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The original Muffit runs with Boxey on Caprica during the Cylon sneak attack ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}.

Muffit is the name of both Boxey's daggit and, later, a robotic drone created by Doctor Wilker called the Muffit II.

The Original Daggit

The original, living Muffit is killed by falling debris in a major city on Caprica during the Cylon sneak attack. Boxey mourns for Muffit on Rising Star, refusing to eat as a result ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}.

Daggit Drone

Muffit II, the robotic daggit.

To ease Boxey's emotional suffering, his future stepfather Apollo asks Dr. Wilker to furnish a prototype robotic daggit, called the Muffit II. As no daggits have survived the sneak attack, there is a genuine need for replacement daggits, as they had played numerous roles in Colonial society, including that of domesticated pet, watch animal, and tracker. In order to train Muffit II, Wilker scans an image of Boxey into its circuits for imprinting purposes, thus allowing Boxey to train the robot.

Muffit accompanies Boxey to the surface of Carillon, and runs out of the landram near a rich tylium deposit. Boxey and Muffit are "kidnapped" by the Ovions, but are later turned over to Apollo and Serina by the Queen of the Ovions. When Starbuck and Apollo are discovering the Ovion plot, Boxey ends up chasing Muffit out of the elevator, and is nearly killed by a sword-wielding Centurion. The warriors intervene, and as a result end up finding and rescuing Cassiopeia. During the ensuing escape and conflict with the Cylons, Muffit helps to destroy a Centurion by tearing into its leg ^{(TOS: "Saga of a Star World")}.

Muffit stows away in the snowram with Boxey in order to be able to see the snow on the surface of Arcta. When the snowram is disabled and the commando team nearly succumbs to the effects of the diethene storm, Muffit exits the snowram and wanders off. They fear that Muffit might attract the attention of Centurions trying to find them. They eventually pass out due to the diethene, but awaken to discover that Muffit had brought some Thetas back to the snowram, saving the team and the mission ^{(TOS: "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I")}.

When an expedition is sent to Serenity to trade for agricultural supplies, Boxey and Muffit are allowed to join the landing party. Siress Belloby is kidnapped by the Borays, so Apollo uses Muffit to track her scent back to the main camp of the Borays, where an agreement is brokered with their leader ^{(TOS: "The Magnificent Warriors")}.

Among other things, including the ability to wave ^{(TOS: "The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, Part I")}, Muffit is trained by Boxey to "sniff" out mushies. This ability comes in very handy when Boxey, Boomer and Athena are stranded in Galactica's rejuvenation center. Muffit is able to sniff out the mushies placed on the bridge, and thereby negotiate a convoluted, maze-like path through the ship's ventilation ducts to retrieve gravely needed lifemasks. Later, Muffit returns to the fire-engulfed duct system to save the life of a fallen firefighter ^{(TOS: "Fire in Space")}.

Notes

• Peanuts is apparently the name of the dog who portrayed the original living daggit in the scenes on Caprica.
• Muffit II was played by a chimpanzee named Evolution, who is referred to by the nickname of "Evie the Chimp".
• The Muffit "hero" suit used in the series still exists and was presented for auction on August 1, 2005. It remains the only known Muffit costume still in existence.
• The costume itself consists of servos to animate both the spinning ears and to move the mouth, controlled by a wireless remote control to animate these functions. The tail itself is a high-gauge spring, which bounces as Evolution moved.
• The costume was created by John Dykstra and his team at Apogee.
• When performing long takes that did not require movement, the production crew would place a custom articulated form inside the suit.
• The character "Muffit" was also given a nod in the children's book Muffit's Really Big Adventure depicted in the short-lived Caprica series. (CAP: ?, Propworx blog post).

References

This article has a separate continuity. This article is in a separate continuity, which is related to the Original Series. Be sure that your contributions to this article reflect the characters and events specific to this continuity only.

For all subjects related to this character, see: Muffit (disambiguation).

This article covers the various depictions of Muffit from the tie-in novelizations, comic books, and other media.

Comics

Marvel Comics

Boxey and Muffey during the Cylon bombardment of Caprica's cities ^{(Comics: Annihilation!)}.

The original living daggit, Muffey, is slain during the attack on Caprica. After an aborted search for the daggit, Serina and Boxey head out of the city ^{(Comics: Annihilation!)}.

