Rex Broadside

**Rex Broadside** is the founder of Broadside Animation. He's responsible for the creation of many worldknown characters, such as Bucky Beaver.

He passed away sometime in the late 20th century (the exact date being retconned multiple times), driving the Broadside company to bring him back to life, resulting in the Starling project.

## History

Rex Broadside was born alongside a brother and sister. Most of his early history is shown through the Broadside website.

**It all started with a rabbit.**
"*We had started several decades ago, starting with a man named Rex Broadside, he was very new to the animation field when he first made it big, he had started with his series called "Blot in the big city", about a small, cartoony rabbit named Blot, who we would often draw overtop of photographs of his town he would take, where he would commonly interact with things around him, these cartoons, while simple, had blown the audience away. It was very often aired in theaters and was bringing in tons of money before Rex had accidentally sold off Blot to a different company in the process of merchandizing the character.*"
**And then a waffle-tailed friend stopped by.**
"*Things were looking hopeless for Rex, who had lost his most popular creation at the time. He began to scramble, looking to create something that matched the success of Blot. Rex was still living in his mother's house, and his entire family was beginning to go through a phase of poverty, things were not looking good for the Broadside family. That's when one morning, Rex's mother, had woken him up with breakfast. She had gone out and had bought him waffles from a local diner. Rex wasn't even feeling hungry that morning, but he began to look into the food he had on his table. He began to experiment around with drawing a living waffle as a potential mascot, a way to humor the audience. However, he had just switched over and opted to create a beaver instead, due to the similar tail shape. The first cartoon to feature Bucky, Construction Destruction, despite the crude artwork, had won over audiences on its first viewing, taking place in an entirely animated world this time around.*"
He built Broadside Animation and a large amount of its characters, building a name for himself that grew into everyone knowing about him worldwide. Rex taught his employees that they could be whoever they want if they just put in the work to do so, and that lesson was passed down even after his death.

Every year, on his birthday, his family would go to his house and place "Birthday Flamingos" on his lawn as part of a birthday tradition. The number of lawn flamingos grew exponentially, and Rex didn't get rid of them potentially due to his old age.

Across the decades, Rex had found out that the company had closed him off into an echo chamber; his family doesn't talk to him, and it's been so long since he'd seen his brother or sister.

### 7 Fateful Years

Rex Broadside got diagnosed with cancer. He's come to terms with his mortality, though he fears what people will think of him after his death; a fabricated person.

At one point, he got called into a meeting by Mark Mullins to discuss Broadside Animation's future after his death. Rex stormed out of the meeting, enraged that the company only thinks of him as a name to plaster on parks and box office hits. This belief was only heightened when he found an aisle of toys of his character, all on sale under his name.

Wanting to let loose, he's decided that, once a year, he would record an entry to himself and draw whatever would come up to mind; not intended to become a movie project.

His opinion regarding Broadside Animation's project, Broadside Beach, was quite negative. He believed it was a mockery of his characters, and that the company would sell it all under his name.

### After death

Rex Broadside was found dead in his apartment on July 22nd, 1968.

"*Rex had, unfortunately, peacefully passed away on the night of July 22nd, 1968. While we do wish we could keep him forever, so he could continue to inspire later generations, the thought of Rex will always be a very important thing to our Studio, and our community alike. He was buried out in the garden at Broadside Animation Studios. Rest, Rex, you've earned it.*"
Towards the outside, the company mourns Rex Broadside and misses him very much. However, on the inside, the company has been attempting to bring Rex Broadside back from the dead, all part of a plan to outperform Disney. This has resulted in the Starling technology, which would help revive Rex. By the time of the creation of *SHIPWRECKED 64*, they had succeeded, with Rex ultimately becoming Blot's Starling. Not much information about the specific circumstances, or his current whereabouts, is known, however, as the Blot Starling's true identity is only revealed in the unlockable gallery.

## Trivia

* Originally, Rex Broadside's date of death was July 24th, 1972. A 4 year difference.

CHILDHOOD CREATOR FOUND DEAD
By James Winooff
Tragedy struck when fans have [???] that Broadside creator, Rex Broadside, had died overnight on the night of July 24th, 1972. He had been found in his apartment, limp, no pulse. Ambulances were called but by then it was a lost cause, and, it was confirmed that Rex had unfortunately passed in his sleep. We are going to keep Rex in all of our hearts.
* Rex Broadside is very similar in many aspects to Walt Disney:
	+ Both created a rabbit cartoon character (Walt creating Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Rex creating Blot, that they lost the rights to due to a bad deal and thus were replaced with a different rodent character (for Disney it was Mickey Mouse and for Broadside it was Bucky Beaver).
	+ Both created amusement parks in their names and hired costumed actors to play the roles of the meet and greet characters.

## References

1. ↑ https://squeaksdcorgeh.indie.af/broadsidebeachshipwrecked/about/default.html
2. ↑ https://youtu.be/oMH1lxskqQs?t=425
3. ↑ https://squeaksdcorgeh.indie.af/blundercover/smearware/bunny.html
4. ↑ https://squeaksdcorgeh.indie.af/blundercover/smearware/bunny.html#:~:text=Cancer%20is%20such%20a%20horrible%20illness.
5. ↑ https://www.dropbox.com/s/2jfn4m4pv2qephs/7%20Fateful%20Years.mp3?dl=0
6. ↑ https://youtu.be/oMH1lxskqQs?t=432
7. ↑ https://youtu.be/oMH1lxskqQs?t=1156
8. ↑ https://youtu.be/RQC\_u6J2gI0?t=30