Johnny

* Classic Kirby
* TVS

 **Johnny** is a supporting ally in Classic Kirby and a minor ally in Trooper Village Stories. He is a Blue Pikmin from The Steve Dimension that is the older brother of Major Tom.

Johnny hosted the talent show Pikmin's Got Talent during its three year run in the early 2010s, and also created The Anime Contest Of The Ages in 2016. Through both of these works, Johnny became closely affiliated with Mayor Reginald Bulborb, who won two editions of Pikmin's Got Talent and also won the anime contest. He also worked part-time as a taxi driver in his hometown.

Johnny joined the military under the codename "**Solid Snake**", specialising in tactical espionage infiltration missions. During one of these missions, he teamed up with Reginald to stop Tom and Emperor Bulblax using a Metal Gear for destructive purposes.

## Personality

Johnny has an upbeat style of television presenting, being heavily optimistic and frequently giving praise to Mayor Reginald Bulborb's two performances on Pikmin's Got Talent. He approached The Anime Contest Of The Ages in a similar way, giving praise to Reginald's entry, Space Western Olimar, after it won the contest.

On his tactical espionage infiltration missions on the battlefield, Johnny is a hardened career soldier who, in a complete departure from the upbeat personality he typically has, often displays a calm and collected demeanour, rarely showing any signs of anger, aggressiveness or fear in extreme circumstances on missions. Despite this Johnny shows a more human side, expressing great concern for allies' wellbeing during dangerous operations and even demonstrating compassion towards fallen enemies.

During a conversation with Reginald, Johnny said that his brother Major Tom drives him mad due to frequently saying the word "brother".

## Abilities

    Johnny is an exceptionally skilled and competent soldier. With knowledge and expertise in a wide array of weapons and warfare tools. Johnny is also skilled in hand to hand combatant and possessed knowledge and expertise in parachuting, scuba diving, submersible operations, mountain climbing, and many other activities useful in his line of work. Johnny can adapt at difficult situations and think quickly even under pressure. He is especially known and famed for his stealth, subterfuge and infiltration skills. He was able to defeat Emperor Bulblax relatively easily, knocking him out with one kick to the face.

## History

### Backstory

Johnny came from a family of Pikmin that also consisted of a younger brother, Major Tom, who later joined the military under the codename "Liquid Snake". Their father also worked in the military under the codename "Big Yellow Boss". Johnny and Tom moved to The Steve Dimension at some point after it was built by Steve in 2012, and befriended Steve and the other residents. A year later, Johnny befriended Alternate Kirby Bulborb, Jesse Pikmin and Psyduck, and began the talent show Pikmin's Got Talent, with Johnny as the host and Alternate Kirby Bulborb, Jesse Pikmin, and Psyduck as the judges. It soon proved successful and had many participants, including Ronnie Bulborb, whose performance of Gangnam Style by PSY impressed Johnny and the judges.

### Classic Kirby

     Johnny hosted an episode of Pikmin's Got Talent, in which he introduced the show's three judges before introducing that episode's contestant, Reginald Bulborb, who performed Your Song by Elton John. Having introduced Reginald as "someone fantastic", Johnny said his performance was "stunning" and that it was done with "style and epicness", with the judges giving Reginald similar compliments. He congratulated Reginald on the "epic performance", and ended the episode.

Sometime later, Johnny found himself and the parrot Doctor Pikgeorge in a Jigsaw trap. He escaped the trap by pretending to cut his arm off, whereas Pikgeorge died after being unable to escape the trap in the allocated time. Johnny informed Doc Kermit Frogglegg of this shortly thereafter, which led to Jigsaw being killed by Doc.

After his escape, Johnny returned to the Steve Dimension and began working as a taxi driver. Johnny was involved in The Pik in 2013, after he and a Blue Pikmin friend fought a hostile Red Bulborb that was attacking their Pikmin town. Following this, Johnny joined the military under the codename "Solid Snake", specialising in tactical espionage infiltration missions and becoming an exceptionally skilled and competent soldier. In 2015, Johnny hosted one of the final episodes of Pikmin's Got Talent, which featured Reginald (who had since become a politician and been elected the Mayor of Trooper Village) returning to the show to perform a cover of Yellow Submarine by The Beatles, which Johnny also thought was "an epic performance". After the show ended, Johnny continued his military work.

