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    Johnny Bravo 
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Yeah, whatever.
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett, Grey Delisle (female self Jenny Bravo in "Witch-Ay Woman")

The main protagonist, as the name of the series suggests. He frequently tries to hit on chicks, but to no success throughout the course of the series. Check out his page.

  • Acrofatic: If the beginning to the "Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood" movie is to be believed, Johnny's actually fat and simply molds his flab to look muscular.
  • Amazon Chaser: The whole "Vendela is a superheroine" thing certainly didn't make her less attractive to Johnny. Shown as early as the What A Cartoon shorts (most specifically "Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women", where the Amazons' efforts to intimidate him with their strength only made him attracted to them more).
  • Anti-Role Model: Johnny is a combination of everything wrong about guys who want to get with girls; and the show makes it very apparent that this is NOT how you should treat woman you're interested in. Johnny is a Deliberately Bad Example of what "old school" dating advice taken to heart looks like; and it's frequently not pretty.
  • At Least I Admit It: He may be a serial manwhore who constantly wants to get chicks, but at least he's straightforward about it. When a supposed Nice Guy admits he's a lying, cheating bastard who only pretends to be such, he orchestrates things to ruin him.
  • Attractive Bent-Gender: When he's Jenny Bravo, he gets a lot of attention from the guys.
  • Barrier Maiden: As shown by the "It's a Wonderful Plot" episode, there's at least one good thing Johnny's presence causes. Without him, Little Suzy is a terrorist.
  • Basement-Dweller: He still lives with his mother, has no permanent job, and is unlucky in love.
  • Berserk Button: Don't touch his glasses. Just don't. Also don't mess with his hair or his mama.
  • Be Yourself: He would rather be a Casanova Wannabe that gets rejected by every girl he meets than pretend to be someone he isn't even if it would turn him into a babe magnet like the sensitive guy suggested. An episode shows that most of Johnny problems stem from not following this trope; he was originally a pencil thin nerd, but actually had a steady girlfriend at the time. He completely changed himself to be what he thought she deserved, but only ended up driving her away as a result. The reason he can never get a date is because he's acting in a way he thinks girls want instead of just being who he really is deep down.
  • Boldly Coming: It is shown in "Bikini Space Planet" and "Third Dork from the Sun" that alien women aren't exempt from his interests.
  • Brainless Beauty: One of the most notable male examples of a good-looking idiot in animation. However, his stupidity overshadows his physical appearance In-Universe, since he's portrayed as a Casanova Wannabe instead of a Chick Magnet.
  • Butt-Monkey: He is rejected by almost every woman he meets. He did manage to hit it off with a woman four times; one of them was an antelope (and she already had a boyfriend). The other was a Brawn Hilda who was nonetheless into all the same things Johnny was, and he ended up legitimately attracted. But when he tried his usual routine with her, she rejected him in favor of someone else. The third was a woman cursed to be a werewolf on the night of their date. They get along despite this, and she reverts to normal the following morning. Unfortunately, she reveals that on this day of the week, she's cursed to become an annoying middle-aged man named Melvin who wants more than anything to show off his stamp collection. Yeah. The fourth was a conventionally attractive woman that was genuinely attracted to him, but turned out she was a secret agent and had to erase Johnny's memories of her by the end of the episode.
  • Casanova Wannabe: There's no denying that Johnny is attractive, but his personality and sadly unenlightened attitude towards women tends to cause roughly 90% of the women he meets to instantly reject him. The remaining 10% either reject him by the end of the episode or have revealed some flaw that makes them undesirable. Downplayed in that the creators have confirmed that Johnny is indeed a Chick Magnet, but it is never shown on-screen for the sake of the joke.
  • Catchphrase:
    • "Right. What did I say?" Johnny almost always says this when he mistakes one or more characters as someone/something they're not... in a typical Johnny fashion.
    • When bad things happen:
    • Also, "Whoa, mama!" and "Wiggy!"
  • Characterization Marches On: Seasons 1 and 4 portrayed him as a very cocky and somewhat ignorant Casanova Wannabe who constantly gets rejected by women when he hits on them but otherwise still has a reasonable amount of common sense. Seasons 2 and 3 on the other hand portray him as a ditzy and idiotic Manchild who throws tantrums and constantly gets beaten by women and children alike whenever he gets on their nerves.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: He trains so much that he can smash rocks with his head.
  • The Chew Toy: At times, the abuse he receives can be rather entertaining.
  • Childhood Brain Damage: In "A Fool for Sister Sara", he mentions being kicked in the head at a pony farm when he was twelve. Then again, he couldn't have been too bright to keep a salamander in his mouth for a whole month at the age of five. Kind of a chicken and egg thing.
  • Cold Ham: Switches between this and a standard ham. Often, he doesn't need to raise his voice—his overdramatic mannerisms (often accompanied by whip-crack sound effects) show you how full of himself he is.
  • Comically Missing the Point: A constant running gag is Johnny missing the point in most episodes. Justified as he is a dumb blonde.
  • Cool Shades: He never removes his shades, and if they do come off, his eyes are never revealed.
    "My glasses! I can't be seen without my glasses!"
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In the pilot, he successfully beat up a crocodile.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Has his moments of dry wit. He mainly reacts with snark towards Carl's constant annoying personality.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: Johnny is essentially a 1950s sex symbol—think The Fonz from Happy Days, who would literally snap his fingers to make a girl run over to him—in a world that's long since realized that those symbols' actions are degrading. Using terrible pick-up lines, invading someone's personal space, and having no personality beyond "I'm pretty!" isn't going to impress people anymore. The show also makes it clear that Johnny isn't supposed to be emulated or admired; his failure to get dates is because he's an obnoxious jerk, not because the women he's trying to woo are standoffish. invoked
  • Did Not Get the Girl: Johnny can almost never win the affections of any girl. Suzy is an exception (but she's too young for him), and one Spy Fiction spoof ends with him actually getting kissed by a female agent. The creators have said that Johnny does in fact get girls off-screen, but it's never shown since it would ruin the show's running joke.
  • Disability Immunity: Johnny is so dumb that an alien trying to drain his brain utters in shock that there's only emptiness before its visible brain explodes from the interaction.
  • Disappeared Dad: His dad is never seen or mentioned once throughout the whole series.
  • Disney Death: In Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood, he gets crushed by a giant award statue of himself and appears to die. He later comes to in a junkyard and finds out the magic hair gel he obtained has a side effect of enabling its users to withstand such things...in addition to causing the buttocks to shrink.
  • The Ditz: He is incredibly dimwitted and obnoxiously immature. This became Flanderized over times, sometimes to the point of making him Too Dumb to Live.
  • Dumbass Has a Point: Every now and then Johnny would get it.
    • In "Bearly Enough Time" Chronos says that signs on his cave says "Stay Out" to which Johnny responds that the sign really says "Do Not Enter Without Appointment." Likewise, when Chronos asks if Johnny knows who he is, Johnny responds "A bear in the woods."
    • In "Jumbo Johnny", one of his questions towards the Uber Mass salesman is if the product is government-approved.
    • In "Panic in Jerky Town", he admonishes Pops for asking what Ingredient X is, pointing out that if Jerky Jake revealed the secret ingredient, his competitors could copy his recipe.
