Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins

**Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins** is a 2023 movie based off the popular TV series Turtle Man and DaPhantom and the second movie based off it, the first being Guardians of Nexus. In the movie, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. are forced to come to terms with their histories together whilst also looking out for a rising threat that could destroy the entire world as they know it.

The film takes place after the Season 7 finale and premiered for the first time on June 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!

Deep within the caves of a distant mountain range, a villain and his accomplice are on the search for an ancient artifact hidden within a forgotten chamber. They find the chamber and the henchman is able to open the door just by guessing a code, revealing the artifact: the lost Amulet of Souls. They take the amulet but barely make it out alive due to many traps such as darts, boulders and flamethrowers - however, the villain is able to heal both of them using the Amulet. The henchman warns that it is very dangerous and they should bury it somewhere due to it’s power, which the villain refuses to do so; as a result they both are vaporised by the amulet (and a bird is as well), with it levitating back to it’s pedestal.

At Victor’s bakery in The City of Nexus, Victor is serving a special round of pancakes to Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. which they all find very delicious. Officer M. even suggest for him to join the Bakercon but he denies this due to the pressure it would have on him, though he appreciates the compliment. Officer M. gets the idea for the guys to tell stories to eachother whilst eating, possibly even about their pasts but Turtle Man instantly denies the idea of telling the others about his history. DaPhantom and Officer M. are curious of some of Victor’s history, but he tells them there isn’t a whole lot to it they don’t already know: he went to Yoshi Resort University but dropped out to pursue cooking, though his cooking was ridiculed by everyone leading him to start the Cake and Pie Wars until he redeemed himself and moved to Nexus. Then, Officer M. recalls of his time at Yoshi Resort University which also was not the nicest place to him - he went there with Doctor M. and they both studied a course in healthcare since they wanted to be doctors together. However, he was failing the course so he decided to drop out and join the Police course instead to the dismay of his cousin, but he did respect his decision. Officer M. then doesn’t feel like discussing any more right now but neither does Turtle Man who decides that they should throw a party instead with Groovin' Grover though he is still broken; Turtle Man takes him to his cove to fix him whilst Officer M. and DaPhantom prepare the party at DaPhantom’s Manor.

Back in the mountains, a mysterious person wearing a purple cape and suit appears within the chamber of the Amulet of Souls and uses telekinetic powers to hold the Amulet and take it away. Whilst travelling through a murky swamp, they run into Shumi from Yoshi Resort who starts a long conversation with them - the conversation is cut short though when the villain uses the Amulet to seemingly steal Shumi’s soul, leaving him lifeless on the ground as the soul is absorbed into their clasp and they continue their journey. Meanwhile, DaPhantom and Officer M. are at his Manor, where they don’t even have to set up the party stuff since it was already there from the last tine they tried to party (before getting the invitation to the mansion that one night). DaPhantom sent out invites to everyone in the entire city right now, but only Mort shows up who thought the party was being thrown just for him since all of DaPhantom’s invites said that it is being thrown just for the invitee; he gets let into it anyway and finds DaPhantom’s Manor to be pretty creepy. After they find a dead body which was causing the manor to smell really bad and throwing it out onto Officer M's lamborghini, Officer M. and DaPhantom then become curious of Mort's origins but he doesn't really remember anything apart from the fact that he used to not be a space traveller and now is.

