Lord Dregg is the overarching antagonist of the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon series, serving as the main antagonist of the final two seasons. He is an evil alien overlord and is treated more seriously than both the Shredder and Krang. He commands a large army of aliens.
He was voiced by the late Tony Jay, who also voiced Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Baron Mordo in Spider-Man: The Animated Series and Megabyte from ReBoot.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- When Dregg first appeared reprograms some experimental robot police men and have them go on a rampage to cover a second attempt to steal gold.
- He buys a mansion on Earth and is building a death ray in it, planning to destroy several cities with it until the world surrenders to him.
- The Turtles, fighting Dregg's goons in one of his labs, accidentally free a slug creature, which Dregg was planning to use to torment the people of Earth after he conquered them, which leads to the creature rampaging across New York City.
- He then tries to destroy New York City using his death ray.
- He hires another merc named Sleazebug to capture two of the Turtles (Leo and Mikey) and their friend Carter and sell them to an alien planet where they have to fight in gladiator games.
- He decides to test his new mutagen on Sleazebug, turning him into a monster. Another defeat after Mikey and Leo escape from the gladiator planet and Dregg flees.
- He works with a mad super villain named Chronos, giving him a bunch of Earthquake machines he can use to destroy NYC and then loot in exchange for killing the Turtles.
- The Turtles met two travelers from 20 years into the future (which would ironically be modern times) and we see a world where Dregg rules, reducing humanity to slaves (one of Dregg's technogang troops arrests a woman for searching the garbage for food), forced to build new star ships so Dregg can conquer new worlds.
- He kidnaps a mutated Leo, bombarding him with a ray powered by plutonium, designed to turn Leo into a walking nuke, having him blow up and take NYC with him.
- Dregg also kidnap April and Dregg agrees to release her, which he does by taking her out of a holding cell, but then he orders Mung to turn her into a cyborg minion.
- He frees Shredder and Krang from Dimension X, than Dregg betrays them both, by putting Shredder, Krang and the Turtles into a machine that steals their life energy and gives it to Dregg, gaining all of their abilities, which is a process that will eventually kill them.
- Whilst Shredder and Krang betray Dregg first, the latter reveals that he had planned to drain their life energies from the beginning and never intended to share power with them.
- Dregg comes up with a new plan, attack Earth with several Spider Tanks Mung has built and then use his teleporter to to teleport parts of the Sun to cities on Earth, destroying them unless Earth surrenders.
- He hires intergalactic gangsters to steal an organic computer from Earth, which he uses to take over all of Earth's defense systems. He demands the Earth surrender power to him or he will destroy several major cities with orbiting laser satellites. Even when the heads of most major governments agree, Dregg tries to have the cities destroyed to show he isn't bluffing.
- He plans to suck the Earth through a wormhole, to one of the few remaining solar systems still in his control, this plan causes massive devastation on the Earth, before the Turtles foil it.
- Mung notices Dregg has lost interest in conquest and calls him out, Dregg flies into a rage, attacking Mung, stealing some of his Microbots.
- Dregg uses the microbots to create an exoskeleton and the exoskeleton absorbs all of the mercs into it, giving Dregg all their powers (those guys are likely dead as well).
- He spends the rest of the episode trying to kill the Turtles with his new powers, until Mikey and Donnie go to the technodrome to get Krang's robot body to turn the tide. The robot body gives them the upper hand, until it overloads and is about to explode. The Turtles open a dimensional portal and force Dregg through, with the explosion finally killing him.
- He easily meets the heinous standards of the 1987 series. Shredder and Krang are the main villains for most of the series and their schemes range from goofy to generic to destructive. Most of the one shot villains are generic, there was a mad scientist who wanted to spin the world's axis till it was as bald as head, but most one shot villains were not nearly as destructive, and the only person to rival Dregg in destructiveness is Doomquest. Dregg is his own litany of eprsonal and sadistic touches that makes him stand out.
Trivia[]
- He is the only TMNT 1987 villain to be Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Lord Dregg on the Villains Wiki
- Lord Dregg on the Turtlepedia Wiki
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