  • Dumb Blonde: A male example; he has blonde hair and is pretty dimwitted and boorish.
  • Dumb Muscle: Despite his constant stupidity, he makes up for it with his strength, though he does get beat down by others who are twice as small at times.
  • Elvis Impersonator: His voice, mannerisms (e.g., he calls women "Mama" a lot) and hairstyle are unmistakably an Elvis impression. The pilot even has Johnny name-drop peanut butter and banana sandwiches, which were said to be one of the King's favorite snacks. Unlike most examples of this trope, it isn't a put-on. It's just Johnny's style.
  • Ethical Slut: Johnny may be a serial womanizer, but it's also firmly established that he has a clear moral code. He only goes after single women, and is always completely honest about his intentions. While he does occasionally try to change an aspect of his personality to get a date—such as becoming a newspaper reporter or pretending to like hip-hop—he also makes a genuine attempt to complete whatever task he gave himself. In the examples given, he tries to find a genuine news story and teams up with a hip-hop group to learn about their style, respectively. The episode "The Sensitive Male!" also proves that Johnny can't stand faux "Nice Guys" who pretend to be kind and polite, but are actually total jerks who treat women like dirt.
  • Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He's an obnoxious narcissist, but Johnny sincerely loves his mama more than anyone else.
    • One episode has Johnny trying to get a quick 25 dollars so he could buy his mama a pair of slippers that she really wanted. As usual, he fails, but Susie suggests that Johnny just tell his mom he loves her. While sitting on the stoop of his house, Johnny laments about how much he loves his mama but can't show it, with his mother right behind him, hearing the whole thing.
    • In "Blanky Hanky Panky", a villain in a cat costume named Felinius wanted to gather enough yarn to create a giant yarn ball with which to crush Aron City. Johnny intends to knock the guy's lights out for stealing his blanky. It's less because Johnny needs it and more because his mama made it for him.
  • Everyone Has Standards:
    • He'll only date you if you're an adult woman, not a kid. Sorry, that means you, Suzy.
    • He doesn't like to lie. Casanova Wannabe as he may be, Johnny despises guys who win women by being fake (as shown in "The Sensitive Male").
    • In "Third Dork from the Sun", he is unsettled to hear that the intergalactic game show he's on and has been doing well on so far punishes losing contestants by destroying their homeworlds.
    • He spends the entirety of "Did You See a Bull Run By Here?" being forced to fight a bull, and though he does defeat him, Johnny's disgusted when told the bull's now gonna be killed and eaten by the townspeople for losing. He immediately helps the bull get to safety.
    • In "Get Stinky", Johnny is nothing short of repulsed when he learns the gorgeous young woman he sees speaking with his mother is his childhood bully, Stinky Brownstein. And furthermore, he resists any of Stinky's flirting, as he look past her the misdeeds she did to him when they were kids.
  • Expy: Johnny Bravo was adapted from the student animation Mess O'Blues, which detailed the misadventures of a Elvis Presley impersonator, and Johnny concurrently takes after the performer. He sports a massive pompadour and constantly speaks in a deep Southern drawl similar to Presley's, but differs in the fact that his bravado is only impressive to himself, with everyone else seeing him as a buffoon. In fact, Jeff Bennett was cast as Johnny purely because Van Partible was impressed by his Elvis impressions.
  • Eyes Out of Sight: He never reveals his eyes behind his sunglasses. Averted in the Scooby Doo crossover when he puts on Velma's glasses by mistake and it turns out that he's got Black Bead Eyes when he's not wearing his sunglasses, as well as being hit by a volleyball in "Endless Bummer".
  • Failure Hero: Even in the series finale, he doesn't get a happy ending. He never managed to impress a single woman he wanted for very long, and he continued to be the Butt-Monkey of the series right up until the end with a lot of slapstick humor at his expense.
  • Fascinating Eyebrow: Johnny raises his all the time, seeing as how his glasses aren't an Expressive Mask.
  • Fictional Fan, Real Celebrity: He is a huge fan of Farrah Fawcett, because "she's the only person in the world whose hair is prettier than mine." When the Ink-Suit Actor Farrah visits Suzie, he goes to absurd lengths to get a chance to meet her. Farrah also voiced a minor character: an elderly lady with the hots for Farrah's bodyguard.
  • Flanderization: In the earlier episodes, Johnny was incredibly cocky, socially inept, reckless, and actually somewhat competent in martial arts. Also, while certainly not an Einstein-level genius, he possessed average intelligence, but could still be gullible and dimwitted. Starting in the second season, he was made to be completely stupid, immature, misogynistic and buff without any benefit. To elaborate, in the later seasons, Johnny, for all his bulk, is repeatedly humiliated by 6-year-old boys and girls, whereas in the pilot, he effortlessly mauled a CROCODILE. This was eventually reverted in the last season due to Van Partible's return.
  • Friend to All Living Things: A comedic variation. Johnny's greatest successes in the dating department have been, strangely, when he's tried hooking up with female animals. He's had female hens swooning over him, gone on a date with a werewolf named Fluffy, successfully dated a deer, hit on a nurse who'd become a anthropomorphic vixen due to gene-splicing, and even spent some time married to a female moose named Becky.
  • Hairstyle Inertia: A flashback showed Johnny's trademark hair even as a baby.
  • Handsome Lech: The entire series is based around handsome, muscular Johnny trying, and failing, to get a girl every episode.
  • Hidden Depths: It's implied in "Freudian Dip" by Johnny himself through role-playing that beneath his macho act he's actually afraid to genuinely love and pushes close friends away, while also being quite lonely and having problems with intimacy. He also admits he often dissolves in panic because of this.
  • Hollywood Tone-Deaf: This is the case in "Johnny B. Badd," where he wants to sing with Suzy's band, but is so terrible that Pops has to cut his mike before they can perform.
  • Hunk: He's tall, muscular, handsome and manly. Needless to say, his problem lies in his behavior...
  • Innocently Insensitive: As demonstrated by "The Sensitive Male!", Johnny doesn't view women as prizes to be won, and the scant few times he has gone on dates shows that he can be considerate. It's just that his ideas of how to make himself presentable to women are horribly outdated, and he's too much of an idiot to get the hint.
  • Insistent Terminology: In a comic book story, Johnny gets a job at the museum. He's a "custodial maintenance grounds technician" as he points out to whoever calls him a "janitor". The former job description is what the contract says.
  • Insufferable Imbecile: He is as much of a jerk as he is a dumbass, especially in seasons 2 and 3. A lot of the comedy in fact revolves around the trouble he gets himself into for being a narcissistic idiot or his tendency to make situations worse because of his inability to understand what's going on or heed the words of those who know better.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: Johnny, a grown adult, is friends with Little Suzy, a young girl.
  • I Want My Mommy!: The flashback of him being bullied by Little Ricky Simmons during his youth in "T is for Trouble" has him cry "Mama".
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He may be a boorish meathead with a questionable understanding of how to be respectful towards women, but he does love his mother deeply and is willing to do anything for her. He has also done selfless deeds without expecting any kind of reward, like ratting out the Sensitive Male as an insincere womanizer to the women he charmed the moment the Sensitive Male confessed to being dishonest. There have even been occasions where he tries to make Suzy happy after he regrets upsetting her (such as changing his mind about buying cookies from her in "Cookie Crisis" when his yelling at her to leave him alone causes her to cry and impersonating the Tooth Fairy to convince her he's wrong about the Tooth Fairy not existing in "Tooth or Consequences").