Within the dunes of a faraway desert, the person with the Amulet of Souls is trekking through it when a giant sand monster appears and roars at them, ready to attack. The person just uses the Amulet to completely explode the monster and steal its soul, then continues on their journey. Going back to DaPhantom's manor, Mort and Officer M. become curious of DaPhantom's origin story and why he likes the manor he lives in so much, so he decides to tell his origins to them. The manor reminds him of the home he used to live in - he was born in London within July of 1872 and grew up during it's industrial revolution in the Victorian times with DaPhantom's real, human name being Mathew. Some years later when he was attending school in 1879 and was nicknamed "DaMathew" by friends, two of his friends Dave and Tom told him about a dead body they found nearby the school so they snuck out through a gap in the gate to see it. When they found the body though after following a train track Mathew got hit by a passing train and died. Doctor Phan revived Mathew for just a few seconds using some disgusting elixir, but following this Mathew was buried and his two friends who told him about the body came to visit the grave. When they went home, DaPhantom had risen from his human body's grave and went to see his friends who didn't recognise him; as a result, he found himself abandoned and wandered the misty London streets for many years. As DaPhantom ends the flashback, Officer M. and Mort wonder where Turtle Man is but remember that they sent him to go and fix Groovin' Grover so they decide to go check on him. Whilst going to the cove though, the three catch sight of the Riftspace flying through the air which comes to attack them when Mort tries to shoot a laser at it but misses; the void tries to suck in Officer M. but gives up and flies away. Officer M. wants to investigate as to what the void was doing just flying around, but DaPhantom and Mort don't really care that much and want to go to check up on Turtle Man instead which they settle on.

Meanwhile, the mysterious villain is walking through a snowy tundra area and uses the Amulet of Souls to create scorching soul flames that melt all of the snow in a large area around them. The Frost Mercenary that Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had previously encountered appears and gets angry at the villain for ruining his snow, threatening them before the villain punches him and uses the Amulet to steal his soul. By stealing the soul, the villain gains the Mercenary's memories and abilities, including memories of where the trio they were after lives: in the City of Nexus. The villain is revealed to be a woman, as she speaks in her head about now knowing where to find her targets, and begins to redirect her journey to move toward Nexus. Turtle Man is meanwhile visited at his cove by Officer M, DaPhantom and Mort but refuses to open the door - they hear him crying though so Officer M. breaks it down to find that Turtle Man was surrounded by a few dozen snotty tissues since he had been crying so much, recalling his origins. He did also fix Groovin' Grover though which restored him back to his party crazy state and insists that they should start a party at Officer M's house, but Officer M. wants to know what's up with him so tackles him and when Turtle Man tries to fight back he uses his electricity powers to knock him out. Bored, the four decide to take a trip to Yoshi Resort in Mort's lightspeed spaceship, getting there almost immediately. DaPhantom, Officer M. and Mort ask the mayor Max about if he knows where Doctor M. is, but he and Llama both say that they haven't seen the doctor in a couple of days.

The mysterious villain is now walking through a dingy forest, on her way to the City of Nexus when she stumbles across the mossy, abandoned tombstone of Ellie. She smashes the tombstone, and continues her journey. Back in Yoshi Resort, Turtle Man regains consciousness and realises that he is in Yoshi Resort with DaPhantom, Officer M. and Mort so they decide to visit the hospital and find that it is closed. However, they notice a shadow of a person in there who is refusing to open up for them so they can find where Doctor M. is, and as a result Mort breaks down the door despite Officer M’s insisting for him not to do that. The shadowy person is actually revealed to be Doctor M, who was hiding by himself in the hospital since he was paranoid and felt that a threat was approaching Yoshi Resort. All of a sudden, an ice cream villain named the Icy Guy shows up ready to fight Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, but Turtle Man kills him instantly with a hairdryer that blows him to bits and the group all eat him with some ice cream cones. Eating this ice cream puts Doctor M. and Turtle Man in a better mood, and so Turtle Man finally agrees to talk about his past with the others. Back with the mysterious villain, they are now walking through a mountain range where The Devourer’s lair is, and he spots the villain walking by alongside Storm. Using the code he has, Storm is able to find out that the person walking through their territory is a fellow villain named the “Manic Mage,” he gets the idea that they should recruit her into the Sentinels which the Devourer agrees to. However, they back off and let her keep walking by when she does nothing in response to their request but threateningly pull out the Amulet of Souls.

