Gerald

**Gerald** is a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* and a salamander pilot, with his own unique plane that he flies. Though he is the brother of the Evil Chef, he is actually way nicer then him and has helped out Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. on several occasions.

## Appearance

Just like his brother the Evil Chef, Gerald is a pink salamander with a tail, though compared to the chef he is a bit of a more vibrant and less pale pink in colour. He doesn’t have much hair apart from a few black trails on his head, and also he has a little bit of a beard on his face with some black hairs around his dark-red mouth. When in flight, he sometimes wears light-green and brown goggles that have black handles as well as two different badges, which he earned during his career as a training pilot. Additionally, his actual uniform consists of rusty-brown coloured shoes, brown pants and a yellow undershirt with a brown jacket over it. His eyes are rather big compared to his brother’s, and he has purple irises. Since his return in Season 8, he has grown a rather large beard, likely due to weeks of stowing away in Yoshi Resort after his plane crashed and left him isolated.

## Background

Gerald and his brother the Evil Chef grew up in France, spending a lot of their early years there. Whilst the chef enjoyed cooking most and took that up as his career, Gerald had always dreamed of wanting to be some sort of transport driver - his most favourite vehicle was planes, so that was the one he wanted to pursue the most. One day he got the opportunity to train as a pilot for a plane, which excited the life out of him when his application for the training course was accepted. Though he was rather rusty at first, he got better and better at controlling it and eventually became a fully-fledged plane pilot, now being allowed to serve as a pilot for public planes. Excited with this news, Gerald returned to France to tell his brother about it, visiting him for the first time in years. The chef was reasonably happy for Gerald, but had also shown him what he was up to now which was owning a twisted restaurant in which he cooks humans alive and serves them to animals. Gerald was absolutely shocked and disgusted by this, even more so when the Evil Chef offered him a role in his own business in exchange for a cut of the money; Gerald shouted at his brother that he wanted nothing to do with it and left him.

Many years later into his career, Gerald met Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Quacksia for the first time when his plane was headed to the airport local of The City of Nexus. The three approached with him a special request, to take them to France as their friend Officer M. had been kidnapped and taken there to be turned into a meal, which reminded Gerald of his brother’s ways. He agreed to taking them there and hoped that they would be able to bring down his restaurant and teach the chef a lesson, which did end up happening as the chef ended up being defeated by them and eaten by his own animals. Since this, Gerald had allowed Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. to come on his plane for several different rides to and from places like Yoshi Resort, considering them to be close friends of his. When the Resort was threatened by the start of a pie war by it’s former enemy Victor, Gerald had also helped the trio fight him off by running over some of his pie soldiers with his plane, but his plane ended up being destroyed when Victor threw his bomb pies at it.

In the first movie, Gerald took the trio and Mort to Yoshi Resort on his plane, but halfway through the journey the plane was attacked by Veiled and the Riftspace. However Gerald didn’t even notice the attack since he was listening to music. Upon landing though, he noticed how damaged the plane was which angered him greatly, and the next time that Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. visited him at the airport to hitch a ride away from an angry mob, he informed them that they are no longer allowed on his plane for now since it gets destroyed every time they hop aboard. However, Gerald did still defend them when the angry mob accused the three of pulling the airport fire alarm, showing that his respect for them has not deteriorated completely. Later on, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had to physically go out looking for him to get some information about the Evil Chef since he had no criminal record, but they didn’t find him at his house and he was not answering Officer M’s phone calls. They went to the airport and Officer M. seemingly tackled him but actually just attacked someone who looks just like Gerald, telling them that he had already departed a flight. The guys manage to get on the plane using Turtle Man’s enormous grappling hook that he had in his shell and confront Gerald, who tells them that he wasn’t ignoring them since he had to turn his phone off before riding the plane. He then clears up some information about him and his brother’s relationship, telling Officer M. that he was never threatened with death by the Evil Chef and didn’t call them for help as at the time he did not have any of their phone numbers. Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. apologise for the inconvenience and depart the plane by opening the door, which releases everyone else who was on the plane and seemingly killed them with the fall.

