Baxter Stockman
Baxter Stockman is a male comic character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Biography
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Baxter Stockman
He developed the Mousers with the help of his computer programmer April O'Neil. Around the time of the Mousers' invention, strange bank robberies were being committed, with small tunnels leading into the vaults. When April questioned Stockman, he led April to an underground factory where hundreds of Mousers were being made. Stockman revealed he had been using the Mousers to rob banks not because of the money but because it was fun. April tried to escape through the elevator but the scientist sent the elevator to the sewer level instead. Whilst there, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to save her from the Mousers that Stockman had sent to kill April. They then successfully infiltrated Stockman's lab to stop him with him being taken into custody. Afterwards, he used DARPA technology to place his brain in a robot body turning himself into a cyborg in the process where Stockman tried to get revenge on the Turtles but his new body was electrocuted and assumed to be destroyed; only the glasses he had retrieved earlier remained.
It was later revealed that Donatello kept the remnants of Stockman's cyborg body and mind hidden from his brothers for years. In this time, it was shown that Stockman had injected April with nanobots in her shoulder during an encounter. These nanobots eventually activated and began to destroy her body; they were destroyed but are suspected to have made her sterile. Donatello finally destroyed the remnants of Stockman to avenge April which included his mind.
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After Old Hob detonated a mutagen bomb in an area of New York City, Mayor Stockman had that part of New York City walled off and classified as Mutant Town where the Earth Protection Force patrols the borders.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Among his creations included:
- Mousers :
Notes
- Baxter Stockman was created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird where he made his first appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 #2 (October, 1984).
In other media
Television
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baxter Stockman appeared as an antagonist in the 1987 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Pat Fraley. This version was a misguided Caucasian inventor who tried to bill his Mousers to the Ajax Pest Control company who decided not to fund the project as the Mousers were simply too efficient as exterminators which would put them out of work. As such, he came to be rudely thrown out out of the building where he came to be approached by the Shredder who offered Stockman a job. Embittered, the scientist promptly accepted, and Shredder ordered him to create a "master control device" for the Mousers. The Shredder, not being able to wait, used a replication device at the Technodrome to assemble twelve Mousers. He then programmed the Mousers to find and destroy Splinter, the mutant rat who was the Turtles' master. The Mousers were destroyed by the TMNT, and they found Stockman's name on the devices. The Turtles and Splinter found Stockman with April O'Neil's help, and he told them his part of the story. They then proceeded to take Stockman's van, later to become the Turtle Van. After a failed Mouser attack led to his arrest, Stockman's tales of a giant talking rat and talking ninja turtles landed him in an insane asylum. The Shredder soon returned to break him out and Stockman, now a lot more evil-minded and insane than he had been before his incarceration, became his sidekick and lackey, helping him to get the "Three Fragments of the Eye of Sarnath," an alien artifact that would grant the owner virtually limitless power. Ultimately Stockman, tired of being abused by the Shredder during their numerous attempts to gather the fragments, would betray the Foot leader and take the "Eye of Sarnath" for himself, once the Shredder acquired the three segments of the powerful artifact. The Shredder ultimately puts Stockman in his place and regains the powerful artifact, only moments before Donatello's Sarnathometer destroyed the Eye via a massive explosion. Stockman would crawl back to Shredder's side, but the damage would be done, as the Shredder began conspiring to rid himself of the turncoat scientist.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baxter Stockman appeared as an antagonist in the 2003 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Scott Williams. This version resembled his Mirage Comics incarnation where he was more egocentric than mad and has 'business' connections to the Shredder. He came to be subjected to various punishments by the Shredder involving the mutilation and removal of parts of his body. Later in the series, Stockman returns in various forms as his numerous bodies are continuously replaced. Stockman was working for Oroku Saki and the Foot Clan, having developed the Mousers to steal and loot from banks for his own benefit as well. However, the efforts of his defecting employee April O'Neil and the Turtles destroys his Stocktronics lab, earning him a brutal punishment from the Shredder carried out by Hun. After many encounters with the Turtles ended in failure, these vicious punishments continued. Developing a hatred for the Shredder and Hun, Stockman secretly plotted to destroy them. When the Turtles were thought to have been perished in April's gift shop when it burned down, the Shredder demands physical proof of their demise. Stockman offers to search the ruins for their remains, in exchange for an Utrom exo-suit that was retrieved from the Hudson River. However, when Stockman finds no proof that the Turtles and their allies died in the destruction, he makes his own evidence and is able to deceive the Shredder. Stockman receives the exo-suit as promised, and builds an enormous robotic battle armor with it by the time the Turtles storm the Foot headquarters. Just as the Turtles face off with the Shredder and Hun, Stockman arrives and attempts to kill them all for revenge. It is only through the combined efforts of the Turtles and the Foot that Stockman is defeated, albeit after several false victories.
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baxter Stockman appeared as an antagonist in the 2013 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Phil LaMarr. Stockman explained that he always had an evil streak in his heart as a child prodigy being pushed around by his classmates, so he decided to make himself an amazing intellect by presenting a volcano with real lava at the school science fair. To his dismay, however, that resulted with the entire gym burning down and him getting expelled. As an adult, he tried re-developing his intellect by getting a job as an inventor at TCRI, but was fired for an incident involving spilled copier toner, so he vowed revenge on his classmates and co-workers for making a mockery of him and his failing intellect. He first appeared in "I Think His Name Was Baxter Stockman," where he was seen trying to break into a building in a shriveled suit of armor. The Turtles stopped him, but Stockman came into possession of Donatello's T-Pod (which has a military-grade artificial intelligence chip) and incorporated it into his armor. This results with the armor upgrading itself into a larger size, proving him a competent threat to the Turtles, who still expressed sympathy for the hapless scientist. During "Mousers Attack," he was shown to have created the Mousers to steal electronics from underground. But when they interfered with the Foot Clan's new plan to kill the Turtles, he was captured by Dogpound and brought before Shredder, who forced him to join the Foot Clan, believing his genius to be a useful asset. However, by "Baxter's Gambit," Stockman became tired of being regularly harassed and threatened by Dogpound and Fishface, so he sought to eliminate all of his enemies at once, and trapped the two with the Turtles in a deadly maze. He was defeated when the two groups unexpectedly joined forces against him, and he fled the Foot Clan. In "Mikey Gets Shellacne," Stockman was revealed to have secured a large amount of mutagen, seeking to create an army of mutants to serve him. Unfortunately, he was sought out by Karai to be taken back into the Foot Clan when cornered by Dogpound, who he claimed he can return to his human form. As a precautionary measure, Dogpound placed a collar containing mutagen around Stockman's neck, vowing to mutate him if he double-crossed him. After Dogpound was mutated into Rahzar and the villains were defeated by the Turtles, Stockman was brought back into the Foot Clan once again, with a collar containing a set of miniature mutagen vials locked around his neck, which was meant to mutate him if he attempted another betrayal.
Films
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Baxter Stockman appeared as a supporting antagonist in the live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Tyler Perry.
- In Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Baxter Stockman appeared in the animated film adaptation where he was voiced by actor Keith Ferguson.
Video games
Appearances
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1: (1984)
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