List of robots (TMNT)

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This is a list of robots from the fictional universe of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

1 Crome Dome
2 Metalhead
3 Mouser
4 Roadkill Rodney
5 Turtlebot

[edit] Crome Dome

A giant robot built by Shredder from the 1987 cartoon series. He has many built in weapons and resembles Shredder. He also appear in the SNES version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters.

[edit] Metalhead

A rogue robot turtle in the 1987 cartoon series.

[edit] Mouser

Baxter Stockman unveils the Mousers in the 2003 series.

The Mousers were created by Baxter Stockman in the Mirage Comics, the 1987 cartoon series and the 2003 cartoon series. Officially, they were designed to hunt down and exterminate New York City's growing rat population.

Only in the 1987 cartoon was this official reason real. In that series, Stockman was a honest scientist who really wanted to help the New York population. Ironically, it is in this series that his invention (and himself) suffered the worst fate. Shredder used the Mousers to hunt down Splinter, with no success. And when the Turtles analysed the Mousers, they traced them back to Stockman (who had no idea what Shredder was using them for) and exacted their revenge on him. Shredder stopped using the Mousers robots afterwards.

In the Mirage Comics and the 2003 cartoon, Stockman is an evil scientist, and the rat-hunting rationale is only a front. In reality, the Mousers are used to rob banks. They were designed with the ability to chew through any substance, making them ideal for breaking into bank vaults. In the Mirage Comics, Stockman was doing this for his own enjoyment. In the 2003 cartoon, he had secret ties to the Foot Clan, who had asked him to design the Mousers. In both cases, Stockman's plans were foiled by his assistant April O'Neil and the Turtles.

Later, in the 2003 cartoon, an improved version of the Mousers were produced by Dr. Chaplin, Stockman's successor as head Foot scientist. However, these were also defeated by the Turtles. In the toy line and the video game based on the 2003 series, there is a larger version of the machine known as the Giant Mouser. This robot has arms, with a standard-but larger-Mouser head on the end of each. It also has a different head, which contains an array of missiles. However, this version has not appeared in the TV series, and due to Stockman's continued deterioration and Chaplins's unknown fate, it seems unlikely to ever do so.

[edit] Roadkill Rodney

These robotic devices, looking basically like unicycle robots are many of the various machines created by Shredder and Krang in their world-domination efforts. Appearing only in one episode of the 1987 TMNT cartoon, Enter the Shredder (and the following Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comics), the Roadkill Rodneys have quite a bit to do. First, these robots drill themselves through the pavement in front of some zoo cages. They use lasers to burn down the bars and use their ropes to capture a rhinocerous and a warthog, dragging them back down to the hole from where they came. These animals were to be used to create Bebop and Rocksteady.

Later the Turtles would enter the Technodrome to rescue their captured master Splinter, and face off a group of oversized killing machines, including these robots. These guys were no match for Raphael and Donatello and were kicked down a hole. Although they were seen using their ropes to climb back out of the hole uttering 'we have to stop them', they were never seen fighting the Turtles again. At the end of the episode, the TMNT had Bebop and Rocksteady locked up in a zoo cage, and the robots would again, drill through the ground and zap the bars down to capture the mutants. When finding out that the Shredder wanted to 'have a word' with them, they asked if they could be put back in the cage.

The arcades and videogames also feature the robots, actually naming them Roadkill Rodneys, be it in the instruction manuals, or the games themselves. The first appearance was Konami's 4-player arcade imply titled Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where the robots would wheel around and tie you with their lassos and electrify you or zap you with their lasers. The way they roll across the screen makes them fast and hard to hit. They would say their phrases from the cartoon episode, "Do not resist us" said when they were capturing the zoo animals. They'd also appear in the NES version of the game, TMNT II the Arcade Game.

The Roadkill Rodneys would return in the SNES version of TMNT 4- Turtles in Time, while the arcade had strange boxing robots in their place. They'd also appear in TMNT Hyperstone Heist for Genesis and TMNT Fall of the Foot Clan and TMNT 2- Back from the Sewers for the Game Boy.

[edit] Turtlebot

In the 2003 Ninja Turtles series, this mechanical monstrosity was created by Baxter Stockman as a means of defeating the turtles. It was programmed to know how each turtle attacked and how they used their weapons, and duplicated both their moves and weaponry as well. The turtles quickly figured how to defeat it by using each other's weapons, and thus using moves and strategies the Turtlebot could not predict.

This creature was also seen in the video game based on the 2003 cartoon, and had the ability to switch from one glowing copy of the Turtles' weapons to another. The circumstances under which the turtles met the Turtlebot in the game differ from in the cartoon; in the series, they met the robot after meeting Leatherhead with a "newly rebuilt" Baxter Stockman, while in the game, Baxter used it as a method of luring the turtles out into the open while he was still working with The Shredder.

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