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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990)

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is the 1990 feature adaptation of everyone's favorite heroes in a half-shell. It was directed by Steve Barron, with the screenplay by Todd W. Langen and Bobby Herbeck and the story by Herbeck. Produced by Golden Harvest, it was released by New Line Cinema on March 30, 1990.The Shredder (James Saito, with voice dubbed by David McCharen) is building an army. With his Foot Clan, a group of misguided teenagers trained in the art of ninjitsu, he is responsible for a crime wave the likes of which New York City has never seen. The worst thing is that they're ninjas. How do you catch someone so quick? So silent?Enter four reptilian hominids: Leonardo (David Forman, with voice dubbed by Brian Tochi), Donatello (Leif Tilden, with voice dubbed by Corey Feldman), Michelangelo (Michelan Sisti, with voice dubbed by Robbie Rist), and Raphael (Josh Pais), given a humanoid shape through a dip in a broken canister full of mutagen. Trained by a similarly mutated rat named Splinter (Kevin Clash) in the art of ninjitsu as well, along with moral support in investigative reporter April O'Neil (Judith Hoag) and extra muscle in street vigilante Casey Jones (Elias Koteas), these Ninja Turtles must save the Big Apple from the clutches of the Foot.The film also features Raymond Serra as Sterns, the Chief of the New York Police Department; Jay Patterson as Charles Pennington, April's supervisor; Michael Turney as Daniel Pennington, Charles's delinquent son; and Toshishiro Obata as Tatsu, the Foot's second-in-command, with voice dubbed by Michael McConnohie.Financially the most successful of the movies made thus far, the first was mostly an adaptation of Eastman and Laird's original comic, although it did take some elements from the popular '80s cartoon, such as the turtles' love of pizza and their differently colored headbands, and April's job as an investigative reporter. The costumes for the eponymous heroes, as well as puppetry for Splinter and the turtles as young mutants, were provided by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.The film was followed up by two sequels and a (semi-canonical) animated continuation in 2007. A completely different movie was released in 2014, which also received its own sequel in 2016. Another reboot, this time an animated film, was released in 2023.
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Headphones Equal Isolation: Charles Pennington makes comments to this effect regarding his son, Danny.
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Canon Foreigner
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Canon Foreigner: Tatsu, Charles and Danny Pennington.
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Creator Cameo
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Creator Cameo: Michelan Sisti (Michelangelo) plays Tony, the Domino's Pizza delivery man. Josh Pais (Raphael) is a passenger in a taxicab who encounters Raph chasing Casey through the streets. Leif Tilden (Donatello) plays the Foot messenger that meets April in the subway station. David Forman (Leonardo) is a gang member in the warehouse when Casey Jones defeats Tatsu at the end of the film. Co-creator Kevin Eastman briefly appears as a garbage truck man who escapes the final battle.
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Darker and Edgier
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Darker and Edgier: Compared to the '80s cartoon. The poster lampshades this with the tagline, "Hey, dude, this is no cartoon." Justified as it was inspired more by the original Volume I comics by Mirage. The second and third movies reverse this, with the fourth film striking a satisfying balance between the two.
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Does This Remind You of Anything?
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: In keeping with the whole "family" motif — as well as the portrayal of the Foot as a dysfunctional family — Tatsu taking Shredder's disappointment in him out on a hapless Foot recruit is reminiscent of a Domestic Abuser who, fresh from a bad day at work, goes home to beat up his wife and kids.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: When Raphael gets ambushed on the rooftop by the Foot Ninja. He manages to take down a couple no problem, but... As April keeps asking about Raphael's prolonged absence, Donatello expresses certainty that he'll be back any minute. The Foot Ninjas throw Raph's battered body through the skylight immediately afterwards. After the turtles finish fighting off the Foot ninja, Raph quips, "Aw, no more?" Enter the Shredder.
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You Fool!
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You Fool!: Holding a yari spear to Leonardo, Shredder threatens to finish him if the other Turtles don't toss their weapons off the roof. When they comply, he says this to mock them for squandering the chance to overtake him with sheer numbers.
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"It" Is Dehumanizing
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: Shredder almost exclusively refers to Splinter as "it."
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene
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Comedic Work, Serious Scene: After an overnight stay at April's apartment (during which we see Michelangelo doing a few impressions and April managing to crack an Actually Pretty Funny one involving Splinter), the turtles return home, only to find their den ransacked and Splinter missing. Raphael ends up taking it the hardest, realizing that his earlier rescue of April is what lead Splinter's abductors to their home.
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Dressing as the Enemy
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Dressing as the Enemy: Casey mugs a Foot soldier for a disguise while he's at their hideout.
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Say My Name
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Say My Name: "The Turtles are four once again. And yet, still not whole. A lingering doubt remains. An unknown which they can't face. Their greatest fear..."
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He Had a Name
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He Had a Name: Invoked by Shredder just to taunt the Turtles:
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Underestimating Badassery: A rare heroic example: when Shredder arrives the Turtles are overconfident after besting his Foot army, and mock his name and armor to his face. Shredder resultantly completely wrecks them despite being outnumbered 4-to-1. While they briefly gain the upper hand when they realize Shredder has Splinter, his sheer skill and their consistently engaging him one at a time allows him to win out until Splinter appears. Lampshaded by the Turtles once they've recovered from the shock of their initial thrashing. The Shredder himself is heard saying "How did you get this strong?" while fighting Leo. Despite knowing that they fight well, he presumably didn't think they would be this good.
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Starring Special Effects
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Starring Special Effects: But when Jim Henson is on board that's kind of a given.
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Floorboard Failure: This occurs in the middle of a fight between the Turtles and the Foot clan on the second floor of April's apartment. Given that the floor had been hacked at with ninja axes and the number of people in the room at the time, this was inevitable. Donatello even tries to warn the Foot.
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Villains Never Lie
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Villains Never Lie: Subverted with Dramatic Irony in the climax of the film: Shredder certainly believes that Splinter is dead by now and while the audience knows otherwise, the Turtles themselves don't and Leo accuses him of lying.
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Mr. Fanservice
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Mr. Fanservice: Elias Koteas as Casey Jones.
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Shoot the Television
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Shoot the Television: Shredder is introduced watching a wall of TV screens. When April appears on the news and indicates that she knows too much about the Foot Clan, Shredder throws a knife at her face on the TV screen. (There are several televisions sporting various cracks and dings, indicating that this happens quite often.)
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The Fagin
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The Fagin: Shredder essentially ran the Foot Clan this way. The Foot Clan was made up of teenage orphans and runaways who instigated a massive New York crime wave.
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Visual Pun
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Visual Pun: There's a bit of Product Placement for Turtle Wax. When Charles leaves a message for April telling her she's fired during the fight at 2nd Time Around, April's antique shop; his "I know this comes as a blow" is followed up by the Foot soldier underneath the answering machine getting a blow to the head and knocked out.
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Those Two Guys
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Those Two Guys: Donatello and Michelangelo. Anytime there's an argument between Raph and Leo, you can expect them to be the Greek Chorus in the background.
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The Juggernaut
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Shredder in the movie is depicted as an unstoppable Juggernaut, as opposed to being an easily defeated Starter Villain in the comics and an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in the cartoon series (though the cartoon generally showed that Shredder could defeat the Turtles themselves in combat; being able to prevent them from stopping his plans, on the other hand...)
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Failed a Spot Check
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Raphael rescued April in the subway, but he Failed a Spot Check and accidentally revealed the lair's location to the Foot. He is clearly aware of this fact, too, which makes him feel worse.
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Chekhov's Gag
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Chekhov's Gag: Casey's claustrophobia is treated as a minor gag, as he refuses to admit it and initially thought Donatello was calling him gay. However, it's because he opted to sleep in the truck instead of the lair that he saw Danny sneak off back to Foot headquarters. As a result, Casey is able to help both rescue Splinter and talk some sense into the runaways.
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Unknown Rival
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Unknown Rival: Unlike other versions of the story, where the Turtles are aware of Splinter and Shredder's blood feud, they have absolutely no idea of Shredder's existence until the final scene of the movie. Although, Raphael's reaction to the Shredder's unmasked scarred face ("It's him!") indicates that they were aware of Oroku Saki, but the film makes it clear that nobody knew what happened to Saki or what the Shredder's Secret Identity is.
