I know that Hypothetical TMNT Lists are my current go to. But it's easier to do TMNT than MOTU since the death of MOTUC has caused a lack of "MOTU mindframe" on me.
Creating TMNT new characters for the most part is easy:
- Humanoid animal (Humanoid Turtle)
- Pun based character (bull called groundchuck)
- Art based name (Warthog named after a musical genre, or Iguana named after painting)
- parody/homage of characters or stereotypes (with Casey being a parody of Vigilantes like Punisher)
Other characters lack any of those 4 templates, but it's doable. Personally when I do these lists, I have to enter in two mindsets:
What would 80s Playmates do
How to translate them into Super7 Ultimates
Some days I can churn 5-12 ideas in one sitting, other times, it takes longer. But in any case let's do this!
Wait! I normally like to expand the universe with sub factions like we have the Clan Hamato, the Foot Clan, Krang's Army, the Mutanimals, Channel 6 crew, the Neutrinos, independent heroes, independent villains.
I COULD potentially add some new factions, but the real issue is Super7's prices being cost prohibitive. Here's the funny thing. There are preexisting characters in various media that if they were made in action figure form under a cohesive style, we could have entire teams. For example:
Zach, Caitlin, Walt, Carter, Buffy, Danny, and Keno could be a team of teens who aid the Turtles in ways that April or Casey can't. This "Turtle Scout Brigade" could be a thing if these characters were made into figures.
Another area where we have no representation is NYPD. Think about it, who has to deal with the Turtles' aftermath. IIRC, the comics had some NYPD characters. Something about some cops being bought by the Foot. That's a Faction I'd love to Explore and expand.
The Foot Clan itself is another area that I would like to expand, particularly Human Ninja, bith in favor and against Shredder's partnership with Krang. The Addition of Karai and my Custom Tatsu allowed me to have the seed planted. If we got human Foot Ninja, I could expand these new factions, which are a Nefty-made branching of Mirage's Foot Clan Japan vs Foot Clan Manhattan.
Krang's Army is easily expanded by making more Rock men.
I think I ranted way too much before the list... let's make some new characters.
Neutrinos:
I'm going to start with the Neutrinos because they're easy.
Zlader:
Picture a Neon green pompadour hairstyle with a shark fin on top. Now for the suit Zlader is sporting something reminiscent of a closed Varsity Jacket crossed with the Thriller and Beat it Jackets. Pink and Neon green accents on the vest part of the jacket with Orange sleeves with neon green accents. On his wrists he sports Neon blue vambraces with pink accents.
A large Utility Belt separates the jacket from his orange Elvis pants with Neon Blue and pink accents. His shoes are Neon green with Orange accents. Since he's wearing a "varsity jacket" he should look slightly beefier than Zak.
His skintone is similar to Mario Lopez... no, the comparison is coincidental, even if the name makes my argument harder to defend.
Heads:
Normal head
Fencing helmet
Special hands:
Stoneboxing Gauntlets
Accessories:
Hoverboard
Shotgun/crossbow styled blaster
Energy fencing saber that plugs to power pack on the back
The idea was to have a "Neutrino Jock" hence the varsity jacket and the Boxing and fencing gimmicks. He's a bit of a snob, since he's born of a noble house.
Tryone:
Purple haired Neutrino with a Hairstyle reminiscent of the letter W when seen from above. When seen from the front it looks like he has a 2 headed bird for a hairdo. He is pale skinned and wears a Gambit like head attachment in Neon pink with pearlescent white and metallic teal accents. He sports pink rimmed legless glasses with teal lenses.
He sports an open teal leather jacket with pearlescent white shirt with pink and teal accents. The jacket sports purple accents.
His purple pants have white accents and his pink and white shoes complete the look.
Heads:
Glasses on
Glasses off
Accessories:
Andalusian Navaja styled switchblade.
Bike chain whip
Jet skates
Toolbox backpack with tools
It's a Space greaser. He's basically the mechanic who'd theoretically would get along with Donatello. Yes, it's a white Tyrone with a purposely made typo.
Duwn:
Picture a female neutrino with a bunch of "hair columns. (Think Muhammad Avdol from JoJo) in the shape of an afro in Cheez whiz orange. Obviously her skintone is on the more melatonin side of the spectrum.
For her outfit we'll go with a red dress with Cheez whiz orange accents. The torso part of the dress looks a bit like segmented armor with a Rita Repulsa styled breastplate. (Cone boobs ftw!) The rest of the torso is similar to Kala.
Unlike Kala, there are no poofy elements on the shoulders and biceps. The poofy elements are on the wrists with Bracelets to give her a poodle-like silhouette. The arms are orange with red accents while the bracelets are red.
