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Timothy Daniel Johnson (born July 9, 1995) is the current CEO of Johnson Industries, and the owner of This Very Wiki. He has been the CEO of Johnson since September 1, 2009, when his father, Sheldon Johnson, Jr., retired to run for Governor of California, which, of course, became a success. And then Sheldon became president.
The youngest corporate CEO in history, Tim continued his father's success with the company, and even built on top of his legacy with more high-profile acquisitions, notably Disney. Yes, you read that correctly: Disney. He has also hosted a talk/sketch show, Fireside Chat with Tim Johnson, since 2011, and is the current showrunner of The Simpsons and Family Guy, among many other shows, sometimes with his twin sister, Chloe.
Tim is also a controversial figure, particularly amongst conservatives; he is known for his anti-Trump rants on Fireside Chat and on Johnson-owned MySpace, among other things. On many occasions, he's even threatened to launch a revolution against the Trump administration, and since Johnson Industries has a full-fledged paramilitary, he's not blowing hot air in the slightest. If he wanted to, Tim could overthrow the US government and completely rebuild it from the ground-up. That's all we'll say on the matter.
Anyway, Tim was officially voted "Most Trustworthy Person in the World" in 2015, surpassing James Earl Jones. He also has Asperger's syndrome, which he credits for his long-standing successes.
==Tropes related to Tim Johnson==
* Acrofatic: Despite being a bit on the round side, Tim can do quite a few stunts as long as they aren't too strenuous, at which point he calls on a stunt double.
*Adam Westing: On The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad!, and South Park, along with Chloe, Tim plays a fictionalized version of himself:
** The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad! depict Tim as the Only Sane Man who sets out to rectify everything fans have complained about.
** South Park depicts Tim as extremely obsessed with uncovering why South Park is such a magnet for weirdness.
*As Himself: Tim has made various cameos in movies and TV shows.
*Author Appeal: 
**Tim has many to his name. Stock car racing, trains, animation, tokusatsu, video games, the list goes on...
**Inverted with airlines. Tim has eviscerated the airline industry on more than one occasion for its
*Berserk Button: Tim has many of these, and it would be wise not to push any of them:
**Do not say the name "Donald Trump" within earshot. He will go into a long rant about why he considers Trump an evil dictator, sometimes using Godwin's Law to prove his point. We'll just leave it at that. Also don't mention names like Ted Cruz, Chris Christie, Rand Paul, Ron DeSantis, Greg Abbott, Marjorie Taylor Green, Katie Britt, Josh Hawley, or any other Republican he considers "evil".
**If you say vaccines cause autism, you better have medical insurance. Seriously, Tim once put a man in the hospital because the latter said that very thing (said man attacked first), and has made it clear that the next person who says it to him will be dead, period. He also has a psychotic loathing for Autism Speaks, and has made no secret that he would kill everyone involved if he could get away with it.
**Also, do not insult his twin sister, his wife, his family, or anyone in his circle of friends.
**Siding with overly-intense "SJW"s who attempt to meddle with too much or the Antifa movement will result in Tim ranting about how they're making humanity go down the toilet.
**Tim also hates quite a few celebrities, many of whom have done stupid things such as Kim Kardashian, and any celebrity who supports the George Floyd riots, as well as supporting certain groups like the #KickVic movement, and even tends to blacklist said celebrities from Johnson productions.
**Do not tell him that all cops are bad, either. Tim knows several cops who he'd consider good, not doing things like killing innocent people for not having fair skin. His best friend's grandfather was a sheriff's deputy.
**Never call Tim a "socialist" or "communist". He hates Communism, and explains that every government that ever tried the system attracted firebrand agitators who took over and perverted them to suit their aspirations for world domination, notably Venezuela and the Soviet Union. That being said, he considers himself a democratic socialist who advocates for universal healthcare in the United States and the nationalization of critical infrastructure such as the power grid, water supply, telecommunications networks, and the national rail network (which his father did on day one as president with the formation of the United States Railway Administration).
