Metalhead Origins - Vicious Robotic Clone Of Donatello's Body Is Filled With Weapons, Head To Toe!

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise introduced a special character that none of the fans could have ever imagined. Apparently, apart from the four protagonist brothers, there is a unique fifth turtle that has a lot in common with Donatello, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Raphael. This character is known as Metalhead. He has multiple histories and proves himself to be either a valuable asset to the ninja turtles or their worst nightmare. Now, to ease your confusion, we will be exploring everything about Metalhead in this video, right from his origins to the sources of his many powers. So, without further delay, let us dive right into the video.
#tmnt #teenagemutantninjaturtles
0:00 Intro
1:07 Metalhead Origins
11:48 What Makes Him Such a Challenging Opponent?
13:08 Metalhead’sOther Appearances

[@johnmobley9369]

I love how the idea of a fifth turtle is explored in so many ways. The robo turtle, the girl turtle, the teenage extra-mutant ninja turtle.

[@tj.henderson]

Metalhead jennika and slash

[@MKF30]

Metalhead was also in TMNT Turtles in Time arcade and SNES port. Its funny how metalhead is also taller than the turtles in the 80s series but shorter than them in the 2012 series.

[@stevenslouber4947]

Sort of the reverse of Michael Bay's Teenage Mutant Nincredible Hulk Turtles.

[@MKF30]

@@stevenslouber4947 Haha yeah the roided up Bay Turtles, the same size as Slash from the 2012 just overly jacked up lol

[@stevenslouber4947]

@@MKF30 I won't knock the man for the Transformers movies, they are supposed to be that big. The Turtles? Uh, just no!

[@MKF30]

@@stevenslouber4947 Oh yeah I actually enjoyed most of the Transformers films and I liked how he went more practical with some of the transformers, but kept the classics in tact like Prime and Bumblebee. Speaking of Transformers so hyped for Beast Wars movie, I grew up on 80's and 90's BW Transformers so I'm very excited. But yeah the Turtles are no where near that large lol I wouldn't have minded so much if they were normal size with those designs but man I think his turtles were mutated with roid mutagen lol.

[@stevenslouber4947]

@@MKF30 I wish they could use Side Swipe. He was a Transformer Dodge Viper that was around for a short time a long while ago and I wish I would have bought the figure.

[@dracone4370]

The 2003 Ninja Turtles series had its own version of Metalhead called "the Turtlebot" and in that version it was created by Leatherhead with the assistance of Backster Stockman, there was a character called Metalhead but that character was a superhero with metal-like hair they could manipulate.

[@bluetarantulaproductions6179]

Krang in the 2012 TMNT series isn't just one being, "The Krang" are a hivemind of evil Utroms from Dimension X commanded by Krang Sub-prime (voiced by Gilbert Godfried..R.I.P.) and Krang Prime (voiced by Rosanne Barr).

[@brandonperkins176]

I remember this episode from the TMNT '87 series and watched it on Fox before school. Definitely buying the entire season collection soon and relive my childhood

[@bangkokslim1]

Its pretty reasonably priced. I think i payed 40 bucks for the whole series.

[@shenloken2]

You can get that entire season collection in physical form at Walmart! XD

[@bangkokslim1]

@@shenloken2 that's where i got mine 😂😂

[@Bladeslingerplays]

You did miss one thing about Metal Head. He did sort of appear in the 2003 series. There was an episode where the Turtles fought a robotic turtle and like in the 80s cartoon, he was programmed to counter their fighting styles, which the Turtles in turn countered by swaping weapons with each other to mix up their form. Though the robot was never referred to as Metal Head, it was very clear that's who it was supposed to be. Even if it wasn't, it was at least inspired by it. Kind of like how Krang was inspired by the Utroms in the 80s cartoon though never expressly referred to as one.

[@BloodBarron115]

He is referred to as metal head in the tmnt 2003 game and toy line

[@neilredmond8296]

Aw

[@GoldenDragonMonkey]

Yes I was actually kind of sad he wasn’t mentioned.

[@conankudo81]

@@BloodBarron115 I have the figure, it was called Turtlebot

[@aoinatafanboy84]

@@conankudo81 I still count Turtlebot as Metalhead though.

