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| “ | Well, you're dealing with a white blood cell here! | „ |
| ~ Ozzy's most famous quote. |
| “ | You want Osmosis? You got Osmosis! | „ |
| ~ Ozzy's catchphrase. |
| “ | Just as long as it doesn't hit 108 degrees, or Frank's daughter's an orphan! | „ |
| ~ Ozzy fears for Shane's well-being if Frank bites it. |
Osmosis "Ozzy" Jones is the titular main protagonist of the 2001 hybrid action comedy film of the same name and its 2002-04 sequel/spin-off televison series Ozzy & Drix.
Despite being a police officer, he doesn't seem to have much respect for authority. His best friend's Drix and he has a crush on the mayor's secretary Leah Estrogen. He is funny and adventure-seeking. Ozzy will anything to keep Frank in shape, even if it means disobeying orders. When a deadly virus named Thrax enters Frank’s body, Ozzy teams up with Drix and Leah to stop Thrax from killing Frank and millions of cells in his body within forty-eight hours.
He was voiced by Chris Rock in the film, who later voiced Marty in the Madagascar franchise, and by Phil LaMarr in the TV series who also voices Marty in the Madagascar video games, Samurai Jack, Static Shock, Wilt, Hermes Conrad, and John Stewart/Green Lantern.
Background
Personality
As a white-blood cell and a police officer, Ozzy is fully committed and dedicated to keep Frank DeTorre healthy and his entire body safe from deadly viruses and germs. However, due to Frank's poor health affecting the law and politics within the City of Frank, Ozzy does not follow rules and orders as he tends to do things his own way, being overconfident in catching germs by himself and keeping Frank healthy. Plus, there are also times where Ozzy tends to be clumsy as he doesn't have good aim with a gun and his clumsiness sometimes cause trouble. Yet, his rebellious and impulsive nature is always the main factor of what gets him into trouble where his actions cause disruption in Frank's body, himself and others. Nevertheless, Ozzy is aware of the mistakes and is capable of learning from them as he strives to do better. Another factor of his impulsiveness is to make up for ruining Frank's reputation when he caused him to vomit on Shane's teacher, causing Ozzy to wanting to make a positive difference for the lifestyles of Frank, his daughter, himself, and everyone else around him.
While Ozzy is a bit of narcissist and has an ego, he does not let those traits harden his heart, especially the teasing he gets from his fellow cops or anyone who belittles him. Ozzy refuses to let the ridicule he gets from anyone crush his spirits and tries to keep on a positive outlook. He also has a sense of humor and full of life with a carefree attitude. He is very strong-willed and confident, refusing to ever give up in trying to protect Frank's body or catch germs. In the beginning, Ozzy believed he can handle situations without anyone's help as he wanted to atone for his past mistakes by himself. However, upon partnering Drix, Ozzy learned that sometimes having backup is necessary in order to secure justice and save those in need.
In spite of his goofy, rebellious, and reckless behavior, Ozzy is very intelligent and quick-witted. He possessed some knowledge of human anatomy, knowing how a human body's functions, what organism or germ can be threatening and dangerous, when something is amiss, and being able to tell the different between organic and inorganic matter. Ozzy's intelligence was so great that he was able to remedy any problems he, his friends, or Frank faced and was masterful in keeping himself composed and optimistic during times of a crisis.
When it comes to doing police work, Ozzy is adventurous, resourceful, and courageous. While Ozzy can go out of character when doing interrogations and infiltrating germs' hideouts, Ozzy is capable of shaking down informants and being a master of disguise with his shapeshifting abilities. Yet, Ozzy can be very good-natured to his friends, and he always knows what is right, as when he called out the corrupt Mayor Phlegmming for putting his needs above Frank's. Ozzy was also willing risk his life to protect and save Frank and those he cares about, especially when he flew after Thrax without a moment of hesitation and was not afraid to confront the deadly virus despite knowing how dangerous he was. In addition, Ozzy shows care towards Frank's daughter, Shane as he wanted to get Frank healthy to make her happy, showed concern for her well-being as he didn't want her to lose her father after her mother died, and was able to save her from Thrax when hearing the virus's intentions to kill her. Ozzy also possessed a large moment of courage when in the face of danger or taking risks, as seen when he jumped out of a helicopter and confronted Thrax several times during his investigation and battle against the virus.
