Alopex (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Alopex is a female comic character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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Biography
Alopex was originally an ordinary arctic fox who lived outside Fairbanks, Alaska on modern age Earth. From an early age, she proved herself to be deadly and came to serve as the main hunter in her pack. Over time, she came to be feared and respected by all the other creatures in the region with the exception of the polar bear that was the only thing she feared. Her life continued like this for sometime until she was one day captured by a group of scientists who used her as part of a series of experiments in imbuing animals with a human-level intelligence. Through this means, they were able to grant Alopex her intelligence and later transformed her thus giving the fox a human body. She was later rescued from the laboratory by the Shredder and was inducted into the Foot Clan where she was given a new purpose in life. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Villains v1 #4)
The Foot Clan then arranged an elaborate plot to uncover the lair of the Turtles with this involving Alopex, Bebop and Rocksteady. The latter two would pursue Alopex to draw out one of the Turtles to make them think she was a helpless victim being pursued by hunters in order to get their aid. They succeeded in attracting the attention of Raphael who knocked out the two thugs and seemingly was ready to take Alopex to his home when he blindfolded her. However, he became suspicious of her after seeing her fight and decided to test her by dropping her from a rooftop. In desperation, Alopex quickly used her martial arts skills to recover thus exposing the fact that she had professional training and was no victim. The two battled but ultimately Alopex believed that the mission was a failure and she used a flash bomb to allow her to escape where she returned to the Foot Clan. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series v1 #1)
With the Foot besieged on all sides, Alopex was sent to deal with any traitors whereupon Shredder took her to their Alaska facility to remove the abandoned laboratory. Whilst there, some of the memories of her life pre-mutation returned to her but then the Shredder had the place put on fire. He claimed that this was the final stage of her initiation with her being a Chunin in the clan now but she attacked him for destroying her former home. Despite that, the Shredder effortlessly defeated her where she pledged her loyalty to him once again. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Villains v1 #4)
She attempted to trick Raphael into showing her where their lair was so that the Foot Clan could find them and kill them. Fortunately, Raphael caught onto her scheme and fought her. She escaped the fight, and later clashed with the Turtles several times from the Shredder's side.
Although Alopex served the Foot Clan faithfully, she still had some attachment to her old home and family. Seemingly aware of this, the Shredder sent her back to Fairbanks while he had the forest burned down as a test of loyalty. Alopex attacked the Shredder, although she quickly surrendered and professed her ultimate loyalty to the Foot Clan. However, comparing the Shredder to the bear that had been the bane of her existence in her earlier life, she secretly swore that she would one day kill him.
During a fight between the Shredder and Splinter, Alopex finally attacked her master. She did not succeed in killing him, however, and was shot in the arm by the Shredder's granddaughter Oroku Karai, who up to that point had considered Alopex an ally and friend.
Although injured, Alopex managed to survive and escape. She followed the Turtles, accompanied by April O'Neil and Casey Jones, to the home of April's parents, as they believed they were no longer safe in New York after the Foot had taken over the city's criminal underworld. Raphael was the first to notice her and attacked her, believing her to still be allied with the Foot. Leonardo intervened, and a fight broke out between the brothers. After Alopex explained her situation, Splinter offered a truce with her. Alopex declined saying she did not need his or his sons' help, but she remained close to their new home. Alopex would later change her mind and joined the Turtles as a resident of the O'Neil Farm. She even became friendly with Raphael, but this quickly changed when a group of Foot Assassins attacked the Turtles. Believing Alopex to still be loyal to the Foot Clan, Raphael attacked her. However, after she saved Raphael from being attacked by one of the Foot Assassins, he realized she was telling the truth.
Overview
Personality and attributes
According to her, she only had flickering memories of her life before her mutation. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series v1 #1)
She came to see the Shredder as being akin to the bear that once ruled the Alaskan wilderness before her mutation but one that she had hoped to best one day. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Villains v1 #4)
Powers and abilities
As a mutation, she was a humanoid artic fox who possessed greater than human strength, speed, endurance and senses. She had good hearing and good sense of smell allowing her to be aware of her surroundings even when blindfolded. Alopex had claws on her hands that she could use as weapons in the field or to grab purchase on walls to slow a fall. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series v1 #1)
She was shown as being a skilled martial artist who was capable of professional kicks. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series v1 #1)
Alopex was known to use a range of ninja weapons in battle. She was shown to use shurikens that she could throw with accuracy at her targets. For an escape, she could drop a flash bomb to blind opponents where she used this as an opportunity to flee the scene. (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series v1 #1)
Notes
- Alopex was created by Kevin Eastman and Bryan Lynch where she made her first appearance in IDW Comics Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Raphael v1 #1 (December, 2011).
In other media
Television
- In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Alopex appeared in the setting of the 2012 animated television series starting in the episode "Tale of Tiger Claw" where she was voiced by actor Minae Noji. This version was originally a human girl who lived in a small village alongside her brother Takeshi.
Appearances
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Micro-Series: Raphael v1: (2011)
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