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Joseph Fanning

Bebop TMNT | Ninja Turtles Villian

Updated: Nov 10

Bebop - A fictitious pair known as Bebop and Rocksteady are mutant warthogs and mutant rhinoceroses who have appeared as characters in a number of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles media releases. The two characters are henchmen who carry out the commands of Shredder, the Foot Clan commander and main antagonist of the franchise. Both of their titles refer to musical genres: rocksteady is a Jamaican music style that preceded reggae, while bebop is a jazz style.


A significant adversary in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is Bebop often mispelled as Beebop. Once upon a time, Anton Zeck was a human professional burglar paid to take Shredder's helmet. He is now a mutant warthog and, along with his buddy Rocksteady, one of Shredder's hench-mutants. His film debut was in Kuro Kabuto: The Legend.





Citation Beebop TMNT


When Peter Laird was negotiating the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles action figure deal with Playmates Toys, he devised the characters since the company wanted to produce more characters. On Fred Wolf's orders to "put more mutants in the series," they were added to the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated television series and given names, personalities, and an origin narrative by author David Wise.


Beebop | Archie Comics


Bebop and Rocksteady, who shared a similar background and level of stupidity, were characters in the comic book series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures. They were street gang members that the Shredder had altered in order to aid him in defeating the turtles, as the cartoon tells it.


Bebop | On Television | TV


The 1987–1996 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles




Bebop (voiced by Barry Gordon in the majority of episodes, Greg Berg in select 1989 episodes) and Rocksteady (voiced by Cam Clarke) were part of a human street gang in New York City that Shredder employed when they first appeared in the series. The leader of the group was a short, stocky, blond Caucasian man named Rocksteady. He occasionally wore a powerful army helmet on his head in his mutant form and wore army camouflage pants, which he later replaced with plain beige cargo pants. The man in charge, Bebop, was a taller African American man sporting a purple mohawk. Alongside their other gang members, Dopey, Grunt, and Scrag.



Joseph Fanning studied web design at Harvard. He runs a coding site.




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