At the very center, Ozzy is a caring, kind, friendly, brave, and forgiving white blood cell whose dedication to protect Frank and determination to improve Frank and Shane’s lives would inspire those around him. For example, Drix who realize following rules and being labeled unworthy by others doesn’t necessarily there are limits on doing what’s right and that you’re unique in your own way. Another example of Ozzy’s dedication and determination inspiring others is Leah realizing if nobody refuses to take action or notice something amiss, stand up to others and take action yourself after she discovered how uncaring and selfish Mayor Phlegmming truly was to Frank and his well-being.
As Ozzy grew from a self-sufficient cop to wanting a partner to work with him, Ozzy's determination, selfless, and good nature stayed strong where he managed save Frank from certain death and indirectly get Mayor Phlegmming impeached for his corruption which led to Ozzy to be awarded with the praise and recognition from his fellow cops and all the cells in Frank's body. Thus, allowing to not improve his reputation and life, but also the lives of every cell in Frank's body, Frank himself, and Shane.
Appearance
Ozzy's a baby-blue, white blood cell. He wears a white t-shirt with a grayish-brown jacket, black pants, and black shoes.
Powers and Abilities
Being a white blood cell, Ozzy's pliable and he has elasticity, he can stretch all his limbs and body and he has shape-shifting abilities. He is also very flexible as he was able to squeeze through small spaces, dodge his enemies' attack, and reposition his body parts.
History
Osmosis Jones
Ozzy's first seen when the movie enters into Frank's body for the first time through Frank's mouth as he eats the hard-boiled egg that had just been in the mouth of a chimpanzee and in the filth of the floor of its habitat that he was about to eat earlier before Shane distracting him allowed the chimpanzee to grab it and pop it into its mouth, forcing Frank to struggle with it before it coughed it up. He's seen on Mouth Patrol in a helicopter reading a magazine called DNA which is a knock off of Playboy magazines.
Soon, while in the helicopter, the pilot spots a group of germs that they believed to be Gingivitis. He orders them to stop and wait to be digested and thus properly immigrated into Frank's body, but they manage to hijack a SPIT squad car and were chased and shot at by Ozzy, but were sucked into Frank's windpipe by a yawn. Ozzy quickly calls dispatch to warn them, and when the hijacked patrol car lands on one of the bloodstream highways, it is not long before a pair of regular FPD cruisers join the pursuit as Ozzy is ordered over the radio by his Chief to wait for backup while the pilot believes they are out of their jurisdiction and need to return to the mouth.
Then Ozzy jumps out of the helicopter to go after the germs, but he only manages to get the smallest out of the group, who was driving while the others fell out when the patrol car landed hard earlier. The pursuing cruisers catch up and the officers have a little fun teasing Ozzy, but when the germ bites on Ozzy's hand and forces him to let go, the cruisers are forced to swerve to avoid Ozzy and one wrecks into a billboard. Despite having been told to stay out of the chase, Ozzy follows the germ and accidentally triggers a cramp in Frank's right leg when his shot curves to the right of his target and sets off the main nerve receptor.
Back in the mouth, some spit cells are still breaking down the egg when a Virus named Thrax appears and after burning the spit cells and their boat, triggers a sore throat.
Then Ozzy's chewed out by the Chief for his earlier violation of orders upon returning to the Third Precinct to find the germ he was chasing was already arrested, along with the injured officers he caused to wreck earlier. After that, the Chief assigns Ozzy to investigate the throat on the condition that he works with a cold pill named Drix. Ozzy heads to the stomach, where Drix is due to arrive, and runs into his girlfriend, Leah Estrogen, the secretary to Mayor Phlegmming, and they both welcome Drix to the City of Frank before Drix and Ozzy head to the throat to deal with the inflammation there with the firefighting antibodies, including Ozzy's pal Doug, though Ozzy complains initially when Drix climbs into his car, fearing he was ruining it because of how he was stretching the membrane to get in.
At the throat, Ozzy encounters a Spanish Germ who saw Thrax's earlier attack and he refers to him as "The Red Death" (La Muerte Rojo) before being accidentally frozen by Drix.
Then Ozzy and Drix head to the nose where, after Frank sneezes, Thrax and the germs create a stuffy nose to make it seem like Frank's condition's the common cold.
Back at Mayor Phlegmming's office, Ozzy tries to inform him that a virus is in the body, but then he's threatened to be sent down the next nosebleed if he can't keep quiet. Mayor Phlegmming offers to reassign Drix to another partner, but Drix decides to stay with Ozzy.
While heading to the liver, Drix asks Ozzy why Mayor Phlegmming said Ozzy had a record. Ozzy explains that two years ago, Frank was at the science fair of Shane's school and ate some potentially rotten oysters off a random kid's science project.
