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| “ | My name is Turbo! | „ |
| ~ Turbo's most famous quote. |
| “ | WOAH! THAT SNAIL IS FAST! | „ |
| ~ An enthusiastic fan while watching Turbo and the most famous line of the franchise. |
| “ | I wish I was fast. | „ |
| ~ Turbo after Looking the Light on the Sky, and Closes his eyes wishing |
| “ | There comes a time in every race when a driver is forced to make that one, key, split-second decision. Take a chance and risk it all, or play it safe and suffer defeat. | „ |
| ~ Theodore Before imagining Racing onto the Tomato as the Finish Line |
Turbo, also known as Theo, is the titular main protagonist of the 2013 DreamWorks movie of the same name and its spin-off series Turbo FAST. He was Theo as the dreamer of becoming a racer, much to his older, overprotective brother Chet's embarrassment. After the freak accident, he was fused with speed. When he and Chet are taken by Tito, a Taco trucker and dreamer like Turbo, he joined the snail-racing crew.
He is voiced by Ryan Reynolds who also played Deadpool from the X-Men films, Hal Jordan from Green Lantern (2011), Hannibal King from Blade: Trinity, Nick Walker from R.I.P.D., Richard Messner from Smokin' Aces, Guy from Free Guy, Michael Bryce from The Hitman's Bodyguard, Paul Conroy from Buried, Cal from IF, and voiced Guy from The Croods, and Pikachu from Detective Pikachu. Yasunori Matsumoto voiced the character in Japanese.
Appearance[]
His eyes are designed more likely like snails and slugs. His eyes bear a similar appearance as the Slugs from DreamWorks' 13th full-length animated feature film, Flushed Away. Turbo is an orange, slender snail with blue eyes and wears a specially designed shell, bearing the resemblance of a race car, with the number "5" on it.
Personality[]
Turbo (Theo) is a snail who dreams of being the fastest, and best racer in the entire world. He has an obsession with speed which causes Chet, his older brother, to be embarrassed. Turbo believes that "no dream is too big, and no dreamer is too small." he seems to have an obsession with speed. Due to his passion with speed, he is somewhat an outsider in the slow and cautious snail community. His dream comes true when he gets in nitrous oxide during a street race, and ends up giving him super-speed. After this happens, he embarks on an extraordinary journey to achieve the impossible; Racing in the Indy 500.
Powers & Abilities[]
He was a normal snail until he was flung into the top-mounted engine of a nitro-powered street racing car. When the driver of the car activated the car's nitro boost, the chamber Turbo wound up in was flooded with nitrous oxide, which granted him his powers.
Automobile Mutation[]
Theo's genetic structure mutated from nitrous oxide. He was gifted with super speed and a few traits of an automobile, such as eye lights, a car alarm in his shell, tail lights and receiving radio music.
Super Speed[]
As a result of his genetic structure mutated from nitrous oxide, Turbo can accelerate to high speeds that surpass most race cars,to the point of going at speeds surpassing the 240 mph
Biography[]
In Venice, California, Theo, a.k.a Turbo, is a garden snail who dreams of being the greatest racer in the world, just like his hero, 5-time Indianapolis 500 champ, Guy Gagne. His obsession with speed and all things fast has made him an oddity and an outsider in the slow and cautions snail community, and a constant embarrassment to his cautious older brother, Chet. Turbo desperately wishes he could escape the slow-paced life he's living, but his one chance to live proves a near fatal disaster when he tries to recover a prize tomato and needs to be rescued by his brother, Chet.
Demoralized, Theo wanders onto a freeway to admire the traffic and wishes on the very first star. Suddenly, he gets into a freak accident when he gets sucked into the supercharger of a drag racer, fusing his DNA with nitrous oxide on a street race. This incident finds Theo vested with the power of incredible speed and accuracy and some of the characteristics of a car, such as eyes that light up like headlight and a shell that blinks red like taillights and makes car sounds music from a radio.
Unfortunately, Theo's first attempt to show this power off ends with him crashing a Big Wheel tricycle into the garden in disaster that get himself and Chet fired from the garden crew. As the siblings quarrel, Chet is snatched by a crow, but is pursued and rescued by Theo at a run down strip mall where they are then captured by Tito, a taco truck driver and is brought to race with other snails. Theo astounds both humans and snail alike with his speed and earns the respect of the snails, led by Whiplash, with his crew Smooth Move, Burn, Skidmark and White Shadow, who have impressive skills of their own.
