John Steel (Dark John)

**Johnny "John" Steel also known as Dark John** is one of the main characters in The Animals Series franchise, being one of main antagonists in The Animals Series, The New Adventures of The Animals and its spin-offs. Dark John is the drummer and a member of The Dark Animals as well John Steel's evil counterpart. In episode 94, he returned to being Dark Joan's boss. In addition to being one of the five main villains, Dark John is also one of the two tertiary antagonists (alongside Dark Alan) in the series.

## John Steel (Dark John)

* S10-Current
* Orange Pants
* Current Outfit V2
* Snake John
* S3-S7 Outfit
* S8-S9 Outfit
* Starting Evil Childhood
* Cheating Runner Outfit
* S1-S2 Outfit
* Kid
* Teen
* Alternative Hairstyle
* Wolf
* Demon
* Prison Outfit
* John Steel's Current Outfit
* World Cup Outfit
* Breaking Friends

### Aliases

John (by his friends), Evil John or Evil Steel, Wolf Dark John, the mean member, Johnny (his real name, rarely by his friends), Valentina Shelton (female disguise)

### Affiliation

The Dark Animals (friends), Olive (his female pet snake) and Dark Joan (female version)

### Occupation

Criminal
 member and drummer of The Dark Animals
 Dark Eric's minion
 Dark Joan's boss
 Supervillain

## Appearances

### Debut

The Dark Animals, the evil counterpart of The Animals (The Animals Series, non-canon series)
 The Dark Animals are on the streets again (The New Adventures of The Animals, official and canon series)

## Appearance

Dark John has the same appearance as his nice self, with wavy brown hair, brown eyes, nose, and Caucasian skin (lighter white). He wears a black and dark orange outfit, his jacket is all black, his shirt is dark orange, his bracelets are black and dark orange, and his sneakers are black and dark orange.

In his new outfit, Dark John wears a black jacket, his blouse is a plaid blouse (like Dark Chas), but in black and dark orange colors, he wears predominantly black pants and sometimes wears dark orange pants (seen in tenth season, where he wears both colors, black and dark orange) with black and dark orange shoes or sneakers.

## Personality

Dark John is the representation of John Steel's negative evil feelings. He is shown to be a selfish, jealous, vengeful, spoiled, arrogant, boorish, cruel and violent fellow like his partners. Dark John is extremely reckless and ruthless, his actions and evil attitude show that he doesn't mind hurting or injuring people to achieve his goals or those of the Dark Animals. He loves to torment John Steel, his good self, and when Steel is absent, his other victim is Alan Price (during Steel's absence), who also Dark John loves to have fun with torturing and tormenting, although he prefers to torture his good self. Dark John is evil and has no remorse under his actions for becoming such a frivolous and sinister criminal. When he and his friends are turned into wolves, Dark John takes on a more murderous persona: being a psychopathic predator wanting to devour The Animals so they don't fall under the Dark Animals' plans. He also helps Dark Eric steal Hilton's magic wand to turn the Dark Animals back to humans.

Dark John is a mixture of the personalities of each of his friends: being mischievous (Dark Hilton), sarcastic/ironic (Dark Alan), cruel (Dark Eric/Dark Chas), aggressive (Dark Chas), cunning and intelligent (Dark Dave), and vengeful (all members in general) but is also greedy, impulsive and frivolous, he is considered the most petty member of the group. Although he can be vengeful, rude, impatient, arrogant, sadistic and calculating like all Dark Animals and has his own personality he is curious and cheeky. He's not the most vengeful or mischievous, but without a doubt, Dark John is the meanest guy, being rude, rude, sarcastic, mean and unfriendly to everyone (except his friends and now, the Dark Angels).

