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"Why would I care [about breaking the law]? I am a rebel! And one day, I will be this town's leader! Future generations will be egging statues of ME!"
―Joel

Joel Gonzales appears as a main recurring character and main antagonist of Sibling Rivalries. He also has a central, non-antagonistic role in Sibling Rivalries: Vancouver Vultures.

Description[]

Joel is the first son of Melissa and Jose Gonzales Sr who was born in Vancouver, Canada. Three years later, he would also become the older brother to Jose Gonzales Jr..

There is not much known about his early childhood, except for the fact that he became a great friend to fellow Vancouver resident Francis McReary, meeting him in either first or second grade.

However, Joel has been mentioned to replace his friends pretty easy. In 2011, Joel became a great friend to Jason Parker who recently moved to Vancouver and joined his football team. However, by early 2012, Joel left the Vultures and moved on to Salvador Rosales and his group of friends. Apparently, Joel also did Salvador wrong by siding with his then-enemies. Later in 2012, Joel and his family would move to Green Bay, Wisconsin for unknown reasons. During this time, Joel also reunited with his cousin Tony Gonzales (who has been living in Green Bay for his whole life), while also annoying Salvador Martinez with his mischievous antics.

Speaking of being mischievous, Joel was described as being quite mean and snarky in his early childhood, but this has not been elaborated on enough - aside from a hint that Jose is the "favorite" between their parents, so Joel may have started acting out for attention. However, he has been seen annoying Francis' younger brother Packie by calling him "Little Packie", a nickname that he hates. Joel also threatens Jason Parker by telling him how he is angry that Jason is such a show-off... until revealing moments later that he was simply joking.

Joel's path to becoming a juvenile delinquent would unfold when he meets the Wisconsin Warriors in October 2013. By this point, his old friends the McReary family have also moved to Green Bay for a fresh start. When Joel first visited their new house, he annoyed the residents by turning off all of their music and just blasting his favorite boy band, One Direction. As he already had a disliking of Joel, Packie tells him to knock it off and Joel does (for now).

Ultimate Betrayal[]

Joel is friendly to the McRearys for a while until the night after the events of "The Big Trade-Off". Joel speaks to James Johnson, a player for the Wisconsin Warriors who had injured Francis and Packie's brother Gerry's hand, which rendered him unable to play. Joel was honestly impressed with how James managed to incapacitate who was possibly the best member of their team. James appreciates the compliment, and offers Joel a place in the Warriors; the Warriors are actually a group of mean-spirited children who wish to take over Green Bay by any means necessary. In order to do so, the members will have to keep out all of the good-hearted people that will come to stop them.

That wasn't really Joel's goal as he was simply showing some "good sportsmanship", but Joel accepts! He is pretty okay with betraying the siblings for the desire of some sweet control over the town. The next day, Joel takes James to the McRearys' house to announce he is no longer on Gerry's team, or Gerry's best friend. He also manages to take the siblings hostage in his basement just to showcase how powerful he is going to be with the Warriors on his side. As everybody is questioning the absurity of the situation, Joel foolishly lets his parents catch him with the siblings tied up, so everyone is freed and Joel begins to "hate" the McReary family like the Warriors tell him to.

More about his "evil" side[]

Joel's villain ways have upset his brother Jose, who remains a friend of the siblings. Jose is also frustrated that Joel barely even loves him as family, which Joel states is not true. Joel will always love his brother, but still shows little remorse when Jose is upset with his evil ways. When Joel is carrying out his "evil" plans with the Warriors, he tells Jose to stay out of his way.

Joel merely wants to imprison the McRearys (or at least use them and their friends as slaves, as depicted in "The Amnesia Act of 2015", "My Fair Slave-ee", and "Opposite Day"). Giovanni also cannot decide if he would rather have the McRearys join the Warriors' side, or trap them so they cannot stop the Warriors from doing bad.

Joel's Good Side[]

In Season 7 comic "Cabin Buddies", Giovanni orders Joel to drug the siblings' food and leave their unconsious bodies to drown in the waterfall while in a fishing boat. When Jose tells Joel "You disgust me, leaving the siblings and their father to die, and for what?", Joel has a morbid fantasy of how killing them will lead to him being much more hated than ever before; he feels instant regret, and runs out to save them. He solidifies himself as having a soft spot, and ends that comic as an ally.

Not to mention, from 2020 onward, there are more comics where he sides with them instead of wanting to defeat them, a notable example being "Barking Up The Wrong Tree". It is hinted that Joel still loves the McReary family, and it is simply the negative influence of the Wisconsin Warriors that makes him insult them and say he hates them. In "Ill-Behaved Interviewee", Joel tells Packie to stay on the path of good and to not end up like him. In "My Ma Said Knock You Out", Joel also declares that Packie is totally stronger than him.

Future Life[]

In the comic "Pack To The Future", set four years from the present, it appears that the Warriors have disbanded. Joel has also given up evil and has developed a true friendship with Packie and his family.

