Facts about the TMNT 2012 Salamanders that I could find!
The salamandrians are some of my favorite characters in tmnt 2012. I have a soft spot for them. Sadly, we don't get much from them. They only have a few episodes. So, I decided to research and compile every fact about them that I personally can find. Here they are...
The salamandrian species:
They are very war hungry and love battles.
They have been at war with the Triceratons before "The 3 Moons Of Thalos". It's unknown how long that war has been going on though.
In Salamandrian culture, extending one's hand towards someone is a declaration of battle.
Their planet has been attacked by Lors Dregg 2 times.
So far most of the salamanders we have seen are either blue spotted salamanders and or fire-belly newts. There could be a likely hood that those types of salamanders are pretty common.
Their movements are bipedal.
They could possibly be cannibalistic. Considering Newtralizer had eaten a Kraang and Mona threatened to eat Bishop.
They are capable of climbing walls.
Salamandrian technology is considered the deadliest in 10 dimensions.
"Rokka-Rokka" is very frequently used by the salamanders. But they are left untraslated from their technology so it's either some sort of verbal tic, or a way of them expressing intense feelings like aggression. We have mostly seen them yell it during battle.
Some salamanders can reach up to 10 feet tall in height, which is the average height of triceratons.
They were created by Ciro Nieli.
Facts about the Salamander characters.
Facts about Sal Commander:
His real name is Commander G'Throkka.
He is voiced by Keith David. Funnily enough, he voiced another blue salamander that was a warrior called King Andrias from the series called "Amphibia".
Ciro Neili is a massive fan of the terror genre and was happy to work with Keith David when it came to voicing Sal Commander. Also Keith David voice acted in both "The Thing" and "They Live!" movies that also were the main inspirations for the episode Burried Secrets.
Sal is estimated to be around 8 feet tall(?).
According to the art book of tmnt 2012, Sal Commander is Ciro Neili's favorite.
General R'Kavaka is his boss.
Mikey was the one to nickname him.
Mikey originally thought to call him Laser Lizard or G.I Newt. The name G.I Newt is a reference to the G.I. Joe series.
He is stated to be an old and highly seasoned veteran who has had many conflicts with various enemies like the Triceratons.
He had some sort of history with Newtralizer but it is never explained what exactly happened other then Newt being the one to have ripped Sal Commander's eye and also possibly opened his stomach.
Sal Commander's prosthetic eye strangely has had instances where it has changed from yellow to sometimes orange and red.
Interestingly, salamanders and newts are capable of regenarating their body parts like legs, arms, tails and even their organs. But somehow Sal Commander is wearing a prosthetic eye and a stomach hatch of sorts. They probably got bored of waiting for him to regenerate his missing body parts so they decided to just give him a bunch of prosthetics.
Also contrary to what some might believe and also something I didn't realize until I did some research, Sal tail is wearing some sort of metal armor. That isn't actually a prosthetic tail.
Sal seems to be a bit more relaxed and slightly more trust worthy seeing as he respected the turtles when first meeting them and didn't seem to want to fight them at first. And he seems to care about honor as he was willing to dig up the turtles out of the ice for an honorable kill.
The name Sal Commander contains the abbrevation "Sal" for "Salamander".
He is one of the few characters to mention 10 dimensions.
Facts about Mona Lisa:
Her real name is Y'Gythgba.
She is voiced by Zelda Williams, who also voiced Cassandra Jones in Rise Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Raph was the one who nicknamed her after the painting of the same name.
She is based off of a blue spotted salamander.
In her earlier designs, she had a mohawk.
Her personality was based off of Jenette Vasquez from the movie Aliens (1986).
She is Sal Commander's liuetenant.
She is the only love interest to date one of the turtles (Raph).
The reason Mona doesn't seem to appear after When Worlds Collide is because it's stated that season 5 is a collection of short stories in which fans can choose the fates of the turtles.