Inspired by this extraordinary snail, Tito dreams to revive the strip mall with Theo as an attraction, and eventually with the help of the snails who manage to divert and strand a tour bus and drum up impressive business. At this success, Theo convinces Tito to try to enter the snail in Indianapolis 500 as a competitor. While Tito's brother Angelo, still declines to support him, the neighbors agree to put up the entrance fee and accompany them to Indianapolis 500 . Once there, Tito is refused entry into the race, but a chance meeting with Guy Gagne gives Turbo a chance to show off his speed which astounds the race track at the snail qualifying for the race, because he set a new record.
This impossible feat soon becomes a sensation on social media, and the owner of the race gives in to the pressure, egged on by Gagne himself, to let the snail compete. However, the night before the race, Turbo is demoralized when his hero, Gagne, sneers at his attempt to race while Chet confesses that he cannot bear to see his brother endanger himself. Regardless the next day, Turbo is in the race, but the dangerous racetrack and far more experienced competition leave him trailing in last place.
Whiplash and his crew give Turbo a vital pep talk at a pitstop, advising him to race like a snail. Back in the race, Turbo realizes what they mean and uses his small size to maximum advantage with maneuvers around and under the competition that no human racer can emulate. With the snail rapidly gaining in the standings, Gagne races dirty and tries to kill the snail while Turbo warns him that his speed power is starting to fade. Finally, in the final stretch with Turbo in the lead, Gagne tries a desperate maneuver to beat the snail and gets into a major crash that snarls all the competitors in a major pileup. Similarly, Turbo is thrown, injured with a damaged shell, and finds to his despair that his speed power is temporarily gone.
Alarmed at seeing Turbo giving up and retreating into his shell barely a few feet from the finish line, Chet puts himself into incredible danger to meet up with Whiplash's crew to get to the racer. Seeing his brother and friends arrive riding crows to encourage him to continue, Turbo resumes the race. Unfortunately, Gagne single-mindedly pursues him by dragging his wrecked car after the snail and attempts to crush him. At the last second, Chet tells Turbo to tuck into his shell and roll at Gagne's latest blow, and the force allows him to turble past the finish line to win.
At this victory, the strip mall becomes a major attraction with all the businesses becoming spectacular successes, including extremely elaborate snail races with Whiplash's crew getting special propulsion aids for their shells, while Chet is content as the track referee. As for Turbo, his happiness is enhanced with discovering that his shell has healed, and with that, his superspeed power has returned.
Trivia[]
- Turbo is very much like Tito, as both dream of the impossible, frustrating their brothers.
- He is also similar in personality and powers to Sonic the Hedgehog.
- His accident that resulted in his powers is also just like that of the Flash (Barry Allen).
- A running gag in the show is his headlight eyes flashing when he has an idea.
- He also has a great attitude seen when Chet tells him "what if you wake up one day and your powers are gone". He replies by saying "I'll have to make the most of today." This is also noticed in 'Ace of race' where he states that he is "Too darn positive!"
- In the 2012 movie Wreck-it Ralph, the main antagonist, Turbo, is also a racer.
- The car that Theo got the nitrous oxide from that made him fast is a 2011 Chevrolet Camaro.
- When showing the audience his speed, his record was 226 miles, which was four miles less than Guy Gagné's record.
- The second DreamWorks Animation film to have Ryan Reynolds voice a character, after Guy in The Croods.
- Both Turbo and The Croods, which Ryan Reynolds starred in, came out in 2013.
- When Theo's shell glows, he leaves a light-blue stream whenever he crawls.
- This is likely a reference to Sonic the Hedgehog; an animal character that also has super speed, leaves a trail of blue bioelectricity, and is faster than his “ordinary” species, however unlike Sonic who is an anthropomorphic hedgehog, Turbo also has features of an ordinary car (headlights, radio, back up sound and lights, etc).
- His trash talk is always really complicated. Whiplash even once said that his trash talk is unnecessarily complicated.
- When it comes to plans he involves mustaches which annoys Whiplash and the others very much.
Gallery[]
External Links[]
- Turbo on the DreamWorks Wiki
- Turbo on the Turbo Wiki