Michael James "Mikey" Miller was a recurring character in the Dhar Mann videos. He is the main protagonist/supporting antagonist of the Jay and Mikey universe. He is titular supporting protagonist of Mischief Mikey, one of the two secondary supporting antagonists (alongside Noah Higgins) in Jay's World (formerly Jay and Mikey) and one of the two supporting deuteragonists (alongside Jay Lawson) in Noah's Arc. He’s portrayed by Kaido Lee Roberts in most appearances.
Character Description[]
Mikey is currently 15 years old and known for his troublemaking antics as well as being a lazy and poorly performing student at his school. Most of his schemes involve cheating on or trying to get out of tests and exams at school, while a few involve bullying or sabotage. The most extreme schemes Mikey has committed consists of burglary, embezzlement, and terrorism.
Mikey being arrested by the police for pulling the fire alarm at his school because he tried to skip a pop-quiz in KID PULLS Fire Alarm To SKIP TEST.
Biography[]
Michael James Miller is shown to be the second of three sons and is the problem child of the Miller family. His older brother, Owen, is of college age, although he squandered his tuition money to invest in the Super Mario crypto coin, which turned out to be a total bust and the whole thing tanked. However, his younger brother, Jayden (age 11-12 years) is an academic whiz, being in the same grade as Mikey, even though he is two years younger than Mikey.
When Mikey first appeared, he was in the fifth grade and cheated on his final exam. He was punished and thus forced to repeat fifth grade, during which time he cheated on another exam, faked the flu, faked an allergic reaction, faked an early dismissal, helped Jay fake a broken arm, cheated in a MrBeast contest, pretended to be a successful streamer, and pulled a fire alarm, subsequently getting arrested for it. After this, he most probably matured, as shown in "Kid Sneaks Candy Into Theater" and later, "Kid Gets SHOCKING Birthday Gift!" He moved from Newport Beach to Los Angeles, California.
However, he went back to his old ways in one instance by attempting to cheat at arcade games to win VIP convention passes. In "Streamer PRANKED On LIVESTREAM" he is shown to be maturing again, as he helped Jayden flush out who was sabotaging his team in Minecraft after being initially framed as the saboteur. In "Big Bro Has to Say "Yes" for 48 Hours", after losing a bet and being forced to do whatever Jayden said for 48 hours, actually manages to pass his final exam without cheating and graduate from elementary school after Jayden forces him to abandon his plan to cheat and actually study. In the graduation ceremony, two students (Eddie Valentino and Mike Hernandez) were forced to return their diplomas due to cheating on the exam, but not Mikey Miller. The teacher and principal --Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Meyers-- are unaware that Mikey Miller (who was responsible for it) put the blame on Eddie and they both congratulate Mikey and the graduates who legitimately graduated. (That is, as Mr. Wilson --who leaps to the wrong conclusion and is unaware that he has the wrong conclusion-- says to Mrs. Meyers, "That is it. It was just the two of them --Eddie Valentino and Mike Hernandez". Then --turning back to the graduate students-- he says to the graduate students, "Congratulations to the graduates!".) And Mikey Miller says to both Jayden and the other graduate students from Mr. Wilson's class that he told them he did not cheat. (That is, as he says, "SEE?! I told you I did not cheat!".)
Appearance[]
Mikey has blond hair, brown eyes, fair/tan skin and he stands at 5'9". In many videos, he wears different shirts and shorts, but in 2 videos, he wears khaki shorts.
Personality[]
Mikey is shown to be a lazy, dishonest, arrogant and mischievous individual who consistently behaves poorly, both in school and at home, which causes him to constantly receive failing grades by refusing to either study or do his homework. Because of this, he frequently tries to get out of taking tests, using a variety of different methods, including skipping school, cheating on tests, lying, pretending to be sick, and pulling a fire alarm. However, he enjoys fun and entertainment, including amusement park rides and video games.
Mikey is a bad liar, as he is caught and exposed every time for his misdeeds and suffers the consequences of his actions, whether it be poor grades, suspension from school (which viewers have criticized), being banned from field trips, humiliation, writing lines, being grounded, losing privileges and rewards, or even getting arrested.
Out of his two siblings, Mikey resembles his older brother the most. Owen is similarly depicted to be lazy and dishonest, since both of them are shown to be selfish and greedy, as they want big success without putting in the effort required. Mikey enjoyed temporary success and popularity by pretending to be a child with Tourette's Syndrome on TikTok, as well as a highly skilled Minecraft player on Twitch Streaming, but is exposed and caught each time, and humiliated as a result.
