Baxter Stockman is a character appearing in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto crossover comic series. He is a brilliant scientist and polymath.
History[]
Having traveled to Hidden Leaf Village to meet with Lady Tsunade, April O’Neil is being escorted back to the Northeastern trading port island of Big Apple Village by Team 7. During the trip home, April doesn't talk much, but Naruto's antics relax her enough to explain the reason for her trip. This had to do with a need to meet with a ninja biology expert for her story on experimental science. It all started back home when scientist Baxter Stockman reached out to tell the press his side of the story on why he had been let go from the city's foremost university. April met with him and he told her that the university had hired him to engineer machines. Stockman considered himself a polymath and spent his time, and the school budget, on biological research instead. The university was not happy. Stockman was obsessed with the potential military applications of bio-mutations, all made possible by his theoretical mutagenic compound. Calling it 'ooze', Stockman imagined creating innately powerful supersoldiers possessing the fiercest traits of humans and animals. As April tells the story, there are flashbacks to her meeting in Stockman's lab. He shows her a small mutagen container, and then a much larger machine containing the substance. The scene cuts to April standing amidst debris and fire, looking up at the shadows of huge, mutated creatures. April tells Team 7 that Stockman wanted to create and control monstrous mutant ninjas. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles x Naruto issue 1