Tork Maddox

**Tork Maddox** is the leader of the Metal Maniacs and rival to Nolo Pasaro, the leader of the Teku.

## Appearance

He is a muscular African American Human green eyes and black spiky hair. He has thick eyebrows, sideburns and a goatee. He wears a red tanktop with a cut tire tread on his shoulders, vest-style. He wears dark green jeans and heavy-duty metal boots and gloves. His left eyebrow has a small scar, and he wears golden earrings. He has the Metal Maniacs logo tatooed to his left arm.

## Personality

While aggressive and loud much like the other Metal Maniacs, he is also stern and level-headed, keeping the Metal Maniacs in check when they go out of line. Tork shares a strong bond with his former teammates and fellow huntsmen Coop and Charley. He has a fierce rivalry with Nolo Pasaro, leader of the rival team the Teku. Nolo blames Tork for his brother Tone's death, but Tork often suffers from nightmares about Tone Pasaro's crash and shows remorse. Because of this, Tork didn't cause the crash and it was Tone's fault, not Tork.

## Biography

### Past

Tork was trained by Jacob Davidson, Charley’s uncle into being a huntsman and a race car driver during his time in Motorcity. After he left, Tork founded his own team, the Metal Maniacs. He met and raced against team of racers such as the Teku who were under the leadership of Tone Pasaro. The two raced until an accident caused Tone to crash and killed, causing a strong rivarlry and hatred between the Teku and Metal Maniacs.

### Wacky Races

Tork showed up at the Wacky Races and heard Charley was around along with three mobian mice called the Biker Mice from Mice, when he heard about the Grimm broke through the protective barriers to keep them out, he came to their support laong with his team to find the ones responsible for the sabotage. Teaming up with the BIker Mice they fought against the horde and later on confronted the culplrit behind it all and longtime foe of the Mice named Lawrence Limburger. He along with the Maniacs fought against the Grimm and the hired thugs. When they were almost surrounded, an unexpected arrival of his and Charley's old teammate Coop showed up with his MEGAS and instantly turned the tides in their favour.

Prevented a disaster, Tork and his team were about to move out when Wylde confronted with one of the racers and decided to prove who was the better racer to reach the finish line. The winner of the race was Penelope Pitstop.

### Acceleracers

Around some time after the race, Tork recieved a call from his team of what happened to them and followed the coordinates to the Acceledrome to get back at the Racing Drones for what they did to his teammates. Reunited with his old mentor and met another team of drivers called the Burners and didn't holding grudge against them like the Teku due to being friends of his old mentor. He and others that arrived for extra help were filled in by Dr. Peter Tezla, the man who was known to some of the drivers of their previous encounter. The Wheel of Power opened to the Swamp Realm and drove into the portal, they split up with Tork in the same track as the Burner leader, Mike Chilton and competed one another before they encounter the Racing Drones. He was attacked by the creatures of the swamp Realm until Nolo won the race, made it out but the feud between the two did not change anything.

The next Realm he entered was the Cavern Realm alongside with his teammates, Porkchop and Wylde, they were attacked by the Cavern bats and the Racing Drones but won another accelecharger with Porkchop the winner.

Tork is in the same meeting as all the other drivers before the intro scene where everybody is getting their cars ready for the next realm. Dr. Tezla wants to try out the accelechargers that were won in the Cavern Realm and the Swamp Realm. Tork finds that the Cavern Accelecharger iluminates dark areas and eliminates the need for headlights. Tork was then hit by Nolo and wiped out, leaving Nolo to take over the training track. Tork blew his engine on the track after trying to use Monkey's Nitrox 3 and a half. After the Water Realm, everyone is found sleeping. Tork has a nightmare of him racing Nolo's brother and crashes him which leads to Tone dying on the race. Tork wakes up to see a silhouette under his door and leaves to investigate. Tork heads to the cars area and finds Karma and Nolo talking to each other. Tork confronts Nolo since they are in the Metal Maniacs area. Nolo had previously intended to sabatoge the vehicles so the Teku can only fight the drones. Nolo throws a wrench but it misses Tork. Before it could get further out of hand, the alarm set off to alert the drivers of another Racing Realm was about to open, he was one of the selected drivers and told Monkey to take Wylde’s *Spine Buster* after the window of his *Rollin’ Thunder* got smashed before they entered a city-scape dimension called the Metro Realm.

Taken one of the paths and ended up in a fight with Nolo until the Teku leader almost crashed his car and landed it in its roof, Tork became concerned, he ran over to check on him if he was still alive and advised him to use the EDR with no chances of his car getting back in the wheels. When word about a new Racing Drone machine called a Sweeper started abducting both Monkey and Nolo, he went after them with the help of Karma, Dutch, and Julie to distract the Vehicon while he breaks the two out. Willing to put aside the rivalry to save Nolo but we’re confronted by the Generals Jetstorm and Tankor, along with a Racing Drone who have the Swamp Accelecharger after capturing Nolo. Tork took a few hits with his Aura protecting him but saw a passing breach and pulled Nolo to the floor before they get crushed but retrieved the Accelecharger and made it back to the Acceledrome, only to be confronted by an angry Wylde to know what happened to his car when Monkey took it, but Tork came to his defence and told him to back off.

## Powers and Abilities

Tork shows Greta skills in driving and combat abilities to take on powerful Grimm.

## Equipment

Tork wields a double axed blade that can change into a gun.

### Vehicles

Tork's only car is Hollowback. This gives the best track record for the Metal Maniacs and ties with Karma for best track record over all with cars, each only using one.

## Quotes

* *"Let's move some metal, Maniacs."*
* To Monkey: *"*NOBODY *does this to my guys! Not the Grimm. Bandits. Or the Drones. We're welded."*

## Background Information

Tork Maddox is one of the characters introduced in Hot Wheels *Acceleracers* and is voiced by Adrian Holmes.

## Trivia

* in the Wacky Races, Tork has a history with Charley and Coop when they were in Motorcity to become huntsmen.
* Tork is the only person who led a team and did not lose a car.
* Tork is one of the two Metal Maniacs seen using the Cavern Realm Accelecharger, the other is Taro.