Gerald had somehow created a clone of himself that operates boats which people can book tickets for trips to various places; Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M, Doctor M. and Katie had him take them to Sparkville via a boat. However, this clone may sound and look just like Gerald but it hates living and showed interest in taking it’s own life, trying to hide that fact from the passengers aboard. Later on, the clone actually did drown himself when the five of them were being chased by an angry mob and tried to leave the island, so they had to run away in another direction and get home via DaPhantom carrying them across the water. The trio hunted down Gerald during their investigation into the Evil Chef’s head being within the closed Coral Reefs store in Nexus, owned by a sheep. When they climb aboard Gerald’s plane, he just reveals to them that he doesn’t know anything about it much to their disappointment, and they jump off the plane into the Nexus Town Hall. Later on when the trio desperately need to go to Yoshi Resort in search of a person with knowledge of the Farlands, Officer M. suggested they contact Gerald to hitch a ride. However, DaPhantom tells him that they can’t because Gerald had recently crashed his plane in Yoshi Resort and is still suffering from the damages since he hasn’t been able to repair it yet; as a result he is stuck there himself. This would probably explain his lack of physical appearances in the more recent episodes and movies.

A while later, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had discovered the ruined remnants of his plane and searched it to see if they could find any traces as to what might have happened to Gerald, with no success. But after the evil Roger who looked suspiciously like Gerald had crashed Katie and Doctor M’s wedding and stole nearly everybody’s souls using the Amulet of Souls, Gerald had made a miraculous return (donning a grown beard) and began a fight with him. He climbed onto his plane that he tried to escape with and tackled him out of one of the windows, squashing him on the floor of the church when they landed. Later on he fought alongside all his friends and the other heroes during the Soul War after the trio called him to the Mystical Acres. The trio also asked him for help when they were writing a song, wanting some inspiration for the lyrics and he told them about a few strange places he had visited as a pilot before taking off, though this didn't really help them.

## Personality and Relationships

Gerald is a very nice man who rarely gets mad or upset with anyone; he is generally happy with his life and the career he has as a pilot. He is calm and patient with those aboard and is even willing to give some people a free ride if it seems urgent, showing his kindness towards the majority. The only thing that is able to make Gerald upset is mistreatment of his custom plane, though he can tolerate it if it’s damaged just one or two times, but anything after that will start to make him mad. Also since he grew up in France, he is able to speak fluent French as well.

Gerald had grown to dislike his own brother, the Evil Chef, due to his wicked ways of business by cooking people alive and turning them into meals, which he did not approve of and saw as needlessly morbid. He made it very clear that he didn’t like the chef and wanted nothing to do with his business, even helping Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Quacksia fly to France to stop him. As a result, Gerald had indirectly helped kill his brother by assisting them in it.

Gerald has made good friends with Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, allowing them on his plane multiple times usually from trips to and from Yoshi Resort. However, he has grown a little bit sick of how seemingly every time they get on his plane to go somewhere, something happens that resorts in it being damaged and destroyed. In fact in recent times, Gerald has completely stopped allowing the three to come on his plane as he was growing fed up of having to fix it all the time, so now they have to take other planes instead, though he doesn’t necessarily hate them as he still gave Officer M. important information about his past relations with his brother and how he thought he was threatened but wasn’t actually. Also he is defensive of his friends and will be willing to fight for them to keep them safe should they ever be in harm or under attack.

## Abilities

Gerald is most skilled at controlling a plane, he has trained in aviation for many years so as a result is able to fly a plane very well. He is even good at doing things like making spins and sharp turns through the air whilst still managing to keep the plane sustained in the air, serving as a display of his experience.

He does also know some pretty advanced combat knowledge in the few cases that his friends or home are under attack, like strong punches and kicks, but he doesn’t often want to use it due to his disliking for any violence. He also has surprisingly good agility that he has only showed off on a couple occasions.

## Appearances

* S5E12 - Evil Chef
* S6E3 - Catching a Ghost
* S6E4 - Pie War
* S6E7 - The Cake War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E2 - Who Pulled The Fire Alarms?
* S7E8 - Coral Reefs
* S7E10 - Return to Sparkville (suicidal Gerald clone)
* S8E8 - Doctor M's Wedding
* S8E14 - The Mystical Acres
* S8E15 - Soul War
* S9E6 - Find Your Tune

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

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