Professor Honeycutt

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Professor Honeycutt (later the Fugitoid) is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage comics and 2003 animated series. His name is likely a reference to the character B.J. Hunnicutt from the TV show M*A*S*H.

[edit] Character History 2003 animated series

Honeycutt was a D'Hoonibian Federation scientist who worked on a project known as the teleportal. A device designed to transport people across the universe to promote peace. Yet General Blanque, leader of the Federation's armed forces, wanted him build this device to eliminate his enemies but Honeycutt declined. Though the Federation funded his project, they had no control of him. He rushed out to help his robot assistant Sal, who was caught in some wires. Suddenly, a lightning bolt struck him and Sal. With his mind levitator on his head, his body disintegrated and his mind was placed in Sal's body. General Blanque was watching everything and knew that, as robots had no rights within the Federation, he could now take the plans by force. So Honeycutt ran into the city and was cornered.

Luckily, the Turtles transmatted onto the scene and Honeycutt decided to help them. In exchange for his safety, Honeycutt would build the teleportal and the Turtles would take him home to Earth.

Unfortunately, it was not to last. The Federation's enemies, the Triceratons, "robo-napped" him. The Prime Leader offered to protect him, but changed approach when he found out the Turtles were his friends. If Honeycutt didn't build the teleportal, the Triceratons would kill them. Honeycutt couldn't think of a plan to get them all out of this mess. Luck came when the Turtles rescued him and stole the Prime Leader's ship. While he and Donatello worked on the teleportal, the others stalled for time. Unfortunately, the teleportal didn't work, forcing Honeycutt to fall back to his original plan - to destroy himself so the knowledge wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. Before this could be done, however, he, the Turtles, and a handful of Federation and Triceraton soldiers were transmatted out by the Utroms whose transmat the Turtles had used in the first place.

While enjoying the hospitality of their new Utrom friends, Honeycutt became embroiled in the Shredder's abortive raid of the Utroms' Earth base. Despite being nonviolent, Honeycutt was able to provide a key reprieve in the battle by mimicking the Shredder's voice and deactivating the real Shredder's control over Baxter Stockman, now a spider-robot with only his head remaining. This forced the Shredder and his forces to temporarily retreat... but not before dropping an implosion time-bomb. Honeycutt then left for the Utrom homeworld, leaving the Turtles with a second round with the Shredder.

Months later, the Triceratons traced Honeycutt's transmat journey to Earth, and invaded the planet en masse, searching for Honeycutt or anyone with a transionic particle signature that might imply contact with him. After carving the planet up city by city, abducting and torturing many people with no inherent connection to Honeycutt, and decimating the Earth's military and superhero forces, it took the intervention of a captured Donatello to point out that a scan for the Fugitoid's positronic brain - not used beforehand due to the sheer abundance of positron technology in the Triceratons' corner of the universe - would easily pick out his presence (or lack thereof) on the planet. Satisfied that Honeycutt is indeed not on Earth, the Triceratons pull out - just as Honeycutt transmats back to Earth, hoping to help fend off the aborted invasion. The Triceratons quickly return.

Honeycutt's plan was to surrender himself to the invaders, after first deleting the teleportal plans from his memory. However, he also had a second reason to surrender himself to the enemy: to upload a virus to both the Triceration fleet and that of the Federation, who had been waiting in Earth orbit to capture him themselves. Since he built the Federation tech, he had easy access to broadcast his message across Earth and in orbit. With both fleets disabled, their war-happy leaders were swiftly deposed and the former enemies united under a banner of peace. This armistice came at a high price, however: Honeycutt's mind was irreparably lost. The Turtles held a space funeral and let his body drift in space.

Honeycutt's "death" would not last long. During the 're-invasion', he had uploaded a partial, heavily-compressed copy of his mind to Earth's satellite and computer networks while trying to erase his positronic signature. Afterward, he made many attempts to contact the Turtles, all but one rejected as a mis-dialed fax call. Donatello eventually clues up to it, and sets up a PDA to intercept the transmission, which becomes an interactive Honeycutt. With his knowledge of Triceraton technology, he helped the Turtles and Karaisave the broken off sector of Bejing. Some time later, with the help of Leatherhead, he acquired a new - if somewhat jury-rigged - robot body using Earth technology. It seems a bit crude but effective, and looks not like Johnny-5 in Short Circuit. He expresses that it seems a bit "Homemade".

During an assault on the Shredder's fortress, Honeycutt - back in the PDA - acted as a hacker to disable all the security systems and initiated a lockdown. Later on in the operation, stowing aboard the Shredder's ship, he helped hack into the vessel's computer systems, which were already sabotaged by Baxter Stockman. They almost succeeded, until the Shredder and Karai defeated them and nearly killed them all - an outcome prevented by an assault from orbital missile platforms under Agent Bishop's control. Although they are alive, the Shredder was now in a position to escape. With no other option, the Turtles unanimously vote to ask Honeycutt to overload the ship's energy core, destroying the ship and themselves, but taking the Shredder with them. Moments before the ship was destroyed, all hands were beamed off by the Utroms. Honeycutt was present at the Shredder's trial in his robot body. It is presumed he stayed to live with the Utroms permanently.

Note: In the Mirage Comics, Professor Honeycutt never "died", he has recently reappeared in Volume 4 with new abilities added to his body such as wings, jet boosters in his feet, and the ability to transform into a hulking fighting machine.