Timothy (2012 TV series)

Mutagen Man is the character formerly known as "The Pulverizer", a teenage fanboy of the Turtles whose real name is Timothy. He debuted in the episode The Pulverizer (episode).

History
"The Pulverizer" is the Turtles first ever fanboy and a wannabe superhero. He first saw them when they fought Baxter Stockman on the roof near his apartment in "I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman". Thinking the Turtles were crimefighters in turtle costumes, he decided to become one himself. Making his own turtle costume and calling himself "The Pulverizer", he set out to become a hero. However, he does not have any fighting skills at all. Months after seeing them for the first time, "The Pulverizer" meets the Turtles in person. When he attempts to stop the Purple Dragons, he is quickly outmatched and the Turtles come to his rescue. They succeed in saving his life, but his attempts to help them fight results in the gang escaping with their stolen loot. The Turtles try to ditch "The Pulverizer", but the tails of his mask get caught in the door of the Shellraiser as they drive away. They unwittingly drive him back to the lair, but fortunately for them, he blacked out most of the way and didn't see how they got there.

Still oblivious to the fact that the Turtles are mutants (until Donnie tells him), as well as the fact that they don't want him in their lair, "The Pulverizer" quickly becomes a nuisance. He does, however, give them a clue as to what the Purple Dragons stole and why. However, they leave "The Pulverizer" behind with Donatello. After trying to ignore him for a while, Donnie tries to teach the overeager hero wannabe some basic self-defense moves with little success. In the middle of the training, after Donnie teaches him how to knock people over (where he fails horribly), Mikey calls and tells him about a situation with Raph.

Donnie asks the Pulverizer to drive the Shellraiser while he makes an antidote for Fishface's venom. Before they reach the building, they reach a roadblock, which Donnie forces him to jump. After Donnie injects the antidote in Raph, he discovers the lead casing on the power cell is broken because of the jump. The turtles and Pulverizer get in the Shellraiser and try to hurry back to the lair. Unfortunately, the Kraang find them and the turtles, except Leo, try to fend them off. Leo crashes the Shellraiser into a wall and he joins the action. The Pulverizer, meanwhile, stays inside and catches one of the Kraang stealing the power cell. He tries to stop it and fails, but he still pursues it. Donnie warns him not to go after the Kraang, but he ignores him. He tries to knock the Kraang down with a technique Donnie taught him, but he fails. Instead, two more Kraang droids attack him while the other one gets on a helicopter. At first, Donnie goes after the power cell, but he decides to help the Pulverizer. The Pulverizer blames himself for the power cell getting stolen, but Donnie admits it was his own fault. He then tells The Pulverizer that he won't be learning from him anymore, but Pulverizer vows to continue training.

In the episode, Pulverizer Returns! he joins the Foot Clan, but he is pathetic as a Foot Ninja, and is cannon fodder. He tries to be a spy, much to Donatello's protest, but he gives them some information about the foot's plans. He then volunteers to be mutated, but then Donatello comes in and attacks Dogpound and Fishface to save him. He is able to keep The Pulverizer away from the mutagen just as the other turtles arrive, who defeat all of the foot soldiers. When cornered by Dogpound, and with the turtles fighting the Foot soldiers and Fishface, The Pulverizer pours ooze on himself and mutates. He gets his wish to be a mutant, but turns into a hideous mess of organs. When Dogpound locks the doors and rigs the place with plastic explosives, the turtles could easily leave, but Donatello refuses to leave without him. The Turtles store him in some sort of Mutagen Containment Barrel and Raphael breaks out with his steath bike. At the lair, Donatello vows to find a way to cure him.

In the episode Mutagen Man Unleashed He appears as the main villain in this episode as he drinks some ooze, gets new arms and legs,and goes on a rampage after April O' Neil. During a Battle, Mikey calls him "Mutagen Man" and during another Battle he calls himself that. He is defeated in the end by Donnie freezing him. Donnie still promises that he will try to make Timothy human again.

Appearance
As a human, he is an overweight teenager In a Turtle costume. He wore a rubber green suit with a yellow stomach area, with lines in it that resemble the turtle's. He also wore a red bandana similar to Raphael's. As a mutant, he is a transparent blob monster with his brain and other organs floating around inside of him.

Personality
Overly-excitable, clumsy and a big dreamer, The Pulverizer doesn't seem that bright or fit to be a ninja or crime-fighter. He's determined to be a superhero, but his lack of patience, poor physical shape and naive worldview makes him more of a hindrance than anything else. The Pulverizer is overall oblivious to the ways of ninja and is seen to be defeated by most opponents. In "The Pulverizer Returns", he was working alongside The Foot Clan, however, it is implied that they too thought he was worthless, and that they only intended to use him for an experiment. Ultimately, believing that the highly dangerous, painful and unpredictable mutagen would transform him into a mutant superhero, despite the clear warnings from Donnie, proved to be his undoing.

