Johnny (Sing)

Johnny is one of the three tritagonists of Illumination's 7th animated feature film Sing and its sequel Sing 2.
Johnny is a British-accented mountain gorilla who dreams of becoming a famous singer rather than follow his father's criminal footsteps, but would later try to impress him, after befriending Buster Moon and the other selected ones by hosting a show, and make his father proud and earn his approval.
Johnny is voiced by , who also portrays Gary "Eggsy" Unwin in the Kingsman series, Robin of Loxley in Robin Hood (2018), Elton John in Rocketman and voices Rian in The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance and Moomintroll in the 2019 series Moominvalley.
==Appearance==
Johnny is covered in black fur, with exposed gray skin on his face and hands. He wears a black leather jacket over a green shirt with a lightning bolt design, blue jeans, and dark blue tennis shoes.
==Personality==
Johnny is a gentle and compassionate individual with a deep love of singing. This leads him to take part in Buster Moon's singing competition, as well as offer support towards his fellow contestants. However, Johnny's soulfulness conflicts with the alpha-male attitude of his father Big Daddy, who runs a gang of robbers, and wants Johnny to take a more active role in their heists.
==History==
===Sing===
Johnny is introduced serving as a lookout during a bank robbery. He is too preoccupied with singing "The Way I Feel Inside" to do his job properly, and fails to alert the rest of the gang to two rhino police officers. The robbers are able to escape, but Big Daddy scolds Johnny for not keeping a lookout and for forgetting to wear his rabbit mask.
When flyers for Buster Moon's singing competition are scattered throughout the town, one flies into Big Daddy's garage. Johnny notices it and decides to participate, auditioning with "Stay With Me". At first, Buster rejects him in favor of Daniel the giraffe, but when the koala is unable to talk to him without a megaphone, he changes his mind. Johnny proceeds to keep his involvement with the competition a secret from Big Daddy, and commits to both relearning the piano and practicing his getaway driving for his father's upcoming heist.
Unfortunately for Big Daddy, the day of the heist coincides with a rehearsal. Johnny leaves his post, his driving to the Moon Theater causing two cars to collide. When leaving the rehearsal, he is caught in a traffic jam built up from the aforementioned car accident. Without their getaway driver, Big Daddy and his gang are caught by police and arrested.
While visiting his father in prison, Johnny finally admits that he wants to be a singer not a criminal. He becomes devastated when Big Daddy selfishly disowns him, even though Johnny promises to bail him out. That night, he breaks into the Moon Theater to steal Buster's prize money for the bail pavement, but when he glances at Buster's callback list and sees that the koala labeled him a "natural born singer", Johnny has a change of heart. Instead, he requests extra piano lessons from Miss Crawly.
Johnny's goal to free Big Daddy comes crashing down when he and the other contestants learn that Buster lied about the prize money; the Moon Theater comes crashing down shortly thereafter. However, Johnny ultimately finds it in his heart to forgive Buster and states his desire to perform even without a prize. When Buster regains his motivation to stage a show, Johnny helps construct a stage in the theater ruins. In the open-air concert, Johnny performs his backup song, "I'm Still Standing", and wows the audience, but is still sad about his father disowning him. After his performance, Johnny, much to his shock, sees his father backstage. Big Daddy, who escaped from prison after watching Johnny on TV, reconciles with his son and tells Johnny how proud he is of him and apologize to Johnny for selfishly disowning him as they both share a heartwarming hug. With the cops closing in, Big Daddy takes his leave to return to prison, with Johnny promising to visit him often. Having successfully fulfilled his dream of becoming a singer with his father's approval, Johnny attends the grand opening of the New Moon Theater with the other performers.
==="Love at First Sight"===
Johnny practices his piano playing at the Moon Theater while Miss Crawly daydreams about her old romances. The iguana is shocked out of her reverie and falls down when Johnny bangs the keys too hard. After Johnny helps Miss Crawly up, she explains that she was reminiscing, and wishes that she was young and in love again. Johnny tells her that it's never to late for love, and helps her create a profile on an online dating site.
=== Sing 2 ===
Johnny reveals to be participating with his costars in the Alice in Wonderland musical while trying to impress a talents scout named Suki Lane who's looking for performers for the Crystal Theater at Redshore City. Later Buster convince Johnny and his friends they can still live their dream in Redshore City after a road trip where they entertain the tourist on the bus, they made it to Redshore. At first, they wouldn't let them see Jimmy Crystal more than Crystal was selfishly unimpressed until Gunter mentions about Clay Calloway, Crystal accepts this. 
Later Johnny was enrolled for a battle scene which tuns out to be a dance battle and his choreographer Klaus Kickenklober turns out to be too cruel and strict. after one-week later Johnny met a street dancer name Nooshy who was skilled but unlicensed choreographer. Johnny paid Nooshy if she can teach him some advanced dance skills while she makes a fair bet on Klaus. During practice Nooshy realized Johnny's confidence has been overwhelmed but reveal the only way to feel pride is to use rhythm. After a few days Johnny managed to be fully skilled, but Klaus was only jealous because Nooshy did a better job than he ever did. 
Later, Buster gather Johnny and his crew back to the room after a near death from Crystal but decided to start the show behind Crystal's back. After they escape their room from Crystal's agents, Johnny managed to rescue Miss Crawly who was too slow to run. Johnny then recruited his dad and his gang to help them defend their performance from Crystal and his thugs. During his first act scene on the planet of war, he was singing Sky's Full of Stars while gazing for Nooshy for being his close friend. But Klaus tried to sabotage his act while gloating but Nooshy along with the performers managed to help Johnny regain his confidents while standing up to Klaus for his cruelty, and Johnny was able to defeat him and finally got the respect he deserves. During Rosita's sky fright moment, Johnny and his friends tried to rescue Buster who was grabbed by Crystal but he took off with him in the elevator. Johnny alerted his father to stop Crystal, Rosita managed to overcome her fear to save Buster from falling to his near death, while Johnny's father managed to prevent Crystal from threatening and forces him to watch the rest of their show. Later after the show Johnny and his friends took a great bow and run off to humiliate Crystal which led him to prison afterwards. 
Johnny and Nooshy became close while listening to music on the bus back to Calatonia. Johnny's father and his gang drive by them and waves Johnny goodbye before they returned to serving community service. Suddenly, Suki stops their bus to tell them that the Majestic Palace wants to produce their show. Once Calloway agrees to continue, everyone else also accepts without hesitation. They get to perform at Majestic Theater with Nooshy as Johnny's partner. 
==Quotes==
===Sing===
==="Love at First Sight"===
==Songs Performed==
*"The Way I Feel Inside"
*"Stay With Me"
*"All of Me"
*"I'm Still Standing"
*"Let's Go Crazy"
*"There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back"
*"A Sky Full of Stars"
==Trivia==
*During the Moon Theater flooding, Johnny saves everyone by pushing Meena through the blocked exit. In Kingsman: The Secret Service, Eggsy saves several people when a room begins to flood by breaking through a glass window.
*Taron Edgerton played singer Elton John in the 2019 biopic Rocketman and performed several of his songs, including "I'm Still Standing".
*Johnny is similar to Manolo Sánchez from the Book of Life
**They both are sons of bullfighters and crime boss
**They both want to be singers instead of following their father's steps
**They both try to apology to their fathers as they admit that they want to be singers and musicians rather than being a bullfighter and a gangster
**They both become hurt after their father disowns them
**They both decide to sing to their fathers as their fathers realize that their sons had singing talents with Guitar and Piano
**They both reconcile and forgive their fathers as they apologize for selfishly disowning them
**They both got assisted by their fathers to help them defeat the bad guys
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