Psycho Kid

**Psycho Kid** (born September 29, 1992) is the main protagonist of the YouTube series *The Psycho Series*, the graphic novel *Psycho-Kid vs. Psycho-Dad*, the sequel to the *Psycho Series* and *The Devil Inside Series*. Despite being the main protagonist, he commits many questionable actions throughout the course of the series.

## History

He is the younger brother of Jeffrey Ridgway Jr. and the youngest son of Jeffrey Ridgway Sr. and Theresa Ridgway.

Jesse has a gaming addiction, which causes him to be in constant conflict with his father, who does not like the way Jesse wastes his time and doesn't come out of his room. While Jesse is living under his roof, Jeff Sr. wants him to get out of the house and find what he considers to be a real job. Jesse, who wants to pursue YouTube as a career, wants nothing to do with his father's opinions, whereas Jeff Sr. doesn't respect YouTube. Jeff Sr. and Jesse constantly fight over this issue, smashing each other's possessions and getting into shouting matches. Both, as well as Jesse's brother, Jeffrey Jr., have hot tempers and destructive tendencies, though Jeffrey Jr. seems to grow out of this and mature a lot over the course of the Psycho Series.

Jesse and his brother Jeffrey constantly provoke, prank, and mess with each other, much to their parents' annoyance, and the pranks get very serious, with Jesse even ruining his brother's motorcycle and the two shooting fireworks at each other on different occasions. Eventually, Jesse's feud with Jeffrey becomes worse to the point where he hits Jeffery with a beer bottle to stop him from attacking Corn. This leads to Psycho Dad smashing items in his gaming room, as well as his car window. After this, Jesse's mom divorces his dad and moves first to her brother's house, and then her friend Melissa's.

Later, Jesse ends up making amends with Jeffrey, but ends up cutting ties with his mother after Melissa corrupts her. His relationship with his dad also becomes worse after the latter makes him work with his equally abusive brother Chris on a farm after Jesse failed to get a job his father considered acceptable.

In the end of the series, Jesse could not take it anymore, and he decided he will kill his dad.

In the final episode Jesse comes in their house, speaking to the father for the last time which escalated in Jesse shooting him with a pistol. He ends up ruining his newfound bond with Jeffrey in the progress for not only killing their father, but forcing him to film the entire thing.

After this, Jesse ran out of his home driving his car to escape the murder-case.

## Personality

Psycho Kid is a spoiled, lazy undergraduate who has a powerful love for his video games, this is a core source of most of the Psycho videos, leading to either destruction, harm, or a conflict about his video games. Just like his brother and father, he has anger issues, and is very reactionary. He often solves his problems by lashing out on others and destroying items, despite him resenting his father for doing the same.

After being kicked out for destroying baseball trophies awarded to Jeffrey Ridgway Sr. decades prior, life outside The Ridgway Residence slowly visits a darker side of Jesse, as he became hellbent on revenge against Jeffrey Ridgway Jr. to the point of being greedy and very manipulative when he used his family to pull a prank on his brother, which ultimately led to being exiled from his house again & when he manipulated his cousin Tom to pull a second prank on his brother, which led to what Jesse believed was a third banishment from Larry Abraham. He has been heavily criticized for his arrogance and behavior towards friends and family by YouTubers but his Juggies still support him because they can relate to what it feels like to be in a family like his. Not helping was that Jesse got himself in trouble because of his poor decisions.

Despite the immaturity, when he was slapped by Aunt Melissa in A SLAP IN THE FACE!, he handled the situation in a surprisingly mature manner, not retaliating, but instead leaving. This shows that he can show restraint when needed. Then again, given that he chewed out his dad for manhandling Meilssa, it's possible that he did not feel comfortable hitting or verbally attacking a woman.

Jesse has a tendency to lie and manipulate situations, something which his father calls him out on often. He lies to his father constantly, lies to his mother multiple times, and, as mentioned before, he also lies to his cousin, lies to his boss at the farm he works at, and, when he is on the job, he repeatedly tries to get other people to do his work for him. Overtime, Jesse's father loses trust in his son, and he eventually becomes excessively controlling of him. While Jeff Sr. gets extreme about controlling his son, it is obvious that Jesse could have avoided this situation by either moving out, or simply being honest with his father and trying to cooperate with him even a little bit. It is obvious, by the way that his dad reacts in I GOT A JOB PRANK!, that if Jesse put a little effort out there to comply with his dad's desire for him to get a job, it could make a huge difference and they would get along so much better. The way Jesse trashes his father online, calling him a psychopath and using all sorts of derogatory language against him, as well as the lies and manipulation, constantly works to push Jeff Sr. over the edge.

