Turtle Man

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 **Turtle Man** is a humanoid turtle who is one of the main characters of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*. He is best friends with DaPhantom and Officer M.

## Appearance

Turtle Man is a humanoid turtle figure who has light green coloured skin and a hard shell for a body, which is yellow and jagged on the inside. He wears some sea crusted armor with a piece of coral growing atop one of the shoulder plates, a black belt around his waist and typically wields an enchanted dagger. One of his eyes is badly scarred, where he received this scar from remains a mystery to this day but might be related to his past.

## Background

Turtle Man was born into a beautiful sea kingdom, with his father and mother being members of the Aquatic Royalty. As a child, he was to be the heir to the throne when he grew up, something that he wasn’t all too fond of exactly.

One fateful day when he was older, the sea kingdom was attacked by a wretched being who called himself the Evil King, summoning some of his minions to use brimstone magic to burn the city and ocean to the ground. Being one of the Evil King’s first truly horrific acts, his father and mother attempted to fight him off but failed. After his mother was murdered by the king himself, Turtle Man’s father put his son into a pod and sent him away before being slain himself, making Turtle Man a sole survivor of this massacre - Though this left him with a scar along his face that he still dons to this day.

After many days of endless bobbing and travelling along the ocean, Turtle Man ended up upon a shore near a beautiful countryside. He grew up on this beach, trying and failing to make friends while learning to forage for himself and fight off predators, leading to him becoming a skillful fighter in case the Evil King and his army returned to finish what they had started.

Several years later, when Turtle Man was grown up and somewhat matured, he befriended an old ghost named DaPhantom, and they hit it off well. DaPhantom understood Turtle Man’s pain and offered him support and friendship, with him receiving more friendship when he met Officer M. a long time later. Along his new friends, Turtle Man one day met the Evil King who destroyed his own and family and instantly recognised his wicked, yellow-toothed face; He wanted the king dead more then anyone else. After weeks of battling and foiling the king’s plan, he was finally satisfied as the king was killed inside a volcano within The Bahamas, thus avenging his own mother and father. To this day, he continues to fight alongside his newfound friends and going on crazy adventures, making more and more friends and enemies along the way. He very reluctantly (with a few tears) told his friends about his backstory in the second movie, *The Lost Origins* which is when his history is revealed to the audience for the first time alongside some of the other characters. Later on after a confrontation with the Manic Mage, she puts the three of them to sleep and after Officer M. wakes up it’s shown that Turtle Man is trapped within a nightmare induced by the mage back when he was a kid. However, when the Manic Mage disguises as the Evil King within it and tries to kill Turtle Man, Officer M. breaks in and fights the mage whilst making him remember that this is a twisted memory which didn’t actually happen, which causes Turtle Man to return to normal and help defeat the Manic Mage for the rest of the fight.

## Personality and Relationships

Turtle Man is shown to be pretty dim-witted, often mistaking stuff for what it isn’t actually or getting the names of stuff or people he doesn’t know too well wrong. He often confuses things not to be consumed as food and eats them, leading to various side effects within him, and forgets many things pretty quickly. Still, he’s also portrayed as having a good amount of care for those he likes. Turtle Man also likes collecting various stuff and keeping it in his cove or shell, making him a bit of a sentimental hoarder since he doesn’t like to let go of his possessions. Also he has a side job where he reviews food in his Turtlemobile and uploads it to his online channel, dubbed *Turtle Man Food Reviews*; He gives almost everything he eats a positive review, though maybe it is just because he loves eating any food no matter the type with a favourite of his being roasts, although he had the habit to pour water into his food for some strange reason though he doesn't do that as much anymore. His least favourite meal would seem to be a barbecue chicken sub that he had once and called it very yucky, but he eat it all anyway since he was hungry, whereas his favourite dessert appears to be a nice sponge cake.

Turtle Man is best friends with DaPhantom (who he has known for a long time), Officer M. and later Quacksia. He has made many enemies across the series, the main ones being The Devourer and the Evil King, seemingly holding grudges onto them for long amounts of time but mostly the Evil King due to what he did to his home and family. He clearly cares a lot about his friends and would protect them in extreme scenarios where they are in danger. However, he can sometimes be pretty strict with them especially later on in the show, such as when he forced Officer M. to buy 10 packets of expensive Ginger Bites in order to keep crashing within his cove and later found 10 packets on the street, but kept the packets that Officer M. brought for him anyway. He has become good friends with Victor after the initial meeting with him in the Pie War, even if they briefly found themselves in a bit of a rivalry after Turtle Man opened a Fish Bar with Victor starting a restaurant war since he was losing customers to him.

He was rather upset by Quacksia leaving the team and cried about it, even though he ended up mistaking his name for David since he didn’t care about Quacksia that much.

## Abilities

Turtle Man is an experienced fighter who often engages in combat with an enchanted dagger, which can cut through almost anything with just a slice. Combine this with his agility and possession of other weapons such as sea bombs and snap turtles, it can make him rather formidable when in combat. He can also hide in his shell for protection and to spin around for even more safe mobility - In the later episodes, he has also been using the stuff within his shell in combat sometimes, which can be really absurd items such as giant weapons or potions or even dynamite.

Like DaPhantom, Turtle Man is rather good at constructing things, which he claims to have learnt from the former. He has constructed a vehicle known as the Turtlemobile, which can travel with haste on land, air and sea, making it useful, but it can also be made invisible which makes him forget where it is sometimes. Unfortunately, the Turtlemobile was destroyed when he tried to use it to run over one of the Devourer’s hostile creations, the Frying Pan Lady, which completely tore the scraps apart. He was later able to remake the Turtlemobile though and used it in the Mountain Race held by the Vice President, though it was destroyed once again by an explosive pie from Victor.

Also, he was able to take the ruins of the robot that the Devourer made and turned it from scraps into a dancing and entertainment robot, that he named Groovin' Grover.

## Appearances

Being one of the main characters of the show, Turtle Man has appeared in every single episode, movie, game and special so far.

Santa Claus
**Anti-Heroes**
Sheep Shopkeeper

**Villains**
Sentinels
Icy Guy
**WTF**
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