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Atomic F-Bomb
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Atomic F-Bomb: Actually, it's more like an Atomic D-Bomb, but considering how frustrated Raphael sounds when Casey Jones bests him in their initial scuffle, and the fact that we only hear Raph's voice echoing over a wide shot of the city, it sure fits the trope.
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Mythology Gag
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Mythology Gag: While the movie is mostly based on the original Mirage Studios comics, it had a few elements from the 80s cartoon: different-colored bandanas, their love for pizza, April being a news reporter, and Michelangelo's Character Catchphrase "Cowabunga". "Check out East Warehouse on Lairdman Island." (Reference to Eastman and Laird, of course.) At April's antique store (Second time around), she says how she keeps it running because her father loved it and she wonders if it is silly and Don (who also misses his father) reassures her that it is not. This is similar to a conversation April had with Leo in the third issue of the original Mirage comics where April told the guys how her father is in a nursing home currently and Leo says that he understands how she might be feeling given their father, Splinter, is also missing. The movie opens with a news report by April before she is attacked by a street gang, when the Turtles rescue her and reveal themselves to the audience, similar to the first episode of the 1987 animated series. The Turtles, after defeating a street gang, report to Splinter about how they had their first battle and despite being outnumbered, they emerged victorious, much like the first issue of the original comics.
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Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Played painfully straight, and then Shredder tells them how stupid it was.
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Funny Background Event: If you can follow Mikey's phone call to the pizza place while Splinter is giving his opening speech they clearly get tired with his list of toppings and ask if he just wants everything on it, setting up his anchovies line.
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Bilingual Bonus
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After he fails to defeat the turtles the first time, Tatsu drops a low-key "Kuso!"note Shit!
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Hidden Depths
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Hidden Depths: Casey Jones is initially presented as a crude, violent vigilante. April describes him as "a 9-year-old trapped in a man's body." However... One of the jokes he makes about the farm references the film version of The Grapes of Wrath, which is rather surprising from a supposedly dumb hockey player. While it can be attributed to his general sports obsession, the fact that he knows how friggin' Cricket is played speaks volumes about his intelligence. Due to some shuffling in adapting the plot from the comic, Casey ends up bonding with Donatello, the most intelligent Turtle, rather than the hotheaded Raphael. In the scene where they fix the truck they are playing a version of the Alphabet Game where each insult begins with the next letter of the alphabet in sequence (Atomic Mouth -> Buffaroonie -> Camel lips -> Dome head -> Etc.).
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Theme Music Power-Up
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Theme Music Power-Up: The main theme kicks in during the final battle on the streets as the Turtles fight their way through the Foot and onto the rooftop where Shredder awaits.
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Handbag of Hurt
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Handbag of Hurt: In the subway station, after having the Sai weapon knocked out of her hand (and it lands near where Raphael is waiting), April uses her purse for attack and holds up her own against the Foot until she is knocked out with a punch to the face.
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Watching Troy Burn
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Watching Troy Burn: April watches her father's store burn to the ground after an attack from the Foot, as she, Casey, and the Turtles drive away.
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Shipper on Deck
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Shipper on Deck: Despite his crush on April, Mike ships April and Casey together as he cheers along with his brothers on the rooftop when the two kiss. He seemingly got over his crush on her after spending time with her in the farm, as evidenced by him calling her "sis" during the fight against the Foot in the sewer. Raph, who possibly also may have been attracted to her earlier, also cheers for the couple.
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Out of Focus
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That said, their story is not completely Out of Focus. Their family drama is a direct mirror image of what the Foot was doing, the Turtles learning to pull together ultimate helps them to face the challenges and the bad guys, which directly leads to the Shredder's fall and it is highly unlikely that Master Splinter, who was being interrogated and tortured throughout the movie by the Foot and weakened to the point that he needed Casey and Danny's support to walk, would be able to defeat the Big Bad, had the Turtles not fought and weakened the Shredder earlier.
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Adapted Out
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The "Return to New York" storyline was a three part epic storyline, which started with Raph and Leo having a huge disagreement that resulted in the two getting into a big fight that ends with Raph winning and leaving for New York alone. He continued fighting the Foot alone and ended up allying himself with Zog, a delusional Triceraton and his brothers joined him shortly afterwards. Most of these elements have been Adapted Out and The four brothers decide to Return to New York together.
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Not Helping Your Case
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Not Helping Your Case: No word of the Foot or Splinter, the Turtles have to wait until April can get more info via her news reports. However, Raph is getting impatient for basically just "sitting on their butts". Leo gets frustrated with Raph's usual temper outburst and tells him it's not "helping anything". So Raph just leaves.
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Mugged for Disguise
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Mugged for Disguise: After beating up a Foot mook near the end, Casey disguises himself by wearing the mook's clothes over his own. He ditches the disguise shortly after confronting Danny and before rescuing Splinter.
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You Watch Too Much X
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You Watch Too Much X: It's implied that the Turtles watch a lot of TV (especially Mikey). It's not like there's too much else for them to do. Though Don skateboards and Raph goes to movies.
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Feud Episode
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Feud Episode: Leo and Raph get into a fight due to Raph's impatience over finding Splinter and Leo's aggravation over Raph's attitude. It's not a big deal for Don and Mikey, as this sort of thing always happens.
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Good Is Dumb
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Good Is Dumb: After threatening to kill Leo if the other Turtles don't surrender, Shredder mocks them for complying instead of sacrificing Leo to gang up on him in an unfair fight.
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Five-Second Foreshadowing
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Five-Second Foreshadowing: During the Floorboard Failure from the top floor of April's apartment to the second-hand store, a Foot Ninja can be glimpsed in the foreground of the storeroom. Viewers who catch this detail therefore won't be surprised when more Foot Ninjas swarm April and the Turtles on the lower level. Early in the final battle during Mikey and Don's "shell pun" bit, a garbage truck is seen parking in the background with the driver getting out and seeing the madness before bailing. Not long later, after the fight goes to the roof of the building, Casey Jones backs that truck into the building's fire escape to stop a group of ninjas from going up to help the Shredder, who eventually falls into the truck and is done in by the trash compactor activated by Jones.
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You Shall Not Pass!
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You Shall Not Pass!: Casey holds the line against the entire Foot Clan in the battle of April's apartment, buying enough time for the Turtles to escape.
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Adaptational Comic Relief
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Adaptational Comic Relief: This version of Donatello is a lot less serious than other incarnations, being more of a slacker who spends his time goofing around with Michaelangelo. You could even argue that Michelangelo is this compared to the Mirage comics. Sure, he was probably the most lighthearted Turtle in the comic, but he wasn't outrageously goofy like he is here. It is in line with his cartoon incarnation, though. Even Leonardo is more lighthearted and more prone to joking around, something he rarely did in either comic or cartoon. Although, once Splinter gets abducted, he immediately stops joking around and becomes much more like his comic book counterpart, even angrily telling Don to "put those away", when he jokingly pulls out some marshmallows when they are about to make contact with Splinter via meditation.
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Curb-Stomp Battle
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Of course, with the way the fight had been going, the Turtles could hardly justify talking smack against the way the Shredder fights in the first place.
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Took a Level in Kindness
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Took a Level in Kindness: Raph, especially after seeing how much Leo cares about him, softens a lot in the second half. Compare their argument before their fight against the Foot in the first half to the brief disagreement they have (over going to look for Splinter immediately after arriving in New York) right before discovering Danny in their lair, instead of yelling at Leo, Raph politely explains what he wants to say.
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Tone Shift
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Tone Shift: Up until that point in the movie, things have been rather lighthearted and 'up.' When that knife gets thrown at the TV once April demonstrates to Shredder that she knows too much, the whole mood of the movie shifts, to the point where it borders on Mood Whiplash. Raphael is the only turtle to realize the implications of her reporting. With a knowing look on his face, he gets his hat and trench coat on while the others continue ogling April on TV.
