] |
| 292 | * CreepyDoll: Or creepy Styrofoam figure, at any rate. |
| 293 | * DeathSeeker: His dream is to reach oblivion. [[spoiler: He gets his wish once the Wall Monster is freed.]] |
| 294 | * TheDutifulSon: 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. |
| 295 | * EmbodimentOfVice: The embodiment of Johnny's self-loathing, more precisely. |
| 296 | * EvilPlan: Plans to convince Johnny to commit suicide [[spoiler: 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 [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt cause the extermination of all life in the universe]]. [[TheBadGuyWins He succeeds]].]] |
| 297 | * FreudianTrio: With Mr. Eff and Nailbunny. He's the Superego. |
| 298 | * InSeriesNickname: He's often called D-Boy for short. |
| 299 | * {{Jerkass}}: His sole interest in life is talking Johnny into suicide. |
| 300 | * JerkassHasAPoint: 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. |
| 301 | * KarmicDeath: He's [[spoiler: killed by the Wall Monster, which he spent most of the story attempting to set free. Although, [[DeathSeeker he's absolutely fine with this]]]]. |
| 302 | * KnightOfCerebus: 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. |
| 303 | * LadyMacbeth: To Johnny. Though unlike Mr. Eff, the only person that Psychodoughboy encourages him to kill is himself. |
| 304 | * LaughablyEvil: While he's more consistently sinister than Mr. Eff, he's still prone to moments of absurdity. |
| 305 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: He's pretty blatantly a figurine of the Pillsbury Doughboy, but he's been mutilated to the point where it doesn't matter. |
| 306 | * MadeOfEvil: In much the same sense at the Monster Behind the Wall is. |
| 307 | * ManipulativeBastard: In the same vein as Mr. Eff. |
| 308 | * MindControlEyes: 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. [[spoiler: He also lacks any of Mr. Eff's independence, making his eyes ''also'' symbolically reflective of his slavish devotion to the Wall Monster.]] |
| 309 | * MindVirus: [[UnreliableNarrator Maybe]]. If so, he's a very rude one. |
| 310 | * NotSoImaginaryFriend: Like his counterpart, he eventually starts moving and talking aloud, though again it's unclear how ''[[UnreliableNarrator real]]'' that is. |
| 311 | * ObviouslyEvil: If the giant "FUCK" written across his chest isn't an indication, it's hard to say what would be. |
| 312 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Mr. Eff's Red. Fittingly, his eyes glow blue on the few occasions where they're shown in color. |
| 313 | * TheRival: 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. |
| 314 | * SmugSnake: Really [[EvilIsHammy 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. |
| 315 | * StrawNihilist: Doesn't believe in anything but the inevitability of death, and considers doing anything to prolong existence to be a pointless act. Notably, [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 316 | * SuicideIsPainless: If you take him to be a reliable source, which you shouldn't. |
| 317 | -->'''D-Boy''': Try something else! [[CrossesTheLineTwice Put your head in the trash compacter!]] That should work! |
| 318 | * TeethClenchedTeamwork: Despite hating each other and having conflicting goals, the doughboys never appear apart. |
| 319 | * UnderdogVictory: 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. [[spoiler: He ends up winning out, with Johnny accidentally killing himself before the doughboys are able to gain full sentience.]] |
| 320 | * YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 321 | |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder: Nailbunny]] |
| 325 | Another of Johnny's [[HearingVoices little voices]]; he's the closest thing Johnny has to a [[TheConscience conscience]]. [[spoiler: That is, until the other voices ''murder him''.]] |
| 326 | ---- |
| 327 | * BackForTheFinale: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 328 | * CaptainObvious: Nny sometimes needs some basic, ''basic'' moral reminders. |
| 329 | -->'''Nailbunny''': She liked you and you tried to kill her. That was impolite. |
| 330 | * TheConscience: To an extent. He's rarely very effective, since he's usually out-voted. |
| 331 | * DeadGuyOnDisplay: He's Johnny's old pet bunny, nailed to the wall. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Hence the name]]. |
| 332 | * FailureIsTheOnlyOption: If he issues a decent WhatTheHellHero, 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 [[StatusQuoIsGod would be no story]]. |
| 333 | * ForgottenFallenFriend: [[AvertedTrope 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 [[spoiler: suicide.]] |
| 334 | * FreudianTrio: With Mr. Eff and D-Boy. He's the Ego. |
| 335 | * HairRaisingHare: By virtue of being dead and decaying. |
