As we've said before, when Playmates opted to license the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for toys, they swiftly recognized that having only four characters would not a good toyline make, so they solicited more ideas from Mirage. That's how we got Bebop and Rocksteady for instance, and even the most famous version of Baxter Stockman. But not every idea made it.
Peter Laird submitted an idea for a mutant shark, which Playmates flatly rejected. Years later, Stephen Murphy (who had a history of salvaging discarded ideas) was introducing a shark character in TMNT Adventures and opted to use Pete's design, with a name cribbed from a typo in some unknown Kevin Eastman project (it was supposed to say "armageddon"). He even got Laird to draw the cover of TMNT Adventures #44, which prominently featured the character.
Armaggon proved to be a fairly popular villain in the comics, meaning that if Playmates had turned the pitch into a toy when it was submitted, that probably would have been fairly popular, too. Instead, it took three more decades for him to finally get to be plastic.
