Joe (Friendlings Series)

>    *"These students deserve to do what they want, and live their own lives! They shouldn't be suffering through office jobs to boost the economy, they should have their freedom!"* - Joe to The Superintendent.
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## Overview

Joe is the main character of The Friendlings series. During the events of the games, he faces off against the Westwood School District, which is turning its students into mindless zombies that are crafted into the perfect workers by the school. Joe is known as the hero of Westwood after the events of Joe Goes to School.

### Appearance

Joe is a young Friendling, he's 4'10" and weighs 90 pounds. Like all young friendlings, Joe has not fully grown his arms and just uses his powerful legs for everything. He has gray skin, and four brown hairs on the top of his head. He wears brown loafers and changes shoes multiple times during the games. His face is very simple, having two dot eyes and a big smile. Joe's appearance changes multiple times when he puts on different outfits depending on what level you are currently playing. His outfits include a Scuba Suit for underwater levels, and an Anti-Heat suit for flaming levels. Joe's feet are very deformed, and they are a different shape.

### Personality

##### Joe's Bully

Joe is a very happy character, but his emotions get the better of him at some points in the games and books. Joe's adventure starts in Joe's Bully, a childrens book. In this book, Joe started his first day of preschool, and he decided to bring his goldfish, Gibson, to school for show and tell. When he arrived at school, Joe's goldfish was stolen by a group of bullies, including his future best friend, Boulder. Joe was very upset about this altercation. During the rest of the day, Boulder, and his friends picked on Joe. They did things like making faces, and shooting spit-balls through straws at him. This caused his emotions to get the better of him, and Joe lashed out at Boulder. Joe was promptly defeated and beat on. When Joe asked his teacher, Professor Cabbage for help, Professor Cabbage told Joe that Boulder was way to scary and he could't deal with him for Joe. After the school day was over, Joe walked home crying because his goldfish was stolen. When he got home, he continued to cry for hours until his father arrived from work. After telling his father what happened at school earlier, Joe's father drove him to Boulder's house so that they can sort things out. Joe and Boulder have a heart to heart about why Boulder stole Gibson. Joe reveals he just wanted to make a great first impression on his first day of school, so he brought Gibson with him. Boulder revealed that he just wanted to seem strong and impressive in front of his friends, so he stole Gibson. Joe and Boulder hug it out and become friends from then on. Joe retrives Gibson and then heads home, fixing his problems.

### Joe's Elementary Years

After Joe's time in preschool, he begins elementary school. Joe starts kindergarten at Nelville Young'uns academy, a large school in Westwood School District. Him and Boulder have multiple adventures in Elementary school, including making friends and enemies. In Joe Goes To School, Joe and Boulder have multiple conversations about their past elementary years. Including making a friend named Mindy, who appears in Joe Goes To School, and Mrs. Eville, who is a boss, and major villain in Joe Goes To School. Joe's personality is pretty much the same in elementary school, except for his maturity, he has become a lot more mature than when he was in preschool.

