Tute Kamen.
Tute Norris Kamen is an important supporting character in The T. Rex Invasion.
Biography[]
Tute is an aegyptosaurus, a descendant of the dinosaur race which inhabited Egyptus long ago. Dressed in the traditional clothing of his people, in turn adopted from the alien Scarabs, he works as a freelance treasure hunter. Teggs met and befriended him at space camp, and many years later. Tute space-mailed Teggs to inform him that he'd discovered an ancient T. rex pyramid. Teggs, accompanied by Arx, Gipsy, and Iggy, came to Sphinx II, where he introduced the Sauropod crew to Tute.
Tute explained why he'd contacted them. Because he assumed that the pyramid had belonged to the T. rexes who lived on the planet a thousand years ago, he feared that the modern T. rexes would want to reclaim it and needed DSS protection while he searched for treasure. He accompanied Teggs and Arx to the pyramid's entrance, where he helped them solve a puzzle involving different numbers of jewels and followed them inside. Tute was the first to suggest that they were being put through a series of tests in the pyramid.
When they solved all of the tests and escaped a final death-trap, the ancient T. rex Lord Ganster appeared to take them to his master, the alien criminal Keprish, who the Scarabs had trapped inside the pyramid. To avoid seeing Keprish and to find an exit, Tute pretended to be sick and escaped, saving Iggy and Gipsy from Chef Sheff. When he rejoined the astrosaurs, Tute helped build a barrier against Ganster's T. rexes and Brigadier Skunch's and hid inside Keprish's force field prison. After the shield was destroyed, Teggs talked the T. rexes into leaving peacefully with their fallen comrades and Keprish as their prisoner. Tute and the astrosaurs parted ways, the other dinosaur leaving to explore more planets and find more treasure.
Trivia[]
- Tute is a guest character based on a character suggested by the winner of 2011's Astrosaurs Superfan contest, <anonymous>.
- Tute is an Aegyptosaurus baharijensis, a sauropod dinosaur from Egypt. While Tute is drawn as smaller than Teggs, Aegyptosaurus was significantly longer than Stegosaurus, at about 15 metres to Stegosaurus's 9, and could not walk on its hind legs like Tute does.
- Tute is named after the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, well-known because his mummy was discovered with all of his treasure still in his tomb.