Hurtle

General Facts

Age: 26
Gender: M

Occupation

Leader of the Mutant Guerrillas

Appearances

Regular Titles: Books 1–10, 13, 16–17, 19–21, 43, and 51
Super Battlers: Books 1 and 4

Immediate Family

None (assumed)

Character Summary

Hurtle used to be a normal Galapagos tortoise until he was found by Evilla’s mutant cohort, Horstephanie, and brought to Middletown. He was transformed into a mutant and asked to lead the Mutant Guerrillas.

Of all eight Battlers — Deyon, Maurice, J.J., Kesse, Aaron, Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra — Hurtle despises Deyon the most. He’s tried to kill him every chance he’s gotten. Their most memorable fight would probably be in Book 9, during a joust they competed in when they were trapped in the Middle Ages. Hurtle’s hatred for Deyon intensified when, in Book 16, he killed Evilla in front of him and the other Mutant Guerrillas.

Hurtle’s most memorable story was Book 10, when he accidentally got all of Evilla’s powers and used them to betray her. He embraced his new power and used them to singlehandedly defeat the Battlers. However, he lost his powers after the Battlers and Oriana worked together with Evilla to turn his own strength against him.

 

Hurtle took his hatred for Deyon to an all-new level when he and the other Mutant Guerrillas returned to the scene after a long time away in Super Battlers 4. He and the other mutants were hiding out in Magicia to get stronger under the instruction of an unnamed teacher. They nearly defeated the Battlers in a deadly battle, but thanks to Deyon’s newly-attained Battler Emerald, they were defeated instead.

 

Hurtle and the other mutants were struck a terrible blow when news of former White Battler J.J. Rountree leaving town — and the Battlers — drove their comrade, Manchomper, the mutant Canadian beaver, to follow him out of town to continue his pursuit of his dreams of one day eating him. But Hurtle picked up the pieces faster than all the other mutants by having Owlina find a replacement animal to use a Mutant Creation Spell on. They used it on a normal raccoon and created Coonskin, who’d take over for Manchomper. Hurtle, proud of their new creation, was sure they’d defeat the Battlers with no problems.

 

In Book 43, Hurtle and the other Mutant Guerrillas ambushed the Battlers in the park. They not only did their usual routine of threatening them with death, but they also surprised them by revealing to them that they’d added Coonskin to their group. They also had to tell them about Manchomper’s departure. Hurtle then engaged in a battle with Deyon. Unfortunately, as per usual, he was again defeated by him.

 

In Book 51, Hurtle and the other Mutant Guerrillas suffered yet another loss to the Battlers, this time even worse than before, as they were caught off guard by seeing all eight of them with Battler Emeralds and thus more power. But they regrouped from the loss quickly when they were recruited by Castoro “Cast” Dammon, a Killer Beaver warrior who’d taken over control of the Killer Beavers by devouring his own chief, Chief Manhunter. He gave them each a fraction of his power (which he’d gotten from eating the chief), and used them to effectively defeat the Battlers on their next encounter. They kidnapped Deyon, Maurice, Aaron, Jon, Shauna, and Diahandra and took them to the Killer Beavers’ village, but they were once again defeated when new Orange Battler Jay Dixon used his Magic Advance on them, knocked them all out, and then rescued his kidnapped friends, with help from new White Battler Richard Montgomery.

 

Hurtle’s Turtle Sword can get almost anything in half. The spikes on his shell makes him a deadly living weapon. Watch out, Deyon!

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