Tim Johnson (Johnsonverse)

Timothy Daniel Johnson (born July 9, 1995) is an American media mogul, actor, voice actor, game show host, director, and producer. He has been the CEO of Johnson Industries since September 1, 2009. In addition to being an actor and director, Johnson also hosts Fireside Chat with Tim Johnson on WBC.
Having participated in acting roles since 2002 when he appeared as a youngling in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Johnson's greatest claim to fame in his acting career is his role as Holden Quist in the Star Wars: Alternity franchise, as well as being the fourth actor for Ness in the EarthBound franchise, replacing previous actor Joey Whittman, beginning with the 2008 film adaptation of the Mother 3 video game.
Not to be confused with a former director at DreamWorks Animation or the former U.S. Senator of South Dakota, or actor Tim Johnson, Jr.
==Early life==
Timothy Daniel Johnson was born on July 9, 1995 to Sheldon Johnson, Jr. and Tammy Jo Johnson in San Jose, California. Johnson's middle name was named after Johnson Industries' co-founder Daniel Johnson, as Sheldon had "big plans" for him. Tim and Chloe's birth was compared to a birth in the British royal family based on the amount of coverage it received, so much so that WBC went into wall-to-wall coverage for three days straight without any commericals.
Since the age of two, Johnson wanted to be just like his father one day. He would typically pretend that he was running Johnson Industries along with his twin sister Chloe and friends Belle Armstrong and Jenny Smith (usually in a rather-realistic manner with an actual business language he picked up overhearing his father). Johnson even read history books on Johnson. He recalled participating in a pretend tea party with Chloe and turned it into a mafia meeting with their stuffed animals to negotiate a hit on Johnson's teddy bear, Artie. He accused him of committing a faux pas in front of the don. Chloe later stated a mafia meeting was much more fun than a "girly" tea party due to her well-known tomboy attitude; Tim has said that Chloe was the one who had the tea party end up becoming a mafia meeting, mainly due to her claiming that it was “boring”. 
At the age of five, Johnson, along with Chloe, made his film debut as a Jedi youngling in the 2002 movie Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (specifically the youngling who says "Master, because someone erased it from the archive memory."; this character was later retconned as the prime timeline version of Holden Quist, and later media lists him as having survived Order 66 alongside his twin sister Lana and later becoming prominent members of the Rebel Alliance), which was shot in 2000, and at the age of nine, he wrote a famous school play on Johnson's history called A History of a Titan, which was known for having rather mature-sounding dialogue and a plethora of shots at former Johnson CEO Phil Stacker, who was portrayed in the play in an unflattering light as "a fat bastard" who whipped his employees and ignored the board's suggestions in favor of chasing demographics; Stacker himself was quite amused by this portrayal. As the years passed, Johnson helped his father more often, and appeared in several movies, most famously in the EarthBound and Star Wars: Alternity franchises.
==CEO of Johnson==
=== Johnson Industries ===
In early August 2009, Johnson was notified by his father that he would retire to run for Governor of California, and that Johnson would take over the company. The transition took place from August 26, 2009, to August 30, over five days. On September 1, they announced the news in a public ceremony. He noted in a press release, "Under my watch, Johnson Industries will soar to new heights, but I'm not in it for the money. I will do it for you, the people, and for myself, because I just love unleashing my imagination and sharing it with the world. Just call me Walt Disney 2.0.".
=== Acting ===
==Personal Life==
Tim is the son of Sheldon Johnson Jr. and Tammy Jo Johnson. He has a twin sister, Chloe Johnson, and a wife, Belle Armstrong. Johnson and Armstrong have four children: twins Bella and Ricky (born 2015), Jesse (born 2017), and Moe (born 2023). Tim also has a bunny named Biscotti (b. 2015; found on a cul-de-sac near the Johnson home and theorized to be an Easter dump); he had previously had up to four bunnies. Their names were Ralphie (c. March 2003-September 22, 2014, adopted May 2, 2004), Ashley Belle (nee Ichigo, January 31, 2004-June 8, 2018, adopted September 3, 2004), Beaumont (c. 2009-April 4, 2017, adopted December 1, 2009), and Willow (c. 2009-October 21, 2018, adopted December 1, 2009).