**Pedophiles are a Berserk Button for him as well; this is why Tim, alongside Chloe, not only rejected the French film Cuties, but reported its director to the FBI.
**He hates quite a few of the tropes you'll find on This Very Wiki. Examples include Tsundere (due to Tim considering it unrealistic), The Unfair Sex (for being sexist), Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male (for the same reason as The Unfair Sex), Liar Revealed (for being cliched), Barbaric Bully (again, for being unrealistic), Karma Houdini (for being unfair to the heroes), Adults Are Useless (once again, for being unrealistic), Just Train Wrong (he's INCREDIBLY anal-retentive regarding the look and sound of trains in any Johnson production, and goes out of his way to ensure the trains look accurate for the location and time period), Marry Them All (for being a cop-out that harem genre writers use so as not to receive death threats from fans of the pairing they were rooting for, and also for promoting polygamy), and The Coconut Effect (sometimes; it really depends on how off-putting the look/sound of things in media are to him in comparison to how they actually look/sound) just to name a few. He goes out of his way to parody, subvert, invert, and/or defy these tropes, all the while invoking Surprisingly Realistic Outcome.
** He also utterly HATES the mindset that animation is "a genre for little kids", going as far as calling the Oscars out for this when accepting an award in the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony, and then doing a sketch on the next night's edition of Fireside Chat where he moderated a debate between an animation buff and a representative of the Academy, ending with him shooting the Academy rep for "terminal stupidity".
**Hypocritical wildlife funds are another turnoff for Tim, particularly PETA (to the point he purchased the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in 2018 and kept all animal acts in the show as a middle finger to PETA, even going as far as to deploy Johnson Paramilitary units just to deter protesters), though WWF also turns him off due to having worked with SeaWorld.
**He cannot stand religion, having stated pointblank on many occasions that there is no such thing as God due to a lack of scientific evidence, identifying as an atheist (and jokingly claiming that trains are his religion), and believing that when one dies, they ascend to a higher plane of existence known as the Second World, which looks exactly like our world (the First World), except everyone is naturally immortal (and being killed means being reincarnated into the First World), can create anything out of thin air (he likens the First World to "Minecraft survival mode", and the Second World to "Minecraft creative mode"), can never get sick, can heal injuries just by eating, and can change gender at will (he later reiterated that evil people such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin didn't go to the Second World, but instead went to the Negative World, which serves as the garbage can of the entire system and puts them into their own personalized Hells for all eternity, such as Hitler having to endure life in one of his own concentration camps, Stalin doing the same in a gulag, and Donald Trump will be a Mexican who gets deported to a destitute Mexican village run by a drug cartel).
* Beware the Nice Ones: Tim is normally one of the nicest people you'll ever meet, but if you push any of his above-mentioned Berserk Buttons, he will utterly destroy you and your life.
*Bias Steamroller: Despite his allegiance to the Democratic Party and his well-known crusades against Trump, Tim has criticized this trope. He has made it clear that while nothing positive about Trump could be said on WBC unless he does something Tim deems positive, he also said that nothing negative could be said about him either--it's his and his family and friends' job.
*Brother-Sister Team: With Chloe.
*Brutal Honesty: Johnson Industries has a reputation for telling it like it is, and Tim is no different. When he releases statements, he doesn't try to sugarcoat or downplay anything, he's just blunt, direct, and honest.
*The Cameo: Makes cameo appearances on WBC or Johnson-owned series in which he doesn't have a regular role from time to time. Here's an incomplete list:
** Tales from the Rails (2011)
** Wheel of Fortune (40th Anniversary Special) (2015)
* Catch Phrase: Several.
** "That is so right!"
** "Fuck this shit, I'm out."
** "Whatever you're smoking, I want some!"
** "EL BANNED!"
** "Imma head out."
** "I hope your children turn out poorly."
** "Kiss my ass, bitch! I'm invincible!"
** "Make America Sane Again!"
** "Waka waka!"
** "Go fuck your respective selves!"
**"You morally-empty, corrupted maggot!"
**"Okay, you have my attention. Now...reel me in."
**"Fuck you, too. Die in a fire."
*Chewing the Scenery: In his more-comedic roles, Tim chews at least three tons of scenery PER SECOND. There's a reason he played Matt Foley's Millennial son during his first hosting gig on Saturday Night Live.