### Joe Goes to School

This is Joe's first adventure that takes a game format. In this game, Joe is attending Westwood Intermediate School, which is the largest school in the Westwood School District. In this game, Joe's character is pretty much the same as it is in his elementary years. He is smart and still very happy during this game. In Joe's first couple of days, everything seems pretty normal. Classes go along as normal, and students seem very happy. Joe first starts to get suspicious when Mrs. Eville shows up in place of one of the teachers. Joe was confused because of this, since Mrs. Eville was an elementary teacher, not a middle school teacher. After a few more days, Joe is called down to the principals office. When he gets there, The Principal opens up a secret door and pulls Joe inside. When he gets there, he sees multiple tanks, with students floating inside. One of the students is released from the tanks and starts talking. "I can't wait to work a wonderful office job" the student says. Joe is very unnerved by this. The Principal guides him to a tank and opens it up. The Principal tries to push Joe inside, but Joe resists. Joe flees the scene through a vent in the wall and escapes The Principal. The sight of that brainless, zombified student shakes Joe to his core. Joe's parents raised him to be a creative and adventurous student, and the school was turning students into mindless, office-job zombies. After the first few levels of the game, Joe becomes sad, because he has to beat up his friends as zombies. This continues until Joe fights the the first boss of the game, Boulder. After defeating Boulder, Joe frees him from the zombification. Joe then realizes that it's his responsibility to save the students of Westwood School District. Joe continues fighting through the school full of zombies until The Principal starts to get worried. The Pricipal calls in The Superintendent, leader of The Westwood School district. He brings with him the anti-creativity corps. This makes Joe extremely angry, showing that he cares about the other students and their creativity in the furture. Joe continues fighting against The Suerintendent until he faces off against him. This allows Joe to overcome all of his angers, and fears, and finally defeat The Superintendent, freeing the students of Westwood School District, from working soul sucking office jobs for the rest of their lives.

### Colour Clash

After saving Westwood School District, life for Joe goes on as normal. He finishes 6th Grade with straight A's and moves into 7th Grade. Everything goes great until that fateful day in January. The Cosmic Possum uses his dark powers to absorb all of the chaos from the multiverse. This causes many characters from different universes to be dragged through with the chaos energy. One of said characters in Joe himself. During the Colour Clash story mode, Joe helps Haycraft and friends defeat The Cosmic Possum and seal him away once again.

## Abilities

Joe has been through a lot in his adventures, and through time he has collected many abilities.

### Joe Goes To School

Joe's abilities in this game include his moveset. Jump, High Jump, Sprinting, Power Kick, Pillar Creation, Gibson, Time Stop, Ray Gun. His final skill is the Ultimate Mega High Jump Kick he uses at the end of the game to destroy The Superintendent. This kick also destroys the school building, collapsing the roof on top of everyone. Joe possesses superhuman strength (While not being as strong as Boulder) that allows him to throw objects such as cars. Joe possesses superhuman speed that can compete with The Superintendent, and Mrs. Eville's spaceship. Joe possesses superhuman durability, as he has taken hits from ray guns, and bullets.

### Colour Clash

Joe's abilities in Joe Goes To School are translated to a fighting game moveset. His superhuman stats are increased ten-fold in Colour Clash, so that he can compete with the other characters, and The Cosmic Possum himself.

Rating: A+

## Relationships

Joe's Mother: Joe's mother appears multiple times throughout Joe's books, and games. She is an older Friendling with long brown hair, and red lipstick. She is famous around Joe's neighborhood for making delicious blueberry pancakes. She packs them in Joe's lunch every day for school. During Joe Goes To School, Joe's Mother is the first person in the neighborhood to speak out against Westwood School District when her son goes missing. Joe and his mother are very close and have multiple conversations over the phone in Joe Goes To School.

Joe's Father: Joe's Father also appears multiple times in Joe's adventures. Joe's Father is an older Friendling with glasses, short blonde hair, and two nubs that signify that his arms are forming. Joe's Father works for Nicetech Industries as a campaign manager. He oversees a lot of campaigns within Nictech, and has made them thousands of dollars before. Joe's Father also speaks out against Westwood School District when Joe goes missing. While not as close with Joe as Joe's Mother is, Joe's Father spends lots of time with Joe on the weekends.

Boulder: Boulder was originally Joe's bully back in preschool, but after Joe had a hear to heart conversation with Boulder the two became best friends. Boulder appears in every other instance of Joe content. In Joe Goes To School, Joe has to face a zombified Boulder as his first boss, but after that, Boulder helps Joe in any way he can. Boulder and Joe have had many different adventures together, and through thick and thin, they stay best friends.

Mindy: Mindy is a friend that Joe and Boulder met in Elementary school. Not much in known about her, but she appears in Joe Goes To School, and Colour Clash.

## Review

Joe is one of BingChilling Games most important characters, and he has appeared in our games a lot.