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[[File:ref_jthm_32.jpg|frame|[[The Shining|Heeeeere's JOHNNY!]]]]
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It started as a series of comics in the magazine ''Carpe Noctem'', and later spawned a seven-book series, later compiled and reprinted as ''JtHM: The Director's Cut''. Related spin-offs included ''[[Squee (comics)|Squee]]'', a four-book series which later was also collected and reprinted with filler from all eleven books in a separate section; ''[[I Feel Sick]]'', which starred Johnny's ex-girlfriend and almost-victim Devi; and ''Fillerbunny'', a deliberately half-assed trio of books spun off from some ''Squee'' filler.
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* [[Noodle People]]
* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: Inverted. The devil assumes the form [[Hot as Hell|of a cheerleader]] because it's one of the things Johnny least likes.▼
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: While Squee's mother doesn't care about him one bit, his father actively despises him and blames him for ruining his life.
** Apparently, they also tell him to get kidnapped.
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** Yes, but ALL of that could have been in his head, too. Remember, boys and girls, he's CRAZY!!!
* [[Animated Actors]]: Suggested, not by the characters, but by the author's notes that [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|pop up every now and then]]. Often something like explaining how the "actor" was able (or not) to survive being attacked by Johnny.
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* [[Art Evolution]]: Nny gets thinner and less mangy over the seven books, as does everything else, really.
** Very very clear in the early drawings, beginning with Johnny The Little Homcidal Maniac, where his length around the middle is essentially cut in half every strip.
* [[Asexuality]]: Johnny finds sexual desire, like any biological imperative, to be revolting, but Reverend Meat seemed to imply that Johnny has had sex with some girl (possibly before he went crazy, since Johnny doesn't remember it). Whether Johnny became averse to sex after his psychosis set in, is not asexual but wishes to be, or Reverend Meat was just [[Incredibly Lame Pun|screwing with him]], is arguable.
** On the matter of Nny's sexuality, [[Word of God|Jhonen]] had this to say: "He's a coward and I think it manifests itself in many ways. One of them being the fact that's he's disgusted with sexuality. I don't think he has a sex drive and if he does it finds its way out through other means, mainly a knife through the flesh." <ref>
*** Judging by that quote and what Johnny says in the comic, it sounds like that confirms he's a repulsed asexual (and probable)[http://www.asexuality.org/wiki/index.php?title=Nonlibidoism nonlibidoist] or was that possibly just a way of saying it's solely a case of [[Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality]] with piquerism?
* [[Asshole Victim]]: Quite a few of Nny's victims are this, especially those that wind up in the [[Torture Cellar]]. Edgar Vargas is an exception singled out due to being something of a [[One-Scene Wonder]] who was specifically identified as being a decent person Nny took no satisfaction in killing, but far from the only one -- basically, Nny'll kill you for being an asshole, but he'll also kill you for being friends with an asshole, being somewhere in the same general vicinity as an asshole, for triggering his [[Hair-Trigger Temper]], for catching him in a bad mood, for wearing bell bottoms...
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* [[Attention Deficit Ooh Shiny]]: He attempts to commit suicide over not getting a slushie, then is distracted by soda. This sort of thing happens a lot.
* [[Ax Crazy]]: Uh, yeah.
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** Or, according to one of his victims who went to hell, "faggot."
* [[Bond One-Liner]]: an odd one in that it was directed at Squee (who wasn't the victim) and didn't really comment on the death, but was still a super badass way for Johnny to reveal himself.
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{{spoiler|'''Pedophile:'''}} Why'd you tell me your name? I didn't want to know your name!
''{{spoiler|Pedophile}} gets his head banged in with a pipe.''
'''Nny:''' (''wielding pipe'') Todd? I liked 'Squee' better. }}
* [[Can't Get in Trouble For Nuthin']]: No matter how publicly or loudly he kills his victims, Johnny is never caught. On a crowded street,he could drain a flower vendor of all his blood, and not get caught! People would scream and vomit, and yet, somehow, he would walk away unscathed. He could do that!... Oh, wait... He did do that! This is a plot point.
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** Also, Devi's friend Tenna. Though to a ''MUCH'' lesser extent than [[Dada Comic|Happy Noodle Boy]].
* [[Contemplate Our Navels]]
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* [[Contractual Immortality]]: [[Deconstructed Trope]]: Johnny can't die, and is noticeably [[Who Wants to Live Forever?|unhappy about it]].
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: The embryo in the jar that averts Johnny's first on-panel suicide attempt by informing him the commercial where the whole family gets diarrhea is on never appears again, despite being one of the voices.
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* [[Extreme Melee Revenge]]: Johnny invokes this way too many times to count.
* [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]]: When it's not like Earth <s>with everyone overreacting</s>. No, wait, it's pretty much like earth anyway.
▲* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: Inverted. The devil assumes the form [[Hot as Hell|of a cheerleader]] because it's one of the things Johnny least likes.
* [[Freudian Excuse]]: Completely averted, even for the [[Villain Protagonist]] himself (Johnny makes vague mentions of people making fun of him when he was younger, but it's never used to justify what he does).
** Nailbunny's rant about Nny formally being a great artist also qualifies as an aversion, though it's similarly vague. Vasquez intentionally left Nny's origins unwritten to avoid this.
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* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Of a different sort. In one strip Nny discusses his current attempt to commit suicide to the Doughboys. Before he goes through with it, Nailbunny tells him that a TV show he likes is on. Cut to him laughing uproariously at the TV. In Jhonen's notes in the Director's cut, he says he found the idea of someone failing to commit suicide then losing interest in it to be funny, with a strip showing a proto-Johnny trying to shoot himself with an empty gun, and then going to watch TV.
* [[I Will Show You X]]: NNY's response to being called "[[Berserk Button|Wacky]]" by a woman in a Taco <s> Bell</s> Smell:
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** Then he disembowels everyone in the restaurant [[Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon|with a spork.]]
*** Even going so far as to kill all the roaches in the kitchen.
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** The cockroach is named "[[The Metamorphosis|Samsa]]."
** Lampshaded at least once.
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'''Nny:''' What?
'''Tess:''' You're quoting ''[[The Fly]]''?
'''Nny:''' Sure, why not. }}
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Happy Noodle Boy is supposedly drawn by Johnny himself. As the series goes on, Noodleboy gradually starts making less and less sense, [[Creator Breakdown|reflecting the protagonist's own mental degeneration]].
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*** And even then, [[Lampshade Hanging|he admits it's basically not any worse than what he does to his victims]].
* [[Your Head Asplode]]: Johnny {{spoiler|briefly gains this power when he finds out that those who are in Heaven have powers that vary from person to person, though his guide tells him to refrain from the thought of doing so otherwise he'd [[Schmuck Bait|explode someone's head]]. He almost immediately turns this power onto a guy and blows up his head a grand total of ''three'' times--Three because his head regenerated every time. After the third time the man got fed up and does the same back to Johnny. This results in a head-explody war among all of the residents.}}
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'''{{spoiler|Johnny:}}''' My God!! Are you kidding!? I've always dreamed of having super powers!!! This is just too much to resist! [[Crowning Moment of Funny|I have head-explody!]] }}
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