[@damianstarks3338]

Metalhead is pretty badass.

[@devinweathers7520]

Go check out tnmt 2012 and the comics It's fucking amazing

[@kklightning5693]

“His minion shredder” I never thought that shredder would be reduced to a minion lol

[@shelbybayer200]

I mean 87 Shredder is kind of a Bumbling FOOL

[@jimbodeek]

@@shelbybayer200Somehow, he'd screw up every plan Krang would come up with, no matter how "foolproof" the plan would appear to be.

[@stevenslouber4947]

@@jimbodeek And Bebop and Rocksteady helped in making shredder look foolish to Krang as well. Funny how they both seem to be using each other to gain something but it is obvious to Krang Shredder just wants him for his alien tech to take out the Turtles yet Shredder doesn't realize for a long time how bad it is that Krang wants to just take over and enslave everyone including him.

[@Lizardman]

TMNT is so awesome! Metalhead is just one of many great characters! The controller Don used is more RC then NES.

[@sonicmario64]

I used to have the action figure of Metalhead when I was a kid. :D

[@themandaloriangamingnetwor4964]

I used to have the swat van along with the turtles as a kid

[@sonicmario64]

@@themandaloriangamingnetwor4964 That's very nice and cool to know.

[@jrr2480]

Fun Fact: The Mirage Comics had a superhero named Metalhead, but he was just a human with spikey metal hair that he can control the length. This version also guest stared in the 2003 cartoon episodes.

[@dr.butterscotch1163]

I love how you guys get like 99% of things correct then do something like completely mispronounce a characters name or like in this one it was noted that Donnie had an NES type controller when it's more than obviously an RC or model airplane type of controller xD I love you guys regardless cause like I said, it's always 99% correct and always informative and fun. The stuff that's wrong is never anything critical or important to a narrative or piece of info. Good stuff.

[@ryanwilliams8104]

@7:11 you see the other NES style control

[@dr.butterscotch1163]

@@ryanwilliams8104 well whattaya know, there is one. Lol. They get a 100 on this one xD

[@Dracattack]

They so ignore that 87 kraang has been retconned to be part of the 2012 Kraang hivemind and thus his "body" was always a robot

[@shoken4421]

I actually had the toy of this guy ,I loved my little metal head

[@adrianturner8406]

Metalhead is one of my favorite Ninja turtles characters ever he has awesome weapons and fighting style and helping his friends.

[@shenloken2]

Metalhead's level in Shredder's Revenge has the best theme on the soundtrack!

[@leroyhudson8952]

How does the original cartoon look better than the new cgi just look at the wind movement in aprils hair and the turtles headbands chefs kiss 💋

[@speedgamerdts85]

Wasn’t the 2003 one a one off that Baxter Stockman and Leatherhead made? I mean it was kinda cool to see it in that show…for how short of a time it was.

[@Bladez10]

Remember that too. It also copied each of the turtles' fighting styles and changed its weapons to match each turtle.

[@chazzq2428]

It was also in the TMNT video game that followed along with the story of the first season

[@MacForShort_22]

I remember when I was 5 years old I saw the 2012 cartoon, and MetalHead was always my favorite character

[@Gbusjones]

The toy had an exposed brain, and when light shined through it, his eyes appeared to light up. A lazer and auto nunchuck attachment for his hands came as well.

[@funkworthrollin4959]

That's why he was the coolest one.

[@tensaantares]

1:33 Sounding like the krang in the 2013 series with lines like "Their first human ally April O'Neil...While their master, known as master Splinter", 6:09 *RC car controller Really? NES controller? Makes sense for anyone who doesn't know of RC CARS!

[@erikbihari3625]

That's why in the mad max episodes he's a cyborg?

[@TJBall-go3gv]

I have a old wooden toybox from when I was a kid, and yes I still have the original metal head figure from the early 90s. Even tho I only have a 1/4 of some the toys I use to, I go through them almost annually and think back to my childhood. I wonder sometimes what happened to my lost figures, and hopefully with a childlike imagination they are out there still kicking some arse! I know Its just wishful thinking, but I really miss my Ratking, and Thundercats figures along with some of my old Spawn figures.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

When I moved from Ohio to Vermont I lost 95% of my toys & figures. I still miss my Popy Godzilla figure. 😞

[@TheJurnalyst]

That was NOT a NES type controller... That was a R/C type controller.

