YMMV / Johnny Turbo

• Designated Hero: Johnny Turbo regularly assaults and shoots the FEKA goons for simply selling their products.
• Designated Villain: FEKA is treated like deceptive scum seemingly because they aren't advertising how awesome their rival's gaming console is while trying to shill their own products. And even if they don't advertise the fact that their CD console needs their 16-bit console to work, it's more the fault of the customers for randomly spending hundreds of dollars on a product they know nothing about.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Despite only appearing in three very obscure mini-comics, Johnny Turbo has gained an unexpected degree of popularity in recent years due to the over the top nature of his character. To the extent that Data East not only uses him to promote their arcade ports for the Nintendo Switch, but even gave him a playable video game appearance in Crystal Crisis.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The comics portray Sega as an evil demonic communist company called "Feka". In recent years, not too many people think of Sega^note Who has since stopped making game consoles and is now a software-only company. as highly as before (and it's a long story).
  • Johnny Turbo's accusations that Feka used greedy and deceptive tactics to sell their consoles would have been much more applicable only a few years later during the controversial releases of the 32X and the Sega Saturn.
  • Certain companies' (which shall remain nameless) abuse of features such as DLC, and microtransactions,^note Especially when one considers both Allegedly Free Games, and the loot box controversy. as well as the backlash towards DRM^note And not just for games either, but also for music, movies, and TV shows. have made some people wonder if those companies have been acting in a similar way. It doesn't help that, even without these features, some games still require an always-on internet connection, even for offline play.^note This is mostly done by PC and mobile games, but some console games do it as well.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • If the vowels in "Feka" are pronounced the same as in "Sega," then it sounds like "faker."
  • The comic's virulently anti-Sega stance becomes even funnier knowing that the "real" Johny Turbo (John C. Brandstetter) immediately went to work at Sega after TTI went belly-up.
• Ron the Death Eater: Johnny Turbo is SUPPOSED to be a hero fighting an evil MegaCorp who manipulate the populous via Very False Advertising. Instead, most people view Johnny Turbo as a Psychopathic Manchild who attacks people for selling a rival product.
• So Bad, It's Good: It's cheesy video game sales propaganda at its finest, and very silly and over the top because of how seriously it takes itself.
• Strawman Has a Point: Inverted; the point in the second issue about the TurboDuo being a two in one CD system rather than the Sega CD would have been valid, had the original TurboGrafx-CD not started as an separate add-on in the first place, and even then Sega did release a Genesis / CD combo unit anyway, called the CDX.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Inevitable, since these comics were creted mainly to advertise for the TurboGrafx-16 (AKA PC Engine) in the US. The first two issues center entirely around "FEKA" trying to trick kids into buying their CD add-on. Johnny himself is based of the console's actual marketing manager. Beyond the topical subject of the Sega CD, Johnny's clothing has all the trappings - a jump suit with lots of pockets, an "atomic" logo on the belt, a ray gun, LOTS of belts and pouches, and the most damning of all was a sideways baseball cap.

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