Feathers McGraw's return 30 years after The Wrong Trousers wasn't the original plan for Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl but Aardman needed "something more villainous"

Feathers McGraw in Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl.

Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park has explained why bird-brained villain Feathers McGraw finally returns to the stop motion series three decades after his debut in 1993's The Wrong Trousers.

"He wasn't part of the first idea, to be honest," Wallace and Gromit creator and Vengeance Most Fowl co-director Park tells GamesRadar+ of the rubber-glove-wearing stick-up artist who infamously made his bow as Wallace's nefarious lodger.