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome
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Surprisingly Realistic Outcome: When the Foot Clan raid the building, the Turtles find themselves on the backfoot (no pun intended) very quickly. Sure they're trained ninjas. But the Foot Clan turn out to be more numerous than they realize, not to mention they're down a member (Raph in this version who was ambushed and lost his Sai in the process) and fighting in enclosed spaces. While they take out a few of them, they soon start tiring and taking hits. They're only saved when Casey shows up to lend some aid and April getting them out through a secret passage and a fire starting that forces all parties to flee. When a squad of Foot Clan ninjas show up to intimidate her, April gets the bright idea to try and fight them. Since she's not a trained ninja, this goes as well as you'd expect. In the final confrontation with Shredder, the Turtles try to take him on but are no match. Foot Clan members are one thing, but he's a trained warrior with much more experience on them. Likewise when he has Leo at his mercy, the others are forced to discard their weapons to save him... only for Shredder to go back on his word to spare him, only stopping when Splinter calls him out. While Shredder is winning against the turtles, it's because he stepped in after his ninja were beaten and fights defensively using minimal movements and turning the Turtles' aggression against them, making him the freshest and most conservative fighter. But as the fight drags on, this approach starts to fail him; he is fighting four skilled opponents half his age, as Leonardo draws first blood, something that we never saw Shredder do to the Turtles. Shredder admits the Turtles might have won eventually with only the loss of one of them. Splinter forces Shredder over a building side who only manages to hang on through the nunchuck he grabbed. While Splinter monologues about avenging his master, Shredder tries to sneak attack him with a knife. He misses and ends up falling into a garbage truck.
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Near-Miss Groin Attack: Raphael, in heated response to Donatello's teasing of him getting televised credit for saving April's life, hurls one of his sai at his brother. It lands right between the latter's legs, prompting him to quickly cease.
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You Can Say That Again
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You Can Say That Again: During the fight against the Foot, Charles, April's boss, calls her to give her a bad news (that he has to fire her) and he adds that he knows that this message "comes as a blow". As the apartment catches fire, the wire the answering machine is dangling from burns, dropping the machine on a Foot ninja's head, literally delivering a blow.
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Shut Up, Hannibal!
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Shut Up, Hannibal!: Delivered by Splinter and Casey to the Foot members still identifying Shredder as a father figure, essentially telling them that the Shredder cares nothing for them; he merely uses them for his own selfish desires.
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Heroes Gone Fishing
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Heroes Gone Fishing: At the start of the film, Splinter, Leo, Mike and Don have pizza from the local Domino's while Raph goes out to watch Critters. The Turtles spend the night at April's apartment before the Foot captures Splinter.
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You Fight Like a Cow
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You Fight Like a Cow: The Turtles constantly mock and goad their opponents in battle. Don and Mikey are the two biggest offenders but even Leonardo and Raph get in on this one. They only stop joking at the very end, when the Shredder seriously pisses them off. Of course, with the way the fight had been going, the Turtles could hardly justify talking smack against the way the Shredder fights in the first place.
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Video Arcade
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Video Arcade: This is a place without parental supervision where underage kids smoke cigars (!) and the Foot Clan recruits new members.
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Worthy Opponent
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Worthy Opponent: The Foot 'chucker Mike engages in a flourish duel is duly impressed by his skills during their showdown. The Shredder acknowledges that the Turtles "fight well; in the old style". When he effortlessly takes down Raph, Leo also realizes "This guy's good", as opposed to the poorly-trained Foot soldiers they just took down.
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Badass in Distress
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Badass in Distress: Splinter spends most of the film held prisoner by The Shredder. Then he beats Shredder with a flick of his wrist.
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You Have Failed Me
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You Have Failed Me: Shredder stares at Tatsu, who realizes he failed. Tatsu takes his anger out on the Foot ninjas he was commanding, almost (maybe?) killing one.
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Volleying Insults: Donatello and Casey Jones do this while fixing the truck, in alphabetical sequence for each insult.
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Combat Pragmatist
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Combat Pragmatist: True to form, Casey Jones. Anything is a weapon for him, from a cricket bat to a garbage truck.
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Adaptational Alternate Ending: Like in the comics, Shredder is stronger than all the Turtles one-on-one. Unlike the comics, he's able to bait Leo into making a critical error, and holds him hostage to force the others to throw their weapons away. The Turtles would have lost if Splinter hadn't shown up to bail them out.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: In-universe, Splinter, who had been silent to Shredder during his imprisonment, has this to say:
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Fighting Fingerprint
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Fighting Fingerprint: After the battle Tatsu led against the turtles in April's antique shop, Shredder ruminates on Tatsu's report of the fight, causing Tatsu to ask what the issue is. Shredder clearly had this trope in mind when he answers "Something about the way you describe their fighting. Something familiar. Something... from the past." He would later find out the turtles were taught by the former pet rat of his arch nemesis Hamato Yoshi.
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Catch-Phrase Spouting Duo
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Catchphrase Spouting Duo: Donatello and Michelangelo.
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Bond One-Liner
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Bond One-Liner: After Casey defeats Tatsu with a golf club, he quips, "I'll never call golf a dull game again."
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Fan of Underdog
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Fan of Underdog: Given that their first meeting ends with them fighting, it's implied Casey only gets involved in the Turtles/Foot clash because he sees Raph's desperate fight against 50:1 odds on the roof.
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Flashback
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Flashback: Splinter narrates two. The first is when he explains to April how he and the Turtles were mutated. The second is when he talks to Danny about Hamato Yoshi.
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The Dragon
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The Dragon: Tatsu serves as the Shredder's right-hand man in the first two movies.
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Villain Respect
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Villain Respect: At the start of the final fight, Shredder (grudgingly) compliments the Turtles' fighting skills. He even concedes (just before Splinter's arrival) that they might just have been able to beat him had they been willing to sacrifice Leonardo's life.
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Broad Strokes
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The Turtles saying "I love being a turtle". Mikey in the first film, all of them in the sequel, Leo in the third. Raph in the fourth, if one counts it as part of the same universe.
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Coolest Club Ever
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Coolest Club Ever: Kind of like a downplayed Bad Guy Bar, but the Foot Clan nightclub is where young teens play pool, card games, skateboarding games, and arcade versions of Blades of Steel and NARC, and also offer cigarettes. All while songs like MC Hammer's "This Is What We Do" and Hi Tek 3's "Spin That Wheel" play in the background while teens dance in raves... with the real danger being the training lair behind the nightclub.
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Badass Family
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Badass Family: The Turtles and Splinter, of course.
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: What Casey thinks when he hears Donatello call him a "claustrophobic". April corrects him on the meaning of the word.
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Adaptational Modesty
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Adaptational Modesty: Both The Shredder and Casey Jones wore sleeveless outfits in the original comics and the 1987 animated series. Here, they both have sleeves, though Casey spends several scenes in a tank top in the farm, presumably to show off Elias Koteas' muscular physique.
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Snark-to-Snark Combat
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Casey and Raph as well. Their first encounter eventually devolves into a Snark-to-Snark Combat.
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Police Are Useless
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Police Are Useless: Chief Sterns practically embodies this trope, refusing to take any meaningful action against the organized crime ring and refusing to hear out April's warnings as to what they are up to. Also counts as Obstructive Bureaucrat, as he makes adeal with Charles to clear his son's criminal record, in exchange for him calling April off the story, which leads to her getting fired when she keeps reporting on it, despite Charles telling her to drop it.
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Adaptation Distillation
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Adaptation Distillation: The movie keeps Hamato Yoshi's rivalry with another man for the love of Tang Shen, but there's no reference to Oroku Saki's brother Oroku Nagi, and Saki himself becomes the rival. (This is not the case in the shooting script or the comic adaptation, which adapted the Oroku Nagi plot word-for-word.) Raph is the one who gets ambushed by the Foot instead of Leo, as in the original comics. This brings Casey, who at this point had only met Raph, back into the story. Likewise, with Raph out of commission, Don is the one Casey develops a friendship with. In the comics, Master Splinter was attacked in the lair by Baxter Stockman's mouser robots and a heavily injured Splinter fled and was found by TCRI employees, who took him and treated him. Here, the Foot clan discovered the Turtles' lair and ambushed and kidnapped Splinter. The "Return to New York" storyline was a three part epic storyline, which started with Raph and Leo having a huge disagreement that resulted in the two getting into a big fight that ends with Raph winning and leaving for New York alone. He continued fighting the Foot alone and ended up allying himself with Zog, a delusional Triceraton and his brothers joined him shortly afterwards. Most of these elements have been Adapted Out and The four brothers decide to Return to New York together.
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It's All My Fault
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It's All My Fault: Raphael blames himself for the lair getting trashed and Splinter's disappearance, as it was him rescuing April that resulted in him being unknowingly followed by a Foot Soldier, who relays their location to the rest of the Foot Clan.