A 2015 poll voted Johnson the most trustworthy person in the world, surpassing James Earl Jones. Johnson also has Asperger's syndrome, which he often credits to his seemingly-unending stream of successes with Johnson Industries.
Johnson was subject to a death hoax on February 20, 2019, in which the San Jose Mercury News website reported that he was shot and killed by a Westboro Baptist Church member for supporting LGBT rights. The site also claimed that the member planned bombing attacks on his family’s house and Johnson headquarters in tandem with the Antifa movement and assassinations of Sheldon Johnson, Jr., Tammy Jo Johnson, Craig Johnson, Phil Stacker and others in Johnson’s 2020 presidential campaign. He responded by calling a press conference, in which he appeared in zombie makeup, limping to the podium before delivering a statement on behalf of a fictional program that gives brains to underprivileged zombie children, calling out those who make death hoaxes to manipulate the brain supply. He did so using a fake British accent, and at the end of the conference, broke character to deliver a personal threat to whoever declared him dead. They later traced the hoax back to a disgruntled ex-Johnson employee who had taken part in the 2016 conspiracy to introduce the charter system to the NASCAR RCA Cup Series.
Johnson is an atheist. Though he does believe that Jesus Christ was a real person, he doesn't believe that he was resurrected after being crucified because "there's no scientific proof". He has also stated on multiple occasions that "all religion was created so a small group could control everyone else", and as "a pretext for murder", citing the many wars that have been fought on religious grounds, as well as the Salem Witch Trials. He has even stated point-blank on multiple occasions "there's no such thing as God".
As a voice actor, Tim is famous for his extremely wide vocal range such as children, teenagers, elders, and even female voices, and an extensive range of accents such as African-American, English (including his role as Thomas the Tank Engine in the 2011 television adaptation of The Railway Series), Asian, French, and Mexican; this earned him the nickname "The Second Coming of (Mel) Blanc".
On May 3, 2022, Johnson announced on his Twitter, Facebook and MySpace accounts that he had tested positive for COVID-19; he will continue to run Johnson and direct other projects from his home, as well as using guest hosts for Fireside Chat.
===Political views ===
:For a list of Johnson's political posts and rants, click here.
Like his predecessors, Johnson is highly liberal. He's notorious on MySpace (one of the companies Johnson owns) for making very scathing anti-Trump posts (to the point of calling his administration "the Fourth Reich"), and even stated in a 2017 interview, "I don't regret any of these posts one bit.". He has also occasionally made rants on Trump on Fireside Chat. Also, Johnson has mandated that nothing definite can be said about Trump unless he deems something he does as favorable. Most notably, he organized a "protest" by not airing any inauguration coverage on WBC. Instead, Johnson chose to air a Terrahawks marathon (consisting of all 39 episodes of the original series). He was scheduled to host it but was replaced by Chloe after he caught a cold (though he did appear in pre-recorded segments, and Johnson mustered enough strength and willpower to appear towards the end of the marathon, wearing a mask so he wouldn't infect others). During the marathon, Chloe interviewed original voice actors Jeremy Hitchin, Denise Bryer, and Windsor Davies, as well as series co-creator Christopher Burr. Likewise, he has also blacklisted the Trump administration from buying airtime on any WBC or WBC-owned network affiliate to air campaign advertisements in either 2016 or 2020.
Johnson is also highly critical of current Russian president Vladimir Putin, going so far as to call him a "dictator" and his regime "the New Soviet Union". After Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Johnson personally declared war on Putin, and deployed the Johnson Paramilitary to directly fight the Russian army.
