Jonathan Loughran

Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran is the tritagonist of the franchise. 
He is a young backpack tourist who accidentally ended up in Hotel Transylvania during his travels and falls in love with Mavis Dracula, much to the chagrin of her initially misanthropic father, Dracula.
He is voiced by , who also voiced Brent McHale in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs films and later on voiced Junior in Storks, Ham in Space Chimps, Jacob Peralta in Brooklyn Nine Nine, Rip Digman in Digman, and Scarlet Spider in Spider-Man: Across the Spider Verse and its upcoming prequel, Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider Verse.
==Biography==
===Hotel Transylvania===
On Mavis' 118th birthday, Dracula allows his daughter to leave the castle to explore the human world, but he sets up an elaborate plan using his zombie bellhops disguised as humans to make them seem intimidating, and frighten her home. The plan works, but the zombies inadvertently lead a 21-year-old human Jonathan "Johnny" Loughran back to the hotel. Drac frantically disguises him as a Frankensteinesque monster and passes him off as Frank's cousin "Johnnystein". Jonathan soon encounters Mavis and the two "Zing". Unable to get Johnny out of the hotel without notice, Drac quickly improvises that Johnny is a party planner, brought in to bring a fresher approach to his own traditional and boring parties. Johnny quickly becomes a hit to the other monsters, but this disgusts and worries Drac. Drac orders Johnny to leave, but he is brought back by Mavis. After being shown the beauty of a sunrise by Johnny, Mavis is inspired to give humans another chance. 
Meanwhile, the hotel chef Quasimodo, with the help of his pet rat Esmeralda, learns that Johnny is a human and kidnaps him to cook him. Drac intervenes and magically freezes Quasimodo to keep him from telling anyone that Johnny is human. Drac leads Johnny to his quarters and shows him a painting of Martha, allowing Johnny to realize why Drac built the hotel and became overprotective of Mavis. Johnny then agrees to leave for good, but Drac persuades him to stay for the time being to avoid ruining Mavis's birthday.
The party is a great success the next night, and Mavis looks forward to opening a gift from Martha. However, when Johnny and Mavis share their first kiss, Drac overreacts, and in his outburst, inadvertently confesses to deceiving Mavis with the town. A still-frozen Quasimodo bursts in and Mr. Fly reveals from his frozen speech that Johnny is a human disguised by Drac. The guests are shocked and outraged by the deceit at play, but Mavis is undeterred and wants to be with Johnny. Johnny feigns uninterest in Mavis and rejects her out of respect for her father and leaves the hotel.
Realizing his mistake, Dracula knows that humans aren't bad anymore and apologizes to everyone for lying. He points out that Johnny and Mavis "zinged", but he got in the way, so Frank, Wayne, Griffin and Murray goes to find him. Johnny sulks down sadly after leaving Mavis, but soon sees Dracula, but were unable to hear, so Dracula hypnotizes the pilot to apologize to Johnny for everything and that he and Mavis are meant to be together and is happy himself if the person she loves is a kind person like Johnny. Johnny accepts his apology and gave him a thumbs up as Dracula turns the plane around.
Dracula returns to Mavis wanting to live her life, he shows her that her that Johnny returned. Johnny walks to Mavis and tells her that she's his zing and that he didn't want to reject her, but did because Dracula threatened to suck his blood. Johnny and Mavis had a proper kiss twice. Mavis, Jonathan, Murray, Frank, Griffin and Wayne sing a rap song about Zing. Dracula approaches the stage, and is offered by Johnny the chance to join in; though refusing as first, Dracula joins in and raps quite well. Mavis and Jonathan are shocked; he looks at her with a smile, while Mavis shrugs. Johnny and Mavis spend the rest of her birthday together.
===Hotel Transylvania 2===
Some time after the first film, Jonathan and Mavis are finally getting married with Jonathan's family members in attendance. Jonathan is first seen welcoming his parents Mike and Linda, his two brothers and sister to the hotel for his and Mavis' wedding.
As Dennis's fifth birthday nears, he has yet to grow his fangs and Drac worries that his grandson might not gain vampire powers. Noticing the potential dangers her son might face living in Transylvania, Mavis starts to consider moving to Johnny's hometown in California in order to give Dennis a more “normal” childhood, much to Drac's disapproval. Drac tells Johnny (who does not want to leave the hotel either) to bring Mavis to California to visit his parents, Mike and Linda, but to make sure to keep her distracted so that she will not move, leaving Dracula to "babysit" Dennis.
