Mouser (1987 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.

1987 Cartoon
They appear in the episode A Thing About Rats they were created by scientist Baxter Stockman to rid the town of the rat problem, April O'Neil warns the turtles about how they could go after Splinter, meanwhile they attack him he manages to hold them off until they overwhelm him the turtles come to his rescue and destroy the remaining ones, Shredder is angry about this and orders Stockman to program them to also attack turtles, they attack Splinter and April who manage to hold them off until the turtles arrive to destroy the remaining ones again but April's apartment building collapses due to the Mousers constant chomping and they manage to escape in time, the turtles decide to go after Stockman as he is responsible for the mess so they capture him and squeeze information out of him, meanwhile Michaelangelo sneaks into his mansion to shutdown the Mousers but is captured by Shredder and he orders the rest of the Mousers to attack the turtles, Splinter, and April, Krang frees Michelangelo because he doesn't want Shredder to succeed, so Michelangelo confronts Shredder and taunts him causing his anger to get the better of him he takes out a gun and shoots at him several times accidentally hitting the master control, Donatello takes control of the Mousers with a remote control he swiped from Stockman and commands them to bring down Baxter Stockman's mansion which collapses on top of them destroying them.

Appearances

 * "A Thing About Rats"