Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus

**Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus** is a 2023 movie based off the popular TV series Turtle Man and DaPhantom, being the first of possibly several films in the series. In the movie, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. set out to uncover a long-running mystery within The City of Nexus and Yoshi Resort, whilst an unexpected villain hunts them down to stop them from revealing the truth about this mystery.

The film takes place after the Season 6 finale and premiered for the first time on March 9, 2023.

## Plot

   **"EVERYONE SCREAM AND RUN AWAY!!!!" - Turtle Man**
This section contains spoilers for the storyline of Turtle Man and DaPhantom, proceed with caution!

A few days after Quacksia left the team, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. set out on a new day, leaving Turtle Man’s Cove to find what to do. Suddenly, the trio is attacked by The Devourer as it starts to thunder, leading to an intense battle between them. They figure put that the Devourer is angry at them for having convinced the Storm to leave his forces and join their alliance, making him even more angry towards them. They manage to defeat him and scare him off after he tried (and failed) to suprise attack them by running away through a portal. Turtle Man and Officer M. then decide to go swimming in the sea for a little bit, but their fun is cut short by the arrival of Mort, who informs the trio that a cosmic force has burnt down HF Studios, where they were just a few days prior. Mort takes them to the smouldering remains of the studio, where Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy is suspiciously present trying to put the blaze out. Whilst they find Rick crying over the Studios’ destruction, the trio find 2 rather suspicious objects: a burnt pie and a burnt red hoodie, which they both connect to one familiar person - Victor.

Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M. and Mort visit Victor’s Bakery and confront him about these objects, where Officer M. is more then prepared to arrest him since he had a feeling Victor would return to the evil side at some point. However he denies burning HF Studios down, with everyone but Officer M. believing him as he wouldn’t have any good reason to do it and that it was caused by a cosmic interference. DaPhantom tells the group that Old MacDonald could have done it, as his farm is not far from the studio and he doesn’t like it, so they visit him but the old farmer simply claims that he would not have the energy to do the crime. They decide the next person they should interrogate is Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy, who was spreading fire at the scene and suspiciously fled back to Yoshi Resort rather quickly. With Mort's Spaceship out of fuel, they contact Gerald and manage to hitch a ride in his plane to Yoshi Resort, with Mort explaining to him what’s happened recently. Suddenly, the plane is attacked by the Devourer’s assassin, Veiled, who engages in a fight with Officer M. and Mort whilst Turtle Man hides and DaPhantom is asleep. Veiled uses the Riftspace to try and destroy the plane but they manage to shake the two off into the ocean, but the plane is left badly damaged and Officer M. is struck by a dagger to the head by Veiled - this him with a haemorrhage. The plane is forced to land on the outskirts of the Resort, with Officer M. being carried to the hospital by DaPhantom and Turtle Man as Gerald becomes angry over his plane being destroyed once again. Turtle Man and DaPhantom drag Officer M. to the hospital to find that it is completely desolate and that all the lights are out, with Turtle Man spotting a shadowy figure but Officer M. demanding him to ignore it and he calls his brother, Doctor M. He is told that the hospital was evacuated after the power was cut and it was attacked by a mysterious shadowy figure, exactly what Turtle Man saw. As the call is cut off, the shadowy figure appears again and walks towards them, revealing himself to be a pumpkin person named the Pumpkin Punk. He begins attacking the trio and they run from him, as he unleashes an arsenal of dangerous weapons upon them whilst attempting to run to Doctor M's house.

They reach the street where Doctor M. lives and are nearing his house, but are suddenly cornered by the punk. However, when he is about to attack them, he is hit by a demon fireball which was cast by Yoshi Resort's mayor, Max, who tells them that he will fight off the Pumpkin Punk himself and that they should go inside. They enter Doctor M's home and have him heal Officer M, with them explaining everything to him about how they believe Hector Flores is still alive. Some hours later after Officer M. has fully healed, Max flies through the wall having been beaten badly by the punk, passing out. Officer M. suddenly gets a call from his Boss, who tells him that the City of Nexus town hall has been set on fire and that he should come investigate; Officer M. sends Turtle Man and DaPhantom to return there whilst he and his brother fight the punk. When Doctor M. is knocked out by the Pumpkin Punk and Officer M. is left doomed on his own, the Devourer suddenly comes to his aid and knocks the Pumpkin Punk far away, telling the cop that if anyone's going to kill Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, then it's going to be him. He then gives Officer M. a ride back to Nexus instantly through a portal into his home dimension, which Officer M. calls ugly but is shut up by the sight of the town hall on fire. Realising that the fire is not the same that Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy or the Devourer breath out, they determine that the Pumpkin Punk is behind these fires, since the same fire was present in his pumpkin bombs and when HF Studios was burnt down. After Officer M. offends the Devourer by calling his dimension ugly he decides to leave them alone, with Officer M. trying to call him to come back and the others wondering why he has his phone number. Elizabeth walks by and tries to join them, threatening to smash the Urn with the Evil King’s ghost inside of it which she has since Officer M. knocked it out of his window whilst getting out of the shower one day, so they agree to let her follow along.

