Riggy The Runkey (also known as Rigmond T. Runkey and Riggy The Runkey) is Danno's mascot and actor alongside him on the DannoDraws channel's shorts and videos, as well as being a "creator" on his own channel. His hobbies include skateboarding, and graffiti. Riggy is currently 22 years old.
Riggy does all the modeling on the channel and sometimes acting, he was also supposed to check the videos before uploads for danno but he didnt actually do the job. Riggy has appeared in over 300 shorts and videos.
Personal Life
Riggy has a pet pig and a pug and has supposedly caused the death of one of his best friends, a beaver character named Billy. He is great friends with Rory, an orange runkey. He was inspired by Oswald the Rabbit, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Rayman. Riggy has an extensive criminal record, which is shared by Danno during a video canon to Shorts Wars. He is also dating a pink rabbit named Rosey
Appearance
He is an anthropomorphic rabbit-monkey hybrid, classified as a "runkey" who wears red shorts, no shirt, white gloves and he has blue fur, He also has emerald eyes.
Personality
Riggy is claimed to be "good at heart, mostly" from Danno in Danno's 200K subscriber special Short, however there are multiple occasions where Riggy has been displayed performing criminal activities. Some acts include burning down Lucky's plush factory, exploding a Lucky Corp building, and apparently, blowing up a theme park. Riggy is also seen to be egotistical at times. Riggy also seems to be very extreme, as during the #RAISERIGGY arc, Riggy pranks Danno by spray painting on the camera, graph paper, and even exploding the paper. He also performs dangerous and sometimes stupid stunts, such as first eating a TidePod and then eating a grenade. Neither harmed him.
Riggy says that he was left to fend for himself because his brother became the best surgeon in the world and his parents spent a lot of time watching Riggy's younger sister, implying that Riggy suffers from middle child syndrome. Riggy moved out of the house and left for Toonville as soon as he turned 18. Riggy apparently lived a big life in the city for years, took down an unknown celebrity, and eventually became a celebrity himself. However, one day, he found out some things he'd be better off not knowing about. Riggy tried to be a hero, but when having to juggle being a hero and being famous, he lost it all. However, when Riggy met Danno, he viewed it as a second chance to be famous, cool, and liked.
Riggy also had an emo phase when he was younger, as well as braces, which could have, in theory, led him to being bullied by his peers and starting his criminal record.
Relationships
Rhonda
Rhonda is Riggy's mother. She appears as a light pink rabbit with purple shorts.
Rory
Rory is an orange runkey. He is a friend or co-worker seen in both Riggy and Danno's channels. In the video "CAPTAIN! LOOK!" posted on the Riggy the Runkey channel, he is shown to work for Riggy as a lookout on his pirate ship.
Danno
He is his boss who had been described as "oppressive" by Riggy. They met just days before Riggy's first appearance in a short in 2022. Riggy has gone on record as describing their relationship as "friends from work," with Danno agreeing.[2]
RoyalPear
Riggy is friends with RoyalPear, as seen in Shorts Wars when Riggy took the time to free RoyalPear from the CloneVPN Facility. However, he stated it was only to use him as a shield if need be.
Penguins
Riggy’s hate for them has been shown on various occasions, mainly because they scarred him and given him stitches by stealing his kidney. This isn't elaborated on and Riggy describes it as a "sensitive topic". They may also be part of the Toonville mafia.
Robert
Riggy has a rocky relationship with his dad, a dark blue monkey, as explored in a single line during shorts wars where the clone's negative remarks remind him of his father.
Clone Riggy/Preston
Preston is the clone of Riggy in the Shorts Wars ARG. They were originally bitter rivals, but later became amicable, as seen in teaser shorts for Season 3 of the ARG.
Rosey
Rosey is a pink rabbit. She is Riggy’s girlfriend. It is implied Riggy and Rosey had their first date at a funeral for Billy. According to a Discord message posted by Riggy himself, it is implied Riggy is cheating on Rosey, with the phrasing "We're not married yet, so it doesn't count as cheating."
Lucky
Lucky is enemies with Riggy for multiple reasons, one of which seemingly being that Riggy blew up his factory. Riggy also doesn't like Lucky as he hates the color yellow.
Candy
She is Riggy's ex girlfriend according to Riggy's 100k community post on his YouTube channel. He states that he escaped Candy who he labels as "an evil ex who tried to kill him". It is unknown whether or not she'll show up in The Riggy series as a main or side antagonist, but it is most likely that she will play an antagonistic role later on in Toon Turf.
Likes
Dislikes
- Preston
- Not getting a raise
- The Easter bunny (which he got into a fight with and got beat up badly)
- Lucky
- The song, "Running up that hill"
- Penguins
Abilities
Riggy as a cartoon character has a few skills, and some powers. Here are the known ones so far:
Teleportation: In the episode "RIGGY VS. CLONE RIGGY" Riggy teleports back to the DannoCal's universe. It's also revealed in "THE MOON IS FLOATING AWAY?" that the power stayed with him, meaning it is a new power of Riggy's, as it has been used in many Shorts, such as during the #RAISERIGGY arc.
Size Change: Also mentioned in "THE MOON IS FLOATING AWAY?". Danno mentions that Riggy is 5.8 inches tall but when they both went to Paris, he said he was 2 feet tall, meaning he can change sizes.
Fighting Skills: Mostly simply alluded to in shorts, but explicitly shown in the battles against Clone Riggy.
