1. Joe Goldberg is the fictional villain protagonist of the You series of novels by Caroline Kepnes, and the television series of the same name, where he is portrayed by American actor Penn Badgley.
61 Facts About Joe Goldberg
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Joe Goldberg is played by Gianni Ciardiello, Aidan Wallace and Jack Fisher as a youth, and as his inner self by Ed Speleers.
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At the story's outset, it is revealed that Joe Goldberg was born September 19th, 1988, to separated parents.
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Joe Goldberg continuously implies that a similar instance occurred in the past with his ex-girlfriend, Candace Stone, who is presumed to be dead.
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Joe Goldberg is good friends with his next-door neighbor, Paco, a boy who has an abusive home life and is always trying to escape by reading books.
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Joe Goldberg believes her wealthy, spoiled boyfriend Benji Ashby is an obstacle to his future relationship with Beck and tricks Benji into meeting him, hits him over the head, and keeps him captive in a climate-controlled cage for rare books in Mooney's basement.
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Joe Goldberg sees Peach as another obstacle in his relationship with Beck, so he follows her in Central Park and hits the back of her head with a rock.
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Joe Goldberg later kills her after she invites Beck to a retreat at the Salinger estate in Greenwich, framing her death as a suicide.
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Beck returns to therapy to deal with her grief, and Joe Goldberg becomes suspicious of her relationship with her therapist, Dr Nicky.
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Joe Goldberg attends therapy sessions with Dr Nicky under the guise of Paul Brown, a gay bar manager.
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Later, Joe Goldberg discovers that Beck slept with Dr Nicky and confronts her.
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Paco inadvertently exposes the location of a secret place Joe Goldberg uses to hide things.
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Later, Paco helps Joe Goldberg cover up Ron's murder because of how grateful he is.
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Joe Goldberg is initially conflicted but ultimately realizes that Joe is insane and the man she thought she knew was not who he claimed he was.
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Beck acts as if she loves Joe Goldberg to get him to unlock the glass cage he kept her in and manages to get herself free and locks him in, telling him he is a sick monster who preys on people and abuses his power on them.
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When Will cannot create an untraceable identity for him, Joe Goldberg kidnaps Will and imprisons him in a plexiglass vault hidden in a storage facility.
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Joe Goldberg meets Calvin, the manager of a trendy family-owned, health-conscious grocery store, Anavrin, and is hired as a clerk in the book cafe of the store.
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Joe Goldberg then meets Love Quinn, a widow who works in the kitchen and her addict-riddled brother, Forty Quinn.
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Later, it is revealed that Joe Goldberg manipulated circumstances to get his job and apartment and secretly orchestrated his encounter with Love.
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Jasper explains that if Joe Goldberg can stop the bleeding, he'll have about 12 hours to get his fingertip reattached and that he will keep the fingertip in a cooler as ransom.
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Will instructs Joe Goldberg to go to a house party at San Fernando Valley in order to retrieve cash from a man named Rufus.
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Later, Joe Goldberg finds Rufus, but he offers him a bag of pills instead of cash.
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Joe Goldberg has his fingertip reattached and then dismembers and disposes of Jasper's body.
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Love confronts Joe Goldberg, revealing that she has uncovered his lies through talking with her brother Forty.
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Joe Goldberg later apologizes and they decided to just be friends for the moment.
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Joe Goldberg tries to resist his growing attraction to Love and befriends Forty as a distraction.
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Joe Goldberg later learns from Forty that there is a secret room in Henderson's place.
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Will gives him information that allows him to enter the room, and Joe Goldberg finds photos of unconscious women, including Delilah.
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Joe Goldberg discovers Ellie has disabled the chip on her phone and is heading to Henderson's house.
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Joe Goldberg is later confronted by Delilah's cop friend, David Fincher who catches him for jaywalking, but lets him go with a warning.
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Back at the vault, Joe Goldberg frees Will after he promises to disappear and not report him.
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Forty tells Love he has met a woman named Amy Adam, who turns out to be Candace, who has tracked Joe Goldberg down seeking revenge.
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Joe Goldberg opens up about his father's physical abuse and Joe Goldberg and Love feel closer than ever.
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Joe Goldberg goes to Candace's apartment to kill her, but she goes to his apartment, where she exposes the truth about his past to Love.
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Joe Goldberg finds her there and locks her in the vault.
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Joe Goldberg later gets a call from Will, who did not report him but took a trip to Manila.
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Joe Goldberg locks him in the vault and calls Love to prove that Joe is a dangerous killer.
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Joe Goldberg decides to confess the whole truth to Love, who reacts unexpectedly, luring Candace away from the vault and killing her to prevent her from calling the police.
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Joe Goldberg reveals that she killed Delilah to prevent Joe from being forced to flee to Mexico.
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Joe Goldberg uncovers the truth and heads back to try to get Love away from Joe, saying he is a serial killer.
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However, Joe Goldberg refuses to cheat on Love when Natalie tries to seduce him.
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Love tricks Natalie into meeting her where she kills Natalie and calls Joe Goldberg to help her cover it up.
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When one of their neighbors, Gil Brigham, admits that he is an anti-vaxxer and his unvaccinated daughters infected Henry, Love assaults him and she and Joe Goldberg are forced to imprison him.
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Joe Goldberg recovers and murders Love, gives away Henry to a couple he knows, subsequently faking his death and escaping using the name Nick Jones to France.
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Still as Nick Jones, Joe Goldberg manages to track down Marienne at a London art festival, but she rejects him.
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Joe Goldberg, now known as Jonathan Moore, uses his false credentials to become a university English professor.
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Joe Goldberg becomes interested in Kate Galvin, an art gallerist and the girlfriend of his colleague and neighbor Malcolm Harding.
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The next morning, Joe Goldberg wakes up at home with Malcolm stabbed to death on his dining table.
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Joe Goldberg pleads her innocence and forces Joe to help her hide the body.
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Joe Goldberg is caught by Roald, who attempts to kill him with a rifle, but is quickly incapitated.
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When Joe Goldberg refuses, Rhys sets the catacombs on fire, but Joe Goldberg and Roald manage to escape.
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Back in London, Rhys blackmails Joe Goldberg into framing someone as the Eat the Rich killer.
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Joe Goldberg chooses to frame Dawn Brown, a woman who attempted to kidnap Phoebe.
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When Joe Goldberg continues to see Rhys, he then realizes that he had developed a split personality that took the physical form of Rhys; the real Rhys had never met him.
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Joe Goldberg finds Marienne and resolves to free her after making arrangements to escape.
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Joe Goldberg finds her phone and seemingly realises that she had lost custody of her daughter, which devastates her when he relays the news to her.
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Joe Goldberg later finds her seemingly dead from overdosing on oxycodone pills he previously planted on her.
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Joe Goldberg accepts that he is a killer for the first time, and, after discovering that Nadia had been spying on him, murders her boyfriend and frames it on her.
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When Joe Goldberg is looking out the window of their apartment, he sees Rhys staring back at him.
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Penn Badgley's portrayal of Joe Goldberg has received critical acclaim.
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Joe Goldberg is a character that does horrible things, but keeps you so engrossed that you can't stop watching.