The Devourer

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**The Devourer** is a major antagonist in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, a gargantuan and incredibly powerful space wyvern who constantly antagonises Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. in The City of Nexus. He was introduced at the start of Season 5, and has been the show’s most recurring villain since then.

## Appearance

The Devourer is a colossal cosmic wyvern, so as a result he is incredibly, incredibly long; his segments stretch for miles on end, so as a result it is rare that the whole of him is seen due to his frequent use of portal transport. His skin is a scaly purple mostly covered in plum Stellar Steel armour that is highly durable, with this armor being trailed with cracks and pink gemstones. Running along his armoured body is a glowing streak of energy and large metal plates, with there even being the occasional cosmic rocket booster that he uses to blast around at high speeds in place of his former tattered wings. His tail and head are both also coated with Stellar Steel for protection, and his tail has a swirling pink nebula contained within that is very beautiful but also deadly should it be released. On his head, he has two purple horns and 4 pink eyes, as well as a set of extremely sharp fangs with extra, void-tipped plates of metal on his jaws for even more destructive potential. He also has dozens of legs which each have several glowing pink claws.

## Background

Despite the true origins of the Devourer remaining rather vague, it is clear that apart from Storm, he is the last of his kind. The cosmic space wyverns were hunted out and exterminated by many galactic travellers long ago, but the Devourer managed to hide from them using his unique ability to travel with portals. Managing to outlive the rest of his kind, he started consuming lesser species such as amoeba and other weak creatures, culminating over many years into the size that he is today.

One day whilst on one of his searches for things to eat, the Devourer had made a surprising discovery: he discovered a fellow cosmic wyvern. Having though he was the only member of his species to have not died out, he took pity on tiny being, which was starving and could barely fend for itself, and took it to his lair when he fed him some of his food. Seeing as this little serpent was rather ravenous and also had electrical tempest powers, he decided to nickname it Storm, and practically took it up for adoption with the weaver being very grateful for everything he did for him. Sometime later, the Devourer decided to start looking for other minions that could serve him alongside the weaver, and he nicknamed his potential team the Sentinels. The first person to sign up for his team showed great promise: a warrior who donned a pumpkin mask and intimidating armor who refused to reveal his true identity, but named himself the Pumpkin Punk. The Devourer was greatly pleased and agreed to let him join the team to join his conquests, however, the punk had departed from his forces after just a year of being with him. Shortly after his disappearance though, a mysterious shadow figure named Veiled had offered his role as an assassin for the Devourer, and he was seen as a good replacement for the Pumpkin Punk so the Devourer decided to let him come aboard where he has stayed ever since.

After many years of scavenging and domination from planet to planet with his two minions by his side, the Devourer finally decided to settle his forces down on a lively, lush planet named Earth and took refuge in the caves of the nearby mountain range where he brought all his valuables with him and made a secret lair. With Storm and Veiled, he had decided that their next target for taking over would be a local city named The City of Nexus. His first ever plan against the city was to launch a rocket from his hidden vault he had set up nearby, however a space traveller named Mort who had been facing off against him for a while stole his plans and showed them to local heroes Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. after they were almost destroyed by a falling object from one of his portals. Together they managed to stop the Devourer from launching the rocket, and this was the first time the Devourer ever took notice of the three and saw them as a threat to his dominance. He launched many more plans against them, such as making an army of robots to attack the city, giving Officer M. over to an Evil Chef who would cook him alive and making a killer robot, but these all failed in one way or another gradually making him more angry towards them. One of his most ghastly plans of all was conceiving a Riftspace to absorb the city and later spread fog across the city, but they managed to stop it with even the help of the Storm who gave Officer M. and Mort bricks to seal it up. As a result, the Devourer kicked Storm out of his team for a while who stayed in Nexus alongside Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, but they made up after they both helped in defeating the Pumpkin Punk who had returned to kill the three heroes after many years of absence in the first movie.