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: He's constantly beaten up and humiliated but despite that he deserves it for being a obnoxious and sleazy Casanova Wannabe who hits on women without remorse.
  • Ladykiller in Love: Very rarely, but Johnny did, in a Scooby-Doo crossover (or at least a Cartoon Network bumper), fall hard for Velma.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: He always gets his comeuppance whenever he goes too far with his Casanova Wannabe behavior or him being a Jerkass to Carl and Suzy.
  • Large Ham: His density it's only second to how he's a loud show-off. Borrowing the tics and mannerisms from a standout larger-than-life musician helps.
  • Lethally Stupid: His idiocy has at times put people's lives in danger, with "Bootman" even having his boneheaded shenanigans apparently causing the deaths of the Green Swoosh and the rest of the Astounding League of Super-People.
  • Lovable Sex Maniac: He will hit on any attractive woman he meets and he is almost always rejected with a few exceptions, though that doesn't make him detestable unlike many other examples due to the fact that he's genuinely clueless as to what women find wrong about him.
  • Lust Makes You Dumb: He regularly objectifies women and hits on them in brazien fashion. This regularly causes him Amusing Injuries from said women.
  • Made of Iron: The dude is practically indestructible. He's been flatten by sumo wrestlers, hit by cars, thrown over waterfalls, beaten up by kung-fu masters, and struck by lightning. Yet, he hardly ever comes out the worse for wear.
  • Manchild: He lives with his mother, has very poor common sense, and tends to throw fits when he gets upset.
  • Momma's Boy: The only girl who actually does love him dearly is his momma, an affection that Johnny wholeheartedly returns. His momma means the world to him and the mere thought that someone might upset her is enough to make Johnny genuinely angry.
  • Morality Chain: In the It's a Wonderful Plot episode, while the world is generally better off, they gloss over one thing he actually does that benefits everyone; without him to have a Precocious Crush on, Suzy becomes a terrorist.
  • Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite being absolutely ripped, good luck ever seeing him win in a fight or anything similar to one. It's a borderline Running Gag that Johnny gets knocked around by people not even half his size.
  • Narcissist: Johnny is very full of himself, constantly checking mirrors and flexing in front of women. He believes every woman on Earth loves him as much as he loves himself. You'd think he'd get the hint after they punch his lights out...
  • Nobody Touches the Hair: When he gets beat up by anyone else, he would often say "Watch the hair".
  • No Mouth: His mouth is only visible when he speaks or when he needs it to display certain emotions.
  • Offscreen Moment of Awesome: According to the creators, Johnny does in fact get girls, but it is always offscreen because if we see him succeeding, then it ruins the joke. Given that an attempt to sacrifice him to a volcano ended with the volcano spitting him out, he's implicitly gotten laid at least once.
  • Paper Tiger: Johnny is a pretty muscular-looking guy, but he's always getting beaten up by the women with whom he flirts. Although in one episode he WRESTLES A CROCODILE; it could be he Would Not Hit a Girl.
  • Parental Substitute: Despite himself, Johnny often acts like a substitute father to Suzy in lieu of her actual parents. He visits her in the hospital in "Intensive Care", and she uses him as an adult chaperone in episodes like "Under the Big Flop" (where he takes her to the circus) and "Aunt Katie's Farm" (where he takes her to a live recording of the titular show).
  • Parent-Child Team: In the online game Super Snowmobile Rally, he and his mother Bunny are a team in the snowmobile race, and you can choose to play as them or compete against them.
  • Screams Like a Little Girl: His voice is pretty deep, but he's pretty good at giving girlish screams when he's scared, especially in later episodes.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: The muscular, overly masculine Manly Man to Carl's nerdy Sensitive Guy.
  • Significant Birth Date: His birthday just so happens to be on Valentine's Day.
  • Situational Sexuality: It is heavily implied that his interest was peaked by the Island of Beautiful Men (being a rejected volcano sacrifice beforehand most likely helped).
  • Small Name, Big Ego: His defining trait is that he thinks he's cooler than he actually is.
  • Straw Misogynist: Turned into this in later seasons. He had his misogynistic moments as early as "Red Faced in the White House," where he says he thought women didn't really like to vote.
  • Strong as They Need to Be: At times he can smash rocks with his head. At others, he loses to a kid.
  • Testosterone Poisoning: Johnny is a deconstructed example in that for all his extreme manliness, he gets rejected by almost every girl he meets anyway because doing shallow things like flexing his pecs is all he knows.
  • This Loser Is You: Doesn't get the girl? Check. Still lives with his mother? Check. The main Butt-Monkey? Check.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: Johnny has some cases where he got a girl's interest without her rejecting him:
    • One example is from the 4th season where Johnny flirts with the mother of a sci-fi geek and she actually looked to be digging it. Another case is from Johnny Bravo Goes To Bollywood, where Girl of the Week Sumi takes a shine to Johnny when they meet, complete with showing up at his trailer sexily wrapped like a gift only for Johnny to tell her he's dealing with ''mama issues" (since he just found Bunny there in his trailer) and immediately slam the door in her face.
    • Another one is in the Valentine episode where he gets a date with Heather, a spy who hits it off rather well with Johnny. They seem absolutely perfect for each other, but she erases his memory to protect him from her job.
  • Took a Level in Dumbass: Johnny obviously wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer when he first appeared, but you can tell later episodes played up his idiocy and immaturity more and more. The final season reverted him back to his season one personality.
  • Top-Heavy Guy: He has a massive upper body, but his legs are thin and rather short compared to the rest of him. Justified, since we only ever see him training his upper body.
  • Trademark Favorite Food:
    • Deep-fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches.
    • In the Kirk Tingblad seasons, Johnny really loves nachos.
  • Trauma Button: Any mention of little Ricky Simmons, the school bully who bullied him as a kid, will cause him to curl up in a fetal position and call for his mother.
    Mr T: Evidently for some people, T stands for "Traumatized".
  • Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: He's narcissistic and self-centered, but it's funny because all his attempts to get girls end up in failure. How sympathetic he is depends on how he's portrayed.
  • Vocal Evolution: His voice was originally much deeper and more suave-sounding before it became goofy and high-pitched sounding in season 2 and 3.
  • Wasted Beauty: Despite having the looks, he repulses women because he's full of himself and kind of a boor.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: In one episode, he has recurring nightmares about a horrible green monster, prompting Suzy to act as his therapist.
  • Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Implied considering that he never fights back whenever he gets attacked/beaten up by women anytime he flirts with them.
  • Wrestler of Beasts: The pilot episode features a scene where he fights and defeats an alligator. This was before he got flanderized into an idiotic weakling.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Even when he does get a girlfriend he ends up getting rejected or he rejects his girlfriend considering that he finds her to be too clingy or undesirable or both.
  • You Were Trying Too Hard: Johnny tends to have more success with women when he isn't trying to woo them over (but this isn't always good news). This is best seen in the episode "To Helga and Back", where Johnny orders a mail bride and receives a Brawn Hilda from an unspecified european country. Johnny is initially repulsed by her, while she's head over heels for him, but when Johnny finally finds himself attracted by her and tries his usual routine, she imediatelly dumps him for Carl.

