Squee
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Squee can be an exclamation, or interjection, of excited happiness or surprise, especially when referring to fangirls, or be a squeal of glee over something incredibly cute.
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Squee was a fictional character in Jhonen Vasquez's comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, who later received his own four-issue series, both published by Slave Labor Graphics. Squee is a small child who lives next door to Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, as well as The Antichrist, and is one of the only recurring characters in that series to have met Johnny and survived such as Devi, thanks to Squee's overabundant cuteness and rapidly-deteriorating innocence. His real name is Todd—the nickname "Squee" comes from the sound he makes when he is frightened, which is quite often within his world.
Besides Johnny, who is both his friend and worst nightmare, he has few people in his world.
His mother is usually self-medicated. She's never quite aware of Squee's existence, nor does she wish to be. Her face is never shown.
His father loathes Squee with every fiber of his being. He has absolutely no qualms about telling little Squee this and often does so, repeatedly. His face is seen on occasion, but often than not is drawn in shadow or silhouette and only his glasses shine.
Pepito is Squee's other neighbor and incidentally The Antichrist. He likes Squee because Squee knows that what he says is true. He attempts to get him to join the darkness and be his friend. Squee refuses, but not unlike Johnny, Pepito continues to be his friend (and tormentor). Pepito also happens to wear an outfit that resembles Gaz's from Jhonen Vasquez's animated series, Invader Zim
Squee goes to school where he is bullied and has no friends. In one episode, his classmates are shown as zombies, and you see what looks like Ms. Bitters from another of Jhonen Vaqsquez's work, Invader Zim.
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Squee carries around with him an old teddy bear by the name of "Shmee", who appears to be a less developed or influential version of Johnny's voices. It is revealed that Shmee is really a "trauma sponge" which protects Squee, absorbing his pain and fear and with sinister overtones hinted, there is a darker aspect to him. Shmee often encourages Squee to do evil or horrible things to people, similar to Johnny's Doughboys, but unlike Johnny, Squee ignores these instructions, most likely due to his overwhelming innocence and lack of anger, bitterness or malice towards his world despite its being most unpleasant.
In the course of the comic, Squee gets abducted by aliens, ignored, forced into dinner with Lucifer and the Antichrist, gets attacked by his zombie classmates (and saved by aforementioned Antichrist), scared by wrongful dookie-ing, and attacked by a giant dust mite.
The comic ends with his forced entry to an insane asylum, in which we see Johnny once more. It is the belief of most fans that Johnny saves Squee once more, however the creator, when asked about this, merely began to cackle.