| 336 | * IgnoredEpiphany: Most of what he brings on for Nny. |
| 337 | * LivingEmotionalCrutch: To an extent, considering he's not living and doesn't hold Nny up particularly well. |
| 338 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: He doesn't seem to share the same [[MindVirus origin]] as Mr. Eff and Psychodoughboy, and may in fact actually be Johnny [[TalkingToThemself talking to himself]]. |
| 339 | * MoralityChain: For a time, at least, he manages to be this. |
| 340 | * NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: His attempts to help Nny don't get him anywhere, really, except [[spoiler: decapitated, and later faded out of existence.]] |
| 341 | * OffingTheAnnoyance: Seems to be why [[spoiler: the other voices kill him]] despite him not being all too effective to begin with. |
| 342 | * SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 343 | * TokenGoodTeammate: To Johnny's brain. |
| 344 | * WhatTheHellHero: He's pretty decent at doling these out, albeit a little too late. |
| 345 | |
| 346 | [[/folder]] |
| 347 | |
| 348 | [[folder: Reverend Meat]] |
| 349 | The last of Johnny's [[HearingVoices little voices]], which only appears after all the others are dead. |
| 350 | ---- |
| 351 | * AffablyEvil: He's a pretty pleasant guy who encourages Johnny to embrace his emotions. The problem is, [[AxeCrazy not all of Johnny's emotions are ones that should be embraced]]. |
| 352 | * AllThereInTheManual: His name is never mentioned in canon, only in interviews with Creator/JhonenVasquez. |
| 353 | * AmbiguouslyEvil: It sort of depends on whether he's closer to Nailbunny or the Doughboys in nature, which is never totally answered. |
| 354 | * BetterTheDevilYouKnow: Johnny is significantly more hostile toward him than his previous voices, apparently because this one is unfamiliar. |
| 355 | * FinalBoss: The final voice that Johnny has to overcome. |
| 356 | * TheHedonist: Seemingly his sole interest is having Johnny give into all of his emotions and desires. |
| 357 | * TheFettered: Believes that mankind is eternally enslaved by its emotions, and thinks that Johnny should embrace his for the sake of happiness. |
| 358 | * LastEpisodeNewCharacter: Appears in a single panel in the second-to-last issue, and doesn't get to establish his character until the final one as a result. |
| 359 | * LawyerFriendlyCameo: Similar to the Doughboys, he's essentially a Bob's Big Boy statuette with a demonic paint job. |
| 360 | * MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In the same vein as Nailbunny, it's unclear what exactly the source of this voice is, relative to the Wall Monster/waste-lock system and [[FantasyKitchenSink Satan and aliens and all that]]. |
| 361 | * TheSpook: Appears out of nowhere after [[spoiler: Johnny comes BackFromTheDead]], and not a single hint is given as to what exactly he is. |
| 362 | |
| 363 | [[/folder]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | |
| 366 | !! Victims |
| 367 | |
| 368 | [[folder: Edgar Vargas]] |
| 369 | One of Johnny's early victims, sacrificed to the Wall Monster, who managed to [[StaringDownCthulhu engage him in a short philosophical debate]] before dying. |
| 370 | ---- |
| 371 | * CrucifiedHeroShot: In Johnny's TortureCellar, he's strung up like this. |
| 372 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Naturally. He's gutted and used as specialized paint, like most of Johnny's victims. |
| 373 | * DoomedMoralVictor: It's a pretty one-sided struggle, anyway. |
| 374 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: His only scene, which ended with his death, involved him engaging in a short philosophical debate with Johnny. |
| 375 | * FaceDeathWithDignity: More so than anyone else depicted in the comic. Which is [[SadistShow a lot of people]]. |
| 376 | * GoryDiscretionShot: His death is notable for being some of the only carnage ''not'' depicted in graphic detail onscreen. |
| 377 | * HeavenSeeker: Based on his short dialogue, he's one of these. |
| 378 | -->'''Edgar''': A heaven for me, and a hell for you. |
| 379 | * ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: That's what the contraption he's strapped to ''seems'' to do, anyway. |
| 380 | * KnightOfCerebus: 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. |
| 381 | * MessianicArchetype: An altogether good-hearted man who dies in the place of other, more deserving people and manages to counter Johnny's HumansAreBastards 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 [[CrucifiedHeroShot Jesus on the cross]]. |
| 382 | * NotAfraidToDie: He outright says so. Although, he makes it very clear that he would prefer to keep living, thanks. |
| 383 | -->'''Edgar''': Fuck fear. I have nothing to fear. |