When Ozzy was in the stomach on routine patrol, he saw some threatening bacteria coming from the oysters, including a nasty-looking virus. Believing he had no time to call for backup or ask questions, Ozzy hit the "puke" button in a split-second decision, causing Frank to throw up all over Mrs. Boyd, one of Shane's teachers. As a result of this, while Frank's life was saved by the bacteria being forcibly expelled from his body in this way, Frank lost his job at a pea soup factory when a photo of him barfing on Mrs. Boyd ended up on the local newspaper, enraging his supervisor, and making him became the town's laughing stock, forcing his brother Bob to get him a replacement job at the local zoo. Then Mrs. Boyd issued a 200-yard restraining order against Frank to avoid something like that happening again due to the massive humiliation it caused her and her children, while Ozzy got suspended for what the mayor felt like was "use of unnecessary force" and then he placed him on out-of-the-way patrols ever since. He wonders if he did the right thing since that day.
Then Drix says that he feels Ozzy was justified in his decision because oysters are a known as a breeding ground for any number of dangerous bacteria, to which Ozzy stated that they are, and he never thought that Drix would stand up for him, to which Drix never thought he'd be right.
At the liver, a Flu Shot informs them that Thrax's big time and that he's currently in The Zit Club, a hangout for all the germs in the body. Once there, Ozzy disguises himself as a germ and then he discovers that Thrax plans to invade the Hypothalamus and heat up Frank's body, killing him in 48 hours with a fatal fever and getting him a chapter in medical books, since each of his previous victims have died faster than the last:
- His first victim was a little girl in Riverside, California who didn't like washing her hands. Took him three weeks to kill her.
- His second victim was a nice lady in Detroit, Michigan. Killed her in six days.
- His third victim was an old guy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Killed him in three days/72 hours.
Then Ozzy's exposed and a fight breaks out. Drix tries loading a freezing grenade into his arm, but it gets stuck, so Ozzy takes it and throws it at Thrax, causing The Zit Club to explode off of Frank's forehead.
Meanwhile, Frank's trying to get Mrs. Boyd to lift the restraining order so he can join Shane on a dad and daughter hike, but The Zit Club pops onto her bottom lip, making her refusal official as she angrily orders Frank out of the school before she calls the police on him for violating the restraining order.
When Ozzy returns to the Third Precinct, Mayor Phlegmming berates him for popping The Zit Club without an official permit. Then Ozzy and Drix tell him that if they hadn't done it, Frank's whole body would be destroyed. Mayor Phlegmming tells Ozzy to be careful of what he says as that kind of talk would cause a panic (in addition to reducing his chances of not getting re-elected). When Ozzy argues that it would make the citizens think more about the body's health than the chicken wing trip to Buffalo, in a fit of anger to protect his job, no matter the cost, Mayor Phlegmming fires him, refusing to let anything come between his re-election and, unknowingly, pushing Frank closer to death with his poor eating habits and lack of exercise. Heartbroken at losing his job after doing something he believed saved Frank's life, Ozzy tosses his gun and badge on the Chief's desk before departing in grief, much to the concern of Leah, Drix, and the Chief.
When Drix defends Ozzy by saying Frank would've been in mortal danger if not for Ozzy's intervention, Mayor Phlegmming tells him to leave the body since his abilities are temporary and therefore keep him from proving the truth.
What they didn't know, was that Thrax survived the explosion and, after killing off his remaining henchmen for suggesting that they incubate, which would mean Thrax would miss his deadline, he decides to launch a lone assault on the Hypothalamus by disabling its self-regulative capabilities.
Arriving there, Thrax uses his long claw on his left hand to destroy the protoplasmic barrier around the gland and retrieve a DNA bead, causing the body to slowly start overheating as the temperature begins to climb from a normal 98.6 degrees to a fatal 108 degrees.
Soon after, Leah discovers his work and alerts security, after Phlegmming ignored the warnings and refused to believe Ozzy was right, forcing Leah to confront him for his lack of empathy, caring more about staying Mayor than all their lives, which are possibly in mortal danger, and he doesn't give a care about it at all.
Thrax manages to evade them, taking Leah hostage and escapes from the brain to the mouth, despite attempts by the FPD to stop him as they pursue him through the body, but he manages to outsmart the pursuing cruisers.
At the same time, Ozzy, in a movie theater showing dreams from the brain, discovers that Thrax's alive in the brain when the movie screen turns a feverish red and the dream becomes a nightmare.
Then Ozzy rushes to stop Drix from leaving the body via the bladder and manages to convince him to help stop Thrax once and for all. Meanwhile, Frank's temperature continues to rise, causing chaos and destruction to break out all over the City of Frank.
