Metalhead (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Metalhead is a comic character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Biography
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Metalhead
He was constructed by Harold Lilja who was a quirky scientist who came to be friends with Donatello. After being kidnapped by Baxter Stockman, he was forced to use his intellect for criminal ventures. To keep himself safe, he constructed Metalhead that was a security robot that was based on Donatello. After being kidnapped by Baxter Stockman and forced to use his intellect for nefarious means, Lilja decided he needed to work on keeping himself secure. Having seen Donatello in action, he designed his security robot after him, believing his Mutant Turtle body was, at least in part, a factor in his abilities. Angel uncovered the robot Turtle in Lilja's lab and called it Metalhead. While Lilja was demonstrating the robot's abilities, its circuits fried. He had programmed StockGen Enterprises' entire employee database into its memory as targets, which unfortunately included April. After Donatello had failed to defeat the rogue robot, Angel donned Lilja's exo-suit that he had shown them before, and taken Metalhead out of commission.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Metalhead was created by David Wise and Peter Laird where he made his first appearance in the 1987 animated television series.
- The character was different from Metal Head of the Justice Force in the Mirage Comics continuity.
In other media
Television
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Metalhead made his first appearance in the 1987 animated television series in the season 3 episode "The Making of Metalhead" where he was voiced by actors Cam Clarke, Barry Gordon, Rob Paulsen, Townsend Coleman, Dorian Harewood and Renae Jacobs. He was a robot that was created by Krang who programmed it with the personalities of the Ninja Turtles. As a result, he had the thoughts and memories of the Ninja Turtles which gave him an identity disorder until Donatello reprogrammed him to work for the turtles. Donatello reprogrammed Metalhead to fight for the Turtles, but after being shot by Bebop, it malfunctioned and attacked everyone. Donatello was able to rig some of the broadcasting equipment at the Channel Six News Building to reprogram Metalhead. As a result, Metalhead realized that the Turtles were his friends and protected them from Bebop and Rocksteady. When the Turtles were ill at the end of the episode, Metalhead became their new nurse.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Metalhead appeared in the 2012 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Rob Paulsen. He was created by Donatello from a salvaged Kraang droid and made to serve as a brother to the Ninja Turtles. Donatello could control Metalhead via a NES-like controller while observing the situation through a TV monitor since there are cameras in Metalhead's eyes and speak through the robot. While Metalhead proved to be nearly unstoppable in combat situations, he was far too clunky and heavy to properly sneak around. Thus, this left Metalhead to be forced to sit out a mission against the Kraang. When his brothers became overwhelmed, Donatello sent Metalhead in. He easily defeated the Kraang attacking them, knocking off the control antenna in the process. One Kraang realized that Metalhead was made from their technology and detached from its robot body where it opted to control Metalhead. With the signal lost without the control antenna, Donatello could not defend Metalhead from the Kraang's control. The Kraang-controlled Metalhead attacked the Ninja Turtles, nearly killing them until Donatello showed up in person. Donatello managed to defeat Metalhead by crashing a support pillar on it. The Kraang controlling it ran off. In "Showdown" Pt. 1, Metalhead was rebuilt by Donatello where it aided the Ninja Turtles in the battle against the Kraang. Apparently now programmed with some degree of independence and operating without any sign of a direct controller, Metalhead drove the Shellraiser into the TCRI building lobby and subsequently attacked the Kraang guards while the Ninja Turtles used their new gliders to infiltrate the building from the roof. Metalhead is reconfigured by Donatello in "Metalhead Rewired", in which he exhibits a personality similar to R2-D2 - being a sentient, small and extremely helpful droid in the service of the heroes. After a battle with the Kraang goes awry, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael vote to terminate Metalhead, who quickly escapes before Donatello can do so. Metalhead is able to find a portal to a Kraang prison where many mutants from the series have been incarcerated. Realizing Metalhead's benevolence, the Turtles fight alongside him to both free the imprisoned mutants and to return to New York. However, Metalhead is forced to remain behind to keep an escape portal open, and he self-destructs in order to destroy the portal device and the Kraang swarming him. The Turtles and the various mutants are able to escape, and Donatello finds Metalhead's lifeless head. Grieving, Donatello ponders over one day being able to rebuild Metalhead.
Video games
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Metalhead appeared in the setting of the video game where he served as a boss antagonist of the second level Alleycat Blues.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled, Metalhead appeared in the setting of the enhanced remake of the 1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time arcade game where he was voiced by actor Wayne Grayson.
Appearances
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:
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