Johnny is a human with a design based on a 2D drawing, with pale skin, light turquoise long-sleeved clothing, and shaggy hair which covers his eyes.
Personality[]
Johnny apparently has a benevolent personality, greeting the player upon seeing them, and offering items in exchange for the game's currency. He seems to have a grim sense of humor, as he talks about not starving if the player buys something. He will also frown if the player buys nothing or tries to buy something without enough You Thought Points.
Role[]
Johnny in his store.
Johnny acts as the shopkeeper of his store and will greet the player upon entering. He will offer favors, which currently includes filling out the player's map, and will also sell up to 6 items at a time. Both favors and items cost You Thought Points in order to purchase them. If the player attempts a purchase any favor or item but is 100 points or less short of the price, Johnny will "lend a hand" and still allow the player to buy it, though this can only happen once per game.
Since V0.7.1, if the player gives a Bus Pass to Johnny by pressing the "Use item" key in front of him, then he will go on a field trip and get three items for them.
Trivia[]
General[]
His name was first revealed in the concept art for Johnny's Store.
Johnny's shirt is the same color as one of the default colors in Microsoft Paint.
Baldi's Basics Plus[]
Johnny has multiple animation clips for each speech, making him in which his mouth movements connect with what he is saying.
Baldi in the Baldi TV also uses the similar way to move his mouth.
Prior to V0.6, when seen from inside the elevator, Johnny had a full 3D model, though entering the shop would instead show his normal 2D model. This 3D version looked noticeably different: he was T-posing, his mouth was wide open, he had shorter and lighter hair, and his skin was darker.
This implies that he was originally going to be 3D entirely.
Johnny is the only character who had both a 2D and 3D in-game design.
Johnny is the only 2D character who does not rotate to face the camera.
Johnny is the second character to be voiced by Cady Bradshaw, the first being Mrs. Pomp.[1] Furthermore, Cady is the one who came up with Johnny since Cady and mystman12 were kids, but she never decided what he should look like, so mystman12 did the drawing.[2]
Because of this, his voice sounds slightly feminine.
This makes him the second character to have their voice provided by the opposite gender, the first being Playtime.
This also makes him the first male character to be voiced by a female voice actor.
Johnny is the first character in Baldi's Basics Plus that is not currently featured on any floor, though he does appear in the map in Endless Mode.
After Johnny finishes his "Thank you! My parents would have been so proud that I made a sale." line, he will start frowning. However, the other quotes when the player buys an item make Johnny smile after he finishes talking. This is most likely due to something happening to Johnny's parents offscreen.[3]
If Johnny says "See ya later. I'll still be here!", he will be smiling, while other quotes when leaving the store after buying nothing will make him frown.
Anthony Hampton believes that Johnny would canonically starve and die if the player does not buy any of his items.[4]
Johnny is the only character who does not have a full body, his torso and legs are not shown. He is only seen sitting.
One of Johnny's unused lines, "Come back when you're a little... MMM- Richer!" is a direct reference to Morshu from the infamous CD-i game, Link: The Faces of Evil.
The result of looking behind Johnny.
Since V0.6, if using hacks to look behind Johnny, it will just show the horizontally flipped base of talking.
This is because there are no sprites of Johnny's full body.
In V0.2, there were captions for Johnny, but they barely appeared in the game and only said the file names of the quotes; plus, the caption display remained intact until the player is on a floor even when the quote is finished. In V0.2.1, they were fixed but disabled for not being important for gameplay. They were then re-enabled in V0.3.3.
Prior to V0.2.2, after he said, "This will fill out your map...", he would say "...for the next level." The last line was removed in order to avoid confusion, since the player can enter Johnny's Store when they fail the current level while having You Thought Points.
Prior to V0.6, Johnny had a voiceline when hovering over the map. Also, in the caption "I didn't realy want food today anyways...", the word "really" was misspelled as "realy".
Johnny frowning when the player buys nothing or tries to buy something without enough You Thought Points (except for when he tells the player to try again when they have more You Thought Points or that he will still be here), or when Johnny mentions his parents.
Johnny's base for talking.
Johnny's head as a spinning sign in his store.
Johnny's 3D model T-posing, before the player entered his store.
Johnny in the image for Baldi's Basics Plus V0.2's announcement.
Johnny prior to V0.6.
Johnny's 3D model, but uncompressed.
Johnny, in the teaser for the Pit Stop.
References[]
↑"He's voiced by my sister if you can believe it, same VA as Mrs. Pomp!" - mystman12. September 12, 2020. Twitter/X
↑"She's actually the one who came up with the character too, when we were kids. I did the drawing though as she never really decided on what he should look like!" - mystman12. September 12, 2020. Twitter/X
↑Q: "what happened to johnnys parents? are they alive?" / A: "Johnny has a pretty sad history..." - Gmail (question), Gmail (response)
↑Q: "would johny starve to death if i never bought his items again" / A: "canonically? yes" - Anthony Hampton. March 13, 2024. Discord (Screenshot)
