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The Kid | Turbo Kid
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Character Information
Character Name: The Kid
Canon: Turbo Kid
Canon Point: End of the film
Division and Position: Engineering. Although The Kid is kind of (sort of?) a superhero, it's only a recent development, and he's spent most of his time scavenging for parts and trying to stay out of trouble. He's pretty good at repairing his bike, and likely would be pretty decent at figuring out what's wrong with mechanical things -- particularly if he had training and was able to help other people.
History: Turbo Kid takes place in the post-apocalyptic future of 1997, when constant war, pollution, and nuclear disaster has wiped out most of humanity. Untainted drinking water is the most precious commodity there is, and many scratch out their living scavenging from the wastes. Automobiles are pretty much a thing of the past and the main mode of transportation is BMX bikes.
One survivor among the wastes is the Kid, an orphaned teenager who spends most of his life picking through junk, reading comics, and trying to avoid notice from the local warlord, Zeus, and his many henchmen. An avid fan of superheroes (particularly Turbo Rider), The Kid tries to maintain a sense of optimism in an admittedly grim world where even his fellow humans often push him around for being young and relatively weak.
One day while reading a Turbo Rider book in an abandoned playground, he meets a girl named Apple. Though they're literal strangers, he eventually gives in to her insistence that they become friends, and the rest of the film consists of their developing friendship and the ensuing conflict when the Kid and Apple attract the attention of Zeus.
Food in the world of Turbo Kid is relatively scarce, and it often must be bartered for at a trading post unless the denizens of the wastes want to take their chances eating mutated, misshapen wildlife. The land is mostly rock and dirt, devoid of trees, and water similarly comes at a high price. In The Kid's region, water is supplied by Zeus and is (unbeknownst to its residents) apparently supplied or supplemented by "juicing" humans -- people are murdered in gladiatorial matches and fed into a machine that extracts the water from their remains.
Though it seems that robots had a part to play in the apocalypse that destroyed the world, this is never really explored in great detail, and though Turbo Rider is presented as a comic book early on in the movie, The Kid later stumbles on the remains of a man who was apparently the real Turbo Rider, charged with fighting some sort of looming robot threat. During the film, it becomes obvious that some robots were undoubtedly antagonistic to humanity, but due to The Kid's surprised reaction whenever he encounters one, it seems that they are fairly rare. Apple is an example of a non-hostile robot.
Also notable about Turbo Kid is that its world is extremely violent (think Mad Max or Dead Alive), with The Kid apparently used to encountering heads stuck on pikes to serve as warning.
This trailer contains everything you need to know about Turbo Kid in a minute and a half: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFlZ6pVtnv0
Abilities: Turbo Armor: Mostly just regular armor, but its most notable aspect is that it comes with the Turbo Glove, an energy blaster attached to one arm that can fire up to five energy shots before it needs to recharge (which takes several minutes). One shot can vaporize something the size of a human body, though pieces (and copious amounts) of blood are often left behind.
The Kid himself is a perfectly normal teenager. His skills include scavenging, repairing bikes, and being fairly decent at surviving on his own. Also coping with loneliness and jury-rigging traps.
Because he's spent most of his life getting along on a bike, he's a very proficient rider and can do wheelies and jumps and things.
Personality: The Kid is basically your standard 80's sci-fi everyteen: quiet, unassuming, often pushed around by people bigger and stronger than he is. He spends most of his life scavenging and trading, trying to avoid trouble, and daydreaming about a better life as a superhero just like his idol, Turbo Rider. Having witnessed his parents' violent deaths at the hands of Zeus (and many more examples of brutality over the years), he's more inured than most to death, gore, and the general ugliness of life in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Nevertheless, he maintains a generally positive attitude. Self-sufficient and resourceful, The Kid manages to scrape out a life for himself in a world that is not particularly forgiving -- radioactive rat bites and all. He lives surrounded by items of comfort: toys, cereal, posters, comic books, the occasional working Walkman. He also lives alone, suspicious of strangers and always on the lookout for possible trouble.
This slowly changes when he meets a girl named Apple, whose enthusiasm and relentless friendliness quickly wear him down. For the first time in many years, he begins working to help someone other than himself -- he gets her a bike, he makes her a weapon -- he even braves a warlord's secret base to rescue her when she's kidnapped.
Apple also indirectly leads the Kid to find the Turbo Rider armor, which not only gives The Kid the power to face down Zeus and his henchmen (albeit with assistance from the other survivors of the wasteland), but also forces him into exactly the kind of perilous battle he's spent most of his life running from. Though he's very new at this superhero gig, The Kid is an eager student and naturally driven to help others. He remains a little hard on himself ("I just wish I could've done more... I wish I could have been more like the real Turbo Rider"), but after facing down Zeus and tracking down a new source of fresh water for the humans of the wasteland at the end of the film, The Kid is slowly developing a more positive attitude towards himself and his future.
Motivation: The Kid's motivation is to obtain the knowledge, parts, and other resources required to retrieve and fix Apple, his robot friend. He realizes this may be impossible, because he has no idea how she was assembled -- but he wants to try. He would have been easy to recruit with this goal in mind, and in any case it sounds like a better gig than living in a mostly-desert wasteland.
Questionnaire:
Q: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR GREATEST STRENGTH?
Well, I mean... I'm pretty good at scavenging. And surviving. You've gotta be pretty alert if you're from... where I'm from. Stay in the safe zones, be careful about the rats...
[Wait, this was sounding depressing.]
Oh, but I'm hard-working. And I learn fast.
[He smiled.]
And I'm pretty brave.
Q: WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS?
I'm kind of new at all... this.
[He motions around with one hand to indicate his surroundings.]
I mean, don't get me wrong. I want to help. It's just that where I came from, you mostly avoided people. It was everyone for themselves.
Not that I'm bad at working on a team! Teams are great! Yeah.
[Awkward.]
Q: RECALL A TIME YOU HAD TROUBLE WITH A COLLEAGUE AND HOW YOU HANDLED IT.
I don't know... usually I just try to keep my head down and not get noticed. You know? Stay out of people's way. I'm better at fixing things, anyway. I guess there was that time Frederick shoved me around a little.
[Cough.]
But he turned out to be a good guy. He actually saved my bacon later, when I ended up collapsed in a robot graveyard. I guess looks can be deceiving, huh?
Q: WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF FIVE YEARS FROM NOW?
I, uh. Really don't know.
Discovering new things? New life and new civilizations?
[Yeah, no. That sounded lame, even to him.]
I just... want to see what's around, I guess. I didn't really think there were any places like this. Where people were still working together, and... doing more than surviving.
Q: IF YOU FOUND OUT YOUR SUPERVISOR WAS DOING SOMETHING AGAINST COMPANY POLICY, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
I'd report them, I guess. I mean, they have rules for a reason, right? They shouldn't be doing... whatever they're doing.
[That was kind of a lie. He had no idea what he'd do because it had never happened to him. Possibly, if they were forceful and insistent enough, he'd just let himself get railroaded along like a scrawny teenage doormat.]