He’s shown to have started to mature in "Kid SNEAKS CANDY Into The MOVIES ft. @LaBrantCole", in which he warned Owen against squandering his college money into Crypto, using false ages (which is a criminal offence in the State of California), pretending Mikey was his 6 year old grandson (when he was actually 12), and sneaking candy into the theater (which is a misdemeanor). After Owen is caught, he is kicked out of the theatre and punished by their mother (who told him "What happens in the dark always comes to light" and said she was cutting him off after he'd admitted in her earshot of taking his college tuition and putting it into crypto coin and hiding it from her and his father); Mikey got to sit next to Dhar Mann and watch the movie. He's also briefly shown to be matured when Owen sent him a birthday gift.
In "Streamer PRANKED On LIVESTREAM", Jayden and his friends initially suspect Mikey of sabotaging their project for a Minecraft tournament as payback for Jayden refusing to help him earlier due to being busy with the project. However, Mikey proves that he has a solid alibi (as his mom forced him offline to do his homework) and, in a moment of maturity, eventually helps flush out and expose the true saboteur: Hannah, who had been recruited by her cousin to sabotage her team in the tournament in exchange for the prize money, which Hannah and her mother desperately needed due to her father leaving them and draining their bank account. However, Jayden's team won and then they decided to give their prize money to Hannah and her family because they needed it more, in order to get by.
In "Big Bro Has to Say Yes for 48 Hours", after losing a bet to Jayden, Mikey was forced to do whatever his little brother said for 48 hours under the penalty of losing his iPad, laptop and PS5 to Jayden forever if he refuses to even do one thing. The things he's forced to do include finishing his vegetables, making Jayden food, doing both of their chores, embarrassing himself at request of his friends, volunteering to answer questions in class, and abandoning his plans to copy off someone's homework and cheat on the upcoming final exam, despite his protests that he might not graduate if he fails anything else. However, once the bet was over, he meets with classmate and fellow troublemaker Eddie Valentino. Mikey --not knowing he is doing something wrong-- seems to resume his plan to cheat by taking a picture of the answer key (for the finals) Eddie provided him. (That is, despite a scolding from Jayden.) And Mikey tries to bring Eddie's grades down.
Later, at the graduation, Mikey's teacher (Mr. Wilson) and the principal (Mrs. Myers) reveal that a couple of students have been caught cheating on the exam. The first student of the two was Eddie. Eddie, he got in trouble for printing out the answer key, taking a picture of it, and using the answer key to obtain a perfect score on the finals. (Even though Mikey's lie got Eddie in trouble, he --Eddie-- said that he didn't do it. He said that Mikey did. So he --Eddie-- was truly telling the truth.) It is initially suspected by Jayden and their mother that Mikey Miller was the second student of the two. Kathy (Mikey's mother) says to him that Mikey is in big trouble if the second person was him, and she can't believe that he (Mikey) cheated again. (That is, as she says, "Mikey?! You are in big trouble if the second student of the two was you! I can't believe you would ever cheat again!".) Jayden said that he warned Mikey to not trust Eddie. (Jayden knew that Mikey had been trying to bring Eddie's grades down all along.) Surprisingly, the second student was actually another student named Mike Hernandez. (So Mrs. Miller and Mr. Wilson unfairly make Eddie take the blame --despite Mikey's lie-- and be held back in eighth grade.) And Mr. Wilson reveals that the two students who cheated was Eddie Valentino and Mike Hernandez and congratulates the graduates who legitimately graduated. (That is, as he says, "That is all. It was just the two of them. It was Eddie Valentino and Mike Hernandez. Congratulations to the graduates!".) Mikey agrees with Mr. Wilson on that (the fact that Eddie and Mike Miller were the two of them). Then he exclaims that he told Jayden and everyone else (i.e the whole class) he didn't cheat. (That is, even though he did cheat. And now he --Mikey-- is lying that Eddie had the answer key and the picture of it --in his locker-- and used it to cheat.) And he shares to them (his class) he didn't. (That is, as he --Mikey-- says out loud to Jayden and the rest of the school --including his eighth grade classmates who legitimately graduated-- "See?! I told you I did not cheat!".) When the status doesn't do further investigation about the blame, this buys Mikey some time to escape his grade retention. In a shocking twist, it's revealed that Mikey (thanks to Jayden forcing him to study) was able to learn the material and pass the final exam properly. In this case, Mikey can graduate the first time (like he did on his previous school grades) with no trouble. (That is, much to his family's happiness.)
