Tokka

Tokka is a male character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Biography

Tokka

He, along with Rahzar was created by The Shredder due to the Foot Clan's failure to defeat the TMNT in the first movie. When The Shredder found out that the substance that mutated the Turtles had been created by T.G.R.I., he sent his Foot Ninja to steal the ooze and kidnap head T.G.R.I. scientist, professor Jordan Perry. Shredder instructs Perry to use the ooze to mutate an alligator snapping turtle and a gray wolf, kidnapped from the Bronx Zoo, thus creating Tokka and Rahzar. However, Jordan had secretly altered the mutagen and as a result, the two mutants had the intelligence of human infants. Oroku Saki ordered the monsters to face him in battle, to teach them who their master was, the infantile mutants misinterpreted the word "master", thinking it meant "mamma" and hugged him instead. Angered, Shredder ordered them to be destroyed, but Perry had sympathy for them and showed Saki their total obedience to him and that, as they were 'playing' in the junkyard, lifting a large truck as if it were a toy, they had great strength. This prompted Shredder to keep them alive. Despite their low intelligence and speed, the two mutants' incredible physical strength and durability made them more than a match for the Turtles. On their first encounter at Shredder and Tatsu's junkyard base, the Turtles were ill-prepared and barely managed to escape when trying to save their brother Raphael from capture and rescue Dr. Perry. During the escape they trapped Tokka in a manhole from the waist down. Michelangelo teased Tokka and tickled the bottom of the snapper's clawed feet. Shredder unleashed Tokka and Rahzar on a neighborhood to do some damages. The next day as the police are investigating what attacked the neighborhood, April O'Neil was confronted by some Foot ninjas where Freddy has April deliver a message for the Turtles: If they didn't meet the Foot at a construction site near the docks, Shredder would set Tokka and Rahzar out again into Central Park. As many people would get hurt, The Turtles and Splinter agreed that there was no other choice but to face Shredder. But the professor had a plan. With the help of Donatello and Keno, Dr. Perry prepared an anti-mutagen to de-mutate Tokka and Rahzar, which had to be ingested.

During their second encounter at the construction site, amidst a distraction, Leonardo and Michelangelo trick Tokka and Rahzar into eating the antidote. Rahzar and Tokka devoured some of the donuts with continued coaxing from the Turtles. Rahzar, regardless of his infant-like mentality, figured that something was wrong with the situation, and crushed one of the donuts in his claw, to discover the anti-mutagen cube. Enraged, Tokka and Rahzar smashed Michaelangelo through a wall and into the Dockshore Club interrupting a crowded dance concert by Vanilla Ice. As the final showdown commenced at the club; Leo and Raph fended off Rahzar and Tokka's snapping attacks. Dr. Perry informed them that their repeated burping was slowing the anti-mutagen and that carbon dioxide was needed to speed up the de-mutation. The Turtles knocked their foes flat on their backs and shoved fire extinguishers into the creatures' mouths, which administered the needed carbon dioxide. Finally, the antidote took effect and the two mutants returned to their animal forms.

Notes

• Tokka was created by Kevin Eastman and Stephen R. Bissette where he featured in the setting of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
• The character was an original creation for the 1991 live-action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze.
• Tokka was based on a rejected toy design by legendary horror and comics creator S.R.Bissette where the character concept was of a bipedal alligator snapping turtle called Terrorpin the Terrible

In other media

Television

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tokka appeared briefly in the 1987 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Rob Paulsen. This version was more intelligent and more eloquent. Michaelangelo used his grappling hook to contain Tokka, but he simply bit through it. Rahzar created a distraction and they escaped from the mall. Tokka has a very uncontrolled appetite, as shown when the duo managed to find food, but it was a trap set up by Dirk Savage, who proceeded to capture Tokka after he devours the smorgasbord, though Rahzar managed to escape. As Savage took Tokka to his headquarters, Tokka calls out to his friend for help. At the hideout, Toka and the rest of the mutants were being controlled by A. J. Howard into completing his master plan. Luckily, he broke out of his control and he escaped.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tokka appeared in the 2012 animated television series during season 4 with a greatly different origin. This version was a monstrous alien guardian resided on the ever-burning planet of Magdomar located at the end of the known universe. An asexual being, Tokka was referred to as a female where she guarded the final piece of the Black Hole Generator situated on the planet.

Films

• In Turtles Forever, a character resembling Tokka appeared in the setting of the 2009 animated television film that was a tie-in to the 2003 animated television series. He was shown as being one of the human followers of the Utrom Ch'rell who transformed him using 1987 animated series mutagen into a mutant soldier.

Video games

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time, Tokka appeared as a boss level antagonist in the setting of the 1991 Konami arcade game.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project, Tokka appeared in the setting of the video game where he was voiced by actor Greg Allen.

Appearances

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

External Links

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wiki Entry

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