Survival of Dangerous Accidents: As seen in many videos, he is seen surviving tsunamis, car crashes, burns, etc. In the Dumb Ways to Die series on his channel (@RiggyRunkey).
Blowing Huge Bubbles: When Riggy sleeps he blows huge bubbles. We don't know why, but he does as seen in multiple videos, including the stream "LIVING A PIRATE'S LIFE in SEA OF THIEVES."
Trivia
Danno Cal Drawings
- Riggy's white gloves are a reference to the early days of animation, in which characters were frequently drawn with similar white gloves.
- He went through 5 known designs before the 6th and final design.
- When Riggy gets scared or surprised, parts of him turn half white.
- In the backrooms survival tips video, for a few frames we see Riggy with red eyes.
- Riggy has commented "The Waffle House has found its new host" before Short Wars, Danno's collaboration with Johnny Razer.
- This is also the only comment which appeared in a short and does exist.
- In Original KIRBY was WEIRD! Kirby inhales Riggy, when Kirby inhales Riggy, he turns blue, and gets Riggy's big ears and tail, but there was no white gloves.
- Kirby's shoes also turned more red after inhaling Riggy.
- Riggy would pick smash in Smash or Pass on the green M&M after she got "hot."
- On Danno's video about 200k subscribers, Riggy commented that Danno would be nothing without him.
- On the video Where did VALENTINE'S DAY Come From?, Riggy found Rosey.
- In The M&Ms are BACK?, Danno jokingly threatened Riggy because "killing off a mascot will get you popular."
- In the video McDonald's CURSED Secret, Riggy commented "This wouldn't stop me from eating them. I'd enjoy a thousand tasty big D's.", as in the video Danno explains that the Big Mac was named after the founders, Dick McDonald and Mac McDonald.
- In the video FUNNIEST SHOWER THOUGHTS?, at the end Riggy has a few shower thoughts:
- Is my tail the only "part monkey" attribute I have? I hate bananas so...
- Nothing is on fire. Fire is on things.
- How do your brains remember that we forget something, but we can't remember what that thing was?
- If James Bond is the world's most famous spy, dosen't that mean he's the worst spy?
- Fire trucks are actually water trucks.
- Bean Bags are just boneless sofas.
- When we're young, we sneak out of our houses to go to parties, when we're old, we sneak out of parties to go home.
- Only one sock goes missing because when they both do, you don't notice.
- In order to fall asleep, we have to pretend to be asleep.
- Painkillers are the mute notification option for the body.
- All of Riggy's comments in the videos do not have the verification mark and they have the old YouTube UI. They are uploaded 27 hours ago, have 8 replies, and 42 notifications.
- Riggy's scar is from Squeaker, the penguin that stole his kidney.
- At the end of the video Most FAMOUS RABBITS?, Riggy broke his leg.
- Riggy's broken leg appeared in the next 6 videos.
- In Danno's 1 million subscriber special, it was fixed, with Riggy saying "Also hey look, my leg's healed!"
- Riggy's broken leg appeared in the next 6 videos.
- In Danno's 1 million subscriber special, Riggy chats in Discord "I love crime."
- Riggy has a sign that has "I STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN A $$ RAISE $$" sprayed on it.
- Riggy commented on First Person To Get CANCELLED? that if Danno got cancelled, it'd be his fault.
- Riggy "died" in June from drinking his Grimace Shake.
- Riggy himself confirmed he didn't actually die, and it was filmed in June.
- In the comment where he confirmed it, Riggy said that Danno doesn't care if he dies, but the fate of his universe kind of depends on Riggy living.
- Riggy himself confirmed he didn't actually die, and it was filmed in June.
- CyberLegends Animations animated Riggy fighting Sans, and Danno said it was canon. CyberLegends Animations also animated Clone Riggy fighting Sans.
- If Danno dies, then Riggy would get all of Danno's money and work for everyone for free.
- Riggy’s kill count is 6,627.
Riggy the Rabbit Monkey
- Riggy can skateboard and spray paint.
- Riggy has a costume of Jake from Subway Surfers, however he cannot "subway surf", as he will get run over by a train.
- Riggy has crashed a ship, however it was not his fault.
Shorts Wars
Season 1
- Riggy is the one who accepted CloneVPN's sponsorship, meaning that Riggy got cloned, not Danno.
- RIGGY'S CRIMES? is the last video before he got replaced in VPN'S EXPLAINED!
- Riggy has been spraying signs to help him in the background of Danno's videos.
- On July 30, Riggy fought Clone Riggy in a epic boss battle fight, using his skateboard, spray paint, and teleportation
- Riggy got his teleportation powers in Short Wars.
- In wheredidriggygo.mp4, Riggy managed to talk with Clone Riggy so long that Clone Riggy failed to get his tail.
- Riggy originally was gonna name Shorts Wars "The Battle of YouTube Shorts Against the Clones That Want to Replace Us!™" but Danno made him name it Shorts Wars.
Season 2
- Riggy and Danno think that Clone Riggy is dead. However, this is not true, since Clone Riggy had been hiding behind the graph paper.
Cyberlegends Animation
- Riggy had once fought Sans because of Riggy's kill count.
Riggy Series
- The Riggy series is not part of the Shorts Wars. Instead, it goes into Riggy's past, starting from 2019. The first episode is scheduled to come out in January, 2024. The name for the series is unknown.
Gallery
- ↑ THE MOON IS FLOATING AWAY?
- ↑ WHY I DON'T LIKE RIGGY?
- ↑ https://youtube.com/shorts/b8FxU4xpN0s?si=VUGaybG3HHOhB3h_