| 384 | * ObiWanMoment: He has no fear of death, and by proxy, no fear of [[SatanicArchetype Johnny]]. |
| 385 | * RestoredMyFaithInHumanity: He seems to have at least reminded Nny that not all people are [[HumansAreBastards needlessly cruel]] or {{Dirty Coward}}s, though he does ultimately fall under the "accepts simply that this person in particular is not so bad" umbrella. |
| 386 | * SmartPeopleWearGlasses: Wears glasses and is one of the most well-spoken and insightful characters to every appear in the series. |
| 387 | * StaringDownCthulhu: Is able to match Nny's speeches about [[HumansAreBastards 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. |
| 388 | * TheStoic: Keeps his wits about him after being captured by Johnny and is able to remain calm enough to FaceDeathWithDignity. In comparison, every one of Johnny's other victims has ''some'' kind of emotional outburst, whether it be fear, despair, regret or anger. |
| 389 | * VillainRespect: From Johnny, as a result of his contentment under pressure. |
| 390 | * WowingCthulhu: Manages to do this to Johnny, enough so that he's declared Nny's "bestest friend". |
| 391 | |
| 392 | [[/folder]] |
| 393 | |
| 394 | [[folder: Tess R.]] |
| 395 | 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. |
| 396 | ---- |
| 397 | * AccompliceByInaction: 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 [[VillainHasAPoint Johnny may have been right]]. |
| 398 | * ActionSurvivor: Grows into this over the course of the fifth volume. |
| 399 | * ADayInTheLimelight: The main protagonist of volume 5. |
| 400 | * AllGirlsWantBadBoys: 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. |
| 401 | * AntiHero: 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 CharacterDevelopment over time. |
| 402 | * AscendedExtra: She's secondary to her boyfriend Dillon in her debut appearance, but goes on to be the main protagonist of volume 5. |
| 403 | * BackFromTheDead: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 404 | * BoyishShortHair: Her hair just barely comes down off the sides of her head. |
| 405 | * CharacterDevelopment: 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. [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 406 | * CoolShades: Sports a pair in her debut appearance. |
| 407 | * DeadpanSnarker: Manages this even while trapped in a TortureCellar and while running from an EldritchAbomination. |
| 408 | -->'''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. |
| 409 | * {{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. |
| 410 | * EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler: 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.]] |
| 411 | * EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette: As all self-respecting goths should be. |
| 412 | * {{Foil}}: To Devi. [[WordOfGod 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. |
| 413 | * FreudianExcuse: 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. |
| 414 | * FriendlessBackground: Part of her FreudianExcuse. She moved around a lot as a kid, which has caused her to have problems forming connections with others. |
| 415 | * {{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. [[spoiler: A brief mention of her by Anne Gwish in volume 7 implies that she stops being one.]] |
| 416 | * HiddenDepths: Initially introduced as a shallow goth stereotype, she steadily reveals herself to be one of the few genuinely good people in the entire series. |
| 417 | * HighVoltageDeath: Johnny ties her to an electric chair after capturing her, though [[spoiler: his death]] allows her to escape before he manages to kill her with it. |
| 418 | * {{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. |
| 419 | * JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Tess is shallow and acerbic, but has a good heart that isn't too deeply buried. |
| 420 | * LookingForLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Has a history of dating assholes. |
| 421 | * OnlySaneMan: The single most reasonable and stable character in the entire series. |
| 422 | * RedOniBlueOni: The Blue to Dillon and later Krik's Red. |
| 423 | * ShaggyDogStory: Zig-zagged. [[spoiler: 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 CharacterDevelopment she gained as result of her experiences in his house.]] |
| 424 | * TakeThat: Her CharacterDevelopment 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. |
| 425 | * TookALevelInBadass: Learns to stop caring about what others think about her and take initiative for herself by the end of volume 5. |
| 426 | * WomenAreWiser: Portrayed as being far more rational, competent and sympathetic than either of her male companions. |
| 427 | [[/folder]] |
| 428 | |
| 429 | [[folder: Krik]] |
