HF Studios

**HF Studios** was a location in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, found a bit far off of The City of Nexus and Old MacDonald's Farm. It was a film studio created by the famous Hector Flores and his close friend Rick, where they weaved several of the world’s most popular and critically praised movies ever alongside the help of many other members. Though filmmaking eventually ceased after Hector Flores had murdered too many people on set, a secret that he let only Rick know and keep locked away in the basement until he had seemingly died. After this Rick decided to turn the studios into a tourist attraction where people could come and see insight into the many movies made there, but then the studios were later burned down by Hector Flores (as the Pumpkin Punk) to send an intimidating message.

## Description

HF Studios was built in a slightly dried out meadow not far from the City of Nexus, as Hector had recently moved there around the time but didn’t want to construct it within the City itself due to how packed it was already. It was surrounded by some fields of more damp grass and the occasional tree or hill, as well as many flowers and other plants. The studio itself was made up of three different buildings made of stone, with a large centre one that is a very pale pink in colour and the two smaller ones respectively being a dark brown and darker pink. The two smaller buildings were where the recording and editing for the movies used to take place, and they were filled with a plethora of different rooms such as one with a large greenscreen and rooms to hold the large amount of equipment or props used, and a room filled with many laptops to allow for fast and efficient editing of the films. The centre building was where the actors would gather to chat and have lunch, and had a lot of storage rooms to store items or the movie copies and offices and even a room with a large theatre where the films made could be watched by those working within the studios. On the outside of the buildings there were a bunch of signs for directions or to depict new and upcoming projects going on at the studios as well as doors for both entrances and exits, with a path to lead to and from it.

The main building contained a secret basement, which only Hector and Rick new about. Within this basement Hector had hid the drafts of the movies where he had killed people on set, trying to hide it as best as possible and making sure that Rick would keep it a secret from anybody else. In the end though none of this mattered as after the secret was discovered by Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. Hector had returned as the Pumpkin Punk and burned the studio down, leaving only a burnt meadow and some ashy remains of the studios left. After Hector’s later death in the film, the trio had decided to bury his body underneath the studios, since they thought it would be a fitting place for him to rest in peace.

## Background

Hector Flores and his close friend Rick had a successful life in the City of Nexus, doing deeds across the city and helping with many projects in it. One day though, Hector had thought of an idea to forge his own career alongside Rick: they could form a small service to make hit-movies together. Rick also thought this was a good idea, and so together they had created a minor studio on the outskirts of the City where there wasn’t really anything else in sight other than the farm of Old MacDonald. Their first few movies made within HF Studios were pretty small-scale due to the lack of budget within the studio and only a few actors or props to create them, though as time went on the two of them hired more and more people to install improvements onto the studio and have more tools and actors in order to help them make better movies. As a result of this the quality of the movies released by HF Studios had a notable surge in both quality and popularity, becoming some of the most well received and best-grossing films in history. The most famous films released included *The Lone Table*, *The Magic Apple*, *The Abandoned Coal*, *The Burnt Diamond* and most famous of them all, the *The Last Cowboy*. There were many more movies made alongside these ones, but as time went on Hector Flores was involved in less and less of them due to his increasing age. There were 10 movies that were in production in the studios but never released due to Hector killing a person on set out of pure anger, and so to hide this he installed a secret basement deep within the studios to hide the tapes of these movies where he killed someone - the only person he told about it was Rick, who promised to keep it a secret from anyone else.

After Hector Flores’ supposed death, HF Studios had stopped producing movies permanently and everyone working there was fired, with their last film made being the highly acclaimed *The Tired Brick*. The only person left there after this was Rick, who continued to monitor the place in order to keep it in a tidy state as well as stop anyone from potentially breaking in and discovering the hidden basement. A few years of this later, he had gotten the idea to turn the abandoned studio into a tourist attraction that people could pay to visit and see insight into how some of the world’s most famous movies were made. Hiring a new team of staff to act as helpers with the attraction, Rick managed to accomplish this and revitalise HF Studios with a new purpose that was very popular whilst still keeping Hector’s dark secret in the dark. That was until Nexus heroes Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. decided to come see the studios and discover behind the scenes of some of the movies made there, which resulted in them discovering the basement where the lost movies were found. They beat Rick in a fight and took the films to the Nexus police station as evidence into the secret crimes committed by the world famous Hector Flores, with Officr M. starting to consider whether or not he even died.

A few weeks after this, a villain named the Pumpkin Punk had attacked HF Studios and burnt it to the ground using his soul flames, thus leaving only ashes of it left. Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. were alerted to this by their friend Mort who had detected that an ethereal source of cosmic energy was to blame. After some travelling and intense battles against the Pumpkin Punk, they managed to defeat the Punk and unmask him to find that he was actually Hector Flores. He revealed that he faked his death long ago and burnt down HF Studios to try draw attention away from the lost movies which they had discovered previously, before succumbing to his injuries. Though HF Studios was never rebuilt after this catastrophe, they decided to bury Hector underneath the ashen remains of the studio, which served as a fitting sendoff for both him and the location as a whole.

## Gallery

Inside of HF StudiosThe ashen remains of HF Studios, after the Pumpkin Punk burnt the place down
## Appearances

* S6E13 - HF Studios
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S9E6 - Find Your Tune

## Trivia

* Even though HF Studios was burnt down in Guardians of Nexus, it made future appearances in the video game adaptations of the show as levels that can be visited and interacted with.
* The HF stands for the initials of founder Hector Flores’ name.
* A few of the movies made at HF Studios are parodies of actual real movies, whereas most of the others were simply made up.

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