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Metalhead 2.0, part 1 is an issue in IDW Publishing's TMNT Universe comic series.
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"Metalhead 2.0" Part 1! Donatello reboots a new and improved Metalhead only to find that the robot no longer functions entirely as designed… for better and worse!
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In the aftermath of being transferred back into his body, Donatello tries to repair the destroyed Metalhead. He finally reactivates the robot, only for it to go into emergency mode and fire at him. His brothers rush in to help, only for the robot to start speaking in Donatello's voice, referring to himself as Donatello, until he sees that the real Donatello is already standing there.
It turns out that some kind of copy or imprint was left behind in Metalhead, with all of Donatello's emotions, memories, and even phantom pain left behind from the savage beating by Bebop and Rocksteady. Donatello can't explain this, but he soon determines that Metal-Don (as Michelangelo names him) is the same as Donatello is in almost every respect.
The other three Turtles have varying responses to this strange event: Leonardo doesn't believe that Metal-Don is anything but a deluded copy, Raphael doesn't trust him, and Michelangelo believes that Metal-Don is "real."
Donatello takes Metal-Don out into the night for some fresh air, and eventually takes him to the zoo, which he finds peaceful. But when Metal-Don sees a rhinoceros, he flashes back to Rocksteady smashing his shell. He starts muttering about being trapped and needing to be free, and blasts the rhino with his laser. Before Donatello can deactivate him, he declares that he'd rather be dead than continue to live as a robot, and that he's a monster.
He blasts Donatello to the ground, and says that he needs his body back.
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- Donatello was mortally wounded by Bebop and Rocksteady in TMNT (IDW) #44. He had his mind placed in Metalhead's body in TMNT (IDW) #45. He had his mind restored to his own body in TMNT (IDW) #50. And Metalhead was shown being rebuilt in TMNT (IDW) #51.
- Metalhead's malfunctioning defense protocols were seen in his first appearance in TMNT (IDW) #34.
- Harold had his falling out with the Turtles in TMNT (IDW) #64.
- Donatello and the Fugitoid had their talk about the nature of the soul in TMNT (IDW) #20.
- Donatello met his future-self in TMNT: Turtles in Time #4.