Boss

**Boss** is a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who is, as his name may suggest, the elderly boss of Officer M. at work. Though he is good at leading the Nexus police forces, he also acts rather strange and suspicious much of the time especially towards Officer M.

## Appearance

Boss is seemingly a humanoid creature of sorts who is very old and almost bald (apart from a few stray hairs) with pistachio coloured skin, several green wrinkles on him and black eyes with blank pupils. He wears the signature blue police outfit with some pockets and a golden star on it, as well as blue pants with dark blue coloured shoes. He also has a bit of a pot belly, making him rather fat compared to most of the other members of the police in Nexus and has also grown to be much shorter then the average man, making him even more out of place. His age can also be seen through his uniform, which is extremely rugged, discoloted and tattered in several places; it shows that he and his uniform are very ancient. In addition to this, his signature police badge is also very wonky and partially rusted compared to those of all the other officers.

Back when he was younger, he was much taller, had a full head of black hair and also many muscles. His skin was also a normal colour and not scaly like it is now, and he had regular eyes instead of creepy scruffy ones.

## Background

Boss’ place of birth was not in Nexus, but instead actually in Yoshi Resort and this was where he spent most of his years growing up. He grew up to be a strong man and ended up joining the Yoshi Resort military to do many years of service, eventually becoming the leader of the military after years of hard work. When Victor had unleashed the Cake War upon Yoshi Resort, Boss had led the military through the rough times and did a good job of it as the Resort was able to emerge victorious against the nefarious baker, with troops like Mikhael Latif being trained well to face him in battle. After the war though, the military started to collapse mostly as Yoshi Resort was drifting more towards being a peaceful place so it was gradually disbanded over the course of many years, making Boss’ job more and more redundant until he got fired completely. Having become older and somewhat weaker over this period Boss decided to settle for a less intense job as a police officer, but his services were moved to a new place as Yoshi Resort already had enough police in it; this new place he moved to was named The City of Nexus.

Growing older had quiet a bit of a toll on Boss’ appearance and mental health causing him to become more delusional and act more strange over time, but despite this he was able to work up through the leagues in the Nexus police force and was eventually promoted to be Chief of Nexus Police, which satisfied him well enough. After a few years of leading the police force, Boss was surprised when a very familiar face moved to Nexus and joined his police force: Mikhael himself from years ago, who now simply goes by Officer M. He begrudgingly agreed to server his former boss again even after having been mentally abused by him back in his days being in Yoshi Resort, introducing him to some new friends he made, Turtle Man and DaPhantom. Boss was very fascinated by Officer M’s return to the force and decided to mess with him by sending him on a multitude of missions, but Officer M. could clearly tell that that he had grown a lot older and was possibly becoming crazy. He had even gotten Officer M. arrested and tried to blackmail him with a photoshopped picture of him destroying the museum, but this plan didn’t work and Officer M’s workaround caused him to gain more respect. Since then, Boss has become a bit more tolerant towards Officer M. and doesn’t actively pick on him as much, but is still a little bit weird around him and some other police members (likely as a result of his growing age causing psychological issues).

Later on when a friend of Officer M’s, Mort, crashed his spaceship into the police station put of desperation since it was on fire, Boss declared to him that Nexus police were in their rights to take away the ship as a sort of compensation for the damage he had caused. Though Officer M. tried to defend Mort, it did not amount to anything and Boss was stern with his decision, so as a result Mort had his spaceship taken away by a tow truck that Boss called. Within the second movie, *The Lost Origins*, he is seen within a nightmare of Officer M’s that was induced by the Manic Mage where he was bossing him around and mocking his inability to complete very hard courses in the Yoshi Resort Military, giving him a D- which made him mad. In this same movie he was seen physically having a party in the Police Station even whilst Nexus was flooding and accidentally broke Officer M’s computer, until the Manic Mage appeared and stole his soul. After her defeat, his soul was returned to him though.

