El Gran Bonzo ("The Great/Grand Bonze") is a sumō wrestler and monk from the planet Magard. While initially an enemy of Moycat and by association, the Tortugas Ninja, he becomes an ally after he is double-crossed by his boss, Glutter.
History[]
Moycat materializes before the Tortugas, Bebop, and Rocoso suddenly one day during a fight between the two sides, and El Gran Bonzo is not far behind. The sumō had been tasked by Magard dictator Glutter to retrieve Moycat, who had escaped his custody. The Tortugas decide to help Moycat, as they deduce that the Bonzo is the oppressor in the situation. After he decks Moycat, Miguel Ángel attacks him, but is also knocked away. Donatelo knocks him into the portal from whence he came, and the Tortugas return home with Moycat.
Back on Magard, Glutter is irate with the sumō for losing Moycat, and drops him down a trap door in the floor.
Later, after the Tortugas go with Moycat back to Magard to liberate the people from Glutter, they encounter El Gran Bonzo again. He explains that he's turned against Glutter after the way he was treated, and now teams up with Moycat and the mutants to fight Glutter's soldiers. When the Tortugas and Moycat discover a way to infiltrate Glutter's palace, El Gran Bonzo offers to hold off the dictator's forces so they can safely do so.