Boxey is introduced to Dr. Wilker's newest invention, the robotic daggit Muffey II ^{(Comics: Exodus!)}.

With no other living daggits surviving the holocaust, Dr. Wilker creates a robotic variant. Made aware of Boxey's mourning and moved to assist Serina in handling the depressed Boxey, Captain Apollo recruits Wilker's assistance for Boxey to "train" the robotic daggit. This new daggit, the Muffey II, is programmed to respond to Boxey's instructions ^{(Comics: Exodus!)}.

During the deployment of landram search parties on Carillon, Boxey and Muffey II encounter the Ovions and are lead to the chancery, where they are subsequently reunited with Serina and Apollo. Boxey and Muffey II also uncover the Cylons in the mines of Carillon, which escalates into a standoff between the Cylon garrison secreted there and the subsequent evacuation of Carillon ^{(Comics: Deathtrap!)}.

Notes

• Muffey II has a tongue and licks Boxey as a biological daggit would ^{(Comics: Exodus!)}, a feature absent in its canonical counterpart.

Look-In Magazine

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Muffit is the robotic daggit belonging to Boxey.

He is held in high regard by Apollo, who considers him a "real person" that "beats any ordinary daggit hands down." Boxey has immense faith in Muffit's abilities, both as a programmed tracker and as a judge of character (^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 1)}, ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 4)}).

After Captain Heffren goes into hiding aboard Galactica, Muffit is reprogrammed to act as a tracker, using Heffren's scent to locate him ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 1)}.

Muffit accompanies Boxey as a stowaway on a rescue mission to the planet Zaroak ^{(Comics: Look-In Magazine: Storyline 4)}.

Dynamite Entertainment

Boxey and Muffit during the arduous transit through the mysterious black hole (^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #1)}).

During the capture of Galactica, Freg reprograms Muffit to detonate the explosives that he plants aboard the Cylon personnel carrier that the Maytorians used to evacuate their homeworld. Upon successfully forcing the Cylons' retreat to their lone baseship, Muffit detonates the carrier, felling the Cylon forces and allowing the surviving humans to escape their home system (^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 1 #5)}).

While in the Empyrean Expanse, Muffit and Boxey are shown a device, presumably a toy, built by Okaati craftspeople Additionally, Muffit receives regular maintenance from Dr. Wilker, a point that Apollo makes when apologizing to him for not bringing Muffit for its latest checkup (^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica Classic #2)}).

Muffit is briefly seen cavorting about Galactica with its trusted human, Boxey (^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #1)} & ^{(Comics: Classic Battlestar Galactica Vol. 3 #5)}).

Muffit is still in service, and by Boxey's side, in 7358 (^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #2)}—^{(Comics: Battlestar Galactica: Death of Apollo #6)}).

This article has a separate continuity. This article is in the Dynamite Comics separate continuity, which is related to the Original Series. Be sure that your contributions to this article reflect the characters and events specific to this continuity only.

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Additional Information
Muffit in the separate continuity
Muffit in the primary continuity

For all subjects related to this character, see: Muffit (disambiguation).

Muffit is a Daggit serving as second in command and first mate to Starbuck.

Muffit serves as Starbuck's "muscle," particularly against the enemies that Starbuck has made on Rising Star (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 1).

Following the events in their search for Apollo and their subsequent attack on Gamoray, Muffit and Boxey assume ownership of Starchaser from Starbuck and make their own adventures (Steampunk Battlestar Galactica 1880 4).

Notes

• Muffit speaks in a language not translated to English in the comic, and so much of his dialogue is inferred by how characters reply to Muffit. This is similar to Chewbacca from Star Wars, where that character's dialogue consists of growls and whimpers.

Muffit costumeMuffit's Really Big Adventure

For all subjects related to this character, see: Muffit (disambiguation).

"Muffey" costume

The Muffit costume is an Original Series costume produced by the Collegeville Flag and MFG Company. Collegeville Flag and MFG Company has also created costumes for a Colonial Warrior and Cylon Centurion (Cylon costume).

Notes

• The costume along with the Cylon costume was featured in Retrocrush's "THE WEB'S BIGGEST GALLERY OF CLASSIC HALLOWEEN COSTUMES".

References

A copy owned by Clarice Willow's family.

Featuring the character of Muffit, this book was written by Vincent Uytdehaag and illustrated by Shay Hilliard ^{(CAP: "False Labor")}.

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