| 430 | 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. |
| 431 | ---- |
| 432 | * AssholeVictim: He's definitely a jerk, though maybe not enough so to warrant being strung up in a TortureCellar. |
| 433 | * BerserkButton: He does not take well to Nny making fun of the shape of his head. |
| 434 | * BullyingADragon: That's how he ended up in Johnny's basement. |
| 435 | -->'''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''... [[BlatantLies he shot]] '''[[BlatantLies lazer beams]]''' [[BlatantLies from his]] '''[[EyeBeams eyes]]'''!!! |
| 436 | [[/folder]] |
| 437 | |
| 438 | [[folder: Jimmy]] |
| 439 | A copycat killer of Nny's, who seeks him out after Johnny comes BackFromTheDead. |
| 440 | ---- |
| 441 | * ArsonMurderAndAdmiration: His attitude toward Johnny's activities. |
| 442 | * AssholeVictim: Seeing how he's a fan of Johnny's "work", tries to replicate the work, and is even an unapologetic rapist, you really aren't supposed to sympathise with him when Johnny kills him. |
| 443 | * CostumeCopyCat: His outfit is a near-exact recreation of Johnny's most iconic look, complete with the constantly-changing shirt design. Ironically, by the time the two finally meet face to face, Johnny is wearing a completely different outfit, which Jimmy disappointingly notes. |
| 444 | * CruelAndUnusualDeath: Par for the course, he's more-or-less vivisected in Johnny's basement. |
| 445 | * IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery: To Johnny, natch. Johnny does not appreciate it. |
| 446 | * LeanAndMean: He's noticeably taller and even lankier than Johnny is, and is a shallow and unrepentant rapist and murderer. |
| 447 | * LoonyFan: He's a self-described fan of Johnny's, and also an unrepentant murderer and rapist. In contrast, [[EveryoneHasStandards Johnny has ''very'' conflicted feelings about all the people he kills and is outspokenly disgusted by the notion of rape]]. When ''Johnny'' thinks you're a creep, you know you're bad. |
| 448 | * RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: One line he crossed that Johnny never would, which seems to tip Nny over the edge. |
| 449 | * ReplacementFlatCharacter: He's essentially a twisted parody of who Johnny used to be prior to undergoing CharacterDevelopment, with none of the emotional turmoil or depth; he just kills because he's sick of people giving him shit. |
| 450 | * ShadowArchetype: To Johnny. It seems to be a bit of a revelation to him. |
| 451 | -->'''Jimmy''': I'm just like you...\ |
| 452 | '''Johnny''': (''smashes Jimmy's face with a hammer'') I don't like myself much. |
| 453 | * SmallRoleBigImpact: Appears in only a single comic but is both a symbolic representation of Johnny definitively moving past his old self and the catalyst for him moving out of the neighborhood, as his ability to track down his residence clues Johnny in that he's no longer supernaturally allowed to be a KarmaHoudini. |
| 454 | * StalkerWithoutACrush: He obsessively followed Johnny's various murders over the news and superficially replicated his appearance and actions under the belief that they're kindred spirits who will become best buds as soon as they meet for real. Johnny disagrees. |
| 455 | * TakeThatAudience: He's a pretty clear TakeThat to fans who [[DracoInLeatherPants romanticize Johnny]]. |
| 456 | * YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Johnny's reaction to him, which doesn't end very well. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | [[/folder]] |
| 459 | |
| 460 | |
| 461 | !! Other |
| 462 | |
| 463 | [[folder: Sr. Diablo]] |
| 464 | {{Satan}}, ruler of Hell. Johnny meets him after dying, and being rejected from Heaven. Spoilers ahead are unmarked! |
| 465 | ---- |
| 466 | * AffablyEvil: 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 [[TheGodsMustBeLazy God]] as a result. |
| 467 | * DevilInPlainSight: 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. |
| 468 | * GenderBender: Is male, but can take on a female form. |
| 469 | * HappilyMarried: 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. |
| 470 | * HotAsHell: Invoked, when he takes on the form of a cheerleader to talk to Johnny. Nny does not appreciate it. |
| 471 | * HumansAreTheRealMonsters: Seems to express something like this to Johnny, in explanation for the so-called terrible state of the world. |
| 472 | -->'''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. |
| 473 | * [[DivineRaceLift 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. |
| 474 | * LeanAndMean: He's very, very tall and very, very thin. He's also Satan. |
| 475 | * MrExposition: Regarding some of the story's CosmicHorrorStory elements, at least. |
| 476 | * OppositesAttract: He's {{Satan}} and is HappilyMarried to a perky Christian woman. |