    Bunny Bravo 
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Click here to see Bunny in Season 2-Season 3 
Voiced by: Brenda Vaccaro

Johnny's dear sweet mother who would do anything for her baby and vice versa.

  • The Ace: She's good at martial arts, racecar driving and flying planes amongst many other talents.
  • Action Mom: She can play this trope whenever necessary.
  • Alliterative Name: Bunny Bravo.
  • Cool Old Lady: An old, nice woman.
  • Cool Shades: Johnny obviously gets this from his mom.
  • Glamorous Single Mother: Implied, due to Johnny's father never been shown or mentioned.
  • Hartman Hips: Well, Butch Hartman did work on the series, so her hips are wide.
  • Mama Bear: To Johnny. Anyone who dares to cause harm to her son in front of her risks suffering her wrath.
  • Never Mess with Granny: Bunny may be a sweet old lady, but anyone who messes with her "baby" Johnny is in for a world of hurt. She's shown to fly fighter planes, ride a motorcycle, and study various forms of martial arts throughout the series, and is often seen exercising to keep herself in good shape.
  • Only Sane Woman: Has the tendency to act like the straight woman to her son and sometimes even other characters.
  • Parent-Child Team: In the online game Super Snowmobile Rally, she and her son Johnny are a team in the snowmobile race, and you can choose to play as them or compete against them.
  • Parent with New Paramour: She dates a younger man named Raul in "Mama's New Boyfriend", who Johnny believes is only dating his mother for her money.
  • Silver Fox: She can't be any older than her 50's, but still looks somewhat attractive.

    Little Suzy 
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Voiced by: Mae Whitman

The "annoying little neighbor girl" who has a secret crush on Johnny and likes to play with him and is also a frequent source of Johnny's frustration.

    Carl Chryniszzswics 
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Click here to see Carl in Season 4 
Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A nerd who insists that he and Johnny are total best friends, much to Johnny's disappointment.

  • Alliterative Name: Carl Chryniszzswics.
  • Ambiguously Bi: Zigzagged. At times he seems a little too attached to Johnny and even ruins his chances with women a few times, presumably because he wants him to himself. In the episode "Doomates" where Johnny moves into Pops' trailer and has to pay him a monthly rent, he asks Carl to pay him to be his roommate. Which makes Carl a little too excited and makes Johnny instantly have second thoughts. Though, in "Lodge Brother Johnny" he states he sees Johnny as a brother to him, and he did fall in love with a girl in "To Helga and Back" with the titular character, and by the end of the episode they're a couple.
  • Annoying Laugh: His laugh sounds like a high-pitched sheep making "baa" sounds, and he only laughs sometimes instead of often.
  • Art Evolution: Due to Van Partible returning to work on the last season, Carl was given a redesign that made him much more average-looking with rounder features particularly his arms, which also made him lose his Geek Physique.
  • Attention Whore: He openly admits he's this in "Clan of the Cave Boob."
    Johnny: None of that story is true, is it, Carl?
    Carl: No. I made it all up because I crave attention.
  • The Bully: One episode reveals that he was a leather-clad tough while he and Johnny were in high school together, and he frequently beat up the (then-small) Johnny for his lunch money.
  • Butt-Monkey: Bad stuff happens to him a lot, even more so in the last season.
  • Captain Crash: Anytime Carl gets into a car, it will not end well.
  • Catchphrase:
    • "Johnny, no!" Usually after Johnny does something stupid with one of his experiments or inventions.
    • "Hi, Johnny!" Whenever he made an appearance in Season 4.
  • The Chew Toy: In the last season, to the point of where his episode appearances consisted of him nothing but receiving some form of pain or misfortune.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He doesn't appear at all in Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood.
  • Demoted to Extra: The last season heavily cut his screen time to the point where he only had one major episode ("Run, Johnny, Run!"), though he fared better than Pops who only appeared in one episode with a cameo role.
  • Foil: Carl is pretty much Johnny's total opposite in terms of their personalities. Johnny is rude and aloof, while Carl is nice and friendly. Johnny is an idiot who engages is physical exercising and is very strong and buff, while Carl is intelligent and is very thin and weak when it comes to physical exercising.
  • Flat Character: In the last season, Carl's scientist background and hobbies were removed to the point of where the only angle of his character was to be a nerd who would say "Hi, Johnny!" whenever he appeared on screen.
  • Innocently Insensitive: In "Johnny Goes to Camp", Carl mistakenly thought Johnny was attending a computer camp called Camp Gigabyte, to which despite him being happy to see Johnny he openly tells Johnny that he thought he was too stupid to learn about computers.
  • Insult Backfire: In "Bikini Space Planet", he brings up that Johnny once called him the Mayor of Doofus Town, which he takes as a compliment due to being focused on the "mayor" part.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Knowing what a jerk he used to be to Johnny it's pretty hard to feel sorry for him whenever the latter inflicts pain on him.
  • Nice Guy: A kind, loyal friend to Johnny who knows how to respect woman and has a strong sense of justice.
  • No Mouth: Like Johnny, his mouth isn't visible unless he's using it (at least prior to his Season 4 redesign).
  • Oblivious to Hatred: Most of the time he's oblivious to the fact that Johnny despises him considering that he always hangs out with him no matter how many times he mistreats him.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Carl is suddenly introduced in season 2 as a long-time acquaintance of Johnny, despite none of the episodes in the first season featuring him.
  • Self-Made Man: In "Johnny's Guardian Angel", it's revealed that, without Johnny around to ruin his inventions, they'd make him rich and famous. That reality's version of Pops even says their town is on the map because of him.
  • Sensitive Guy and Manly Man: Sensitive Guy to Johnny's Manly Man.
  • Vocal Evolution: It took a little while for Tom Kenny to find Carl's voice (No Pun Intended); in earlier episodes, Carl tends to sound like a nasally version of Dog before growing into his nerdy SpongeBob-esque voice.
  • Wholesome Crossdresser: Carl frequently dresses like a woman.

    Pops 
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Voiced by: Larry Drake

The owner of the local diner that Johnny enjoys for an odd reason.

