010 Shik

Shik was a harlequin who became a mime.

A harlequin was a French stock character popular around the 1600s.  The nature of a harlequin was mischievous.  He was the sly and agile foil for the comical and bumbling clown.

Shik has four G1 figures: red and black, red and blue, green and black, purple and black.

Shik returned in G3 as a mime.  A mime is a silent performer with origins in ancient Greece.  In the 1950s, they became very popular in France. The most popular mime of all time is Marcel Marceau.  This French performer took his "art of silence" on tour all over the world for many decades, until his death in 2007.

Shik's G3 figure is the stereotypical street-performer mime with white face, a Breton striped shirt, and a French beret. There are at least five versions of this figure.

Shik also has a zood named. Mr. Del.  He is a capuchin monkey. This is the species of monkey that used to assist novelty street performers known as "organ grinders."   These people would basically play a song on a street organ over and over to avoid laws against begging or loitering.  The capuchin monkey was kept to draw attention or maybe do a trick.  This zood version wears a fez and holds a cup for collecting change.

Being a part of Zoods Crew 1, there are actually four versions of this zood.

I don't know why Shik's monkey is named Mr. Del.  There is a Christian rapper who goes by this name.  I don't think he has a song about monkeys or mimes.  I am really surprised they did not name the monkey Spank.  Now that would have been funny.