Mountain Range

The **Mountain Range** is a location in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, being found a distance away from the The City of Nexus. It is a huge and vast mountain range filled with many ups and downs, and a place that the main trio have visited many times to stop The Devourer as his lair is hidden within. Furthermore, the mountains are also where a race held by the nearby city’s Vice President took place.

## Description

As it’s name might suggest, the Mountain Range is simply an incredibly large domain of mountains all in varying shapes and sizes. Some peaks are taller or more jagged than others, but all share a common trait of becoming covered in heaps of snow due to the frequent snowfall within the area. There are many dramatic drops which can create caves and even avalanches under unlucky conditions which can make it a pretty dangerous place if unprepared. The only foliage around here is the occasional pine tree or shoot of frost covered grass, making the Mountain Range very desolate. Though almost nobody lives here, one exception is the Devourer and his Sentinels who live within a hidden lair that they built under some of the mountains that is only accessible through a secret entrance or some vaults. The Frost Mercenary also used to live around here in a hidden ice castle, but he abandoned it to try take over the City of Nexus and it since collapsed.

## Background

The Mountain Range’s terrain wasn’t always as extreme as it is today: in earlier times it was mostly just a series of hills that lacked any caves or danger, and were only mildly cold. As time as progressed though, the Earth’s erosion has caused the terrain around it to massively change and become as extreme as it is today, as well as a shift in climate causing the weather to become freezing cold and have it snow basically every day. Very few people have visited the Mountain Range let alone try to call it a home, but this changed when the Devourer and his sentinels Storm and Veiled had first arrived on Earth. They wanted a permanent secret base on the planet to call home, and chose the mountains due to how large and harsh the conditions were so no one was ever around, and they made a huge lair underneath some of the mountains where they could plot their evil plans. They made sure the base was as secret as possible, making it only accessible through a secret entrance the Devourer made or through a series of hidden vaults found in nearby areas. The Devourer’s arch enemies Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had visited the Mountain Range a few times to find his lair for various reasons, whether it be to steal some Stellar Steel from within or help mend the unstable Riftspace. Around this time the evil Frost Mercenary had set up a temporary castle within the mountains but left it to try and take over the City of Nexus, thus resulting in it eventually collapsing.

Some time later, the local City’s Vice President had his team carve out a large section of the Mountain Range to make room for a race track, announcing this race to the city during a town hall meeting and offering a big reward. With said reward revealed to be a giant cake and lots of hidden money, several people from all across the world travelled here to participate in the race with their unique vehicles, such as Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M, Victor, the Frost Mercenary, the Mario Bros. plumbing, the Vice President himself and many others. In the end though, it was revealed that Mort had secretly entered the competition and won, but this was rendered useless after Victor’s bomb pie blew up the reward and a large section of the range.

## Appearances

* S5E6 - The Vault
* S5E8 - Rifts and Rockets
* S6E11 - Mending a Void
* S6E12 - Snow Day
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E1 - Mountain Race
* S9E6 - Find Your Tune

## Trivia

* Despite the Mountain Range not making that many appearances in the actual show, the location is present in the video game adaptations of the show as levels that can be visited and interacted with.
* The Mountain Range itself was first seen after the Devourer's Lair was, as the guys had entered the lair through one of it’s secret vaults.

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