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Disney Villain Death
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Disney Villain Death: Splinter drops Shredder off an apartment building and into a garbage truck, which Casey Jones activates the compactor on to finish the job.
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Ransacked Room
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Ransacked Room: After visiting April at her apartment, the Turtles come home to find their lair trashed and Splinter gone.
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Jokers Love Junk Food
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Jokers Love Junk Food: In addition to large amounts of the Turtles' Trademark Favorite Food, pizza, the only other food given mention in the film is a bag of pork rinds being shared by Michaelangelo and Donatello. In fact, the scene where they consume them is when they're watching the fighting between Casey Jones and April O'Neil and comparing it jokingly to Moonlighting as if they were watching a t.v. program.
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One of the Boys
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One of the Boys: April seems to be this with the turtles, and with Casey.
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Central Theme
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Central Theme: Wrath. If one can't control it, it'll cloud their mind. Raphael's issues with his anger are a constant theme in the first half of the film, directly leading to his big argument with Leonardo, storming out and finding himself all alone against the Foot as a result. Later, Leonardo loses against Shredder because of him provoking him into thinking that he killed Splinter. When Splinter appears proving him wrong, Shredder recognizes him as Master Yoshi's pet and loses because of his wrath towards him. Fatherhood. The differences of how there are good fathers (Splinter with the turtles), bad fathers (Shredder with the teens of the foot clan) and father's trying to understand their sons (Charles with Danny).
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Adaptation Amalgamation
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Adaptation Amalgamation: Of The '90s TMNT films, this one is the most primarily adapted from the original 1984 Mirage comics (this film was heavily based on the first issue, along with plot points taken from the Raphael and Leonardo one-shots, the Exile arc, and the Return to New York arc) but also included elements of the 1987 animated show (the logo, the show's Lighter and Softer approach, the color-coding of the turtles, their love for pizza, their Character Catchphrase "Cowabunga", and April being a reporter, as well as April being rescued by the Turtles from street punks).
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Pragmatic Adaptation
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Pragmatic Adaptation: This film satisfactorily combined two very different version of the turtles into a successful whole.
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Death Glare
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Death Glare: After Tatsu's attack on April's apartment fails to eliminate the turtles, Shredder gives one of these to him. Shredder doesn't say a single word, the glare itself is enough to let Tatsu know that he is deeply displeased.
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BadassNormal
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Badass Normal: The Shredder and Casey Jones. The Turtles and Splinter kinda count, if you consider that, outside of being mutants, they have no other special or enhanced powers.
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Viewers Are Geniuses
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Viewers Are Geniuses: "Do you like... penicillin on your pizza?"note Penicillin was originally developed from mold - the pizza, left alone in a damp sewer, is obviously covered with it. A lot of Donny's failed attempts at slang are this. In the scene where Donatello and Casey are attempting to fix the truck while playfully insulting each other they're actually playing a variation of the Alphabet Game. When Casey Jones knocks Raphael into the trash can with a cricket bat, he declares, "See? Six runs." That's the actual point value for cricket's equivalent of a home run.
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Family-Unfriendly Violence
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Family-Unfriendly Violence: The movie is pretty loaded with this, as it's more of an adaptation of the comic rather than the cartoon. In particular are the scenes where Raphael is mercilessly beaten to near-death, the entire fight in April's apartment (where a Foot ninja accidentally hits a power main with his axe and starts jerking around and smoking), Tatsu's beating of Shinsho to near-death (or actual death if you go by the original script), Tatsu's beating of Casey Jones, and the Shredder being crushed inside the compactor of a garbage truck. It shocked so many people that in the second movie the Turtles barely even touch their weapons, let alone use them against people. The third movie, for all its problems, attempted to fix this.
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Hourglass Plot
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Hourglass Plot: The movie starts with Leo, Don and Mike being carefree and joking around, while Raph is the moody, angsty teen, who prefers being alone. He also ends up butting heads with Leo over his leadership skills after Splinter is abducted and questions why they don't go look for their sensei right away, while Leo tells him they should be patient and wait for April to get more information to help them out. After he is beaten to near death, Raph's attitude towards Leo changes a lot after seeing the latter's Big Brother Instinct towards him. He lightens up enough to start enjoying with his brothers, even sitting down to play trivial pursuit with Don and Mike, while Leo grows increasingly worried for Splinter, meditating alone in the farm, when he manages to make contact with him telepathically. Later, when the Shredder insults Master Splinter and implies that he has him killed, Leo loses his temper and ends up attacking the Shredder.
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Rooftop Confrontation
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Rooftop Confrontation: Raphael heads to the roof after a spat with Leonardo and gets jumped by a butt-load of Foot ninjas. He holds his own for a while, but after some time they kick his ass and throw him through ceiling and proceed to fight the rest of the Turtles. The Turtles' final confrontation with Shredder also takes place on a roof.
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If I Can't Have You…
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If I Can't Have You…: Oroku Saki, losing a love triangle, murders both Splinter's master and his girlfriend.
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Parlor Games
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Parlor Games: When Donnie and Casey are fixing the truck, they play a variation of "Alphabet" where they take turns insulting each other. ("Atomic Breath," "Barfaroni," etc.)
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Huddle Shot: "So exactly at what point did we lose control here?"
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Improbable Weapon User
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Improbable Weapon User: Casey Jones, from cricket bats to hockey sticks to a garbage truck.
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Jerkass Has a Point
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Jerkass Has a Point: While Raph was incredibly rude and disrespectful and talked back to Leo, he has every reason to not like his plan of waiting on April to gather intel, considering that he was the one who accidentally led the Foot their lair (therefore, Splinter's disappearance, in a way, falls on Raph's shoulders), leading to Splinter's kidnapping. There's also the fact that Splinter could be dead for all they know. Raph is also, as rude as he was, correct that "just sitting there on their butts" (his words) isn't going to help them find Splinter and that they should be out there looking for him, though he fails to acknowledge the timing and the fact that they don't even know where to look. On the other hand, Leo's argument ("What can we do about it? April's our only link to these guys, we have to wait until she comes up with something") is also valid, as the Turtles at this point have no knowledge of the Foot Clan and April is the only one who has at least heard of them, therefore, she's their only key to finding Splinter. Raph had fought some Foot Ninjas in the subway but they are all gone and if they hadn't ambushed Raph later, they would never meet them again until April found more clues about them. However, Raph goes too far by accusing Leo of acting like he's their "great leader" when it's quite clear that Leo's just trying to keep it together under a scary situation, but then Leo makes it by telling off Raph for acting like a jerk and that his attitude won't help their situation, which makes Raph storm out of the room, leading him to get ambushed and nearly killed by the Foot, all because he was fueled by emotions alone.
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Mentor Occupational Hazard
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Mentor Occupational Hazard: Subverted in Splinter's case, but his owner Hamato Yoshi (who he learned ninjitsu from) isn't so lucky.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Tatsu means The Dragon in Japanese.
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Shut Up, Kirk!
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Shut Up, Kirk!: Shredder attempts when Splinter is lecturing him while holding him over a ledge.
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Stealth Hi/Bye
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Stealth Hi/Bye: The Turtles, Splinter, and the Foot ninjas.
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Rodents of Unusual Size
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Rodents of Unusual Size: Master Splinter, who's a rat as big as a teenage boy.
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Outgrowing the Childish Name
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Outgrowing the Childish Name: By the end of the first movie, Daniel "Danny" Pennington, after Character Development, tells his dad, "It's just Dan now."
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This version of Raphael is portrayed as a much more troubled teen than the versions before him (and indeed, after him). His temper is treated as a serious problem that he thinks he has to deal with alone. When Splinter lectures him about it, assuring him that he and his brothers will always be there when he needs them, he is seen quietly weeping.
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Adaptational Badass: Splinter in the comics raised the Turtles to settle his blood feud with Shredder, saying in the first issue that he was too old to defeat his old nemesis. In the movie, Splinter beats Shredder with a flick of the wrist. Shredder in the movie is depicted as an unstoppable Juggernaut, as opposed to being an easily defeated Starter Villain in the comics and an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain in the cartoon series (though the cartoon generally showed that Shredder could defeat the Turtles themselves in combat; being able to prevent them from stopping his plans, on the other hand...)
