Fillerbunny
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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 Vasquez 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, published by Slave Labor Graphics. 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.
Filler Bunny 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 Filler Bunny shows FB struggling to make a friend, until an unknown being gives him a half-dead/half-living fetus to befriend, named Aborto. Filler Bunny is mortally wounded by a Robot Bunny incarnation of himself who forces FB to befriend Aborto.
A secondary story within Filler Bunny Episode 3 is of Vasquez 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, drawing Godzilla scales 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 FB 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, and made brief background appearances in Invader Zim.
Slave Labor Graphics also offers a plastic statuette of sorts of Fillerbunny, housed in a plastic "test tube".
A parody of Fillerbunny known as "Fillervirus" has made multiple appearances in UK based webcomic Exterminatus Now, based on a cross breed between Fillerbunny and one of the series characters known simply as "The Virus" (it is also a pun on "Filovirus").
