Johnson (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Hate Sink
Full Name	Johnson (first name unknown)
Alias	Judgeman
Origin	Yu-Gi-Oh
Allies	Gansley Crump Nezbitt Leichter Noah
Powers/Skills	Lawyering Dueling
Goals	Kill Seto Kaiba, Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Mokuba Escape the virtual world (both failed)
What Makes Them Despicable	Being a corrupt, greedy, power hungry lawyer who shamelessly twisted the facts in court Trying to kill the protagonists Trying to leave the protagonists trapped in cyberspace for eternity with no remorse Cheating Trying to forcibly take the protagonists' bodies after losing and refusing to return Tristan's body
"Love to hate" factors	None
Type of Hate Sink	Evil lawyer

Johnson (Chikuzen Ooka in the Japanese version) is a supporting antagonist in Yu-Gi-Oh, appearing in the first and third seasons. He is the former legal advisor and chief lawyer of KaibaCorp, and a member of the Big 5, the board of directors for the company. He was voiced by Andrew Paull.

What makes him a Hate Sink?

• Like the rest of the Big 5, he is a corrupt and greedy official who resorts to unscrupulous means to gain money and power. Specifically, he is a corrupt lawyer who uses dirty tricks in court to win every case he can regardless of the circumstance. In both the English and Japanese versions, he brags that twisting the facts in court and convincing people of his lies are his specialty. The English dub takes it further by having him shamelessly admit that he once convinced a jury that an innocent man terrified of water stole a boat.
• Like Gansley, he has no reason for hating Seto Kaiba outside of being power hungry. Already a powerful and wealthy individual with a respectable position in the company, Johnson was convinced that if he and the rest of the Big 5 betrayed Gozaburo to Seto, Seto would get them even more power than they already had, only for him to not only back out of their deal, but remove a considerable portion of the power Johnson and the others did have (though there is no evidence he paid them any less than they were previously being paid). While it was rotten of Seto to double cross Johnson and the others like that, the fact remains that Johnson himself was a greedy and power hungry lawyer who used dirty tricks in court and shamelessly harmed others to benefit himself. Furthermore, this betrayal from Seto came about after Johnson and the others betrayed Gozaburo just for more power than they already had, making this karma.
• Out of all the Big 5, he has the most smug, condescending, faux affable attitude.
• He and the other Big 5 betray Seto to Pegasus. When Yugi releases Seto and Seto fires the Big 5, the Big 5 trap Seto in a virtual world to try and kill him with their Five Headed Dragon Dual monster so they could take over Kaiba Corp themselves. When Yugi, Joey, Mai, and Mokuba enter the virtual world to try and save Seto, the Big Five attempt to kill them as well. Gansley kills Joey, Mai, and Mokuba (who are later revived), but the Big Five are defeated when Yugi and Seto combine their monsters to destroy the Five Headed Dragon, sealing the Big Five in the virtual world.
• Johnson and the rest of the Big Five team up with Noah to trap the protagonists in the virtual world so they can steal their bodies and escape back to the real world. While they don't have any other options at this point, they show no remorse at the thought of imprisoning innocent teenagers inside cyberspace for all eternity.
• Johnson is the only member of the Big 5 to outright cheat in his duel, something that even Noah calls him out on.
• Once he's forced to stop cheating, he is quickly defeated despite having gained a huge edge over Joey.
• He, Gansley, Crump, and Leichter break the rules by returning after their defeats to try and forcefully take the bodies of Joey, Duke, Serinity, and Tea, despite the rules of Noah's little "game" clarifying that they have to win a body in a duel, and they each only get one chance to try and win a body in a duel. Noah gets angry when he realizes they have broken his rules.
• He and the other members of the Big 5 duel Yugi and Joey using the body of Tristan (won by Nezbitt), with the stakes being that they gain the bodies of Yugi, Joey, and two of their friends if they win, and return the body of Tristan if Yugi and Joey win. Leichter was actually planning to honor the terms of agreement, but Johnson convinces him not to.
• When he takes his turn, he targets Joey out of petty revenge because he's sore about losing his duel to him earlier.
• Only in the dub, he tries deflecting responsibility once it becomes clear to the others that Joey (who Johnson was certain would hold Yugi back) just secured the win for himself and Yugi in their duel.
• He and the other members of the Big 5 refuse to return Tristan's body and try to forcefully take the bodies of Yugi, Joey, and two of their friends after they lose the duel.
• Overall, he is a smug, greedy, power hungry, condescending, faux affable, petty, vengeful, cheating liar who refuses to honor his word and resorts to breaking the rules when he can't get what he wants. What's more, he feels no shame for any of this and even brags about it. He's also a terrible duelist who only got as far as he did in his duel with Joey because of his cheating. Otherwise, he's only slightly better at dueling than Nezbitt.
• He and Gansley are the only members of the Big Five with no redeeming or sympathetic moments or traits. Whereas Crump has a genuinely tragic childhood, shows an admiration for penguins, and vows to benefit the environment in the Japanese version, Lecter shows genuine disgust at how Seto used the Big Five and Mokuba to get ahead and was initially planning to return Tristan's body should they lose until Johnson talked him out of it, and Nezbitt was at least willing to let Serinity skip three turns so she could try and regain her composure, Gansley and Johnson have no redeeming qualities or Pet the Dog moments.