Jonathan "Johnny" Worthington III is the secondary antagonist of Pixar's Monsters, Inc. franchise, serving as the main antagonist of both Monsters University and Monsters at Work Season 2. He is the confident president of Roar Omega Roar, Sulley's former best friend and Mike's arch-nemesis. As seen in Monsters at Work, he later became the CEO of Fear Co., but he falls down the same corrupt path as Henry J. Waternoose III.
Bio[]
Monsters University[]
Johnny is Mike's arch-rival, and the confident president of Roar Omega Roar (ROR), a Monsters University fraternity that prides itself on its notable Scarers. His antagonistic role in the film comes from him frequently belittling the Oozma Kappa fraternity.
In Monsters University, Johnny Worthington first meets Sulley and Mike after the two have been led to the Greek row by Archie the Scare Pig. As other fraternities are trying to get Sulley to join them, Johnny welcomes Sulley and takes him to be a Roar Omega Roar. When Mike tries to attract his attention, Johnny "kindly" tells him that he would be better with Oozma Kappa, the weakest-looking fraternity.
As the semester goes by, the RORs are increasingly disappointed by Sulley, who performs poorly in the Scaring class. Johnny finally signifies to Sulley that if he fails the final exam to Mike, he will be removed from ROR.
Johnny is with the RORs on the subscription day for the Scare Games, and laughs when Mike presents himself to the competition. The ROR have great success at the games, coming first at all challenges. However, against all odds, Oozma Kappa somehow stays in the competition after two rounds.
The OKs are invited to a party at the ROR house that will actually be their doom. In front of everyone present, Johnny congratulates the OKs of how good they did in the Scare Games and invites them to the stage. However, when OK are on stage, Johnny tells his brothers to spill on them paint, glitter and flowers and they are photographed. Randall spills rabbit dolls on them and took a picture of them. Johnny and the RORs open a stand next day and massively sell products featuring the embarrassing picture, supposedly to collect funds for a "good" cause.
When they see the OKs continue to perform better and better at the Scare Games, Johnny and his crew are increasingly upset, but hope to get the last word at the final race, which tests how scary a monster really is. At the last race, the fight between OK and ROR is intense. Johnny is highly irritated by Randall's failure. Johnny is on the last and decisive face-off, where he is against Mike. Confident of his win, he repeats one last time to Mike his place is not here, and then proceeds to get a near-perfect score. However, Mike gets the maximum score, a full scream can, beating Johnny and bringing the victory to OK, much to Johnny's shock.
Following the race, Johnny tries to bring Sulley back to ROR at Randall's place, but Sulley refused and turned away.
During the credits, it is shown that Johnny got a job as a scarer at Fear Co.
Party Central[]
Johnny Worthington is confirmed to re-appear in the short film Party Central.
Monsters At Work[]
In Monsters At Work, it's revealed that Johnny is now the CEO of Fear Co. and married to Claire Wheeler who have two children (J.J. and Lorelei). Johnny also followed the career of Tylor Tuskmon, who beat his and Sulley's scare records at Monsters University and saw potential in him as a scarer. But 3 months prior to meeting Tylor in person, he read that laugh power was making scream power obsolete and was determined to keep it and his family legacy going. After saving his former ROR fraternity member Randall Boggs from the trailer folk, he recruited him and put together a plan to sabotage Monsters, Inc. which involved Tylor being a fall guy.
Johnny met Tylor at the Monsters University Homecoming Game where he saw Tylor humiliating himself by telling jokes, but still saw potential in him. They would later meet again at the C.R.E.E.P. Show during the Fear Co. presentation where Johnny announced the company was creating a Scream Amplifier, a device that would make scream energy more powerful than before. Through being bullied, Tylor showed off his scaring skills in the simulator and Johnny was impressed. He would later invite Tylor for dinner at Le Petit Grrrr where he showed him his father's scare card and offered him a job at Fear Co. Tylor couldn't be able to give answer as it was a big decision to make and because he had to also attend Fritz's 40th anniversary party which moved from the Shrieky Tiki.
The next day, Tylor went to Fear Co. to return Johnny's father's scare card he (possibly deliberately) left behind at Le Petit Grrrr and turn down his offer to join Fear Co. It was there, Johnny gave Tylor a tour of the company including the scream amplifier being built under a tarp and the scream floor. After Tylor passed on his offer to join the company, Johnny ask Chet to kindly escort him out.
Days later at the baseball game between Monsters, Inc. and Fear Co., Tylor asked Johnny if the job offer was still available but he said he gave the position to Skyler. During the game, Skyler got knocked out and Johnny picked Tylor to take his place (possibly as part of his plan to place distrust in Tylor at Monsters, Inc.).