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It Came from the Fridge
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It Came from the Fridge: After the turtles return home from the farm, Donatello inspects the fridge. After finding the pizza from Domino's, he asks Mikey "Do you like penicillin on your pizza?"
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Belligerent Sexual Tension
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Casey and April. So much so that Donatello lampshades it at one point.
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad
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Spotlight-Stealing Squad: In terms of contribution to the plot, Casey Jones is the film's main hero. He gets the most development, and actually plays a bigger role in the resolution of the plot than any of the Turtles do, being the one to discover and free Splinter, fights Tatsu, give a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Foot teens, and since he's the one who "accidentally" starts up the garbage truck's compactor after Shredder falls into it, he's ultimately the one who takes out the Shredder too. Although, it is worth noting that Splinter, who was tortured and weakened for almost the 95% of the movie, wouldn't have enough strength to fight the Shredder, had the Turtles not fought and exhausted him earlier, with Leo actually managing to injure him. Of the Turtles, Raphael gets the lion's share of the focus in the movie, taking over a plot that belonged to Leo in the original comics.
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The Comically Serious
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The Comically Serious: Splinter, who finally learns how to crack wise at the end of the movie. Fittingly, he becomes so delighted at this that he quips: "I made a funny! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
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Batter Up!: Casey does this with two different baseball bats... and a cricket bat!
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Dance Battler
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Dance Battler: All of the Turtles, in addition to using real martial arts, incorporate moves inspired by modern breakdancing.
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Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the version of the origin story recounted in the comics, Splinter got the turtles' names from a book on Renaissance art that had washed down a storm drain. This isn't brought up in the movie, so exactly why these turtles raised by a Japanese rat all have Italian names is never explained. Although this was mentioned in the sequel. It is never explained how four baby Turtles ended up in the sewers of New York city, outside a brief mention of them being near a shattered glass jar. The original comics and the 1987 series shows that they were being carried by a boy, who accidentally dropped the glass jar near the sewers (in the comics it was a road accident similar to the origin story of Daredevil, while in the animated series, the boy merely tripped and dropped the jar).
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Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Raph initially is too angsty and angry to join his brothers when they all are having fun. Once he sees how much they, especially Leo, care about him, he starts to be a lot more chill, sitting down for a game of Trivial Pursuit with Don and Mike and cheering with his brothers after defeating Shredder and the Foot. He also gives Mike and Don Affectionate Gesture to the Head on separate occassions (he gives Mike a noogie after he makes the Turtle Wax joke and later rubs Don's head in the end when he says they were all "Totally tubular dude!").
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Villain Decay
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Villain Decay: The Foot. In the film's first half, they prove to be dangerous, as they manage to overwhelm the Turtles and deliver a brutal beatdown to Raph, putting him in a coma. By the second half, the Turtles are swatting them aside with no problem. The novelization attempts to explain this by Leo, and later the other turtles, developing and honing a kind of sixth-sense so they can predict the Foot's attacks and the ambush of their lair (the only possible reference to this in the film is Michelangelo retracting his head into his shell when he gets attacked from behind). The film itself shows the turtles training in various ways before they return to New York. If the viewer watches closely, the turtles spar in a way that has one of them blindfolded by turning their head band around (supporting the sixth-sense from the novelization and supported by Mikey's head retraction). Leonardo himself practices meditation, as do his brothers as he later asks his them to join him, culminating in the campfire scene where the four establish a psychic link with Splinter.
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech
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In terms of contribution to the plot, Casey Jones is the film's main hero. He gets the most development, and actually plays a bigger role in the resolution of the plot than any of the Turtles do, being the one to discover and free Splinter, fights Tatsu, give a "The Reason You Suck" Speech to the Foot teens, and since he's the one who "accidentally" starts up the garbage truck's compactor after Shredder falls into it, he's ultimately the one who takes out the Shredder too. Although, it is worth noting that Splinter, who was tortured and weakened for almost the 95% of the movie, wouldn't have enough strength to fight the Shredder, had the Turtles not fought and exhausted him earlier, with Leo actually managing to injure him.
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Demoted to Comic Relief: Donatello and Michelangelo. Leonardo and Raphael both move the plot forward on several occasions, but Donatello and Michelangelo... don't really do much in this movie apart from cracking a ton of jokes. They participate in group battles (during which they spend just as much time swapping one-liners as they do fighting), but the story itself would have played out pretty much the exact same without them — even if the movie would have lost some of its funniest scenes.
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Claustrophobia: Why Casey hates the idea of staying in the sewer and would rather sleep in the truck.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Raphael rescued April in the subway, but he Failed a Spot Check and accidentally revealed the lair's location to the Foot. He is clearly aware of this fact, too, which makes him feel worse. Looking in a mirror, Danny briefly spotted Michelangelo hiding under the table. Though Mikey managed to make himself scarce before the boy turned around, it was still enough for Danny to later tell the Shredder where the Turtles were hiding.
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Stuffed into a Trashcan
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Stuffed into a Trashcan: At the end of their fight in Central Park, Casey sends Raph into a nearby trashcan with a cricket bat and leaves. Raph doesn't take it well and pursues him.
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He's Back!
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He's Back!: After seeing Splinter speak to them, the Turtles decide they, along with April and Casey, should return to New York.
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Bizarre Dream Rationalization: April O'Neil is absolutely horrified when she wakes up and sees the Turtles, instantly assuming she's dead. She briefly calms herself down by rationalizing that she's dreaming. She explains away Splinter as being representative of the rat she saw earlier in the parking lot before she got jumped by the muggers from the beginning of the movie.
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ConservationOfNinjitsu
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Conservation of Ninjutsu: Averted. While the Turtles are able to defeat individual Foot ninjas with ease (and Raph takes out a small group at once thanks to the element of surprise), a large group of them at once beats Raph nearly to death and forces the other three to retreat. Played straight later where the Turtles defeat an entire army of ninjas but then have trouble against The Shredder alone. Although with Shredder, it's played with: The Foot ninjas were intentionally leading the Turtles to the rooftop where he was waiting and partially tired them out so he could take them on fresh. He stepped in after his ninja were beaten and fights defensively using minimal movements and turning the Turtles' aggression against them, making him the freshest and most conservative fighter. But as the fight drags on, this approach starts to fail him; he is fighting four skilled opponents half his age, as Leonardo draws first blood, something that we never saw Shredder do to the Turtles. Shredder admits the Turtles might have won eventually with only the loss of one of them. If anything, the trope is inverted in the climactic showdown, as the Turtles continually try to rush him one at a time, and by the time Shredder himself points out they had a chance at taking him down together, he's already gotten them to disarm and leave themselves at his mercy.
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Signature Style
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Signature Style: A plot point. After the antique shop battle, Shredder is left troubled by Tatsu's report. It's not just that the Turtles can fight the Foot Clan, but also Tatsu's description of how the Turtles fought the Foot — how familiar their fighting style seems to Shredder. Splinter's tale to Danny later reveals why: The rat learned martial arts from imitating Hamato Yoshi and trained the Turtles in his late owner's style. So Shredder unconsciously recognizes the Turtles are fighting just like his old rival, but he doesn't put it together until the climax (between actually fighting the Turtles himself and Splinter's bombshell). This trope also applies to the Foot Clan themselves and is another plot point. Shredder was active in Japan years before bringing the Foot and their criminality to the United States. Older Japanese immigrants who lived through this original reign of terror recognize all too well the similarities between the crime wave that's gripping NYC and the Foot's crimes back home. April investigates this and reports on it, which is what puts her on Shredder's hit list.
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Stepford Smiler
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Donnie discusses his concerns with Mikey, who hides his own worries behind a joke. But during the campfire scene, Mikey is shown to have been hit the hardest by the loss of Splinternote During the early time on the farm, we see April talking about how Leo and Don are dealing with things, but not Mikey. A deleted scene (but still present in the comic adaptation) shows Mikey obsessively training all day.
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Interspecies Romance
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Interspecies Romance: Pretty much all of the Turtles display some level of attraction to April in the beginning (except maybe Don, who spends most of the time teasing Mike and Raph instead). Justified in that they were mutated into being part human, so they're probably attracted as much to humans as they are to turtles, unless the mutation also mutated their brains into losing their attraction to turtles and gaining attraction to humans.
