ABANAK (AKA "The Ghost of Booder Falls") A Native American living in Booder Falls and the last living descendant of the tribe Samuel Booder VI’s family wiped out, the Alsonquin Nation. When Raphael was demutated by Bloodsucker and later lost, Abanak found him and returned him to his brothers, whom he led to Booder's factories at the river. After Booder, the CEO of the industrial plants poisoning the river, was slain by Bloodsucker, Abanak accompanied the Turtles (after passing the mantle of "The Ghost of Booder Falls" to three children who had been earlier attacked by Bloodsucker) to the source of the river in the highlands of Vermont. Facing Bloodsucker in a final duel, they came to realize Bloodsucker was sent by Old Man River, whom they finally met in person. Bloodsucker was reverted back to a normal leech by Raphael, and absorbed the now-embryo Old Man River, whose magic had been used against him by Splinter to reverse his great old age after Abanak failed to stop him himself. Abanak, who he revealed in his final moments of regression to have the same power as he, took Old Man River’s place as caretaker of the river (TMNT Vol. 1, #24 -26).

ADVERSARY, THE An evil spirit that was a conglomeration of all the rats in prehistoric times that ate the eggs of the mythical Great Turtle. Feeding off the Great Turtle’s subsequent sorrow, the Adversary grew stronger over the millennia, until, after Donatello convinced his brothers to go with him into the wilderness of Northampton, they came to slay it. Their journey into the woods beginning as a merely free spirited journey, soon Donatello began to hear the voice of the Great Turtle, telling him to stand against the Adversary, the enemy of all reptiles. Donatello declared himself the "Shaman" to oppose the Adversary, though upon being badly beaten in combat by him, realized the Shaman was Leonardo. Leonardo climbed to the place where he waged his final battle with the Adversary and, guided by the Great Turtle, emerged triumphant. The fossil mesozoic eggs scattered across the world broke apart as fetal reptile souls, the Great Turtle’s included, were freed by the death of the Adversary (Turtle Soup #1, TMNT Vol. 1, #37).

ALLARD, CLARK ASHTON A centuries-old, seemingly immortal man with powerful technology and aspirations of being a hero. When Casey Jones and April O’Neil were taken captive with nearly everyone else in the University of Massachusetts by a group of undead vampires seeking an artifact, Allard made his entrance just as the Turtles made theirs. The Turtles and Allard went on to stake and behead almost all the vampires within, then parted ways. Captured when he recuperated in one of his hideouts by Master Traquer, the leader of the Massachusetts vampires, he was taken to Innsmouth, where the vampires were preparing to bring the being Dagon into their dimension. Joined by the Turtles and Casey Jones, he was able to close the gateway from the other side by tossing the artifact they used to summon Dagon into Dagon’s mouth. He disappeared then, believed sucked into the gateway with the Dagon, but in fact he only transported back to another hideout of his (TMNT Vol. 1, #29).

BLANQUE, GENERAL A glorified general in the Human Federation ("Federat"), stationed on the planet of D’hoonib at the far side of the galaxy. He once pressured Professor Honeycutt into developing a transportational Transmat Device, one that would be used to teleport bombs and such inside the hulls of enemy craft. This would have been instrumental in the war with the savage Triceratons of the Triceraton Republic. After an accident resulted in Honeycutt’s consciousness being transferred into the body of his android assistant, Blanque ordered the immediate capture of Honeycutt, declaring the professor a "Fugitoid." When the Turtles transmatted from Earth and the TCRI’s building to Peblak City on D’hoonib, Blanque believed them allied with Honeycutt and, as such, ordered them captured along with Honeycutt. The Turtles, however, avoided his reach, losing the Federation as they found themselves in the middle of a Triceraton invasion (TMNT Vol. 1, #5).

BLOODSUCKER A giant, humanoid, sentient leech. When the Turtles and Splinter went on a sojourn through the wetlands near Northampton’s river, a leech attached itself to Raphael’s foot after he and his brothers discovered nesting grounds for turtles. The Turtles soon found the leech again, mutated to ten feet long after absorbing some of the mutagen from Raphael’s bloodstream. Cornering the leech in a cave, Raphael attempted to trap it by enclosing it with the back of his shell. Incidentally, the leech attached itself to his shell and absorbed much more mutagen before Leonardo hacked it to pieces. While Raphael slowly demutated into a normal turtle, the Turtles thought the leech laid to rest. The leech appeared again, now fully humanoid and sentient, masquerading as a Massachusetts Fish & Game warden in order to absorb more of Raph’s mutagen before disappearing. The leech, now calling himself Bloodsucker, went on a killing spree in the town of Booder Falls. Samuel Booder VI, the CEO of the industrial plants poisoning the river, was slain by Bloodsucker. As the Turtles came to the source of the river in the highlands of Vermont, they faced Bloodsucker in a final duel, coming to realize Bloodsucker was sent by Old Man River, a million year-old elightened being. While the Turtles fought Bloodsucker, the now-ordinary turtle Raphael gnawed on Bloodsucker, soon absorbing enough mutagen back to restore his mutated state. Bloodsucker was reverted back to a normal leech, and absorbed the now-embryo Old Man River (TMNT Vol. 1, #24 -26).