Officer M, Turtle Man and DaPhantom decide to head to the police station to see if there is any evidence present there when suddenly Mort returns with his spaceship, crushing the whole station but not harming anybody since everyone left it for Taco Tuesday. He shows the guys a famous picture of Hector Flores which has something notable in the background: The same fire that burnt down the town hall and HF Studios as well as the same fire that the Pumpkin Punk is using to attack them. Suddenly, the Pumpkin Punk reappears, preparing to strike the group down, as Mort cowardly runs away leaving them to it. The Punk chases them with attacks that cause many explosions, one of which killing Partymaster, and corners them once again, knocking out DaPhantom and Turtle Man, when Elizabeth smashes the urn and releases the Evil King’s Ghost, which begins attacking the Pumpkin Punk giving the guys some time to escape. A few moments later the Pumpkin Punk catches up to the trio and shows to them that he captured the ghost inside of a ghost catcher, making them think that they truly are doomed. However, Officer M. reveals a secret to Turtle Man and DaPhantom, that he has a way to a secret underground bunker but to access it they must all do 3 splits which they do, transporting them down to the bunker. The bunker proves to not be that secret, as the Devourer shows up to the guys and reveals that he knows the Pumpkin Punk - He was a former sentinel of his before he employed Veiled. The Devourer also shows to them a powerful pumpkin grenade that is his only known weakness, but that they will only get 1 shot to use it. Returning to the surface through a portal, they try to use the grenade on the Punk but he releases the Evil King’s Ghost to absorb it’s impact, which destroys the ghost completely but leaves him unscathed.

They go back to the bunker to meet the Devourer again, who already knows that the plan fails, and Officer M. suspects that the Devourer himself made the Pumpkin Punk however he denies this. They all decide the best course of action is to assemble a team of everybody they know to help them fight the punk, with the Devourer calling Veiled and Riftspace to his aid whilst Turtle Man and DaPhantom recruit Victor, Officer Lewis and Elizabeth on their side to help. Officer M. also recalls of a way to call for Quacksia, but he can’t fully remember it and just shouts out some duck noises alongside Turtle Man. The Pumpkin Punk returns and in response to the team they have all assembled, uses the soul of the Evil King's Ghost to conjure hundreds of dammed souls and unleashes then to attack the team. The Punk himself also attacks, and specifically seems to be mostly coming after Officer M. for some strange reason, when suddenly a potentially fatal blow from him is pushed back by a beam of radiating light, revealed to have come from Doctor M. Whilst Turtle Man teases Officer M. since he doesn’t have the same powers as his cousin, the Doctor heals him back into a good fighting shape and he rejoins the battle. Officer M. constantly insists that they should return to the bunker, but the Devourer keeps telling him that they need to stop running away and defeat him once and for all. Turtle Man starts throwing stuff from his shell at the Punk, which seems to work quite well, and Officer M. joins in. However, his shell is emptied out completely, and the punk takes this as an opportunity to attack Officer M. with a huge scythe blast that creates a massive shockwave. The Punk strangles DaPhantom and Turtle Man with several of his souls, holding them back as he is about to kill a badly injured Officer M. once and for all - Suddenly, he is struck by a bolt of electricity which is revealed to have been fired by Storm. They have a final face-off in which they both fire powerful energy beams at eachother, causing a huge explosion that destroys half of the entire City and leaving everything set ablaze. Officer Lewis was killed by the explosion completely and everyone else left badly injured, with the Pumpkin Punk being on the rocks. They finally get the chance to unmask the punk, with Turtle Man doing the job, and come to find that all this time, the Pumpkin Punk was indeed Hector Flores. He speaks to them all, explaining how he was tired of being a hero and everyone "bugging" him all the time, so decided to fake his own death and have the opportunity to start anew on the bad side. He joined the Devourer's team, but left after a year since he was bad at being a villain, which offends him a bit. Hector Flores tells Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. that he was hunting them because of his close they were to finding the truth and he had to stop them, but failed to and calls them great heroes. Hector Flores then dies, which causes everyone to cry, except Mort who leaves in his spaceship accidentally destroying Officer M's house (making him cry some more).

The Devourer leaves, with Storm agreeing to come and stay with him again after he and the other sentinels inform him of how much he is missed. When a charred Groovin' Grover shows up and starts party hour, DaPhantom tells everyone that sitting around crying isn't going to help anything, and that they should get to work on fixing things back up now. They agree, and so fix Officer M's house, the town hall, the city and Victor's bakery which was obliterated by the explosion. They also build a new graveyard where Hector Flores can be buried, but then get the idea to bury him at the remains of HF Studios so they destroy the graveyard and do exactly that, allowing him to rest in peace alongside his own movie studio. Everyone sings a rather sappy song to close the movie, with several characters also singing songs during the credits such as the Devourer and Storm Weaver fighting over a musical number.

In a post credits scene, Officer M. is being treated within the Nexus hospital, and Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy comes to visit him. She brings him some soggy flowers from Turtle Man and hands them to him, but suddenly he is shocked and electrical impulses start flowing through his body. Officer M. is just as confused by these bursts of power as she is, and insists that when he leaves the hospital he's going to figure out what is going on.

## Characters

### Major

* Turtle Man
* DaPhantom
* Officer M.
* Hector Flores (Pumpkin Punk)

### Supporting

* The Devourer
* Mort

### Minor

* Storm
* Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy
* Rick
* Victor
* Groovin' Grover
* Partymaster
* Old MacDonald
* Gerald
* Veiled
* Riftspace
* Doctor M.
* Max
* Boss
* Officer Lewis
* Elizabeth
* Evil King’s Ghost

## Trivia

* This is the first ever film based off of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, and received very positive reviews from fans who praised it's action, humour and mystery element.
* Hector Flores physically debuts for the first time in this movie, though only near the end where it's revealed he was the Pumpkin Punk and then died.
* The film's title is said by the Pumpkin Punk, who refers to Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. as "Pesky guardians of Nexus."
* Characters killed in this film: Officer Lewis, Partymaster, Evil King’s Ghost and Hector Flores

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