Character Design: Detective Dick

For these next two characters, unfortunately, all that exists of them is a model sheet.  Because I'm on a pretty tight deadline, and these characters appear for a relatively short time in the project, all they get is a model sheet.  Sucks to be a minor character, and hopefully, if I have time, or when they recycle back into the main plot, I'll give them full how-tos, but until then, there you go.

So lets start with our first minor character, Detective Richard Dick, Officer Jones's partner.

Some facts about Detective Dick:

• He smokes. A lot. For everything.
• He has a sweet trenchcoat. Partly to look cool and partly to avoid looking like a scary police cop
• If Morgan Freeman and Bruce Willis did the fusion dance (and now you can't get it out of your head!) he's what the result would be.
• Bonus: Initially he had a tie and coat set-up, but it changed to the regular police uniform later.
• Yes, he's a dick, named Dick, who's last name is dick. Ironically, he's not a dick, though.

When I design characters I try to have them play foils to each other, and Detective Dick is no exception. He's a foil to Officer Jones, in that he's had the gift of experience and knows how and when to break the rules for the greater good. The smokes and trenchcoat are part of that: Yeah, they're not regulation, but Jones knows how to get around that (smokes), and that they endear him to people who'd normally be suspicious of cops (the trenchcoat).  In other words, he's what Jones would be if he took the stick out of his butt (and had a "pill" head instead lego blocks for a face).  He's also technically one for the Fly as well (similar ideas about "protocol," but Dick works within the law, but the Fly exists outside it), but they never interact in this piece, so we're sticking to Dick and Jones.