Bebop

Bebop was a Human punk, who along with Rocksteady became Shredder's right hand men following his mutation into a Mutant warthog.

1987 TV series
Bebop was human gangster, affiliated with the likes of thugs such as fellow mutant Rocksteady. After his army of Foot Soldiers failed to stop the Turtles, Krang suggested that Shredder mutate his own mutant soldiers to fight his enemies. With a new plan, Shredder sought two "volunteers" for his experiments. Using robot drones, Shredder stole a rhino and a warthog from the zoo and brought them in the room with his new test subjects.

The result...Bebop became a mutated mix of warthog and man, donning twin turtle shells on his shoulders to mark his new job as an enforcer for the Shredder. However, the Shredder's choice in test subjects were...less than stellar. Although tough, both Bebop and Rocksteady were far from the brightest of the bunch.

Despite his supposed lack of intelligence Bebop is continuously employed by the Shredder and is entrusted to carry out various jobs that, almost always, failing miserably.

However, on the 'red sky' season they seem to grasp some form of intelligence, but talked and joked around less.


 * He was voiced by Barry Gordon.

Video Games
Bebop appeared as a boss in many of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle video games, sometimes paired with Rocksteady as a double-boss. Even though Rocksteady was a boss in The Hyperstone Heist, Bebop was nowhere to be seen.

Mirage Comics
Bebop appears in Tales of the TMNT Volume 2 Issue #58.

Trivia

 * According to "Enter the Shredder," Bebop apparently is an avid reader of comic books.
 * Bebop and his cohort Rocksteady were slightly more of a threat in the Archie Adventures adaptation of the TV series origin. This could be attributed to issues of violence on TV, still, although he could be considered being slightly more competent in the comics it wasn't by much. Even so, by the time Archie Adventures started doing their own theme, it seems Bebop and Rocksteady reverted to something more similar to their cartoon counterparts.
 * Despite being black in the cartoon the Mutatin' Bebop action figure shows Bebop's human form as a white man.
 * In the 2003 series episode Samurai Tourist, Gen, an anthropomorphic rhinocerous, is being chased by Kojima, an assassin who happens to be a humanoid warthog, like Bebop.
 * In another episode, "Future Shellshock," Michelangelo falls out of a truck and onto another vehicle, the driver of which looks exactly like Bebop, only with smaller, more modern sunglasses.
 * In TMNT, He and Rocksteady were mentioned in Shell Shock, a rap song that played in the end credits.
 * Bebop has been confirmed to appear in 4Kids' 25th anniversary direct-to-DVD special.