Talk:Honest John/@comment-5203359-20150130102230

Honest John, even if he was a villain, did have a level of kindness (where he, for once, was even living up to his name - 'Honest'); he (and Gideon, the only other cat in the movie, after Figaro) weren't as willing to trick Pinocchio the second time, when they saw the Coachman's evil face, and got an implication that something bad happens to any boys who go there.

The only reason they did trick Pinocchio the second time, by pretending to make him better, was that they knew that the Coachman would do something bad to them had they gone against his orders (the Coachman would have known had they let him go home). This implies that the Coachman is the true villain of the movie, and it seemed more his fault that Pinocchio fell for the trick to go to Pleasure Island, not Honest John and Gideon's.

I get the impression, from this, that Honest John and Gideon were going to let Pinocchio go home, after escaping from Stromboli's puppet theatre; like I said, they just followed the Coachman's orders.