Bobo Zahn (Film)

**Bobo** is the secondary protagonist of the Gator Tooth movie franchise.

He is a young mongoose who befriended Dee, a young martial arts warrior who left his school.

## **Concept And Creation**

For his live-action appearance, Deiontre Carter did a little concept art, but couldn't quite make it appear how he'd imagine it. However, when he bought Home Biomutant on December 10, 2021, it quickly became a hit with him and after he created Bobo on it, was proud of the look so much that he decided for Bobo's live-action appearance he wanted to base it solely on himself from Biomutant, finding the realism and fur color of yellow just right.

## **Personality**

Bobo is exceptionally technical and often assists Dee with all of his tools. He is really innocent and often takes food but doesn't know any better since he's just an animal. He is self-conscious about people calling him names but never Holds grudges with anyone. He is always looking on the bright side in every situation but sometimes his tools can cause trouble because he often forgets what to add, but never tries to hurt anyone intentionally with the gadgets he makes for Dee in his day to day adventures. Due to Claire's bullying, Bobo was initially an insecure and nervous young individual. He is eccentric and was filled with low self-esteem due to being bullied for his size by Claire. He never really believed he could be a hero to anybody in life because of his short height. He's not one to complain about a problem or trick and often always accepts it, even if manipulated. He has a hard time trying to have faith in himself because he doesn't feel as big as his friends or as useful. When there's at least situations, he is a quick thinker and Dee's smart useful sidekick. He is an innocent taker and eats whatever he finds unaware if it's someone else's food. He also has amnesia, due to living alone from his parents for 10 years and sometimes forgets, as his most self-loathing trait.

## **Appearance**

Much like his video game counterpart, Bobo is a young small extraterrestrial mongoose with yellow fur and a tan stomach. He often wears orange wristbands.
In his debut, he is 15 years old, a year younger than Dee, who was 16 in the first film.

## **Biography**

### **Backstory**

When Bobo was a pup (5 years old), he wanted to go explore around the planet with the other pups. Star and Jupiter accepted it and let him go around as long as they could still see him. He unfortunately got caught in a cage trap with some meat on a rope after he tracked it down, as galactic taxidermists prepare to drive off with him. Bobo cries out for help and Star and Jupiter catch up just in time, knocking the truck over freeing Bobo. They see taxidermists going to check out the cause in the back, urging Bobo to get as far away from the planet as he can, he reluctantly hides from them while his parents goin the cage instead, sacrificing their lives to save Bobo's instead. Bobo is hidden behind a rock and desperately tries reaching them in time, but the truck flies off (along with other kidnapped mongooses) leaving Bobo all alone on Mong. With no other option, Bobo decides to take an abandoned Aryan ship like they told him to and escape his planet, as his parents had it automatically head a course for planet earth.

### **Gator Tooth (Film)**

After pup Bobo arrives to Earth, he assumes it'll be ok and it'll be just like how Mong was. But as he left his Aryan pod and started looking around, he started to notice how loud and noisy Earth is due to never seeing or being around humans before. He is at first excited to see what life is like on Earth, but quickly gets intimated and frightened by the humans and their hostile attitude towards him. Afraid that he'll be hunted if he is seen by humans, he escapes a park of angry dogs and hides in a tall tree. From that moment on, Bobo would only leave his tree for emergencies, such as food or to explore the city. 10 years later, Bobo, now much older then we last saw him at 5, is now 15 years old. When he sees a boy named Dee walking to school, he notices that he's not as loud or hostile as the other Earth residents (though he's unaware that he's also an alien which causes them to begin to relate to each other due to their unusual strength as the movie progresses) and follows him to his school to learn more about calm people so he can overcome his traumatizing feelings and guilt of leaving his parents. He sees him get bullied, mocked and insulted, and he feels sad that he doesn't seem to be as happy as he hoped he would when observing him from the window. When school is out, Bobo gets the idea that the only way to overcome his depression of what happened along time ago is to try to behave like a person himself and try to go about his everyday routines as casually as possible like everyone else seems to be doing. However, he only starts freaking a few people out by trying to buy food, shop in stores and every other thing daily humans do to survive. Feeling like an outcast, Bobo tries one last desperate attempt to fit in with life on Earth by hanging out with some squirrels at local parks, only to scare them away. Depressed, Bobo decides to accept that he is an outcast and try to cheer himself up by looking for food. When he steals food from Sarabi's house, Bobo becomes wanted by animal control, assuming him to be a new species of rodent. He meets Dee when he's going to vacation in Orlando and he begs him to bring him too, as he has no one to hang out with and is vulnerable to the outside world without a friend to protect him. As the two escape Lake Charles, they begin to slowly understand each other's struggles and coming to understand no matter who you are, nobody's perfect and start becoming destined friends.

### **Gator Tooth II (Film)**

Bobo goes to high school with Dee, but they end up having problems when Kollan tags along. His parents are revived off-screen at the film's credits.

### **Gator Tooth III** **(Film)**

Bobo meets his parents again after 13 years. He helps Dee defeat Samuel and protected his backpack from him when he tried going in his room and taking it.

### **Gator Tooth IV (Film)**

Bobo sneaks into an Aryan ship to get Dee out.

### **Gator Tooth V (Film)**

Bobo faces the metal versions of Dee and Jenny with Dee.

## **Weaknesses**

Cage capture- Special hunting balls specifically designed for Space Mongooses.

## **Powers and Abilities**

Lightning energy manipulation- Can use sparks of lightning for an attack, blast or when he's sprinting.

Superspeed- Is as fast as Dee and can keep up with him at a speed of 700 mph.

Red-Eyed Rage- A bright golden transformation he uncontrollably taps into when he's angry and us one of his most powerful abilities ever.

Flight- Has an extra retractlie tail that he uses to fly.

## **Trivia**

. This is the live-action version of Bobo, the mongoose sidekick of Dee from the video games.

. He is eyed to be portrayed by Tobey Maguire, the original Spider-Man actor.

. This would be the second time Tobey Maguire voices an animal character in a Hollywood feature movie. The first being Lou from the 2001 action-adventure comedy spy film Cats & Dogs.

. If he agrees to the role, there will be a few references to Peter Parker in the movies. Such as Bobo's liking to pizza.

. His cinematic appearance will be based on his design from Biomutant. A favorite game of Deiontre Carter. Other Mongooses from the series will also have designs based on their Biomutant designs due to the game's colorful realistic looks of custom characters.