Mort

> Booha! You guys mind if I save your lives?
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> Mort

 **Mort** is a recurring character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who was first introduced in Season 5. He is a high-tech yet smug spaceman who has formed an alliance with Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. and would sometimes join in on their adventures.

## Appearance

Mort is a human with brown hair and different coloured irises within both of his eyes; One of them is blue whereas the other is green. He’s always seen wearing a suit of aquamarine coloured armor which protects him from a lot of harm, and sometimes wears a helmet to go alongside it with a smudged yet shiny visor, it is hard to see through so he doesn’t wear it that often. He also is equipped with rocket boots that allow him to have quick mobility as well as a jetpack and two small, navy-blue coloured plates on his body armor that store some of his weapons.

## Background

Mort’s history remains a mystery: though it is clear he is not from Earth as he is a space traveller, where exactly he comes from is unknown. However it is likely that the place he is from is much more technologically advanced then the planet the main three live on, due to his weapons and machinery being very complex. Additionally, it is also hinted that he already knew The Devourer before first meeting Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. as throughout the series he assists them in several battles against him and even foils his rocket plan by sharing the documents of it’s construction with them, showing that they had an ongoing feud.

A long time after meeting the trio, Mort's Spaceship becomes destroyed whilst he travels through the atmosphere and when it combusts, he is forced to land it into the Nexus Police Station so he can put it out, with Officer M. helping him to do such. The police Boss becomes enraged at Mort for this, and tells him that the police are within their right to take away his ship as a sort of compensation for the damages which upsets him a bunch. With his spaceship destroyed and taken away from him, Mort is forced to stay at Turtle Man’s Cove for a few days with Officer M. convincing Turtle Man to let him crash there with a bribe of food. He manages to retrieve his spaceship whilst raiding the factory where it was being repaired disguised as a Creeper, and steals the keys for it allowing him to fly away and soar the atmosphere once again. Mort accompanies Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. after being invited to a party at DaPhantom’s house in the second movie, taking them to and from Yoshi Resort in his spaceship instantly to find Doctor M. When they returned to Nexus and managed to stop the flood, the Manic Mage appeared and took his souls alongside Doctor M. and Katie’s, but he got his soul back after they managed to defeat the Mage and return the souls of everyone she took them from. After this, Mort had silently entered the Mountain Race held by the Vice President and ended up winning since he took the shortcut that nobody but him notice that led right to the finish line. He won his cake, but then the Vice President accidentally dropped Victor’s pie which made a huge explosion that destroyed it.

A few days later, he had appeared to help Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. find a new TV for DaPhantom by taking them to a planet filled with them, but on the way back they got thrown into an asteroid belt that left them stranded on a planet that Mort had been to before, named Zyorg. They explored all over this planet from the ruins of a village to deep within it’s caves to collect materials needed in order to repair his ship’s reactor core that got destroyed by the crash. Mort admits that he had been to this planet before but hadn’t ever killed a Frost Monster despite hordes of blue creatures praising him for having done this before. The four of them did end up slaying the monster once and for all whilst in the cave and before they departed from the planet, Mort had gazed upon a statue which he recognised but didn’t admit to the other three what for before taking them home to Earth. He went on a vacation after this to an exotic planet, so he was unable to help the trio reach the Farlands in an instant which is what they were hoping for.

When Victor had his bakery infested with silverfish, he had appeared after Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. whispered his name and used a device of his to shrink them down so they could enter a crack to slay all the silverfish. Mort had to wait for them to come back out so he could turn them back, and he ended up waiting 2 days for them to come back and ended up missing his supposed cousin’s wedding. He had turned them back to normal size alongside an also shrunken guy named Bill who they rescued from within there, and then left to see if he missed the bachelor party. Mort had later been summoned by Officer M. saying “Spacemen suck” at Doctor M’s house whilst looking after his dog, since they wanted his help to find out what a certain syringe that came with the dog Grover’s toys was for. He realised that this syringe was to be used to cure the dog of a disease within the Resort named Yoshuenza, and then found himself fascinated by how cute the dog was. With Doctor M. and Katie returning from the honeymoon to find Mort there, he tried to make a deal with Doctor M. to take the dog in exchange for anything but couldn’t find anything he wanted more than to keep the dog. Mort then tried to clone the dog using a cloning machine however the machine ended up exploding and altered Grover’s genes, turning him into Superdog. Mort decided to take Superdog back with him and they went on some space adventures together.

