Joseph “Joe" Connolly is the titular villainous main protagonist of the 2021 animated series Dodo. He is a young British boy in year 7 student at O'Malley High School. He is Frisbo and Pete Wilson's best friend and Lilly Scott's boyfriend.
He is voiced by Dylan Llewellyn.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
- While the Heinous Standards are fairly high, Joe can’t be compared to villains like Sobhan Murphy, Mrs. Siddiqui, Laura Longmore, or even Si Rich, as they all either have more resources, or even in Murphy, and Longmore’s case respectively have superpowers that Joe himself lacks.
- Frequently bullied and picked on Frisbo growing up. This led to Frisbo becoming a villain and indirectly causing most of season 1 events. Though it doesn't excuse Frisbo as he could've reacted to the bullying better.
- Assaulted an elderly teacher named Mrs. Nora. While he had been tricked by Frisbo, Pete Wilson and Sobhan Murphy into doing so, he still would've done something like that for attention on his own accord.
- While did before he fell in love with Lily Scott, have a crush on Hot Molley and Daisy, Joe couldn't give a rat's ass about them and was only around them to feed his own perverted desires and appear good in front of the more popular kids.
- Tormented several kids for both self-gain and sadistic attention. And so, he can become the king of O'Malley.
- Selfishly abandoned Frisbo so he could dance with Lily Scott onstage.
- Destroyed the family Christmas alongside Jamie just over a text from Lily Scott which destroyed the family Christmas, Joe even said to him mom's face that he doesn't care about ruining the family Christmas. Though Jamie is both just as much to blame and kept Joe a prisoner in his room and treated Joe inhumanely.
- Punched Frisbo in the face over his squeaky shoes. Though this was Frisbo's way of getting rid of Joe and becoming king of the school himself.
- Though knocking Drew out in Rugby PE training was completely unintentionally, Joe still used it as an excuse to gain popularity and fame. When the boy's somewhat understandably angry cousin Lee challenged Joe to a fight, Joe instantly cowered in the most pathetic way. Though this doesn't excuse the cousin attempting to murder Joe.
- When Pete didn’t have time to help Joe ask out Lily Scott, alongside Frisbo he mocked his friend over his parents' divorce.
- When being manipulated by Steve Malek, they both harshly bullied weak kids physically and mentally.
- Punched Frisbo in the head twice when he tried to search his bag for the Mickey Page football card.
- Willingly wanted to assist Steve Malek with his mass murder on O'Malley more than knowing the consequences, just because he was sad over Lily Scott dumping him because she thought Joe chested on her. While Steve would have, manipulated Joe into helping him if Joe took too long but Joe instantly wanted to help Steve as a way to get revenge on O'Malley for his own mistakes. And yes, it is understandable that he would be upset over Lily dumping him for something he didn't even do but it does nothing to even start excusing wanting to kill people as a way to get over said sadness.
- While he did eventually back put of helping Steve in committing mass murder, there is nothing proving he is remorseful for wanting to kill people.
- Manipulated Frisbo, and Kayla’s relationship for his, and Lily’s relationship, purely out of selfishness. This also, proves Joe to be a hypocrite, as while he gets angry if his relationships, or his plans are foiled by Frisbo, or Pete, he very happily screws them over if he believes that it will benefit him.
- Hid Lily’s ice skates, just because she wanted to go swimming without him.
- When his parents refused to let him keep Bonkers the dog (actual name Samuel) Joe acted like a spoiled brat and was fairly rude and abusive to them.
- Ran away with Bonkers after having had enough of his parents despite their valid points to not keep Bonkers, and then when Bonkers saw his actual owner and her mom out late in the night in the street looking for him, Joe grabbed him by the collar and attempted to drag him away into the local alley. Whilst Joe did eventually relent and let Bonkers be with his actual family, it still doesn’t excuse his previous behaviour.
- Acted fairly insensitively, towards Lily about Quinten’s death and even saying “You’re still not over it yet?” when Lily started crying thinking about him.
- Acted like a jerk towards his Dad whilst on a school trip with him, just because he was embarrassing him in front of Fran the new girl, and even said “I hate you” to him.
- Was willing to risk his friendship with Pete over a video game prize, by trying to beat and knowingly humiliate him by beating him in a poem competition. Though the prize turned out to not actually be video games in the end, making Joe‘s behaviour completely needless and unnecessary.
- Broke his grandmother’s wooden dolls and framed Jamie for it. Though while he eventually owned up, it was mostly out of fear upon learning that there was a drone recording what he did, not out of genuine guilt. Though his apology does seem genuine enough, so he may have slight regret about the incident.
- Whilst initially agreeing to do Fran’s school play project, he immediately and selfishly backed out as soon as he leant he’d have to sing and instead of telling Fran directly that he wasn’t comfortable with it, he went about childishly complaining about his problems to Frisbo and Pete, whilst hurting Fran’s feelings in the process.
