Monster of Tampa

The Monster of Tampa is a character appearing as a supporting protagonist in the Sewer Life series. He is a huge dinosaur-like mutant monster who started life as an ordinary American crocodile, before being mutated.

Physical appearance
The Monster of Tampa is a gigantic bipedal monster with dark blue-purple scales, a long crocodilian snout with exposed teeth from both jaws, sharp claws on his arms and legs, and red eyes with slightly darker red pupils.

Prior to being mutated, however, the Monster was simply a slender American crocodile that looked like any ordinary crocodile.

Personality
The Monster appears to be extremely vicious, cruel and murderous at first glance, going to any length to attack and tear apart anything or anyone he encounters. However, it is revealed in truth that he is actually a friendly-natured but slightly aggressive being who will lend a favor to anyone, excluding Murdoc, whom he holds a hatred for.

Before Mutating
At the start of his life, the Monster was an ordinary crocodile who lived in a swamp near the sewers in Tampa Bay, when he was found by members of a local street gang and brought to a laboratory where he was heavily mutated and experimented on.

After suffering long and brutal torture, the Monster finally had enough, and destroyed the people who mutated him. Prior to this and following the mutation, the torture didn't quite end yet as the people who transformed him used him as a tool for their own benefit, but this proved to be their undoing.

After Mutating
Following the Monster's mutation from crocodile to dreaded beast, the Monster of Tampa became a known creature throughout all of Tampa Bay and became a fascination in cryptozoology, sightings being reported nearly everywhere from forests to even the town above the sewers at night, and in the sewers themselves. The Monster of Tampa would continue to live in the sewers, feasting on anyone who came across him.

Temporarily, he aided Murdoc in his goals, but eventually learned of the crocodile's notorious reputation and turned against him.

Current Life
The Monster of Tampa currently fights on Alligator's side as one of his more powerful allies. He is at least 40 feet long, resembling a prehistoric theropod dinosaur, but is second to the Tyrannosauroid monster the Forest Saber Monster in size and strength. The Monster of Tampa's cryptid legacy would remain unignored, however, and sightings continued.