Tad Tadpole

Tad Tadpole is male frog character who first appeared in JumpStart Explorers. He is one of CJ's nephews, and a brother of Polly, Molly, Wolly, Chad and Wart.

Appearance
Tad has light yellowish-green skin. He wears a long yellow t-shirt, sunglasses, red and white sneakers, and a blue baseball cap.

Personality and Characteristics
Tad is shown to be adventurous, excitable and a bit mischievous, just like his siblings.

JumpStart Explorers
Tad and the other tadpoles get bored during a rainstorm and use CJ's time machine to play hide-and-seek in time. CJ and Edison must travel back in time to find him and the other tadpoles. Tad hides in South America. After he is found, he attends the Sun Festival with CJ and Edison.

JumpStart Animal Adventures
Tad and the other tadpoles see advertisements for an Animal Habitat Contest and decide to enter. They, along with CJ and Edison, travel around the world to find various animals and photograph them for the contest. Unlike the other tadpoles, Tad doesn't accompany the player to any specific habitat, and only appears in cutscenes that include all of the tadpoles together.

Trivia

 * There is evidence that Tad was originally planned to accompany the player to a desert habitat in JumpStart Animal Adventures, along with Wart. Some artwork of Tad and Wart on a desert craft page is present in the files of JumpStart Animal Adventures, which can't be seen in-game. (See JumpStart Animal Adventures/Pre-release and Unused Content for more details.)