| “ | The other power companies may tinker with new ideas, but you can't reliably power homes with good intentions. While laugh power has its merits, it's not who we are. It's a monster's nature to be scary. Fear, it's our tradition, but it's also human children's. We may rely on their screams to power our city, but human children need us to be terrifying. They tell stories about us at sleepovers and around campfires. We have a responsibility to keep kids scared, and I take that responsibility very seriously, as did my father before me. Fear Co. will continue that proud tradition, because fear is power. Let fear power you. | „ |
| ~ Johnny's speech during a press conference, foreshadowing his true nature. |
| “ | You can't escape who you are, so just embrace it. | „ |
| ~ Johnny's sinister catchprase to Tylor |
Jonathan James "Johnny" Worthington III, also known as The Jaw, is the secondary antagonist of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. franchise. He is the main antagonist of Pixar's 14th full-length animated feature film Monsters University and Season 2 of the 2021 Disney+ series Monsters at Work.
Johnny starts off as the leader of the Roar Omega Roar (RΩR) fraternity during his time at Monsters University, Years later he rises to prominence after inheriting Fear Co. from his father. However Johnny has ulterior motives; keeping watch on Tylor when he finds out Laugh Power is more efficient than Scream Power. He then plots to turn Tylor against Monsters, Inc., and sink his rival company to ensure Fear Co.'s reign.
He is voiced by Nathan Fillion.
His Evil Ranking[]
His Villainous Deeds[]
Monsters University[]
- Even before his rise to villainy, he was already shown to be arrogant and jerky while belittling other monsters for not being scary enough.
- Though he seemed affable towards Sulley and allows him to be in the team, he only lets him be in it for being a "Sullivan" like his father, and this affability is subverted. He then threatens to kick out Sulley from RΩR if he doesn't beat Mike on the final exam.
- He verbally abuses Mike on numerous occasions.
- When Sulley is kicked out for the Scaring Program (due to thinking he doesn't need to know about a child's fear to scare them despite each child having their own fears), Johnny, alongside his teammates, abandon him without consideration.
- While he does invite Oozma Kappa to his party, it's only so he and his team members can publicly humiliate them while also getting sadistic pleasure.
- When all the monsters say "Oozma Kappa!", paint falls on them, becoming covered in pink, purple, orange, yellow, light blue, and green.
- Javier presses a button that activates a cannon, which Chip directs towards the team, throwing confetti at them.
- Reggie runs with a bucket of flowers, throwing the flowers at them, causing everyone to laugh at Oozma Kappa.
- Johnny orders Randall to free the stuffed animals, which fall on Oozma Kappa.
- Finally, Chet takes a photo of them which is published in the school newspaper, making them look like complete fools.
- Before the night of the final Scare Games starts, he mockingly tells Mike that his team will inevitably lose and that when they do, no one will remember them, praying on Mike's insecurities.
- After Mike tells him that when RΩR loses no one will let them forget it, and Chet remarks "That was a good point", Johnny hits him on the head in anger, showing a willingness to abuse his lieutenant for minor reasons.
- While he doesn't abuse Javier Rios, Reggie Jacobs, or Chip Goff, that doesn't necessarily mean he cares about them either.
- He kicks Randall off his team for the "hearts" incident, causing Randall to turn to villainy.
- After losing the Games (due to Sulley cheating), he doesn't have the decency to admit their defeat to Mike or congratulate him, unlike Sulley, whom he was wanting back on the team.
- While he does have comedic moments, they're all meant to show how jerkish he is, and he's still taken seriously in-universe.
Monsters at Work[]
- Though Johnny seems affable towards Tylor at first, as seen when he saves him from getting ran over, comforts him after the football game by saying that he has potential and offering him a job at Fear Co, these are all hollow gestures to get him on board with his plans. Plus, by the time of "Powerless", he ultimately subverts any sort of attachments he might've had towards Tylor, as seen when he threatens him and calls him a joke.
- Despite seemingly feeling bad for Mike and Sulley for what happened with Jack and Jill, it's unlikely that he actually feels sorry for them, as he never truly apologizes to them for bullying them back in their college days.
- His ultimate goal to be the sole provider of energy for Monstropolis is solely to preserve his family legacy, and he doesn't care how many children or monsters would be hurt to achieve this goal.
- It’s worth nothing that this plan would have gotten Monsters Inc. shut down, putting hundreds if not thousands of monsters out of their jobs.
- He's perfectly fine with monsters sneaking into kids' rooms at night to scaring them. He later makes Tylor scare a child named Ben in order to get scare power, despite Ben being one of Tylor's favorite children to entertain.
- Shortly after the events of Monsters, Inc., Johnny broke into a trailer home and scares its residents so he can retrieve Randall and bring back to the monster world. While he did saves Randall's life, it's unknown if he actually cared about his well-being or simply saw him as a useful pawn like he did with Tylor.
- He has Randall steal energy from Monsters, Inc. while framing Tylor for it. He also enables Randall's acts of petty theft and vandalism.
- When Tylor rightfully calls him out for framing him and making him lose his friends and previous job, he hypocritically (yet somewhat rightfully) reminds Tylor that his friends didn't back him up nor believe him like they should have.
- He mixes Monsters Inc's laugh energy with Fear Co.'s scream energy and passes it off as a "scream amplifier."
- He stubbornly ignores Tylor's constant warning that this would cause an explosion that would destroy Monstropolis.
- He assaults Tylor when he tries to take the button for the "scream amplifier" from him.
Why He Doesn't Stand Out?[]
- While he passes the baseline through his personal villainy towards Mike, Sulley and Tylor, he fails the average heinous standards to Henry J. Waternoose III and especially Randall Boggs, as unlike Randall, he has no idea that mixing scream and laugh energy would destroy all of Monstropolis, making him unintentionally heinous. While Waternoose had Boo kidnapped and tortured while claiming he would "kidnap a thousand children," that outburst could have been hyperbolic as he was that desperate to save his company and fix the energy crisis.
- He does seem to genuinely care about his family, taking them to play baseball and even having two of his kid's drawings portraited in his office.
- He might be considered an extremist as he believes it's simply natural instinct for monsters to scare children, and that Fear Co. should stick with scream energy because the technology already works as is.
External Links[]
- Johnny Worthington III on the Villains Wiki
- Johnny Worthington III on the Disney Wiki
- Johnny Worthington III on the Pixar Wiki
- Johnny Worthington III on the Monsterpedia Wiki
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