Digeri Dingo

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Digeri Dingo is an anthropamorphic dingo in the cartoon show "Taz-Mania." The character was voiced by Rob Paulsen. Digeri is a "friend" of the show's star Taz or so Taz believes. In reality Digeri generally just uses Taz as a patsy to get whatever he wants and cons him into undertaking various dangerous schemes which end up harming and mutilating the Tasmanian Devil whilst Digeri ends up getting the treasure. Digeri is essentially the sneaky, manipulative character type, who takes advantadge of Taz's stupidity and misguided friendship and loyalty to the dingo.

In the show Digeri can mainly be observed going about his two favourite pastimes: scavanging for treasure, and bottle cap collecting. He shares the latter of these interests with taz, and the two often compete and trade with each other over these. Many of their adventures were based on Digeri conning taz into finding him a rare bottle cap.

In the episode "Friends for strife", it was revealed that Digeri and Taz first met on the day they were born, April Fools Day, in the maternity ward of the hospital. Even then Digeri was quite intelligent and managed to convince the baby Taz to get him him a milk bottle, whilst Taz ended up being squashed by a cupboard. This set the stage for their entire lifelong friendship, in fact it was also revealed the two developed their love of bottle cap collecting when Digeri pushed Taz down a well to get some coins back when they were in high school.

The general premise for the pair's relationship was generally, Digeri would manipulate or trick Taz into helping him find a treasure, and more often than not Taz would end up hurt and empty handed, whilst Digeri in an un-lesson learning fashion would get what he sought after.