** At least to an extent, some social media posts of his could also count. (Tim has said that more of his social media posts would be like this if he didn’t have personal limits)
*Cool Car: A Tim trademark.
*Cool Mask: During the COVID-19 pandemic, Tim has taken to wearing a jet-black mask.
*Cool Shades:
* Corpsing: Tim famously did this in a 2014 Fireside Chat skit. It was kept in at his request.
* Corrupt Corporate Executive: Defied WITH A VENGEANCE. Tim has stated on multiple occasions that he "eats rich assholes for breakfast."
* Creator Backlash: Tim LOATHES the seventh to eighteenth seasons of Family Guy, famously going on a ten-minute-long rant against it in a 2019 Fireside Chat episode.
* Creator Couple: With Belle Armstrong.
*Deadpan Snarker: ESPECIALLY on Fireside Chat, but also shown in interviews.
*Disowned Adaptation: Tim despises The Cool Adventures of Chocodile, calling it "a once-unreachable low until the modern seasons of Family Guy happened to television". 
*Does Not Like Spam: Tim is a VERY picky eater (he was diagnosed with ARFID in 2024). It would be quicker to say what he WILL eat. Among the things he won’t eat:
**All fruits and vegetables (which has caused some concern for analysts, though Tim has stated he has had no serious health issues outside of chicken pox as a kid, a few instances of a 103 degree fever, and two bouts of COVID-19 in 2022 and 2024)
**Pasta 
**Burgers 
**Hot dogs
**Pizza
**Most meats aside from chicken nuggets, chicken tenders, Black Forest ham, and turkey bacon (he used to LOVE pork bacon before it started aggravating his irritable bowel syndrome)
**Anything with alcohol in it 
**Cinnamon (unless it's on Apple Jacks) 
**Caramel 
**Soup 
**Anything from India 
**Eggs (the closest he'll get is French toast)
**Most kinds of soda that aren’t caffeine-free lemon-lime (IE Sprite, Starry, 7-Up)
**Cheese (unless it's in cracker or puff form; for example, he'll gladly eat Cheese Nips and Cheetos, and in fact purchased Cheese Nips when Nabisco quietly discontinued them in 2020 due to stiff competition from Cheez-It and Goldfish; Tim has said that Cheez-Its give him gas and the feeling of hives, and Goldfish are often made wrong); note that he will eat dairy, but limits it to 1% milk, ice cream, frozen yogurt, and yogurt (but only if it doesn't have any fruit chunks in it), and is lactose intolerant, so he won't eat dairy without a Lactaid pill
*Doing It For The Art: Tim
*Dyeing For Your Art:
*Good People Have Good Sex: Tim is very open about his and Belle Armstrong's sex life.
* Happily Married: To Belle Armstrong.
*Honest Corporate Executive: Perhaps the most honest of them all.
*Identical Stranger: His best friend Andrew "Andy" Helmsburgh is a dead-ringer for Tim, in both appearance and voice, to the point that he often serves as a stand-in for Tim in multiple situations such as pick-up shots, when Tim needs to oversee a scene from behind the camera to ensure everything goes smoothly, as a decoy during certain public appearances, or when he's too busy (for example, at least 25% of Fuyuki Hinata's dialogue is Andy's; one can tell the difference by Andy's performance consisting of Chewing the Scenery).
* Incestuous Casting: With Chloe on various projects. Notable in that they use completely different voices and/or makeup for their characters, making it hard to recognize them in their works; they're more likely to use their natural voices in animated mediums for such scenes. Also, this is always done at their own will. This has spawned rumors that Tim and Chloe have engaged in group sex with Belle and/or Jenny; Tim's response to neither confirm nor deny it.