After the trauma of his mutation he became even less intelligent than he already was and his demeanor devolved into becoming more feral and aggressive. He did momentarily seem to possess enough presence of mind to comprehend what happened to him after seeing his reflection, and could apparently recognize his own name. After being contained he seemed pretty mindless.

In Mutagen Man Unleashed he gains a small amount of intelligence, Donnie called him a "Barely Sentient Glob of Intestinal Goo". After grew some limbs from drinking mutagen he became quite deranged and out of touch from reality. He also gains speech from the speaker Donnie built for him. Whether out of loneliness or the mutagen's effect, Donnie's talks(or rants) about April made him see a kindred spirit in April. As he apparently blamed the turtles for what happened to him and saw that April was the closest thing he could have to a friend.

Abilities
As the Pulverizer, he was an incredibly bad fighter, and the Foot Clan only found him useful for being a distraction of enemies.

As Mutagen Man he gained a lot more powers, including super strength (actually able to take on the Turtles in a fight), regenerative powers (able to regrow a severed hand a few moments after it was cut off) as well as acid leaking out of holes in his palms and fingers (said acid also shot out like blood after his hand was cut off). It is shown that he can use his mouth and "throat" like a tentacle outside of the glass cabin carrying his organs, able to eat and swallow mutagen, as well as lifting an opponent in battle. However, contrasting his newgained super powers, his mutation also resulting in him suffering from a serious weakness: his addiction to mutagen, in order to maintain the use of his limbs, otherwise they shrivel up and weaken greatly. Because of this, Donatello realized a way to defeat Mutagen Man - by using a certain chemical reaction in a mutagen canister, he succesfully caused the mutant to freeze up entirely after ingesting it.

As Pulverizer

 * "You forgot to pay for that, but I accept cash, checks, or TEETH!"


 * "I wanna be a hero NOW!"


 * "I don't usually drive over 8 miles per hour."


 * "Check out these muscles. Foam Rubber! Much faster than working out!"


 * (After doing one move semi-correctly) "All Right! When do I get my black belt?"


 * "I don't have time for the basics, just skip to the good stuff!"


 * (About Splinter) "Does he know he's a rat?"


 * "OW!! OH IT BURNS! I DIDN'T THINK IT WOULD BURN SO BAD! "
 * "AH OH!"
 * "IT REALLY BURNS!"


 * "You can survive with just one kidney right?"


 * "This is my chance to be like you guys! Pour some mutagen on me AND BOOM I'M A SUPERHERO!"


 * "Dude, what's with all the pizza boxes!?"


 * "OKAY Giant...Man Dog Thing.......you asked for it! MY MUTATION!"


 * (To Leo) You were all like, "Let's Finish this!" (to Raph) And you were all like "You're going down!" (To Mikey) And you were all like "Bees!!" (to Donnie) "Oh, And you were.......You were all like the strong and silent type."

As Mutagen Man

 * Speaking to You Donnie
 * Turtles hurt April.... Turtles hurt me....Must destroy Turtles !
 * Leave Mutagen Man Alone!
 * AHH destroy you allll!
 * Donnie something's wron a oh !
 * I like April, Donnie.
 * I crush you!

Gallery
See:Mutagen Man (2012 TV Series) / Gallery 

Trivia

 * The Pulverizer's costume resembles the design of the Turtles from 1987 TV series, including having his initial on his belt.
 * His idolizing of the Turtles, and attempt to become like them, mirrors both Zach from the 1987 series and the second Turtle Titan from the 2003 TV series.
 * His training with Donatello is similar to Casey Jones' with the turtles in the 2003 TV series.
 * He is also the fourth human to be on friendly terms with the Turtles (the first being April O'Neil, the second being Mr. Murakami, and the third being April's father Kirby O'Neil).
 * It is possible that Pulverizer is inspired by the popular comic book and movie character Kick-Ass, as both characters live in New York, both have no training and are often beaten up by criminals, and both are trained by a martial artist (Pulverizer by Donatello, Kick-Ass by Hit Girl). Also, they both are inspired by superheroes to become real-life superheroes.
 * Pulverizer trained in Chris Bradford's dojo in an attempt to follow Donatello's advice to get training.
 * Once mutated, he did not become a traditional animal-hybrid mutant, likely because he did not touch any animals without his gloves on around the time he was exposed to the mutagen. Donatello and Dogpound did touch him prior to the mutation, but only on clothed parts of his body, it is unknown if any other human else would turn into the same thing if they came in contact with the mutagen without having prior contact with an animal, plant or fungi.
 * It IS possible that the mutagen did interact with a certain form of life: The microbes commonly found on and inside the human body. His mutant form can be compared to a single celled organism, with vital components suspended within a membrane.
 * Laird is embossed on Mutagen Man's voice communicator. This is a tribute to Peter Laird, the co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise.
 * Mutagen Man will be released as an action figure in Spring 2014.