Baron Draxum

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Baron Draxum.

Baron Draxum is an male animated villain who features in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Biography

Baron Draxum was a male mutant Yōkai that was native to the underground Hidden City.

Around 13 years ago, he was noted to had attended a match at the Battle Nexus in the city. Once there, he witnessed the reigning champion being a human warrior named Lou Jitsu who had incredible fighting skill. Draxum then decided to use the human's DNA as a basis for creating a army by using Ooze to mutate animals. As part his experiments, four ordinary turtles were exposed to the mutagen turning them into Mutants but before Baron Draxum could gather them the laboratory was destroyed by Lou Jitsu alongside the rest of the research work. Thus, the Baron lost the products of his experiments and spent years attempting to recreate his work.

He was about to finalize his recreated ooze when Agent 64 stole its final ingredient. Draxum sent his hired guardsmen Garm and Freki to pursue him and they captured Agent 64 and reunited Draxum with his vial. Draxum added the activator to his ooze, feeding it to his Oozesquitoes, and tested it on a human named Stewart. The experiment was a success, however, his plans were interrupted by the Turtles and April, who fought Draxum and his minions to rescue Agent 64. Draxum was able to defeat all five of them, but after Mikey destabilized the main machine with his mystic kusari-fundō, his laboratory began to explode. Draxum was crushed below a large piece of rubble as his laboratory collapsed, unable to escape. However, the Mad Dogs accidentally released his Oozesquitoes onto the surface where they then began to mutate animals, including humans. (Episode: Mystic Mayhem)

Having recovered from the destruction of his laboratory, he broke into Big Mama's Grand Nexus Hotel office after he was informed by Huginn and Muninn that the Turtles were capturing his Oozesquitoes for Big Mama's use. Furious that his Oozesquitoes had been stolen, he fought Big Mama and was able to reclaim them from her and left her hotel to release them back into New York. However, Draxum was followed by Raphael and Leonardo who struggled to capture the Oozesquitoes for themselves. Draxum managed to seize Leo and revealed that he was the Turtles' creator. He used the threat of dropping him off the roof of the Grand Nexus Hotel as leverage against Raph to encourage him to relinquish the Oozesquitoes to him and when Raph doubted his resolve, he released Leo and took his Oozesquitoes from Raph while he dove to save Leo. Draxum re-released them into New York and teleported back to his laboratory where he then realized he needed to somehow free himself from the Turtles' meddling. (Episode: Bug Busters)

He later formed an alliance with the Foot Clan after they two sides determined their common enemy were the Turtles. This led to Draxum being given the Kuroi Yōroi in order to repair it under the belief that he would be given it upon completion.

Having lost his powers, he was left bereft on the streets of the human city when he was discovered by Michelangelo who felt sorry for the Yokai and decided to help him. He decided to get the former villain an apartment and attempted to cheer him up. Unknown to anyone, Michelangelo provided a residence for Draxum in an apartment above April O'Neil who came to notice increased disturbance from the place. The noise from Draxum's apartment later attracted the attention of Raphael who was shocked to find Draxum at the residence with the rest of the turtles uncovering this fact. An angry Draxum did not want help and stormed out from his apartment where he was confronted by enforcers from the Council of Heads from the Hidden City who had declared the baron to be a war criminal to be tried for his crimes. The turtles ultimately decided to help Draxum after Michelangelo convinced them that they should help the man who had actually created them. During their battle, Draxum attempted to flee but was nearly caught by his pursuers though he was saved by the turtles. In the commotion, Draxum came to save the life of a human child with his mask being shattered in the process but this showed a change in his ways as he sought to turn away from being a villain.

Draxum was called by Donnie to advise the Mad Dogs on how to reverse the spell of the Arch of Aquinnah after the basketball team Leo was working for as a mascot were altered into demons by it and Draxum informed them that they needed to defeat them in a basketball game. Draxum was visited by lunchroom superintendent Vivian Slopworth. His work performance was to be inspected by her with the prize of being crowned Lunch Person of the Month if it went well. However, Draxum's approach to serving lunch was quite unconventional, relying heavily on mystic powers, and he worked with April to fix his presentation. An Oozesquito he held in the school's kitchen was accidentally released and in an attempt to prevent Vivian from getting mutated by it he confined it into a pot of sloppy joe, inadvertently creating Sloppy Joseph. Sloppy Joseph was loose in the school pursued by April and Mikey while Draxum distracted Vivian, but when Draxum was about to receive his Lunch Person of the Month award, Sloppy Joseph crashed the ceremony, having grown gigantic. He ate everyone in the room, but Draxum managed to escape, free everyone from Sloppy Joseph, and kill him. Draxum's award was revoked, but he was uplifted by his fellow cafeteria workers in the district. He vowed to not use mystic powers on the surface and cared for Sloppy Joseph who had survived Draxum's attack.