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer
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Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Averted; the Turtles are clearly using storm drains to travel (with Splinter explicitly stating that he found the book he used to name them in one) and their home is located in an abandoned control station (in the sequel they move into what appears to be an old pneumatic transit station). The sewer pipes are separated from the canals, and while real storm drains aren't quite that large, the New York system is large enough for a man to stand in.
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Golf Clubbing
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Golf Clubbing: Casey uses a driver to nasty effect against Tatsu. He heavily hints to do this on the teens should they try to attack him next.
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Didn't Think This Through
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Didn't Think This Through: Shredder's last-ditch attempt to kill Splinter in the climax. Even if had worked, the rat was literally the only thing keeping him from falling over the side of a building. Killing Splinter would've just killed himself in the bargain. Justified, though, as Shredder's consumed with rage (at realizing he's fighting his old rival's legacy) and not thinking rationally.
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"Blind Idiot" Translation: The British DVD release for the film did not do a good job with the subtitles, as it was clear they did not know the Japanese terms. The two most glaring mistakes were calling a "sai" a "scythe" (when Raphael exclaims to Splinter that he lost one), and spelling "katana" as "cattana" (when Splinter tells his back-story to Danny).
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Firing Day
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Firing Day: Charles fires April when she won't give up her story on the Foot. Unfortunately, he leaves a message on her answering machine which Casey hears and has to break the news to her. Thankfully, she's re-hired by the end of the movie.
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Battle Discretion Shot
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Battle Discretion Shot: During The Teaser, April gets saved by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles who turn off the lights before they beat a group of thieves up.
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Art Shift
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Art Shift: Splinter's flashbacks are shot differently from the rest of the film with a grainier, almost Film Noir look to them.
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Battle Amongst the Flames
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Battle Amongst the Flames: The climax of the Apartment Fight where the entire building bursts into flames.
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The Big Damn Kiss
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The Big Damn Kiss: April and Casey kiss at the end. Followed by the Turtles watching and cheering them on.
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Mook Chivalry
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Mook Chivalry: Inverted. The Foot have no problems ganging up on the Turtles, and this leads them to two brutal defeats. Meanwhile, the Turtles attack Shredder one at a time... and get their shells handed to them repeatedly.
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Villainous Breakdown
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Villainous Breakdown: In the climax, Shredder begins to lose his Faux Affably Evil demeanor when he sees Splinter alive and well. He fully breaks down when he realizes Splinter was the same pet rat of Hamato Yoshi who scarred his face (and returned the favor by slicing off one of his ears) all those years ago.
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Faux Affably Evil
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Faux Affably Evil: The Shredder. He compliments the Turtles for their fighting prowess during the rooftop fight — then he taunts them with supposedly killing Splinter.
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
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Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The whole farmhouse subplot, but more specifically the scene where Splinter, via astral projection, gives one final lesson and essentially says his goodbyes to his sons.
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Not So Above It All
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Not So Above It All: Straight-laced Master Splinter, at the end of the first three films, will show that he's not above making the occasional joke like the turtles.
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Big "OMG!"
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Big "OMG!": April says "Oh, my god. Oh, my god." after she wakes up and meets the Turtles for the first time.
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Tragic Keepsake
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Tragic Keepsake: April's antique store, 2nd Time Around, was originally her father's. Since his death, she keeps the store open part-time.
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Revenge Before Reason
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Revenge Before Reason: Shredder, when faced with the dilemma of taking revenge for some scars on his face against the mutant rat that is the only thing preventing him from falling to his death and, well, not falling to his death, Shredder chooses the first option. It goes even more poorly than you might expect.
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Mass "Oh, Crap!"
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Mass "Oh, Crap!": The three robbers get one shortly before the Turtles rescue April at the start of the film. All of the Turtles, especially Raphael, get one upon realizing the Foot has ransacked their sewer den and kidnapped Splinter for good measure. April, Leo, Mikey and Donnie get one when they realize the Foot has just invaded her apartment and attacked Raph. Mikey, Donnie and the Foot mooks when they realize the floorboard in April's apartment is about to give way. The Foot teens are shocked upon learning from Casey and Splinter what the Shredder's personality really is. Mike, Donnie and Raph in the final battle when they throw away their weapons, only for the Shredder to taunt them and deliver the Coup de Grâce on Leo.
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Coup de Grâce
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Mike, Donnie and Raph in the final battle when they throw away their weapons, only for the Shredder to taunt them and deliver the Coup de Grâce on Leo.
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Evil Counterpart
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Evil Counterpart: Shredder and the Foot are this to Splinter and the Turtles. Both groups identify themselves as a family, with Shredder and Splinter as their respective fathers. However, whereas the Turtles and Splinter, whatever their differences, are a loving family that stick together, the Foot is a dysfunctional family, which serves Shredder's selfish goals.
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Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing: Early in the movie, Donnie ponders on what life would be like without Splinter. Guess what happens on the night that Raphael saves April? Donnie discusses his concerns with Mikey, who hides his own worries behind a joke. But during the campfire scene, Mikey is shown to have been hit the hardest by the loss of Splinternote During the early time on the farm, we see April talking about how Leo and Don are dealing with things, but not Mikey. A deleted scene (but still present in the comic adaptation) shows Mikey obsessively training all day. When questioned by Tatsu about his obsession with finding the Turtles, the Shredder says something about the descriptions of their fighting styles makes him think of something from the past. Later, Splinter talks to Danny about Hamato Yoshi, copying his fighting style, and witnessing his death at the hands of the Shredder.
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This Is Gonna Suck
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This Is Gonna Suck: After falling through the floor down two levels to the antique basement, the Turtles and April have this reaction when they are faced with Master Tatsu and more of his Foot clan ready to attack. The Turtles even groan, "Oh no..."
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Gut Punch
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Gut Punch: The Turtles return home after a fun night hanging out with April to find their home is demolished and Splinter is missing, possibly dead. Shredder delivers another one later in the film:
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Secret-Keeper
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Secret-Keeper: Besides April and Casey, there's also Danny. Also, Splinter and Casey are apparently the only ones who know that Danny was a member of the Foot. It's unclear if April and the Turtles ever found out, and April was confused when Danny gave her $20 he owed her (which he stole from April's wallet earlier in the film).
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Rock–Paper–Scissors
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Rock–Paper–Scissors: After seeing Raphael and Leonardo spanked by Shredder in the final battle, Donatello and Michaelangelo do RPS, with the loser having to take him on next.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Raph shows regret after he and the other turtles discover the Foot has ransacked their home and kidnapped Splinter. Danny looks at April's apartment on fire in tears, knowing it's because he told Shredder he saw one of the Turtles there.
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Trigger Phrase
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Whenever pizza's mentioned by a non-Turtle in their presence, a weird sound is played in the background which prompts one of the turtles (usually Mikey) to gain cartoon-like super speed before heading off for the nearest pizza.
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Eek, a Mouse!!
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April when she sees a brown rat near the sewers upon leaving the studio, and moments later when she encounters three Foot clan thieves stealing equipment from her news van.
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Blinded by Rage
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Blinded by Rage: Shredder uses this to his advantage by mocking the Turtles, claiming that he killed Splinter. Leo proceeds to recklessly charge Shredder in absolute rage... and is easily disarmed and pinned down. Then, a moment later, Splinter arrives and makes Shredder angry enough to charge at him recklessly, giving Splinter the opening he needs to quickly defeat Shredder.
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Unconventional Electives 101
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Unconventional Electives 101: Used as a Pre-Asskicking One-Liner by Casey Jones in an early scene:
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Da Chief
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Da Chief: Chief Sterns. Unusually, rather than a Cowboy Cop he chews out, it's investigative reporter April O'Neil.
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Mood Whiplash
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Mood Whiplash: The movie seems almost as funny and lighthearted as the cartoon series (it's a little bit darker, but we have to Avoid the Dreaded G Rating here!), until the Turtles return home to find it completely destroyed and Splinter missing. Watching it as a little kid, the effect is like someone punching you in the stomach. Made slightly worse because the centerpiece of the wreckage is a pile of maroon laundry in the center of the room that, in the darkness, looks oddly gory if you don't realize what it is. The apartment fight scene starts out pretty comedic and triumphant, giving us the impression that this could be an easy win. However when they are overrun with more foot soldiers the music and the mood changes. Even the music itself is pretty much saying Oh, Crap!. And then a Foot ninja is electrocuted.
