Hector Flores

* Hector Flores
* Pumpkin Punk

## Appearances

### Debut

Riftspace (Season 6, on media)Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus (physical debut)

**Hector Flores** was a character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who, many years ago, was the mayor of Yoshi Resort. However, he moved away to the outside of The City of Nexus and started a movie making career within his own film studio called HF Studios; after almost being caught committing murders he chose to fake his own death and reform as a villain named the **Pumpkin Punk**. When Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. were closing to discovering the secret of HF Studios, he stepped in as the punk to try and put a stop to them but failed.

## Appearance

Hector Flores himself was an old man who was bald apart from some white and grey trims of hair, as well as one larger hair right on top of his wrinkled head. The rest of his body was also covered in pale hair and wrinkles, and he was pretty skinny with bags under his eyes seemingly at all times. His eyes had small black irises and no pupils within them, as well as a small white beard that consisted of a single large hair on his face. Often, his attire simply consisted of dark green pants with small, cactus-green shoes and a branded shirt of himself that had short sleeves, some buttons and pockets as well as his initials (HF) on the front; this shirt was even able to be brought for a while but sold out very quickly.

Hector Flores’ villain persona, the Pumpkin Punk, wore a large pumpkin mask with glowing blue eyes and a wicked mouth to cover up his face - the mask also had a green stem and was covered in dirt as well as cracks. He wore a set of dark purple armor decked with green shoulder pads, a skull on the neckpiece, a large white belt and also dark orange gloves with lighter orange cores. His boots had dark boosters on them and on top of all of this, he donned an evil orange cape.

## Background

Hector Flores was born in the countryside, where he grew up on a farm alongside his mother and father who taught him how to tend to crops and animals. Later on in his life, he moved away from his family to a city named Yoshi Resort, which was his first real taste of city life, and he lived there for many years getting a successful education and job. Eventually, he decided to run for mayor of the city and ended up winning the vote by a landslide, thus making him the new mayor of Yoshi Resort. He remained in this occupation for many more years making lot’s of changes that are still in place to this day and amassing widespread popularity, with the overwhelming majority considering him to be a great mayor. Though he enjoyed the role of mayor still after years of being in it, he was starting to grow a little tired of the major popularity he had which he was finding overwhelming and for the next election, a man named Max won the vote over him so he decided to move away from Yoshi Resort and find something new.

Hector decided to take refuge near another city far away from Yoshi Resort, named The City of Nexus, where he brought a home for himself and made friends with a man named Rick. He decided that he wanted a new career, and so opened up his own business which he nicknamed HF Studios. Here, he would produce various movies that he always had ideas for making but never got the chance to pursue, though he did need some help with it so he recruited members to help him work in the Studios. A lot of people wanted to join since they recognised him from Yoshi Resort, but he was starting to get sick of this popularity as well. HF Studios ended up being highly successful and made a lot of high-grossing films such as *The Magic Apple*, *The Lone Table* and even possibly it’s most famous hit: *The Last Cowboy*. As much as Hector Flores enjoyed making these film ideas he had, he was starting to get extremely frustrated with the business as well and those around him - in fact he was so mad that on the sets of 10 movies at HF Studios, he murdered somebody simply out of frustration. These movies were never released due to this and kept locked away in the Studios’ basement, with Hector Flores never explaining why these movies must never be revealed to the public and only revealing the secret to Rick as he knew he could trust him to not spill the beans. Meanwhile in Nexus, Hector was viewed as a local hero for all of the joy he was bringing to people’s lives and the city even decided to create an annual 2 day festival celebrating him, with merchandise of him and more. Getting even more sick of the fame, Hector decided that he didn’t want to live a life of a celebrity and so in the centre of Nexus, he faked his own death by having a person dressed up as him jumping off a skyscraper. This worked completely in his favour, and everyone thought he was dead leading to a period of mourning him for many months on end, but the city decided to still to the Hector Flores festival every year in his honour.

Meanwhile, Hector had always lived a life of a good person so he had decided that he would like to try life on the villainous side. He spent many weeks putting together his own supervillain equipped with powerful, soul-draining weapons and a spooky pumpkin theme, which he had named the Pumpkin Punk. As the Pumpkin Punk, with a masked face he decided to cause havoc upon various places in the world to take out his anger, even travelling to various different worlds in order to find more resources to further upgrade his equipment and destroy even more places. One day on his escapades on another planet, he had stumbled across a large space serpent named The Devourer and his accomplice Storm, who were looking to form a small team of villains and needed members. The Pumpkin Punk decided to sign up for this, and the Devourer liked him and accepted his offer right away thus making him one of the Sentinels. He continued to serve in this role for about a year doing missions and making creations for the Devourer, but soon started to grow sick of the Devourer’s ways as he was pretty incompetent at certain things even if strong. One day, the Pumpkin Punk disappeared without a trace leaving the Devourer and Storm on their own once again; he moved back to Earth to check up on how things were for the next few years.