### Trooper Village Stories

#### Season 2

     Johnny was contacted by his colonel, and was told to find some new recruits before going near Metal Gear, and was informed about Reginald, who Johnny thinks could be of assistance. When Johnny asked for directions, the colonel told him that Trooper Village isn't far away from Outer Heaven. When his codec call with the colonel ended, Johnny traveled to Trooper Village, hidden underneath a cardboard box. Two Pikmin guards, unaware of Johnny being underneath the box, let him pass. After entering the village, Reginald finds the cardboard box and lifts it up, revealing Johnny to him. Johnny initially believes he's been caught but soon realises it's Reginald, who is shocked to find another Metal Gear character in the village. Reginald asks Johnny what he's doing in the village, and Johnny tells him that he could help in finding Metal Gear.

     Johnny's conversation with Reginald is interrupted by another codec call, this one from his brother, Tom, who tells Johnny about his plan to use a Metal Gear for utter destruction. Johnny calls Tom insane but then asks if he has someone else with him. Tom confirms this, telling Johnny he's working with Emperor Bulblax to activate Metal Gear. Johnny tells Tom that he and Emperor Bulblax won't be able to activate it, and eventually reveals to Tom that the Metal Gear he found is just a model. Tom is shocked that Johnny tricked him, and Johnny tells him that he and Reginald will stop him from getting to Shadow Moses Island, and the codec call ends. Johnny and Reginald travel to Shadow Moses Island, and kill a guard in order to access the basement area where Tom and Emperor Bulblax are. They enter the basement area and defeat Tom and Emperor Bulblax. After shouting Johnny's military nickname, Tom is killed, though Johnny speculated he may not actually be dead and return, saying "brother" even more. He and Reginald then went on a short vacation.

#### Season 2

     In 2016, Johnny announced The Anime Contest Of The Ages, a competition amongst anime and manga fans to create their own anime series. Reginald and his brother Kirby Bulborb saw Johnny's announcement, which inspired them to make their own entry for the contest, the Space Western Olimar series. Johnny later announced that this series had won the contest, but was seemingly oblivious to the fact it was blatantly inspired by Cowboy Bebop.

## Other Universes

### Solid Snake in the Metal Gear franchise

Solid Snake, real name David, also known as Old Snake, and briefly known as Iroquois Pliskin, or simply Snake, is the main protagonist of the Metal Gear franchise. He was a former spy, special operations soldier, and mercenary. Possessing an IQ of 180 and fluent in six languages, the fame he achieved from his military exploits earned him such monikers as "Legendary Soldier," "Legendary Hero," and "the Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible."

Snake was one of the children born of the 1972 project Les Enfants Terribles. He was created as a clone of the world-renowned soldier Big Boss, along with his brothers Liquid Snake and Solidus Snake. Initially a Green Beret, Snake was later inducted into the High-Tech Special Forces Unit FOXHOUND in the 1990s while it was commanded by Big Boss. Repeatedly tasked with disarming and destroying the latest incarnation of Metal Gear, a bipedal nuclear weapon-armed tank, Snake would thrice avert potential nuclear catastrophe, becoming a famed war hero.

Following the Shadow Moses Incident and subsequent smear campaign by the Patriots, the secret organization behind American politics, Snake was labeled a terrorist. He faked his own death in the Manhattan Tanker Incident, though he re-emerged years later to assist Raiden in the Big Shell Incident. During this time, his health declined as his body entered a state of accelerated aging due to intentional genetic changes made during the cloning process.

In 2014, Snake performed his final mission, during which he defeated Liquid Ocelot and destroyed the Patriots. After one last encounter with Big Boss, Snake chose to live his remaining days in peace.

## Trivia

* Johnny shares a name with two Metal Gear characters:
	+ He shares his alias, Johnny, with that of Johnny Sasaki, a recurring enemy guard in the series.
	+ He shares his birthname, John, with that of Big Boss, a major character in the series.

* It was not originally planned for Johnny and Solid Snake to be the same character, with Metal Gear Pikmin originally intended to be the first of several Metal Gear parody episodes, each focusing on specific games in the series, and Solid Snake appearing as the main character in all of these episodes. However, after Solid Snake's voice actor Jakob Dawson became increasingly busy with university work, Peter Tagg scrapped the sequel parodies and made Johnny and Solid Snake the same character to give Johnny a role in Peter's videos beyond that of a television presenter.