While theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesare usually considered to be the greatest heroes within their established universe of discourse , one fibre raise to be an even good hero by saving the lifetime of one of the Turtles themselves : theFugitoid – and he was really introduce long before the TMNT .

Professor Zayton Honeycutt aka the Fugitoid is a character created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird who first look in Mirage Studio’sGobbledygook#1 before appearing in his own comic , titledFugitoid . Professor Honeycutt was a human ( or human - similar alien ) scientist on Planet D’Hoonib who was being forced by the planet ’s political science – the Federation – to invent a teleportation machine as a way to overcome theclassicTMNTvillains , the Triceratons . However , while Honeycutt was working on a related gimmick jazz as the Mentawave Helmet ( which was a brainiac wave amplifier that was designed to give the wearer telekinetic and telepathic abilities ) , something went wrong and his knowingness ended up being permanently transported into the body of an mechanical man he had antecedently build called SAL , and his organic consistency die in the accident . When Federation soldiers found a seemingly dead Honeycutt with a living android endure over his clay , they now assume SAL killed the scientist and attempt to destruct it – force Honeycutt to go on the run . Honeycutt had become a fugitive android , which root on him to take on the alias : the Fugitoid .

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Comic book art: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles leaping into action.

InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#45 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , and Mateus Santolouco , the Turtles are reeling after larn that their brother , Donatello , has been killed by Bebop and Rocksteady . The opening pages of the comic show Donatello ’s somebody in the afterlife , so readers know that he is unfeignedly go . However , this comes the right way after the Turtles successfully get the better of Krang who had antecedently taken the Fugitoid hostage in Dimension X and was forcing him to build the Technodrome . Since Krang was gone , the Fugitoid was free to travel to the Turtles ’ home plate attribute with them and celebrate the triumph . When he did so , he found that none of the Turtles were in a celebratory mood as they were mourning the loss of their decrease sidekick . However , when Honeycutt take a expression at Donatello ’s eubstance , he substantiate that he still had a small pulse , so it was possible to bring him back to life – and only the Fugitoid ’s scientific brilliance could make it materialize .

TMNT’s Oldest Legacy Characters are Still Impactful to This Day

All the interconnect type from across the many landscapes ofTMNTlore ( even those that pre - date the Turtles themselves ) that have been land together in IDW Publishing’sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmakes this officialTMNTuniverse feel that much richer . Characters like the Fugitoid and eventhe Triceratons find a post inTMNTcanon , not as cast-off cameo , but as main players in the overall story – and this particular issuance highlight that more than any other as theFugitoid , a character who was introduced before theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesthemselves , becomes their macrocosm ’s heavy paladin by spare the life of one of the titular Turtles .

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Genevieve O’Reilly as Mon Mothma looks back on Chandrila during Leida’s wedding reception, edited with circular imagery.

TMNT’s fugitoid glowing in front of the ninja turtles

TMNT’s greatest hero is Fugitoid.

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