According to Jeffrey, Jesse has a very rebellious side of him and has issues with authority figures (which he admits but states he only has a problem if it's unjustified) as he is very disrespectful towards his father and is hesitant to do things for him. This is likely caused from his father smashing his belongings which has cause him to to hold almost zero respect for his father (even though Jesse destroys a large number of his father's possessions as well). That said, judging from how he sometimes disrespects his mother, Jesse does have a hard time obeying others.

Nearing the end of the series, Jesse was finding it difficult to distinguish reality from fantasy, talking and arguing with an inanimate object which he called Demma and having violent mental breakdowns when residing in the former fan mail room he was forced to record videos in, this was the final straw and ultimately caused his fathers demise.

Jesse essentially became what he had written on the walls of the former fan mail room, and what he called his own father plenty of times: a psychopath. The fact that he almost shot his brother cements this.

## Villainous Acts

* While this is not true most of the time, there are still times where he actually does show disrespect to his dad.
	+ He plays videogames on his dad's TV, even though his dad had told him he was not allowed to. This led to his father putting his Xbox in the fireplace and then throwing it in the driveway.
	+ He smashes his dad's TV after being caught playing with his friend Buzz's SP by his brother Jeffrey Jr. when he was grounded for two weeks until he found a job in *Psycho Kid Smashes TV*. He also told his dad that "he cared more about his TV then he did him."
	+ He attempts to get revenge on his dad at the middle of the night for the chainsaw bloodbath prank by scaring him and Theresa (his mom) with the chainsaw while they were sleeping not knowing the blades were on, and leading to his dad destroying his Xbox One in *Psycho Dad Chainsaws Xbox*. While not intended, he could have actually killed his parents.
	+ He throws a tantrum and ruins the Thanksgiving dinner by flipping the tables and throwing pies at his dad in *Psycho Kid Ruins Thanksgiving*. He also threw his mother under the bus while saying grace.
	+ He smashes his dad's childhood trophies as revenge for Jeff Sr. destroying his play button, which leads to his Wii U being grilled by his dad and getting kicked out of the house in *Psycho Dad Grills Wii U*. He also flips and destroys his dad's grill.
	+ He makes Psycho Dad merchandise and sells it without telling his father, who, when he finds out, gets upset and buries Jesse's videogames.
	+ He and Uncle Larry drill a hole in the wall of Jeff Sr.'s house to run ethernet to Jesse's gaming room (without Jeff Sr.'s permission), leading to an argument. Jesse also brings Uncle Larry in to install a deadbolt on his bedroom door (again, without his father's permission), but this was only to keep Jeffrey Jr. from coming into his bedroom.
	+ He uses his family's electricity against his dad's wishes, which leads to his tent being destroyed by his dad in his tractor in *Psycho Dad Flattens Gaming Lair*.
	+ He brings his camera to Thanksgiving dinner at his dad's parents' house, even though his dad tells him not to. His dad has to throw him out of the house because he refuses to stop filming.
	+ He brings his camera along when his dad goes to talk to his mom in a public place, even though his dad tells him (even begs him) to stay home. His desire to capture every aspect of his parents' relationship clearly crosses a line here, as he has zero respect for their privacy.
	+ He flips his dad off on the latter's security cameras. When his dad confronts him about it, Jesse kicks and destroys his dad's TV.
	+ He, along with Jeff Jr. and Corn prank his dad by telling him he got a job which leads to the next day where his dad wood-chips his video games unless he gets a job which he finally agrees.
	+ He again smashes and knocks over his dad's TV before running away from the house. This was after he quit the farm and his father destroyed his gaming room.
	+ He ended up shooting his father in the second to last episode. Even after everything his father did to him, murdering him before taking back what remained of the $30,000 his father stole from him was the worst thing he ever did.
* He also antagonizes his brother Jeffrey Jr. too.
