Jul 10, 2025

Creating characters for TMNT... 2025 edition?

 Time for another filler rant, while waiting on Super7 news regarding TMNT, Dungeons & Dragons (which I'm having a bad feeling about... at least give us Diana before axing the line), Silverhawks, the rumored GI Joe transition to Deluxe...

So, let's see what I can cook up:

John Henry:

 John Henry is a human Vigilante, who took inspiration by his namesake and fights crime with a pair of sledgehammers.

We're talking an African American Man, using the MOTUC body due to his ability to dual wield 20lbs. Sledgehammers with ease. 

Visually, he should resemble a very young James Avery... with the Carlton hairdo.
He's sporting a Military undershirt,dogtags, USMC field pants and boots.
His right bicep has a few bullet scars. Also he has a tool belt with loops for his dual sledgehammers.

Heads:
Neutral
Angry
Shaved head to resemble James Avery wvwn more.

Accessories:
Sledge hammers
Turkey and mashed potatoes pizza slice.

Basically an Honorably Discharged Marine who returns home to Harlem and took up Vigilantism as NYC had become a crazy place with Mutants, aliens, Robotic Ninjas, in addition to normal criminals.

Castro:

A Mutant Bear who was turned into a Bear... I'll let you figure that one out.

Visually he should look like a humanoid Brown Bear wearing a Biker Vest with no shirt, a blue thong, black assless chaps. He sports a pendant with the gay triangle.

Heads:
Leather hat head
No hat head
Both heads have a handlebar mustache.

Hands:
Standard hands

Accessories:
Riding crop
Giant cucumber with a chunk bitten off.
Block of Honey fudge

Eduardo "Teddy" Castro is a Bear from San Francisco. Mutated into a Bear after being in contact with a Bear. Now he fights evil gaily, as a mutated mixed Martial Artist with 2 PHDs. He's stereotypically gay, but his entire personality isn't about his gayness. 

Mister Morsa:

A humanoid Walrus wearing a beret and a white button up shirt. 

Heads: 
Open mouth
Closed mouth

Hands:
The usual hands
Body:
Think a Walrus themed Merman as in Male Mermaid, not the MOTU character. The Walrus would be wearing a white button up shirt and a Beret. His lower body is walruslike. His lower body should have joints that allow the Walrus body to somewhat stand upright a la scaletail.

Accessories:
Potato gun
Erlenmeyer flask Molotov
Pointer rapier 
Seth the Sea Otter little buddy with a 2025 James Gunn Hairdo and facial hair.

Yes, I just wanted a Jamie Hyneman ersatz figure. So,high school (Science) teachers, Hyman Morsa and Seth Wilde turned into mutated animals when an excursion to an Aquarium went wrong due to Ooze. Hyman Morsa and Abel Wilde were turned into a Foot Fighting Science Educator Duo.

 Kaiin Mashuu: the Tengu Warrior of East Village

A Japanese Blind Swordsman along the lines of a modern day Zatoichi..

Heads:
Neutral head (dark cataract glasses)
Screaming head  (dark cataract glasses)
Angry head (No glasses)
Head Sporting a Tengu Mask.

Body sculpt:
Picture a Japanese Businessman. White collar shirt, tie, blazer, and slacks. Nothing seems off with him aside the dark green hair and scarring around his eyes.

Hands:
Standard hands, energy Drink bottle holding hands

Accesories:
Briefcase with Braille Documents and Energy Drink bottles
Blind walking stick with hidden sword
Sansetsukon modeled after a different walking stick for a blind person.

Kaiin-san Shares an origin with the Turtles. Remember the kid that got hit in the head with the Ooze canister when he stopped a blind man from getting ran over? Well, that wasn't the only canister dropped. A young Japanese Teen got hit by an Ooze canister theat exploded all over his face, causing him legal blindness. And other mutations. Superhuman hearing, Superhuman smell, mild healing factor, enhanced strength, speed,and agility, infrared sensing, and echolocation. Fun fact: he uses the tengu mask do hide his identity, but everyone in his neighborhood in East Village KNOWS he's a Vigilante and humor him. (It's a parodic nod to DareDevil, but with a Regain reference... Japanese Businessman)


Oozekappa:

A Japanese Mutated Turtle whose Mutation resembles the Kappa of Japanese Folklore.

Visually we reuse the Slash body with a new shell, Belt, hands and feet. (Hands and feet would be Tokka's) the new belt would be based on a fundoshi. The shoulders would be like Tokka's. The new shell would be a spikeless Slash shell.

The heads would be new:
Think Tokka's but with hair and an indentation for Ooze. 
One head snarling, the other open mouth.

Hands:
Usual hands
Holding a Shirikodama (soul pulled out the ass)

Accessories:
Cap to cover the dimple
Cucumber (reuse Castro's)
Bone Chucks.

Charleston:

A Mutant mandrill made out of a gang banger. 

Heads:
Neutral
Screaming

Hands: 
Usual

Body sculpt:
A humanoid Mandrill wearing a sleeveless grey Hoodie, ripped blue jeans with various chains hanging by the side of a thick studded belt. And cowboy boots acting as spats, since the mutated mandrill handset can't fit in normal cowboy boots.

Accessories:
Switchblade 
Desert Eagle
Shotgun (reuse Leatherhead)

Gang banger turned into a Mutant Mandrill in an attempt to get revenge on the Foot, instead, became a toadie to Shredder.

Boogie-Woogie:

A Mutated humanoid Raccoon. Sporting a blue pleather vest with white T-shirt and brown leather pants. He has more chains than Mr.T and punk armbands.

Heads:
Snarling
Cocky

Hands:
Usual hands
Lockpicking hands (left hand with Turner sculpted, right hand with wave rake sculpted)

Accessories:
Crowbar
Knife
2× Smoke Grenades one normal the other one exploding and releasing smoke.
Garrote
Silenced blaster

As you can see this, pilfering purple dragon turned Raccoon is the breaking and entering expert of the group. 

Agent Switch:

Female Human looking Mutant. Main difference is the Skin Color. It would be Thermochromic, think Zartan. She's sporting a leather catsuit like Emma Peel. The idea is to keep the Thermochromic plastic to a minimum. 

Heads:
Normal skintone (pale skin, blonde hair)
Transformed skintone (red skin and hair)
Thermochromic head

Hands:
Standard gloved hands
Climbing Claw gauntlets (normal hands with a set of futuristic cat claws)

Accessories:
Whip
Escrima sticks
Tranquilizer rifle
C4 bomb
Silenced gun
Machine gun

The idea is to have a Hulk/Black Widow parody. A Government Agent/Spy who has a split personality that manifests with physical side effects. The Base Personality is a person of peak physical condition and higher than average intelligence. When her transformation is triggered, her strength and intelligence increase to beyond human levels, also her violent and sadistic tendencies come to the surface. The reason she's on the "bad guys side" is because the government is against Mutants. Also her real name is Peyton Marie Steele... PMS... she turns red. You get the idea.

And there you have it:
8 characters. The hardest part was coming up with some names.


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