Baxter

Similar to the Mirage comics, Baxter Stockman, voiced by Scott Williams, was an African-American scientist who had hidden motives for working on his mousers in the 2003 TV series. While he sold them off as a means to rid the city of the rat problem, he was actually using them to rob banks while under the Utrom Shredder's employment and now with the Foot Clan. Similar to the Mirage comics, Baxter Stockman, voiced by Scott Williams, was an African-American scientist who had hidden motives for working on his mousers in the 2003 TV series. While he sold them off as a means to rid the city of the rat problem, he was actually using them to rob banks while under the Utrom Shredder's employment and now with the Foot Clan. This version of Baxter Stockman is extremely arrogant and narcissistic, constantly bragging about his vast intellect and scientific accomplishments. While his narcissism isn't unwarranted as he is undoubtedly a scientific genius, it also leads him to be overconfident and underestimate the intelligence of others. For example, in Return to New York Part 3, he ensured that his cyborg armor had backup power sources for each part of it, in case his main power source was compromised. However, because he bragged about it, this allowed Donatello to use Stockman's own severed robotic arm against him, resulting in his defeat. Despite his intelligence, Stockman also shows signs of mental instability, with his own former employee April O'Neil referring to him as "nuts". While he appeared to like April to some extent, calling her "so brilliant yet so naïve", he didn't hesitate to command his mousers to kill her when she found out about his criminal activities, claiming that he had "trust issues". These trust issues were probably one of the reasons Stockman has almost no friends, along with his madness, narcissism and sense of vengeance. The only relationship Stockman has which could qualify as friendship is his partnership with John Bishop. Stockman has a habit of cheating death but as time went on, he began to wish that when he died, he could stay dead. When Bishop found and revived him, Stockman expressed the desire to be allowed to rest in peace and maintains this desire at least until the end of the Lost Season. Despite his suicidal desires, Stockman's extraordinary ability to cheat death kept him alive for an entire century after the battle with the Demon Shredder. Stockman is also very vengeful and constantly works to destroy anyone who has wronged him. He has been an enemy to all the main characters, heroes and villains alike, at some point in the series and frequently switches allegiances. Even Bishop, the only real friend Stockman is shown to have throughout the entire series, was subjected to Stockman's wrath until Leonardo managed to persuade the mad scientist that Bishop had changed and therefore Stockman could change too. Despite his madness and vengeful nature, Stockman seems to value Bishop's friendship and eventually decides to turn over a new leaf. He was also tortured by Shredder, as everytime he fails, A LIMB OF HIS WILL BE GONE!