Jonny Quest (character)

This article is about the character. For other uses, see Jonny Quest.

Jonny Quest
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Species	Human
Gender	Male
Member of	Team Quest
Affiliation	Race Bannon Bandit Jezebel Jade Hardrock in the 1980s Jessie Bannon in the 1990s
Occupation	Bowling alley owner in Jellystone!
Works for	Quest Bowl in Jellystone!
Goals	To follow Doctor Quest and Race on secret missions
Father	Doctor Benton Quest
Mother	Rachel Quest
Brother(s)	Hadji, adopted
Other relative(s)	Maternal grandfather, Doug Wildey
Marital status	Husband to Hadji in Jellystone!
First appearance	JQ: "The Mystery of the Lizard Men" (1964)
Played by	Tim Matthieson (1964-65) Scott Menville (1986-87) J.D. Roth (1996-97) Quinton Flynn (1996-97) Dee Baker (2000) Reese Hartwig (2015) Andrew Frankel (2022)
Jonny in the 1980s second season.
File:TRA S1 Jonny Quest.png The Real Adventures season 1.
File:TRA S2 Jonny Quest.png The Real Adventures season 2.
Jellystone!

Jonny Quest is a young boy and the titular character of Jonny Quest animated franchise. His voice was originated by Tim Matheson, then credited as Tim Matthieson.

He is an adventurer at heart and gets into escapades when he travels with his scientist father, Dr. Benton Quest. He is also joined by his best friend and adopted brother, an Indian child called Hadji, their bodyguard, Race Bannon, and pet dog, Bandit. During the 1980s and 1990s, he was joined by the rock creature, Hardrock, and Race's daughter, Jessie, respectively.

Character description

On the surface, Jonny is an ordinary 11-year old with blonde hair, an honest face and fair skin. He is commonly seen with a black turtleneck sweater, blue jeans, and a pair of white sneakers. In the original series and The Real Adventures series, he has blue eyes, although they were colored dark in the 1980s season of the former series.

He is studious and a kind son to his father Dr. Quest, though he is shown to be very unenthusiastic and impatient in his schooling, especially homework. But deep inside his othewise average exterior, Jonny is incredibly brave for a child of his age. He is athletic, and has a proficiency in judo, scuba diving, and firearms. He is also resourceful, and is been able to take responsibilities with his homework, show respect to adults, and be honest to those around him.

Appearances

TV series

• Jonny Quest
  • 1.1 "The Mystery of the Lizard Men"
  • 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" (no lines)
  • S.6 "Jonny Quest"
• 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"
  • 2.8 "Nemesis"
  • 2.9 "DNA Doomsday"
  • 2.10 "Ghost Quest"
  • 2.11 "Nuclear Netherworld"
  • 2.12 "Eclipse"
  • 2.13 "Without a Trace"
  • 2.14 "Village of the Doomed"
  • 2.15 "Dark Sentinel"
  • 2.16 "Other Space"
  • 2.17 "Digital Doublecross"
  • 2.18 "Thoughtscape"
  • 2.19 "The Bangalore Falcon"
  • 2.20 "Diamonds and Jade"
  • 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"
• I Am Weasel
  • 2.7 "I Am My Lifetime" (no lines)
• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
  • 1.1 "Bannon Custody Battle"
  • 3.8 "Free Magilla" (no lines)
  • 3.9 "Return of Birdgirl" (photo)
  • 4.7 "The Death of Harvey" (no lines)
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated
  • 1.25 "Pawn of Shadows" (no lines)
• Teen Titans Go!
  • 5.47 "Cartoon Feud" (picture)
  • 8.24 "Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary" (no lines)
• 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" (no lines)
  • 1.24 "Bleep!" (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)
  • 2.4 "Hot Guys, Cold Turkey" (no lines)
  • 2.5 "Lotions 11"
  • 2.6 "LAFF Games" (no lines)
  • 2.7 "Frankenhooky" (no lines)
  • 2.9 "Jellystone Noir" (no lines)
  • 2.10 "Vote Raspberry" (no lines)
  • 2.12 "Mummy Knows Best" (no lines)
  • 2.14 "Space Con" (no lines)
  • 2.15 "Sha-zogi" (no lines)

Movies

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

Specials

• Scooby-Doo, Where Are You Now!

