Johnson (Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door)

Johnson is an X-Naut Trooper who appears briefly in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. Very little is known about Johnson.

Johnson appears in a scene very early in the game. After Mario beats a tutorial battle with Lord Crump (in an attempt to save Goombella from him), the disgruntled X-Naut official summons several of his henchmen to attack Mario and his new friend. Thankfully, Goombella and Mario manage to escape the melee safely, leaving the X-Nauts to pummel Lord Crump. Angrier than ever, Crump calls off his force to realize that his victims had vamoosed. Upon this epiphany, he addresses Johnson in a question of where they went before quickly opening that question to anyone who might know. It is unknown if Johnson (who seems to appear identical to a normal X-Naut Trooper) ever appears again.

It is possible that Johnson and the army of X-Nauts seen at the beginning of the game were the same ones accompanying Lord Crump to Keelhaul Key, and the army he calls upon to fight Bowser in Twilight Town. This has never been confirmed, although there certainly aren't as many X-Nauts in the X-Naut Fortress (when Mario ventures there) as there were in Crump's army, which was destroyed when Bowser set off the Superbombomb.

Trivia

 * Another minor Johnson who was given a name in a suspiciously similar manner appeared in Super Paper Mario. As such, minor characters by the name of "Johnson" may be a running joke in the Paper Mario series.