"jeffbert" wrote:To my knowledge, Skunk's contract with Tezuka Co. typecasts him as a villain, and although he begged for a heroic role, he was always the low-life villain. <--I made that up, I hope you laughed at it.
Tezuka co. representative: "... but Mr. Kusai, it states right here in your contract that..."
Skunk: "PLEASE, PLEASE! I wanna save a damsel in distress!!!"
Me: "What was that...?" (purposely hangs off building in hopes Skunk will come rescue me)
But seriously, in regards to Toni's question:
I always thought it would be interesting if in one episode Skunk and Astro had to set aside their differences and work together. Of course, in reality, I think he's a little bit too evil for that to work. I can picture it working more with Atlas, maybe because he at least has a LITTLE bit of good in him.
They did something along those lines in the 2003 version. I forget the name of the episode, but Skunk has a machine built for a man named Kane that takes the a.i. out of robots. Towards the end, Astro saves Skunk after his "soul" or whatever was taken by the robot. It's the closest I think we'll ever get to them "working together," even though Skunk didn't really do anything.
Except promise he'd buy Astro a soda...
