Josh Washington

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## Base Breaking Character

### Alias

Josh
The Killer
The Psycho
The Maniac
The Puppet Master

### Powers/Skills

Wealth
Intelligence
Engineering skills
Manipulative charm
Strength

### Family

Hannah Washington
Beth Washington
Bob Washington
Melinda Washington

### Allies

Sam Giddings
Chris Hartley
Ashley Brown (formerly)
Mike Munroe
Jessica Munroe
Emily Davis
Matthew Taylor

### Enemies

Sam Giddings (formerly)
Chris Hartley (formerly)
Ashley Brown
Mike Munroe (formerly)
Emily Davis (formerly)

### Goals

Make the group suffer for indirectly causing the deaths of his twin sisters and humiliate them by sending his "prank" to the internet (failed).
Get Chris and Ashley together (implied; determinant).

### Why Do Some People Hate The Character?

Many feel that he too this revenge way too far.
His creepy sexual comments can turn people away from his character.

### Why Do Some People Love The Character?

Josh's defenders view him as as someone struggling to cope with his sisters' deaths and sympathize with him.
He has a serious mental illness that makes him unable to understand the harm of his actions, such as believing he’s helping Chris and Ashley get together.

### Type of Base Breaking Character

Contradictory Vengeance Seeker

**Josh Washington** is one of the eight main characters of the 2015 horror game, *Until Dawn*. Josh is the secondary antagonist of the game where, as **The Psycho** he attempts to get revenge of his friends for the role they played in his sisters' deaths.

Josh is played by Raimi Malek.

## What Makes Him a Base-Breaking Character?

### Why Do People Like Him?

* Many of Josh's defenders view him as a tragic brother who couldn't cope with his sister's death.
* Apart from Jessica, Josh is the only character in the entire game who never even *tries* to kill another person, putting him in a lighter shade of black for some people.
* Despite how cruel the pranks he pulled on his friends, namely towards Ashley, many feel that Mike attacking Josh for what the Wendigos did to Jessica was unwarranted as he had no idea about the Wendigos.
* His mental breakdown in the final chapter where Doctor Hill blamed him for everything and he began hallucinating his sisters' made his defenders sympathize with Josh.
* Josh’s mental illness makes him incapable of genuinely understanding the harm of his actions, with the implication a part of his prank was to help Chris and Ashley finally admit their feelings for one another.
* Fans were disappointed Josh never got the opportunity to be given a chance at redemption to atone for his crimes, instead either dying or being captured by Hannah and turned into a Wendigo.

### Why Do People Hate Him?

* His creepy sexual comments to Chris about Ashley can come across as weird to people.
* His detractors feel many of his pranks went too far, such as punching out Chris and possibly Ashley too and actively could've gotten many of his friends killed.
* The guns with blanks prank he pulled on Chris and Ashley that was only meant to scare them could've resulted in Chris's death. Josh's detractors point out that if Chris chose to make a heroic sacrifice instead of either shooting Ashley (which would've resulted in his death at the hands of the Wendigos) or he did nothing, the gas released from the gun would've still killed him in real life.

## External Links

* Josh Washington on Villains Wiki
* Josh Washington on Villainous Benchmarks Wiki
* Josh Washington on *Until Dawn* Wiki