Character Cards

Blue pants?! Who the crap made me wear those?

The Character Cards page was a small Flash file that contains a dozen trading cards depicting the main characters of Homestar Runner. The characters selected indicate that the "main character" cast was still in flux: some characters now considered "main" are excluded here, and two characters featured on these cards have not gone on to star in any toons.

This page was never linked to from anywhere on homestarrunner.com, and was later removed altogether from the site.

Date: 2000

Characters

• Homestar Runner
• Pom Pom
• Marzipan
• Strong Bad
• Strong Mad
• Strong Sad
• The Cheat
• Coach Z
• Bubs
• The King of Town
• The Unguraits
• Homeschool Winner

Fun Facts

Explanations

• The Poopsmith is not included in the cards. At first, he was not considered a main character until his inclusion in the Yearbook Character Page.
• There is not a card for Homsar because he had not been invented yet.

Remarks

long haired freaky cheat

• The page's minimalistic design lacks character descriptions typical of other character pages, potentially indicating it was unfinished.
• The general design of the characters indicate this page was developed between the Old Characters Page and the Yearbook Character Page.
  • Many of the character illustrations are similar to those used in the menu of the Yearbook.
• The Cheat is illustrated with a shaggy, furry outline — a design never used in an actual toon.
• Twelve cards are featured, but only eight cards can be seen in the stacked deck.

Goofs

• The Unguraits are not illustrated with shadows.
• The clickable area of the cards is misaligned, a good bit to the right of where the cards actually are.

Fast Forward

• Despite their inclusion here, the Unguraits and Homeschool Winner were not further developed into regular characters.
  • Homeschool Winner has made occasional cameo appearances, beginning in Dancin' Bubs; references to him typically make light of his rejected-character status.
  • Silhouettes of Homeschool Winner and the Unguraits appear in a line in front of Bubs' Concession Stand in A Decemberween Mackerel.
• Asked about this page in a 2003 interview, Matt Chapman jokingly replied "Hey! Stay outta our server!"
• The Strong Sad card appears later in the email virus.
  • In the DVD commentary, Matt refers to the card as being "from an unused character page we never made."

See Also

• Trading Cards
• Old Characters Page
• Yearbook Character Page
• Character Videos
• Rejected Characters

External Links

• watch "Character Cards" (mirror)
• view the Flash file for "Character Cards" (mirror)