As for Eddie, since he and Mike Hernandez --as he (Mike Hernandez) also cheated on the finals-- are taking summer school and/or repeating eighth grade twice, the teacher and principal (Mr. Wilson and Mrs. Meyers) use the telephone to call in, tell, and notify the parents of both of them. And Eddie --since he does not graduate eighth grade-- because neither him nor Mikey were seen together again since or even heard of --in future Dhar Mann episodes-- it is unsure what happened to him (Eddie).
Mikey also commits crimes in "KID PULLS Fire Alarm To SKIP TEST." He pulls a fire alarm to skip a test, but gets caught soon after. Shockingly it was not a test, it was a game, so he pulled the fire alarm for nothing. In Jay's World S1 Ep 06: The Boys Break Into a Superstore, he and his friends break into a store. In the recent Mischief Mikey series "13-Year-Old Robs Bank For Vision Pro" and "13-Year-Old Robs Church For Vision Pro" it’s shown that he commits theft by stealing from a bank and a church to buy expensive products. In "Kid Makes Plane Land To Skip Test" he commits an act of domestic terrorism and threatens a plane to land just to skip a test. After that occurrence, he has been sent for 60 days in juvenile detention. In "Two Teens Break Out Of Jail Cell", he and Jay tried to escape jail and a house arrest. In Teens TURN 21-YEARS-OLD For 24 Hours, he along with Jay and Noah drove illegally and almost escaped the police. He seems to scam people "banned items" in Kids Sell 100 BANNED ITEMS To STUDENTS, but this might not be true about most of the problems the other students had because it is mostly the stupidity of the parents who didn't know that snow was made out of water and has to fight a balloon animal.
It also seems like this criminal behavior is shown by his parents. His dad is abusive towards him and got divorced by his mother for that reason, Mikey seems to flinch whenever his dad yells (however, this might not be true because most parents do that). His mother seems much worse, because it’s almost like she’s promoting Mikey's behavior by trying to break him out of jail and trying to convince the officers to let him go to the Dhar Mann meet-and-greet on Mikey's house arrest. She doesn't seem like she punishes Mikey and doesn't discipline him.
Trivia[]
- Mikey has been absent for a while now, being locked behind bars in Jay's World.
- In "Student CHEATS on FINAL EXAM, Instantly Regrets It", if one looks closely on Jayden's paper, his last name is shown to be Borden. Similarly, in "Student With TOURETTE'S Made Fun Of, What Happens Is Shocking", Mikey's full name is shown as "Mikey Johnson" on his TikTok profile. However, subsequent videos have since well-established his full name as "Mikey Miller". The reason for the change in the family's surname is unknown.
- Mikey is shown to be a great fan of Dhar Mann, which is really ironic because Dhar Mann's content specializes in life lessons, while Mikey often appears as a child with bad behavior. He doesn't tend to learn anything from watching his videos, yet still enjoys them.
- Mikey has been loafing & sluggish ever since he started school for the first time. It’s revealed that he picked up on his brother’s behavior because he too was an idle student.
- Mikey may have Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) as he has a tendency to disobey his elders.
- Mikey is now in middle school. On his first appearance in "Student Cheats On Final Exam, He Instantly Regrets It", he was in elementary school (5th grade) where as mentioned above, he has been running from his problems ever since 1st grade.
- Mikey was suspended at least five times, as mentioned in “Kid Pulls Fire Alarm To Skip Test, He Instantly Regrets It”.
- Mikey most likely needed empathy for his bad behavior, as shown by Rose's Steve Jobs Conference.
- He likes watching Jayden's live streams because it helps him get better at playing Minecraft.
- His middle name, James, was revealed in "Jay & Mikey Ep 07: The Boys Break Into a Superstore PT 2."
- It was revealed in "Kids Cheat MRBEAST For $1 MILLION, They Instantly Regret It" that Mikey hates mayonnaise.
- Because of this, some fans have noticed that he resembles Greg Heffley from the Diary of a Wimpy Kid franchise, because they both lie, steal, cheat and hate mayonnaise.
- Even though Mikey's brother Jayden is two years younger than Mikey, they are both in the same grade. This would be possible if Mikey had to repeat two grades or Jayden skipped two grades.
- Mikey is also the first Dhar Mann character in the Dhar Mann Universe to know that he's in a show.
- Jay's World S2 E01: Teens TURN 21-YEARS-OLD For 24 Hours confirmed that Mikey likes Takis.
- Mikey's zodiac sign is Capricorn, since he was born on January 11th, 2010.
- Mikey is possibly of Scottish descent.
- He has committed the most amount of crimes out of all the Dhar Mann characters.