  • Adults Are Useless: He often gives tips and advice to Johnny; however, his advice often turns out to be useless, sometimes provoking trouble for Johnny.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He doesn't show up at all in Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood.
  • Demoted to Extra: Despite being a major character in the previous two seasons, the final season only features him in a voiceless cameo in "Johnny Makeover".
  • Expansion Pack Past: Played for Laughs. Pops will often reveal a strange aspect of his long life—for example, he once spent time hunting giant squid in the Pacific Ocean—for the sake of a gag. Also in his first appearance, he stated that he used to be a nuclear physicist as he was trying to make a machine to teleport Johnny back to Earth after he was abducted by female space aliens.
  • Greed: One of his defining character traits is his greed for money and willingness to do anything for his get rich quick schemes, such as taking advantage of Johnny's talents to enrich himself and make unfair profit shares with Johnny.
  • Honest John's Dealership: Occasionally he's honest about his food, it’s just really gross and has strange ingredients in it. "A Gel For Johnny" shows that one of the secret ingredients to his diner's chili is hair gel.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While he has used Johnny for his get rich quick schemes a number of times and his advice for Johnny's problems usually put Johnny in even more trouble, along with his willingness to serve disgusting food to his customers, Pops is nonetheless a nice guy who thinks of Johnny and Carl as his friends and never hesitates to help them and has had his moments of coming through for them.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite his food being unsanitary enough to have his diner be closed down, he manages to keep it open through bribing health inspectors to go away, allowing him to get away with serving the food to his customers.
  • Large Ham: Some of his April Fool's pranks really wouldn't work on anyone but Johnny.
    Pops: You're an awfully good sport, considering YOUR FACE IS MELTING!!
  • Lethal Chef: His diner's chili is made from rather suspicious ingredients that has made it so spicy it can burn a hole through the Earth's crust, and he serves food made from many animals, such as possums, pandas, cougars, seals, horses, and bald eagles.
  • Losing Your Head: "Brave New Johnny" shows his diner to be still in business after several centuries, with Pops still running the place as a head kept alive in a jar as a result of being decapitated in an accident.
  • Mean Boss: His treatment of his diner's chef Bobo borders on abusive.
  • Modern Major General: Captaining a ship, taking photos, fitting in at a high society party, being a freak show barker; Pops seems to be able to do nearly anything except make food that doesn't violate public health codes.
  • Out of Focus: Even though Pops and Carl were given reduced roles in the final season, Carl was at least still considered part of the cast since he still had speaking roles and was given a major role in one episode (Run, Johnny, Run!) and was still considered to be one of Johnny's friends in another episode ("Adam West Date-O-Rama"), and he was also featured in the opening intro along with Suzy and Bunny. Pops on the other hand is not the same case, as he appeared in one episode in the last season which was a non-speaking cameo role ("Johnny Makeover"), and that's pretty much it.
  • Parental Abandonment: Quite possibly. In "Doomates", he claims to have left home when he was three and never looked back, which cues a Cutaway Gag of him as a toddler climbing aboard a boxcar full of hobos.
  • Parental Substitute: He sort of has this relationship with Johnny, given he often gives Johnny help with situations and is along with Johnny's mom the only two characters of the cast that Johnny gets along with.
  • Remember the New Guy?: Season 2 introduced Pops as someone Johnny apparently always knew and a mainstay in his friend circle despite him not appearing in any of the first season's episodes.
  • Suspiciously Specific Denial: He's very quick to provide elaborately detailed excuses as to how he definitely didn't commit crimes or put non-edible animals in his food. In one episode, he launches into an intricate account of how someone might prepare house cats for meals...then insists that he's naturally never considered it.
  • We Sell Everything: A variation of "We Cook Everything." Pops will put anything into his oven if he thinks it might make him a quick buck. He occasionally lets it slip that he's cooked everything from pandas to cats to bald eagles.

    Bobo 
Voiced by: Frank Welker

The head chef at Pops' diner.

  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He stopped making appearances after the third season.
  • Cool Mask: For no known reason, he wears a green luchador mask.
  • Demoted to Extra: Went from an occasionally appearing character in the second season to only appearing in one episode of the third season.
  • The Unintelligible: Except for his counterpart in an alternate timeline shown in "Johnny's Guardian Angel", he never says any actual words and just mumbles unintelligibly.

    Donny Osmond 
Voiced by: Donny Osmond

A fictional version of the real-life pop singer with the same name. He was Johnny's nanny in his first appearance, much to Johnny's dismay since he hates him.

  • As Himself: Is blatantly the actual Donny Osmond voicing an animated version of himself.
  • Butt-Monkey: He gets this at times, particularly at the end of his first appearance where he gets struck my lightning.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. Johnny is pretty much the only character shown who doesn't like Donny, and Leo the pilot from A Johnny Bravo Christmas has gotten some annoyance from Donny as he finds him conceited.
  • Fun Personified: Even when he's in danger such as in a plane crash, that doesn't stop him from having fun.
  • The Music Meister: Downplayed. Usually when he shows up he tries to start a musical number, but they don't last for very long.
  • Nice Guy: Very much to the point of where he never gets sad or angry, though that doesn't stop Johnny from finding him annoying.
  • Recurring Character: He has this status whenever Van Partible has worked on the show. He appeared in two episodes from Season 1 and Season 4 respectively, and he appeared in both of the half-hour holiday specials.

    Mayor of Aron City 
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett (Seasons 1-3), Frank Welker (Season 4)

Aron City's mayor.

  • Mistaken for Cheating: Due to a gift mix-up on Johnny's part in "Twas the Night", the mayor suffers his wife's wrath when she assumes him to be cheating on her with a woman named Bunny.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: His voice and implied reputation as a womanizer are overtly based on Bill Clinton.
  • You Don't Look Like You: He looks younger and has black hair and a mustache in "Hail to the Chump".

    Jungle Boy 
Voiced by: Cody Dorkin

A boy who lives in the jungle, and is considered its prized jewel.

  • 100% Heroism Rating: He does heroic deeds and is rewarded for his selflessness by being loved by all the animals in the jungle except for King Raymond.
  • Advertised Extra: He appears among the people who show up to do the Monkey with Johnny Bravo in the first season's title sequence, but in-series only shows up in four episodes, one of which only features him in a brief cameo, as well as a between-segments short that parodies the Tootsie Pop commercial.
  • All-Loving Hero: He is on good terms with most of the animals and doesn't even hold a grudge for Johnny accidentally breaking his leg.
  • Cute Bruiser: He's an adorable child who is strong enough to subject King Raymond to Metronomic Man Mashing.
  • Children Are Innocent: He's a sweet little boy who hardly has animosity towards anyone.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He appeared in several episodes in the first season, but disappeared afterwards when Kirk Tingblad took over as showrunner during the second and third seasons. Not even the Van Partible-helmed half-hour holiday specials and fourth season featured him.
  • Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: King Raymond and Vivian Vixen are the only people Jungle Boy dislikes.
  • Expy: He's essentially a much younger take on Tarzan, being a human who lives in the jungle among the animals.
  • Flight: His final appearance reveals that he can fly.
  • Loincloth: He is an expy of Tarzan, after all, so it would make sense he'd wear a loincloth.
  • Nature Hero: He lives in the jungle with anthropomorphic animals.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: He is a little boy with Super-Strength.

    King Raymond 
Voiced by: Michael McKean ("Mr. Monkeyman"), Mark Hamill ("Bungled in the Jungle")

An ape who is king of the jungle where Jungle Boy lives, who is jealous of how much his subjects love Jungle Boy and wishes to turn them against the kid.

  • 0% Approval Rating: Much to his indignation, his subjects don't think very highly of him.
  • Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: The only clothing he wears is his crown.
  • Easy Impersonation: He tries to ruin Jungle Boy's reputation by impersonating him. In spite of being a simian and way taller than the real Jungle Boy, shaving his body hair and wearing a loincloth as well as a wig is apparently enough to fool the other animals.
  • Fantastic Racism: He hates humans.

    Christopher the Elephant 
Voiced by: David Lander

An elephant Johnny has occasionally encountered, first appearing as a bouncer at the island of Amazons in "Johnny Bravo and the Amazon Women".

    Aunt Jebidisa 
Voiced by: B. J. Ward, Greg Burson (as the Ghostly Gardener)

Johnny's aunt, who appears in the Scooby-Doo crossover "Bravo Dooby Doo"

  • Cast as a Mask: She has a different voice actor for when she is disguised as the Ghostly Gardener.
  • Dirty Old Woman: The episode ends with her flirting with Shaggy.
  • Evil Uncle: She pretended to be a ghost all to try and scare her nephew away due to disliking him.
  • Jerkass to One: She doesn't mind anyone as long as it's not her nephew considering that she finds him to be an embarrassment to her family.
  • Karma Houdini: She receives no punishment for her actions against Johnny and the gang. In fact, she gets the gang to turn on Johnny, who they leave tied to a tree in the woods.
  • Kick the Dog: She convinced the Mystery gang to tie Johnny to a tree and leave him behind in order to get him out of her hair.

