The Utroms are an alien species in the various Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles universes.

Contents 1 Description 1.1 Mirage Comics 1.2 Image Comics 1.3 1987 Series 1.4 2003 Series 1.4.1 Fast Forward 1.4.2 Video Games 2 Notable Utroms 2.1 Mirage/Image Comic 2.2 2003 Cartoon 2.3 2003 Video Game Series

DescriptionEdit

Physically, an Utrom is a small and light creature. They are hairless and are usually pink, but there are also yellow, orange, purple, and red ones. Their appearance is similar to that of a human brain. They have two eyes, a mouth with sharp teeth, no nose, and a number of tentacles. The tentacles serve as both hands and feet. However, most Utrom dislike walking, preferring to use a human-shaped exosuit or a hover pad. Unless injured or diseased, Utroms have a long lifespan, lasting centuries or millennia in Earth years. They have created extremely advanced technology, though how they accomplished this given their physical forms lack almost any form of appendge remains a mystery.

Utroms are usually extremely peaceful and non-interfering.

Mirage ComicsEdit

The Utroms were stranded on Earth and interacted with humans through the company, T.C.R.I.. They are responsible for creating and losing the canister of mutagen that transformed Splinter and the Turtles. When they were stranded, the Utroms contacted their homeworld. They were ordered to stay and observe humanity. Eventually, they were forced to leave Earth by teleporting to another world. They later returned and opened official relations with humans and other alien races.

Image ComicsEdit

When the TCRI building had self-destructed, one of the Utroms, Dr. X, didn't make it to the Transmat Device in time and was left behind in the wreckage of the building. Leatherhead found Dr. X and looked after him in the following years. Dr. X met Leonardo and Michaelangelo prior to the testing of Leatherhead's second Transmat Device that led to a second Triceraton invasion (TMNT Vol. 3, #19). Dr. X presumably helped Leatherhead construct his two Transmat Devices, though was not seen when Leatherhead recruited members of the Foot and the Turtles to finish up the first Transmat Device he created (TMNT Vol. 1, #45, TMNT Vol. 3, #19). Dr. X, with Donatello's help, constructs an android exoskeleton for himself (TMNT Vol. 3, #23).

1987 SeriesEdit

Utroms were not present in the 1987 cartoon series. Krang is based on them in appearance, but he is really just a disembodied brain.

2003 SeriesEdit

Seven hundred years ago, an Utrom ship was transporting the dangerous criminal Ch’rell. Unfortunately, Ch'rell escaped and sabotaged the ship, causing it to crash on Earth. Landing in feudal Japan, the ship was damaged beyond repair and Ch'rell escaped in the confusion.

The Utroms decided to disguise themselves as humans and wait until humans developed the technology needed to go back home. To hide, they developed human-shaped exosuits and revealed themselves to a select few humans who they named their guardians. However, one exosuit was captured by Ch'rell. Centuries later, Hamato Yoshi would become a guardian. The Shredder would kill him in an attempt to find the Utrom's location.

At the present, the Utroms operate through T.C.R.I.. The company's official business is never revealed, but it serves as a place to hide their advanced technology, such as the Transmat and the Oracle Pod. T.C.R.I. is also responsible for the mutagen that transformed the Turtles and Splinter, which was the fuel for their transmat.

The Utrom later helped the Turtles with the Shredder. Thirty seconds before the Shredder's ship blew up, they put the ship in a stasis field and used the Transmat to transport everyone out. On their homeworld, Shredder stood trial and was sent to an icy asteroid prison, Mor Tal.

In the dystopian future seen in Same As It Never Was, amongst Shredder's soldiers are brainwashed, and apparently undead Zombie Utroms. Some of these Zombie Utroms are fitted into giant, winged, mecha-like exo-suits, and are known as Utrominators.

Fast ForwardEdit

Some time in the future the Utroms have joined the Pan Galactic Alliance and live as middle class people on earth.

