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Johnny is a character in the Guilty Gear fighting game series, making his first appearance in May's ending in the first game, and is first playable in the second game, Guilty Gear X: By Your Side. A swashbuckling iaidouka, he is the captain of the May Ship and leader of the Jellyfish Pirates, a group of airship pirates with a Robin Hood-esque modus operandi of robbing the rich and giving to the poor. He is also a womanizer, as evidenced by the fact that the entire crew apart from him consists of women, and that he hits on every single female character he comes into contact with. It appears that May is infatuated with him.

Gameplay

Johnny is a very awkward character to the untrained player, with a limited number of overdrives, and few specials, making him very difficult to use. His main advantage comes from the speed of his slash attacks, and with his thrown projectiles, several gold coins. These projectiles, while limited, have great use when chaining combos or specials. Johnny can usually initiate a rushdown into very intresting and flash juggles by simply throwing out what seems to be a very, very innefective Coin. Due to his stiff movement and tricky juggles, Johnny is a fairly difficult character to master.

Story

Guilty Gear X: By Your Side

Johnny spends the entire game hitting on the female characters on his way to rescuing Dizzy from the 500,000 World Dollar bounty on her head. He has two endings: one in which, having been distracted by a fight with May, he comes home to find that Dizzy had been already brought back to the May Ship as a surprise "birthday present". This is probably not canon because it would imply that May met Testament, who she did not recognize in Guilty Gear XX. In the other, he meets Dizzy directly, and takes her home to the May Ship.

Guilty Gear XX: The Midnight Carnival

After an initial battle in which I-No attacks the May Ship, the story splits. In one path, Johnny runs off to rescue Dizzy; in his first ending, he rescues her and defeats I-No, and then carries Dizzy back to the May Ship because of slightly injured legs. In his second ending, Testament got to I-No first, and is reluctant to let Dizzy continue to live with the Jellyfish Pirates until Johnny defeats him.

The other story path involves other people coming to the May Ship, and ends with a fight against a group of Robo-Kys, and Ky Kiske joins the fight as they wonder what the Post-War Administration Bureau is up to ...

Music references

He appears to be named for Queen member John Deacon. Given that he is a hard-smokin', brawlin' womaniser (and his theme song, "Liquor Bar and Drunkard", suggests quite a drinker), it is not much to assume that the man in black with the cowboy hat is also an homage to the late Johnny Cash (though Cash had not yet died at the character's conception). Possible reference to Black Sabbath song "Johnny Blade", as well as Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone (whose bandmate, lead vocalist Joey Ramone, he coincidentally bears a striking visual resemblance to).

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