Rick

**Rick** is a minor character in *Turtle Man and DaPhantom* who was the tour guide of HF Studios, before it got burned down by Hector Flores himself.

## Appearance

Rick is an old human with a head of grey hair and grey eyebrows, alongside his eyes with brick-coloured irises and there are usually bags under his eyes. He wears a purple karate belt on his head and also dons a white shirt with a yellow jacket over it, pale brown pants and also caramel-coloured shoes. He has paper wrapped around his hands for some reason, and also wears a HF STUD badge on his jacket to let visitors know that he is HF Studios staff.

## Background

Rick was close friends with Hector Flores back in his prime days within the outskirts of The City of Nexus, even having helped him work on some of the movie scripts for HF Studios and being credited as a co-director as well as practicing karate in his free time. He also knew about the incidents of Hector Flores killing someone on set but kept his mouth shut and helped lock them away in the basement at the request of his boss. After HF Studios produced it’s final ever movie and had it released, Hector Flores announced to the team that he was to close the studios down for production but that he would turn it into a tourist attraction outside of Nexus - he proposed a role of being a tour guide around the studios to Rick. He accepted this offer and found it to be a pretty exciting idea to help people better understand what it was like but Hector had a special demand for him: to make sure the hidden movies of someone being killed by him on set stayed secret, and protect the basement where they were hidden in at all costs. Rick agreed to follow this and for many years he managed to keep people out of the basement by either trying to cover it up or tell people that there was nothing interesting and he succeeded at keeping people out for a good few years...

...At least, until Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. showed up to check out the studios. Rick was their friendly tour guide at first and insisted to them that there was nothing in the basement, but they found it suspicious and so broke in while he wasn’t looking to check it out, finding the movies and coming to the realisation that each of the, had Hector Flores killing someone on set which is why they were locked away. When Officer M. attempted to take one of the movies away to investigate at the Nexus Police Station, Rick realised that they had broken in and stolen one of them so he confronts them outside of the studios and attempts to stop them. Rick used his karate to completely beat up Officer M. with little effort, but then Turtle Man grabs a bomb out of his shell and throws it at him - the explosion sends Rick flying away and the three are able to depart. A few days later, HF Studios was mysteriously burnt down by cosmic soul flames with Dragon Firefighter Ms. Sealy being present at the scene trying to put the inferno out but accidentally making things worse. When Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. showed up to investigate, they found Rick there who was on his knees and crying as he saw his livelihood completely obliterated in front of his eyes. Since being the HF Studios tour guide was his job, it is unsure what Rick is up to now because he hasn’t appeared again since this event.

A long time after this, Rick has a cameo appearance in the second movie where the trapped souls of Turtle Man, DaPhantom and Officer M. assumed that the Manic Mage could have been Rick, but then Rick’s soul appears and tells them that he’s there so she cannot be him. The mage attempted to attack the shadowy figure using his and Officer M’s souls but she sent them flying away, with Rick’s soul flying in the sea and not being seen again since. He fought during the Soul War but was killed by the ghost of the Manic Mage.

## Personality and Relationships

Rick is a pretty suspicious person who finds it difficult to keep secrets without making people aware of the fact that there may be a secret, but he is also hopeful and tries his hardest to anyway. He is also a pretty social person who had many friends during his career at HF Studios, and also enjoyed the role of tour guide after the last movie since he liked allowing people to see behind the scenes of their favourite movies and talking to them about stuff on the way. He also did enjoy his karate and found it fun as well as being good at it, but it is not sure if he still does it to this day or quit after HF Studios was burnt down because it made him that sad.

## Abilities

Even though Rick is an old man, he is highly experienced at karate since he has a purple belt in it, so he knows very well how to defend himself or the studios against any threats. He can jump, kick, block and do all sorts of other moves to protect himself and also would not hesitate to use karate against anybody who violated the terms and conditions of HF Studios. However, he possesses no magical abilities of any kind and also has a pretty poor reaction time; this makes him particularly vulnerable against spontaneous attacks that he isn’t expecting.

## Appearances

* S6E13 - HF Studios
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Guardians of Nexus
* Turtle Man and DaPhantom: The Lost Origins
* S8E15 - Soul War

Rick also is present in Turtle Man and DaPhantom: Fighters as playable FreeLC character.

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