#top commentary

tc and benny are the same as they always are (selfish hedonistic get-rich-quick schemer and his naive childhood bff enabler)

dibble is a private investigator (like he's always wanted to be) who is tc's other childhood friend (boyfriend) whose investigations somehow always end up intersecting with tc's schemes even when he's not actively investigating tc. i cant decide if i want him to stay human or not tho (dog dibble au my beloved miss u baby)

trans lesbian choo choo my beloved. weird and emotional, and constantly talks about her girlfriend lola glamour (theyre so t4t)

non-committal flirty serial monogamist gold digger fancy fancy, based on a mix of his cartoon personality and comic personality. like if fujiko mine were a catboy, who will sometimes betray the gang but they barely really hold it against him. tc doesnt, anyway

oblivious math wiz brain who is probably nonbinary but he's got finances to go over so he doesnt really care about that right now.

former-hellcat butch biker lesbian spook *giggles* i cant decide whether i want spook to be a she/her lesbian or a he/him lesbian, but very top cat begins/comic based characterization

roxy from the scrapped reboot finally gets to join the gang :) she can have jellystone brain's personality since he's not using it. she also has something extremely gay going on with spook

then side characters would be like,

myra and sheldon live in the city and periodically get involved in tc shenanigans! myra is very much so a neurotic worrywart who is constantly freaking out over the ways her twin brother's schemes can backfire. sheldon didnt really have a solid characterization in his book so maybe he can have jellystone fancy's personality?

kitty glitter from top cat and the beverly hills cats can be recurring because i like her <3 to me shes so lupin-iii-sadgirl coded

lola glamour gets to appear now and then and gets to be so annoyingly sappy pda with choo choo. has a lot of mentions and cameos though cuz shes still a star and shes dating choo choo who adores her childhood best friend turned lover <3 <3 <3

dibbles ex-wife periodically shows up and tc hates her soooooo much which is ironic because theyre kind of parallels. foils. the same but different. i would emphasize them being so similar and in fact that she reminded him of tc is why he married her and she does not like that one bit. self indulgent but i really dont care <3

i think they should have two kids (fred and daniel, based on comic dibble's names) just because i think it'd be funny as fuck. am i making him even more like zenigata? sure but my justification is dibble is a little league coach and camp counselor which is stereotypically things dads do to connect with their kids :P

jazz and beau can be recurring antagonists with their own gang that being dark parallels to tc's gang. teehee.

trixie from the first movie can be a recurring character too but only if shes an irredeemable antagonist in jazz's gang. the rest of jazz's gang consists of pantera from top cat begins, rocky from the comics, and skratch gets to exist separate from spook.

i guess griswald could be recurring since he had two eps and in the comics there was a recurring antagonist who was a bulldog but i dont care enough about griswald to expand on that idea

- oh wait he can be the actual cop since dibble is a PI now. duh. he literally became a police dog in one ep so it works.

1 - i can't very well hate a character that doesn't actually ... exist as a character. yes, she's mentioned periodically so we know that she exists... but she isn't a character who ever makes any kind of official physical appearance that we can confirm is her. so she has no name, no known design, no official personality, and her relationship with dibble is... not really discussed at any meaningful length? and i have reason to believe they divorced based on context clues, anyways.

so i've got to ask myself a few questions:

"what kind of person would dibble find himself drawn to?" - to which i said, well, someone whose personality would be tangentially comparable to the personality of someone we constantly see him drawn to regardless of the circumstances in canon (that would be top cat) so give her a few traits that he possesses. i decided the traits they share are mildly manipulative tendencies, and greed.

"what kind of person would marry dibble and then divorce him?" - to which i said, someone who expected something out of dibble, and he wasn't able to deliver to her expectations, of course.

"what kind of character would be interesting to explore in the context of a failing marriage and divorce?" - to which the answer is, well. its the 60s, before no-fault divorce. it'd be so easy, and so unsatisfying, to make her a victim. but like... the entire core of dibble's character is that he's kind of pathetic, easily manipulated, and has a big heart. so who is more likely to do something that would result in divorce? dibble, or a nameless, unseen figure?

2 - i don't care about jazz, personally. he could make an interesting antagonist if he had been a recurring character, but he wasn't. they're not likely to make a top cat reboot - and jellystone does not focus solely or primarily on top cat so they're not likely to bring back every single character from top cat no matter how much i really, really want them to. so i'm just kind of like, ah, yeah, that guy exists. i have ideas for things that could be done with him in hypothetical reboots, but, im not that invested in them because he's not my favorite character.

3 - i don't care about mr. big. he's not an interesting character. he exists solely to be a source of conflict and is not memorable to me otherwise.