Squee was the main character of the Squee! comic book series by Jhonen Vasquez, the creator of Invader Zim. His real name is Todd Casil. The only person seen interacting with him consistently in the Johnny the Homicidal Maniac series is Nny himself.
He's called Squee throughout the series (the origin of his nickname comes from his first encounter with Johnny C; when asked what his name was, the only thing Todd could utter was a "squee" of sheer terror).
His only friends are Johnny and Pepito, the son of Satan and a Christian woman, but Squee gets scared of both of them frequently.
He also had another friend named Andy, but he was attacked and killed by a dog.
Like Professor Membrane, Squee's parents are very neglectful but, unlike the Professor, they don't love their son at all and rarely if ever acknowledge his existence. Squee's mother is addicted to some form of pill and spends a lot of time lying around in a nearly incoherent state. She often forgets who Squee is, or that she even has a child. Squee's father on the other hand is verbally abusive and loathes his son (in a similar manner to how Gaz claims to hate Dib) and never misses a chance to blame Squee for 'ruining' his life, claiming that he "hasn't smiled once since Squee was born." Jhonen Vasquez has not commented on why Squee's parents despise him so much, or what his reasoning is for having them be as such.
Having little patience for anything Squee says or does, he eventually becomes convinced that Squee is mentally unstable, and by the end of the series, has him committed to the "Defective Head Meat Institute." Squee's grandfather claims to keep himself healthy and young by consuming his children's first-borns, and subsequently attempts to devour Squee, only to reveal in a horrifying fashion that he is in fact a cyborg and quite possibly insane.
Squee was often seen with his teddy bear, which he called Shmee. It was revealed in one book that Shmee went into Squee's dreams to absorb nightmares, referring to himself as a "trauma sponge". This in turn made Squee at least a little bit happy.
Personality[]
Horror in Skool.
A quiet, introverted child who is frequently targeted by bullies, Squee has been forced to mature a bit more quickly than his peers. He is fond of writing, but only receives criticism from his teacher and taunting from his classmates at Skool. Any attempts he makes to deflect these hostilities only result in being shoved into the dirt or otherwise humiliated.
Due to his constants traumatic experiences, Squee is easily scared, this is surprising given how it seems that with a few exceptions everything and everyone seem to be out to get him, surprisingly despite these hardships, Squee has never shown to grow bitter or resentful, most likely because he’s seen first hand what those negative emotions cause as his father has unintentionally taught him how hate can make a person show the worst possible version of themselves.
Facts of Doom[]
Squee meets two stupid aliens.
Squee or a character who looks very similar to him made a brief cameo in the original Pilot. This creates the implication that these stories take place in a shared universe.
Squee was visited by aliens twice, and these aliens looked similar to the aliens who abducted Zim in "Abducted", but on the first visit of aliens there were another two from a different race (perhaps the Irkens), who looked similar to the Almighty Tallest.
At one point in the series, Squee was considered to replace Dib, continuing Jhonen's trend of pulling characters from the JtHM universe (this trend starting with Ms. Bitters and including a variety of characters, mostly as easter eggs).
However, the idea was dropped in favour of Louie, who was also scrapped. The idea of replacing Dib never came about, though, as Nickelodeon wouldn't permit the death of any characters.
Dib wears a shirt that looks exactly like one that Squee wore in certain comics.
In 2013, Jhonen Vasquez announced that he's working on a new Squee animated webseries, which will be a test run for a larger Johnny the Homicidal Maniac project.
Considering the poor treatment Squee receives from his parents, it may be implied that Squee may have been an unplanned child, this would explain why his father hates him so much and why he says that his son “ruined his life” while his mother is always on drugs as a means to cope with how her life is now.
The reason why Nny never killed Squee's neglectful parents its because Nny thinks all kids should have their parents, despite the fact that not every parent deserves a child.
Squee is named after Jhonen's childhood friend, Vince Casil.
The "Defective Head Meat Institute” where Squee was sent to seemed to be the precursor to “The Crazy House for Boys” that Dib was sent to in "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom".
Squee breaks the 4th wall and makes a humorous reference to Jhonen Vasquez as he once made a remark to a 'lamb-baby-dog-thing' in one strip that some “bitter cartoonist” must be drawing his life and therefore he doesn't want to get too attached to anyone or anything in it.
