Johnny Cranky (VenturianTale)

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Johnny Cranky is a character from the VenturianTale YouTube channel and series. He appears in two videos, and is only mentioned by name by Venturian a few times in non role-play videos. He plays an antagonistic role, trying to get P.I.E. members to join his team. He origins are unknown.

## Johnny Cranky

Johnny Cranky as seen as a fan interpretation

### Affiliation

Destroyers of Investigators Extraordinaire

## Physical description

### Eye color

Brown on playermodel, but blue and yellow in fan interpretations

## Appearances

### Appears in

CRAZY FUN DUPES 12: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3blR3Fe\_H0&t=1260sBarney Hunt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3blR3Fe\_H0&t=1260s

### Debut

Crazy Fun Dupes 12

Johnny Cranky starts off in both of his videos pretending to be the P.I.E leader, Johnny Ghost. He spends the majority of both videos as Johnny Ghost, only dropping few hints on how he is an imposter. When he reveals himself in CRAZY FUN DUPES 12 he attempts to get Spooker and Colon to join his team, repeatedly mentioning how Johnny Ghost treats them badly at P.I.E. Both team members refuse and begin ignoring him. In Barney Hunt he only reveals himself after he is killed by a fake Chakalata Soup. He yells at the fake, believing him to be the real Chakalata and telling him he won't be able to join his team anymore.

## Relationships

* Johnny Ghost

\*  In both of his video appearances Cranky impersonates Ghost, only revealing himself at the end. [17:22 - Barney Hunt,  19:15 Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

* Fred “Spooker” Soup

\*  Cranky attempts to get Spooker to join his team, bringing up how Ghost tends to be mean to him [23:24 Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

\*  Cranky refers to Spooker as “Spooks” and shows him more respect than Ghost normally does [17:28 - Barney Hunt]

* Chris “Colon” Ghostie

\* Cranky says while still pretending to be Ghost that Colon is the least annoying out of the four P.I.E members [14:38 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

\* Cranky attempts to get Colon to join his team, Colon responds with shooting Cranky with a rocket launcher, which kills the both of them. [22:39 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

* Johnny Toast

\* after Toast is accidentally killed by Spooker and respawns Cranky accuses him of secretly being Johnny Roast or Johnny Boast. [10:27, 18:49 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

\* Cranky tells Spooker that only Toast’s family can destroy ghosts, he also says that Toast has no living relatives. This is almost definitely untrue. [9:50, 9:35 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

* Sink Supplies

\* Sink Supplies pretends to be Mr. White who pretends to be Chakalaka Soup, who was supposed to join Cranky’s team, but killed Spooker and Cranky. [16:56, 17:22 - Barney Hunt]

* Jimmy

\* Cranky mentions that in his team there is a person named Jimmy. [18:24 - Barney Hunt]

* Jenny Toast

\* some version of Jenny Toast appears. She attacks Cranky and the rest of the P.I.E team present. Cranky says she’s the arch enemy of Johnny Toast and used her powers to rob banks. [16:50 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

* Meow Pebble

\* Cranky attempts to get Meow Pebble a random cat to join his team, he gives it a tank and Pebble shoots him with it. [24:00 - Crazy Fun Dupes 12]

## Biography

### The Twister

P.I.E is set up to once again combat the ghostly tornado The Twister, this time supposedly bringing the whole team. The characters present at the beginning are Johnny "Ghost"(Cranky), Johnny Toast, Chris "Colon" Ghostie, and Fred "Spooker" Soup. The plan to combat The Twister is to spawn dupes and drive them into the tornado and see what happens. To begin "Ghost"(Cranky) spawns an airship and drives it to the tornado, Spooker follows him onto the ship. They drive into The Twister and it collapses into pieces as the framerate drops, eventually grouping back together and Cranky surviving the ordeal, deletes the ship. After a few minutes of highjinx wherein The Krusty Krab is spawned along with a mini sonic for a skull for a face Spooker accidentally kills Johnny Toast with a dupe Colon spawned. Spooker panics, and Cranky at first is more worried about if the Sonic dupe survived. When told that Toast was killed Cranky pretends to panic and tells Spooker that Toast doesn't have any living relatives (untrue) and that "everyone knows that Toast is part of the royal family of England, and only THEY can destroy ghosts; I wouldn't be able to do nothing unless Toast were with me, cause he's the one using the power-" Spooker asks "so you're using him for your benefit?" Cranky responds with "yes i am actually, cause I'm a really bad person :)". This is all said with Cranky still pretending to be Ghost, and most information is untrue and at the detriment of Johnny Ghost, this and further information proving Johnny Cranky to be an unreliably narrator.

After this occurrence Toast, of course, respawns. Cranky responds to this with surprise, and goes on to say Toast is a fake version of himself, and is actually Johnny Boast. This is dropped at first. Shortly after this, Cranky is killed by dupes and respawns elsewhere, he begins a monologue where he pretends to not hear the rest of the cast while they hear him. During this Spooker describes the way the cast members can hear eachother from this distance as a "group chat". He attempts to spawn another larger airship, but cannot figure out the controls and deletes it. Also during this bit Cranky as Ghost uncharacteristically states that he does not need Johnny Toast. Cranky then spawns a Chinook helicopter and begins to fly it to The Twister, Colon instantly shows up while noclipping/flying and gets into one of the back seats, when questioned Colon says he used magical flying shoes he just found and came to help. Cranky says in reply to this "well I guess out of the four you're probably the least annoying..." This hints a bit to the fact he isn't actually Johnny Ghost. Spooker shows up and follows Colon into the backseat. When met with the tornado the helicopter instantly falls apart. Cranky meets up with Colon and Spooker on the ground and they're attacked by Jenny Toast who is driving a golden version of the HL2 airboat with wings that leaves a rainbow trail behind it. Spooker attempts to spawn a red car shaped object that Cranky calls the bat mobile but it doesn't do anything to help. Mysteriously, Cranky tells the P.I.E members that Jenny Toast is a villain who he told to never come back "here" and that she uses her superpowers to rob banks. Along with this he says that she is the arch enemy of Johnny Toast and she is working with the tornado. Pretty much none of this lines up with what we know about previous and future appearances of Jenny Toast, along with this Cranky bringing up her working with the tornado once again alludes to Johnny Cranky's motivations in this video.

Jenny kills Spooker before Colon shoots her down. Cranky spawns a tank to be used against Jenny but she's already dead by the time its spawned. Johnny Toast reappears only to get promptly shot by Cranky in the tank, claiming Toast is Johnny Roast this time. Cranky claims he doesn't believe Toast to be Toast because he saw him die, Spooker is accidentally ran over promptly after this is said. This is when Cranky finally breaks his facade, shooting Colon with the tank, Colon yells that "he's turned against us!". Cranky begins laughing and announces "how did you guys not know!? How did you guys not know it was me!" and continues laughing again. Colon tells him to die and fires at him, while Spooker tells him he laughs like a loser and he doesn't know who he is.

Spooker asks who he is and Cranky insists everyone knows who he is and then stumbles through his name before finally landing on "Johnny Cranky". He insists he's the big bad, that hes always been here, and that he's in all the old videos but he simply never used his name. Cranky continues trying to explain he's the main antagonist, but he doesn't notice when Spooker steals his tank and shoots him. Spooker and Colon start ignoring him and start fighting an evil cat piloting a version of of Jenny Toast's vehicle