	+ He manipulates his father into digging a hole which he uses to prank Jeffrey Jr., which leads to his door knocked down by Jeff Sr. and being exiled from the house again in *Psycho Dad Busts Down Door*.
	+ One of the worst things Jesse has done was when he was enraged that his brother painted his car pink, he made his friends Corn and Mark submerge Jeff Jr.'s motorcycle into a pit hole full of water (which Jesse used a hose for and the same hole he pranked Jeff Jr. with) completely damaging it in *Psycho Kid Submerges Motorcycle*.
	+ He holds up a sharp piece of wood against Jeff Jr.'s neck and gets kicked out of the Morton Building, then he crosses the Moral Event Horizon as he lights fireworks in the family's garage and at Jeff Jr. (who tries to avoid the fireworks by putting his Batman cape over him), almost destroying it with gasoline and propane tanks inside which leads to his dad throwing a hissy fit by throwing tables and ruining the Halloween food and drinks and the party being canceled in *Psycho Family Halloween*.
	+ He smashes a Corona beer bottle over his brother's head in *Psycho Brother Stomps Glasses*. While he did seriously injure Jeffrey Jr., he did it for a good cause because he was attacking Corn.
	+ He becomes very selfish about Jeffrey coming to Uncle Larry's house and thinks that he's trying to steal his attention and Jeffrey leaves in disappointment leaving Theresa and Uncle Larry to call him out on his selfishness in *BIGBRUDDA'S BULLSHIT*.
	+ Despite everything Jeffrey did for him after he redeemed himself, Jesse still threatened to shoot him if he didn't film him confronting his father. This is one of the reasons Jeffrey called the police after Jesse got what remained of the money from the safe.
* He torches the Christmas Tree on Christmas Day just because he didn't get the Wii U he wanted which he did get when Theresa (his mom) showed it to him in the end which she hid behind Jeffrey Sr.'s back in *Psycho Kid Torches Christmas Tree*. Finally, he showed no remorse and ran off when his dad rightfully chewed him out and tried to calm him down.
* He throws a tantrum at a store after working too hard and getting humiliated by Jeffrey Jr. (who was filming) which leads to his "arrest" by a “cop” (played by Kenny, a friend of Jeffrey Sr.), which was revealed to be a prank set up by Jeff Sr. and Jeff Jr. to teach Jesse a lesson in *Psycho Kid Gets Arrested*.
* He manipulated his cousin Tom into helping him prank Jeffrey by putting plastic wrap around his car by lying to him that Uncle Larry wanted them to get some stuff from the house which angers Tom and what caused his and Uncle Larry's relationship to become strained.
* He takes advantage of his mom living with him by making her do all the chores while he sits down and plays video games and even admits to mean being selfish to his mom in *THE FALLOUT! (PART 2)*.
* He eats a doughnut without permission and tries to steal it after being fired from the restaurant but failed after being caught by the manager in *THE VOLUNTEER!*.
* He steals food from the Stahlberger's Residence where Aunt Melissa lives, which leads to Aunt Melissa smashing possessions in Uncle Larry's trailer. On top of this, he continues living on their property even after Melissa told him to leave. This lead to Melissa hiring Psycho Dad to destroy the trailer and Larry losing trust in him because he lied to him about Melissa allowing him to stay on her property.
* When Jesse's dad saw his YouTube channel and saw his videos, Jesse lies and says Corn uploaded them, which leads to his best friend getting exiled from the house and leaving Jesse lonely until he reveals he uploaded them and reconciles his relationship with Corn the next day. This caused many of his Juggies to harass him.

Are you fucking crazy!?

I want to get dad back.

Jesse attempts to attack Jeffrey Ridway Sr., but is stopped by Zachary Cornatzer and Mark Locuson.

Jesse is arrested by Jeff. Sr's friend.

Jesse and Larry beat Jeffrey's PS4 with a baseball bat and nunchucks.

Jesse taunts & threatens Jeffrey.

Jesse lights up fireworks.

Jesse steals food from the Stahlberger Residence.

Corn did, Corn did that!

YOU MADE ME THIS WAAAAAY!

Jesse's profile picture.

Jesse's second profile picture.

### Videos

Psycho Kid Smashes TV

Psycho Kid Ruins Thanksgiving

Psycho Kid Torches Christmas Tree

THE PITFALL PRANK!

