Soul War

**Soul War** is the fifteenth and final episode of Season 8 of *Turtle Man and DaPhantom*, and the 101st episode overall.

## Synopsis

The Amulet of Souls has finally been destroyed, and with it millions of souls of both the good and bad have been drawn to the Mystical Acres and brought back to life for a final battle.

## Plot

   **"EVERYONE SCREAM AND RUN AWAY!!!!" - Turtle Man**
This section contains spoilers for the storyline of Turtle Man and DaPhantom, proceed with caution!

Outside of the Mystical Acres, the millions of souls are gathering together and forming their own soul vessels to possess. Turtle Man and DaPhantom finally agree with Officer M’s constant pleas to leave and go home so they try to, but then are suddenly attacked by the ghost of Icy Guy. Though not impressed at first, they are shocked to see how much stronger Icy Guy is as a ghost since his punch sends them flying away into a circle of evil ghosts. They are surrounded by the ghosts of the Evil Chef, Purple Man, Track Tom, Inspector M. and several other thugs who are more then prepared to attack them, though Mort does come to save them by blasting the ghosts away with a laser from his ship. Turtle Man, DaPhantom, Officer M, Mort, Victor and Snappy decide to hide within the nearby forest for a bit to collect and process what just happened. They are wondering as to where Gerald and the Yoshi Resort army are at, with The Devourer and his Sentinels showing up to inform them that they are on their side and want to stop the evil ghosts. Turtle Man decides to call more people for backup using Officer M’s phone that he charged a few minutes ago; he called Bill and asked him to trace the call as well as inform the Vice President that they are in urgent need of help, and also made contact using Old MacDonald via a carrier pigeon letter as well as the Frost Mercenary by throwing a snowball which travelled all the way to his domain. Though Officer M. did suggest calling Quacksia and Elizabeth, they didn’t because nobody had any forms of contact with either of them. Gerald and the Nexus police force show up to the group and ask what’s going on, so Officer M. them about it during a short montage. They are all surprised by the appearance of Partymaster’s ghost, which reminds them that the souls of all the heroes have also been brought back to life as ghostly vessels. DaPhantom gets the idea to rally an army of all the good ghosts to help them fight against the evil ghosts, so the group splits up to talk to all of the ghosts whilst Turtle Man contacts Groovin' Grover so that he will come to them. The ghost of Shumi tries to join in on the action but Turtle Man kicks him away, not wanting to associate with him at all. Meanwhile, the Evil King’s ghost has rallied up his own army of all the evil ghosts and commands them to charge towards all the good ghosts which they proceed to instantly do. The group has gotten their army together which includes the ghosts of Partymaster, Officer Lewis and millions of others who are all commanded by DaPhantom shouting gibberish to charge in, thus beginning the Soul War.

Groovin’ Grover shows up and Turtle Man uses him as a laser rifle to blast ghosts with, Snappy chomps up some of the ghosts, Mort fights the evil ghosts with the help of Superdog and Riftspace is sucking up ghosts. Officer M. is suddenly tackled by the ghost of Inspector M. who viciously attacks him, and the Devourer tries to blast him with his cosmic fire but hits Officer M. by accident. Inspector M’s ghost is evaporated by a familiar blast of light and dark, revealed to be from Katie and Doctor M. who have finally arrived alongside the Yoshi Resort army. The army includes thousands of Yoshi soldiers, Max, Llama (with a special set of armour and equipment), Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy and even Sir Bobington who mostly just stands around and makes posh quips. Max commands everyone to charge into battle which they do, thus meaning Yoshi Resort has joined the Soul War against the villainous souls. Many of the Yoshi soldiers are instantly blown up by a ghostly pumpkin bomb, which DaPhantom and Officer M. correctly guess could have only come from one person: the ghost of Hector Flores. Donning his Pumpkin Punk attire and weapons he begins to attack them, and Victor tries to fight back by throwing explosive pies at him which miss and ironically hit Sir Bobington. The Pumpkin Punk throws out a soul scythe at Officer M, which completely slashes off one of his fingers much to everyone’s shock. DaPhantom conjures a temporary ghostly finger for him to have and returns out to try and fight the Punk with the help of some others, and Mort boards his spaceship to try and blast him to bits but fails as the Pumpkin Punk uses his rocket boosters to charge into Officer M. and injure him. As he is about to finish the heavily injured cop off, the Pumpkin Punk is suddenly slashed to bits by a pitchfork which is revealed to be that of Old MacDonald’s. Whilst Llama slices some ghosts apart thanks to his powerful weapons and Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy blasts others with her fire, the Vice President suddenly shows up in his limo and uses it to ram a load of the evil ghosts. Boarded atop the limo is Bill who throws several poisonous and not tasty flasks onto the many ghosts, but this massacre is stopped by the ghostly Evil King who manages to shatter the limo with a single ghostly punch. Elsewhere in the war, the ghost of the Evil Chef is attacking Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. using ghostly forks and food (one of which hits and destroys the ghost of the Coral Reefs Sheep Shopkeeper), which eventually leads into a fight between Gerald and the ghost. With his wrench and advanced combat skills Gerald manages to destroy the ghost of his brother, having diced it to bits. Meanwhile Katie and Doctor M. are being beaten by the ghosts of Purple Man and Track Tom thanks to their wacky cartoon abilities until the Frost Mercenary shows up, who grows to massive size and stomps all over them. Rick also appears and finishes the ghostly duo off with his karate, gloating to himself until he is completely blown to bits by an orb from the ghost of the Manic Mage. She fires a magical blast which steals energy from DaPhantom and knocks him away, though the Devourer and his sentinels manage to defeat her, though DaPhantom is still left weakened. This is made worse by the sudden appearance of DaPhantoplasm who tries to seduce DaPhantom and eventually attack him, with Turtle Man and Officer M’s attempts to defend him made futile by her morphing into weird shapes to dodge attacks. Though DaPhantoplasm is defeated by Snappy of all people, who thinks she looks delicious and so uses his comically large straw to slurp her up, claiming she tasted like cherry.

