Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2. TV series) . The first episode aired on February 8, 2. November 2. 1, 2. Fox reviving the franchise as a Saturday morning cartoon. They were helped by 4.
Kids Entertainment. It was part of 4. Kids TV (formerly known as the Fox Box) & was also aired on Cartoon Network. The 2. 00. 3 animated series was produced by 4. Kids Entertainment and Mirage Studios, which owned a third of the rights to the show, and animated by Dong Woo Animation. The series migrated to The CW4.
Kids in its final season after 4. Kids's contract with Fox ended. Nickelodeon now owns the rights of this series & any future Turtles series. The series would be aired either on The WB or Cartoon Network.
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The style of the art from the proposal was more cartoony than the current show's style. Ultimately, Warner Bros. However Cartoon Network would also end up airing earlier episodes of the show. Among the villains are the Shredder, Baxter Stockman, and the Triceratons. While it's still appropriate for children, like the 1.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (often shortened to TMNT or Ninja Turtles) are four fictional teenaged anthropomorphic turtles named after Renaissance Italian artists.
In fact, of the three animated shows, the 2. Shredder is much more menacing than his earlier, bumbling incarnation. The series also has an overarching storyline, with each episode contributing a bit to the story. All characters are more complex individuals and the Turtles are more fleshed- out, more sensitive, and share a stronger family bond; Leonardo is more skillful and meditative, in addition, his strained relationship with Raphael has become an important plot element. Raphael has become angrier and more emotional - he is less the comic relief (unlike the 1. He is shown fighting with Leonardo, but also shows that he cares deeply for his family and friends.
Casey Jones, who was a minor character in the 1. He is also shown with romantic feelings toward April O'Neil, and the two marry in the show's finale episode. The Turtles' old catch phrase, .
Baxter Stockman is an African- American like he was in the comics, instead of a Caucasian like he was in the 1. April works as Baxter's lab assistant and, later, is the owner of an antique shop . At some point Splinter started training her in Ninjutsu and April was then able to hold her own in a fight. Leatherhead is no longer depicted as an evil, Cajun crocodile. He is more intelligent and peaceful in the 2.
The show does not feature as much slapstick comedy or heavy puns as its animated predecessor. The show focuses more on action than comedy (however, there is still a great deal of it) and though they are always noted to be teenagers, the 2. As a result, these are the most skilled Turtles when it comes to strategy, skill, and even mystical power, making them the best fighters in the . As it was still a children's show, injuries were very rarely shown or sustained, and characters were very rarely killed - for example, in the comics, the turtles often killed the Foot ninja, in the show, they were just knocked out, or beaten. The first three seasons focus on the Turtles' battles against The Shredder and The Foot, while the later seasons branch out to include other antagonists.
The original run of the first four seasons kept the Turtles in their native New York facing The Utrom Shredder, The Federation/Triceratons, and Bishop. After the fourth season the show received its first major format change in the . The Turtles were then asked by the Ninja Tribunal (a group of warriors who seek to combat this ancient, . This involved the Turtles gaining new weapons, learning how to channel their chi into powerful projectiles, and finding their inner animal spirit.
This season marked the end of the use of the original character designs and format. The season focused on the Turtles being transported 1. Cody Jones, a teenage descendant of April and Casey's. Cody runs a successful and influential technology company and is its sole heir.
The newly formatted show saw a brighter tone than its predecessor, and focused on shorter story lines. Some of the previous shows characters did return, however, including Bishop and Baxter Stockman.
It featured yet another redesign for the entire cast and brought the Turtles back into present day New York. The season did feature some returning characters from the Fast Forward season. The main villain for the Turtles as they battle in a cybernetic reality is a cybernetic version of the Shredder, known as the Cyber Shredder. The movie features the revamped character designs from the Back to the Sewer season but without pupils.
The story centers around the Turtles encountering their 1. Turtles' dimension. Both sets of Turtles face off against the villains from both series in an attempt to prevent the Utrom Shredder from destroying all of time and space. Splinter is now gray rather than brown and his robes are brown instead of burgundy.
April now has long, red hair instead of short, brown hair. Each of the Turtles has a unique skin color; in the original series, they all had the same skin color. In the 2. 00. 3 animated series, Leonardo is a basic Kelly Green (much like the 1. Raphael is dark green, Michelangelo is dark teal, and Donatello is a yellowish olive- green. This is also different from the toyline, which has kept the same skin tones. The Turtles' weapons now have the handles wrapped in each turtle's bandana color, unlike the 1. The turtles' bands on their elbows, knees, and wrists are now brown, instead of their favorite colors like in the 1.