He also often provides his personal opinion on world events. For example, he tends to blame certain circumstances (such as the Pulse Nightclub Shooting, the 2017 Northern California Wildfires, among other recent disasters) on ISIS, and after their fall, al-Qaeda. He also believes Autism Speaks is a hate group seeking to exterminate those with Autism by using much of the same rhetoric Adolf Hitler used to describe the Jews, and believes the National Rifle Association (NRA) meddles in gun control efforts not to benefit gun manufacturers, but because of baseless paranoia that everyone needs a gun to form militias and resistance groups against an invasion from Russia or North China that, realistically, can never happen. He is a highly controversial figure among conservatives, with the late conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh labeling him a "domestic terrorist," televangelist Pat Robertson calling him "God's biggest enemy and a blight on humanity", and other conservatives have called him an assortment of insults. 
Liberals, moderates, independents, and even some conservatives, conversely, praise him for standing up to the Trump administration; some have even gone on to consider him the one running the country instead of Trump. Johnson has said, "There is no 45th President. The person in the Oval Office, once a good man, got perverted by greed and whatever good that was left in him got taken away by the Neo-Soviets who run Russia into a dangerous fanatic inserted by those Neo-Soviets to make this country so paralyzed with stupidity, nothing can stop Putin from rebuilding the Soviet Union and conquering Europe, and possibly the world, to realize Lenin's vision, Stalin's supreme bastardization of communism notwithstanding", and supported his father in his 2020 run for President of the United States. He has also led the Johnson Paramilitary in the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Trump's response to Johnson's criticism has, to date, not been his usual rhetoric, but a reconciliatory tone. He stated in a chain of Twitter posts that "To me, there is nothing more American than Johnson Industries. I, like pretty much everyone else, love Monster World, and I know what Johnson is capable of. Therefore, I'm going to leave him alone and not try to meddle in his affairs. If he wants to insult me, that's fine. That's why the First Amendment exists." Johnson's response was to call his bluff, saying, "He was just saying that to butter Johnson Industries up so he can seize Continental Rail, nationalize it, hand freight operations over to other railroads, and terminate all passenger operations to funnel everyone aboard the airlines, which have proven to be unreliable when compared to locomotives.", though he later changed this statement, saying, "I think I now know what Trump's game is: he's afraid of us. He knows the Johnson Paramilitary is bigger than the US military, and that we have the means to render the US, Russian, and North Chinese nuclear arsenals completely useless if it comes to that. Well, Mr. You're Fired, if the Neo-Soviets give you a second term, I got my ships, and I'm not afraid to use the best of them."
In addition, while Tim supports the Black Lives Matter movement, he has recently denounced the violence committed by some of its supporters, calling them "people who give BLM a horrible name", and also denounces the practice of tearing down statues of historical figures, as "they came from a different time, and what prominent man in the 18th century didn't own a slave?", as well as denouncing the practice of Caucasian voice actors stepping down from non-Caucasian roles, stating "This is segregation all over again", to the point of convincing voice actors not to step down. He has also criticized the Antifa movement, saying that "these guys have all the hallmarks of a terrorist group. They think violence is necessary to defend against 'Nazis organizing', often wear masks to hide their identities, and claim their organization must act outside the government because the government is fascist. Outside of Trump, it isn't fascist. Antifa was once well-intentioned, but they perverted themselves into the mess they are right now. How ironic.".
Johnson is pro-choice, having stated on multiple occasions that he doesn't see abortion as murder because "legally, a human isn't alive until they're born and have a birth certificate". He says that pro-lifers are "trying to dilute the voter base in Republican Party's favor".