Dark John is also a bit mischievous like Dark Hilton, but he is best known as the most "quiet and mysterious" member of the Dark Animals, due to the fact that he is very closed off. is unable to redeem himself from evil to good, since John Steel represents good and Dark John represents evil, and it would be absurd to have two John Steel, good ones. Dark John represents more or less what John would be, if he were in solitude, without friends, love or support, it would probably be a Dark John 2.0 or that it would be an evil John Steel similar to Dark John.

When he first met the Dark Angels, Dark John was indifferent, rude and cold, but this attitude quickly changed in episode 26, where he and his friends are seen in love with the Dark Angels, Dark John quickly fell in love initially with Dark Joan, but cunning as he is, he doesn't think twice about manipulating Joan and forcing her to be his follower, servant and subordinate, nor that he sometimes has to take advantage of the evil love he feels for her.

In his wolf form in season two of The New Adventures of The Animals Series, he has a power-hungry and rather evil side, as he was willing to turn Londoners into wolves with Hilton's stolen magic wand.  He also loves power, but he is one of two members of The Dark Animals who are less power hungry, the other being Dark Dave.

In The Dark Animals miniseries, he is also bothered and angered at having lost his powers as a healer and deeply regrets his wish that his ambition for power has failed.

His symbol is fire and represents his mean-spirited personality who is "as hot as fire".  He has a snake called Olive and he treats her as if she were his "daughter" and that shows affection, care and love that he has for his pet,.

His best friends are Dark Dave and Dark Alan, formerly he was jealous of Dark Alan's friendship with Dark Dave, but today he has overcome his jealousy and today he is not jealous of their friendship.  He enjoys spending time with his two friends, especially Alan who he is closest with, although he is also close and close with Dave as well.  He is still jealous but now towards The Animals, especially John Steel, his good self, in which Dark John is willing to harm him even if for no reason.  He has no remorse for his actions and takes sadistic pleasure in blaming or framing innocents for his evil deeds.

Dark John, like his friends, loves the idea of being the lover of married women or in a dating relationship and intends to flirt and seduce more women to destroy couples' relationships.

He is also shown to be cruel and perverse and has sadistic moments, as he took pleasure in calling Jimmy Pinshead, an Afro-English businessman calling him a ''cuckold'' after Dark John and his friends ''steal'' Gloria's wife. of him to make their lover. And he also smiled at Gloria and her reaction to discovering that he and his friends only manipulated Gloria into becoming her into their mistress just for the money.

Dark John is also sarcastic, manipulative and extremely demanding and he is described as one of the darkest villains in the series, as well as being one of the most manipulative and selfish villains in the franchise.

He has a female dark orange snake named Olive.

It is revealed that he and the Dark Animals have hypnosis ability, shown in episodes 67 and 68 of the fifth season, showing that he and the Dark Animals can manipulate and control the Animals through hypnosis.

At the very end of episode 93, he falls in love with Dark Joan, his female version. However, his passion for Joan is fleeting, as he never really loved her female version, although he still wishes to have Joan as his partner and subordinate.

Dark John can be a deceiver and a manipulative trickster, as seen in episode 95, where he assumes the identity of Valentina Shelton, one of the Girly Girls, in order to seduce The Animals and make them fight each other. Before this, in the same episode, he is seen sadistically laughing with the Dark Animals, after Dark Chas and Dark Alan mock The Animals' feelings.

This means that even though he is in a feeling of temporary true love with Dark Joan, his evil is still present in his personality, his cruel, arrogant and violent traits remain present even after spending a temporary moment of love with Joan.

Just like his friends, Dark John prides himself on being dishonest and a cheater. In episode 82, he helps Dark Eric try to cheat in the race just to win the prize, especially the money.

Since he was little, Dark John has shown himself to be treacherous and very evil, as in episode 52, it shows a flashback of him and the Dark Animals already with evil in their behavior and personality, this indicates that he met his friends at some point in the orphanage, since the The reason he was left abandoned by his parents is his hostile and mean behavior since he was a baby.

