Wingnut, the clutzy, caped vampire bat, quietly hung out on his home planet Huanu. That is, until Krang destroyed it. Saved and sucked into a vortex before his planet exploded, Wingnut ended up on Earth, along with Screwloose, a levelheaded Huanu mosquito.
Furious and frantic that Krang blew up his planet, the crazed Wingnut's out to get even with Krang - or anyone else associated with the burbling brain. That makes him a perfect ally with the Turtle teens.
Despite Wingnut's bloodshot eyes, defective radar, stunted wings and oversensitive ears, he's determined to be a sewer-superhero. Even with constant training from our green teens, Wingnut's more likely to bump into a building than bust a baddie. Armed with mechanical turbo wings invented by Donatello, Wingnut flutters and putters to put the bite on the Foot Clan.
Wingnut appeared in the Archie Comics he would become part of The Mighty Mutanimals.
In the 1987 cartoon episode Zach and the Alien Invaders, Wingnut and Screwloose were from the planet Flagenon and they attempted to turn the planet's children into mindless zombies to invade Earth.
Wingnut is a playable character in the SNES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters. His design in the game is closer to that of the Archie comics than the cartoon.
Wingnut made a cameo appearance in Tales of the TMNT Volume 2 Issue #58.
Behind the Scenes
Wingnut's first appearance was actually as a villain in a mini-comic that came with Ralston-Purina's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cereal.