The secret origins of Tofu Boy!

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So we all know about Super Tofu Boy, PETA's Super Meat Boy parody game, and we know that Tofu Boy is now a secret character in the PC version of SMB, but did you know that Tofu Boy has actually been around for months? 
 
I'm moving from one dorm room to the next, so I'm cleaning out my room (and posting this is part of the procrastination process). While cleaning, I found the Super Meat Boy comic book thing that was in the swag bags at PAX. I flipped through it, and, lo and behold! Tofu Boy! 
 

 DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!
 DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!
So yeah, Team Meat had at least thought of Tofu Boy as early as a few months ago. 
 
That is all. 
 
Back to cleaning out this room...
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#1  Edited By takua108

So we all know about Super Tofu Boy, PETA's Super Meat Boy parody game, and we know that Tofu Boy is now a secret character in the PC version of SMB, but did you know that Tofu Boy has actually been around for months? 
 
I'm moving from one dorm room to the next, so I'm cleaning out my room (and posting this is part of the procrastination process). While cleaning, I found the Super Meat Boy comic book thing that was in the swag bags at PAX. I flipped through it, and, lo and behold! Tofu Boy! 
 

 DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!
 DUN DUN DUUUUUUUUUN!
So yeah, Team Meat had at least thought of Tofu Boy as early as a few months ago. 
 
That is all. 
 
Back to cleaning out this room...
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#2  Edited By Video_Game_King

So that means they can sue PETA for copyright infringement? They should do it.

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@Video_Game_King said:
" So that means they can sue PETA for copyright infringement? They should do it. "
Make it so.
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#4  Edited By Diamond

Why is sushi boy sad?

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#5  Edited By benpack
@Diamond said:
" Why is sushi boy sad? "
Because he's tied to raw fish?
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#6  Edited By FluxWaveZ
@GlenTennis said:
" @Diamond said:
" Why is sushi boy sad? "
Because he's tied to raw fish? "
Because he's falling apart.
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@GlenTennis said:
" @Diamond said:
" Why is sushi boy sad? "
Because he's tied to raw fish? "
it's sticky rice. 
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#8  Edited By Skald

What the hell is bottom center? It's like a thing of nightmares.

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#9  Edited By FluxWaveZ
@extremeradical said:
" What the hell is bottom center? It's like a thing of nightmares. "
Not a fan of bacon?
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@FluxWaveZ said:
" @extremeradical said:
" What the hell is bottom center? It's like a thing of nightmares. "
Not a fan of bacon? "
But bacon is bottom right, isn't it? I was referring to the thing I believe to be a mangled meatball.
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#11  Edited By takua108

It's Head Cheese Boy. I'd take another picture but it's already packed away, so here's the next-best thing, a tiny image thumbnail from Kotaku Australia: 

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#12  Edited By cornbredx
@Video_Game_King said:
" So that means they can sue PETA for copyright infringement? They should do it. "
No, actually it suggests the whole thing was a publicity stunt. Not super surprising, but fairly clever, seemingly, none the less. Either that or it's just really weird coincidence. Being that I don't believe in coincidences this large, I'm leaning on publicity stunt.
 
They've already said they have no interest in pursuing litigation with PETA as PETA basically gave them a huge amount of free publicity. This would actually further explain that actually, although it would be weird to suggest Team Meat did it involvingly (with PETA). I think it was more viral, like forum mentions on their site or something to get them to take notice of SMB and in turn parody it.
 
All I can do is speculate though, I have no way of knowing the actual facts, obviously.
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#13  Edited By Dalai

Super Bacon Boy. Make it happen, Team Meat!

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#15  Edited By cornbredx
@takua108: 
Ya I read that, that's where I base my speculation =)
 
Edit: for anyone interested here's the quote from the site:
 
" Putting all my cards on the table right now, I actually made fake user names in Peta's forum pushing the game at them in hopes something like this would happen, but gave up realizing that Peta wouldn't ever put effort into something "meat related" that was so small and unknown, that's exactly why this parody is so important and eye opening for us. (Edit: i made a user account over a year ago for the flash game, not recently)"
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#16  Edited By takua108
@CornBREDX: Wow, my bad, sorry for not reading beyond the first sentence of your post. :P
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#17  Edited By cornbredx
@takua108: 
No problem, dude, it's cool =)
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#18  Edited By gamer_152  Moderator

Interesting stuff. I have to give some kudos to Team Meat for the lengths they've gone too to spite PETA.