Gideon is the mute and crafty anthropomorphic feline sidekick to the clever, cunning Honest John. He is undoubtedly loyal, but his drunk and bumbling ways do more to annoy Honest John than assist him. Being mute, he prefers to let his huge wooden mallet do the talking when Honest John's diplomacy looks like it's about to fail. Either he clobbers someone, or John clobbers him for trying to. It's not his fault that he lacks the intelligence to think of other subtler options.