Why Doesn’t He Stand Out?[]
- While as mentioned above, he can’t be compared to villains like Sobhan for example, Joe still fails the show’s Heinous Standards to Steve Malek, who without all of Joe’s allies/or additional resources due to being king of O’Malley, actually has a successful body count of at least 3 victims, and came very close to easily killing another hundred people due to his plot to destroy O’Malley with that only being stopped by Joe backing out of the scheme, which while it makes him more of an admirable person, it also as a result majorly lessens how heinous he is. As take wanting to help Steve kill people away, Joe’s actions are only Bog-Standard criminal actions, and other actions such as elderly abuse, implied animal cruelty, and severe bullying are all offscreen, rely way too much on Fridge Shock Horror, or have literally zero plot relevance unlike with Steve, whose grim crimes is one of the major events that caused everything that happened in the series to happen. Whilst his attempted kidnapping of Samuel (or Bonkers as Joe nicknamed him at Pete's suggestion), slightly breaches the baseline, especially as Joe knew he'd found his owners yet was willing to make him live a miserable running away with him, with Joe even grabbing Samuel by the collar/throat into a dark alleyway, and Samuel's barks luckily being heard by the owner and her daughter (with the Mom misunderstanding Joe's actual intent and thought Joe was saving Samuel when really he was attempting to kidnap him). Whilst vile and putting him slightly above standard, it's still not enough in comparison to Steve who still did worse with comparable resources. He additionally, also fails the Heinous Standards to Fran Chopra (a villain who barely stands out and still fails herself), who was willing to allow Joe, Frisbo, Pete, Kayla, Ashlee and herself get lost in a forest that she knew (from what Frisbo had previously told them), was inhabited by bears who posed an obvious lethal danger to the teenagers and Fran not caring, as long as she got to run away from her own problems and the fear of moving away again, once again, with fairly comparable resources to Joe.
- His childhood while not an excuse for his actions, is played for sympathy, and could still be seen/treated as genuinely tragic to the point that he arguably ends up being too sympathetic to be Near Pure Evil as of Season 2. He was constantly abused by his older brother Jamie which was ignored by their parents and as shown a couple times outright allowed by them for zero reason other than them not appearing bothered, was implied to have been fairly lonely at school with Frisbo being his only friend, had his arm broken by Steve on his birthday, was nearly tricked by Frisbo into being sent to a juvie centre to rot, his entire life was nearly destroyed by a vengeful Steve who turned his friends, and girlfriend again him, and overall suffered with crippling insecurities about his life, and relationships with others (especially his girlfriend Lily), ended up being dumped by Lily in her pursuit to become a football player, started growing apart from Frisbo and Pete more often due to either them meeting new people or they’re own selfishness, met and genuinely fell in love with a girl named Fran who understood him more than Lily ever did and someone he truly saw a bright future with, but she eventually had to leave O’Malley making it being unlikely that her and Joe will see each other again for some time which hurt Joe so badly that he could barely say goodbye to her. Overall, Joe deep down just wanted to be the bestest person, friend, brother, and boyfriend he could be despite his incredibly poor execution, and he didn’t truly mean everything he’s done, with this only being as a result of both the hardships of his life, and not having anyone to truly show him the right way. While as mentioned above none of this excuses his crimes, they are still played for a fair bit of sympathy.
- He has FAR too many laughable moments to even be considered NPE such as his famous "Dodo Go Go" line, his I'm a boyfriend song, having a whole episode dedicated to him taking his first dump at school and stepping in dog poo just to name a few.
- He deeply cares for his friends even if he is mostly abusive towards them, especially his girlfriend Lily Scott, even if his love for her can across as more of a borderline obsession than genuine love at almost all the time, he still shows his care to be genuine however, as whenever she gets into trouble or is in danger he all ways blames himself and believes he could've stopped her from being in that situation. He also deeply cares for his family even Jamie. He also care, for his new love interest Fran, after Lily dumps him to pursue her football career, and is heartbroken when Fran has to leave O’Malley even if they will try to see each other again in the future.
- When Frisbo fell over during the 15 hundred meter running race, Joe helped him cross the finish line despite the receiving abuse from Mr. Turner. What makes this more admirable is that they weren't even friends at the time.
- As of Season 2, he becomes a far better person in general, such as being far less selfish, being more accepting of Lily as a person (even if it led to him sadly accepting they’re break up), forming a genuine bond and eventually romantic attraction to Fran and unlike how he was with Lily treating her as an actual human being, and also being a more forgiving person in general such as forgiving Frisbo for initially abandoning him for popularity, and trying to redeem his secondary arch enemy Hitesh upon realising they have a lot in common and that he doesn’t need to be a horrible person/take his anger out on others to be truly happy and teaching him the lessons he himself has learnt over the course of the series so far, even if Hitesh unfortunately didn’t really take this to heart and remained a creep who is shown in “Onions” to have stalked Lily to the supermarket, gaslighting Joe about his feelings for her etc.
- He is on and off as he sometimes does heroic things. A couple of examples being saving Lily Scott and the whole of year 7 from their souls getting snatched by Sobhan Murphy, exposing Si Rich as a hypocritical pervert, and most importantly stopping Steve from committing a mass murder on O’Malley, saving many lives in the process despite Joe’s mostly selfish and narcissistic behavior.
Trivia[]
- Joe had been a fairly controversial candidate, as in October 2022, he was initially proposed and rejected at Inconsistently Heinous wiki, for being both way too standard, and failing the Heinous Standards to Steve, thus becoming a Villainous Benchmark. Then a few months later in January 2023, he was Re-Proposed and approved, when it was pointed out that while he was still mostly a very standard villain, and wanting to knowingly help Steve kill lots of innocent school children over his feelings of rejection barely made Joe stand out from other characters, and even barely stood out along with Steve himself due to having the equally tied highest attempted kill count in the series. However, 10 months later in October 2023, he was removed once it was pointed out that Joe stopped Steve by betraying him before Joe himself could actually hurt anyone in a similar way to how Steve already had, thus it majorly damages how heinous Joe truly is, causing him to once again be Bog-Standard, and fail the Heinous Standards to Steve, thus he was removed, and once again made a Villainous Benchmark.
External Links[]
- Joe "Dodo" Connolly on the Villains Wiki
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