| Baxter Stockman |
Article Index for Baxter |
Shopping Stockman |
Limousines in Baxter |
Website Links For Baxter |
Information AboutBaxter Stockman |
|
LAIRD & EASTMAN COMICS, VOLUMES 1 AND 2 In Volume 1 of the Comic Series , Dr. Stockman was a Mad Scientist with no relation to the comic Oroku Saki, or The Shredder . He developed the Mousers with the help of his computer programmer April O'Neil . Around the time of the Mouser's invention, strange bank robberies were being held, 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 (he could use his invention to make millions legally), but because "it was FUN!" April tried to escape through the elevator, but the scientist sent the elevator to sewer level. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles saved her from the Mousers Stockman had sent to kill April. Then they successfully infiltrated Stockman's lab, and managed to stop him. He was taken into custody. Later, he reappeared in Volume 2 of the comics as a major villain who had used technology from DARPA to place his brain in a robot body, making him a Cyborg . Stockman tried to get revenge on the TMNT, but his new body was electrocuted and assumed to be destroyed; only the glasses he had retrieved earlier remained. In Volume 4 of the comics, however, it is revealed that Donatello kept the remnants of Stockman's cyborg body and mind hidden from his brothers for years. It was discovered that Stockman had, in Volume 2, 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 (although whether or not she will remain sterile after their destruction has not been explored). Donatello finally destroyed the remnants of Stockman to avenge April, including his mind; however it is possible that Baxter Stockman's entity still somehow exists and is capable of manipulating electronics and devices. OLD TMNT CARTOON SERIES: 1987 In the 1987 TMNT Cartoon , a more lighthearted show, and the Archie comics, Stockman was a bumbling and good-intentioned Caucasian inventor (as opposed to an African-American, as he was portrayed in the Mirage comics) who tried to bill his Mousers to the Ajax Pest Control company. They did not like his suggestion, saying it would put them out of business, and threw him out of the building. The Shredder had watched this via his cameras, and offered Stockman a job. Baxter promptly accepted, and Shredder ordered him to create a "master control device" for the Mousers. 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 Baxter 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, Baxter helped Shredder to get the "Three Fragments of the Eye of Sarnath". Ultimately Baxter, tired of being abused by Shredder during their numerous attempts to gather the fragments, would betray Shredder and take the "Eye of Sarnath" for himself once Shredder acquired the three segments of the powerful artifact. Shredder ultimately agreed to team with the Turtles to stop Baxter and destroy the powerful artifact. Baxter would crawl back to Shredder's side, but the damage would be done as Shredder began conspiring to rid himself of the turncoat scientist. Shredder convinced Krang to send Baxter to Dimension X in exchange for his mutant flunkies Bebop And Rocksteady , much to Baxter's horror. Baxter was then placed into a disintegrator by Krang so as to eliminate Baxter since Krang had no use for the bumbling scientist. But a common housefly (which was on Baxter's clothing when he was sent through to Dimension X) accidentally flew into the disintegrator, mutating Baxter into a giant fly. Baxter the Fly fled Dimension X and vowed revenge on Shredder and the Turtles for mutating him into a human/fly creature. (This is most likely a reference to the 1980's version of The Fly .) While still somewhat naive and bumbling, Baxter quickly developed a cold and twisted villainous side that scared even the Shredder. Baxter forced Shredder to aid him in a plot to use a newly crafted time displacement gun that would trapped the Turtles inbetween seconds of time, rendering them invisible and unable to interact with the world around them. However, Shredder betrayed Baxter and used the device on him instead. Trapped in a hellish limbo state, Baxter grew insane and vowed revenge against Shredder and the Turtles. Ironically, a bolt of lighting would un-displace Baxter and free him from his temporal exile, leading to him becoming once again to wage war against Shredder and the Turtles. In the end, Baxter was exiled in Dimension X living with a super-computer that he had taken in as his sidekick. Baxter was voiced by Pat Fraley in the show. He also had a red-haired twin brother named Barney Stockman, also a mad scientist and with the same voice, who threw fits whenever the Turtles confused him with Baxter. NEW TMNT ANIMATED SERIES: 2003 In the 2003 Series , a grimmer-toned show, Baxter Stockman is African-American like in the Mirage comics. He has become something of a sick running joke, as his body is repeatedly destroyed more and more, and he continues to serve The Shredder despite being constantly punished for his failures and secretly plotting against the Shredder. In ''A Better Mousetrap'' and ''Attack of the Mousers'', Stockman uses his Mousers to rob banks and works as an officer of science for the Shredder. The Turtles and April discover this and seek Stockman out at his headquarters, the Stocktronics building. The Turtles and April finally corner Stockman, who calls his Mousers, and retreats. Hun catches the fleeing Dr. Stockman, and turns him over to the Shredder. Shredder punishes Stockman, clawing out his left eye. With only one eye, he captured Raphael , with the help of "Foot Tech Ninjas" ( Ninja s with the ability to become invisible); he had