In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Todd Capybara is the owner of Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue who was mutated into a capybara. Todd is also an ally and good friend to the Mad Dogs.
Physical appearance[]
Todd Capybara is mutant capybara with a brown body, a dark brown nose, long curly blonde hair, a blonde mustache, blue eyes, a plump figure, and three fingers on each hand. He wears a pink t-shirt, blue jeans, a black belt with silver hardware, and white boots.
Personality[]
Todd is shown to be very cheerful, hospitable, and quite genial. His cheerfulness can be unintentionally exhausting.
History[]
Todd debuted in "Repo Mantis", introduced as the owner of Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue, an amateur refuge for puppies operating out of an RV in the rural woodlands of Long Island. However, he had fallen behind on the payments for the RV and Michelangelo and Donatello visited on behalf of Repo Mantis to repossess the RV. Todd greeted them with lemonade, puppies, and overwhelming niceness, making it difficult for them to do their task. Faced with making Todd and the puppies homeless, Donnie agreed to build Todd and his puppies a new place to live, and spent the next few days making an elaborate home. Todd was deeply grateful to the Turtles, and bid them farewell as they took the RV back to Repo Mantis Salvage.
Todd reappeared in "The Evil League of Mutants" providing each of the members with lemonade upon being hired by Huginn and Muninn at the Radisson Hotel. The mutants' drinking of the lemonade interrupted Baron Draxum, although he later enjoyed a glass himself. Todd joined the League to the site where they planned to attack the Turtles, introducing his new friends to them much to their dismay, but Todd himself did not take part in the fight. As a member of the League, Todd was described as being "as bad as they come".
Todd helped Mikey spy on Meat Sweats in "Nothing But Truffle" to learn his pork chop recipe by allowing him to sit on his shoulders to watch him cook. Despite their efforts to hide from Meat Sweats, Todd and Mikey's presences were discovered by him. Todd saved Mikey by shielding him from Meat Sweat's attempt to harness an ability of his, his "niceness" being absorbed in place. He was then left by Mikey and the now-friendly Meat Sweats as they spent the day in each others' company. Later that night, Todd appeared at the mystic Were-Tree that the mystic truffles Meat Sweats wished to attain were located. He picked the truffle before Meat Sweats could after he revealed that he was merely pretending to be kind to Mikey, Todd's power having lost its affect long ago. Upon Mikey's command, Todd stole Meat Sweat's gauntlet, exposing his tentacles to the Were-Tree and causing him to develop into a giant tree version of himself. Todd then carried Mikey to safety as they devised a new plan to take down Meat Sweats to which they ultimately defeated him. Todd returned with Mikey to Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue where Mikey cooked pork chops for them using the mystic truffles they had acquired.
Todd was depicted in "Portal Jacked!" in a photograph inside of Señor Hueso's office at Run of the Mill Pizza as his favorite customer.
Todd joined The B-Team that was rallied by April O'Neil in "End Game" on a mission to rescue the Turtles from their captivity by the hands of Draxum and the Foot Clan. But due to being caught by traps at the entrance of the Shredder's shrine, Todd was unable to successfully execute the team's plan.
Todd resolved to teach the Turtles wilderness survival in the New York forests by the request of Splinter in "Todd Scouts", creating the Todd Scouts. He worked until nightfall educating them on living in the forest, but the Turtles grew tired of his teaching so Leo fooled Todd into believing that he and his brothers wished to showcase their new skills without his assistance, leaving Todd at the camp. He later discovered that the Turtles had been lounging at a tree fort Donnie built instead of practicing and was hurt by their deception. In an emotional outburst, he fled from them, but was quickly captured by Alex Noe's Tooth Fairies and was brought to their camp where they intended to remove Todd's incisors. The Turtles sought to rescue him and eventually arrived at the camp to free Todd from his restraints. Having been discovered by Alex Noe and the Tooth Fairies, Todd carried the Turtles to safety as they were struck with numbing darts from their pursuers and hid in a forest cave. Todd realized that Mikey had his Lemonade Especial in his possession and drank it, allowing him to tap into his Lemon Rush power. He then left the cave and directed the fauna to attack the dentists. Once his enemies were defeated, Todd deactivated his Lemon Rush and continued to teach the much more enthusiastic Turtles wilderness survival.