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Donatello and Michelangelo are unimpressed with the Foot soldiers' axe-wielding skills.
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Love at First Punch
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Love at First Punch: April and Casey; as Donatello so eloquently put it "Gosh. It's kinda like Moonlighting, isn't it?"
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Totally Radical
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Totally Radical: How the Turtles speak, considering the film takes place between the late 1980's/early 1990's.
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Mistaken for Afterlife
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Mistaken for Afterlife: After encountering Splinter and the Turtles in the sewer den for the first time, a panicked April shrieks and says "Oh, my god. Oh, my god. I'm dead. I'm dead, aren't I?". Fortunately for April, Splinter calms her down.
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Parting-Words Regret
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Parting-Words Regret: Leo comes to regret having the last words in his and Raph's argument at April's apartment, particularly because they were rather harsh words, and because, for a time, it looks as if they might be his last words to Raph when the latter looks like he won't wake up from his injuries.
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Soundtrack Dissonance
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Soundtrack Dissonance: Throughout these three movies, the music in the fight scenes is deliberately upbeat and lively, killing any mood. This is averted during the serious fight scenes though, like Raph's fight against the Foot in the subway, when April's apartment catches on fire, Casey and Tatsu's fight and the Turtles' final fight against the Shredder in the first movie.
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Oh, Crap!
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Oh, Crap!: While April reports on the crime wave at the start of the film, the delivery truck driver is shocked upon discovering most of his boxes have been stolen out from under him. Seconds later, a lady sitting on her apartment patio shares this reaction when the local Foot clan thief steals her portable television. April when she sees a brown rat near the sewers upon leaving the studio, and moments later when she encounters three Foot clan thieves stealing equipment from her news van. Michelangelo after he inadvertently causes one of the pizza slices to land on Splinter's head. Three more in quick succession. The older lady on the street has one when two runaway teenagers steal their purse. Then the teenagers have one when Raphael trips them and hands the snatched purse back. Shortly after that, the teenagers have another one upon meeting the masked Casey Jones for the first time in Central Park. April lets out a shocked shriek after she wakes up and encounters the Turtles, who simultaneously share this reaction, for the first time. Raphael gets ambushed by Foot soldiers above April's apartment. After he takes care of them, he asks how they expect to beat him, and a whole lot more of them come out of hiding and surround him. "Good answer" indeed. Danny, upon realizing he's inadvertently doomed April and the Turtles to the Foot's invasion of April's apartment. April when Casey informs her about what he heard from Charles on her apartment's answering machine. Donatello shares this reaction. Yoshi in Splinter's flashback when he sees Tang Shen lying dead on the floor and when Oroku Saki's about to kill him. Danny has one when the Shredder and Tatsu catch him with the tied-up Splinter. Then, the Shredder has one when he takes April's drawing of Leonardo from Danny and realizes the Turtles are still alive. Seconds later, Danny has another one when the Shredder tells Tatsu to kill Splinter. Casey and Danny share one when Tatsu and his henchmen corner them, seconds after rescuing Splinter. The Shredder has two at the end. The first is when he sees Splinter alive and well, and the second is when he's about to fall into the garbage truck.
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Scars Are Forever
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Scars Are Forever: Raphael has a scar on his cheek from some unexplained injury, while Shredder has scars on his cheek from a pre-mutation Splinter. If you look closely in the first two movies all of the turtles have little nicks and dings all over their shells, probably from a lifetime of ninja training.
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Deadpan Snarker
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Deadpan Snarker: Splinter without a doubt. Also Donatello. April actually has a little game she plays where she asks a cameraman to time her and see how long she can snark at Chief Sterns until he becomes so angry he throws her out of his office. The record is one minute and seven seconds. Casey and Raph as well. Their first encounter eventually devolves into a Snark-to-Snark Combat.
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Reactive Continuous Scream
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Reactive Continuous Scream: After April wakes up in the Turtles' den and sees them for the first time, she starts screaming and a few of the turtles follow suit.
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Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes
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Martial Arts for Mundane Purposes: Leo puts his swords to use by slicing up the Domino's pizza that Mikey threw up in the air and distributing the slices. The last one ends up falling on Splinter's head.
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Take That!
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Take That!: While Casey and Raph fight each other in Central Park, the former takes out a José Canseco bat. Raph comments, "A José Canseco bat?! Tell me — you didn't pay money for this!" At the time of the film's release, Canseco was a rival to the New York Yankees.
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Internal Homage
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Internal Homage: The movie contains a recreation of Raphael #1 with Raph leaving the lair to blow off steam, running into Casey and getting into a fight with him after stopping him from beating up some thugs. It also adapts Leonardo #1 with one of the Turtles fighting a horde of foot while the others are in April's apartment. The lone fighter loses to the horde and crashes through the window, and after the team does their best to fight back the rest of the team is forced to make a getway, ending up at an old farm house to recover and plan a counter attack. However, in the film it is Raph, not Leo, who plays this role and gets taken down.
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Truer to the Text
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Truer to the Text: Although it borrowed elements from the then-current animated series (such as April as a news reporter rather than a scientist), the first film is one of the most faithful adaptations of the original comics in the entire franchise, including direct adaptations of several storylines from the original comics (the first three issuesnote The Turtles' introduction, backstory and Rooftop Confrontation against the Shredder from the first, the Turtles meeting April from the second and the Turtles going to April after Splinter goes missing from the third issues, the Raphael and Leonardo micro-issues, the exile at April's farmnote Casey's farm in the comics, and the "Return to New York" arcs). It also had Casey Jones in a prominent role like in the comics, as opposed to his Demoted to Extra in the animated series — and like in the comics it also made Raphael the most central Turtle, with the other three getting far less attention and plot importance.
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Pleasure Island
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Pleasure Island: The Shredder has created a "pleasure island" to lure misguided teens into his Foot Clan. His warehouse is located on the fictitious Lairdman Island and features rap music, pinball/video games, basketball, dancing, billiards, skateboarding, gambling, graffiti, and tobacco use. Newcomers to the warehouse are told "Anything you guys want... We got. Anything you wanna do... Do it." The naïve protagonist in this instance is Danny Pennington.
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Blood Knight
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Blood Knight: All the turtles to some degree, as seen in the climactic showdown. Even Donatello is disappointed when Mike gets to face the Shredder before he does.
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Amplified Animal Aptitude
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Amplified Animal Aptitude: Even before he became a mutant, Splinter was remarkably intelligent for a rat. He could mimic Yoshi's movements to the level that he became just as good a martial artist as him after mutating, and he could use tools, herding the baby turtles into a coffee can using a spoon.
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It's All About Me
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It's All About Me: When one of the Foot members talks about their Undying Loyalty to the Shredder, Splinter has this to say in response:
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Ship-to-Ship Combat
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Ship-to-Ship Combat: In-universe. While working on a truck, Casey expresses certainty that Mary Ann from Gilligan's Island ended up with the Professor, but Donatello insists she ended up with Gilligan. As they're so rigid in their positions, they actively insult each other for being wrong about Mary Anne's true love.
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I Shall Taunt You
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I Shall Taunt You: Shredder, after thoroughly beating the Turtles, mocks them by saying that he killed Splinter. It works. He tries it again after taking down Leonardo and ordering the other Turtles to throw away their weapons and threatening to kill him if they don't. After they have done so...
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: Raph actually says "bitchin'" near the end of the film. After he fails to defeat the turtles the first time, Tatsu drops a low-key "Kuso!"note Shit!
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Berserk Button
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Berserk Button: Don't tell Chief Sterns how to do his job. Casey hates the sound of grunts. Becomes a brick joke when he confronts Tatsu.
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Last Note Nightmare
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Last Note Nightmare: The end credits. After "T-U-R-T-L-E Power" and "9.95" play, it's followed by the singer screaming "Turtle Power" one more time, followed by a very sharp, loud rush of wind.
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Both Sides Have a Point
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Raph is also, as rude as he was, correct that "just sitting there on their butts" (his words) isn't going to help them find Splinter and that they should be out there looking for him, though he fails to acknowledge the timing and the fact that they don't even know where to look. On the other hand, Leo's argument ("What can we do about it? April's our only link to these guys, we have to wait until she comes up with something") is also valid, as the Turtles at this point have no knowledge of the Foot Clan and April is the only one who has at least heard of them, therefore, she's their only key to finding Splinter. Raph had fought some Foot Ninjas in the subway but they are all gone and if they hadn't ambushed Raph later, they would never meet them again until April found more clues about them.
