Countryside

### Inhabitants

Police Chief, Ellie (formerly), Turtle Man (formerly), DaPhantom (formerly), Officer M. (formerly), Elizabeth (formerly)

 The **Countryside** is a notable location in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* and was the primary setting where main heroes Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. lived within the first four seasons. They resided in a small village within the area and would often visit or interact with some of the other features across it, later having to save the Countryside from the threat of the Evil King. During Season 4 the Countryside started to receive less focus as the main heroes would often be seen visiting new locations instead, and by Season 5 it was completely phased out in favour of the main characters moving to The City of Nexus after a timeskip.

## Description

Despite the actual location of the Countryside on the planet never being specified or shown off at all, there are mostly bright and sunny days across it more than there are miserable rainy ones so it could be interpreted that it was closer to the Equator. The Countryside is very large in size, consisting mostly of huge and empty grass fields filled with all types of terrain such as valleys, hills and mountains, the occasional cave and sometimes huge rivers or waterfalls that are all filled with towering trees. Though there is few signs of human life across the entire location there is plenty of plant and animal life within the fields of different types of nature and many forests, with a particularly large one of many trees being found just west of it’s main village. This Countryside village had a few areas including many farms, a hospital where Ellie previously worked, a minor police force with Officer M. and the Police Chief in it for a long time and also docks leading away to a small marsh area and the local lake. Not too far east of the main village, there were more hills and also a larger marsh area filled with different plants and trees that the trio would occasionally visit.

There is likely more signs of civilisation to be found across the large Countryside like more villages and other structures, but these were never explored or even showed off in great detail.

## Background

The Countryside is clearly quite old, due to the varying terrain that was caused by erosion and also frequent deposits of overgrown plant life in the forest areas. Since there are so many huge trees and other forms of plant life as well as little civilisation to be found, the area has clearly not been touched much by humanity and is overall a pleasant sanctuary for the different forms of nature. Other than the village there isn’t much other signs of human interaction within it, but there have been found by the trio a few ruins on their adventures that might hint towards some more deep history. Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. all lived here for a while with the latter meeting the duo for the first time a
and joined their team after they saved his life. They went on some more adventures across the Countryside here and met Nurse Ellie at the hospital, who also joined their team for a bit before seemingly dying. After having defeated the Evil King, the heroes had eventually moved away from here to the City of Nexus, where they still live to this day. Though the trio did revisit the Countryside a long time later, following the end of the Soul War in which they were blasted there by the ghost of the Evil King. They even went to their old house, now owned by an elderly man with his own family, and asked if they could stay there for the night since they were tired after the chaos. The family generously let them stay indeed.

## Appearances

The Countryside appeared in almost every single episode of Seasons 1-4, except for:

* + S3E12 - Moon Lair
	+ S4E1 - Rise of the Evil King
	+ S4E5 - The Cube
	+ S4E10 - The Trial
	+ S4E11 - Wicked Fortress
	+ S4E12 - Final Showdown

The Countryside also appeared in:

* S8E15 Soul War

## Trivia

* Though the Countryside has barely made any appearances on the show since the end of Season 4, it shows up in the two video games as levels/locations that can be visited and interacted with.
* Since the earlier episodes weren’t as clear with showing off the locations that the characters were in (such as the original pilot for the show), it is uncertain as to whether or not the Countryside was actually featured in many early ones or if it was just another location with in likeness.

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