Wingnut is an animal-born mutant bat who is one of the "sisters" of Superfly's gang.
Physical appearance[]
Personality[]
Wingnut, a passionate streaming enthusiast with a love for anime and other shows, initially aligns with her family's sinister plan to create animal mutants and dominate the world, driven by a shared fear of humans. However, as she witnesses Superfly's escalating anger during a car chase, she begins to prioritize safety and ultimately defects from her family's cause after listening to the TMNT. Notably, Wingnut also reveals a personal vulnerability to Donnie, confessing her fear of tight spaces due to noise sensitivity, showcasing a more complex and relatable personality.
History[]
Wingnut 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 ooze made them what they are. The Turtles begin bonding with certain members of the crew, with Wingnut and Donatello sharing a love for anime and technology.
Superfly then has the Turtles ride along with his crew to transport a piece of the assimilator back to their hideout near Staten Island. Wingnut accompanies them in the transport van along with Mondo Gecko and Rocksteady. The Turtles devise a plan to crash the van, which Michelangelo accomplishes by jamming the pedals with Don's bō. Wingnut, Rocksteady, and Mondo crash out of the van and Wingnut is upset by the betrayal.
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 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, Wingnut and the other mutants went to live with the Turtles in the sewer.
Relationships[]
- Superfly's gang: The mutant family is very tight-nit but quarrel just as much as any average family. Wingnut and Leatherhead especially have an equal bullying relationship, with the former "reminding" her that Australia is full of criminals.
- Donatello: Of all of the Turtles, Wingnut gets along with Donatello the best, bonding over their love of anime.
Notes and trivia[]
- This character is an adaptation of Wingnut, first created by Peter Laird. This version was developed by Brendan O'Brien and designed by Woodrow White.
- This is the first version of Wingnut to be depicted as female.
- To retain her animalistic bat features as a mutant, her wings are located on her arms. Previous incarnations of the character has the wings located on the back rather than the arms.
- She is voiced by British comedian Natasia Demetriou, who is known for portraying Nadja the Grecco-Romani vampire on the horror-comedy series, What We Do in the Shadows. Like Nadja, Wingnut is a resident of Staten Island.