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Random: Anyone remember Biker Mice from Mars? It was in a weird time slot for me, so I almost never got to watch it as a kid, but I always thought Throttle just was boring. Struck me as a generic cool guy with like nothing going in the design department.

Now looking back at some of the shows of the day, for some reason his design is growing on me? But, like, in a really _weird_ way. The other two always had some immediate appeal as unique designs, but his is like, somehow _comfortably normal._

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bluestarultor
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Like, the other two look suitably heroic, but he looks like the only one I wouldn't be immediately uncomfortable seeing in a bar, if that makes sense. Nobody I would go out of my way to talk to or anything, but someone who at least doesn't stick out for the sin of not wearing enough clothes. He looks like a normal-ass biker with all the trappings of that and I probably wouldn't think twice about it.

Then again, I wouldn't think twice about seeing the orc from the Slash 'N Smash, either. XD

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That's a story: my roommate in pharmacy school got Oblivion on release and decided that that was going to be his shop to max out, so I ended up seeing A LOT of that particular NPC. I legitimately would not have looked twice if I saw him walking down the street that year. XD
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bluestarultor
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"Seriously? A green orc and you wouldn't blink?"

Nope. People talk about "I don't see color" like it's a good thing, but it's legitimately something I have had to learn to do to understand how that affects people's lives.

I have literally forgotten my best friend is Black while she was in the same room with me. Yes, that is as stupid as it sounds. Yes, I am still working on it.

Seeing color is important and NOT seeing it is NOT something to be proud of. It's something you should correct.

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bluestarultor
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This is not a humblebrag, it's an admission I'm an idiot. XD

But at least in a way that's fixable.

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I guess back to Throttle and last thought for the night, I have to wonder if it's because he's the de facto leader and they figured he'd be the one people needed to associate with? Like, Charlie was there, but as a boy's show, it would have been an ask to have her stand in as audience surrogate and a guy wouldn't have worked in the role competing with 3 much cooler guys, so I wonder if toning Throttle down was intentional to make him easier to project onto or just for grounding.
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bluestarultor
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Like, grounding especially because there's a certain level of "weird, but not TOO weird" that makes a thing marketable and between the others you already had a half-naked guy with a Phantom of the Opera metal face plate and bandoliers of Bat-flares for every situation and a guy with an exposed midriff whose blocky chest armor highlights his blocky mechanical arm with a built-in laser and then just toss in an eye patch. Meanwhile Throttle's explosion injury leaves him with a pair of cool shades.
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I'd say Vinnie is actually the most visually memorable and thus necessary as the centerpiece of the marketing, but he's also the comic relief, and strikes a balance visually that's a useful center point to the others, where if he were the blandest, I'm not sure it would have been realistic enough to have appeal since Modo is their high-concept character. Throttle needed to be "boring" to assure the audience of a minimum level of safety.

Anyway, time for sleepy sheep. XD

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My friend had playground action figures of them , but I know NOTHING else
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bluestarultor
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@silverwizard You can find at least the first episode on YouTube and it was apparently popular enough to get a sequel series in 2006 roughly a decade after the original run, which is more than its contemporaries can say. I've been mildly curious, but not enough to actually sit down and watch anything. XD
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@dkub

[SpongeBob garbage meme:
"Why are there so many weird furries these days?" | Bluth Studios
Disney | Looney Toons
'80s cartoons | '90s cartoons
(outside shot) | Tex Avery specifically]

XD

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@dkub Furries have existed for as long as humans have existed (a lion-man is one of the oldest surviving pieces of prehistoric art), but it's amazing how a very small number of industry producers "impacted" so many lives. XD
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Scifijunkie
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Well, I remember mighty mouse and used to have a lot of fun watching it.
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