The belts have also been changed; they have a knot instead of a monogrammed belt buckle. The direction of the storyline, revealing a new origin for the Shredder, was a result of Peter Laird's input. The decision sparked a lot of controversy among fans. Popular criticisms include less likable characters and a less exciting theme song. The video games based on the 2.
However, fans of the comic books have enjoyed the series due to its similarity to the Mirage comics, the increased character development, more consistent animation, daring plot twists, and consistent story arc. The basic music remained, but the tempo was increased. The lyrics were altered to include a description of each turtle as well as identify the new villain, since the Shredder had been defeated. Also, the line . They defeat Savanti but spend 3 months searching for the Time Scepter before they can return to their time.~3.
An evil being known as The Shredder terrorizes Japan and Emperor . Their greatest warrior, the original Oroku Saki, appears to kill the demon, but instead they fuse together. After a reign of terror, Oroku Saki/The Shredder is defeated by what remains of The Five Dragons and is imprisoned for eternity.~1. The Utrom crashland on Earth and set up base in Japan. Ch'rell takes up the identity of The Shredder and re- establishes the Foot Clan. Since they are being hunted, The Utrom recruit honorable warriors to serve as Guardians and protect them.
Ch'rell eventually uses a magical amulet known as The Heart of Tengu to mystically enslave The Demon Shredder's heralds and uses them as his own personal mystic warriors.~1. Ch'rell (as Oroku Saki/The Shredder) brings the Tokugawa Shogunate to power in Japan, starting the Edo period. January 8, 1. 81.
American soldier John Bishop (in his original body) is abducted by aliens during The Battle of New Orleans. Although he goes through painful tests, his body is gifted with extremely advanced longevity. This sparks his hatred for aliens.~Early 1.
President Ulysses S. Grant establishes the Earth Protection Force. Agent Bishop is placed in charge.
Summer 1. 94. 7Agent Bishop accquires an alien space ship and a test subject in Roswell, New Mexico. Mid 1. 95. 0's. Hamato Yoshi is born. Early 1. 96. 0's.
A young Yoshi is taken in by The Ancient One. Mid 1. 97. 0's. Yukio Mashimi betrays Yoshi and the Utroms by murdering Tang Shen and revealing the Utroms' hidden base and many secrets. They are forced to flee to NYC after being attacked by Shredder and The Foot.
Yoshi kills Mashimi in a duel. Yoshi seeks the Ninja Tribunal's aide in battling The Shredder.
They refuse, since he is merely an imposter of the original Shredder. The Shredder most likely adopts Karai around this time. Casey Jones is born. April O'Neil is born.~1. Purple Dragons burn down the Jones Family's store.
Casey's father is killed by Hun. Hamato Yoshi is finally tracked down and killed by The Shredder. Splinter and the Turtles are doused in mutagen after an accident involving a TCRI truck.~1. Splinter takes the Turtles to Japan to visit The Ancient One and spread Master Yoshi's ashes.~1.
Splinter begins training the Turtles in the art of ninjutsu. Serling accidentally appears through a time portal and is claimed by the Turtles as their new toy since he's been shrunken down to mere inches. He eventually returns to 2. The Turtles meet a boy named Arnie (actually Casey Jones) and proceed to train him so he can deal with neighborhood bullies. Michelangelo inadvertently leads him to coin his battlecry: . Leonardo and Raphael fight a giant albino crocodile.
Leonardo saves Donatello from large amounts of sewer garbage. Michelangelo tries to make Leonardo crack a smile while he's perfecting his kata. Splinter wins The Battle Nexus tournament. He is later ambushed by his opponent Drako but is saved by Miyamoto Usagi. The Turtles turn 1. The Turtles are forced from their home by mouser robots and their feud with the Foot clan begins. They meet long- time friends April O'Neil and Casey Jones.
The Turtles confront The Shredder for the first time. They are overmatched and get split up during the skirmish, but face him again later that night. He is defeated by Splinter, but survives. Shredder attacks the Turtles full- force, destroying April's home in the process.