Angered by the defeat of most of his army, the Evil King’s ghost charges and releases a huge, ghostly impulse which sends most of the heroes all the way back to the City of Nexus. The Evil King’s ghost instantly warps over to the city and reveals a violently glowing red orb which he uses to completely vaporise Snappy, Boss, the Devourer and the sentinels. Max, Llama and Victor try to run away but end up being vaporised too (Victor is vaporised first since Llama tripped him over), and the Vice President dodges some of the king’s blasts which destroy the Hector Flores statue and cause the Blacksmith skyscraper to come crumbling down. This severly harms and knocks out the Nexus Blacksmith and crushes everyone else but Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. who are left on their own to fight the Evil King for one last time. Turtle Man uses some stuff from his shell to attack, which makes the Evil King even more mad and so he blasts out another impulse which sends the three of them flying to the Countryside where they once lived. As they try to run away the Evil King appears and vaporises Turtle Man and DaPhantom, as well as firing a blast which throws Officer M. into a brick wall. As the king is about to finally vaporise Officer M, the mysterious hooded figure shows up once again and uses a special pouch to stun the wretched ghost for a bit. She decides to finally unhood herself as Nurse Ellie, and she explains to Officer M. that the turbine in DaPhantom’s airship she seemingly fell into only cut off her arm which she replaced with a wooden one and that she spent years trying to find them again. When Officer M. asked why she was hooded for a long time but still helped them, Ellie responded that she was worried that they wouldn’t except her again after so many years, but Officer M. says that they would happily welcome her back in and the two hug. As the ghost of the Evil King begins to rise back up, Officer M. seizes his staff with the red orb and vaporises the king using his own weapon, thus defeating the last of the ghostly villains. At that moment the ghost of Grandpa Shed appears and approaches his grandson, shaking his hand and handing him a locket with a picture of Officer M, Doctor M. and him in it. The opening of the locket causes all the loose ghosts to be sucked into it and brings reverses all the effects they had, including the Evil King’s vaporisation of everyone so they all are brought back to life. Grandpa Shed waves goodbye to his grandson before he gets sucked into the locket, thus ending the Soul War on a bittersweet note. Turtle Man and DaPhantom are shocked by the presence of Ellie but also happy to welcome them back into their team, and Llama and Max decide to try find a way back to Yoshi Resort as they are tired. A few hours later, Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. stumble upon the house they used to live in within the Countryside’s village, now owned by an old man who has a family. They knock on his door and ask if they can spend the night there since they are so tired, which he lets them do.

## Characters

### Major

* Turtle Man
* DaPhantom
* Officer M.
* Evil King (ghost)

### Minor

* Icy Guy (ghost)
* Evil Chef (ghost)
* Purple Man (ghost)
* Track Tom (ghost)
* Inspector M. (ghost)
* Mort
* Victor
* Snappy
* The Devourer
* Storm
* Veiled
* Riftspace
* Bill
* Old MacDonald
* Frost Mercenary
* Gerald
* Boss
* Officer Jones
* Partymaster (ghost)
* Groovin' Grover
* Shumi (ghost)
* Officer Lewis (ghost)
* Grover the Superdog
* Katie
* Doctor M.
* Max
* Llama
* Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy
* Sir Bobington
* Hector Flores (ghost)
* Sheep Shopkeeper (ghost)
* Rick
* Manic Mage (ghost)
* DaPhantoplasm
* Nexus Blacksmith
* Ellie
* Grandpa Shed (ghost)

## Trivia

* This episode features the most amount of characters in a single one.
* The war saw the official return of Ellie to the series, who helped Officer M. defeat the Evil King's ghost at the end and agreed to rejoin the team.
* Many characters who haven't been seen in a long time also made appearances in this episode, such as Sir Bobington and Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy.
* The war also served as a final appearance for several characters who have died before but were brought back as soul ghosts, and also the last appearance of Rick who died during battle.
* Some of the notable characters who didn't make any appearances at all during the war include Quacksia, Elizabeth, the inanimate characters like Frying Pan Lady, Roger and even the infamous Shimi was nowhere to be seen.

Tunnels
**Season 2**
He Shoots, He Scores
**Season 3**
Moon Lair
**Season 4**
Final Showdown
**Season 5**
Evil Chef
**Season 6**
Farewell, Friend
**Season 7**
Restaurant War
**Season 8**
**Soul War**
**Season 9**
Cursed
**Specials**
Easter Special