== Controversy ==
== Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Title 	Actor 	Director 	Producer 	Writer 	Notes
2002	Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones	Yes (Jedi Youngling) 	No (George Lucas) 	No (Rick McCallum) 	No (George Lucas) 	On-screen debut; uncredited
2002	Revenge of the Sontarans 	Yes (Kindergarten Student) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shigesato Itoi) 	No (Sheldon Johnson, Jr. and Tammy Jo Johnson) 	Uncredited
2005	Star Wars: Alternity 	Yes (Holden Quist) 	No (Sheldon Johnson Jr.)	No (Timothy Hill) 	 	First starring role
2006	The Revenge of Cthulhu 	Yes (Civilian) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Tammy Jo Johnson) 	 	Voice; uncredited
2008	Mother 3 	Yes (Ness) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shigesato Itoi) 	 	First major live-action role
2009	Detective Jenny: The Seventh Movie 	Yes (Annoying Heckler) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Tammy Jo Johnson) 	 	Cameo; uncredited
2011	EarthBound 2: Invasion 	Yes (Ness) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shigesato Itoi) 	 	First live-action lead role
2012	Vocaloid & Godzilla 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Yoshimitsu Banno) 	 	Voice; first performance as Godzilla
2012	Vocaloid & Godzilla II 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Yoshimitsu Banno) 	 	Voice
2013	Vocaloid & Godzilla III 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Yoshimitsu Banno) 	 	Voice
2014	Sgt. Frog: The Great Rescue 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama) 	 	Voice
2015	Nemesis 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	 	Voice
2015	Monster World 	Yes (Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Yoshimitsu Banno) 	 	
2015	Thomas and the Lady of Sodor 	Yes (Thomas) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	 	Voice
2015	Star Wars: The Force Awakens 	No 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Directional debut
2016	Vocaloid & Godzilla IV 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama) 	 	Voice
2016	Shin Godzilla 	Yes (Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Hideaki Anno) 	Yes 	 	Producer debut
2017	The Ultra Kaiju 	Yes (Godzilla suit actor) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	 	
2017	Star Wars: The Last Jedi 	Yes (New Republic Defense Fleet ensign) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Cameo; uncredited
2018	Gorgo Strikes Back 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama 	No 	Voice
2018	Godzilla: Civil War 	Yes (Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama) 	 	
2018	The Basketball Star 	No 	No (Timothy Hill) 	Yes 	No 	
2019	Invadors: Wave 2 	Yes (Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama) 	 	
2019	Vocaloid & Godzilla V 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor)	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shogo Tomiyama) 	 	Voice
2019	Able Archer 	No 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	 	
2019	Star Wars: Duel of the Fates 	Yes (D-O, Crazy Doomsdayer) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	
2020	Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	
2021	Sisters 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	
2021	The Rock-afire Explosion Movie 	Yes (himself) 	Yes 	Yes (with Aaron Fechter)	Yes (with Chloe Johnson, Aaron Fechter, and Burt Wilson)	
2022	M&M's: The Movie 	Yes (90’s Red/“Plain” and 90’s Yellow/“Peanut”) 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes (with Chloe Johnson) 	
2022	 	 	 	 	 	
2023	Angry Video Game Nerd: Game Over 	Yes (Godzilla just Suit) 	 	 	 	
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Actor 	Director 	Producer 	Writer 	Notes
2006-present 	Star Wars: Alternity 	Yes (Holden Quist) 	No (Sheldon Johnson Jr. before 2010, Dave Filoni afterwards)	No (Timothy Hill and Dave Filoni) 	No 	Television debut
2008-2015 	EarthBound: The Series 	Yes (Ness) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shigesato Itoi) 	No (various writers) 	
2010-present 	Chocodile and Friends 	No 	No 	No 	Yes 	Showrunner