They flee NYC with April and Casey, all believed dead by the Foot Clan. The Turtles . Leonardo decapitates The Shredder with the Sword of Tengu and Donatello disables most of the remaining equipment in the Foot Clan's tower. Master Splinter goes missing after being injured in the battle. The Turtles infiltrate the TCRI building looking for Splinter.
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Nicktoons! It's the turtles' fifteenth birthday and they're itching to venture up to the surface and showcase their ninja skills. Master Splinter reluctantly agrees. At first, they love the surface with its weird lights and even stranger food (like pizza).
However, things go awry when they witness a girl and her father being abducted by men in a van. They try to intervene, but don't fare well during the fight, with the van getting away, only to discover that the kidnappers are really robots with living brain creatures in their chest and were carrying the ooze that made them into mutants!
Eager to learn more of this strange connection, they regroup and begin to practice fighting as a team with Master Splinter appointing Leonardo as The Leader. After storming the enemy fortress, they learn that these creatures are called .
They manage to rescue the girl, April, but the Kraang still have her father. They vow not to rest until they rescue him. Unfortunately, the Turtles' attack has not gone unnoticed by the media, which alerts The Shredder to come to New York to take on Hamato Yoshi's students himself. What ensues is the escalating war between the Foot and Hamato Clan, a Myth Arc that turns out to have been in the works for far longer than most of the cast knows, as well as the unraveling mystery of the Kraang's agenda for Earth and humankind. Booyakasha! Before even finishing its first season, the series was renewed for a second and third season on October 2, 2. February 2. 6, 2.
A fifth and final season, titled Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, began airing on March 1. In addition the final season, a new series was revealed under the title Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; it is set to replace this series in Fall 2.
Two video game adaptations were released in 2. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (with the Turtles' radically redesigned from their television likenesses), followed shortly by kiddie- friendly Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2. A game for mobile devices has also been released, as well as a LEGO racing game on the LEGO website. In a unique touch, each season of the show features the Turtles watching a cheesy cartoon that usually foreshadows events of an episode (which was outright lampshaded on one occasion). Check out the Space Heroes Page, Super Robo Mecha Force Five Page and the Crognard the Barbarian Page. The Party Wagon uses stink bombs and bullets made from soda and mints.
Aborted Arc: The Mutagen Man arc appears to have been completely dropped, as shortly after his appearance in Season 2 the show doesn't ever bring up the character again, and the Retro Mutagen is focused on other characters instead. Abusive Parents: Shredder is implied to be one; Karai is genuinely terrified when she makes him mad with a comment, and he explicitly threatens her with bodily harm if she doesn't follow his orders to kill Leonardo the next time she sees him. Accidental Misnaming: The turtles can never remember how to correctly pronounce Baxter Stockman's name from one episode to the next. However, this could be deliberate due to his perpetual status as a D- List villain and a Butt- Monkey. Action Girl: April is slowly turning into one of these. Adapted Out: Oroku Saki/Shredder takes the place of his brother Nagi from the original comics in being the third wheel to Yoshi and Tang Shen.
Adaptation Distillation: Of the original comic and both previous cartoon shows. Adaptational Badass: Numerous characters are far more capable in combat than their past incarnations. Splinter has usually always been the most powerful mortal hero on the Turtles' side, but this series' Splinter ramps it up. He's a nearly unstoppable One- Man Army and is the only member of the main cast to be able to singlehandedly go toe- to- toe with Shredder and win.
Traag and Granitor are 2. The Shredder remains well out of the Turtles league all the way through season three, when by then, past incarnations usually relied on technology (2. Rahzar was a powerful mutant in The Secret of the Ooze alright, but he was Dumb Muscle.
This Rahzar is a seasoned warrior who gains the strength of the previous Rahzar but a lot more cunning and malice, making him far more dangerous. Xever Montes becomes the 2. Mr. X from the 1.
Fishface, and is certainly more capable than X, largely thanks to being a member of the main cast. Bebop and Rocksteady were Dumb Muscle who rarely put up much of a fight against the heroes in the 1. They're quite a bit more threatening in a fight and perhaps slightly smarter this time around. The Triceratons are the largest threats faced on the show to date. Zog by himself regarded as the most powerful being on Earth at the time of his debut, and he's a low- level scout.
