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Gilgameshkun wrote: UltimateTitan6:

That's the "Dr. Feral" in the 2012 TV series I was just referring to. Doctor Feral (2012 TV series). And yes, Falco was always by far the more Feral-like character.

Hmm...even if 2K12 Feral is not a mook, it would seem unseemly for Victor Feral to have dealings with organized crime that can be in any way traced back to him or implicate him. (Throwing Feral's name around in conversation is a bad way to keep his secret, and Don Vizioso already isn't the best-written character as it is.) Victor always committed crimes in the strictest of secrecy, and not only does his criminal record go no later than when he was a young man (he's 66), but all his publicly-declared servants have no criminal record. (Victor's undeclared servants also have no criminal record, because they have no public record&mdash;they're his mutants.) I always considered Victor's clean-handed methods and polite and respectful demeanor one of the more interesting elements of the Feral character&mdash;he's squeaky clean and goes to great lengths to maintain this image while still managing to commit criminal animal cruelty.

And if you notice, Victor Falco also went to great lengths to hide his crimes and continue looking like a saint, until he was found out and had to go underground. The writers of this show could have made better use of Falco, including giving him a much more-developed shady background in unethical animal experimentation...if they hadn't already turned him into the Rat King and then killed him off. Makes you kinda wonder what kind of deal Viacom made with Palladium to actually re-adapt Feral himself by name. Palladium owns that copyright, not Viacom. Judging by the captions on the itunes purchase, it's spelled 'Ferrell, so I'm not completely sure if they are just using another character completely. But I rust those captions, they got names like G'Throkka and Zemulacks right.

And yes, but they haven't shown enough of Vizioso for us to accurately assume how good he is at keeping a secret or how loyal he is to his colleagues in crime. When Vizioso was willing to partner with Shredder, it was Shredder who wanted the hostile takover (naturally). So I don't know, I guess it just depends on what the next HvM episodes will touch on.

True, Falco had more potential than that.