She has a wide belt that reaches deep into her crotch creating a sort of Cheez Whiz orange Chastity Belt made for her orange tights. On her thighs, a three Croissant shaped protrusion create a skirt silhouette. The first and last are red, while the middle one is cobalt blue. Her boots have a round poodle ankle piece in red while the lower part of the boots are blue.
Heads:
Stoic
Excited (Rollercoaster kind of excitement)
Accessories:
Dual blasters that are both blasters and bladed weapons
Hoverboard
Jetpack
I wanted a female Neutrino and added a token black Neutrino because diversity. Her name is a play on Dask... which sounds as a misspelled Dusk. Duwn is a misspelled Dawn. Her colors are also a nod to dawn/Dusk
Reqot:
Female Neutrino with Ruby red hair. Her hair has a "cannon shape" at the frontal top part of her head. Think Ruby Rhod. On the back part of the top of her head, she sports 2 long pigtails that look like 2 candles.
Her dress would be light blue with white body armor from the breastplate all the way to her waist. Her arms would have bulky blue armor at the shoulders with red "tights" and white vambraces.
Like Duwn, she has some protrusions on her mid thighs in the shape of a triple u with the top one being blue and the lower one white. This is in order to create a Skirt Silhouette. The tights are white with red accents and trim below the pseudoskirt and her shoes are blue.
Heads:
Neutral expression
Winking duckface
Crazy high speed face (cheeks pushing to tbe back of her face, open mouth, tongue sticking out the side, squinting
Special hands:
Victory sign
Accessories:
Jetpack
Rideable red stylized missile (fits two normal figures and looks like the love child of a rocket and a 60s convertible.
Clear rocket stand
Dual blasters that plug to missile
She's cute, she's crazy, she'll play chicken with the enemy. The idea was to make a Roxy Rocket inspired character, hence the surfable Rideable missile.
That's all for the Neutrinos. Now let's try some evil Mutants without any affiliation:
Hidya:
If she was made In the Playmates era she'd be a Mutatin' figure. Transforming from armored baddie to Giant Clam. Visually, she wouldn't look very human as most of her torso would be the flipped clam shell covered by the clam meat in the weird shape of a human body, but still looking very clamlike. She'd have pearl boobs because clam
She wouldn't have a pleasing Humanoid face. Also, for the sake of stability, she's 4 legged.
Special hands:
Freaky inhuman hands with long tentacle fingers.
Accessories:
shucking sword
Hot sauce gun
Basically a pearl farmer cut herself and threw a clam that fell on one random Ooze canister and the clam mutated into a Humanoid freak that likes to wait in ambush before attacking.
That's why her name is Hidya. As in Hid ya.
Buzzkill:
This guy would've reused Baxter's fly arms and legs even if svientifically inaccurate. Basically a Parcel Delivery Service employee who had a bad day and Mutated into a Yellowjacket. Visually he'd be a Humanoid Yellowjacket with an insectoid face and torso, sporting the remains of a red polo and a Yellow Jacket torn for his yellow and grey wings with extra yellow arms. His pants would be brown
His mandible would be articulated. Back in the day his butt would fire a spring loaded oversized stinger.
In Ultimates he loses the soring loaded aspect but the stinger is removable.
Accessories:
3× package bombs
Parcel Delivery bag
Gone Postal Machinegun
Small stinger
Long swordlike stinger
Ooze canister
Basically as stated above, delivery guy had a bad day, got stung by a Yellowjacket and accidentally injected himself with Ooze to prevent anaphylaxis. This drove him Mad and now he seeks to ruin everyone's day with mayhem and chaos.
Naughty Nutty:
A squirrel who had stolen some Ooze filled nuts and it caused a terrible mutation. The squirrel grew in size and gained a more violent demeanor. The toy, if it had been made in the 90s, would be similar to Leatherhead in order to implement an articulated jaw feature using its ridiculously rodent teeth. With Super7, we get some artistic liberties and be able to give NN an additional head holding nuts in its mouth. So let's crack this nut...
Oversized Squirrel with way too big teeth it also sports a picnic cloth as a loincloth and an oversized mutated acorn cap as beret.
Heads:
Bite head
Nut head
Accessories
Mutated Acorn shell shield
Bag of nuts.
A Nutcracker bat (a bat with a Nutcracker head)
A squirrel that mutated after eating ooze filled nuts and now hungers for more nuts due to its size it steals both nuts and Ooze in order to feed. For some reason it thinks the Turtles are sentient nuts and it wants to feed on them.