In California, Mavis enjoys exploring the more human world. When the couple arrive at Mike and Linda's house, Linda unsuccessfully attempts to make Mavis feel more comfortable by covering her room with spooky, Halloween decorations and inviting other monster/human couples over. Feeling like a stranger, Mavis retreats up to the roof, and Johnny tells her that if they stay together, Dennis will live normally, persuading her to stay at the hotel. However, Johnny then discovers a video of Dennis falling that was filmed by the campers, and he and a furious Mavis go back to Transylvania, with Drac and his friends reaching the hotel at the same time. Mavis confronts her father for putting Dennis in grave danger and failing to accept him as a human, and says that they will move out of the hotel after Dennis's birthday party.
The night before the party, Drac hosts Johnny's family, and finds out that Mavis invited his father Vlad. As Vlad is more hateful of humans than he was, Drac tells Johnny to have his family disguise themselves as monsters. The next day, Vlad arrives with his monstrous bat-like servant Bela, and meets Dennis for the first time. Vlad believes that fear will cause Dennis' fangs to sprout and possesses a stage performer dressed as Dennis' favorite TV monster Kakie to scare him, but Drac shields his frightened grandson at the last moment, breaks Vlad's hold over the performer. Mavis finds out that Drac planned the ruse, and while the family argues about whether or not Dennis can be happy in California, he sadly flees the hotel and enters the forest with Wayne and Wanda's daughter Winnie, who has a crush on him, in tow.
Irritated with Vlad, Johnny and his family expose themselves, and Vlad is outraged that Drac has accepted humans. Upon hearing that Dennis is a human, Bela attacks him and Winnie in their treehouse. When Bela injures Winnie and threatens to destroy the hotel, Dennis's anger causes him to instantly grow his fangs and develop his vampire abilities, and he bashes up Bela. A furious but defeated Bela calls his giant-bat minions, but Drac, Johnny, Mavis, Dennis, and the rest of the monsters team up to defeat Bela's minions and drive them away, while Bela is shrunk by Vlad, who has been won over by Drac's claim that humans now coexist peacefully. With Dennis finally embracing his vampire abilities, Johnny and Mavis decide to continue raising him in Transylvania, and they resume the party with his friends and family.
===Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation===
Johnny appears at the beginning of the movie, where he is working as the DJ of Mr. and Mrs. Prickles' wedding. He changes the song to a slow-dance number, much to the worry of Dracula, who hasn't had a date since his wife Martha died. He eventually begins to dance with Frankenlady, Frankenstein's right arm's cousin, who wants to go on a date with him. Dracula, worried that he won't feel the same as Frankenlady, switches the song to fast number, with a grumpy Johnny saying "DJ booth is a sacred stage." Later on, he is seen sleeping with Dennis, when Mavis comes in and turns on the TV. After hearing an ad for a "monster vacation", she decides to take her family on a luxurious cruise vacation, with the hope that it will calm down her father.
The monsters get to the cruise, and Johnny and Dennis look at it and say, "boat" for a long period of time. Eventually, they go on to the boat with the rest of Dracula's friends, where they meet the captain of the ship, a white-haired human woman named Ericka Van Helsing. She kindly introduces herself to the monsters, and immediately, Dracula has a zing with her. Johnny claims it is the "best summer vacation ever" after being impressed by the "fishcrobats", as he calls the acrobatic fish.
A little while after all the monsters have gotten accustomed to the activities on the cruise, Dracula, Johnny, Mavis, and the rest of the monsters are playing a game called "Monster Ball", which is a version of volleyball but with a talking ball instead of a normal one. Johnny claims to beat Frankenstein in the game, given that he once played volleyball in Santa Cruz, CA. He manages to lose to Frankenstein anyway, after Ericka makes an announcement that their first stop is the underwater volcano. Everyone then grabs scuba gear and dives into the water, where Dracula, Johnny, Mavis, and the rest of the family begin to swim like the aquatic creatures of the deep. During this, Ericka attempts to kill Dracula, but misses badly and then swims away, where she is confronted by her great-grandfather Abraham Van Helsing, who chistles her out for trying to kill Dracula on her own.