2010-present 	Siskel & Ebert 	No 	No 	Yes 	No 	
2011-present 	Fireside Chat with Tim Johnson 	Yes (Host) 	No 	No 	Yes (skits) 	Talk show
2011-present 	The Railway Series 	Yes (Thomas) 	No (Steve Asquith) 	Yes 	Yes 	Voice
2011-present 	Thomas the Tank Engine 	No 	No (Steve Asquith) 	Yes 	Yes 	
2011-2018 	Two and a Half Men 	No 	No 	No 	Yes 	Showrunner
2012-present 	Vocaloid 	Yes (Len Kagamine, Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No 	Voice
2012-present 	Grand Theft Auto 	No 	No 	Yes 	No 	Showrunner
2013-2015, 2018-present	Sonic X 	Yes (Chris Thorndyke) 	No (Hajime Kamegaki) 	No (Takeshi Sasamura and Tadahito Matsumoto)	Yes (English translator)	Voice; English dub
2013-present 	WBC's Sgt. Frog 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Voice
2013-present 	The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (WBC version)	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata) 	No (Tatsuya Ishihara) 	No (Hideaki Hatta and Atushi Itou) 	No 	Voice
2013-present 	Lucky Star (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor) 	Yes 	No (Larry David) 	No 	Voice
2013-2017 	Azumanga Daioh (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata) 	No (Hiroshi Nishikiori) 	No (three different producers) 	No 	Voice
2013-present 	Transformers: The Great War 	Yes (Ratchet, Gears, Scavenger, Sam Forrester, misc. voices) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Showrunner
2014-present 	NASCAR on WBC 	Yes (lead commentator for all races at Tokyo Superspeedway, and all Convertible and Ultimate Series races)	No 	No 	No 	Sports broadcast
2015-present 	Nichijou (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Voice
2015-present 	The Muppets 	No 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	Showrunner
2015-present 	My Little Pony: The Ponies of Equestria 	No 	No (various directors) 	Yes 	No (various writers) 	Showrunner
2015-2018 	Adventure Time 	Yes (Finn) 	No (Larry Leichliter and Hugo Morales) 	No (Kelly Crewes) 	No 	Voice, replaced Jeremy Shada, showrunner
2016-present 	K-On! (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Len Kagamine, Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Naoko Yamada) 	No (four different producers) 	No 	Voice
2016-present 	CLANNAD (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata, Godzilla suit actor) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Tammy Jo Johnson) 	No 	Voice
2016-present 	Pokémon (Johnson version) 	Yes (Lucas) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Voice
2016-present 	Chocodile's Nonsensical Adventures 	No 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	Executive producer
2016-present 	The Rock-afire Explosion Show 	No 	No (various directors) 	Yes 	Yes 	Co-showrunner with Aaron Fechter
2017-present 	Hyperdimension Neptunia: The Space War 	No 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Showrunner, self-described "passion project"
2017-present 	The Magic School Bus 	No 	No 	No 	Yes 	Showrunner
2018-present 	Squid Girl (WBC version) 	Yes (Fuyuki Hinata) 	Yes 	No (Chloe Johnson) 	Yes 	Voice
2018-present 	EarthBound 	Yes (Ness) 	No (Timothy Hill) 	No (Shigesato Itoi) 	No (various writers) 	Voice
2018-present 	Thomas & Friends 	Yes (some incidental characters) 	No (Dianna Basso) 	Yes 	Yes (head writer) 	Voice, showrunner
2020-present 	The Simpsons 	Yes (occasional guest star) 	No 	No 	Yes 	Voice, showrunner with Chloe Johnson
2020-present 	Family Guy 	Yes (occasional guest star) 	No 	No 	Yes 	Voice, showrunner with Chloe Johnson
2020-present 	American Dad! 	Yes (occasional guest star) 	No 	No 	Yes 	Voice, showrunner with Chloe Johnson
2020-present 	The Steam Powered Giraffe Show 	No 	Yes 	Yes 	Yes 	Showrunner
2020-present 	Animaniacs 	Yes (occasional guest star) 	No 	No 	Yes 	Executive producer with Steven Spielberg, Sam Register, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank
===Video games===
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==See Also==
* TV Tropes page
* Tim Johnson (Johnsonverse)/Gallery
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