Leatherhead is an animal-born mutant crocodile who is one of the "sisters" of Superfly's gang.
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Details in this section are currently from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem The Junior Novelization and may not completely reflect the content in the film itself. If any divergence is found, the information will be split accordingly.
Leatherhead is one of the many mutant experiments rescued by Superfly. With nobody else to guide Wingnut and the others through life, Superfly raised the mutants on his own, becoming a father figure and elder brother to them. After Superfly and his found family attempted to make contact with humans and were treated like monsters, Superfly was convinced - and convinced his family - that humans were the real monsters, piling on the slaying of his father as additional evidence.
So Superfly and his crew of mutants went to build a machine that would mutate all of the world's animals and allow them to overpower and eliminate humanity. Superfly preferred to work under the radar most of the time and hire human thugs to steal things for him, but when that wouldn't suffice, his family would use their talents.
Four other mutants, the Ninja Turtles, investigate Superfly and his gang's robberies, and are welcomed into the family as "cousins" when Superfly realizes that Stockman's mutagen made them what they are. The Turtles begin bonding with certain members of the crew.
Superfly then has the Turtles ride along with his crew to transport a piece of the assimilator back to their hideout near Staten Island.
Superfly sends the Turtles over the overpass and the gang takes the assimilator piece on their own. After the Turtles escape another predicament and regroup with their Master Splinter, they head to the boat graveyard at Staten Island and attempt to stop the crew from achieving their goal. The Turtles convince the gang that Superfly's plan is horrible and that humans have done some good in their time, and they are persuaded to stop their elder brother from turning on the device. The four Turtles, Splinter, and the other mutants battle him to keep him from turning it on, but when he is knocked into it and electrocuted, he hits the power button. Rocksteady and Bebop knock the machine and Superfly into the water, but the machine combined him with local aquatic and wildlife, transforming him into a massive monstrosity calling himself "Superduperfly". In his rage, Superduperfly headed toward mainland New York and attacked it, while the Turtles, Splinter, and Superduperfly's ex-gang fought him off. After the Turtles dropped some anti-ooze into his blowhole to regress him to a normal fly, Leatherhead and the other mutants went to live with the Turtles in the sewer.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]
In a video call, Leatherhead reveals a special fondness for Pigeon Pete, and that he's welcome to live with them.Night of the Mechazoids
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- This is the first depiction of Leatherhead to be portrayed as female.
- Leatherhead's attire is directly based on her 1987 incarnation.
- Due to Leatherhead being voiced Rose Byrne, she speaks in an Australian accent. This change was on behalf of producer/co-writer Seth Rogen, as he expressed a humorous interest to have the actress voice an Australian Crocodile, rather than a Cajun Alligator.