Baxter Stockman (2012 TV series)

Baxter Stockman appears in the 2012 TV series, voiced by Phil LaMarr. Like both the Mirage and 2003 incarnations, Baxter is an American scientist. He debuted in the episode.

History
In Baxter Stockman's early life, he was expelled from school after making a volcano project containing real lava, resulting in the entire gym being burned down...

Afterwards, he got a job anyways, working at a TCRI office complex in Brooklyn, but was fired over an incident with nothing but a broken copier machine...To get revenge, he built his own powered battle armor and tried to break into the building. Along the way, he ran into the Turtles, whom defeated him very easily by throwing him into a dumpster, but Michelangelo accidently loses the newly invented T-pod during the fight and Baxter finds it after his defeat, successfully upgrading his armor.

With his new rudimentary armor, Stockman successfully attacked the office that he was fired from. The attack was reported on the news, revealing his identity to the Turtles, as well as showing them that he had the T-pod. They tracked Stockman down to his hideout to get the T-pod back, but this time, Stockman was way too powerful for them...After a while, Stockman's armor upgraded itself once again using the A.I. chip, and the Turtles had no choice but to escape back to their lair. Later, Stockman faced the Turtles for a third time, but they had thought of a better strategy this time. While Leonardo, Raphael, and Donatello distracted Stockman, Mikey retrieved a beehive from a nearby greenhouse and threw it directly into the suit's only opening. The swarm of bees stung Stockman from inside the suit, allowing Leo to break the T-pod. The powerless Stockman was then defeated and thrown in the trash for the second time...

In, Stockman finally appears to get more success as a self-proclaimed villain thanks to his robotic M.O.U.S.E.R.S. The robots start off by stealing loot from the Purple Dragons, which leads Leo and Raph to his hideout. Stockman is ready for them this time, however. He has a seemingly endless supply of robots at his disposal, and sprays the two Turtles with a tracking mist so the robots can chase them all over town. However, Stockman is knocked out by Purple Dragons Tsoi and Sid and taken to Dogpound for stealing their loot. Dogpound spares Stockman's life when he finds they have a mutual animosity for the Turtles, plus Stockman has the electronic skills to hack into April's stolen cell phone...Stockman does not have time to do the deed, however, when the Turtles bring the Mousers into the building with them. Dogpound soon takes Stockman to The Shredder. Shredder is very angry with Stockman for his interference, yet lets him live for an unspecified reason, which we later find out is to provide Xever with an aparatus, allowing the latter to breathe, fight, and walk on land.

In , Stockman is seen laying the 'final' touches on Xever's aparatus. The breathing rig seems to work very well, but Stockman has alot of difficulty in getting the robotic legs to function properly...When Karai comes into The Shredder's hideout with a broken Kraang-droid, Stockman finds that it has the exact technology he needs to perfect Xever's new legs.

Later, in, Stockman successfully completes Xever's legs with more Kraang technology that the Purple Dragons steal for him. Thanks to a tip from The Pulverizer, the Turtles track them down to Stockman's hideout. Michelangelo quickly dubs Xever "Fishface" upon seeing his ghastly mutated form, and the Turtles ensuingly fight him, but are quickly outmatched...When Donatello and The Pulverizer crash into the building with the gigantic Shellraiser, Stockman retreats, along with Fishface and the Purple Dragons.

In, Baxter appears as the primary villain. Baxter Stockman tells The Shredder of his full-proof plan, which is seemingly (at first) to lure the turtles into his trap, which he names the Maze of Doom. However, Baxter secretly plots to lure Dogpound and Fishface into the Maze of Doom as well, because the two had previously been harrassing and threatening to harm him multiple times. His plan on trapping all of them in the maze would thus cover his revenge on all of them, but although they fall for his villainous scheme, the turtles, Dogpound, and Fishface successfully battle their way through, by working together, despite normally being enemies. Baxter Stockman then unleashes the Monster of Doom, a modified Stockman Pod, to attack his enemies. After the Monster of Doom is destroyed, Baxter Stockman uses his helicopter hat to fly away from the turtles, Dogpound, and Fishface, though vows to return.

In, Baxter Stockman sets up a headquarters in the remains of TCRI, so he can start creating his mutant army. The turtles find him there while looking for a molecular centrifuge. As Baxter Stockman unleashes the M.O.U.S.E.R.S to attack the turtles, Dogpound also arrives. Dogpound manages to get his hands on both Baxter Stockman and the molecular centrifuge. Upon Dogpound seeing some mutagen tanks in Baxter's lab, Baxter states that he has been planning to make an army of mutants. When Baxter claims that he can make Dogpound and Fishface humans again, Dogpound places a mutagen collar around Baxter's neck as "ensurance", however the turtles and Dogpound battle, eventually resulting in Dogpound falling into one of Stockman's mutagen tanks, and mutating into Rahzar, who proves to be incredibly powerful in combat. However, Baxter's project is crashed by Michelangelo, when the latter tricks Rahzar into striking an electric power plug. Baxter Stockman, Rahzar, and Fishface are all shocked when the sprinklers are activated by Donatello. By the time Baxter wakes up, the turtls are gone and Karai has arrived at his lab, where she tells him that he's gonna work for her and The Shredder again.

Personality
Baxter's timid and dorky appearance belies a vicious and vengeful heart. He harbors deep rooted resentment at a world he feels has constantly wronged him. In, he admitted that he was "full on mega crazy". Baxter is looked down upon by other people as a weak, pathetic person, which only adds fuel to his resentment, although he often acts as just that when facing dominating personalities, such as Rahzar or The Shredder. The main thing that makes Baxter incredibly dangerous is his skills in engineering powerful weapons, robotics and various other useful inventions, which he has a humorous habit of naming something involving the phrase "of doom".

Gallery
See: Baxter Stockman (2012 TV series) / Gallery

Trivia

 * One of the running gags in the show is the turtles get his name wrong, so far the only episodes that the turtles got his name right is I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman and The Pulverizer.
 * Baxter used to work at TCRI shown in I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman.
 * Baxter Stockman is included in Nick.com's "Mutation Station" gallery, which has the following description of him: "This neighborhood tinkerer was powerless until his robot suit paired up with Donnie's mp3 player and a drip of ooze!" This is incorrect. When Stockman's armor is upgraded in his debut episode, there is no ooze involved in the upgrade.
 * Baxter is shown to be insane. In Baxter's Gambit, he tells how as a young child he was sensitive and as he grew up in his life he would hurt people that made fun of him, going to extremes to flood his school with lava and try killing his employers at his job.
 * Another running gag is sometimes the turtles would throw him in the dumpster as shown in I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman.
 * In the 16th episode of season 2 he will turn into Baxter fly, which is a nod to the 1987 series.
 * Its also worth noting that this new Baxter fly looks very similar to The Fly from the film "Return of The Fly!" due to it having a very huge head.
 * LEGO versions of Baxter and his Baxter-pod suit were released in the 2013 set Baxter Robot Rampage - 79105