Giovanni Potage (Epithet Erased)

Giovanni Potage, also known as Boss, Creampuff, Vonni and Vincent Murder, is one of the main characters from the Epithet Erased series.
== Charactah Account ==
Giovanni is a recently promoted Captain in the Banzai Blasters, who broke into the Sweet Jazz Museum with no real goal besides "stealing artifacts". After the events of the Sweet Jazz Museum, he heads over to Red Wood Run, igniting the plot of the story's second arc.
Giovanni is a very ambitious troublemaker who loves baseball, robots and anything edgy. He has dreams of one day becoming the greatest supervillain of all time. Despite being one of the "bad guys" he seems to have a secret soft side as he is shown to care deeply about each and every one of his minions, even if he's willing to mess with them at times. He has sworn to never abuse his authority or steal his minions' hard labor, and goes so far as to quit the Banzai Blasters entirely when convinced that the only way to get ahead is to do so.
Giovanni's epithet allows him to create and control soup, which ends up having a wide variety of applications due to his high creativity:
== Appearance ==
=== Cartoons ===
* Epithet Erased
=== Literature ===
* Epithet Erased - Prison of Plastic
=== Music Videos ===
* That Beautiful Sound Cover
== Trivia ==
* Giovanni's favorite color is pink.
* "Giovanni" is the Italian version of "John" and means "God is gracious." Giovanni's last name, Potage, literally means thick soup.
* Giovanni's pink hair was actually inspired by Team Rocket grunts having pink hair.
** Giovanni's first name is likely a reference to the leader of Team Rocket.
* It was highly believed by the fandom that Giovanni was afraid of being betrayed, due to Sergeant Bear and Corporal Other Bear attacking him in episode 2 after Sylvie uses his Nightmare Fuel.
** However, in the track commentary for episode, 2 Jello sarcastically says, "Yeah, that's totally what we planned! It's not like bears are just scary or anything!", indicating this interpretation was unintended.
* The "W" on Giovanni's uniform is actually a sideways "B" for Banzai.
* Giovanni's knife is revealed to actually belong to his mom, which he took without permission.
* One of his hobbies is knitting, Giovanni even carries knitting needles and yarn with him.
* Brendan Blaber originally asked Danny Cooksey, the voice actor of Jack Spicer in Xiaolin Showdown, to voice Giovanni, but later Kyle Igneczi was chosen instead.
* Giovanni's bat, the Soul Slugger Doom Bat of Maximum Destruction, is also called the "Soul Crusher Bat" by himself in the show. It's unknown if this is because Giovanni himself is inconsistent in what he names his attacks or if this was a typo in the script.
* The "horn" in Giovanni's hair is actually a hair clip.
* Giovanni has a strong hatred for cops, as revealed in the TWO-LOWEEN stream when he said "ACAB" (meaning "All Cops Are Bastards") to Percy when she asks to be ejected, and gives a very cold remark when she explains her job to him at the party.
* Giovanni perceives "boys" as a gender-neutral term, hence why he calls Molly and Spike boys. If one of Giovanni's minions didn't want to be called a boy, he’d stop.
* Roob, the original creator of Giovanni Potage, has confirmed that Giovanni is cisgender and bisexual. 
** Despite this, Roob is fine with people having headcanons about his sexuality as long as fans don’t claim Giovanni as their own character.
* Giovanni earned his Banzai name, Creampuff, by bringing in creampuffs for his birthday.
* It's revealed on JelloApocalypse's Tumblr that Giovanni is very dense and oblivious towards romantic advances, even going as far as to eat the gifts (even flowers) given to him.
** However, according to JelloApocalypse, if you were to give Giovanni a snail or something to that extent he would instantly love you.
* Giovanni's birthday is February 6th. This makes Giovanni an Aquarius.
* JelloApocalypse confirmed that he has plans to have Giovanni reunite with Molly despite still being on the lam. He also confirms that he wants Giovanni and Molly to have a simple yet chaotic episode where they bake cookies together.
* Apparently Giovanni is from a lesbian family, meaning that he is raised by two moms. One is a smoker type woman who partakes in yoga night, and one is a crystals and essential oils type. The essential oils mother conceived him after a man donated his sperm to her. The smoker (who can be assumed to be the one named Giomommy) is the head of the house.
* Giovanni has been vaccinated but also partook in the oils and crystal treatments, as both mothers decided to just "Do whatever you want, but I'll do what I want."
* It was confirmed by JelloApocalypse in the episode 5 track commentary that Giovanni will gain a new villain outfit in season 2.
* It was confirmed on JelloApocalypse's Tumblr that Giovanni makes soup for his boys when they're sick.
* In the stream with his voice actor, Kyle Igneczi, along with Dani Chambers (Molly) and JelloApocalypse, it's stated that Giovanni's making his own evil team which is why he's blowing up an abandoned building's wall. It's unknown if this will be in the show or not.
* Giovanni has a strange interest in the marshmallows in Molly's hair.
* Giovanni claims he had very strange experiences at the pool that outweigh the bomb that exploded ketchup and mustard on him and Molly.
* Giovanni has a "special box" hidden under his bed that contained a bomb along with other unknown things. He claims it just holds Molly's birthday card, but this could be a lie as he really didn't want his mother to know of its contents.
* Giovanni seems to have an interest in the supernatural as he searched a way to obtain a possessed doll and even if it was legal to marry, kiss, and hold hands with one.
* Giovanni will get a song that is a cover of That Beautiful Sound since the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached 200K.
* Giovanni will get a song in which he sings to Molly a lullaby since the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter reached 240K.
* Since the Prison of Plastic Kickstarter had reached 350K, Giovanni will get a villian song.
* TheLoadingCrew determined that Giovanni's D&D Allignment is Chaotic Good. 'Despite what he tells you'. This was also confirmed by Brendan Blaber in the same video.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Giovanni Potage at Epithet Erased Wiki
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