BRAUNZE, LOUIS Former member of DARPA that partook in their mental enhancement program in the 1950’s and a resident of the apartment complex April O’Neil came to purchase and own. Coming out of the program with the ability to alter people’s thoughts, memories, and personalities, he escaped. After witnessing Casey Jones and April’s apartment being searched by DARPA agents and when Raphael became abducted by DARPA during the Turtles’ confrontation with the cyborg Baxter Stockman, Louis told Casey what he knew of DARPA. Together with Casey, Nobody, and the Turtles, they went to Nevada, where they rescued Raphael. Louis and an alien he freed from the DARPA base there he had known at some point in his past narrowly averted a Triceraton cityship whose bitter captain was attempting to crash it into Earth. Returning to New York, Louis used his enhanced mental abilities to make the Turtles forget their entire trip to Nevada, save for Leonardo, whom he alone made remember just before departing his apartment (TMNT Vol. 2, #8 - 13).

CARNAGE, COMPLETE ( See Wilsocchi, Max )

CHANG LAO A child whose family left China to come to New York because of religious persecution. Often bullied by gang members into paying "protection payments," Chang Lao began to doubt the teachings of his father until one day Donatello came to his aid and reaffirmed those teachings (TMNT: Adventures!, Shell Shock).

CHENG Wizened healer in the Foot Clan who helped Raphael when he secured leadership of the New York Foot Clan. He supposedly helped Splinter when he was poisoned with rabies. He would later reveal his treachery in his being the right-hand man of the enigmatic Lady Shredder (TMNT Vol. 3, #16 - 23).

CHET (Full name: Chester Manley) The young boy whose four baby Turtles crashed into the sewers to become the TMNT (TMNT Vol. 1, #1 & 7). Fifteen years later he became employed as a sanitation worker in the sewers, during which occupation he had a brief meeting with the now-mutated Turtles he’d thought long lost but had been having dreams about (Turtle Soup #4). Chet is also the name Donatello gave to the artificial intelligence program he used in his Japan home in the distant future (Plastron Café #1).

CHOTE A dinosaur-like samurai of 1373 Japan in servitude to Savanti Romero. When the Turtles and Renet time-traveled then and there to stop Savanti Romero from corrupting the timestream, he was given the task of killing the Turtles and capturing Renet. Upon capturing Renet, Chote then confronted the Turtles. When Savanti Romero was defeated, cast back into pre-historic times by Renet, Chote was given a new life as a master-less ronin and was sent to "The Omicron Seti star cluster, galactic year 1070" (TMNT Vol. 1, #46 & 47).

DEATHWATCH ( See Raeburn, Johnny Lee )

DONATELLO

DRAGON, OFFICER Discovered lying in a burning field, his memory selectively gone and his past a complete mystery, the Dragon was discovered and taken in by Lieutenant Frank Darling of the Chicago Police Department. Given a job at Frank’s cousin Fred’s warehouse, Dragon was convinced to join the Chicago PD when superfreaks showed up and burned the site down, killing Fred (TSD mini-series, #1). Since then he’s helped form the Freak Force and take down an entire rogue’s gallery of Chicago’s worst, perhaps most notably the Overlord, the former criminal ruler of the Vicious Circle that had held the city in his grasp for years (TSD series, #21). After an incident with the Fiend, he also had a meeting with Al Simmons, AKA Spawn, in Hell itself, having to confront him in order to ascend out. He refused to participate and let Spawn go on in his stead (Spawn #52 & TSD series #30). His first encounter with the Turtles happened early into his police career when he was called to New York to deal with an apparent living gargoyle. With the help of the Turtles, he was able to defeat the witch responsible for the animated gargoyles, Virago (TSD series, #2 & TMNT/TSD I). He met the Turtles a second time when a cloned Complete Carnage began a rampage in Chicago and the Turtles traveled there to stop him. Dragon managed to punch Carnage into the lake, where the creature was drowned by one of Dragon’s foes, the Fiend (TSD series, #22 & TMNT/TSD II). He met the Turtles a third time when the Turtles’ search for Splinter led them to Chicago at reports of vampire killings going on in the city. With Dragon’s help, their search led them not to Splinter, but instead DeathWatch, a super-powered villain on a vengeful killing spree. Donatello put DeathWatch down, then the Turtles let Dragon borrow their aircar (TMNT Vol. 3, #10 & 11).

DRAGON LORD, THE ( See Go-Komodo )

FUGITOID ( See Honeycutt, Professor )