[@themandaloriangamingnetwor4964]

that's some really good fan art of metalhead on the thumb video

[@nicke9012]

You should totally make a video about the dark turtles aka the evil clones of the turtles.

[@yaxantonio3719]

I called metalhead the turtlenator as an homage to the t:100

[@doltrennthompson215]

Wow I never seem metal head appears in the old new appearance in the other old new turtles series 😳

[@GCJACK83]

The wings that pop out of the back of Metalhead 2012 are based on Mazinger's wings.

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Ah good catch

[@jacobfabila9369]

Metal head was my favorite toy as a kid

[@RemLasher77]

For Future TMNT videos, it’s *Bebop* not _Bepop_ . For those keeping score, how many times has this narrator said Bebop as Bepop?

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

I think this channel is run by either kids or someone from a country where English isn't their first language.

[@jarredwisneski1816]

If I remember correctly he was also a boss fight in the turtles in time game

[@Eldrisaur]

9:24 it literally doesn’t look anything like Donnie. The closest it resembles is Mikey just because of color scheme.

[@niobium79]

Most favourite turtle ever!

[@shaunbritton939]

You could say there down with the sickness 😂😂😂

[@footmotion]

This may have already been said but, I find it odd that he would have to scan the turtles for a fighting style that he already knows.....lol

[@LordTchernobog]

Funny how the height changes between the '87 and the 2012 version. In '87, he's taller, but much smaller in the 2012 series.

[@DchanZockt]

One of the few action figures, from the 1987 animated series, that I have owned (or still own). They probably weren't cheap either. Or am I wrong there?

[@MrTuubster]

Well those days cartoons were made to sell toys. And although they were not THAT expensive. They cost money. With so many cartoons and so many toys, what you usually did was choose a series and collect those toys. From time to time you got a gift from other cartoons. I was heavy into He-man, later GI-Joe and tmnt. I watched other cartoons, but wanted those toys.

[@anwenlokier2292]

In my school vr game Metal head was a boss where to defeat him you need to tear his matrix out of him by using a plumas drill leg and then used shadow cat sword to cut metal head In half and then his parts were used to create a royal theme exo suit for admilea buldren called the kimaris giya and fyi the metal head boss had a quardrapedule and bipedal form quardrapedule make him look like a mechanical snapping turtle and bipedal is like them and fyi in quardrapedule form he gains beam fangs and a impenetrable force field like armour and bipedal had the turtles weapons and fyi he showed up again in a different fight where he's a secret boss against airtalon as goalius in the alola region arena

[@johnwalker5460]

I always wanted to know about this dude

[@battlericky17]

Gunna have to grab the 2012 series

[@thereviewbox1309]

You forgot to include the fact that Donatello's mind was was installed into metalhead during the post apocalyptic series finale of 2012

[@4kzes]

That was a body for Donnie anyways

[@Karlos1234ify]

He was awesome

[@wyrmshogun5245]

Why this video is unregistered?

[@RemLasher77]

Furthermore, why does this video’s narrator keep calling Bebop is Bepop?

[@3089io]

Ah. Crank and Beep-Hop. Classic characters.

[@markmurphy8658]

baxter stockman teamed up with leatherhead and made him with the same ability to copy the moves of the turtles they defeated metalhead by switching weapons.

[@jamestrotter9377]

Not bad vid but I wish you had talked about 2003 it was to short but there was some stuff there made by leatherhead for Baxter stockman made to deal with the turtles I think it was worth a mention also I think he had a small part in the I d w power rangers ninja turtles cross over I know he appeared in it I can't remember if he had more than a camio but I think he did

[@thesplitview2915]

Metal head was in the 2003 series introduced in season two episode twelve

[@stereo-soulsoundsystem5070]

Yo this ninja has f*king gun?! Thats wildin. Them turtles bullet proof or Neo or something.