Ma'Dillon:
An overweight female Human/Armadillo Hybrid. Her head looks like an armadillo costume with her human face inside the Armadillo mouth. Her body looks human but with Armadillo limbs and tail and caparace.
The body is 100% new. Had she been made for the original line, her gimmick would've been similar to Mattel's Stonedar and Rokkon. It wouldn't be a "Mutatin figure" per se, since her gimmick is curling up into an "impregnable rolling fortress"
accessories:
Additional clip-on/plug-in plates to achieve ball shape. (As Mattel's MOTUC comet warriors)
Plug in blasters for ball mode/arms
Roadkill shovel.
Little Dillon, her son, an extremely mutated child and sports two slices of bread at the sides of his head. We can't be sure where the inbreeding ends and the Ooze mutation begins.
Banjo
An Alabama Home School Lunchlady who ate ooze-tainted Armadillo meat that her toddler found. Shredder upgraded her and told her that the Turtles were the Ultimate roadkill dicacy and set her on the warpath.
I went a bit dark there with the last Mutant, but it's TMNT. I am trying to keep the body horror and mocking look at society... let me try some Good guys now.
The Imitators: These are two Factions of "Turtles" who have banded up some are good, some are evil.
Brigand Adult Mutated Turtles:
Basically a group of Mutated Turtles who began copying Clan Hamato to ride on their popularity and make some quick cash. They're sort of Soldiers of Fortune. Think the love child of the TMNT and The A-Team.
These Turtles would share the Turtle buck but with a few differences:
Bandanas have square tips, like the Movie Turtles. The pads and wristbands are dark grey.
The belts and bandoliers are more "military" styled.
Tiziano;
The Group Leader. Calculating, a bit unorthodox in his methodology. Usually a no nonsense guy, but has a soft spot for the helpless. He sports a bluish grey bandana. His skintone is Michelangelo green
Sporting a harness with vertical straps and the Buckle has a T. Has a right hip holster for a Desert Eagle and. Left hip loop for a Marine Saber.
Heads:
Neutral
Angry
Smoking cigar
Accessories:
Combat knife
Desert Eagle
Marine Saber
C-Ration tin can
Botticelli:
The infiltrator. Not fond of guns, preferring the stealthy approach of silent blades. While often butting heads with Tiziano's over the top plans, he often ends up following them to the letter. He sports the Brown Bandana. His skin tone is Leonardo Olive Green
Like Tiziano, his belt sports vertical straps that can hold 6 throwing knives and two tactical tomahawk axes on the back. His left hip has a holster for his gun the back has loops for his combat knives. His Belt Buckle sports a B.
Heads:
neutral
Capable of holding throwing knife on teeth (Think roronoa zoro)
Accessories:
2 combat knives
6 throwing knives
2 tactical tomahawk
Water pistol.
C-Ration tin
Cellini:
The Wild Card. Most people think he's a few cards short of a full deck with sociopathic tendencies, but he's the demolition expert and knows his way around vehicles and artillery. He wears the Mustard yellow Bandana and his skin tone is Donatello Olive brown
He sports a similar harness as his brothers in arms, but the vertical straps hold his 4 grenades
Heads:
Creepy (like Creepy Anya face)
Batshit crazy
Bloodsport face (when JCVD gets blinded)
Accessories:
Garrote
4 Grenades
3 pipe bombs
1 C4 Bomb
2 Molotovs
HK Mk 23 with laser sight and silencer.
Combat knife
C-Ration tin
Giotto:
The Team's Muscle and Sharpshooter. He follows Botticelli no questions asked. Also, he's the only one who can rein in Cellini. He wears the teal bandana. His skin tone is Raph green
Heads:
Neutral
Chugging chocolate milk (head faces upward and some chocolate milk is dribbling down the sides of his mouth.)
Special hands:
Brass Knuckles Fists
For Holding chocolate milk gallon
Accessories:
Combat knife
Sniper rifle
M4 machinegun
Dual Desert Eagles
Combat knife
C-Ration tin
Gallon of chocolate milk
This team were accidentally mutated when they were captured and left for dead in a South American jungle after a failed CIA operation. Unbeknownst to everyone, the soldiers were doused in Ooze and exposed to Turtle DNA, by a Rogue scientist. With a second chance at life, they decided to turn their lives around and use their skills to help others.
Shredder's second false Ninja Turtle Gang:
Essentially it's a group of fake Turtles made by Shredder. Combining Criminal minds and his own Ninjitsu knowledge, these Turtles are a force to be reckoned with.
