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Poor Baxter Stockman
When I used to watch the show as a kid I always looked forward to the next episode with Baxter Stockman since I kept hoping he would turn back into a human at some point.
When he first appeared he was just a regular guy with a good idea who wanted to help people get rid of rats. Then Shredder used him, mostly by bullying him around and verbally abusing him and he started going a bit nuts. Throw in a mutation into a fly and he finally snaps. It always just seemed like if he turned back into a human maybe he could go back to being a normal guy. Instead he's stuck as a fly forever. Anybody else felt sorry for Poor Baxter Stockman? And didn't the turtles basically steal his car and his things to make the turtle van? |
Fun Fact: Baxter's last appearance in the original cartoon has him trapped in limbo between dimensional barriers again.
Since the show ended, we have no clue if Baxter ever got back to Earth or was lost in dimensional limbo forever. |
Count me in. He was a tragic villain, seduced by evil.
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In both universes, Baxter was a pretty pitiable character. I kinda hoped he'd be restored to a human in the FW series, he got the shaft, not just from Shredder and Krang, but the Turtles treated him very badly.
4Kids Baxter got a bit of a happy ending, working with President Bishop in the future. |
And in the comics, Donatello blasts Baxter to bits because he's sick of him hanging on his wall. :lol:
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Its too bad Baxter never returns in the Archie series after the episode adaptions. Would have been interesting to see fly-Baxter in Archie, oh well.
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Yeah I would have liked that too. Archie did some cool stuff with the characters it used. I don't know Baxter was better off left in limbo. His mind was degenerating. Every time he showed up he was more fly like. He was dangerous with the right person telling him what to do. If I remember though his computer buddy wasn't much but a circuit board by the end of his last encounter with the turtles. Unless he was like Brainiac I'd say he didn't last long.
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Yeah. I am kinda hoping the Nick version mutates him into a fly again, only so we can see another take of him like that.
Seems like we'll see human baxter using robots/cyborg stuff in the beginning of the Nick show, but I hope they mutate him later on. |
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One of the few traditions kept in all tmnt universes (sans movies and NM) if they keep Stockman for the Nick show, another cyborg/mutant would be nice. Now that I think about it, Stockman in a movie could be very interesting
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Hmm....I wonder if we could have Baxter as the main villain in the next movie.
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Wouldn't being trapped in dimensional limbo pretty much be a death sentence? I can't imagine there was anything like food and water there. Pretty soon he'll either starve, die of thirst or some combination of the two.
I guess it's just Baxter's lot in life to be crapped on. |
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For the OT, I really really felt sorry for Baxter and the treatment he received from Krang and Shredder wasn't deserved at all and still don't understand why they treated him like crap to the extent that they did.
Even when in fly form, I felt sorry for him, because of his intelligence leaving him having been turned into a fly. As for Mirage Baxter, I didn't feel as sorry for him and I guess it's because he did all of his actions on his own, unless I missed something. |
Sounds good.
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