Boss also later fought in the Soul War alongside dozens of other characters and was at the Vice President’s Halloween party in the Halloween Special, encouraging Officer Jones to chug a mysterious purple liquid which he did until he passed out. When Victor was later hosting a small party in his bakery to celebrate his 6 month anniversary of being in Nexus, Boss decided to test him and the trio by spiking all the fruit punch with drunk pills which made everyone horribly drunk. He was caught doing this by some of the other police members and arrested, but Officer Skylar bailed him out with parole and made the officers believe that he made a mistake in doing it so they agreed to leave him be. After the trio ended up in jail for drunk-driving through the Nexus School for the Blind and were facing legal repercussions from the school, Boss shows the trio the old Hero of the Day award used to encourage police to work harder. He informs them whoever manages to challenge the most amount of crime in one day will receive the award and be relieved of charges, so Turtle Man frantically goes around trying to solve as much crime as possible whilst DaPhantom and Officer M. ask Victor questions about the party last night to figure out if someone tampered with the drinks. Just as Officer M. and DaPhantom confront Boss about it, Victor bursts in and reveals that he figured out that Boss was responsible on by checking through his office and the cameras, so Boss gives him the award and congratulates him for his hard work. he also later participated in the Nexus Olympics, and managed to make it to the final round where he could have possibly won if not for the Devourer tampering with the competition.

## Personality and Relationships

Back when he was working as a leader of the military, Boss was a rather demanding fellow who had expected the upmost performance of those who he was training, and often put pressure upon them so that they would be pushed to work as hard as possible. Despite that, he was also nice and caring towards his friends, which he had many of at the time, so he did come off as a leader who only wanted the best in those around him. This made him a pretty good leader who was respected well by the Yoshi Resort community, some citizens even hallmarking him as a hero of sorts. Nowadays though, he is rarely respected by the other police officers in the Nexus Police as his growing age has caused him to begin acting delusional, with him always speaking of things in a suspicious manner and trying to invade people’s privacy if they happen to share anything around him. He does have only a few friends at the police station, one of them was the now deceased Officer Lewis, but since he died Boss has become close friends with other police officers like Officer Jones and Officer Skylar, the latter of who, he defended by giving her parole after she was arested. Though his devotion to the police force is also very strong, and can be seen through ways such as how he hasn't changed the uniform he wears in years (which has resulted in it becoming rather damaged and smelly).

Officer M. has always pertained a strong disliking towards Boss for the way he treats him in his work, but for different reasons at each of the two jobs he has been under his employment at. Back in the Yoshi Resort military, he hated Boss and felt that he was always picking on him to do stuff he knew he wasn’t good at and always pushed him so hard with everything, making him feel extremely stressed at all times. After leaving and moving away from Yoshi Resort, Officer M. was just happy to be away from Boss and never see him again, but this didn’t end up being true as he ended up with him again after moving to The City of Nexus to be a cop there. In the current times Officer M. mostly doesn’t like the now older Boss since he acts really creepy around him and always sends him on missions that are usually useless or serve little purpose, and also finds him shady due to the way he acts like he is hiding something much bigger. However, there have been just a few times Boss was nice like when he helped the heroes fight against the Pumpkin Punk, but he stilled tried to even blackmail Officer M. once and got him arrested for sending him to collect a diamond from the museum that he though they stole from the police but was actually donated, making him come off as clueless. He can act very strict still, such as when he took Mort’s spaceship away after he had crashed his ship into it and refused to change his mind since he was mad about the damages caused to the police station.

## Abilities

Since Boss is pretty old at the time that the series occurs he doesn’t possess very strong physical abilities in the present, not being able to move or fight that well. However, in his prime days of leading the Yoshi Resort military he was very fast and physically tough, often doing jobs of carrying heavy loads which proved how powerful he used to be back in the day. Even today though he still usually carries his police weapons like a taser and also a bat, so he can still defend himself a bit if it ever needs to come to that.

## Appearances

* S5E2 - A Familiar Boss
* S5E4 - Downtown Nexus
* S5E9 - Sentinel Spies
* S5E12 - Evil Chef
* S6E7 - The Cake War
* S6E9 - Officer Behind Bars
* S6E14 - Farewell, Friend
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E2 - Who Pulled The Fire Alarms?
* S7E11 - Crashed Spaceship
* S7E12 - Restaurant War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E6 - Amulet Woes
* S8E14 - The Mystical Acres
* S8E15 - Soul War
* Halloween Special
* S9E1 - Hero of the Day
* S9E5 - Nexus Olympics

He is also a playable character in Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters.

## Trivia

* His real name is unknown but knowing him, it's likely something strange that nobody expects.
* Though his real age also isn't known it is likely that he is one of the oldest characters on the show, and one of them who is still alive to this day.

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