| 477 | * ReasonableAuthorityFigure: 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 [[DealWithTheDevil 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. |
| 478 | * SelfInflictedHell: His MO. Leave bad people to continue suffering for eternity as a result of their own flaws. |
| 479 | |
| 480 | [[/folder]] |
| 481 | |
| 482 | [[folder: God]] |
| 483 | {{God}}, who art in Heaven. Maybe [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks not the way one would expect]]. Johnny meets him after dying. |
| 484 | ---- |
| 485 | * AllPowerfulBystander: God is ''{{God}}'', but has no interest in doing anything after creating the universe and instead chooses to spend eternity lounging around. |
| 486 | * EyesAlwaysShut: It makes him look like a fussy baby. |
| 487 | * FatBastard: 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. |
| 488 | * GodIsFlawed: 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. |
| 489 | * GodlySidestep: God has no need or desire to answer the meaning of life. |
| 490 | * GooGooGodlike: While he's the oldest being in the universe (he created it, after all), he more strongly resembles an adult-sized baby than [[GrandpaGod the standard image of God]]. The LemonyNarrator even comments that he's pretty cute for this very reason. |
| 491 | * JerkassHasAPoint: 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''. |
| 492 | * MundaneAfterlife: He doesn't do anything, and neither does anyone else in Heaven. If you were eternally content, you wouldn't have to. |
| 493 | [[/folder]] |
| 494 | |
| 495 | [[folder: The Wall Monster]] |
| 496 | The bloodthirsty EldritchAbomination residing in the walls of Johnny's house, which he's constantly seeking to satiate. Its eventual escape causes TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. |
| 497 | ---- |
| 498 | * TheCameo: 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. |
| 499 | * EldritchAbomination: 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. |
| 500 | * GreaterScopeVillain: 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. |
| 501 | * TheHeartless: It's a distilled embodiment of human hatred. |
| 502 | * MinorMajorCharacter: Appears briefly in a single volume, but is the GreaterScopeVillain for much of the series. |
| 503 | * NonActionBigBad: We only see it once, and it doesn't do all that much even then except mindlessly eat. |
| 504 | * TheUnseen: For most of the comic, anyway. |
| 505 | |
| 506 | [[/folder]] |
| 507 | |
| 508 | [[folder: Happy Noodle Boy]] |
| 509 | The main character of [[ShowWithinAShow Johnny's comics]]. |
| 510 | ---- |
| 511 | * AuthorAvatar: Implied to be one for Johnny, who mentions that he has foggy memories of being mockingly called "noodle boy" as a kid. |
| 512 | * TheCameo: Tends to appear outside of his comic in crowd shots or on Johnny's shirt. |
| 513 | * {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Noodle Boy himself is completely incomprehensible. [[{{Cloudcuckooland}} The other people who inhabit his world aren't much better]]. |
| 514 | * CreatorBreakdown: In-universe; he gets more incomprehensible as Johnny experiences further SanitySlippage. |
| 515 | * DadaComic: Stars in one of these. While there's ''some'' amount of plot structure in the earlier issues, Noodle Boy himself is always completely irrational and incomprehensible. |
| 516 | * NoodlePeople: As indicated by his name, Noodle Boy is a stick figure. |
| 517 | * NonIndicativeName: Noodle Boy is much more angry than happy, and is in fact [[PerpetualFrowner never once shown smiling]]. |
| 518 | * NoIndoorVoice: Noodle Boy shouts out every one of his lines. |
| 519 | * PerpetualFrowner: [[NonIndicativeName Despite his name]], Noodle Boy is only ever seen frowning. |
| 520 | * RandomEventsPlot: Good luck trying to tell what's going on in it. |
| 521 | * ShowWithinAShow: A comic within a comic. |
| 522 | * SirSwearsALot: His speeches tend to include a lot of swearing. |
| 523 | * StylisticSuck: Happy Noodle Boy is a poorly-drawn mess that is impossible to follow. It reaches the point where [[SelfDeprecation Jhonen Vasquez considers simply saying that it sucks to be a valid criticism of his work]]. |
| 524 | * TalkativeLoon: The majority of the comic consists Noodle Boy incoherently ranting about completely random things. |
| 525 | * TakeThatMe: A comic consisting of a terribly-drawn stick figure shouting random things at slightly more coherent innocents. Essentially, it's a ''very'' exaggerated and oversimplified version of ''JTHM''. |
| 526 | * VillainProtagonist: One of the few consistent aspects of the comic is that Noodle Boy is regarded as a menace by the rest of his world. |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[/folder]] |
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