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Slash tmnt1/30/2024 From Nobody to Nightmare: Spike, even though he heard Raphael talk about his brothers, had no real ability to do anything about them except nod his head and chew his leaf while sometimes watching Raphael train.The Dreaded Pretend Tea-Party: Leonardo's attempts to procure a vial of mutagen that winds up in the hands of a young girl is to attend her tea party.Dramatic Unmask: Spike removes Donnie's and Mikey's masks when he beats them.Do Not Call Me "Paul": After mutating, Spike insists being called "Slash".Divergent Character Evolution: Slash has numerous differences from his previous incarnations.Unlike the other episodes, the turtles once again end up bruised, their shells scratched up, and Donnie with a broken arm. Darker and Edgier: This episode manages to have the same dark tone "The Gauntlet" has.Dark Is Evil: Slash's bandanna color is black. It doesn't help that Raphael ultimately rejects Slash's offer of We Can Rule Together and calls Slash a freak. Furthermore, Raphael is the one who placed the mutagen canister in the same room as Spike then slammed the door so hard the canister broke open. It's because Raphael trained in front of him for years and vented his frustrations about his brothers to him. Slash) is after the turtles because he wants to "free" Raph from his brothers. Create Your Own Villain: Spike (A.K.A.However, this time, he's a mutated form of Raph's pet tortoise and his mutation was accidental. Continuity Nod: Slash is a mutant turtle from the original 1987 show and comics.Children Are Innocent: The little girl and her lack of fear is most likely a case of this.Raph uses this exact technique on Slash near the episode's end. Chekhov's Skill: At one point, Splinter hits one of Raph's pressure points to calm him down for a bit.Turtle" run off with her new lamp that she was using to play tea party with managed to upset her. Not even having her bedroom destroyed by two mutant turtles or having "Mr. Cheerful Child: The little girl Leo has to have a tea party with.Bonus points that Feldman played Donatello in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, so it's a return to the franchise as well. Casting Gag: Corey Feldman the voice of Slash, previously played against Sean Astin, the voice of Raph, in The Goonies.In the end, he does it again to save Slash from falling off a building. Book Ends: In the beginning Raphael runs in slow motion to save Spike while shouting his name.just grabbing the mutagen from her and booking it. Arguably, the reason Leo actually stayed and had the tea party with the girl (who had threatened to scream if he didn't) instead of you know.Big Brother Instinct: Raph's love for his brothers is the reason why he went against Slash once his true desires are revealed.The closing shot is a group hug as Raph acknowledges that his brothers aren't so bad. Leo leaps into battle against Slash (not knowing that he used to be Spike) and at the end, Splinter reminds Raph that while he misses Spike, he still has his brothers. Donnie and Mikey still try to help Raph fight Slash even though they are both injured. When they find Donnie, Raph is the one who sets Donnie's sprained arm. Mikey and Raph want to find Donnie when he is missing (actually attacked by Slash.) Raph is horrified when he watches Slash attack Mikey. Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: All the turtles try to protect each other even though Raph was angry for much of the episode.Now, he's a mutated turtle with the body build of a luchador and a cunning to match. No longer is he the mutant turtle looking for his "Binky". While many consider Jennika to be TMNT's first Fifth Turtle following Venus’ retcon, they’d be wrong, as there was still one more before even her: Slash.The Turtles are hunted by a mutant turtle named Slash (who is actually Raph's pet tortoise, Spike), who has a personal vendetta against Raphael's brothers. Before Venus hit the scene in IDW’s continuity, Jennika became the Fifth Turtle after proving herself as the deadliest ninja of the Foot Clan and then committing herself to a life of heroism before being mutated into an anthropomorphic Turtle. In this comic series, Venus is still an established character who does become a member of the TMNT, but her storyline was altered immensely, and she was far from the first additional Turtle to join the team. While it is true that Venus was technically the first Fifth Turtle to appear in TMNT’s extended lore during the ‘90s live action show Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, the entirety of the series’ mythos was reestablished with the ongoing IDW Publishing series, meaning anything that happened before it became noncanon. The original four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are some of the most iconic figures in fictional media, but that doesn’t mean they’re the strongest, as one TMNT comic confirms the best Turtle isn’t one of the original four, but was actually the very first Fifth.
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