Hun (2003 TV series)

Hun is one of the characters and villians from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and Mirage Comics. He is also one of the main villains in the 2003 animated series, and he is a large, hulking bully, powerful but skilled in martial arts. He is the leader of the Purple Dragons street gang in that series and is The Shredder's right hand man. Due to his working with The Shredder, he also works with the Foot Clan. Although he despises all four turtles he has developed an intense rivalry with Raphael, as well as Casey Jones.

2003 Series
When Hun and the Purple Dragons were younger, they burned down Arnold Casey Jones Sr' (Casey's father) store. This caused Casey to develop a personal vendetta against Hun and the Purple Dragons. He his used weapons beside his powerful, enormous fists such as a metal-chain and a bazooka. In part 1 of The Shredder Strikes, Hun was seen using a sword. In this continuity, it was Hun that first entered the home of Hamato Yoshi in order to kill him and received a scar from his rat Splinter before the rat escaped. In other continuities where Hamato Yoshi was killed, it was Oroku Saki himself who was scarred (though such a twist would have made no sense, due to the nature of this version's Shredder).

During Season 3, Hun and Baxter Stockman have an uneasy friendship due to the fact they both serve the Shredder but are now considered expendable failures to him, as both have lost to the Ninja Turtles so many times and were demoted with their former positions filled by the more competent Dr. Chaplin and Karai - although unlike Stockman, Hun is still loyal to the Shredder despite being regular demoralized by his Master. Hun is also responsible for all of Stockman's "punishments"

In the episode Same As It Never Was, when Donatello is transported to a post-apocalyptic future courtesy of an enemy, Ultimate Drako, the Turtle find that Stockman's brain is attached to Hun's body (due to a punishment of the Shredder's) and that they have joined the Turtles' rebellion army - although Hun is still loyal to the Shredder.

In every major battle, Hun falls off or down something and yells "crud", and is shown again. Sometimes (usually when there is nothing to fall from) he will instead groggily stagger backwards and fall down onto the floor.

Hun hates the Utroms, considering them as much freaks as the Turtles. He later finds out that the Shredder (Oroku Saki) is actually an Utrom and was shocked. He was left behind when Shredder leaves for outer space, after falling down a shaft with Leatherhead and surviving.

Hun changed the Purple Dragons from a lowly street gang to an organized criminal syndicate and begins big-time operations. Hun now doesn't seem to like the Shredder after learning he is an Utrom and even asks Karai how could she serve the Shredder knowing that he was an Utrom. He was mentioned to be recruiting other street gangs to his cause.

Hun and the Purple Dragons were later recruited to aid the turtles against the armies of the resurrected Tengu Shredder, although Hun would later betray the group to steal Tengu Shredder's treasure, only for it to dissipate following the Tengu Shredder's destruction.

(4kids TMNT Blog post with concept art of Hun's various outfits here.)

Fast Forward
Hun appears in Mikeys story in Clash of the Turtle Titans and in a story in the episode The Journal.



Back to the Sewer
Hun's first appearance in Back to the Sewer is in The Engagement Ring. The episode sees Hun seeking the Ring of Yin, wishing to use its monster-creating powers to build an army against The Shredder, who he had heard was coming into power. He lords over the Purple Dragon, which have grown into an organized crime syndicate. When the ring is given to April by Casey as an engagement ring, Hun and the Purple Dragon kidnap April in an attempt to obtain it from her, going as far as to even considering cutting off her finger to get to it. Upon seeing Raphael, one of the Dragons asks him about the Turtles' supposed defeat at his hands, alluding to a section of bo and a sai on Hun's belt as "trophies", and Hun becomes visibly nervous when called on his bluff. In the end, Hun failed to obtain the ring, having been knocked off of the giant flying Demon April, and into the river.

Hun has been revealed to be a hardcore gamer, playing on SuperQuest as the Elfinator, a trash talking green elf. He worked with the Turtles, though not knowing it is them. When they obtained the keys to the chest holding Splinter's data bits, the Ultimate Gamer appeared, having masked himself as an NPC. Hun worked with the Turtles to turn Leo into a level 50 White Lion to defeat the Ultimate Gamer. He and Mikey (whom they had a rivalry online), befriend each other. Just then, a Dragon walked in on Hun, who immediately signed off and threatened to rip out the lackey's tongue if he told anyone.

Video Games
Hun has appeared in the following video games.
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 game)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 GBA game)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Melee
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Mutant Nightmare
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2007 GBA game)
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Arcade Attack

Turtles Forever
Hun made an appearance in Turtles Forever, capturing the "1988 Turtles" and becoming intrigued with the mutagen that those Turtles stole from 1988 Shredder. Later, Hun gets mutated accidentally, turning him into a creature resembling that of Slash, from the 1987 show. Hun is now furious that he has been transformed into a giant turtle, the one thing he hates most in the world, even more than the Shredder. Consumed with hatred, he rejoins with the Utrom Shredder to help him destroy the Turtles. He later aids the Turtles with his own technology when he learns that the Utrom Shredder wishes to destroy any reality that has Ninja Turtles. It's unknown whether or not Hun returns to his normal self since he is last seen getting erased from existence due to the Utrom Shredder's plan. Hun also hates it when 1988 Raphael is breaking the fourth wall and he doesn't understand who Raph is talking to. Hun is not present in the 1987's cartoon, nor the Live Action Movies.



Mirage Comics
Hun was created especially for the 2003 cartoon series. Initially, Peter Laird was not fond of the character, but later declared that he was one of his favorite new characters created for the series, as Hun was further fleshed out. Laird hinted for some time that Hun may make his way into the Mirage universe. On August 6, 2008, Tristan Jones confirmed that Hun would make his way into Tales of the TMNT #56 - a re-tooled version of his scrapped character Copperhead, who in turn, was based on Hun from the beginning. Jones' blog revealed Hun's full name in the comics to be Hunter Mason.

Hunter Mason has appeared in the following comics:
 * Dreamwave's TMNT #3
 * Dreamwave's TMNT #4
 * Tales of the TMNT v2 56
 * Tales of the TMNT v2 59
 * Tales of the TMNT v2 64

Family Ties
The children's book Lean, Green Smackdown Machine!, written by Stephen Murphy, establishes that Hun has a brother named Ahnold who appears nearly identical to him. There was also an un-produced episode of the 2003 series, Nightmares Recycled, which would have dealt with the fact that Hun and Garbageman were born as conjoined twins. It is unknown whether of these brothers can be considered related to Hun in the canon of the 2003 series, due to one only appearing in an obscure children's book (even if it was written by a well-known scribe of both TMNT comics and cartoons), and the other was never established as a sibling in a broadcast episode.