Baxter Stockman is a former T.C.R.I. scientist whose work is instrumental to the development of most of the characters in the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
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History[]
Described as a "rogue" former employee, Stockman's employment at T.C.R.I. had ended at some point in the recent past. He was developing a mutagenic ooze that would accelerate the evolution of animal subjects, but T.C.R.I. sought to weaponize the concept. Stockman was opposed to that, and brought his work to a makeshift lab in an abandoned house. Yearning for a family more than anything, he intended to raise his liberated subjects as his own children. The eldest, the mutant housefly who would later take the name Superfly, was treated as his infant son.
Once Cynthia Utrom tracked down Stockman's location, she sent a strike team lead by Spider to apprehend Stockman and retrieve the assets. When they arrived, the baby Superfly fought off the soldiers, but one of them shot their anti-ooze gun at some volatile materials, which set off an explosion. The heavily armored soldiers were mostly dazed and injured but survived; Stockman, however, did not. As the soldiers carried off Stockman's body, he dropped a vial of ooze that fell into a floor drain. Under the cover of the dust of the detonation, Superfly rescued his developing "siblings" and began to raise them as their older brother and parental figure.
Notes and trivia[]
- This character is an adaptation of Baxter Stockman, first created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. This version was developed by Brendan O'Brien and designed by Woodrow White.
- The Superfly action figure from Playmates Toys was based on an early version of the film where Baxter became Superfly instead of them being two different characters, leaving some of Baxter's wardrobe on the figure.[1]
- This incarnation of Baxter is the same age as his voice actor, Giancarlo Esposito. Unlike previous entries where Stockman is depicted in his thirties.
- This version of Baxter Stockman doesn't seem to be a villain because the motivations for his actions were not malicious in nature and he just wanted to have a family. He is also the only version of Stockman who never encounters the Turtles since he died before they were even mutated.
- Also this version of Baxter Stockman is somewhat similar to the Fugitoid, since someone else wanted to use his creation as a weapon, which he did not want to allow.