Hadji

Hadji
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Affiliation	Race Bannon Bandit Pasha Peddler Jezebel Jade Hardrock Jessie Bannon
Occupation	Bowling alley owner
Works for	Quest Bowl
Father	Haresh Doctor Benton Quest, adoptive
Mother	Neela
Uncle(s)	Deepak
Marital status	Single
First appearance	JQ: "Arctic Splashdown" (1964)
Played by	Danny Bravo (1964-65) Michael Benyaer (1986-97) Rob Paulsen (1996-97) Wally Wingert (2000) Arnie Pantoja (2015) Fajer Al-Kaisi (2021, 2022, 2024)
Hadji in the 80s second season.
File:TRA S1 Hadji.png The Real Adventures season 1.
File:TRA S2 Hadji.png The Real Adventures season 2.
Jellystone!

Hadji is a child of mysticism and one of the main characters of the Jonny Quest animated franchise. He is a streetwise orphan who became the adopted son of Doctor Benton Quest, and is the adopted brother of Jonny Quest. His voice was originated by Danny Bravo.

Hadji is featured as a background character in the Jellystone! reboot. In this version, he is now all grown up and runs Quest Bowl, the local bowling alley, with Jonny Quest, who is also his husband.

Character description

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Appearances

TV series

• Jonny Quest
  • 1.2 "Arctic Splashdown"
  • 1.3 "The Curse of Anubis"
  • 1.4 "Pursuit of the Po-Ho"
  • 1.5 "Riddle of the Gold"
  • 1.6 "Treasure of the Temple"
  • 1.7 "Calcutta Adventure"
  • 1.8 "The Robot Spy"
  • 1.9 "Double Danger"
  • 1.10 "Shadow of the Condor"
  • 1.11 "Skull and Double Crossbones"
  • 1.12 "The Dreadful Doll"
  • 1.13 "A Small Matter of Pygmies"
  • 1.14 "Dragons of Ashida"
  • 1.15 "Turu the Terrible"
  • 1.16 "The Fraudulent Volcano"
  • 1.17 "Werewolf of the Timberland"
  • 1.18 "Pirates from Below"
  • 1.19 "Attack of the Tree People"
  • 1.20 "The Invisible Monster"
  • 1.21 "The Devil's Tower"
  • 1.22 "The Quetong Missile Mystery"
  • 1.23 "The House of Seven Gargoyles"
  • 1.24 "Terror Island"
  • 1.25 "Monster in the Monastery"
  • 1.26 "The Sea Haunt"
  • 2.1 "Peril of the Reptilian"
  • 2.2 "Nightmares of Steel"
  • 2.3 "Aliens Among Us"
  • 2.4 "Deadly Junket"
  • 2.5 "Forty Fathoms Into Yesterday"
  • 2.6 "Vikong Lives"
  • 2.7 "The Monolith Man"
  • 2.8 "Secret of the Clay Warriors"
  • 2.9 "Warlord of the Sky"
  • 2.10 "The Scourge of Skyborg"
  • 2.11 "Temple of Gloom"
  • 2.12 "Creeping Unknown"
  • 2.13 "Skulduggery"
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  • 2.8 "Urges"
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
  • 1.1 "The Darkest Fathoms"
  • 1.2 "Escape to Questworld"
  • 1.3 "In the Realm of the Condor"
  • 1.4 "Rage's Burning Wheel"
  • 1.5 "Ndovu's Last Journey"
  • 1.6 "Manhattan Maneater"
  • 1.7 "East of Zanzibar"
  • 1.8 "Assault on Questworld"
  • 1.9 "Ezekiel Rage"
  • 1.10 "Alien in Washington"
  • 1.11 "Return of the Anasazi"
  • 1.12 "The Alchemist"
  • 1.13 "Trouble on the Colorado"
  • 1.14 "In the Wake of Mary Celeste"
  • 1.15 "Amok"
  • 1.16 "Besieged in Paradise"
  • 1.17 "The Spectre of the Pine Barrens"
  • 1.18 "Heroes"
  • 1.19 "The Ballad of Belle Bonnet"
  • 1.20 "In the Darkness of the Moon"
  • 1.21 "The Secret of the Moai"
  • 1.22 "Expedition to Khumbu"
  • 1.23 "Ice Will Burn"
  • 1.24 "Future Rage"
  • 1.25 "Alligators and Okeechobee Vikings"
  • 1.26 "To Bardo and Back"
  • 2.1 "The Mummies of Malenque"
  • 2.2 "Rock of Rages"
  • 2.3 "Bloodlines"
  • 2.4 "Race Against Danger"
  • 2.5 "The Dark Mountain"
  • 2.6 "Cyberswitch"
  • 2.7 "Undersea Emergency" (mentioned)
  • 2.8 "Nemesis"
  • 2.9 "DNA Doomsday"
  • 2.10 "Ghost Quest"
  • 2.11 "Nuclear Netherworld"
  • 2.12 "Eclipse"
  • 2.13 "Without a Trace"
  • 2.15 "Dark Sentinel"
  • 2.16 "Other Space"
  • 2.17 "Digital Doublecross"
  • 2.18 "Thoughtscape"
  • 2.19 "The Bangalore Falcon"
  • 2.21 "The Edge of Yesterday"
  • 2.22 "The Haunted Sonata"
  • 2.23 "General Winter"
  • 2.24 "Night of the Zinja"
  • 2.25 "The Robot Spies"
  • 2.26 "More Than Zero"
• Space Ghost Coast to Coast
  • 2.8 "Urges" (no lines)
• I Am Weasel
  • 2.7 "I Am My Lifetime" (no lines)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.1 "Bannon Custody Battle"
  • 3.4 "Bird Girl of Guantanamole" (photo)
  • 3.8 "Free Magilla" (no lines)
  • 3.9 "Return of Birdgirl" (photo)
  • 4.7 "The Death of Harvey" (no lines)
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 5.47 "Cartoon Feud" (picture)
• Jellystone!
  • 1.2 "Gorilla in Our Midst" (no lines)
  • 1.4 "My Doggie Dave" (no lines)
  • 1.5 "A Coconut to Remember" (no lines)
  • 1.12 "Ice Ice Daddy" (no lines)
  • 1.13 "DNA, A-OK!" (no lines)
  • 1.18 "Jelly Wrestle Rumble!" (no lines)
  • 1.20 "A Town Video: Welcome to Jellystone"
  • 1.22 "Lady Danjjer: Is It Wrong to Long for Kabong?" (no lines)
  • 1.25 "Yogi's Mid-Life Crisis" (no lines)
  • 1.26 "Jellystone Moon Platoon" (no lines)
  • 1.27 "The Sea Monster of Jellystone Cove"
  • 1.28 "Business" (no lines)
  • 1.32 "The Brave Little Daddy" (no lines)
  • 1.36 "Jailcation" (no lines)
  • 2.1 "Meet the Jetsons"
  • 2.2 "Disco Fever" (no lines)
  • 2.3 "Cindy vs. Noodle Arms"
  • 2.4 "Hot Guys, Cold Turkey" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11" (mentioned)
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games" (no lines)
  • 2.9 "Jellystone Noir" (no lines)
  • 2.10 "Vote Raspberry" (no lines)
  • 2.12 "Mummy Knows Best"
  • 2.15 "Sha-zogi"

