Xever Montes (2012 TV series)

Xever aka Fishface is a character that appears in the new 2012 TV series. Along with Dogpound, he is one of The Shredder's top henchmen.

Overview
Xever was a Brazilian street urchin. At some point in his life, Xever was sent to prison where he made his own weapons, and was also where Shredder found him and broke him out. He then became one of his top henchmen in the Foot Clan.

He debuted in the episode New Friend, Old Enemy. There, he is partnered up with Chris Bradford to find and kill Splinter, as Xever knows his way around the criminal underworlds of each city. After Chris Bradford set the trap for Mikey, he and Bradford easily captured him. After Leo, Donnie, and Raph saved Mikey, Xever and Bradford followed them into the sewer. He proved to be more than a match for Donatello and Michelangelo, but was outmatched by Leonardo and Raphael when the Turtles switched foes. The Turtles then flushed Chris and Xever out of the sewers.

In Never Say Xever, Shredder puts Xever in charge of getting rid of the Turtles. Xever uses his connections with the Purple Dragons to do this. After the Turtles save Mr. Murakami from the Dragons, they follow one of them, Fong to their hideout in the fortune cookie factory. Just as Fong tells Xever and Bradford about the Turtles, they make their entrance and a fight breaks out. While Bradford handles Donnie and Mikey, Xever fights with Leo who he is easily able to beat, until Raph intervenes. When the Foot Ninjas arrive, the Turtles retreat, much to both Xever's and Raphael's frustration. Xever punishes Fong, before realizing that they have to hold an ally hostage to make them stay. He holds Mr. Murakami over a tall building, and waits for his foes. When the turtles open a trash can and show a captured Bradford to him, he does not release Murakami, stating that Bradford's not his friend and that he wanted him to fall over. As he is cutting the rope to hold Mr. Murakami up, Leonardo pulls him up, as Xever orders the foot ninjas to fight. The turtles are able to defeat them, while dodging Xever's kunai. When Bradford escapes with one of the Kunai, he asks Xever how he was so sure that Leo was bluffing, which Xever responded with "I wasn't". He is then able to defeat Raphael by hitting him while he was distracted by foot soldiers, which worked after a couple of hits. He uses the same tactic for Leonardo, except it worked with only one blow. When showing off his skills to Bradford, and about to fillet the turtles, Fong gives Leonardo his sword back, and they are pushed away by a water tower, giving the turtles enough time to escape.

In "The Gauntlet," he is shown along with Bradford being punished by Shredder, as he stated that he should have left him in the prison that he found him in. After that, he goes out to hunt the Turtles along with his partner. On the way, he sees and touches a weird looking fish. He finds the brothers while Donatello is trying to shut down the Kraang's mutagen bomb. He is able to make short work of Leonardo and Michelangelo, before helping Bradford defeat Raphael. After Bradford is defeated and the bomb is disarmed, Donatello helps Raphael battle Xever. He is initially able to beat them, after dodging several attacks, he finds himself cornered with Bradford. Xever refuses to surrender, and Bradford tried to bring them down with them by stabbing the mutagen bomb, which instead made a straight blast that focused all of the mutagen on those two. He mutated into Fishface because the weird looking fish was the last thing he touched, and because of it, he can no longer breathe in the air, and was suffocating for Shredder's help.

In the following episode, "Panic in the Sewers", Xever made a brief cameo in Shredder's pool, showing how he survived. In the next episode, "Mousers Attack!", he is still confined to the pool and complains about it. Bradford mocks him and taps on the glass covering the water, giving Xever a painful headache. Bradford talks about how Shredder may get hungry for sushi, enraging him, and telling Bradford to come into the water so he can kill him. However, Xever backs down when Shredder tells him he is useless to him this way.

In "The Alien Agenda", Baxter Stockman has successfully built a breathing rig for Xever, but the mechanical legs don't work right until Karai provides Stockman with some useful parts from a broken Kraang droid. In "The Pulverizer", Stockman uses stolen Kraang technology to make Xever's Robotic Legs functional. The Turtles come after him, and engages the new "Fishface" in combat. With the help of the Purple Dragons, the new and improved Xever manages to almost defeat them, and even poison Raphael. Donnie and Pulverizer arrives with the Shellraiser, giving Raph the antidote and temporarily defeating Fishface and Stockman.

Quotes

 * "Pretty weapon, for such a tough guy. In prison, we made our own weapons."
 * "HEY, STAY AND FIGHT, YOU COLD BLOODED COWARDS!"
 * (About Bradford) "He's not my friend!"
 * (About the turtles wanting to throw Bradford off a building) "Go ahead. He'll save me the trouble."
 * "See Bradford? That is how you catch Turtles. And next, I'll show you how to fillet them!"
 * "Ah yes. What would we have done without your brave leadership, from inside the trash can?"
 * Oh, sorry for the inconvience! When would you prefer to breathe your last breath?"
 * "(Gasping for air) Help....me!!!"
 * "If I wasn't stuck here, I would've caught Splinter by now."

Trivia

 * Although Xever is not officially named "Fishface" until "The Pulverizer", he listed by that name in some of the previous episode credits.

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