Fillerbunny

Fillerbunny

Fillerbunny is a character created by comic book artist and writer Jhonen Vasquez. Fillerbunny first appeared in an issue of Vasquez's Squee! series, where he used him to quickly fill up a vacant page usually reserved for advertising space in the comics in order to maintain the correct page order (otherwise pages that should be opposite each other would be across the turn of a page).

In the comics, Fillerbunny is a pink bunny genetically engineered to be unceasingly entertaining. He is made to undergo all sorts of painful procedures and sadistic experiments. If Fillerbunny dies, he is revived. He is made to entertain the audience for however long he is needed. Fillerbunny's two greatest wishes are to die and be released from his miserable existence or to have something that makes him happy in his life.

Due to the popularity of this character, Vasquez created a series of full-length Fillerbunny comic books, that he published himself. They are Fillerbunny in "I Fill Up 15 Pages!", Revenge of the Fillerbunny, and Fillerbunny in "My Worst Book Yet!" (released in March 2005). In his introduction to these books, Vasquez tells how he created the first one to meet a publishing deadline requiring him to come up with 15 pages and the second one took two nights for similar reasons.

Fillerbunny only had three issues released. After a two year hiatus from the character, Vasquez revitalized the lonely rabbit in the third issue, with apparent improvements in the art. Episode three of Fillerbunny shows Fillerbunny struggling to make a friend, until an unknown being gives him a half-dead/half-living fetus to befriend, named Aborto. Fillerbunny is mortally wounded by a Robotbunny incarnation of himself who forces Fillerbunny to befriend Aborto.

A secondary story within Fillerbunny episode three is of Vasquez himself struggling to appease his boss (named Chief) and the fans of his magazine. Vasquez includes many shenanigans including his hairstyle changing from frame to frame, claiming that weeks have passed between the two, growing Godzilla-like dorsal fins on his back, and a somewhat apparent swastika appearing on his forehead while arguing with Chief. The secondary story ends with Vasquez jumping out of a window while violently daydreaming, killing himself as a result.

Cameos include GIR from Invader Zim as one of the dead friends Fillerbunny tried to make, and Satan.

Fillerbunny also appeared in two pages of Vasquez's I Feel Sick series, a few pages in the Squee! collection paperback.

Fillerbunny has made a cameo appearance in Invader Zim in which he is inside of a test tube held by a schoolboy. As the boy places the test tube on the windowsill of the classroom, a dodgeball crashes through the window and shatters the test tube, decapitating Fillerbunny in the process, therefore killing him. This is notable, because Fillerbunny has always wished to die and got his wish.

Slave Labor Graphics also offers a plastic statuette of sorts of Fillerbunny, housed in a plastic test tube.

Trivia

  • Fillerbunny briefly appeared in Dark Harvest, an episode of Invader Zim. Had the show continued, Fillerbunny was actually going to be prominent in an unmade episode, It Feeds on Noodles.
  • A man wearing a Fillerbunny costume appears in the film Scooby Doo.

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