Draxum toured the Hidden City cloaked as a teddy bear upon Mikey's invitation. However, Splinter was also there with Mikey and Draxum spent the majority of the outing antagonizing Splinter. After stopping at a fountain, Splinter threatened to remove Draxum's cloaking brooch if he continued to snark, but Draxum was unintimidated and an argument ensued. Splinter allowed a Hidden City Police officer to take Draxum to his home after he expressed his interest in the teddy bear where he was gifted to the officer's child Heather. Draxum was tortured by her until nightfall where he was rescued by Splinter after Heather had fallen asleep. They were discovered by the police officer in the middle of their escape and his anti-mystic device disabled the Mystic Ōdachi and Draxum's cloaking brooch, exposing Draxum's true form. Draxum then fled from the officer's house with Splinter and Mikey and hid inside a dumpster while the Hidden City Police searched for him where he argued with Splinter about their current plight and their past. Eventually, Draxum managed to apologize to Splinter for exploiting him for his experiment. He then confronted the police to allow Splinter and Mikey to escape, but was arrested and jailed.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Baron Draxum was a large muscular humanoid with feline feats with deep turquoise fur along with bright orange eyes whilst he had dark teal faun-like legs that had cloven hooves. In the past, he tended to wear armour that consisted of a blue face mask with gold horns from either side along with gauntlets.

Draxum's impatient streak is spurred by his high value for efficiency and sense of entitlement.

He is also theatrical, shown in his dark manner of speech, wardrobe, vast laboratory, and overall dramatic posing.

Despite his cunning and because of his warrior identity, Draxum often utilizes violence and brute force to achieve his goals.

He was shown having no sense of compassion for others such as his experiment on a human pizza delivery man. When he conducted his experiment on him, he noted that the transformation would hurt if it was done correctly.

Draxum believed that his kind deserved to flourish whilst mankind should go extinct. In fact, he consulted ancient prophecy that spoke of a greater threat to his people and their way of life. He came to believe that this threat was mankind and was content to perform mass destruction against this foe.

Upon seeing the Mutant Turtles, he became fixated on them as being the height of his research. During a fight with them, he found that they fought like infants and could benefit from further training.

Due to his pride, it is hard for Draxum to admit he is wrong and to any wrongdoing he may have committed. He often rejects support from others because he thinks he is too good for it.

It was because of Mikey's compassion that Draxum was able to regain his mystic powers and have a life outside of the Hidden City. He begrudgingly accepted Mikey's help at first, but took more influence from him over time. Draxum now holds affection for Mikey and considers him to be his son as much as Mikey considers Draxum to be his father.

Powers and abilities

He was described as being an alchemist warrior skilled in the ability to manipulate life.

Draxum has an exceptionally high level of intelligence. His ability to analyze subjects and concentrate allow him to invent solutions at an enhanced degree and he possesses a high capacity for learning shown in his wealth of knowledge in mystic powers and science. Draxum has acquired considerable knowledge in alchemy, creating his own strain of ooze to mutate animals and humans from their original state that is capable of heightening their previous abilities and bestowing them new ones.

On his shoulders were two diminutive creatures that served as minions called Huginn and Muninn. They spoke to him and could detach in order to fight his foes or capture specimens for his research.

As an alchemist, he was accomplished in the art of mutation. He was responsible for breeding special kinds of insectile mosquitoes that were filled with mutagenic Ooze. These Oozesquitoes were able to inject the substance into humans causing them to undergo mutation and being half-animal hybrids.

Draxum operated from his laboratory from within the Hidden City where he conducted his experiments.

Notes

• Baron Draxum was voiced by actor John Cena and was an original creation of the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles setting.

Appearances

• Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

External Links

• TMNT Wiki Entry

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