These Turtles would use the Ninja nomad Leo pads and wristbands in brown. The belt buckles would have the Foot Insignia. The headbands would be maroon and their belts would be brown.
Lemaitre:
The "Anti-Leo" and leader of the squad. Cold, calculating, willing to sacrifice friendlies for victory.
Heads:
-Leo head with maroon bandana
-Terminator styled half face, half robotic endoskeleton
-full robotic endoskeletal head
Special hands:
Battle damaged hands exposing cybernetics
Weapons:
Katanas
Hookswords
rack weapons
Dali:
The "anti-Don" and mmechanic. His behavior is machine-like.
Heads:
Maroon bandana Don head
Head with only a robotic eye exposed.
Full robotic head
Special hands:
Weapons:
Naginata with detachable blade (see Hothead as reference)
Rack weapons
Rembrandt
The "Anti-Raph". The Brawler. Violent, but efficient.
Heads:
Maroon bandana Raph head
Head with random bits of flesh peeled off exposing the endoskeleton in various places.
Special hands:
Battle damaged hands
Robocop "data spike" hands
Weapons:
Pair of jitte
Rack weapons
Monet
The "Anti-Mike". Cruel and sadistic
Heads:
Mike head maroon bandana
Exposed endoskeleton on beak/mouth area
Special hands:
Battle damaged hands
Weapons:
Sansetsukon
Kamanunchuck
Rack weapons
That's it for fake turtles... let's try some heroes without half-shells.
Synthwave:
A Mutated Pomeranian sporting the Flock of Seagulls hairdo and wearing new wave styled clothes. He has a Cybernetic left arm and right leg. The cyber leg has speakers that Synthwave can use to amplify his supersonic bark.
Heads:
Neutral
Goofy
Accessories:
Microphone that plugs to leg
Vinyl record shuriken
Water bowl Buckler
Keytar
The idea is an indie New Wave artist gets hit by Ooze while holding his synthesizer and his Pomeranian. The amalgamation gave birth to Synthwave: an easily distracted singer who wants to get revenge on the Foot.
Kung Pao:
A Mutated Rooster/Martial Artist.
Wearing a long sleeved Chinese robe (soft goods) over Martial Arts Pants and King Fu Shoe. Left arm is feathery and his right leg is birdlike with the talons bursting out his Kung Fu shoe. His back is feathered while the front still looks human. He has scars that are reminiscent of the cuts Bruce Lee got in Enter the Dragon.
Heads: (both have hinged beak)
Neutral
Angry
Weapons:
Long climbing claws
Chained claws that slip on wrist
Pair of Dao swords
Not gonna lie, Mousse from Ranma was a HUGE inspiration for Kung Pao... also, Kung Fu Chicken called King Pao. Originally a Kung Fu practitioner who was an assassination target for Shredder. Instead he Oozed his Kung Pao Chicken and here we are.
Karl:
Karl is a Killer Automaton Reconnaissance Legionnaire. In other words a robot Disguised as a human.
Picture Christopher Walken pretending to be Mr. Miyagi. And visually, Christopher Walken with a Pat Morita facial hair and hairdo, wearing an outfit very similar to Edward Scissorhands but in dark blue.
Heads:
Normal head
Glowing red eyes head (angry)
Fedora head with glasses
Special hands:
Blaster
Blade
Pruning shears
Bludgeon
Lightning rod
Accessories:
Bonsai
Carl's mini trees soft goods apron
Soft goods trenchcoat
2 bonsai
Originally designed by Shredder to act as a spy and saboteur on Channel 6, but a lightning bolt struck Karl and fried his wiring and became self aware. Now he runs a Bonsai shop and helps New York's heroes against The Foot. Yes this is a jab at Terminator Dork Fate... and a tribute to Mr. Miyagi.
Handy Dan: Handy Man
Imagine a dude who has arms on his torso, but not 2 arms like most people. Other than his head his entire body is made out of arms. His neck is an arm holding the head from the back. His torso is a series of arms trying to keep his organs inside him. His legs are bigger arms and he has a tail that it's another arm. And you might be wondering... it's a baby's arm, but wit won't be sculpted on the toy.
Heads:
Neutral head
Head with little arms to hold the Sunglasses.
Special hands:
Enough extra hands to use on his six non "leg" arms.
Accessories:
Sunglasses
Soft goods hooded poncho with rope
Toolbox
Assorted tools
He's a handyman who suffered sn Ooze accident and got a bit handsy... and became a bit of a fixer-upper. Now he wants to put Shredder behind bars.
There you go 4 non Turtle, non-Neutrino heroes. I'll leave it here for now. Part two maybe in November?
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