At their next stop, which is an island, Dracula asks Ericka out on a date at a cantina, to which she accepts. Meanwhile, Johnny and Mavis are having a date night of their own, where they learn that Dracula and Ericka are together. They eventually go to Dracula and Ericka's table, where Johnny starts eating the chips and guacamole that were for Dracula and Ericka. He eventually comments on Mavis' farting being cute after she passes gas from eating a chip with guac, which is topped with garlic oil. Back on the ship, Ericka announces that they are arriving at their final destination: Atlantis. Everyone gets out and starts having fun at the casinos, of which Frankenstein loses at one, causing him to replace his hands with lobster claws. Dracula goes after Ericka, and helps her avoid traps to retrieve the "Instrument of Torture", which is the shape of a kraken tentacle that has inside it a piece of sheet music that, when played, can cause an actual kraken (which sings and dances) to attack other monsters with its tentacles and then eat them.
The gang then goes to a dance party, where the DJ is revealed to be inside a clamshell, much to Johnny's jealousy. The DJ starts playing music and everyone is having a good time, but it ends abruptly when Van Helsing shows up and threatens to kill the monster with the Instrument of Torture, which he then puts on the keyboard, and starts playing, awakening the kraken from under the sea and causing him to attack the monsters viciously. Johnny then opens up his DJ equipment and picks various songs to try and defeat the evil music, but none of them work. Eventually, he selects "Macarena" by Los Del Rio, which defeats the evil music for good, and frees the kraken from Van Helsing's control. Afterwards, Van Helsing is saved by Dracula, and redeems himself by refunding everyone for the cruise.
Back at the hotel, Dracula and Ericka go up to the roof, where Dracula proposes to Ericka. She stumbles her words, and everyone else watches from behind, where she eventually says "yes", and her ring is slipped on to her finger.
===Hotel Transylvania 4: Transformania===
During the celebration of the 125th anniversary of Hotel Transylvania, Mavis overhears Dracula's plans to retire and leave the hotel to her. She tells Johnny who excitedly tells Dracula his plans to renovate the hotel. Worried about Johnny ruining the hotel, Dracula lies to him saying that there is a real-estate law which only lets monsters own the hotel, disappointing Johnny.
Van Helsing decides to help Johnny using a ray that turns people into monsters and vice-versa; after testing it on his guinea pig Gigi, he uses it on Johnny who turns into a dragon-like monster. Learning about monster Johnny, Dracula tries to turn him back to normal, but accidentally turns himself into a human and breaks the ray's crystal. Van Helsing tells Dracula and Johnny that they can still turn themselves back to normal by getting a new crystal which lies in a cave in South America, so Dracula and Johnny set off to do so.
Dracula's friends Frank, Wayne, Griffin and Murray end up becoming humans as well, as a result of drinking from a fountain that was contaminated by the ray. Mavis and Ericka confront Van Helsing after learning about Dracula and Johnny's whereabouts in the news, but he warns them about the effects of the ray, as people who become monsters continue to mutate and become more hostile as time goes on. With this in mind, the rest of the gang head to South America to find Dracula and Johnny.
While traveling through the South American jungle, Dracula and Johnny begin to bond, and Dracula eventually begins to confess that he lied about the monster real-estate law, but the rest of the group find them. Things turn sour when Dracula admits his deception regarding passing over the hotel to Mavis and Johnny. This prompts an upset Johnny to believe Dracula does not consider him family and to mutate further before running away.
Mavis goes to find Johnny while Dracula and the rest of the gang go to find the crystal. Mavis finds Johnny, but the transformation has turned him very volatile. She leads him to the cave where they finally find the crystal. When Mavis tries to turn Johnny back to normal, nothing happens due to him being too frenzied. In desperation, Dracula lets himself get captured by Johnny and goes on a remorseful tangent about how wrong he was about Johnny and how he now sees the best in him, finally acknowledging him as family. This brings Johnny back to his senses, and he is returned to human form.
With Dracula and his friends turned back to normal, they return home only to find the hotel has been destroyed by Gigi. After turning Gigi back to normal, Dracula bemoans his loss. He soon decides to let Mavis and Johnny rebuild to their liking.
A year later, Mavis and Johnny show Dracula the re-built Hotel Transylvania, which he comes to enjoy.
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