Video GamesEdit

Utroms are a basic enemy in many levels of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus. They appear both on hoverdiscs, and in their exo-suits. Slashuur, an Utrom bounty hunter, appears as a reoccurring boss, and later, unlockable character.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Smash-Up includes an Utrominator amongst its selectable roster. This Utrominator's exo-suit is similar to the one seen in Same As It Never Was, with small differences such as a lack of wings. The Utrom in the exo-suit is also pink, unlike the "Same As It Never Was" version, which is an unhealthy pale color. The Utrominator in Smash-Up still retains its backstory of being an Utrom controlled by Shredder.

Notable UtromsEdit

Mirage/Image ComicEdit

• Dr. X: A female Utrom scientist which first appeared in the non-canon (by Mirage standards) Volume 3 of the series. She was left behind on Earth after the Utroms left to their homeplanet, and befriended Leatherhead. She also played chess with Splinter. Dr. X later began making appearances in Tales of the TMNT vol. 2, where she is often seeing accompanying Leatherhead.
• Korobon: Korobon is an Utrom who declared himself ambassador to Earth from the Utrom Confederation. He addressed the U.N. on live television and explained what the Utroms had planned to do on Earth. He appeared in Volume 4 of the comic.
• Glurin: Glurin is a young Utrom scientist who was stationed on their Earth base. When April O'Neil was infected by nanobots placed in her body by Dr. Baxter Stockman, he came up with the idea of using other nanobots to combat them. He designed the new nanobots after the Turtles and called them the nanoturtlebots. He appeared in Volume 4 of the comic.
• Professor Obligado: Obligado was a brilliant Utrom scientist whose life and death is shown in the back pages of the new Tales of the TMNT.
• Klag: Klag is an Utrom who helped Michelangelo in Michelangelo: The Third Kind'' mini-series. During the first contact with the Utroms he helps the prevent the escalation of violence within xenophobic hate groups through fighting them alongside Michelangelo and eventually using Utrom technology to kidnap and impersonate their leader and deliver an anti-hate speech.
• Security Officer Yat: An Utrom from the story Terror by Transmat!.
• Utrom Perservi: A renegade group of Utroms. They appear in Tales of the TMNT vol. 2.

2003 CartoonEdit

• Mortu: Mortu was the captain of the Utrom ship that crashed on Earth. After the crash, he remained the field-leader of the marooned Utroms, and worked as their liaison to the Humans. In the modern day, this makes him CEO of the front company TCRI. His name is "Utrom" backwards.

• Council of Three: These three otherwise unnamed Utroms are the highest leaders of the Utroms on Earth. These are the same navigators that Captain Mortu took orders from 700 years ago aboard their ill-fated star ship.

• Ch’rell: The most ruthless criminal the universe has known. Ch'rell dreams of galactic domination, and wants vengeance against the Utroms for imprisoning him and denying him his dreams by building an army and attacking their homeworld. This is the true identity of The Utrom Shredder in the 2003 TV series.

• Krang: A Utrom by the same name as the villain from the 1987 cartoon makes a brief cameo appearance in the episode Secret Origins, Part 2. He mentions how he hates walking on his tentacles.

• Abraham Lincoln: The 16th president of the United States is seen to secretly be an Utrom in an interstitial.

• Utrom High Council: The Utrom High Council is a collective body on the Utrom homeworld who appear to be the governing body of the planet. The judgements of Utrom criminals such as Ch'rell are carried out on the Utrom homeworld by the Utrom High Council. Not much is known, but they are responsible for the Utrom Shredder's banishment to a frozen asteroid.

2003 Video Game SeriesEdit

• Slashuur: Originally, the Turtles fought this samurai-esque warrior, as he is a bounty hunter, and was hired to attack them. However, after a couple of encounters, the Turtles learn that he is actually an Utrom whose family was attacked and killed by The Shredder/Ch'rell. He then assists the Turtles in attacking the Foot freighter. His name is reminiscent of Shredder's, with the two "u's" possible to emulate the double "d" in Shredder's name. He appeared only in the video game TMNT 2: Battle Nexus.