After this he made more plots against the three such as making a Cylinder and Frying Pan Lady using metal he got from the Nexus Blacksmith, but has seemingly started to soften up and became more relaxed around them, even helping them on occasion and complimenting Turtle Man’s cooked fish within his bar. Though he did come back to destroy Turtle Man during the Restaurant War since the fish gave him salmonella, but he calmed down quickly and signed a treaty to end the war. With the help of Storm, he later tried to recruit the Manic Mage onto the sentinels, but they backed off after feeling threatened by her pulling out the Amulet of Souls. His next appearance was a while later after this since Veiled caught a strain of Panda Flu, which forced him to isolate alongside the sentinels for a bit, but he broke into Officer M’s house and stole the Amulet of Souls which he had recognised from the Manic Mage’s possession. He had used the amulet to conjure soul copies of Purple Man and Track Tom who he had previously killed and eaten when called by the guys, and he did this purely to annoy them. He returned with them to Channel 100 Studios and Turbotown in order to bring their show back for a ninteenth season, which caught the attention of Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. who were searching for the amulet and so headed there. They encountered the Devourer and had a fight against him and the clones of Purple Man and Track Tom, which they were seemingly losing at first until a shadowy figure appeared to help them defeat him, destroy the clones and retrieve the amulet. As a last-ditch move, the Devourer opened a jar which released Veiled’s sick germs upon Officer M, thus making him catch the illness before he fled once again. The Devourer showed up again not long after to try and attack the trio when they were in Yoshi Resort, looking after Doctor M’s house and his dog Grover. He kept declining to help them take care of the dog and instead got scared off after he had bit him, thus leaving them alone again.

Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. had later raided his lair in search of some Stellar Steel which they needed to repair the damaged Amulet of Souls, as it turns out that he has a great supply of the ore. They managed to sneak in when he and the sentinels were asleep and steal some bars without waking them up using a grappling hook, until Turtle Man dropped a bar which woke the Devourer up and caused him to chase them away before he went back to sleep because he was tired. The Devourer did some more research into the Amulet and became fully aware of it’s powers, wanting it all for himself and taking his sentinels with him to hunt Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. down for the amulet. They followed the trio to a faraway shrine where they battled them until they accidentally woke up a giant flesh monster, but the Devourer eventually did gain ahold of the amulet with the help of Riftspace and used it to destroy the monster as well as cause havoc on the nearby forest and later the Mystical Acres. After the Amulet’s destruction and beginning of the Soul War, he agreed that the heroes and villains should put their differences to defeat the millions of evil ghosts and helped out alongside his sentinels, later being vaporised by the ghost of the Evil King then brought back to life. He later tried to sabotage the annual Nexus Olympics with the help of the Sentinels, but most of their plans did not succeed until the last one where he got Veiled to cut out the Arena’s power, thus ruining the final challenge. They were later chased away by an angry mob of torch and pitchfork holders, at the command of the Vice President.

In the Christmas Special, he made and controlled an evil robot clone of Santa Claus to trick the trio into committing many bad deeds disguised as good ones so that they would be on the naughty list, then he and the Sentinels would do some good deeds so they could take their places on the nice list. After the trio destroyed the robot clone in Yoshi Resort, the Devourer and Sentinels came to berate the three of them before the real Santa appeared and used his magical powers to blow them up.

## Personality and Relationships

The Devourer is a huge narcissist, who tends to frequently boast during his battles about how powerful he is: admittedly though he is usually able to back up these claims. He sees himself as a great and omnipotent being who cannot ever be defeated, and thinks highly of all of his inventions against his enemies, calling each one more likely to succeed then the last. Despite this, he is a bit of an oath who makes mistakes quite often, such as leaving out obvious flaws in his inventions which can easily be exploited by his enemies and likely does not take notice in them since he focuses on all the positives while ignoring the negatives. He also has a pretty bad memory, for example he usually forgets Officer M’s name and calls him things like Michelle, Marvin, etc. On top of this, the Devourer has a very short temper, meaning he gets angry very easily such as when Officer M. annoyed him with getting an older phone, and also does not accept criticism for the majority of things he does - he ends up seeing flaws as an insult.

