The Copper Kid was a character on the cartoon Silverhawks. He was a mathematical genius from the planet of the Mimes who the Silverhawks kept as an extra-terrestrial mascot / pet. The Copper Kid spoke in calculated whistles and tones, kind of like the aliens in Close Encounters but a lot less adorable. The other human Silverhawks used to tease the non-terran by making him participate in endless astronomy lessons under the false pretenses that one day he’d be one of the team and…

Members of the Midnight Society rarely told stories which overlapped with one another, but it seemed that Sardó, an effeminate shop owner with scrupulous taste in vests, struck a chord with the denim-clad children. “Are You Afraid of the Dark?” ran on Nickelodeon’s SNICK from 1992 to 1996 (yes, I’m willfully ignoring the reboot), during which Sardó appeared in six mesmerizing episodes. According to Gary, Sardó and his store offered the perfect backdrop for a camp-fire tale. After all, the guy was entirely aloof to the fact that he was peddling real black magic to unwitting kids…

Rockapella was the house band to the popular kid’s gameshow Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego, which in turn was based off the edu-taining computer game series of the same name. Rockapella would dare to blend modern rock and roll with classic acapella, creating a textured, polyphonic background score to the adolescent…

Scott Scanlon was a character on the first season of Beverly Hills 90210. Scott and David Silver were nerdy best friends until David became a social climber and pretended to actually be attracted to Donna…

Lucas Barton is a character from the classic film (or 90 minute Nintendo commercial), The Wizard. Lucas is a rich asshole that lives somewhere in between the mid-west and “Ca-lee-fornya.” His weapon of choice is the Power Glove, which he uses to defeat Rain Man-like autistic children at Rad Racer. Lucas has a thing for redheads that grow up to be indie songstresses.

Gogo Dodo was a peripheral character on the Nickelodeon after-school cartoon, Tiny Toon Adventures. Like most of the other characters on the show, he attended Acme Looniversity. What set Gogo apart, was that he lived in an alternate universe called Wacky Land – the entrance to which was just at the end of the bridge leaving Acme Acres…

“Never Forget” is a series of short articles that aim to free specific film, television, and video game characters from the eternal damnation that is pop-culture limbo.

Before he was getting his ass kicked by a T-Rex, Joseph Mazzello was getting his ass kicked by his step-dad. In the 1992 drama, Radio Flyer, Bobby took the brunt of the King’s rage while his brother, Mikey (Elijah Wood) watched from afar. Instead of telling their mother about her new husband’s penchant for beating the snot out of her baby boy, the two brothers instead decided to build an airplane out of a toy wagon…

“Never Forget” is a series of short articles that aim to free specific film, television, and video game characters from the eternal damnation that is pop-culture limbo.

Swift The Fox was a character on the Nickelodeon cartoon, The World of David the Gnome. Like his namesake, Swift was fast on his feet and continually provided transportation for David and his ungrateful diminutive brethren. David would constantly find himself in trouble with trolls and poachers only to call on Swift to bail his ass out at a moment’s notice. To make matters worse, David would usually use Swift’s ears as a makeshift steering wheel, reducing the majestic mammal to nothing more than David’s own private gnome car…