    Master Hamma 
Voiced by: Brian Tochi

Johnny's Japanese martial arts instructor.

  • Advertised Extra: He appears in the intro for the second and third seasons even though the total number of episodes featuring him can be counted on one hand.
  • Badass Teacher: He's a very competent and capable martial arts sensei.
  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: While Carl and Pops at least had their presence reduced in the fourth season, Master Hamma stands out as one of the characters introduced in the second season to not show up at all after Van Partible returned to the series.
  • Grumpy Old Man: Not necessarily grumpy all the time, just when he's around Johnny.
  • Manly Facial Hair: Naturally, as a cartoon martial arts sensei, he has an impressive mustache to further cement in viewers' minds that he's a badass.

    Smelly Raymond 
Voiced by: Pat Musick

A boy who goes to school with and has a crush on Little Suzy.

    Skippy 

A boy who wants to take Little Suzy to the school dance in "My Fair Dork", leading to Johnny taking him under his wing to teach him how to be cool.

  • Abhorrent Admirer: Before Johnny's makeover, Little Suzy isn't pleased by Skippy's interest in her.
  • Likes Older Women: He's a child who ends the episode hooking up with an adult woman.

    Prospector 
Voiced by: Frank Welker

A crazy old man who seems to be stuck in the Old West, and in every appearance he seems to be after gold in all the wrong places.

  • Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: He was among the characters introduced during the Kirk Tingblad run to not have the luxury of resurfacing in minimal roles like Carl and Pops during Van Partible's return to the show.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Never called anything but "the prospector".

    Big Fat Roy 
Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

An overweight thug encountered by Johnny and a gorilla in the original pilot.

  • All There in the Script: He isn't named in the episode, but is identified as Big Fat Roy in the end credits.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: He casually mentions having a wife in a context indicating he wouldn't dream of being unfaithful to her after Mary the Zookeeper jokes about him being Johnny's date.
  • Evil Brit: He has a Cockney accent.
  • Fat Bastard: He's obese and a criminal.

    Chronos, MASTER OF ALL TIME 
Voiced by: Brock Peters

A very large hungry grizzly bear out to get Johnny. He lives in a cave with various sorts of clocks. He calls himself the master of time.

  • Bears Are Bad News: A grizzly bear who wants to attack Johnny.
  • Big "NO!": His first line is yelling "No" after waking up to see that Johnny had destroyed all his clocks.
  • Dramatic Thunder: It accompanies nearly every instance of him introducing himself.
  • Fatal Flaw: For all his mastery of timekeeping and brute strength, he still cannot figure out how to program the VCR clock, and is easily distracted or temporarily tricked by the blinking 12:00.
  • Large Ham: Nearly every time he introduces himself, he introduces himself as "CHRONOS, MASTER OF ALL TIME!!!!!!," complete with Dramatic Thunder.

    Fluffy 
Voiced by: Anne Bloom, Xander Berkeley (as Melvin)

A werewolf who Johnny meets after answering a personal add. In the day time, she is a gorgeous, flirtatious woman but during the night, she transforms into a werewolf...

  • Berserk Button: She gets very annoyed when a restaurant waiter at "Meat-o-Rama" asks if she would like a doggie bag, demanding to know what he means by that.
  • Big Eater: She has a very voracious appetite. She downs a fairly sizable paper-bag full of dog biscuits in seconds when first meeting Johnny, and then follows suit with plates of assorted meats at the "Meat-o-Rama" restaurant. When she inadvertently scares off the customers and staff at an ice cream joint, she decides to look on the bright side, grabbing a whole tub of icecream and chowing down.
  • Cute Monster Girl: Zigzagged. In-universe, she's treated as a subversion, as she transforms into a anthropomorphic wolf, complete with snout and full-body fur coat, which terrifies everybody other than Johnny. However, despite this, she still retains her very feminine form and acts quite flirtatious. At the very least, Johnny is able to tolerate spending a night on a date with her, even if he's privately waiting for her to turn back into a pretty human lady at dawn.
  • Gender Bender: She also becomes a man named Melvin on Wednesdays. In this form, she looks like George Constanza and is obsessed with stamp-collecting.
  • Our Werewolves Are Different: She's a woman who transforms into an anthropomorphic female wolf at night. There's no particular inclination towards viciousness (though she does love dog biscuits, and eats them even in human form), but the physical change does freak people out. Also, whilst normally she changes back into her human form at sunrise, if it's a Wednesday, she changes into a human man... a George Constanza-lookalike who's obsessed with stamp collecting, at that.
  • Pink Means Feminine: She wears pink shoes with a pink dress, which helps remind viewers that she's a woman.
  • More Teeth than the Osmond Family: Sheepish grins and a jawline filled with jagged fangs don't really mix, as poor Fluffy repeatedly discovers.
  • Trademark Favorite Food: Dog biscuits and meat. She likes the former so much that she devours an entire bag in seconds even whilst still in human form.
  • Wonderful Werewolf: She isn't intentionally malicious and is friendly for the most part.

    Stinky Brownstein 
Voiced by: Grey DeLisle

Johnny's childhood nemesis who used to prank him all the time. She moves back to the neighborhood with a stunning new appearance and seems to be interested in Johnny, who still doesn't trust her.

  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: It's not revealed until the end of the episode that she was faking being in love with Johnny, just so she could prank him again.
  • Loving Bully: Her entire debut episode was meant to imply that she was this to Johnny as kids. Later Averted as it's revealed that she was just trying to mess with him again.
  • She's All Grown Up: She was very homely as a child and even used to wear braces but is now so attractive that Johnny even tried to hit on her, until he recognized her as his childhood bully.

    Becky Jones the moose 
Voiced by: Melissa Peterman

A female moose who "marries" Johnny as part of the Wilderness protection program in order to hide from the mob.

  • Conspiracy Theorist: Both she and Johnny believed that the mob was planning to steal honey to give to the mole people in order to take over the world.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: While the marriage is just for show, Becky did seem annoyed when she saw Johnny doing his usually flirting routine.
  • Cute Clumsy Girl: Averted since she IS A moose, but she does have the usual personality.
  • House Wife: Tried to be this but due to her size and clumsiness, it left a bit to be desired.
  • Prone to Tears: She cries whenever she thinks Johnny is criticizing her.

    Heather Asplund 
Voiced by: Molly Shannon

A woman whom Bunny sets Johnny up on a date for Valentine's. She is an attractive redhead who for all intents and purposes, is very similar to Johnny and the two hit it off....

  • Action Girl: She is a secret agent and is very good at kicking butt.
  • Birds of a Feather: Like Johnny, she is very fond of doing poses and looking at her reflection, which is part of the reason Johnny grew to like her for more than just her looks.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: A variation as Heather wipes all memory of herself from Johnny's mind in order to protect him.
  • Fiery Redhead: She seems to be even temper....when she's not fighting off against enemy spies at least.
  • Lady in Red: She wears a red long sleeved minidress, with red boots.
  • The One That Got Away: Made even more tragic since she made Johnny completely forget about her and thus, forget about the one woman who's absolutely perfect for him.
  • Redheads Are Ravishing: She has long voluminous red hair

    Rootsy 
Voiced by: Candi Milo

The daughter of the chief of a forest tribe who nearly married Johnny in one episode.

