Justin Russo

Justin Vincenzo Pepe RussoHelping Hand is one of the main characters in the Disney Channel Original Series Wizards of Waverly Place and the male protagonist in the series Wizards Beyond Waverly Place. He is the oldest son and child of Theresa and Jerry Russo, Alex and Max Russo's older brother and the most accomplished wizard among the three siblings. He is also Giada Russo's husband and Roman and Milo Russo's father.
After winning the family wizard competition, due to Alex helping him get his foot unstuck, he gives the title of Family Wizard to Alex instead. Professor Crumbs then makes Justin the Headmaster of WizTech.
In Wizards Beyond Waverly Place, Justin is married to Giada Russo, and has an older son named Roman Russo and a younger son named Milo Russo. He was also fired as headmaster of WizTech, after the infamous unicorn incident, choosing to live a mortal life with his mortal wife Giada and their two sons Roman and Milo. He is now the Principal of Greenwald Middle School after the original principal quit, allowing Justin to get promoted.
==Background==
===Personality===
Justin is kind, generous, smart, and hardworking. His relationship with Alex is complicated, and he is often annoyed by her; he sometimes gets back at her in revenge for whatever she does that causes problems for him.
===Powers and abilities===
====Powers====
*Expert on Spells: Justin is also an expert on spells, he seems to know on, for any occasion, e.g, jumping off a cliff, sinking spells, he, however, isn't as good as his sister at make-ups, he also knows about spell locks.
*Expert on Magic: Justin knows a lot on magic of all kinds, e.g, charms, potions, curses, etc. Although magic doesn't come naturally to him, he studies so much it makes up for it.
====Abilities====
*Hand-to-Hand Combatant: as shown in "Wizards vs. Werewolves" he is quite skilled in hand to hand combat, being able to hold on his own against a werewolf for a little while, and seeing as werewolves are stronger, faster and more agile than humans by quite a bit, that is something to be impressed by. Although in an earlier story Alex laughed at the idea of him getting in a fight, so it's possible he only recently learned how to fight possibly because of his monster catcher training. He also holds his own during the gang fight in "Western Show", further demonstrating his combat abilities.
*Marksmanship: As shown in "Wizard For A Day", Justin has crack shot.
*Genius-Level Intellect: In many stories, it's shown that Justin knows many things, his knowledge includes but isn't limited to, history, science, mathematics, and general knowledge. In "Alex's Brother, Maximan", he builds a working robot out of household items, in "Franken Girl ", he combines magic and science to build a Frankenstein-like robot.
==Biography==
Justin Vincenzo Pepe Russo was born sometime in late October, 1991 to Theresa and Jerry Russo in New York City, New York. Justin became the head in magical teaching, though he was teased by his younger brother. In the first two seasons, Justin spent time getting girlfriends and solving his siblings' magical troubles.
In the third season, Justin tried to find his vampire girlfriend Juliet after she was kidnapped by a mummy. Justin also tried to abort a Wizard Revolt, begun by a wizard named Stevie who lost the Wizard Contest. In the end of the season, he exposed the Wizard World to American agents after being tricked about an alien invasion. However, this was revealed to be a test to see if the Russos could keep the magical existence secret. Because they failed, Justin and Alex (who made a press conference to expose magic) were lowered to level 1 of magic (Justin was in level 5, the maximum).
==Trivia==
*Justin is the fourth Disney Channel live-action protagonist to be 20 or over, following Jessie Prescott, Raven Baxter, and Lou Hockhauser.
*Justin was correct when he said that he will win the Russo Family Wizard Competition, and keep his powers. Only he passes the role of the family wizard to Alex.
*In "Disenchanted Evening" Justin states that he is allergic to cinnamon, and in "Graphic Novel" he says he loves pumpkin pie.
*He collects action figures that Alex Russo likes to refer to them as "dolls".
*He prefers to take baths over showers.
*Justin spent 8 years without eating pizza because he thought the pizza delivery guy let his old dog, Willy, run away.
*Perhaps in terms of his bad luck, Justin's the only child in the Russo trio to be forgotten by his parents, Theresa and Jerry twice. Once in Justin's Little Sister and then in the movie respectively, to which both times are caused by Alex in some ways.
*He originally wanted to major in Robotics Engineering at Clementine College.
*He falls in love so easily.
*According to Alex, with the WizTech robe and glasses, he looked like someone (Harry Potter), but she forgot the name of the person.
*He graduated High School as Valedictorian. 
*In the episode "Alex Tells the World", Justin and Alex were demoted to Level 1 in their family wizard's competition; Justin was at Level 5 before this. To regain his lost points, he begins to tutor Wiz-Tech's delinquent wizards in "Alex Gives Up".