Mort had later given the trio a map to the Mystical Acres, since that is where the Manic Mage lived all her life and he had a feeling that they would be able to find some answers as to how the Amulet of Souls was made and how they could stop it from becoming unstable. He and Superdog also fought together in Soul War after the Amulet had been destroyed thanks to the Devourer’s meddling.

## Personality and Relationships

Mort is highly smug and arrogant, seeing himself as better then most others due to his strength and tech. His comments are often self-praising and possibly even insulting towards others if it puts him in a good position, and he likes to be in the spotlight as much as humanly possible. However, his arrogance does lead to his own downfall sometimes, with him building himself up as capable of doing something then failing at it, which makes him look rather incompetent. Whenever he is in the right though, he makes a great deal of it, such as making others say “You were right” and him relishing in the opportunity to say “I told you so.”

Despite his own strength, Mort has come off as rather cowardly on some occasions. In the first movie, many of the times that the Pumpkin Punk showed up, Mort just fled leaving the guys to fight him on their own, even though he usually sees himself as more then capable. He’s also shown to dislike showing emotions such as sadness, as after Hector Flores dies he is the only person at the scene who wasn’t crying and just left again, destroying Officer M’s house by accident which made him cry some more. He is also a bit clumsy on occasion, having recklessly crashed his ship into Nexus more then a few times occasionally even on purpose just because he was too lazy to try and land properly.

Regardless of that, Mort does seem to have grown a good bond with Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, being more then willing to protect them against any threats and help them solve mysteries or find out stuff, like when he showed Officer M. the picture of Hector Flores with the title. He also showed care for them after all of their souls were stolen by the Manic Mage, and when they got them back he hugged the three of them and claimed he never missed them more then at that moment. Whether this is just to boost his own self-ego or not is unknown, but he does seem to genuinely like hanging out with the three on their adventures. He is also friends with Victor and likes to buy things from his bakery, having called them very delicious. In addition, he very much likes Grover the Superdog and finds him quite adorable, which is why he wanted to take him from Doctor M. and later did after the dog chose him.

There is not really much known about any family or relatives that Mort may have, but he did mention that he has a cousin whose wedding and bachelor party he missed after having shrank Victor and the trio and waited for them to return. Also, whilst leaving Zyorg he sadly looked at a ruined statue depicting a figure, which could imply that he knew them somehow. Mort also has a soft spot for animals like dogs.

## Abilities

Mort himself doesn’t really have any powers or special abilities, but his strength in battle comes from his high-tech equipment. His armor is capable of enduring great deals of damage without being scathed at all, and is resistant to extremely high or low temperatures as well as other dangers Mort would face on his galactic adventures. Mort also always has a jetpack and rocket boots equipped, which both allow him to move very fast and often flee from scenes very quickly, or uses them to charge his opponents down if he is out of other options. He also carries around many powerful weapons, such as Exo-Laser Blasters that can incinerate almost anything and a powerful katana.

Mort often gets around in his spaceship, which is not only huge in size, but is able to move at lightspeed. This would allow him to reach almost anywhere he wants in just a few seconds of travelling, and is also decked with high plating to resist dangers and other features like self-defense.

## Appearances

* S5E7 - Rift Apart
* S5E8 - Rifts and Rockets
* S5E11 - Space Ride
* S6E2 - Groovin' Grover
* S6E10 - Endless Fog
* S6E14 - Farewell, Friend
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E1 - Talkin' Stuff
* S7E2 - Who Pulled The Fire Alarms?
* S7E9 - Dinner to Die For
* S7E11 - Crashed Spaceship
* S7E12 -Restaurant War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E1 - Mountain Race
* S8E2 - Zyorg
* S8E7 - Victor's Walls
* S8E9 - Dogsittin'
* S8E12 - Unstable Amulet
* S8E14 - The Mystical Acres
* S8E15 - Soul War
* S9E7 - Cursed

## Trivia

* It's possible that he comes from Zyorg since when he and the trio were visiting there, they discobered a house with a broken sign but the letters M, R and T could still be seen on it. Also, Mort saw a statue of someone he recognised and stared at for a bit whilst they were leaving.

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