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Bebop and '''Rocksteady''' are a pair of dimwitted Henchmen in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cartoon Series and the Archie TMNT Adventures comics. They follow the orders of The Shredder , leader of the Foot Clan . BIOGRAPHIES Bebop and Rocksteady used to be human, and part of a Street Gang in New York City that was employed by Shredder. With other members of their gang, they were sent out to stop a Channel 6 reporter named April O'Neil from doing a report about crime in the city. April ran down in the sewers chased by the street gang, and met the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who defeated the street gang in a fight. After this humiliating setback, The Shredder developed a plan to defeat the Turtles by mutating members of this street gang, so that they would have abilities parallel to the Turtles'. Bebop and Rocksteady both volunteered to undergo the procedure (though neither was particularly aware of what it would entail) with the promise that it would let them get revenge on the Turtles. Bebop was mutated into a human Warthog , and Rocksteady into a Rhinoceros . However, though the transformation did make them larger and stronger, they remained incompetent boobs, and completely inept at stopping the Turtles or carrying out Shredder's plans. For most of the series they were employed for Comic Relief purposes. In one episode of the series, Bebop was shown to have kept a pet turtle, which got mutated into the evil turtle Slash . Bebop and Rocksteady were last seen in the season 8 finale Turtle Trek . In that episode, the Turtles destroy the Technodrome 's engines, trapping it and its inhabitants in Dimension X for good. Bebop and Rocksteady are assumed to still be somewhere in Dimension X. WEAPONS OF CHOICE FOR BEBOP AND ROCKSTEADY In the 1987 cartoon series, Bebop and Rocksteady were armed with various types, makes, and models of Firearms and Laser weaponry from both Earth and Dimension X. In the early episodes of the 1987 cartoon series, Bebop and Rocksteady were armed with automatic rifles and machine guns which they used against the Turtles in the first major battles between the two sides. Later in the series, they were armed with laser rifles and pistols from Dimension X. Besides the extensive array of firepower from both Earth and Dimension X at their disposal, Bebop and Rocksteady were also armed with combat knives; Bebop with a double-bladed knife (which resembles the Gerber Mark II Combat Knife ) and Rocksteady with a Bowie Knife . The use of firearms and laser weaponry by Bebop and Rocksteady help to differentiate them from both the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Splinter , the Shredder, and the Foot Soldiers/Ninjas who use traditional ninja weaponry. This is because Bebop and Rocksteady were never ninjas and they were originally street punks who were skilled in the use of firearms before they were mutated. TRIVIA
VIDEO GAMES Bebop and Rocksteady both appear frequently in the classic TMNT Video Games , which are based on the 1987 cartoon. They are always Level Bosses , usually for one of the levels of the first half of the game – meaning they are easily defeated. Their exact placement vary from game to game:
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