If it’s true that the Toby we see in Soulstorm is the same as/took his name sake form the Tobey mentioned in that august 2011 Dear Alf, then his inclusion in the new quintology is so, so funny.
Like, literally out of all the characters that came from Dear Alf... like Soots, who had his neat backstory about how he was a kinder at Necrum who went on to become a famous dancer after being freed by Abe. Buddy, who is mentioned multiple times by Alf and got more actual personality traits out side of just being the token fat mud like the daily deception characterised him as previously, and Crig, who actually showed up multiple times, the one character Oddworld Inhabitants chose to make a big debut in the new quintology was that one random Mudokon who’s mentioned only once in the entirety of dear Alf and in that one mention is heavily implied to have died!