Mister Johnson

Johnson is a human from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Yes, that Richard Branson Mister Johnson.

Mister Johnson runs a large company called Vision from the United Kingdom. Their activities involve clean-up operations, which he oversees personally. His intentions are genuine, but he doesn't object to a little publicity along the way, either.

Sounds familiar.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Johnson appeared exclusively in the UK portion of the Marvel Comics continuity.

Following the discovery of Transformer bodies in the Thames, Johnson led a crew from Vision to remove them environmental hazards from London's main waterway, come rain or shine. No sooner had they hauled the bodies of Centurion and Megatron above the water than a team of Decepticons showed up to steal them and fly them back to Shockwave.

Johnson appeared cross at the Decepticons as they took the bodies away. In which case he may have had more in mind than simply disposing of them. (Or he just didn't like being put out of a headline.) Salvage!

Notes

• Hatchette's 2018 reprint of "Salvage!" saw Richard Branson changed into "Mister Johnson"; Lee Sullivan was brought back to redraw Branson's hair and chin. As Simon Furman explains: "In the absence of actual paperwork from those dim distant days proving we had Branson's permission to use his likeness, it was decided to err on the side of caution. I did actually try and contact Branson. But in the end we got Lee Sullivan to make art changes... to his own art."