Xever's Review

Oooooh, Xever. Xever, Xever, Xever... So many things to say about him, so little time. First and foremost, his voice is like melted chocolate wrapped in gold. I absolutely ADORE HIS VOICE. The character and his voice actor are apparently from Brazil, but I have to say that his whole personality and manner of speaking reminds me very much of Zevran Arainai from the Dragon Age franchise. This isn't necessarily a bad thing though. Zevran was a very memorable character, and so is Xever.

Xever's last name is never given, nor is any information on his family. In the very latest episode, he talks about growing up as a thief on the streets of an unnamed city in Brazil. He says the first lesson he learned is "If there's something you want, you take it." Or something along those lines. Basically I'm guessing that he's got no family to speak of, hence his distinctly non-Brazilian sounding name. As you can tell from the delightful gif at the top of this page, his signature weapons are flick-knives. He says he's seen some time in prison after being arrested for theft (a job at which he had been very good at up until that point). That's where he met Shredder and becomes his thug, eventually working his way up to the same level of command as Bradford.

From what we know of him besides his limited history, he's pretty bloodthirsty and ruthless. Whether he's always been like that, or whether the Shredder eventually just turned him to his way of thinking is unknown.

Anyway, I love Xever. I even love him after Chris Bradford the Idiot gets him turned into a gigantic FISH.

He gets the mechanical legs from Baxter Stockman after he becomes the fish. They're pretty awesome. I don't really like the change from awesome guy to walking food, but he seems to have adjusted fairly well. But I really hope they change it back at some point.

In the latest episode he sort of forms a begrudging respect between himself and Raphael, so I'm thinking that maybe somewhere along the line, Raph might convince him to at least consider leaving the Shredder and not being so cut-throat. I highly doubt he'll ever be a 'good guy', but maybe he won't be so antagonistic. At this point they could really go anywhere with him. He's still really bloodthirsty, but he kind of saves Raph's life (after Raph saves his) and they actually have a decent conversation. So who really knows what'll happen.

EDIT: I just re-watched the latest episode again. The part where Raph asks Xever why he's with Shredder... the look he gets is so telling. I never would have expected Xever to answer, but he looks so shocked that someone would even bother to ask him something like that. I get the feeling that this is where Xever starts having a little bit of respect for Raphael. I hope they go somewhere with this, because it'd be wonderful.