In Turtle Man’s past, he reveals to DaPhantom, Officer M, Doctor M. and Mort that he was born into a beautiful sea kingdom with his parents being royalty of the ocean: Poseidon his father and Amelia his mother. Turtle Man was to be the heir to the throne and become king when he grew up which he wasn’t too fond of, but one day his kingdom was attacked by the Evil King and his army - his parents were killed by him but before his father died he sent Turtle Man away in a pod across the sea which angered the Evil King. Turtle Man had to fend for himself for many years, making friends and enemies across the world, until he found a beach to live on and then eventually left DaPhantom. The guys find themselves pretty touched by this story so then decide to clear off by watching the news. On the news though, they find that Nexus is suffering from a major storm which is causing flashfloods there; the storm has also hit Yoshi Resort where Max and Llama are guiding hundreds of Yoshis and citizens to safety in their shelter. Realising that the storm started in Nexus, the group realise that they have to go back there to find what caused it and put a stop to it - Doctor M. also agrees to come and calls up his girlfriend Katie who could help support them, much to Officer M's dismay.

Overlooking the flooded City of Nexus is the Manic Mage who has finally arrived there, and begins to walk into the submerged city. Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M, Mort, Doctor M. and Katie also arrive there quickly in Mort's spaceship, shocked by how bad the storm actually is with many places like the Nexus Police Station flooded and Officer Jones washed away. Mort and DaPhantom are able to fly above the water and carry the others to safety, on top of a skycraper. Katie finds out that her dark powers can be used to destroy some of the water so she tries to do this, but gets tired out pretty quickly by it and the water is coming back just as fast as she can clear it so she stops. Mort decides to fly around and look for help, with Turtle Man being pushed off by the others because he kept annoying them - Officer M. later falls off by accident but before he hits the water, DaPhantom sucks up all the water that flooded the City and so makes a hard land on the ground. Right as Officer M. and Turtle Man get into a small fight and are struck by lightning, the Manic Mage appears for the first time, finally having reached the trio she was looking for. The Mage uses the Amulet of Souls to completely steal Doctor M, Katie and Mort’s souls which leaves them dead on the ground, and also fires a soul beam at Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. to leave them stunned on the ground. Officer Jones returns and attacks the Mage with a shard of glass but then finds himself stabbed multiple times by her, leaving him unconscious. As Officer M. tries to flee to his house, the Manic Mage snaps her fingers and brings Officer M. into one of his nightmares where he is endlessly berated by his Boss back when he was working in the Yoshi Resort military, and finds himself frustrated having to relive this. The Mage enters the nightmare herself and tries to kill Officer M. on his own, but he manages to barely fight her off before she sends him into a nightmare where he actually got declined the role of a police officer in the Nexus Police. However, here Officer M. is able to fight her off because he knows this didn’t actually happen and so escapes the nightmare but wakes up to find Turtle Man and DaPhantom asleep, suffering from their own nightmares induced by the Magic Mage.

