Baron Draxum

**Affiliation**
Foot Clan (formerly)
 **Family Members**
Raphael (mutation son)
Leonardo (mutation son)
Donatello (mutation son)
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**Baron Draxum** was an antagonist. He wished to take over the Earth's surface for the Yōkai by creating a mutant army from ordinary animals and mutate all humans with mosquito-like creatures called Oozesquitoes.

## Appearance

Baron Draxum is a caprid Yōkai with long straight maroon hair, bright orange sclerae, teal cloven hooves, and a large, muscular figure. He wears a dark teal bodysuit (with a black collar and legs) with teal spots on his sleeves. He wears a breastplate and a large black and teal belt with gold trim and a dark teal loincloth. He wears spiked gauntlets with gold trim and attached to the back of his belt is a teal train. He also wears a gold mask with a turquoise face panel and a pair of gold horns with geometric engravings on them.

Without his mask and bodysuit, Draxum has caprid ears, a dark purple nose, maroon mutton chop sideburns (initially), and orange eyes. He has a dark pink body and dark purple cloven hooves.

In the second film, he styles his hair half up in a bun and is clean-shaven. He wears a white kimono-like garment with teal and turquoise trim and blue-green pauldrons. He also wears a black hair tie.

## Personality

Draxum is a visionary with eccentric ambition and he takes himself and his work seriously. He has a confidence that teeters into arrogance, referring to himself as "the great Baron Draxum" and expecting near reverence from others. He is so loyal to his own ideas that he is willing to conduct outlawed science and kill his own meddling creations to realize them.

## History

More than a decade before the start of the series, Draxum discovered a prophecy that foretold the destruction of the Yōkai at the hands of humanity. Desperate to protect the Yōkai, Draxum implored the Council of Heads repeatedly to take preventative measures against the prophecy and neutralize the danger humans posed in some way while at the same time devising his own methods of prevention through alchemy and mutation experiments. However, the Council disagreed with Draxum's interpretation of the prophecy. They disbelieved humanity was the threat the prophecy described and thus refused to do anything involving humans. Frustrated with the Council of Heads' inaction, Draxum chose to develop a plan to avert the fulfillment of the prophecy on his own, even if it violated Hidden City law.

Draxum eventually formulated ooze to create an army of mutants that would fight humanity on behalf of the Yōkai, but he sought to find a source of DNA to give his army great fighting abilities to do so. He came across Battle Nexus Champion Lou Jitsu approximately 15 years prior to the start of the series and hired Huginn and Muninn as his henchmen to bring him to his laboratory from his Battle Nexus cell, a task in which they succeeded. Draxum then mutated four different species of turtle using Lou Jitsu's DNA and his ooze, creating the Turtles by immersing them in the aforementioned blend. However, Huginn and Muninn soon after their mutation destroyed his laboratory and consequently all of Draxum's work. Draxum went on to assume that the fire had eradicated the Turtles and remade everything that had been destroyed.

## Biography

An alchemist warrior mutant from the Hidden City, Baron Draxum is the self-proclaimed protector of all mutant-kind. Baron Draxum plans to mutate all of humanity with his insect-like creatures called Oozesquitoes!

## Quotes

* "Not bad. Not bad. You are tough. That looked like it really hurt."
* "Totally explainable common beast, as lord of the lunchroom, I command you to stand down."
* "Only a true genius could choreograph this many betrayals and double-crosses."

## Trivia

* Although one of Draxum's official biographies refers to him as being a mutant, he is confirmed to be a Yōkai.
* Draxum is very skilled at playing Rock, Paper, Scissors.
* The fact that Draxum created Splinter and the Turtles makes him similar to Shredder from the 1987 TV series.