Superfly (Point Grey) (2024)

Superfly is an animal-born mutant fly who is the main antagonist of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.

History[]

Details in this section currently includes portions from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem The Junior Novelization and may not completely reflect the content in the film itself. If any divergence is found, the information will be split accordingly.

Baxter Stockman was an ousted T.C.R.I. scientist who felt like his mutation work was too important to leave alone, so he took his "work" home with him. The most developed of his experiments was a mutant housefly maggot who he treated as his own son.

Stockman's former employer, Cynthia Utrom, dispatched a shock troop lead by Spider to stop the experiments and recover the assets. When they arrived, the baby fly tried to fight off the troops, Stockman is killed and the fly is left alone.

After growing up enough, Superfly rescues other experiments, who become a family to him, with him taking a fatherly/big brother role to all of them. He takes them out in public, but the humans they encounter are repulsed by their appearances. Taking this into accord with the humans who killed his father, Superfly began to despise humans and hatch a plan of mutant supremacy.

Over the Years, Superfly established himself as mysterious criminal mastermind in New York. Employing local crime lords as his operatives, and killing anyone who saw him, thus raising his dangerous and mysterious reputation in New York’s criminal underworld.

Years later, he had his siblings steal equipment from tech companies around New York City in order to create a machine that would convert mutagen into an airborne mist, mutating the world's population and allowing them to subjugate humans as a servants. A teenaged budding reporter, April O'Neil, began investigating these robberies to deduce the identity of Superfly, who was said to kill anybody he encounters, so there were never any witnesses. After she met the Ninja Turtles, their leader, Leonardo convinced the others to help April with her investigation. They began taking down all of Superfly's operatives, and eventually track him down using stolen technology they intercepted.

The Turtles met up with Superfly and his gang, and he is surprised to see more mutants, deducing that they must have come from the mutagen that Stockman dropped as he died. He openly considers the Turtles their "cousins" and has them tag along with transporting a part needed for the machine to their hideout. He sent Mondo Gecko, Rocksteady, and Wingnut with them in a van while he and the other mutants followed in separate vehicles. The Turtles devised a plan to crash the van, and moments after the crash, Superfly rides up in his muscle car to attack to the Turtles. They try to fight him off, but he takes the assimilator from them and crashes the van off the overpass.

The Turtles and their father, Splinter, eventually catch up to Superfly and his gang on a boat anchored outside Staten Island. With the assimilator complete, Superfly prepares to mutate the world's animal population. The Turtles convince Superfly's already reluctant crew that his plan is a terrible course of action, and despite their familial allegiance, they turn against him, trying to keep him from turning the machine on. He is knocked against the machine and electrocuted, but manages to hit the power button. Bebop and Rocksteady knock the machine - and Superfly - into the water.

However, the machine, with Superfly attached to it, transformed him, gathering traits from various surrounding animalia, causing him to grow exponentially and disfigure with the traits he's taken on, with most of his body becoming that of a whale's. Now calling himself Superduperfly, he turns his attention on attacking New York. April gets over her public speaking fears to inform the public of his assault, and the Turtles, Splinter, and Superduperfly's former gang fight him off. Eventually, Donatello realizes that Superduperfly's blowhole has a heavy concentration of ooze. The Turtles use some anti-ooze from T.C.R.I. and drop it in his blowhole, regressing him back into a normal housefly.

Cynthia later retrieved the demutated Superfly and brought him back to T.C.R.I. headquarters, keeping him in a glass container.

Physical appearance[]

Personality[]

Relationships[]

• Baxter Stockman: Although Superfly only knew Stockman for a brief time at the beginning of his life, he considered the man his father, as he gave him life and cared for him as he were his own son.
• Superfly's gang: His gang of mutants are a tight-knit family unit, with them considering him a cross between a father figure and an older brother. They aren't wholly on board with his mutant supremacy obsession, but they follow him nevertheless out of loyalty and familial duty. However, the Turtles manage to convince them to turn against him appealing to their budding friendship, offering them another place to stay and giving them an out from the moral consequences of following along with their big brother's plan.
• Ninja Turtles: Superfly is initially surprised and overjoyed at finding four more mutants created by his father's mutagen, and calls them his "cousins". However, he quickly flips on them when they try to sabotage his plan.

Notes and trivia[]

• The Superfly action figure from Playmates Toys was based on an early version of the film where Baxter Stockman became Superfly instead of them being two different characters, leaving some of Baxter's wardrobe on the figure.^[1]
• As shown by their expression and the reaction of one of the horses when shot by the anti-mutagen dart, the animals Superfly amalgamated with are still sentient.
• As noted in the film, the way Superduperfly is defeated is a reference to the anime series Attack on Titan.
• As a reference to real life rapper Ice-T, Superfly quotes the opening lyric of the Gangsta rap song, "6 in the Mornin'".
  • Superfly's voice actor, Ice Cube is good friends with Ice-T in real life.
• His oversized claw arm is a direct reference to the original 1958 film adaptation of The Fly by German filmmaker, Kurt Neumann.
• Superfly also appears in TMNT: Battle Tycoon as a boss fight.

See also[]

• Character gallery:Superfly

References[]