Dark John has also become mischievous when hanging out with Dark Hilton and both he and Hilton love to play pranks on others, especially if the victim is one of The Animals or all members of The Animals.

He is a manipulator and a convinced liar, like his partners and also Dark John seems unfazed by Dark Eric's cruel plans, just like Dark Hilton, Dark John takes pleasure in helping his leader's evil plans without hesitation. He also seems to like tormenting and trying to kill The Animals for pleasure, as he also likes to torment them, trying to kill The Animals to complete the group's evil goals, such as usurping The Animals' place and obligating (forcing) the fans. from The Animals to listening to noisy and dark music from The Dark Animals or to a more dangerous evil plan such as domination of England or the world.

John was born evil just like his friends, The Dark Animals. John seems to take sadistic pleasure in tormenting and making the lives of The Animals hell, he, along with his friends, likes to make the protagonists hell for no reason and sees this pastime as a frequent/recurrent option, if he cannot achieve the group's evil objectives, such as: usurp The Animals' place and steal their fans and force The Animals' fans to listen to the Dark Animals' sinister music. Dark John also seems to enjoy killing people, especially trying to kill The Animals, as he enjoys trying to kill The Animals for fun or for the pleasure of being cruel.

In The Animals Series, along with Dark Hilton, Dark John was one of the two least evil of the group, but it was a facade, Dark John is as treacherous, evil, cruel and sadistic as his partners and friends.

Due to his mischievous personality, it is possible that he and Dark Hilton are the comic relief of The Dark Animals.

John's relationship with the Dark Animals is a ''sibling'' relationship. Since they are always together and one of them is rarely seen alone devising evil plans for the group or evil plans for each member.

Dark John loves his pet Olive and when he discovers that she is a half-magical snake that can talk, he was very happy and loves her even more, since in addition to helping him in his evil plans and dangerous intentions, Olive can also help Dark John in ideas for the Dark Animals' murderous and evil plans.

In the ninth season he and his friends gain snake abilities and become more aggressive and even more power-hungry, willing to dominate the world with their iron hands.

Dark John also became more cruel and more psychopathic due to each season, where his evil evolved, where in the tenth season he wants to dominate the world but also wants to make the lives of The Animals hell and torment them, showing how evil and petty he is, having no sign of remorse or redemption like his friends in their cruel actions.

## Trivia

* Despite being one of the (five) main antagonists of the series, Dark John can also be considered one of the two tertiary antagonists (alongside Dark Alan), with John being the second tertiary antagonist.
* He was born in Durham, County Durham, England. He is only member of The Dark Animals who doesn't born in same place as his good counterpart was born.
* His full name is Johnny Steel like his good version.
* His symbol is fire which describes his personality "his vengeful personality is hot like fire".  Since his temperament is calm.
* Dark John is also one of the two most chaotic villains, the other being Dark Hilton.
* He and Dark Eric were born in 1942, so both villains are 22 years old, and are a year younger than their good counterparts.

Dark John and John Steel share some common characteristics:

* Both are the drummers of their groups.
* Both are best friends with pianists, Dark Alan and Alan Price, but unlike John, Dark John has Dark Dave as his second best friend, while the real Dave Rowberry is deceased.
* Both were born on the same date, February 4th, but they are from different years, Dark John is from 1942 and John is from 1941.
* John hates evil and Dark John hates good.
* John loves humility and Dark John loves arrogance.
* John hates everything nasty and evil and Dark John hates everything nice and good.
* Both have opposite personalities.
* Both are inspired by real-life drummer John Steel, but Dark John represents the opposite of John Steel in the series and in real life, and his evil personality would represent how John Steel was, if he didn't have friends, support or love, John would probably be exactly like Dark John.

## Gallery

Dark John in his new outfit in The Special: Breaking Friends.Dark John in his prison outfit in special: Breaking FriendsDark John in his christmas outfit from special: Christmas in DangerDark John in his winter christmas outfit from special: Christmas in DangerDark John as Elf