Her and Raph sent each other love letters during the Space arc. Which is also how Lord Dregg managed to figure out the salamanders had connections to the turtles.
Her planet had been attacked by Dregg twice.
She seems to have had previous knowledge of Newtralizer. Sal had most likely told her, however, she probably didn't get the full details besides the fact he injured her commander.
Coincidentally, she appeared in season 4 just like her OG '87's counterpart.
She was revealed at a comic con back in 2015.
Her story and the episode she was introduced in was revealed much earlier in a children's book: "Step into reading, Alien Attack".
Her and Raph most likely kept in contact even after Raph returned to Earth. In Worlds Collide, he was shown to have still kept his space gear/helmet thru which Mona calls him to inform him about them coming to Earth.
She joined the Mighty Mutanimals in Season 5. However, the writers have said that the true ending to the series was the Kavaxas arc. Everything else in season 5 are stories that fans can decide whether or not they are canon to the actual story.
Okay... so Ciro did mention Mona and where she was in the apocalypse arc and... before I show this just letting ya'll know I took this info from a wiki called "Love Interest" wiki so I might be wrong but... WHAT THE HELL.
I don't have words...
Following the kids thing, Ciro joked with a Ramona hater that in season 5 we will see Mona and Raph's babies. Although this came off more of a joke, there isn't any actual full detail if this is canon in the series or not.
Facts about Newtralizer:
His real name is K'Vathrak.
He is voiced by Danny Trejo.
Ryan Brown created a design for an action figure of a character named The Newtralizer for the original toy line, which was rejected. This version represents him as a cyborg. The two characters are completely unrelated other than their name/species and hatred for Kraang/Krang.
He was named by Donatello. Although, Mikey seems to gaslight himself that he was the one to name him.
His pattern resembles that of a skull that could be an inspiration from the Terminator.
He is 10 feet tall.
He is the first salamandrian to appear in the series.
He has been shown eating a Kraang, swallowing it whole without even chewing. He attempted to eat other Kraangs but was stopped.
In later episodes, he is shown to have Kraang tentacles attached to his belt, which he lacked in his debut episode.
He is shown that he needs a translator to speak English. Which brings up a sort of plot hole and the question as to how Mona and Sal speak english, meanwhile we don't see them activating any sort of translator.
He originally worked as an asassin for Lord Dregg. Not much is known about his work with Dregg however beyond Dregg being happy to see him.
In Metalhead Rewired, he was seen in the background as one of the imprisoned mutants the Kraang had captured. Implying he had been captured for a second time.
Strangely, Newtralizer and Slash met in a Kraang facility where Newt rescued the turtle. Which sort of brings up the question if this meeting took place before Metalhead rewired which explains why Newt was trapped in the earlier episode.
Like Sal, he mentions the 10 dimensions.
He doesn't attack Slash when he offers his hand for a handshake. It's likely he had spent some time learning about Earth culture and therefore picked up on a few things.
He gained his electric powers due to his teleportation device malfunctioning.
Nothing implies that Slash actually knows Newt's real name, or even his nickname.
In Danger of the Ooze, he was allied with the Shredder.
In TMNT Legends, he is an ally to Karai and Leo.
When Newtralizer is thrown directly at Dregg and they land, Dregg calls him "Newtralizer". This implies that Newt is aware of his nickname Donnie gave him. Possibly taking a liking to it and maybe even using it as an asassin name.
Bishop mentions in Worlds Collide that the reason he acts this way is due to him being brainwashed. While we don't know the full extent of this, there could be an implication the Kraang brainwashed Newt so he could later be used to kill the Utrom.
For the longest time, there were a lot of question as to what species Newtralizer is supposed to be. As it often went back and forth of him being called a mutant and an alien. By the time the salamanders were revealed and When Worlds Collie released, it was confirmed that he was an alien.
And that's just about everything I could find about the salamanders. If ya'll know of any facts that I didn't include, or if there is something I got wrong, please do let me know. And yeah, that's about it.