  • Accidental Marriage: Kind of. Johnny attempts to flirt with her by giving her a flower and she drags him back to her village since giving a girl a flower is a proposal to her people. Johnny decides to go along with it until Carl ruins everything.
  • All Amazons Want Hercules: Unlike most of the women he hits on, Rootsie did seem impressed by Johnny and his physical form, its somewhat justified since her people are a warrior tribe
  • Bait-and-Switch: After she bonks Johnny with a club, we all assume it was going to be the typical shenanigans but it's shown she was just dragging Johnny back to introduce him to her father since she thought Johnny was proposing to her and she was willing to marry him, had Carl not interfered.
  • The Chief's Daughter: Her father seems to be the leader of their tribe.
  • Girl of the Week: Like all of Johnny's love interests. However she is one of the very few who liked him back.
  • The One That Got Away: Surprisingly enough, Johnny is this to her. She was really looking forward to marrying him and even tried to ask her father to spare him, and even cried when Johnny escaped his sentence, showing that she did really like him.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: Her name is not mentioned but Johnny calls her Rootsie.
  • Speech-Impeded Love Interest: With the exception of Johnny's fantasy, she cannot speak English at all, unlike her father.

    Sumi 
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Voiced by: Sheetal Sheth
A woman introduced in the hour long special Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood. Sumi quickly fell for Johnny, and is quite possibly his only potential love interest. Not that he has a problem with that or anything.

    Jiggy 
Voiced by: Sunil Malhotra
A famous and handsome Bollywood movie star in Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood. He gets jealous of Johnny's rise to stardom, but later joins forces with him to confront the villain.

  • Accidental Misnaming: Johnny frequently calls him "Jiggly".
  • Break the Haughty: He starts off as very arrogant and self-absorbed, but learns a thing or two about humility after the producers ditch him in favor of Johnny and Johnny later reconciles with him after he is dumped by the producers himself.
  • Duck Season, Rabbit Season: When Pinky and Shinky offer to become his new agents on the deal they get 80%, Jiggy insists that they get 40%, and the bickering goes on until the girls manipulate Jiggy into insisting on 80%.
  • "I Am Great!" Song: He gets a whole musical number devoted to gloating about being a famous celebrity.

    Jeeves 
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett
Johnny's monkey butler in Johnny Bravo Goes to Bollywood.

    Sweet Cheeks 
Voiced by: John Kassir
A supervillain with an obsession for candy, chocolate, and all things sweet. He appears intended as a foil when Johnny tries to be a superhero, but proves to be surprisingly dangerous for such a hammy silly villain, especially against someone as strong as Johnny.

  • Acrofatic: His corpulence doesn't seem to slow him down in the least.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: When Johnny stands in his way or otherwise challenges him, the hammy but otherwise unintimidating Sweet Cheeks wastes no time with supervillain shenanigans and simply beats Johnny up badly. Despite his odd target of theft and silly appearance, Sweet Cheeks is still a professional criminal and extremely dangerous. It's also implied he kept his weakness a secret to prevent anyone from simply melting him with water.
  • Death by Irony: An accidental deluge by Johnny reveals that Sweet Cheeks had been made of candy (and just as soluble) all along.
  • Fat Bastard: He's quite chubby, as one might expect from someone obsessed with candy.
  • I'm Melting!: When Johnny accidentally hoses him down, Sweet Cheeks begins dissolving and bubbling, eventually seeping away into only a few tiny puddles. His gloves and boots at first seem to be the only things left, but then melt away all the same.
  • Misanthrope Supreme: When he attempts to turn Suzy into candy, he states that he has an extreme hatred for all people.
  • Monster Clown: Sweet Cheeks mostly looks like an ordinary person dressed as a clown without makeup. Definitely not someone you want at birthday parties though.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He was going to turn Suzy into candy and eat her.

    The Sensitive Male 
Voiced by: Jack Sheldon

A short, balding seemingly nice man who Johnny once asked for advice on how to pick up woman. He is later revealed to be a fraud who just pretends to be nice in order to get women to date him.

  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He may seem kind, sensitive and helpful on the outside, but on the inside he's even more of a womanizing jerk than Johnny, since he has no qualms against lying to woman to get their attention or cheating on them behind their backs.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Not him but Johnny in regards to him. Johnny might be a sexist womanizer but he is against being a fake around women and didn't hesitate to tell the man's girlfriends the truth about him once he became aware of what a jerk he really is.
    The Sensitive Male: Temporary insanity, ladies! That's what it was!
    Johnny: What a jerk.
  • Fat Bastard: He's a bit portly and his sensitive attitude towards women turns out to be insincere.
  • Hypocrite: He spent the entire episode chastising Johnny over his boorish behavior around women, only to later reveal he not only lies to women, but cheats on them too. He apparently thought he could teach Johnny how even pretending to be nice would be enough for him to properly seduce them.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Once he reveals that he was just faking being a Nice Guy and even sings about it, Johnny reveals his true nature to all of the woman he's been stringing along, who proceed to beat him up and carry him away via tribal pole to await further punishment.
  • Musical Episode: He sings a whole bunch of short songs throughout his episode when giving advice, complete with a trio of chorus singers to back him up.
  • No Name Given: His name is never mentioned.
  • Shout-Out: His design and his musical numbers all seem to draw from Schoolhouse Rock!.
  • Single Woman Seeks Good Man: He knows this trope well and fakes it in order to get woman to go out with him.

    Carol 
Voiced by: Gabrielle Carteris

A talking antelope Johnny once dated after meeting her on the Internet.

  • Interspecies Romance: She is a talking antelope who dates the human Johnny and is later shown to have previously been in a relationship with a crab.
  • Partially Civilized Animal: Lack of clothing and limited dexterity aside, her behavior is almost indistinguishable from a human woman.
  • Talking Animal: She's a non-anthropomorphic antelope who can talk.

    Ned 
Voiced by: Mark Klastorin

A crab who is Carol's ex-boyfriend.

    Felinius 
Voiced by: Jeffrey Tambor

A lunatic in a cat costume who tries to steal all the wool and yarn in Aron City so he can use it to create a giant ball of yarn with which he can crush the city.

  • Flipping the Bird: Surprisingly, he gives Johnny the finger at one point.
  • Heel–Face Door-Slam: After he is defeated by Johnny, he sees the error of his ways, but this doesn't spare him the wrath of Johnny's mom and the other women intent on punishing him for stealing all the yarn.
  • Tar and Feathers: His ultimate fate is getting tarred and feathered.

    Alphonse 
Voiced by: Maurice LaMarche

A hospital orderly who puts Johnny through all sorts of torment and pain in "Intensive Care" under the excuse that it's punishment for Johnny being fresh towards the hospital's nurse.

  • Amazing Technicolor Population: His skin is bluish.
  • Lorre Lookalike: He speaks with a Peter Lorre impression and even has fish-like eyes.
  • Orderlies are Creeps: He subjects Johnny to various indignities and forms of pain. While he claims that it's to punish Johnny for being too forward with the nurse, it's rather blatant that he's only using this as an excuse for harming and degrading Johnny.

    Dr. Pencilneck 

A nerdy scientist who attempts to use an invention of his to make everyone in the world look like him.

  • Bald of Evil: He is balding.
  • Politically Correct Villain: His justification for making everyone look like he does is that this way, no one would be deemed better or worse looking than any other person. Jane Bonded notes how horrible, yet politically correct, this plan is.

    Berry Vanderbolten 
Voiced by: Tom Kane

A famous musician who ends up becoming a temporary butler to the Bravo household because of a contest won by Bunny Bravo.

