when they got added to minecraft, notch was trying to create a pig(creepers were not supposed to be ingame, but they gave new cool things(TNT whould not exist if it wasn't the glitch(creeper)))My favorite mob is the Creeper. It was a code error but thanks to that we now have a great entity
I use spider 1 to farm xp cuz it gives more xp for my buck, I also use blazes when I have too much coins, but I use magma 5 to attack