Mona Lisa was a mutated college girl in the 1. Proud Warrior Race Guy who's constantly looking for another chance to fight. Tokka was a strong, stupid infant in The Secret of the Ooze. Here, she is a Kaiju with elemental powers and a giant lava monster who could only be defeated by hurling her into an exploding star, and even that didn't kill her. Adaptational Villainy: The Kraang's counterparts in the 2.
Utroms, were a benevolent, peaceful race who eventually established friendly relations with Earth. Here, the Kraang are warmongering terraformers who seek to subjugate and eventually wipe out humanity.
The Utroms later turn up as a heroic splinter tribe of the Kraang. Then again, they're also based on their villainous Namesake Krang from the 1. Kraang according to a Crossover Episode, although this contradicts his original backstory, so it's more of a zig- zagged trope.
Rahzar's last major role was as an infant. Here, he's the most loyal member of the Foot Clan willing to die for his master. Zigzagged with Zog, the Triceraton scout who the Turtles traditionally take advantage of since thanks to breathing the Earth's incompatible atmosphere is not in his right mind.
The Mirage and 2. Zog became loyal Guest. Star. Party. Members to the Turtles and died sacrificing themselves to try to kill the Shredder. The 2. 01. 2 Zog ultimately regains his bearings completely, and turns on the Turtles the moment he does so, and calls them out on it, and ultimately dies trying to bring about the destruction of Earth. The only other major incarnation of Mozar, his 2. Noble Demon and ultimately pulled a Heel. This incarnation of Mozar is a Bad Boss, utter bigot, and dies trying to destroy the Earth out of pure spite against the Turtles.
Adaptational Wimp: While not able to defeat the Turtles in combat, the Purple Dragon Gang is usually a city- wide menace. Here they are just three punks who harass and rob people in their neighborhood. Their only capable member, Hun, who debuts as the fourth member and new leader in season three, is only a minor villain as compared to his major role in the 2. The titular turtles themselves can't ever seem to go through a single episode without losing a fight or pulling a Badass in Distress. Adipose Rex: Mob boss Don Vizioso is never seen without food in his mouth and is so fat he is never seen standing up.
Adorkable: Donatello gets this from the get- go, but Leonardo is also shown to be one. Seriously, when are we ever going to see a version of Leonardo who's into Sci- Fi television shows and tries to emulate them?
Heck, even Raphael is shown reading a vintage comic book when he's mocking Leonardo's pastime. And let's not even get started on Mikey's general quirkiness. Really, all of the turtles in this version have elements of this. Aesop Amnesia: The Turtles have a nasty tendency to forget the Aesop of . Splinter or the situation usually slaps them in the face at these times. They cut it out almost entirely after . Leo will always allow his quasi- obsession with Karai to cloud his judgment during missions and it often has grave results.
Affectionate Gesture to the Head: Mikey gets this from Leo and Raph. Agony of the Feet: In . Cue Mikey briefly hopping around on one foot, before getting punched by Metalhead. Earlier in the episode, Metalhead stomps on Leo's toes; cue Leo screaming in pain before getting punted across the room. Airplane Arms: The Turtles consistently run like this.
Aliens in Cardiff: Like Northhampton in the comics, there's a lot of weird stuff going on around the O'Neil family farm. All- CGI Cartoon: Though there are flashbacks done in a slick graphic 2. D style reminiscent of sequences from Kung Fu Panda.
It's also notable that the show often combines 3. D animated models with 2. D animated effects to give things a fresh, unique look. It's especially notable in the Turtle's eyes which often shift to a traditionally animated appearance to invoke a ton of anime conventions. All There in the Manual: The tie- in comic's first issue reveals that Donatello builds a lot of his high- tech equipment out of scraps from a military junkyard, which explains how he's able to manufacture a lot of the gear the Turtles use. All There in the Script: Production materials call the Spy- Roach in .
The credits reveal that his name is . A large chunk of the Kraang invasion in the second season takes place during the day, as does the Kraang/Triceraton invasion in season three. All Your Base Are Belong to Us: One of the Foot's main goals is to find the Turtles' lair and destroy it. Naturally, considering it's directed by Ciro.
Nieli. Animorphism/LEGO Genetics: The way the ooze works has been reverted to its 8. Unlike the 0. 3 series where it strictly turned animals into anthropomorphs, here it splices genes of between two species that were last directly exposed to each other. Excluding other mutants. The Turtles last touched Hamato Yoshi, and Hamato had a split second contact with a rat.