Todd was transported into Big Mama's mystic orb in "Battle Nexus: New York", giving out lemonade to those on the boat. However, Draxum made Todd understand that the summer paradise they were in was merely an illusion and he became concerned about the Turtles after seeing that they were participating in a Battle Nexus match.
Todd escaped from the mystic orb as it was cracking in "Finale Part 2: Shreddy or Not" and waited inside the Turtle Tank during the fight against the invading Foot per Splinter's instruction. After the Turtles retreated from the lost battle with the Shredder, he drove them away from the lair in the Turtle Tank to safety.
Todd offered the Turtles refuge at Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue in "Finale Part 3: Anatawa Hitorijanai" and forged them gardening tools to fill the void of their former weapons. He later appeared at the waterfall Raph used to access him and his brothers' Hamato Ninpō to remind them of their objective to rescue their parents.
Abilities[]
- Niceness: Todd is shown to possess an incredible amount of "niceness". This is considered an ability due to Meat Sweats accidentally absorbing such in "Nothing But Truffle".
- Zoolingualism: Todd can communicate with animals as shown in "Nothing But Truffle".
- Passive Fu: Todd is a master of a martial art known as Passive Fu, where he is capable of dodging multiple of attacks with ease, steal an opponent's energy, and utilize it in no way.
- Lemon Rush: After drinking his Lemonade Especial, Todd obtains a Lemon Rush. He gains a muscular physique, radiates powerful energy from his body strong enough to break the earth, the ability to levitate, and send the surrounding animals into a violent frenzy to attack opponents.
- Survival training: Todd is quite knowledgeable about wilderness survival.
- Blacksmithing: Todd is able to skillfully create metal tools from the forge he owns at Cuddle Cakes Puppy Rescue as shown in "Anatawa Hitorijanai".
Relationships[]
Family[]
- Melvin: Melvin is one of Todd's rescue dogs. As with all his dogs, Todd loves him deeply.
- Miho: Miho is one of Todd's rescue dogs. As with all his dogs, Todd loves her deeply.
- Willis: Willis is one of Todd's rescue dogs. As with all his dogs, Todd loves him deeply.
Friends and allies[]
- The Mad Dogs: Todd considers the Mad Dogs to be his best friends as expressed in "Battle Nexus: New York". Todd's Evil League affiliation does not seem to have affected his personality or his friendship with the Turtles.
- Donatello: Todd's puppy rescue was constructed by Donnie in "Repo Mantis" and Todd has shared a friendship with him ever since.
- Michelangelo: Todd shares the closest relationship with Mikey out of the Turtles, shown hanging out together in "Nothing But Truffle", and his puppy rescue was constructed by Mikey.
- Leonardo: Todd eagerly accepted Leo's apology for lying to him on the behalf of him and his brothers in "Todd Scouts" and considers him to be quite skilled at it.
- Raphael: Todd saved Raph from Alex Noe and the Tooth Fairies in "Todd Scouts".
- Señor Hueso: Todd has dined at Hueso's Run of the Mill Pizza as revealed in "Portal Jacked!" and seems to have a good relationship with him as a patron.
- Hamato Yoshi / Lou Jitsu / Splinter: Todd was entrusted by Splinter in "Todd Scouts" to teach the Turtles survival training after they struggled to learn his ninjutsu lessons.
- Baron Draxum: Todd was recruited into Draxum's Evil League of Mutants in "The Evil League of Mutants" and it was from Draxum's warnings that Todd was able to realize the trap he and other New York citizens were confined inside in "Battle Nexus: New York".
Enemies[]
- Rupert Swaggart / Meat Sweats: Todd fought against Meat Sweats by stealing the coveted mystic truffles from him in "Nothing But Truffle".
- Alex Noe: Todd was kidnapped by Alex Noe in "Todd Scouts", but managed to escape him and was able to force him to retreat using the animals of the forest against him.
Trivia[]
- Todd's Lemon Rush ability is a parody of the Super Saiyan ability from the Dragon Ball franchise.
- While possessing no obvious mutative powers, Todd's ability to seemingly be liked and tolerated by everyone (even villains) may reference the popularized way capybaras seemingly get along with many other animals in captivity.