Many years later, it had come to Hector’s attention that a group of heroes in Nexus named Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had been investigating HF Studios and stumbled across his hidden movies in it’s basement, even taking one home for evidence despite the bodyguard Rick’s attempts to hold them off from entering. He realised that he needed to act fast as to prevent them from coming closer to the truth about his fake death, and so completely burned down HF Studios with his soul flames and left a hoodie and pie at the scene knowing that they would try to trace it back towards their friend Victor. When they had later arrived in Yoshi Resort, the Pumpkin Punk had already been there before them and chased away everybody within the hospital, waiting for the guys to show up there before he began chasing and attacking the three of them for the first time. However, current mayor Max showed up to fight the Pumpkin Punk himself, not knowing who he really was, giving the trio some time to escape but eventually he overpowered Max and caused him to pass out. The Pumpkin Punk followed them back to Nexus and burned down the town hall before they arrived as a warning sign, then attempted to kill them a few more times. At last, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. decided to have a final showdown against the Punk with some of their friends and enemies helping, but he had summoned an army of souls to attack them. When it looked like the Punk was about to win, Doctor M. and Storm stepped in and used their powers to fire beams at him which when conflicting with his soul beam, created a massive explosion that killed some, destroyed most of the city and fatally injured the Pumpkin Punk. The guys were finally able to unmask him, revealing for the first time that the Pumpkin Punk was in fact Hector Flores who was dying, which shocked everyone there. He revealed to them his motives for everything he did, and then succumbs to his injuries which makes everybody there cry except for Mort because he didn’t really know him that well. When rebuilding the City of Nexus, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. decide to bury Hector Flores underneath the ashen remains of HF Studios, giving him a fitting sendoff after 109 years of age.

A few weeks after Hector Flores’ death and the rebuilding of Nexus, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. were encountered by a talking statue, the one from the Town Hall, who informs them that objects around there are starting to gain souls and come to life due to the Punk’s soul bombings which left behind traces of energy. With Mort’s help, they were able to extract the energy from within the ground underneath the Town Hall and restore the objects back to normal - this was seemingly Hector’s last creation left behind to be removed. He was brought back to life in a ghostly vessel during the Soul War where he almost killed Officer M. using his soul pumpkin bombs but was ripped apart by Old MacDonald’s pitchfork. Later on, the statue of him within Nexus was destroyed by the ghost of the Evil King, which destroyed another one of the last things to remember him by left.

## Personality and Relationships

It is likely that Hector Flores had many friends and family members who looked out for him throughout his time, however any of them are not known as of now - it is plausible that he outlived them. Though Hector Flores usually remained pretty calm with his peers and was good at the work he did, he clearly had some issues hidden deep within him which could have led him into committing the murders in HF Studios - psychological issues may have been growing within him due to his old age and events that he had witnessed. He was also a bit stern with his work, and wanted everything he did to be absolutely perfected with little to no flaws if possible, so he worked himself quite hard and under lots of pressure as a result and was not often welcome to changing his ideas or views on anything. His only known friend around his time was a man named Rick who had helped him create some of the movies at HF Studios; Hector made him the tour guide of HF Studios after the final movie there was produced to keep it’s legacy around for any future generations to see.

There was a much darker side to Hector Flores then what the majority of people knew: the beloved film director they saw was actually a man who hated his employees and often overworked them to make his strange movie ideas. Anyone at work who opposed to this would often be mercilessly punished or fired by him personally, as he did not tolerate any criticism towards the way he handled things. Furthermore, he had a pretty large self-image and saw himself as a powerful and great being, especially during his time as the Pumpkin Punk and a film director. He was also especially defensive of his secrets, as when Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. came close to uncovering the truth about his fake death he burnt down HF Studios (to remove any and all traces of him) and then tried to kill them in Yoshi Resort as the Pumpkin Punk, to forever keep their knowledge silent. He also got pretty angry at them for this, and decided to also burn down the Nexus Town Hall for no apparent reason other then an act of revenge.

## Abilities

Hector Flores himself didn't have any special powers of abilities, although he managed to amass a huge cult following of people who would follow and support him seemingly no matter what he did, which he had sometimes thought of taking advantage of. On the other hand, the Pumpkin Punk was a powerful and very dangerous villain who always came equipped with an arsenal of deadly weapons - mostly ones related to the power of souls. His soul bombs would channel the energy of hundreds of spirits, releasing them in a powerful impulse that caused great damage to the surroundings and set them ablaze. Also, he often carried with him a Ghost Trapper which he used to catch the souls that he used in combat, and could also harness their energy to heal his own physical being. In melee combat he was dangerous as well despite Hector Flores' age, being able to move swiftly and easily dodge attacks. His most common choice of close-quarters weapon was a sharp and deadly scythe, which was said to be able to reap out the spirits of any being that it struck. His armor was also durable, made of an otherworldly material that protects him well against any harmful attacks, and his boots also came equipped with soul boosters that allow him to swiftly move through the air.

The Pumpkin Punk had but one known, major weakness which he gave to the Devourer back in his time as one of his sentinels, which was a Pumpkin Grenade. It could harm anything, but if it were to strike him with it's explosion then it would drain most of his soul energy and almost stun his ability to collect any souls, leaving him much weaker then usual.

## Appearances

* S6E8 - Riftspace (on media)
* S6E13 - HF Studios (on media)
* S6E14 - Farewell, Friend (on media/pictures)
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S8E15 - Soul War (soul ghost)

Hector Flores is available as a playable character in the FreeLC for Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters, donning his Pumpkin Punk attire and abilities.

## Trivia

* In the episode with the parade in the City of Nexus, many characters told Officer M. that he resembled Hector Flores even though they don’t really look alike at all, but it could have just been a running joke about how he looks a little old.
* He was 109 years old before dying, making him the oldest human character on the whole show.

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