With the help of Giovanni, he built a small gym in his backyard, and working out has become his passion. He has also gotten several tattoos; on his right arm he has the Wisconsin Warriors logo and a snake (reference to the tattoo on The Simpsons character Snake Jailbird albeit in less quality; on his left arm he has a skull and the One Direction logo; he has a religious cross on his right leg, and his initials J.G on his left leg.

The Mighty J (Superhero Alter-Ego)[]

In Season 9 comic comic of the same name, after feeling satisfaction from stopping a lady from being robbed, Joel decides to create a superhero persona dubbed "The Mighty J"; an anonymous figure who goes around helping anybody in need. The tasks he did included saving Michelle Stone's cat who got stuck in a tree, or helping his grandmother crossing the street (while she does not know it is actually Joel and even tells him that Joel would never be nice enough to help her). At the end of the comic, his cover was blown on national TV, when Giovanni turned himself into the police after robbing a local store, and Joel revealed himself as being affiliated with Giovanni. This marks the end of the Mighty J.

Homophobia[]

Throughout Season 13 comic, Joel continues to bully Zachary Marshall and Steve Madison while they are out on a date, spilling a drink on them and attacking/chasing them with paintball guns. Joel criticizes their "choice of lifestyle" and dislikes how modern society is so obsessed with "representation" and "inclusion".

After they are too wounded to continue, Zack reluctantly calls his siblings to come put Joel in his place. After insulting everybody a few more times, Joel is slapped several times by Packie until he eventually apologizes for his actions. Joel even admits that he himself has struggled to understand his sexuality, and his attacks on Zack and Steve are presumably due to these frustrations. Joel does not expand any further, and simply bids the couple goodbye - as a further apology, he allows Zack and Steve to keep his duel paintball pistols so they can "fend off other haters".

Trivia[]

  • Joel is a fan of the British-Irish band One Direction, which was seen in "Frightful Football Reunions" and "A Christmas Story". He also mentions that he is upset the gang broke up after 2015 ("My Fair Slave-ee", "Ill-Behaved Interviewee")
  • Joel's nationality is unknown. Gonzales is a Spanish last name, so this could mean he is part Mexican. Being born in Canada, he would most likely be Canadian as well. It is possible that the reason for Joel being Mexican-Canadian could be the same as Armando Vasquez; both have Mexican fathers who got together with a Canadian woman.
  • Joel serves as the protagonist of "Menace at Work" and "The Mighty J!".
  • He absolutely hates the word "police", and it literally gives him hives to even hear the word ("Barking Up The Wrong Tree").
  • Starting with Season 7, Joel has made more appearances where he did not play the role as antagonist, or ended the comic as an ally. Season 7 is also the first to not have a traditional "defeat Joel" plot, unless "Dream On" is counted where he is defeated by the McRearys in his own dream, and he wakes up upset, or "Joyride" but Giovanni had the true main antagonist role and Joel played a smaller role.
  • Joel is strangely the only member of the Wisconsin Warriors to not wear the logo (outside of when wearing his football uniform). James permanently wears his Warriors football uniform, Marco and Trevor wear the logo on their shirts starting with Season 7, and Giovanni has a Warriors tattoo on both of his forearms. In "Pack To The Future", Joel is seen to eventually get a Warriors tattoo on one of his arms, but the Warriors would have been dissolved at this point.
  • He is known to vandalize property, as he mentions throwing eggs at the town statue in "Packie The Prankster", and he is seen spray painting the Warriors logo on the side of a building in "Christmas In July" before immediately regretting that after hearing San Salvador sing gospel music.
  • As revealed in "Ill-Behaved Interviewee", he smokes cigarettes along with Giovanni, James, Marco, and presumably Trevor.
  • He loves engaging in Conga lines, mentioning them as something that reminds him of his "pre-villain days". ("Zack Attack")
  • In "Frightful Football Reunions", Joel tells Gerry that he had a cousin who died from a football injury to the head, which made him initially hesitant to play catch without a helmet. However, he had no issue playing football in Sibling Rivalries: Vancouver Vultures or the rest of the series. This cousin is also not mentioned again, or he may have been retconned and became Tony Gonzales, who merely sustained a leg injury.
  • Joel was the first character in the series to appear without a shirt, although chronologically that would be Hector Wilson in the prequel Zachary.
  • In "My Ma Said Knock You Out", Joel's favorite TV show is revealed to be Family Guy, with GTA Nerd claiming that the show's frequent use of mean spirited humor is what drives Joel's personality.
  • In "Roadside", he claims that some people have been referring to him as "this generation's version of Jeffrey Dahmer" (a serial killer from Wisconsin) due to his villainous acts, but Joel says that he wouldn't cross such a line; he said the same thing in "Black Bear", showing clear disgust for Bruce Warren the pedophile.

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