[@byronrush9802]

Laser guns mostly

[@JosephBrown]

They alway find a way to circle back to tmnt dark origin

[@lowrideralternatives7581]

Hes the Colossus of TMNT

[@BestTroIl]

@6:10 that is not a snes controller it's and RC racer if anything.

[@damaniqphillip2756]

Nice

[@nobodyknowsforsure]

Kinda surprised you didn't mention metal head in the turtles 2 arcade game.

[@zae5pm]

He did appear in the 2003 series. I have his figure.

[@aoinatafanboy84]

Turtlebot was STILL Metalhead...

[@phantombew3445]

WAIT A SECOND, THE MUTANT OPOCOLPYS SERIES IN 2012 WAS BASED ON THE IDW COMICS?!

[@marcosmata8233]

Concept What if the teenage mutant ninja turtles had a robot army of metalhead or version of tmnt mecha heatboys? What if Nanite Systems Operative from planetside 2 were version of tmnt mecha heatboys?

[@Reallife315]

I like these turtles videos. Is there one on the 2 villains from the movie - toka and razaar (so)? I only remember them from the movie. And I had the figures. But I don’t remember seeing them in the original cartoon.

[@stevenslouber4947]

That was a source of confusion for many of us Turtles fans I'm sure. They just invented two mutants nobody heard of for Secret of the Ooze and ran with it. I always felt Toka was such a wasted opportunity to just use Slash. Otherwise, we can think of it as an alternate Turtleverse where Bebop and Rocksteady never exist. Think about it, in the cartoon they are the first two mutants Shredder creates. However, in this alternate movie universe, it's Toka and Razar.

[@Reallife315]

@@stevenslouber4947 makes total sense. Did they later appear in any of the newer cartoons? It was so cool seeing them in shredders revenge lol

[@stevenslouber4947]

@@Reallife315 Yeah, I got it on XBox but stuck with a Series S because only idiots pay scalper prices for Series X.

[@InkWiseStudios]

Who is "BePOP"? I thought it was "BeBOP".

[@katimavik1983]

6:12 : '' an NES type controller''...are you just using random buzz words to be hip or you have really no idea what a nes controllers looks like ?

[@Bokeyjr]

metal head was on TMNT Turtles in time also

[@viktorreyuss]

April fine af

[@chris-qf1up]

NES type control my ass needs a d pad a and b bottons its a old rc control .

[@stanleyteriaca2184]

What is the orgin of Cromedome?

[@aidanhever3369]

How about Origins of Agent Bishop ?

[@briandaleske5139]

I hope a new different version of (MetalHead) could appear in the next new version of (TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES) cartoon show series.

[@NEOSCISSORSJAGUARPRIME]

THE 2012 SERIES METALHEAD GAINED SENTIENCE AND SACRIFICED ITSELF TO SAVE THE TURTLES... AND IN THE APOCALYPTIC FUTURE WHEN DONATELLO HIMSELF WAS BARELY ALIVE HE MANAGED TO UPLOAD HIS MIND TO AN APPLESEED-ESQUE VERSION AS HIS NEW BODY

[@bubbajones6486]

Who is “Bepop”!?! Hahahaaaaa

[@wulver810]

Those are Mousers... wtf man.

[@doctorleak5312]

Shedder the henchman?

[@jimmydean4494]

I had the toy

[@johnsayles8032]

I'm not one that usually nitpick simple pronunciation of a name, but when it's so constantly repeated, I just can't. It is Bebop, not BePOP. Two bs, only one p and it's at the end.

[@christhompsonmagic4310]

its BEBOP NOT BEPOP

[@creagandubh4411]

What's a "Pee-Pop"?

[@jmiles86]

These guys got so many details wrong that I'm pretty sure they did all their research with bad wikis. Don't watch these videos if you want ACCURATE information.

[@jayantiraphael8655]

I like how he keeps saying the names of every single one of the turtles to pad the runtime of this video. When I say I like it or what I'm saying is I dislike it and it's annoying and it shows that he doesn't have much to say in this video.

[@dominicmatlock4579]

This whole video is presented like you have no interest in the subject matter and just rattling off half researched facts.