Triceratons

The Triceratons are an alien race who resemble anthropomorphic triceratops, and breathe a mix of nitrogen and sulfur. Outside of their native environments, they wear protective face helmets to provide them with necessary atmosphere. They destroyed their home planet for some unexplained reason.

Mirage Comics
Along with the Fugitoid, the Triceratons were one of the earliest creations of Mirage Studios, predating the TMNT.

1987 Series
The TMNT toyline included a Triceraton figure. They appear as villainous invaders on the original TMNT show in the episode Night of the Dark Turtle, under the command of a Captain Zorax.

History
For some unexplained reasons, the Triceratons accidentally destroyed their homeworld, forcing them to live on mobile rocks converted into new homeworlds and have been in conflict with the Federation.

The Triceraton Republic was a glorious empire whose warriors were filled with honour. But when Prime Leader Zanramon took over, the Republic soon began to regress, with few warriors left with the true meaning of honour.

To level the scales against their hated enemies, the Triceratons looked for Professor Honeycutt, who had developed a teleportal. a device that could instantaneously transport anything across the universe. Like the Federation, the Triceratons planned to use the device to defeat the former. They captured the professor thanks to a Federation collaborator. They then try to promise Honeycutt protection if he builds his device but the deal changed when he recognized his four Turtle friends, who were threatened with death. The threat got even bigger when the Turtles were put in The Games. But they managed to escape, take Zanramon hostage so as to secure his personal cruiser. The Triceratons soon battled against the Federation who had arrived to take custody of the escaped Fugitoid.

The Triceratons soon tracked the transmat beam from Earth and began invading to find out where Honeycutt was but the united Nations had no idea what they were talking about. It was soon apparent that Honeycutt was not on the planet, as they could not trace his positronic signature anywhere on the planet, so they left. But they came back when Honeycutt returned from the Utrom homeworld to surrender. This lead to a wide goose chase around New York City. The Triceratons were soon ambushed by a waiting Federation fleet, who were allied with the Earth Protection Force. Honeycutt soon disabled the Fed ships, so Zanramon ordered them destroyed. His commander, Mozar, refused to and assisted in a coup d'eta to overthrow him.

Technology
Triceraton technology is near to the level as the Federation.

Society
The Republic was once a society of honor and glory, but with Zanramon takeover, the Republic lost sense of that. But thanks to Traximus, the old Republic was restored.

On one of the homeworlds, there is a place called "The Games", where helpless beings are pitted against each other for fun. But Triceraton gladiators is also available to the Federation, which is their number one show.

Video Games

 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project: A Triceraton was featured on the game's cover, but were never featured in the game.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Manhattan Missions: Triceraton soldiers were featured as standard enemies and bosses.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Radical Rescue: A Triceraton served as the game's third boss.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters: A Triceraton appears as a ruthless and unplayable boss in the Genesis version.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus: Triceratons served as enemy troops that attacked the Turtles en masse. Traximus served as a boss in this game. [[Zog also appears in the game.
 * TMNT: Mutant Melee: Traximus was a playable character; Commander Mozar and generic Triceratons were unplayable CPU-controlled enemies in story mode.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare: Triceratons returned once more as a standard enemy. Commander Mozar, and Zanramon (piloting the Trigolem) were bosses in this game.