Saturday, March 30, 2013

Armaggon

Armaggon is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, he appeared in the Archie Comics and also appeared as a playable characters in the SNES port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters. Armaggon is a mutant shark from the future. He appears in the Archie Comics version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, where he teams up with the Shredder and Verminator-X to obtain control of Donatello's Time-Slip Generator. The character first appeared in Mighty Mutanimals #7 (February 1993) where he battled Ray Fillet and inferenced having battled the heroic mutant at some point in his own past, which was to be Ray's future— a statement that soundly confused the mutant manta. He was created by writer Stephen Murphy and artist Peter Laird. Interestingly, the fact that Armaggon remembers Ray may indicate changes to the timeline took place, as Ray Fillet as well as the other Mutanimals were all slain during the Terracide storyline. The Mutanimals did not encounter any modern day version of the character, yet Armaggon clearly stated he had battled Ray in what would be the 'future' of the Archie comics continuity prior to the Terracide storyline, which seems to have had little or no known effect on the future world the Turtles visited, though there were no references made to Ray or the Mutanimals at that point by Armaggon or his allies, leaving the shark's earlier statement to Ray in doubt. Back in late 1992 or so, in one of the Kevin Eastman-Eric Talbot projects of the time there was a word balloon in which the proofreader missed the fact that the letterer misspelled "armageddon" as "armaggon" in a line from a very dramatic panel. Stephen Murphy started thinking that "Armaggon" would make a great name for the shark character he was in the process of developing for the seventh issue of Mighty Mutanimals. 

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