Turanga Munda

Secondary character
Turanga Munda
Munda (left) beside her husband.
Gender	Female
Species	Human (Mutant)
Planet of origin	Earth
Relatives	See family section.
First appearance	"I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01)
Voiced by	Tress McNeille

Turanga Munda is a middle-aged mutant human who spent her life before the mutant revolution in the sewers. She is happily married to Turanga Morris and they have a grown-up daughter together.

Character description

As a mutant, Munda has some special characteristics: As her husband and daughter she has only one eye, and she also has tentacles instead of arms. Like her mother, grandmother and daughter, she has purple hair, often worn up.

In difference to her husband, Munda seems to be the more educated type, and she has a Ph.D. in exolinguistics. She is rather quiet in comparison to her loud husband, and is very nice and unselfish. She is very friendly and dedicated to her daughter Leela up to and beyond the point of rather dying than letting something bad happen to her, though like her husband she always fear (or even suppose and accept) that she might be ashamed of her parents. She and her husband own a mutant cat with a tail that is a snake, and they lived in a small house in the sewers up until the Devolution Revolution of September 3010, when they were allowed up on the surface. Their current occupation is not known.

Biography

The first appearance of Morris and Munda (upper left corner)

Leela's birth (2975 - 3004)

When Morris' daughter was born the "least mutated mutant ever," she and Morris conceived a plan to give her a better life, by leaving her on the steps of an orphanarium on the surface. Munda used her Ph.D. in exolinguistics to write a note in Alienese, so people would think she was an alien rather than a mutant. The note really read "Your parents love you very much", but was never properly translated. Both swore to rather die than let their daughter know the "shameful truth of her origin."

Leela's Homeworld (3004 - 3010)

However, many years later, in an attempt to save Leela from persecution by the other mutants, they accidentally attracted attention, and after a lengthy chase were almost killed by their own daughter, who mistook them for her parents' murderers, noticing Munda wore a similar braclet as herself. Morris and Munda avoided of telling her the truth, believing it was better for them to die than for her to realise she herself was a mutant. Only Fry's research and timely intervention saved them and told the truth, and the little family was reunited.^(4ACV02)

Later, they both made a trip to the surface with permission from Citihall to meet with their daughter, however Leela could not meet with them because she had to protect her secret identity as Clobberella, which caused her some pain. When the Zookeeper learned Leela's true identity, he kidnapped her parents to coerce the New Justice Team to deliver the Quantum Gemerald to him.^(4ACV04) When the crew was reverted to their teenage selves and later into childhood, Morris and Munda provided assistance by letting their daughter stay with them and briefly take up the childhood she had always wanted. Wanting to experience the real thing, Leela asked them to be as strict as they could, but they were constantly too lenient and Leela had to encourage them to be stricter. They also allowed the youthified crew to stay with the teenage Leela until the Professor worked out a plan to restore their true ages. Apparently the book containing the story about the Fountain of Aging belonged to them as well.^(4ACV09)

The Devolution Revolution (3010 - )

In September 3010, Leela was discovered to be a mutant illegally living on the surface, and she was banished into the sewers. From there she led the Devolution Revolution, which her parents among other mutants joined, bringing rights to all mutants to be on the surface as much as anyone else.^(6ACV12)

Family

• Turanga Morris, husband
• Mother
• Grandmother
• Turanga Leela, daughter
• Several dozen of Amphibiosan offsprings that Leela is the biological mother to, but Kif Kroker and Amy Wong are the actual parents.

Additional Info

Appearances

• "I Second that Emotion" (2ACV01)
  
• "Leela's Homeworld" (4ACV02)
  
• "Less than Hero" (4ACV04)
  
• "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles" (4ACV09)
  
• Bender's Big Score
  
• Bender's Game
  
• Into the Wild Green Yonder
  
  (seen in audience)
• "The Mutants Are Revolting" (6ACV12)
  
• "The Cure for the Common Clod" (US#011)
  
• "Anthology of Interest II" (US#045)
  
• "Claw and Order" (US#048)