Comics

• Jonny Quest (Gold Key Comics)
  • Issue 1: "The Mystery of the Lizard Men"
• Laff-A-Lympics
  • Issue 6: "The Discount of Monty Cristo" (no lines)
• Jonny Quest (Comico)
• 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"
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
• Future Quest
• Future Quest Presents

Books

• Jonny Quest Annual 1966
• Jonny Quest Annua 1967
• Jonny Quest Sulla Cordigliera
• Jonny Quest and the Lost City
• Jonny Quest's Adventure with the Secret Tunnel
• 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
• Jonny Quest: Curse of the Mayan Warriors
• Jonny Quest: Cover-Up At Roswell
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
• Dr. Zin's Assault

Biography

The Tagalong Adventures

As stated in the first episode of Jonny Quest, "The Mystery of the Lizard Men," Jonny's mother (then unnamed) passed away from when he was at a young age. The circumstances to how it happened are unknown, though it is likely that the tragedy is what caused Race Banon to become his tutor.

I Am Cameo

Having become old and retired, I.M. Weasel and I.R. Baboon live at the Old Cartoon Retirement Home, where Jonny also resides.

Everyone's Back in Jellystone!

Jonny is featured as a background character in the HBO Max series Jellystone!. In this version, he is an adult and runs Quest Bowl, the local bowling alley, with Hadji, who is implied to be his husband (and not his adoptive brother like with other versions of the character).

Gallery

Main article: Jonny Quest (character)/Gallery

Toys and merchandise

Main article: Jonny Quest (character)/Toys

In popular culture

Main article: List of pop culture references to Jonny Quest

• In the Animaniacs episode "The Taming of the Screwy", Slappy Squirrel compares actor Luke Perry to "a very young Jonny Quest."
• In the Freakazoid! segment "Doomsday Bet," from a one-off Toby Danger backup feature, Jonny Quest was lampooned as Toby Danger, with Scott Menville reprising his role as Jonny from the 80s incarnation of Jonny Quest.
• Jonny is lampooned as Max Courage (and to a lesser extent, his older brother, Rick) in the Evil Con Carne episode "Max Courage!" Max and Rick accompany their father, Dr. Courage, to Bunny Island at the request of his old protege, Major Dr. Ghastly, which is a trap to get him to build the Doomsday Machine. Dr. Courage holds Max to a higher regard than Rick, to the point where he values their pet weasel more. Max and Rick are voiced by Scott Menville and Quinton Flynn, respectively, both of whom had voiced previous incarnations.
• 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. Timmy is dressed in a pink turtleneck sweater in reference to the clothing of both Jonnys.
• 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.
• In the South Park episode "Imaginationland, Episode III," in the final battle, Jonny takes the side of the good imaginary characters fighting the evil imaginary characters.
• In "Episode 18" (series 7) of the UK BBC One quiz show Pointless, the first round of questions that fell into the "Cartoon" category is Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters, with host Alexander Armstrong showing an image of several of them together, which includes Scooby and Scrappy. The contestants have to be able to pick out all the obscure characters that 100 anonymous public people had been able to guess. Nobody picked Jonny Quest, with only one of the anonymous public choosing Jonny.
• In the film The Incredibles 2, Dash watches "Arctic Splashdown" one morning, with Jonny and Hadji celebrating.

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  Toby Danger.

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  Max Courage.

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  Jonny Hunt.

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  Timmy is Jonny Quest/Hunt.

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  Dr. Quest and Jonny pass an airline check.

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  Jonny fights the imaginary bad guys.

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