2 more days later, after quitting Monsters, Inc. for being accused of vandalizing Laugh Floor F and stealing items, Tylor called Johnny asking once more for a position at Fear Co., which Johnny gave him. The night of his first day at the company, Tylor found out that he was framed by Randall for what happened at Monsters, Inc. as part of a plan to sabotage the company and make Fear Co. and scream power more superior. He was learned that there was no Scream Amplifier and that Johnny was planning to use laugh energy stolen from Monsters, Inc. into Fear Co.'s power supply.
When Tylor returned to the company to tell the MIFTers what happened, they snuck into Fear Co. and planned to remove the scream energy from the laugh energy with the Scream Extractor while Tylor and Val stalled Johnny from pushing the button to activate the "scream amplifier". After successfully removing the scream energy and (with Chet's help) defeating Randall who tried to stop them, Tylor and Val announced what Johnny was up to and the Monstropolis Energy Regulatory Commission arrived on the scene where they also knew what he was up to thanks to Chet being their inside agent. Johnny along with Randall were arrested and taken to jail where Johnny became Henry J. Waternoose III's cellmate and Randall escaping custody and remaining at large.
Personality[]
As president of ROR, the premiere campus fraternity, Worthington is very selfish and only interested in having "the most elite" Scarers in his fraternity, inviting James P. Sullivan to join, as the latter comes from a family of successful Scarers, but mockingly denies Mike Wazowski and suggesting he join a fraternity that's "more [his] speed."
Worthington clearly cares more for his fraternity's reputation (taking grades and academics into account), when he threatens to kick Sulley out of ROR if he did not beat Mike in the final exam. When Mike and Sulley are both kicked out of the Scaring Program by Dean Hardscrabble, Worthington, and his frat-boys leave without a word to Sulley.
His rivalry towards Mike escalates when, right before the Scare Games, Worthington arrogantly tells Mike not to take losing so hard and that "[he] never belonged [in the Scaring Program] anyway." After Mike wins the Scare Games, however, a compassionate Worthington finds the gall to invite Sulley back into ROR, only to be rebuffed.
In Monsters At Work, he's shown to have a warmer, kinder, and more mature personality until it's revealed his true intentions are evil, sinister, and intent on sabotaging Monsters, Inc. due to his detest on laugh power replacing scream power. He believes monsters are suppose to remain scary and have a responsibility to keep children scared, something he takes, as his father did, very seriously.
Description[]
Johnny has dark purple fur, sharp teeth, and two large brown bull-like horns.
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Trivia[]
- Johnny is nicknamed "The Jaw."
- Despite his arrogance, sets art director Robert Kondo explains that he has something to lose, is afraid of failure and has a tradition to live up to.
- The ROR house's interior was based on a backstory Johnny had.
- He bears similarities to Bradley Uppercrust III from An Extremely Goofy Movie.
- Both are not only influential leaders in the Panhellenic Greek system at their respective colleges, but they also lead a fraternity and are extremely selective of whom they allow into them.
- Additionally, they both selected major characters to be allowed into their circle of friends for the purpose of collegiate game competition. With Johnny, he picked Sulley (at first) and, later on, Randall because he was sure that they would be excellent Scarers for the Scare Games. With Bradley, he chose Max (though he quickly rejected the offer) and, later on, Goofy (who would soon after separate himself from his group) because he noticed their skills in skateboarding and thought he could use them to his advantage for the College X-Games.
- Furthermore, they both show good sportsmanship after conceding defeat. Unlike Johnny, however, Bradley does attempt to cheat and nearly get Tank killed in his drive to win, which resulted in his downfall.
Quotes[]
- "Sorry, killer, but you might want to hang out with someone a little more your speed."
- "It's just a precaution. RORs are the best Scarers on campus, Sullivan."
- "Can't have a member getting shown up by a beach ball."
- "Well, then you'll get this back right away. It's time to start delivering on that Sullivan name."
- "Boggs!"
- "Do the thing."
- "Your whole team has to cross the finish line."
- "The other power companies may tinker with new ideas, but you can't reliably power homes with good intentions. While laugh power has its merits, it's not who we are. It's a monster's nature to be scary. Fear; it's our tradition, but it's also human children's. We may rely on their screams to power our city, but human children need us to be terrified. They tell stories about us at sleepovers and around campfires. We have a responsibility to keep kids scared and I take that responsibility very seriously, as did my father before me. Fear Co. will continue that proud tradition because fear is power. Let fear power you."
- "You still got it, Boggs."
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