NHWestoN wrote:Amazee Dayzee wrote:Yeah I am sort of thinking that all of those characters are one-offs and we won't ever have them show up unless they do in a Guest Week comic.
I agree. Colleen and Karo mirror Duchess and Bino who are already very well developed. Rick does occasionally bring out such characters but one-joke one-offs (Jasper and Jinx) or duplicates that fail to find a niche (Rodney and Snow) just disappear. Skip could be a character like Tiberius the Falcon in "Secret Lives of Pets" but Rick probably thinks Jessica's treehouse has enough tenants. And bird don't seem to thrive in Rick's world. But … it IS Rick's world, so who knows? Maybe Skip could transform into a sadistic gym teacher...…...
The problem (if you can call it that) is that Rick has an enormous number of characters. That's great in a way because he doesn't need to slot a character into the wrong role. Think if he didn't have an already established group of geeks for use in Temple Crashers. He could have pulled other characters in, but it might have felt wrong. I'm sure when he needed a dog to chase Marion up a tree, Kevin was an easy choice. Using Bailey or Fido or really even Bino would have felt off. He's got a cast with a huge range of motivations, abilities, intelligence, etc.
The downside is that we all have favorite characters and even some side characters who we want to see again even though they've had limited strip time to date. I, personally, would love to see Terrance again. Its always fun to see the raccoons, even if we may not see any of them for a year or more.
As for birds? He's got Trinket who has had a small but important role in a couple of arcs. I think he may be the most established of any of the avians we've seen.
"Say, this is only tangentially relevant, but how many rings is your tail supposed to have?"