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Andre Johnson

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Andre "Dre" Johnson is the main protagonist of the American sitcom television series, Black-ish. He is portrayed by Anthony Anderson.

Character Info[]

Dre considers himself the family patriarch and when he looks at his life - he sees a beautiful wife and five kids living happily in their colonial home in the 'burbs. But when he looks a little closer -- have the trappings of success brought too much assimilation for this black family? The world he sees has a much different lens than the one he would like his family to look through.

Politics[]

Dre's politics are left leaning and he is a staunch democrat. In spite of this he has many socially conservative political views. Perhaps the most pervasive one of these traits is his view of himself as "the man of the house". He also had a disturbingly sexist reaction when he found out his oldest daughter was sexually active, in comparison to when he found out Junior was as well.

He doesn't think black people can be racist. However, a recurring trend is that people think he is a colorist. He thinks of himself as "darkskin," something strongly debated by his coworkers and Diane. He tends to make offhanded light skin jokes or insults to his wife and Junior; ironically, in advertising, he choses a light skin family candidate for campaigns. This issue was put into focus twice.

Personality[]

Dre is a very paranoid person, as he has weapons like nunchucks, machetes, and switchblade stashed in his house, as well as being on first-name terms with all the police officers that patrol his neighborhood. He tends to think of himself as the "alpha male" in his household until he's checked by his wife or father. He is extremely confident in himself, coming across as arrogant, self-centered, and egotistical (something he passed to his oldest child, Zoey). In reality, he can be a bit of a punk and a coward, something constantly noted by Pops, his cousin June Bug, Ruby, and Diane. He plays favorites among his kids and can be emotionally abusive on some occasions, usually with Junior (it was only once time that it actually got physical). However, at heart, he is very sensitive and caring for his family, even if it never appears that way.

He is very proud of his Black heritage and hopes to pass that pride onto his kids, but fears that suburban life has "softened" them up. Adding to his stress is that Dre works in a toxic, sexist, and extremely racist work environment (calling it Boston in the eighties) and refers to his coworkers as "idiots," "dumdums," or "insane" when they give him twisted advice on how to address an issue going on in his household. He usually knows when to differentiate bad advice from wrong advice while giving them daily lectures on "Black stuff," though on occasion he does when the advice isn't typically seen as "crazy."

Appearances[]

Black-ish[]

Season 1 (24/24)[]

Season 2 (24/24)[]

==Season 3

Grown-ish[]

Season 1 (/14)[]

Season 2 (/21)[]

Season 3 (/17)[]

Season 4 (1/TBA)[]

Trivia[]

  • He thinks stretching makes him gay.
  • He owns a fox scarf.
  • He loves Kanye West's music but refuses to pay money to see him.
  • He likes the show Good Times.
  • He does not love his other children as much as Devante because he doesn't think they're black enough.
    • This is especially emphasized with Jr. due to his paler skin tone.
  • Dre secretly has a passion for art especially black art
  • He was distant from his father in his early childhood.
  • He grew up in Compton.
  • He wrote the 10,000 commandments, a series of ridiculous rules he briefly imposed on his children.
  • Bow claims that Dre is so unhealthy his heart stops twice each night.
    • Dre however contests that he stops breathing twice a night.
  • He only watches the Randall Pearson story lines on This Is Us.
  • He used to sit in the front of his mother’s car when he was young and hold her cigarettes.
  • He has an underbite from Pops gambling away his braces money.
  • His best friend is Gigi.
  • Dre does not know how to swim.
  • He was put in a mall jail for taking too many samples from a fancy candy store.
  • His favorite game is Monopoly.
  • He was hesitant in voting for Hillary Clinton.
  • He loves shrimp.
    • In spite of this he wouldn't take the last shrimp at a party.
  • He considers his credit score the best thing about him.
  • He intentionally gets out of bed late and goes to bed early on Junior’s birthday to avoid him.
  • If he gets angry and flips the board during a monopoly game he has to pay everyone a real hundred dollar bill.
  • All of his kids think of him as an unreliable, useless, inept and embarrassing father.
  • Dre keeps his phone next to him at all times when he's alone with Diane.

Quotes[]

  • "Field Hockey?!"
  • "Andy? That's not even close to Andre."
  • "I'm not the one, Cody!"
  • "MAMA!!"
  • "Pops, what's wrong, man? You're mad that we're doing it right?!"

Gallery[]

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