Movies

• Jonny's Golden Quest
• Jonny Quest Versus the Cyber Insects
• Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest

Comics

• Jonny Quest
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
• Jonny Quest Special
• Jezebel Jade
  • Issue 1: "The Bones of Galahad Chapter One: A Single, Deadly Moment"
  • Issue 2: "The Bones of Galahad Chapter One: Into the Maze"
  • Issue 3: "The Bones of Galahad Chapter One: The Speech of Bones"
• Future Quest

Books

• Jonny Quest Sulla Cordigliera
• Jonny Quest: Adventure with the Salt Plot
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
  • #1 The Demon in the Deep
  • #2 The Forbidden City of Luxor
  • #3 The Pirates of Cyber Island
  • #4 Peril in the Peaks
  • #5 Evil Under the Ice
  • #6 The Monsters from Beyond Time
  • #7 Journey Into Q-Space
  • #8 Attack of the Evil Cyber-God
  • #9 Trouble on Planet Q
  • #10 The Lake of Terror
  • #11 The War of the Wizards

Video games

• Jonny Quest in Doctor Zin's Underworld (no lines)
• Jonny Quest: Cover-Up At Roswell

Biography

Joining the Quests

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The 1980s Adventures

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Life of an Assistant

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The Sultan of India

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I Am Cameo

Having become old and retired, Hadji now lives at the Old Cartoon Sidekicks Retirement Home.

