Utrom
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The Utroms are an alien species in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universe.
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[edit] Description
Physically, an Utrom is a small and light creature, hairless and with a uniform pink, orange, yellow or red tone. They are not unlike a human brain in physical appearance. They have two eyes and a mouth with teeth, but no visible nose, and have a number of short tentacles underneath them. These tentacles serve as both hands and feet, as the Utrom can walk on them or use them to manipulate objects. However, most Utroms tend to not enjoy walking on their tentacles, and prefer to use some form of mechanical transport, such as a hover pad or a human-shaped exosuit. Barring disease or injury, an Utrom will have very long lifespan, somewhere in the range of centuries or even a millennium in Earth years.
The Utroms are peace-loving and non-interferential to the extreme.
[edit] History within TMNT
The Utroms were present in two incarnations of the TMNT franchise, the original comic and the 2003 cartoon. It is worth noting that even though they were not in the 1987 cartoon, one of the characters on that show, Krang, was very similar physically to an Utrom, although he had a completely different personality and backstory. Krang was, in fact, a disembodied brain.
[edit] Comic
The Utroms were stranded on Earth, and interacted secretly with humans through a front company, TCRI. They were responsible for creating, and losing, the canister of mutagen that fell into the sewers and caused Splinter and the Turtles to mutate. When the stranded Utroms were finally able to communicate with their homeworld, they were ordered to stay and study the people of Earth. Eventually, they were forced to leave Earth by teleporting themselves to another world. Later, the Utroms returned to establish a base on Earth and open official relations with humanity and with other alien cultures (in Volume 4 of the comic).
[edit] 2003 Cartoon
Seven hundred years ago, an Utrom ship was transporting Ch’rell, a dangerous Utrom criminal. Unfortunately, Ch’rell escaped and sabotaged the ship, causing it to crash on Earth near feudal Japan. The ship was damaged beyond repair, and in the confusion Ch’rell escaped on Earth.
True to their non-interference nature, the Utroms decided to hide and peacefully wait for Humanity to advance and develop the technology they needed to go back home. In order to hide among the Humans, the Utroms developed Human-shaped exosuit, and revealed themselves to a few trustworthy Humans, which they named their guardians. Centuries later, Hamato Yoshi, Splinter’s master, would be an Utrom guardian, until The Shredder hunted him down and killed him in an attempt to find the Utroms.
In the present day, the Utroms operate through a front company, TCRI. Though the official business of TCRI is never specified, unofficially, it serves to hide the Utrom’s advanced technology, such as their Transmat (a teleporter that can reach across the galaxy) and their Oracle Pod (a virtual reality chamber that replays historical records). TCRI is also responsible for creating and accidentally losing the mutagen that caused Splinter and the Turtles to mutate.
[edit] Notable Utroms
[edit] Comic
- Dr. X: An Utrom which only appeared in the noncanon (by Mirage standards) Volume 3 of the series. He was left behind on Earth after the Utroms left to their homeplanet, and befriended Leatherhead. He also played chess with Splinter.
- Korobon: Korobon is an Utrom who declared himself ambassador to Earth from the Utrom Confederation. He addressed the U.N. on live television and explained what the Utroms had planned to do on Earth. He appeared in Volume 4 of the comic.
- Glurin: Glurin is a young Utrom scientist who was stationed on their Earth base. When April O'Neil was infected by nanobots placed in her body by Dr. Baxter Stockman, he came up with the idea of using other nanobots to combat them. He designed the new nanobots after the Turtles and called them the nanoturtlebots. He appeared in Volume 4 of the comic.
- Professor Obligado: Obligado was brilliant Utrom scientist whose life and death is shown in the back pages of the new Tales of the TMNT.
[edit] 2003 Cartoon
- Mortu: Mortu was the captain of the Utrom ship that crashed on Earth. After the crash, he remained the field-leader of the marooned Utroms, and worked as their liaison to the Humans. In the modern day, this makes him CEO of the front company TCRI. His name is "Utrom" backwards.
- Council of Three: These three otherwise unnamed Utroms are the highest leaders of the Utroms on Earth. It is not clear if they are the same as the brain-navigators that Captain Mortu took orders from 700 years ago.
- Ch’rell: The most ruthless criminal the universe has ever known. Ch’rell dreams of galactic domination, and wants vengeance against the Utroms by building an army and attacking their homeworld. This is the true identity of the 2003 cartoon's Shredder.
- Krang: The villain from the 1987 cartoon makes a brief cameo appearance as a regular Utrom, in the episode Secret Origins Part 3. He hates walking on his tentacles.
[edit] 2003 Video Game Series
- Slashuur: Originally, the Turtles fought this samurai-esque warrior, as he is a bounty hunter, and was hired to attack them. However, after a couple of encounters, the Turtles learn that he is actually an Utrom whose family was attacked and killed by The Shredder/Ch'rell. He then assists the Turtles in attacking the Foot freighter. His name is remniscent of Shredder's, with two "u's" possibly to emulate the double d in Shredder's name.
[edit] External links
- "Secret Origins" Part One synopsis on the Official Ninja Turtles website. This episode of the 2003 cartoon relates the arrival of the Utroms on Earth.
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