Mouser (2003 TV series)

The Mousers are robots created by Dr. Baxter Stockman and through this affiliation enemies of the Turtles. The robots are about knee high. They have a head with sharp teeth and two legs. Their jaws are strong enough to bite through steel.

Description and abilities
Standard Mouser robots are of the approximate size and shape of a turkey. Have a single eye and two enormous, hardened steel toothed jaws that can bite through concrete, brick and steel with ease. In addition, the Mousers are with their gripping toes able to climb walls, and have a body cavity, with which they can transport swallowed material or objects.

Standard Mousers only have a low intelligence and no independent thinking skills, they are basically drones and usually controlled by a central computer station or simply a remote control.

Mouser Variations
There are also various other models of Mousers, but these are mostly prototypes or test models.
 * Mouser
 * Big Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 video game))
 * Mother Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project)
 * Giant Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 game), TMNT: Mutant Melee, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Battle for the City, Action Figure, IDW)
 * Prototype Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 game))
 * Mouser v2.0 (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare)
 * "Bishop's Mouser" (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare)
 * Organic Mouser/Bio Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fast Forward)
 * Scout/Swarm Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW))
 * Disposal Unit Mouser (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW))

History
The Mousers were first developed and designed by Baxter Stockman, ostensibly to combat the rat problem in New York. In reality, these robots were designed to enrich him by being used for criminal purposes.

When the Turtles and April O'Neil appeared on the scene, they rushed Stockman - and in the 1987 animated series the Shredder - the Mousers occasionally downright hordes on it. As combat units, however, Mousers are very limited especially by their dependence on a central control unit, which made ​​them vulnerable to appropriate sabotage tactics.

2003 Cartoon
Their origin is very similar to the comics they first appear in the first episode Things Change as they try to kill Splinter he and the turtles manage to destroy them but at the cost of their lair so they are forced to find a new one. They appear in the next episode we learn that they were created by Baxter Stockman to control the rat problem and April O'Neil is his assistant, meanwhile Donatello gathers the remains of one and fixes it, upon being fixed it goes on a high speed chase where it eventually joins up with hundred of them in the sewer they engage in an all out brawl with the Mousers discovering that they are more durable than the last batch as a shot from a shuriken barely damaged one, eventually Leonardo discovers the only way to beat them is chop of their heads eventually destroying all but one which Donatello tries to capture to study but Raphael destroys it before he can. April discovers Baxter is also using them to rob banks and jewelry shops he discovers her and sics four Mousers after her, the turtles rescue her and destroy the ones that were sent after her, she passes out as this is their first meeting and she was initially afraid of them and they bring her to their lair. They explain to Splinter why they brought her with them April wakes up and eventually gets used to them and decides to work with them to destroy the Mousers, they make their way to the laboratory and encounter Stockman, who activates the Mousers to attack them, April and Donatello manage to shutdown the Mousers and make them self-destruct destroying them and putting Baxter Stockman out of business, and he is punished by The Shredder for failing him.

Mousers continued to make appearances throughout the rest of the series, including as aids to Stockman after he became a full-time member of Shredder's "staff." Later, Dr. Chaplin created a new variety of Mousers with four legs and the ability to transform into large spheres, which were deployed against the Turtles to retrieve a Triceraton anti-gravity generator from Hong Kong.

Fast Forward
In the episode Head of State, Agent Bishop and Baxter Stockman create Organic Mousers to protect earth from aliens. Many years later Baxter use them to try to kill than President Bishop. The Organic Mousers perished in a cave-in at Stockman's lab. After Bishop saved his life he told Stockman that the Department of Agriculture was interested in his Mousers.

Appearances

 * "Things Change"
 * "A Better Mousetrap"
 * "Attack of the Mousers"
 * "Tales of Leo"