Diane Marie Rosie Johnson is one of the main characters of the hit TV show, Black-ish.
She is portrayed by Marsai Martin.
Character Info[]
She considers herself to be smarter and more mature than her twin brother Jack.
Diane and Jack are the Johnson family's eight-year-old twins at first, now fourteen years old. Diane is gifted and talented. She thinks she has all the answers but has yet to develop a filter to put them through. Although she is one minute older than Jack, she likes to think she is smarter than her twin brother by ten thousand minutes.
Personality[]
Throughout the series, Diane morphed from a sassy, intelligent, normal little girl to a scheming, calculating, dangerous, eccentric, scary, and intimidating adolescent. On numerous occasions, Diane has scared her family, relatives, and peers because of her bizarre personality. She finds delight in bullying her brothers, being right, gory and bloody scenes, weapons such as nunchucks, spying on others, insults, and chaos in a household. She believes friendship and sickness is a sign of weakness and is recognized in her family for being scary and threatening arson. and she can be mad and happy but she is like her twin
She’s been described as greedy, mean, spiteful, vindictive, and petty. There is unknown history between her and Charlie Telphy. Junior described it as complicated, and Diane hinted that the start of their feud was caused by something Charlie may (or may not) have done. The latter is terrified of Diane and tries to warn Dre of her capabilities. According to Viveca A. Fox, the sound of Diane's name makes the light go out of his eyes.
She is also a conspiracy theorist in the most ridiculous of situations and is able to twist any situation for her own advantage. In the time when Diane began her menstrual cycle, she adopted a more nasty, dangerous version of herself where she promised to hurt Jack in his sleep and burn down the house.
Her very essence in a room is enough to make anybody in the Johnson family jump; Bow, Dre, Ruby, Junior, Zoey, respectively.
The episode (Black Like Us) shows another side of Diane when she expresses her wish to be not as dark as the rest of her family. When she accidentally got O.J.’d in her school photo and her family made a big deal about it, she perhaps demonstrated a more fragile side to herself despite of her brazen front.
Trivia[]
- Diane had court-mandated therapy when she was 10 for an unspecified reason, though according to Dre and Bow, it was not working (at all).
- Bow had a lucid nightmare before Diane was born.
- She claims to hate everything.
- She claims that Jack holds her back.
- According to a career test, she will be in a high position of power in a political organization.
- Diane is in a fight club.
- Of her and Jack, Diane was the first to read, the first to ride a bike, and the first to pee standing up.
- Diane taught Jack to read, but incorrectly
- At the age of 10, Diane could say “undiagnosed narcolepsy” in one word.
- She tricked her brother into watching the movie The Shining.
- Because of her obsession with fire, the fact that she constantly threatens arson and setting people on fire, Diane is implied to be a pyromaniac.
- Diane does not know how to cry.
- It has been said multiple times that Diane does not say ”I’m sorry.”
- Diane’s favorite dessert is Chunky Monkey ice cream.
- Diane wants to be a doctor, but only because some people die in this field and it could be the doctor’s fault.
- Diane started gunning for Jack when they were 2.
- Prior to Being Bow-Racial, Diane was on the “No-Fly” list for unknown reasons.
- Diane sleepwalks. And, according to Junior, he’d always find her in his room after he woke up from his night terrors.
- Diane said that her enemies give her strength.
- Because of Bow, Diane owns a pair of nunchucks.
- Diane owns three crowbars.
- Diane keeps spiders in her room.
- The only reason she wanted to get a dog was because she believed it would bring chaos into the household.
- Diane’s favorite thing is vengance.
- Dre said that they need to worry about Diane poisoning her rivals to which Diane said not just her rivals.
- Diane makes a plate for Jack because she thinks it’s nice.
- In almost every episode, one character makes a comment about how Diane is mean or scary.
- Her arch-enemy is Charlie Telphy.
- She hates chips, s’mores, peace, silent alarms, loiter laws, men with ponytails, girls named after months, Rachael Ray, and fire extinguishers (the last one adding more evidence to her obsession with fire).
- Diane's skin is shiny as it was revealed that she puts 96% of oil on her.
- In some episodes she reads a hit-man magazine, which she appears to subscribe to.
- Diane appears to have access to FBI files, as in one episode she was seen shredding a document (while making sure no one was around).
- She messed up Charlie’s meet-and-greet with Boyz II Men.
- She says friendship is a sign of weakness.
- Diane manages Ruby's retirement account.
Quotes[]
"Ain't nobody got time for you to make a friend, Rainbow."
"Hey, friend..." (Many episodes)
“You broke my heart!” (Many episodes)
“I will set you on fire, put you out, and set you back on fire!” (Twindependence)
“You’re boring me!” (The Talk)
”He thinks he can disrespect me?”
”Charles” (Many episodes)