made the special Foot Tech garb out of an old exoskeleton found by members of the Foot Clan . Dr. Stockman questioned Raphael on his species, threatening to kill him. Raphael escaped, and Stockman was once again punished by Shredder, his body reduced to that of a near paraplegic (save for his right arm). His left arm was replaced with a robotic prosthetic, while his legs (invisible to the viewer) were either torn off or, since he was wearing a neck brace, he could have been paralyzed. At this point, the TMNT were in hiding, having barely escaped their last encounter with the Shredder. Shredder wanted proof of their death, so Stockman offered his DNA analysis system in exchange for full access to the exosuit, and if Stockman failed, Shredder would give a "final punishment," to Stockman. Having found no DNA evidence, he manufactured false proof of their deaths and successfully deceived the Shredder. His loyalty to Shredder, questionable even at first, was now only for personal gain. As a result, he was awarded the exosuit. During the "Return to New York" three-parter, Dr. Stockman reappeared, in a giant robotic suit presumably based on the exoskeleton; he attacked both the Turtles and Shredder, who were in turn attacking each other. The Turtles and Shredder had a hard time fighting him. Finally, Donatello defeated Stockman by shooting him with a functional amputed arm of the robot suit. Stockman reappeared during Shredder's infiltration of TCRI, an Utrom (alien) facility, now merely a head in a mechanical spider body. Shredder controlled Stockman using a robotic eye placed where he previously had an injury, now with the ability to shock Stockman into following him. With the help of the Fugitoid, an ally of the Turtles, he was freed from the control of Shredder, and turned against him, knocking him out. Shredder returned minutes later, and Stockman escaped. Stockman briefly reappeared with the mutant alligator Leatherhead in an Utrom exosuit, saying he was the reptilian scientist's "friend." Stockman once again escaped when Leatherhead, a friend of the Utroms, discovered that Stockman had worked for the Utroms' enemy, Shredder. During the "City at War" episodes, he reappeared, now with the Mob and in another exoskeleton. He was shot down in these episodes. He makes a few appearances during the "Rogue in the House" episodes, now just a brain, an eyeball, and a piece of spinal column connected to a machine that allows him to speak and hear. After the Foot base was destroyed, Stockman sunk underwater. He appeared yet again briefly in one of Leatherhead's post-traumatic stress nightmares, in his Utrom exosuit, and then in the flesh--so to speak--in the episode "Nobody's Fool". Stockman was still in his tank, but it was modified with a self-propulsion system, a crude robotic arm, and a 360-degree Hologram of his head. Stockman was replaced by his student, the ambitious, cheerful and energetic Dr. Chaplin, who slightly resembles the 1987 incarnation of Baxter Stockman. Chaplin first appeared in "New Blood." Dr. Chaplin admires Stockman greatly, and built him a new humanoid exosuit in "Mission of Gravity." Stockman's brain is hidden under a chestplate, and his holographic head is where a robot's head would normally be. Stockman returns in "Same as it Never Was," in an alternate future. He is once again a brain and eyeball in a tank, which was sewn to the shoulder of an aged, crippled, and disgraced Hun . The pair had moved to the Turtles' side after being saved from execution by the Shredder. Stockman mentioned that he designed the Shredder's new exoskeleton. Following a punishment for his sending an unauthorized message to the Turtles in an attempt to lure them into a battle in "Hun on the Run", the exosuited Stockman joined forces with the mysterious Bishop , who seems to harbor grudges against both Shredder and the Turtles. In the final moments of the season finale, Bishop told Stockman, following the defeat and banishment of the rogue Utrom who called himself "Shredder", that this was the beginning of a "financial partnership". Stockman (or his holographic head at least) can be seen in the opening theme (season 4 and on) piloting a mantis type robot. In the episode ''Dragon's Brew'' he can be seen piloting a humanoid suit. He also mentions that Bishop has yet to make good on his end of a bargain. But in Episode Aliens Among us Baxter is in a new suit, frankenbot. Stockman inadvertently was responsible for the outbreak of alien DNA mutation. After helping Bishop with Bishop's new clone, he expected to get his own new body. However, Bishop put him to work on finding a cure. Stockman was sent to New York to monitor a team of agents fighting the outbreak in the sewers. It is believed that, in an unaired episode, a frustrated Stockman did create a new body for himself, but it was flawed. He ended up in a river in New York. Bishop had him retrieved and repaired. Stockman's response to this was a cry to be left alone, which was ignored. Later, when the Turtles broke into Area 51 to force Bishop into helping them cure Donatello, they were surprised to discover Stockman alive. He told them that Bishop just wouldn't let him die. He was also amused to discover the "smart one" was the Turtle brother who was infected. Despite creating a nifty new cage for the victims of the outbreak, he has yet to find a cure for it. In fact, much to his chagrin, the Turtles' ally Leatherhead , whom he classified as an "animal", was the one who perfected the cure. Scott Williams voices the new Dr. Stockman. VIDEO GAMES Baxter Stockman frequently appears in the classic TMNT Video Games , which are based on the 1987 cartoon. He is always portrayed as a Boss character:
|
|
|