    Timmy 
Voiced by: Kevin McDonald

A six-year-old boy with reality-warping abilities Johnny babysits to earn money for a car he wants, only to find that the job is more than he bargained for.

  • Enfant Terrible: He's a little psycho who has browbeaten his parents into becoming Stepford Smilers who spinelessly let him have his way and doesn't hesitate to use his powers to torment Johnny once Johnny makes the mistake of being confrontational towards him.
  • Expy: He's a rather obvious pastiche of Anthony Fremont from The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "It's a Good Life".
  • Reality Warper: He is able to make impossible things happen, with the ways he torments Johnny including shrinking him, swapping each other's heads and teleporting Johnny to the cornfield.
  • Spoiled Brat: His parents warn Johnny that he can only think happy thoughts and mustn't do anything to make Timmy angry. Johnny doesn't abide, even after he witnesses firsthand that he's dealing with a reality-warping little monster who won't hesitate to punish anyone who dares to defy his whims.

    Prince Hondo 
Voiced by: Jeff Bennett

A prince who happens to look identical to Johnny.

  • Be Careful What You Wish For: He deliberately chose Johnny as the one to switch places with him due to wanting his replacement to be too stupid to usurp the throne. Unfortunately for him, Johnny is also too stupid to keep things from falling into disarray in Prince Hondo's absence.
  • Does Not Like Spam: He doesn't enjoy eating the government meat Johnny's mom usually cooks for her son.
  • Identical Stranger: Aside from his regal regalia, he looks exactly like Johnny.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: Jeff Bennett uses his impression of John Cleese to better distinguish Prince Hondo from Johnny.
  • Prince and Pauper: The very premise of his episode is that he's a regal counterpart to Johnny and the two agree to switch places.

    Helga 
Voiced by: Candi Milo

A heavyset woman from an indeterminate country who is mailed to Johnny after he sends for the delivery of the perfect woman.

  • Big Eater: She packs in a lot of food at Pop's.
  • Brawn Hilda: She's a huge woman who isn't afraid to throw her weight around.
  • Non-Specifically Foreign: She states at the end of the episode that she is from an indeterminate country.

    Mugsy 
Voiced by: Tom Kenny

A diminutive miscreant who first appeared as an adoptive replacement son for Bunny Bravo, but would later appear as a classmate of Little Suzy's.

  • Eye-Obscuring Hat: His hat covers up his eyes.
  • Unmanly Secret: In "Welcome Back, Bravo", Johnny outs him as liking showtunes, a secret he's very sensitive about.
  • Vague Age: It's hard to tell if he's a child or just a short adult. Even the fact that he's in Little Suzy's class can be chalked up to being held back.

    Big Brother 
Voiced by: Tim Curry

A dictatorial comedian in the distant future whose comedy show is the only programming he allows the world's populace to watch.

  • Anti-Humor: His jokes barely qualify as such.
    Big Brother: So a guy walks into a bar and says he hadn't had a bite in three days. I had him arrested and sent him to a reeducation camp.
  • Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: You know a dictator's sense of humor is terrible when he's willing to joke about oppressing anyone under his rule who dares to complain.

    Muy Caliente 
Voiced by: Corey Burton

A thief on horseback who has terrorized a Mexican village, persuading the denizens to enlist Johnny's help to bring him to justice.

    Julie Hirschbaum 
Voiced by: Jennifer Hale

The daughter of Mona Hirschbaum, who had moved in to the neighborhood. Johnny becomes smitten with her, but is impeded by his mother and Julie's hating each other.

  • Accidental Misnaming: Johnny's crush on her apparently doesn't prevent him from constantly getting her name wrong.
  • Berserk Button: She furiously rejects Johnny all because he insulted her mother's looks.

    Pantene Claw 
Voiced by: Tom Kane

Master Hamma's rival.

    Colonel Beauregard Fatman 
Voiced by: Jim Cummings

An overweight aristocrat who in one episode tries to hunt Johnny.

    Mitzy 
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Voiced by: Grey Delisle

A seductive jewel thief Johnny inadvertently crosses paths with in the episode "The Johnny Bravo Affair."

  • Classy Cat-Burglar: Her job. First appears dressed up in a skintight number, attempting to carefully extract the world's largest zirconium.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Can (just barely) maintain quite the friendly and flirtatious front, before Johnny's clumsy stupidity causes her to go into sadistic bitch mode.
  • Karmic Butt-Monkey: Seeing Johnny destroy her valuables with his clumsiness would be cruel if it weren't for the fact that she's a thief who stole them in the first place.
  • Ms. Fanservice: A sexy woman with a racy wardrobe prone to seductive behavior.
  • Reused Character Design: We'd see recolored versions of Mitzy's character model used for several more characters in the series, most notably the vampy blonde suspect in "Johnny Noir" and Johnny's perfect, imaginary girlfriend in "In Your Dreams."
  • Slip into Something More Comfortable: Says this to Johnny just before slinking off to the other room, switching from her skintight thief attire into a sexy, 1940s Femme Fatale get up complete with opera gloves.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: Speaks in a breathy, sensual voice, even as she tries to carve open Johnny's stomach with a laser gun. Briefly switches to a duller tone when addressing the audience over the irony of the zirconium being protected by a case made of diamond.
  • The Vamp: Isn't above using her feminine charms to get what she wants.

    Jeremy De Sade 
Voiced by: Billy West

A creepy dentist Johnny tries to avoid in "Dental Hijinx."

  • Depraved Dentist: Subverted. The episode plays him up as relishing the opportunity to cause harm to Johnny, but he ultimately relieves his dental pain without a fuss after he has Johnny cornered.
  • Face of a Thug: He looks very sinister, but is nothing more than a regular dentist trying to do his job.
  • Good All Along: After most of the episode makes it seem like he intends to cause Johnny pain, the episode ends with him treating Johnny's dental pain with no ulterior motive of torturing him involved.

    Green Swoosh 
Voiced by: Rob Paulsen

A superhero Johnny accidentally incapacitates and then takes the boots of, gaining his powers.

  • Color Character: He's the Green Swoosh.
  • Expy: He is most likely based on the Green Lantern, since he wears a green costume, has a codename with "green" at the beginning of it, is capable of flight, generates green light and has his power in his boots, which serve a similar function to a Green Lantern power ring by bestowing those powers on anyone who wears them.
  • Major Injury Underreaction: His response to getting flattened by a meteorite is to state how it's going to leave a super-bruise.
  • Modesty Towel: He is shown wearing a towel before putting his boots on to answer a distress signal to stop a meteor.
  • Shout-Out: After Johnny removes his boots, his feet are shown to be wearing striped socks and then curl up beneath the meteor he's pinned under, alluding to the Wicked Witch of the East's demise in The Wizard of Oz.

    Astounding League of Super-People 
Voiced by: Frank Welker (She-Hunk), Tom Kenny (Mr. Elastic)

A superhero team Johnny runs into shortly after donning the Green Swoosh's boots.

    Man Boy 

A bratty supervillain Johnny faces after his encounters with the Green Swoosh and the Astounding League of Super-People.

  • Enfant Terrible: He's apparently a child who is a supervillain just so he can stick it to the adults telling him what to do.
  • Pubescent Braces: He has braces to highlight his immaturity.
  • Super-Scream: His main power is causing pain with his voice awkwardly cracking, which is played as a humorous variant on the sonic screech power.

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