Johnny (sing)

appearance

Johnny is an anthropomorphic mountain gorilla with brown eyes and black fur. He is taller than most of his fellow contestants and has a muscular build. He wears a black leather jacket, a green t-shirt with a yellow lightning bolt and stars, blue jeans, and dark blue shoes. In Happy Holidays From Sing, Johnny wears brighter blue jeans and a red and white striped T-shirt under his jacket. In Sing 2 he still wears a black jacket but with a dark green forest undershirt with orange and black fire flames on the front, with dark blue jeans and still has his dark blue shoes on his feet.

personality

In Sing, Johnny is introduced as a soulful gorilla whose singing voice and passion for music are in direct opposition to his role in his father's gang of bank robbers. Deep down, Johnny wants to be a singer, but knows his alpha father would disown him if he knew the truth. Although he loves his father, he does not want to follow in his footsteps and become a bank robber, though he cannot speak his mind in front of him. After receiving a spot in Buster's singing competition, he attempts to balance his piano lessons and driving lessons for the upcoming heist, leading to the failure of the heist and the subsequent arrest of his father and his crew. When he visits him in prison, he gains the courage to reveal his true ambition, though it leads Big Daddy to disown him, though Johnny promises to bail him out, proving that he still loves him. This nearly leads to Johnny sinking to his father's level by stealing the prize money, though he changes his mind upon finding Buster's positive opinion of him and decides to win the money fairly. After the destruction of the Moon Theatre, during the show in its ruins, he still misses his father, as evidenced during Ash's performance. He is relieved when Big Daddy visits him after escaping from prison, remorseful for his actions towards his son, though also proud of him, much to Johnny's happiness, allowing him to continue his singing career.

Biography Sing The son of a mobster, Johnny must follow in his father's footsteps, but his true passion is singing, something he initially dares not admit to his father for fear of his disapproval. When he finally decides to take a chance on following his dream by auditioning for Buster Moon's singing competition, he goes to the audition and sings "Stay With Me". After finishing his audition, he runs past Meena and wishes her good luck. At first, Johnny is ignored in favor of Daniel, but when Buster is unable to talk to the giraffe without a megaphone, he changes his mind. During the competition, Johnny takes every measure to keep his participation a secret from Big Daddy. This causes tension for Johnny as he simultaneously vows to relearn how to play the piano and practice his driving in order to escape his father's next heist. As the day of the robbery coincides with a rehearsal, Johnny leaves his post and his rush to the Moon Theater causes two cars to collide. Buster finds his performance of "All of Me" rather mediocre and suggests he play a backing song, which he admits he hasn't practiced for yet. Unfortunately, he gets caught in a traffic jam caused by the earlier car accident. With Johnny gone, Big Daddy and his gang are caught and arrested. Visiting Big Daddy in prison, Johnny finally confesses that he wants to be a singer, not a criminal. He is devastated when Big Daddy disowns him, despite Johnny vowing to bail him out. At night, Johnny breaks into the Moon Theater to steal Buster's prize money for bail, but changes his mind after taking a look at Buster's call list and seeing that Buster labeled him a "born singer." Instead, he asks Miss Crawly to give him extra piano lessons.

Johnny's goal of freeing his father is thwarted when he and the other contestants learn that Buster lied about the prize money, shortly before a flood destroys the theater. Afterwards, he attempts to visit his father in prison again to no avail. However, Johnny (along with the other singers, except Mike) finds it in his heart to forgive Buster and declares his desire to perform even without a prize. To cheer Buster up, Johnny also tells him that they have all lost something while participating in the competition, using his family problems as an example. He helps the others build a stage for a show in the ruins of the theater, while continuing to practice his piano lessons. At Buster's concert, Johnny is the second to perform after Rosita. He plays the piano while singing his backing song, Elton John's "I'm Still Standing", and puts on a great performance. His triumph is bittersweet, however, as Johnny is still sad that his bond with his father cannot be repaired. He turns out to be wrong when Big Daddy (after seeing him perform on prison television) escapes from his cell and comes to the theater to reconcile with his son and tell Johnny how proud he is of him and apologize to Johnny for selfishly disowning him. With the police closing in, Big Daddy takes his leave to return to prison, with Johnny promising to visit him often. Johnny, having successfully fulfilled his dream of becoming a singer with his father's approval, attends the grand opening of the New Moon Theater.

Sing 2 Johnny performs with his co-stars as the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, in a performance intended to impress talent scout Suki Lane, who is looking for performers to put on a show at Jimmy Crystal's Crystal Tower Theater in Redshore City. Unimpressed, Suki leaves the musical before it is over, deeming it not good enough. Later, however, Buster convinces everyone that they can still audition for Jimmy with his Alice in Wonderland musical, and after a road trip where they entertain tourists on the bus while practicing, they arrive at Redshore. After being denied an audience with Jimmy by Karen, the receptionist at Crystal Entertainment, they sneak out disguised as janitors and make it to the audition room. They attempt to perform their musical for Jimmy, who rejects them before they can begin, but when Gunter proposes a sci-fi musical featuring songs by Clay Calloway called Out of This World, Jimmy happily grants them permission to put on that show, giving them access to a room at his hotel and a production crew. Buster announces that Johnny's role in Out of This World is an alien warrior participating in a dance battle. His choreographer, Klaus Kickenklober, turns out to be cruel and strict, and Johnny struggles to learn any steps under his harsh instructions and insults. Johnny later meets a street dancer named Nooshy, whom he begs and convinces to teach him how to dance. He takes her to the set where the musical is being produced and introduces her to Klaus, who is unimpressed and offended at the idea of ​​Johnny taking lessons from someone Klaus considers "scum." Nooshy bets that he can turn Johnny into an "amazing" dancer in two days, to which Klaus says he'll eat his hat if he does. While Johnny and Nooshy practice, Nooshy and Johnny are left to their own devices.

Later, Buster, who was nearly killed by Jimmy, gathers Johnny and the rest of his group in his hotel room to tell them that the show is off. Clay Calloway convinces Buster to go ahead with the show, and when Johnny says that they can't put on Out of This World behind Jimmy's back, Buster says that's exactly what he plans to do. Jimmy's bodyguards, whom he sent to chase Buster, show up at the hotel room, and everyone follows Buster's order to escape by jumping out of the room's window. While evading the bodyguards, Johnny manages to rescue Miss Crawly, who is too slow to run. They arrive at a dressing room, in which they prepare to put on the show. Johnny recruits his father and his gang to act as security and help them defend their performance from Crystal and her thugs. Johnny sings the first song from Out of This World, A Sky Full of Stars, as well as playing the piano and dancing. During the dance battle scene, Klaus steals Johnny's rival's part in order to sabotage his act. Klaus wins the battle and pins Johnny to the ground, telling him that he will never be cool. Nooshy, along with the performers, manage to help Johnny regain his confidence and get back up to defeat Klaus. During Rosita's scary moment in heaven, everyone attempts to rescue Buster, who is captured by Jimmy, but Jimmy escapes with Buster in an elevator and nearly manages to drop him to his death before Rosita saves him. The show is a success, and Johnny and the rest of the cast take a bow. Nooshy joins Johnny and the rest of the company on their bus ride back to Calatonia. Suki Lane stops the bus to inform everyone that the Majestic Palace Theatre wants to put on Out of This World. The cast prepares to perform once again, and this time Nooshy will have a role alongside Johnny.