* Lampshade Hanging:
*Large Ham: A good portion of Tim's roles are characters who chew several tons of scenery PER SECOND, constantly breaking the fourth wall, and overall doing everything they can to deconstruct every convention of a given genre; anytime these characters are serious, it's a sight to behold. The best examples of such roles include Fuyuki Hinata, Lucas, and Sadlygrove.
* Let's Play: Does a series of those on his YouTube channel, both as himself and as his characters.
* Memetic Badass: Maybe not all that “memetic”, as he’s done things you wouldn’t believe someone like him would’ve ever actually done.
* Nice Guy: He treats many people like close friends of his (albeit not following all of said people), particularly on social media accounts.
* Old Shame: Several.
** Tim regrets having Bill Cosby appear on Fireside Chat in 2011, as he (like many others) didn't know about his sexual harassment, and has banned it from airing on any WBC-owned channel. The full episode shown on his YouTube channel has a thumbnail with the words "BANNED" on a red stamp, with an introduction by Tim.
* One Of Us: Perhaps a little too much.
* Playing Against Type:
* Political Correctness Gone Mad: Tim absolutely LOATHES this trope, to the point of centering a series of Fireside Chat skits around deconstructing this trope. He has even gone so far as to use his vast influence to dissuade rival companies to from worrying about not being politically correct, just as long as what they are doing isn’t seen as offensive.
* Rail Enthusiast: Tim LOVES trains. So much that he considers Continental Rail his pride and joy. He also took Amtrak trips regularly for meetings in different states when his private railcar was under refurbishment, so much that Amtrak partially renamed its San Jose station the "Johnson-Diridon Station" in his honor in 2013.
*Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red to Belle's Blue; Belle is more gentle and optimistic compared to Tim.
* Self-Depreciation:
* Sesame Street Cred:
* Shown Their Work: Oy.
* Stop-Motion:
*Stuff Blowing Up: Continuing a long family tradition Tim LOVES this trope, making it a point to use models wherever possible in Johnson productions, if only to blow them up with reckless abandon. In fact, many production companies have outsourced special effects work to Johnson because Tim is crazy enough to not use CGI for explosions. For example, the fires and explosions in NBC's Chicago Fire are produced by Johnson, and all of the vehicles, sets, and special effects in Thunderbirds Are Go was also done by Johnson. Even toy commercials produced by Johnson have stuff blowing up, to the point that each commercial has a disclaimer stating "Toys guaranteed not to spontaneously explode" as a joke. He's even been known to (jokingly) compare himself to Michael Bay.
*Trademark Favorite Food: Sunflower seeds and soft pretzels. Janitorial staff working at Johnson HQ say they often find sunflower seed shells all over Tim's office.
*True Companions: With his sister.
*Uncle Pennybags: Tim is rich, and yet affable.
*Why Did It Have To Be Snakes?: Tim has severe ophidiophobia (fear of snakes), so much so that he refuses to work with real snakes when filming; they always have to be animatronics or puppets because he otherwise tries to kill them. He has stated on multiple occasions that he would personally fund the total extermination of the entire Serpentes genus, calling snakes "monsters" that are completely unnatural.
* Willing Suspension of Disbelief: Tim is a master at this.
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==Laconic==
The current CEO of Johnson Industries, and the owner of This Very Wiki.
==Nightmare Fuel==
==Tearjerker==
== Trivia ==
* Descended Creator: Tim is the only corporate CEO that frequently stars in his own companies' projects. Among his better-known roles are Len Kagamine in Vocaloid, Fuyuki Hinata in WBC's Sgt. Frog, Holden Quist in Star Wars: Alternity, Lucas in Pokémon, the third actor of Ness in EarthBound and its 2018 reboot, Percedal "Dally" Sadlygrove in Wakfu, Marcus McCloud in Star Fox: The Next Generation, Thomas in The Railway Series, numerous roles in Transformers: The Great War, Chris Thorndyke in the 4K Entertainment dub of Sonic X and its revival, and the suit actor for Godzilla in any work using the FinalGoji suit, as it was refitted specifically for him in 2012, among other roles.
==YMMV==
* Broken Base: Oy.
** His disdain for Trump. That's all we'll say.
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