Psycho Kid Submerges Motorcycle

Psycho Family Halloween

CONTROL YOUR ANGER!

Psycho Dad Watches McJuggerNuggets

## Trivia

* Jesse is similar to Stephen Quire in the *Greatest Freakout Ever* series and Michael Green in the *Angry Grandpa* series because both have anger issues and break their families' belongings/get their belongings broken by their family.
* Jesse is the most profane character in the series. He tends to say "fuck" dozens of times each episode. This is probably because he has a bipolar disorder.
	+ However, in some videos (such as *Hell's Kitchen*, Jesse censors himself despite his viewers listening to him swear constantly in the Psycho Videos.
	+ Jesse has cussed somewhere around 1,711 times throughout all 50 episodes of the series.
* Jesse always refuses to drink alcohol, and has been carded once when buying beer for Uncle Larry.
	+ Jesse stopped drinking after his brain injury in 21 Shots.
	+ Jesse considered drinking at Vidcon, but wasn't able to since he had mono.
* Jesse worked in a bank once, mentioned in *THE WEDDING CONFRONTATION!*, which he quit to focus on YouTube. If he kept his job as a banker, then Jeffrey Sr. wouldn't concern about his son's job.
* When Jesse grabs a stick-like object in an attempt to attack another person, Jeffrey Jr. calls him an island native, shown in Psycho Dad Shreds Video Games and Psycho Dad Buries Video Games. This is in reference on how island natives used their spears to attack enemies.
* Jesse's favorite eatery is New Dodges Market.
	+ However, in THE VOLUNTEER!, he was kicked out of the restaurant because he ate a pastry without permission.
* Over the last few months, Jesse appears to have become more destructive, acting more and more like his father through the recent events of the Psycho Series.
	+ This is especially apparent in *Psycho Kid Submerges Motorcycle*, where he destroys Jeffrey Jr.'s motorcycle over his car getting painted pink.
		- Ironically, since the events of the aforementioned video, Jesse seems to praise his car being pink and even promoted it for breast cancer awareness month.
* In the QnA video #15, Jesse reveals that he is agnostic and he also says that he believes in the existence of aliens.
* Jesse mentioned in *Psycho Family Therapy* that he doesn't believe in God (Christianity). But in *THROUGH THE ASHES! \*PSYCHO UPDATE\**, Jesse asked God for help to put the fire out. It starts to rain, causing Jesse to believe that God DOES exist and cares about him. He also prays to God again in *TO THE HEAVENS! \*PSYCHO UPDATE\**.
	+ However, it's a speculation if Jesse actually believes in God.
* Jesse is the only character to appear in every single Psycho video to date (though only his voice was heard in Psycho Brother's Kung-Fu Freakout).
* In *ADORABLE BABY GOATS!*, Jesse confirmed that he was meant to be born as a girl with Down Syndrome and that he'd be named Jessica, thus why his name is Jesse.
* According to himself in *LESS OF A MAN!*, Jesse used to have orthodontic braces.
* When Jesse recorded his voicemail for Dr. Nelson in *i'm a psychopath.*, it was revealed that Jesse had suffered from mental health issues many years ago.

### Alias

Psycho Kid

Jesse Ridgway

Jesse

Jesse T. Ridgway

J.T. Ridgway

McJuggerNuggets

Jess

Psycho Brother (by Jeffrey Ridgway Jr.)

Sergeant Jackson

Yum-Yum

McJokerNuggets

### Occupation

Youtuber

Gamer

### Powers / Skills

Filming

Gaming

High intelligence

Manipulation

Trash talk

Flight

Accelerated healing factor

Superhuman sonic scream

X-ray vision

Telekinesis

Super strength

Interpretation

### Hobby

Vlogging

Playing video games

Cooking

Pranking his dad or his brother

Being lazy

Manipulating others

Talking trash

### Goals

Destroy and vandalise as much household property as he can.

Get revenge on his father and his brother for all of the abuse and suffering that they did to him.

Get back in the house.

Kill his father and escape from the house in order to evade the murder case (all succeeded).

Get a job (failed/after being forced by his father).

Get his $30,000 (succeeded/failed after finding $12,000).

### Crimes

Theft

Murder

Property damage

Blackmail

Harassment

Assault

Arson

Abuse

Conspiracy