Frank's taken to the hospital under the influence of Thrax's attack, which doesn't bold well for Phlegmming, as this means the trip to Buffalo is canceled, and he's lost his chances for re-election, which he hears as he tries to speak for Frank when Frank passes out from the fever, and his brother Bob, who was riding as passenger in the car, decides the trip is off as Frank is too sick to go and needs to be hospitalized. More so, Shane was with Mrs. Boyd and her classmates on their school bus when they see Frank being loaded into the ambulance in critical condition while guarded by state troopers, and having had an argument the night before with Frank, blaming him for the death of her mother Maggie, Shane fears she has caused Frank to lose the will to live. Despite Mrs. Boyd calling her back to the bus, Shane goes with her Uncle Bob to the hospital to see if her father is alright. Then Ozzy and Drix rescue Leah and confront Thrax, who leaves Frank's mouth after causing Frank to sneeze using pollen pods.
Then Ozzy's launched out after him by Drix where Ozzy and Thrax fight on Shane's eye and then they end up on Shane's false eyelash after she blinks, which she was wearing atop her natural ones. During the fight, Thrax threatens to break his own record by killing Shane next, but Ozzy tricks him into getting stuck on Shane's false eyelash, and fall into a beaker of rubbing alcohol below where he dissolves to death.
During this time, the situation becomes even more dangerous when the temperature hits 108 degrees, causing Frank to get Hyperpyrexia as his body suffers a Cytokine Storm, essentially incinerating the body to kill off the viral infection, and his heartbeat flatlines as he goes into cardiac arrest, meaning his fever was fatal. Hearing the flatline steady beep, Shane rushes back into the ER heartbroken, apologizing to Frank, taking back blaming him for Maggie's death, saying in tears that she didn't mean any of it and thought of Frank as "the greatest dad in the world".
Just as the doctors are prepared to give up and sign off on Frank's death certificate, Frank's revived when Ozzy returns to Frank on one of Shane's tears with the DNA chain containing the missing Hypothalamus chromosome, quickly reinstalling it, returning Frank's body temperature back to a safe 98.6 degrees, and resuscitating him, though Frank admits that, during his short period of being dead, he was able to see Maggie, who said "Hi" from the afterlife, leaving a relieved smile on an overjoyed Shane's face.
Thus, Ozzy's reinstated into "Immunity" with full privileges, and Ozzy and Drix are declared heroes with the Chief of Police giving Ozzy his job back, while Ozzy plans on extending Drix's time in Frank with help from the hemorrhoid, and Leah returns his affections. Mayor Phlegmming loses his re-election because of Thrax to his opponent, Tom Colonic, in a landslide victory, and is reduced to working in the bowels, where he unintentionally gets himself farted out of Frank, who starts making an effort to get his body back into shape and eating healthy foods.
Ozzy & Drix
TBA
Quotes
| “ | Mmm. I do. Nice genes! You got chromosomes in all the right places! | „ |
| ~ Osmosis Jones's first words |
| “ | Osmosis Jones to dispatch. We got multiple germs-- I repeat-- multiple germs coming down the windpipe, and if these bad boys hit the blood stream, we're gonna be illin'! I'm talkin' nose-drippin', chicken soup drinkin', rectal thermometer stickin' illin'! Request permission to pursue? | „ |
| ~ Ozzy making a report on the dispatcher |
Trivia
- Ozzy's one of the only characters in the movie to have a first name that's a biological reference and a normal last name, the other being Leah.
- This is Chris Rock's first time voice acting in a theatrically released animated film. Later, he would go on to voice Marty the Zebra in the Madagascar franchise and Mooseblood the Mosquito in Bee Movie (2007).
- Osmosis is also similar to Sly Cooper; they both have ancestors whose legacy they follow in their footsteps, and they manage to have the help of their sidekicks (Murray and Bentley for Sly and Drix for Osmosis) where they defeat their nemesis and restore their name and birthright.
- In the first episode episode of Ozzy & Drix, he was shown working snot patrol and desiring to get a promotion which doesn't make sense as he was seemingly promoted at the end of the movie.
- Also in the show, he and other cell's are required to wear anti-coagulation suits when outside of the human body to survive, but in the movie he fought Thrax outside of Frank's body for a while just fine. These two things could imply that the show isn't canon to the movie and or takes place in a different universe, meaning Jones would continue to live his life in Frank.
External Links
- Osmosis Jones on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Osmosis Jones on the Osmosis Jones Wiki
- Osmosis Jones on the Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki
- Osmosis Jones on the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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