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Why in Database: Tommy Turtle is a character who appear in many (over 15, counting issues where he was – StH is in the format “each issues have 2-3 different stories) stories in comic books series Sonic the Hedgehog. Tommy’s story is rather sad, our first contact with him ends with the betrayal of people he considers friends and his “death” (of course, it turns out, he survived). Later, he is used by evil forces as a trap (the real Tommy is captured and Sonic get a robot pretending to be him) and he unknowingly helps the nanites to master other robots and loses his consciousness himself for the sake of these nanites. Finally, he dies, temporarily regaining control over his body and heroically sacrificing himself. Of course, he have some positive apperances, but the overall impression after reading the comics with him is rather sad and compassionate.

117 – The Tortoise and The Hedgehog: We meet Tommy, who accidentally (his “friends” used him) dragged Sonic into a trap. To make amends, he saves Sonic, risking his own life, even sacrificing it, as the comic shows it. Besides, we learn a bit of his past, we learn how he won the race with Sonic, which is a classic reference to the Tortoise and the Hare.

135 – The Tommy Trilogy, Part One: Agent of K.N.O.T.H.O.L.E.: It turns out that Tommy survived! He has a few frames for himself, but you can generally call this story an introduction to the next issues with him.

136 – The Tommy Trilogy, Part Two: The Infiltrator: It turns out that Tommy is just a robot, an infiltrator designed to kill Sonic! It fails, without any casualties. Finally, Sonic learns from the elements retrieved from the destroyed robo-turtle that the real Tommy is still alive.

137 – The Tommy Trilogy, Part Three: Robo-Dyne Systems: Tommy is on the cover. There is also a lot of him in the comic, they finally save him. He ends up positive, they rescued him at the last minute (he was about to be killed) and they all escaped together.

145 – Harbinger You can see Tommy in four frames, there’s not much of him here.

146 – The Good, The Bad, & The Unknown – Part One: “Prototype” and Tommy the Turtle in “Out of Your Shell”:In the first story, he is in 3 frames, nothing important. But the second story even has him it in title! And it’s about him and how he found a place for himself in the Sonic’s society.

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147 – The Good, The Bad, & The Unknown – Part Two: “Ignition”: A lot of Tommy, but little action with him – he sits in the control center, only watching the action.

148 – The Good, The Bad, & The Unknown – Part Three: “Genesis”: A few frames, a little bit of action.

149 – The Good, The Bad, & The Unknown – Part Four: “Armageddon”: A few frames, nothing special.

152 – Sonic’s Angels: Parę kadrów, nic specjalnego.

153 – “Songoose” Part 1 of 2: There’s a turtle in the audience, but it’s probably not Tommy.

154 – “Songoose” Part 2 of 2 oraz More Than Meets the Eye: In the first story, in the audience there is again a character resembling Tommy, but it is almost certainly not him – given the narrative style in this passage. The second story focuses on Tommy, so it’s full of him. He is in symbiosis with the nanites, which give his shell some new adaptation possibilities.

159 – System Reboot oraz The Despicable Dr. Robotnik: “Insidious”: In the first story there is literally one frame with him. In the second story, there is little more of Tommy in terms of frames, but he unconsciously plays a very important role, helping the nanites, over whom the opponent of their group has gained control.

165 – Call of Duty: Visible only in two frames.

168 – Order from Chaos Part 1: – The Gathering: On the one hand, there is no Tommy here at all, and on the other hand, there is a lot – we can see in a large number of frames his body, which is controlled by A.D.A.M., hostile artifical intelligence.

169 – Order from Chaos – Part 2: The Great Harmony: Last appearance of Tommy. He regained control of the shell. But he died, sacrificing himself, to defeat the enemy.

170 – Comings and Goings:We can see Tommy’s tombstone.

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Why in Database: Mzee is one of the S-Men, a group/team of Red Skull’s helpers that appeared in 11 issues of various series published by Marvel (Uncanny Avengers, Captain America, Magneto). They was present on their pages for two years, from December 2012 to December 2014 – out of these 11 appearances, we saw Mzee in ten issues. He cooperates with Red Skull because he hates mutants, especially Magneto who is responsible for the destruction of his home village and the death of his loved ones. He gained his powers thanks from a crystal containing the psyche of the long-forgotten African god of war, Mzee.

Uncanny Avengers 01: The issue in which the S-Men debut, Mzee can be seen clearly in two frames, first he stands with a group, then in action, he deals a blow. Besides, one frame shows only the outline of his figure, and the other shows his hand. In this issue Mzee remains anonymous, we do not know his name.

Uncanny Avengers 02: In this issue, the protagonist of the entry has more frames for himself, you can take a closer look at him because he appears richly during three pages, additionally he can be seen later in the collective picture. We learn his name here and the first part of the background – what is the source of his hatred for mutants.

Uncanny Avengers 03: Mzee has few frames for himself, he fights Thor. We get to know the rest of his background/origin stroy – the source of his strength.

Uncanny Avengers 04: Does not appear in person, is visible only on the hologram/screen.

Captain America Vol 7 #22: Visible only in the background behind the red Skull.

Uncanny Avengers 23: You can see him in 4 frames, always in a group pictures with other S-Men.

Magneto Vol 3 #9: The only case when you can see him also on the cover. There are of course also some frames with him in the issue.

Uncanny Avengers 24: Two pages, a lot of frames with him.

Magneto Vol 3 #10: He have a lot of fragments here, with the captured Magneto.

Uncanny Avengers 25: Some frames, including one where he probably dies.

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Title: Blacksad
Twórcy: Juan Díaz Canales (writer) and Juanjo Guarnido (artist)

Why in Database: Blacksad is an interesting, five (so far) volume story that takes place in the animal-human world, there are no humans there, but the society we see could be described as completely human. We only have a variety of animals instead of humans, the title Blacksad is a cat, his “friend” is a weasel and so on – but they are all very humanoid.

Somewhere Within the Shadows: Already in the first volume you can see a turtle-like character, which can be seen on the picture below.

Red Soul: In the third volume, we can see the character who is a turtle and plays a greater role. His name is Hewitt Mandeline and Blacksad works as his bodyguard. We see them together on the first six pages, then they both goes their own way, so we don’t see any more of Hewitt.

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