Within Turtle Man’s nightmare, he is a kid walking home from school back when he was in the sea kingdom, but then runs into the Evil King who attacks him and is prepared to kill him. After firing a bolt, the Evil King actually reveals himself to be the Manic Mage who has twisted the dream and is more then ready to kill young Turtle Man but Officer M. enters the nightmare and starts fighting the Mage. He then manages to make Turtle Man remember him and that this didn’t actually happen, just being a memory messed with by the Mage, causing Turtle Man to return to normal and help fight the Manic Mage by throwing a magic growing marshmallow at her which sends her flying away. Turtle Man wakes up to find Officer M. trying to awake DaPhantom who still asleep and trapped in a nightmare of his own; within this nightmare he is his old human self (Mathew) and about to be run over by the approaching train on the train tracks. But Turtle Man and Officer M. enter the dream and push him out of it’s way to safety - the Manic Mage leaves the train and attempts to attack the three before they manage to make Mathew remember that this is just a dream that didn’t actually happen. This causes him to return to his usual, ghostly form and help fight the Mage alongside his friends before escaping the nightmare and waking up. The Manic Mage then attempted to steal Officer M’s soul using the Amulet after hitting the three with a soul beam, but Turtle Man and DaPhantom managed to save him but Turtle Man jokingly said his soul was not worth the effort so Officer M. shot him in the foot. With Turtle Man not being able to get up and help him though, the Manic Mage successfully steals his soul leaving it trapped in her vac where she keeps all of the souls she has collected. DaPhantom enters his lifeless body and eats a donut to gain one of Officer M’s powerups which lets him hurt her a bit, but after it ends the body gains some more weight and then the Manic Mage steals DaPhantom’s soul. With only Turtle Man left conscious, he begs her not to take his soul too and offers her everything he owns before attempting to throw his dagger at her - he misses though and she takes his soul. All three of their souls trapped in her vac, the trio can do nothing but watch as the Manic Mage goes on a rampage stealing more people’s souls, such as Boss who was throwing a party during their entire encounter with her. Their souls meet those of Mort, Doctor M, Katie, Shumi, the Frost Mercenary and even Rick whose soul was also taken at some point. As the souls try to fight eachother and think of who could come to save them, the Manic Mage departs from the ruins of Nexus but then she is suddenly attacked by a shadowy figure who gets into a fight with her. She attempts to attack the figure back by firing the charged souls of Rick and Officer M. at her, but the figure deflects Officer M’s soul onto a tree and Rick’s into the sea. The mage runs away into a cave and attempts to tip all of the souls into a pool of lava, however the figure stops her and instead pushes her in; the Manic Mage is thus burnt alive, marking the end of her terror.

The shadowy figure releases all of the souls which fly back to their bodies, including those of Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M. and all the others whose souls were stolen. The three thank her sincerely but Officer M. also asks who this figure really is: All they do is reveal one of their dark blue eyes, winks and then departs. As Katie, Doctor M. and Mort approach the guys and the former two decide to head back to Yoshi Resort, Officer M. tells Turtle Man and DaPhantom that the person’s eye looked suspiciously like the late Nurse Ellie. However, they insist they saw her die but Officer M. insists that something else is going on as Mort decides to stay with them for a bit since his spaceship was messed up by the flood. The Vice President suddenly returns from a conference meeting (and lifting some weights) and is shocked to find everything in a destroyed state yet again. He asks the passing Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M. and Mort if they had anything to do with this but they deny it, which he just believes as everyone walks home and thinks about various things.

In a post-credits scene, the bones of the Manic Mage rise up from the pool of lava within the cave she was pushed into. As a talking crocodile named Snappy enters the cave and starts picking up bones to gnaw on, he picks up the Amulet of Souls which survived the lava and mistakes it for a frisbee, taking it away to show to some people.

## Characters

### Major

* Turtle Man
* DaPhantom
* Officer M.
* Manic Mage

### Minor

* Victor
* Doctor M.
* Groovin' Grover
* Shumi
* Mort
* Riftspace
* Frost Mercenary
* Max
* Llama
* Shimi
* Icy Guy
* The Devourer
* Storm
* Evil King (Turtle Man’s flashback)
* Katie
* Officer Jones
* Boss
* Rick (soul only)
* Ellie (shadow only)
* Vice President
* Snappy

## Trivia

* This is the second ever film based off of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, after the previous being Guardians of Nexus. It received mostly very positive reviews due to it’s action and exploration of the main 3 characters’ backstories; some deemed it superior to the previous film whilst others called it a flub and not worthy of the title.
* By the end of the film, it is revealed that Ellie could return for a major role in Season 8 and that she is not actually dead; her supposed death from DaPhantom’s turbine back in Season 3 was somehow subverted. However, she does not have any lines in this movie and only her eye was seen which was the same colour as hers. She did indeed make an official return in the Season 8 finale and finally unhooded herself after some mysterious appearances across the season.

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