User blog comment:Millsbuddy/So I Found A Strange Object and I Need More Info Before I Make a Page/@comment-4637670-20121224165649/@comment-3175425-20121224201307

I might have just found something.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/brandon-godfrey/17/183/4b2

Apparently he's a dev at 5th Cell (according to his social networking), and he's a spawnable object in Super Scribblenauts as well!

He looks kinda generic though. My guess is that he decided his sprite was too bland and they redesigned it to personify him better. So at least we know the origins of a synonym now.