Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Azteca – Mozar Turtle Hunter

Mozar Turtle Hunter – Mozar from season 4 of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Turtles series
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:Mozar_Turtle_Hunter
https://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:War,What_Is_It_Good_For%3F https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles(2012_TV_series)
https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/Mozar_(2012_TV_series)
https://youtu.be/zJOLH8WfCaY

Mozar Turtle Hunter

Techotl Redsmoke and his people have escaped the Cenote and the Hungry Dead. They wish to return to Tule Village which they built many years ago. However the Avians have taken it over and will not give it up. Techotl Redsmoke wishes to go to war with the Avians but needs his war challenge which has been stolen by the ghoul, Mozar Turtle Hunter. It is up to you to retrieve it.

“What comes into my lair? You wish a War Challenge? It is a pretty, pretty thing. I’ll give you a War Challenge!”

Mozar Turtle Hunter

Monstrology Tome Description: AKA the Shredder.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TV Series 2012-2017), also commonly referred to as TMNT 2012 and called Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for its fifth and final season, is an American 3D-rendered computer-animated martial arts action-adventure comedy-drama television animated series developed by LowBar Productions and the Nickelodeon Animation Studio.

Mozar was introduced in the final cliffhanger episode of season three and continued to be an antagonist throughout much of season four.

Mozar

As a Triceraton, Mozar carried the basic physical traits of the species. Such as thick skin, a small single horn located on his nose, and a pair of large horns located above the eyes. He was huge and well built, like all Triceratons, wore a black military suit, and a badge on his right pectoral as a symbol of his position in the Triceraton armada. He was characterized by his steel prosthetic beak and a small, broken horn. His body was covered with many scars and wounds acquired during many years of service as a military commander.

Captain Mozar was the supreme commander of the Triceraton Fleet who held the rank of captain. He was promoted to admiral for a brief period, but was demoted back to captain after his failure to stop the Turtles from stealing the first fragment of the Heart of Darkness from the Triceratons. He later died after the Fugitoid crashed his ship and the Heart of Darkness into the Triceraton Fleet, causing a devastating fusion/dark matter explosion.

The quest ‘War, What Is It Good For?’ is a direct reference to the 1969 Vietnam protest song recorded by Edwin Starr and the rerecorded by The Temptations in 1970.

The current list of all the (known) Azteca references are located here.

Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references, I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages.

Mozar Turtle Hunter image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.

Mozar image and TMNT logo are copyright Nickelodeon / Paramount

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