The Devourer absolutely despises Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M, seeing them as his greatest enemies and only beings that stand in the way of him and taking over Nexus, so as a result almost all of his inventions are aimed towards destroying or deterring them. However, these always end up failing and sometimes hitting him back in the face. He also strongly dislikes Mort, who is also constantly trying to stop him from doing evil and so he attempts hits on him sometimes as well. He has also helped them a few times such as when they were about to be mauled by a crowd of people within Sparkville or attacked by the Pumpkin Punk, he came to their aid claiming that if anybody was going to kill them, it will be him. His favourite food of all seems to be fish, and this can be seen when he tried fish from Turtle Man’s Coast Bar and really enjoyed it a lot despite how fast he ate it all and how it made him sick.

It would seem that the only people who the Devourer shares any sort of possible good relationship with are his sentinels, particularly Veiled and Storm since they are actually living beings unlike the Rictspace who is just a portal. Of the two, the Devourer tends to care more about Storm as he is the same species as him and so they have a lot in common, though he snaps at Storm frequently as well for going against his demands or messing up/altering his creations in ways he does not like. Regardless, he has stood up for his sentinels and protected them when they are in danger, and even recently has allowed Storm to call him Dad, showing that he does like them a good bit.

## Abilities

The Devourer can move at astonishing speeds, faster then anything recorded to mankind, being able to cross the world in just a few minutes at his top speed. This allows him to dodge attacks without any issue, making it hard to take him down in battle. If that wasn’t enough, his armor also offers great protection against most forms of harm, making him nigh-invincible against weapons that cannot pierce through Cosmilite, the majority of which cannot. The Devourer’s signature move is to exhale scorching cosmic flames, which he does either through fireballs or a stream of fire, but either way they can burn almost anything they touch. Additionally his armored segments are also able to release plasma beams that home in on his enemies, although he does not feel the need to use this that often since he considers it too easy.

The Devourer typically travels through portals, which allow him to get anywhere within the blink of an eye. These portals travel through his own sub-dimension, a horrible pink void that is almost impossible to breath in by any normal person but which the Devourer himself can travel through fine. Other creatures and even humans can travel through these portals, but he has the ability to open and close them at will so usually he blocks it off for anyone trying to use them. In Season 5, it was also shown that he was using these portals to take away various objects across the land and bring in his own ones.

Furthermore, the Devourer is a mechanical genius who has an enormous arsenal of resources and materials lurking within the cave that he and his cohorts live within. The amount of creations he has conceived are likely within the hundreds and he is able to manufacture almost any weapon of destruction, from evil robot clones of the guys to rockets and even making the Riftspace itself.

## Appearances

* S5E6 - The Vault
* S5E7 - Rift Apart
* S5E8 - Rifts and Rockets
* S5E9 - Sentinel Spies
* S5E10 - Robot Invasion
* S5E12 - Evil Chef (non-speaking cameo)
* S6E2 - Groovin' Grover
* S6E6 - DaPhantoplasm
* S6E8 - Riftspace
* S6E10 - Endless Fog
* S6E11 - Mending a Void
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* S7E2 - Who Pulled The Fire Alarms?
* S7E3 - The Cylinder
* S7E4 - Phone Lost
* S7E6 - Purple Man and Track Tom
* S7E7 - Frying Pan Lady
* S7E10 - Return to Sparkville
* S7E12 - Restaurant War
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E6 - Amulet Woes
* S8E9 - Dogsittin'
* S8E10 - The Blacksmith
* S8E11 - Nexus Avenue (appears as Wicked Worm of the West)
* S8E13 - Quest to the Acres
* S8E14 - The Mystical Acres
* S8E15 - Soul War
* S9E1 - Hero of the Day
* S9E5 - Nexus Olympics
* Christmas Special

The Devourer exists in Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters, as both a playable character and the main villain of the game's story mode.

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