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Dr. Baxter Stockman is a fictional scientist who has appeared in several versions of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and comic. In each version, he is depicted as the creator of the Mousers, machines meant to seek out and destroy sewer rats (not mice, in spite of their name). However, there are several differences between his various appearances.

Laird & Eastman Comics, Volumes 1 and 2

In Volume 1 of the comic series, Dr. Stockman was a mad scientist with no relation to the comic Oroku Saki, or the Shredder. He developed the Mousers with the help of his computer programmer April O'Neil. Around the time of the Mouser's invention, strange bank robberies were being held, with small tunnels leading into the vaults. When April questioned Stockman, he led April to an underground factory where hundreds of Mousers were being made. Stockman revealed he had been using the Mousers to rob banks, not because of the money (he could use his invention to make millions legally), but because "it was FUN!" April tried to escape through the elevator, but the scientist sent the elevator to sewer level. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles saved her from the Mousers Stockman had sent to kill April. Then they successfully infiltrated Stockman's lab, and managed to stop him. He was taken into custody. Later, he reappeared in Volume 2 of the comics as a major villain who had used technology from DARPA to place his brain in a robot body, making him a cyborg. Stockman tried to get revenge on the TMNT, but his new body was electrocuted and assumed to be destroyed; only the glasses he had retrieved earlier remained.

In Volume 4 of the comics, however, it is revealed that Donatello kept the renmants of Stockman's cyborg body and mind hidden from his brothers for years. It was discovered that Stockman had, in Volume 2, injected April with nanobots in her shoulder during an encounter. These nanobots eventually activated and began to destroy her body; they were destroyed but are suspected to have made her sterile (although whether or not she will remain sterile after their destruction has not been explored). Donatello finally destroyed the renmants of Stockman to avenge April, including his mind; however it is possible that Baxter Stockman's entity still somehow exists and is capable of manipulating electronics and devices.

Old TMNT Cartoon Series: 1987

In the 1987 TMNT cartoon, a more lighthearted show, and the Archie comics, Stockman was a bumbling and good-intentioned Caucasian inventor (as opposed to an African-American, as he was portrayed in the Mirage comics) who tried to bill his Mousers to the Ajax Pest Control company. They did not like his suggestion, saying it would put them out of business, and threw him out of the building. The Shredder had watched this via his cameras, and offered Stockman a job. Baxter promptly accepted, and Shredder ordered him to create a "master control device" for the Mousers. Shredder, not being able to wait, used a replication device at the Technodrome to assemble twelve Mousers. He then programmed the Mousers to find and destroy Splinter, the mutant rat who was the Turtles' master. The Mousers were destroyed by the TMNT, and they found Stockman's name on the devices. The Turtles and Splinter found Baxter with April O'Neil's help, and he told them his part of the story. They then proceeded to take Stockman's van, later to become the Turtle Van.

After a failed Mouser attack, Baxter helped Shredder to get the "Three Fragments of the Eye of Sarnath". Ultimately Baxter, tired of being abused by Shredder during their numerous attempts to gather the fragments, would betray Shredder and take the "Eye of Sarnath" for himself once Shredder acquired the three segments of the powerful artifact. Shredder ultimately agreed to team with the Turtles to stop Baxter and destroy the powerful artifact.

Baxter would crawl back to Shredder's side, but the damage would be done as Shredder began conspiring to rid himself of the turncoat scientist. Shredder convinced Krang to send Baxter to Dimension X in exchange for his mutant flunkies Bebop and Rocksteady, much to Baxter's horror. Baxter was then placed into a disintegrator by Krang so as to eliminate Baxter since Krang had no use for the bumbling scientist. But a common housefly (which was on Baxter's clothing when he was sent through to Dimension X) accidentally flew into the disintegrator, mutating Baxter into a giant fly. Baxter the Fly fled Dimension X and vowed revenge on Shredder and the Turtles for mutating him into a human/fly creature. (This is most likely a reference to the 1980's version of The Fly.) While still somewhat naive and bumbling, Baxter quickly developed a cold and twisted villainous side that scared even the Shredder. Baxter forced Shredder to aid him in a plot to use a newly crafted time displacement gun that would trapped the Turtles inbetween seconds of time, rendering them invisible and unable to interact with the world around them. However, Shredder betrayed Baxter and used the device on him instead.

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