Custody Battle

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Running with Tom and Jerry

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Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

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Meet Rajni

The Venture Bros., a Jonny Quest-esque parody TV series on Adult Swim, was supposed to be set in the same universe as Jonny Quest. By the time Hadji appeared, though, the creators of The Venture Bros. were prohibited due to legal issues, so when Hadji finally made his appearance as an adult in "The Doctor is Sin," he was renamed Rajni, and was an office worker for Jonas Venture, Jr.

Hadji in the Funny Books

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Comico's Real World Adventures

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The Dark Horse Adventures

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When HB Worlds Collide

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Hadjis, Past and Present

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Development

Hadji was added by series creator, Doug Wildey, so Jonny would have someone to talk to besides his pet dog, Bandit.

Gallery

Main article: Hadji/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Hadji/Toys

Behind the scenes

• Hadji's trademark incantation, "Sim sim salabim", is taken from "Simsalabim"; a magic phrase akin to "Abracadabra" that has been attributed to Danish-born magician Harry August Jansen.
  • "Simsalabim" itself was taken by Jansen from a Danish children's song (Højt på en gren en krage) that he knew of, which in return has its roots in the medieval play A Gest of Robyn Hode.
• Hadji has been given two surnames so far:
  • In The Real Adventures TV series, his birth name was Hadji Singh.
  • In the Jellystone! TV series, he was called Hadji Quest through marriage to Jonny.

In popular culture

Main article: List of pop culture references to Jonny Quest

• In the Boy Meets World episode "Sixteen Candles and Four-Hundred-Pound Men," when Cory has to be at Topanga's birthday party and help Frankie at his dad's wrestling match at the same time, Shawn uses The Flintstones episode "Pebbles' Birthday Party" as an example of how it is doable; despite Cory's objections of being a cartoon. Shawn also mentions a failed backup plan from Jonny Quest because he doesn't have Hadji and a hovercraft.
• Jonny Quest is parodied in the Evil Con Carne episode "Max Courage!" In this twisted version, Hadji is substituted with Rick Courage, the biological older brother of Max (who resembles Jonny), whom Dr. Courage favors more than Rick, forgetting his name and preferring their pet weasel ride the boat to safety, and then gets blamed when they end up marooned on a tiny island big enough to allow the family to sit together on.
• In The Fairly OddParents TV movie Channel Chasers, Timmy zaps himself into the world of Jonny Hunt, in which he becomes part of an escape with the titular, young Jonny Hunt and his team from a laser-firing robot shaped like a scorpion in the jungle. Hadji is represented by an unnamed Native American boy.
• In the Family Guy DTV movie Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story (which was later edited for TV as "Stu & Stewie's Excellent Adventure"), Stewie talks to his older self about the job he once had as an airline check, where he accepts entry for Jonny and his father, but not for Hadji, who he retains for a security inspection because of his race. Hadji tries to get his way by saying "Sim sim sala bim," but Stewie is unfazed and tells him to cut back on saying that.
• In the Drawn Together episode, "Spelling Applebee's," upon removing his turban and jacket, Foxxy's nemesis is revealed to be an adult version of Hadji, with a new Mister T-like haircut.
• In the film The Incredibles 2, Dash watches the Jonny Quest episode "Arctic Splashdown," where Hadji and Jonny celebrate their team's victory.
• In the Pop Culture Jeopardy! episode "Knockout Game 1," the question in the category of "It's Time for Cartoon!," the question for $1000 is, "Kids can fight villains and travel the world like cartoon boy Jonny, who had this last name," with the answer being, "Who is Quest," which contestant Anthony of Team Oops! We Guessed It Again got right. For this question, host Colin Jost announced the question over a photo of the series, instead of the question being written on a panel.

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The Venture Bros.

Main article: The Venture Bros.

• "Powerless in the Face of Death:" On one of Team Venture's adventures, Venture Sr. was saved by Hector Molina, a Mexican child, in the same way as Hadji saved Dr. Quest in "Calcutta Adventure." After this, Hector was adopted and became Rusty's best friend and fellow Boy Adventurer. In the 20 intervening years, Venture Sr. had hired Hector as an employee in the west manufacturing wing of the compound, and eventually forgotten. When Rusty came across him, he had no memory of their adventures together, and fired him.
• "Orb:" Billy watches the cartoon which was based on the original adventures of Team Venture and made a pop icon of Rusty as a Boy Adventurer, which also starred his father, Hector, and an a large Asian bodyguard named Kano. The Rusty Venture cartoon has a Jonny Quest style intro, with mimicking scenes and typeface.

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