**It should be noted that Justin is quite unlucky; he normally ends up the worst at the end of each story, having only bested Alex a few times. Sometimes he loses even when no one tries to make him i.e.Captain Jim Bob Sherwood. When it comes to romance, the only times he has ever had a true love, he has been forced to part with them, although he was reunited with Juliet in "Wizards vs. Everything".
*His favorite color is green.
*Justin is one of two main characters of the principal cast to appear in every episode until he was absent in the movie The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex.
**Justin is the only main character from Wizards of Waverly Place to also be a main character in Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.
**Justin is the only character to appeared in every episode of Wizards of Waverly Place and Wizards Beyond Waverly Place.
*Justin and Alex are the only two of the Russo trio to keep their powers, Alex becoming the family wizard and Justin becoming a full wizard due to becoming the new Headmaster of WizTech in the series finale.
*Justin is like his father Jerry Russo, Alex is like her aunt Megan Russo, and Max is like his uncle Kelbo Russo in terms of personality.
**Justin just like his father Jerry Russo, he ends up giving up his powers to marry a mortal named Giada. 
*Due to the fact that he believes in aliens, and would likely give up his wizardry for them, he became a member of the Alien Language League.
*Justin is 5'11 making him the tallest main character on the show.
*He is allergic to cinnamon and flowers.
*In the original script "The Amazing O'Malleys", Justin's name was Jordon and was the fraternal twin brother of Julia (Alex's original character name).
*As an adult Justin gave up his powers at some point. According to David Henrie in a interview said "Giving up his powers may or may not have been against his will."David Henrie Teases Selena Gomez Reunion on Wizards Revival Series | Us Weekly
*Justin went to an unknown University where he got a degree of Master of Science in Education.https://youtu.be/o3PzIMHXrXQ?si=1noKH7d0EiFzZ2w3
*In Everything Is Not What It Seems, it was revealed that Justin was the youngest Headmaster of WizTech in history, until he got fired. He was only 19 years old when he became the Headmaster of WizTech because he graduate from High School the year before. 
*The sequel series reveals that Justin got fired from WizTech after the original series finale. 
*Justin followed in his father's footsteps in giving up his powers to marry a mortal, Giada Russo, and becomes a teacher to Billie just like how Jerry taught Justin, Alex and Max.
*Justin mentions he is 34 years old in the Wizards Beyond Waverly Place series premiere, David Henrie was 34 years old at the time the episode was filmed. 
*Justin got fired from WizTech due to some mysterious incident that cause him to lead the Wizard World behind. After he got fired from WizTech, he never picked up a wand again until Billie comes into his life on his 34th birthday. Everything is Not What It Seems
*Justin lied to his wife Giada Russo and his sons Roman and Milo Russo about who he really is for many years. Justin also kept his wizard past and that he comes from a family of wizards a secret from his family for many years.
*In Something Wizard This Way Comes, it was revealed that Justin's birthday is sometime right before Halloween in late October.
*After Justin got fired from WizTech, he stopped talking to his dad Jerry Russo about Wizard stuff because he was done with it. We're Gonna Need A Bigger Float
*Justin was suppose to get his wisdom teeth taking out when he was younger but kept putting it off. Then when Billie try to do a spell to take his wisdom teeth out she accidentally took his wisdom out too.You Can't Handle the Tooth!
==Gallery==
===Promotional Images===
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===Photography===
====Wizards of Waverly Place====
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Wizards of Waverly Place - 3x15 - The Good, the Bad, and the Alex - Photography - Justin, Harper, Alex and Warren.jpg
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====Wizards Beyond Waverly Place====
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Photography - Giada, Justin, Milo and Roman.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Photography - Justin, Billie and Alex.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Photography - Billie and Justin.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Photography - Justin Wand.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x03 - Saved by the Spell - Photography - Justin, Billie and Milo.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x05 - Wizards Just Wand to Have Fun - Photography - Justin Teaching.jpg
===Miscellaneous===
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Behind the Scenes - Selena Gomez and David Henrie.jpg
Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x01 - Everything is Not What It Seems - Behind the Scenes - Alkaio Thiele, Janice LeAnn Brown, Selena Gomez, Max Matenko, Mimi Gianopulos and David Henrie.jpg
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Wizards Beyond Waverly Place - 1x07 - We're Gonna Need A Bigger Float - Behind the Scenes - Janice LeAnn Brown, David Henrie, David DeLuise, Alkaio Thiele and Max Matenko.jpg
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