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Dull Surprise
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Dull Surprise: Oroku Saki takes the fact he's been feuding with his dead rival's pet rat in his stride, judging by his face when he unmasks himself. Justified, however, as he is aware of the existence of the Turtles and Splinter (whom he also has been violently interrogating) since the first half of the movie, in fact, when he first mentions punishing said turtles, he sounds baffled by the mere existence of Mutant ninja turtles and later also mentions he finds their fighting style familiar and it reminds him of "something from the past". So when Splinter reveals who he is, everything makes sense to him.
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Stab the Picture
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Stab the Picture: Shredder's very first scene has him hurling a throwing knife at the TV where April is interviewing Police Chief Sterns about the Foot Clan, hitting her image right between the eyes and making it quite clear that he means her harm.
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Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries
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Slices, Dices, and Makes Julienne Fries: Michelangelo starts doing the "it slices, it dices" routine as he tosses a pizza in the air and Leonardo slices it with his katanas — until a slice falls on Splinter's head.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Raph, Mikey and Don yell "No!" when it appears Shredder is going to kill Leo.
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Irony
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Irony: Mikey orders a pizza from Domino's. In the original VHS release (from Family Home Entertainment), the movie was preceded by an ad from Pizza Hut.
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And Starring
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And Starring: The end credits' voice and stunt double rolls respectively end with "and Corey Feldman as Donatello" as well as "and Ernie Reyes Jr. as Donatello".
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Aesop Amnesia
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Aesop Amnesia: It might not be intentional on the scriptwriters' behalf, but the Turtles almost immediately forget Splinter's "final lesson" about how they can achieve anything when they work together as a team — when they confront the Shredder, they immediately attack him one by one, and get their butts kicked. Never once does it occur to them to attack him as a team (even if he specifically dares them to), and only Leo gets a good hit on him before Splinter shows up and defeats Shredder himself.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: April gives a nod to Ghostbusters in her opening news report. Mikey's quoting of famous movie lines at April's apartment... including Rocky and James Cagney. During the bar scene, you can see some kids play the arcade version of Blades of Steel and NARC (the one where they are battling Mr. Big's skull form). While at April's farm, Mikey, Donnie and Raph play Trivial Pursuit just before Leo informs them of Splinter's survival.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_c75df49a
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Informed Ability
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Informed Ability: Monumentally averted. The Shredder totally dominates the Turtles when they finally fight. They get in virtually no offense, and it's strongly implied he would have killed them one by one until Splinter appeared.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_ca3a6dbd
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Taking You with Me
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Taking You with Me: Shredder's only possible motivation for trying to throw a dagger at Splinter.
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Seen It All
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Seen It All: The cabbie, especially compared to his fare.
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Dude, Not Funny!
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Dude, Not Funny!: The jocular mood comes to an awkward halt when April suggests Mike's "dirty rat" impression is Splinter's favorite. The turtles take offense until April clarifies she was joking. Everyone start laughing, even Raph is seen chuckling.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: While Darker and Edgier than the 80s cartoon, the movie is still toned down compared to the original comic; most of the fights are more slapsticky, there's almost no blood and the Turtles never kill anyone — in the original comic, Splinter specifically raised and trained them to kill the Shredder in order to avenge his master Yoshi, but this is never so much as mentioned and Splinter's motivation seems to have been teaching his sons how to defend themselves against a world that won't understand or accept them. There's also a lot more comedy in the movie, much of it from Michelangelo and Donatello.
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GoshDangItToHeck
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Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Averted, which is a Pragmatic Adaptation of the cartoon and comic book (where swearing was much more common).
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_d0b60f23
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"Oh, Crap!" Smile
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"Oh, Crap!" Smile: April in the subway station as she turns around to see the Foot waiting for her, shortly before she gets knocked down.
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Anchovies Are Abhorrent
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Anchovies Are Abhorrent: At the beginning of the film, Michelangelo is ordering pizza from Domino's. He angrily threatens the person on the other end of the line about what would happen if they put anchovies on it, but is cut off by Splinter before he can elaborate.
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That Came Out Wrong
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That Came Out Wrong: Casey trying to tell April he overheard that she got fired.
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Calling Me a Logarithm
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Calling Me a Logarithm: Casey Jones gets offended when Donatello calls him a claustrophobic, apparently thinking he called him gay. April has to explain to him what it means.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_d2e4289b
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Character Catchphrase
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While the movie is mostly based on the original Mirage Studios comics, it had a few elements from the 80s cartoon: different-colored bandanas, their love for pizza, April being a news reporter, and Michelangelo's Character Catchphrase "Cowabunga".
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_d308cbb0
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: The Shredder. Splinter shows up to save his sons and delivers a Shut Up, Hannibal! speech that drives The Shredder into a murderous rage, charging at him with his spear. Splinter uses Shredder's own momentum (and an assist from one of Mikey's discarded nunchaku) to fling him over the edge of the rooftop and leaves the villain holding onto the spear for dear life.
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I Know Your True Name
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I Know Your True Name: "Yes, Oroku Saki, I know who you are."
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Dog Pile of Doom
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Dog Pile of Doom: After April catches the three Foot Clan thieves in the act of stealing equipment from her news van, said thieves pounce on her as she tries fleeing. Fortunately for April, the Turtles intervene.
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Sword and Fist
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Sword and Fist: To maintain its PG rating, the film never shows Leonardo or Raphael landing hits on mooks with their sharp weapons. After some flynning, they'll finish their opponent with a kick, punch, or other blunt attack. The few times they do manage to land a hit, the shots are filmed in ways that doesn't show how bloody the impact it. Only in the climax, when he manages to land a hit on the Shredder's arm (and possibly one more at his back in the end, right before Shredder tosses him aside) do we see anything onscreen.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_d4fb3e83
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Revised Ending
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Revised Ending: The original ending for the film had April quitting her reporter's job in order to pitch the story of their adventures to a comic book company while the Turtles listen in outside the window. When the editor rejects her idea as being too unrealistic, Mikey falls off the building. This scene is still in the real-life comic adaptation.
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Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient
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Hold the Unsolicited Ingredient: Michelangelo orders a pizza near the beginning of the movie as Splinter talks about the "art of invisibility". As Splinter is finishing up his speech, Mikey is just about to finish the order, and he says, "Oh, but no anchovies, and I mean no anchovies. You put anchovies on this thing and you're in big trouble, okay?" right before Splinter throws a book at his head.
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Secondary Adaptation
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Secondary Adaptation: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, which had begun as a comic book series, had a successful western cartoon, so New Line Cinema made this live-action film trilogy starting in 1990, incorporating elements from both previous mediums.
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here
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Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The two purse-snatching teenagers make a quick break for it when Raphael and Casey meet for the first time in Central Park. After having a fight with Leonardo, Raphael leaves to blow off some steam doing martial art moves on the rooftop. Unfortunately, it is on the rooftop where he gets ambushed by the Foot. Even before the argument, Donatello and Michelangelo see exactly where this is going and rush into the kitchen. The way they talk so casually about it makes it clear this happens a lot. The garbage truck driver bails upon seeing the final battle during Mikey and Don's "shell pun" bit.
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
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Pre-Asskicking One-Liner: Casey Jones's fight with Tatsu was all over once Casey got knocked into a pallet of sporting goods and came up with a driver. Casey promptly delivers the obligatory line before ending the fight with one stroke.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_db4b76d1
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Ear Ache
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Ear Ache: Shredder chopped off one of Splinter's ears many years ago after the latter scratched his face.
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 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_dd891949
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Who Writes This Crap?!
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Who Writes This Crap?!: To quote Raphael after watching Critters, "Ugh! Where do they come up with this stuff?!"
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Bad Guys Play Pool
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Bad Guys Play Pool: Taking a cue from Pinocchio, the headquarters for the Foot Clan has a huge game room filled with typical '80s/'90s delinquent kid activities to keep their underage Ninja Mooks pacified, including a series of pool tables.
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Distant Reaction Shot
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Distant Reaction Shot: "DAAAAAAAMN!"
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Within Arm's Reach
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Within Arm's Reach: Casey Jones is on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle from Tatsu until he ends up landing near a bag of stolen golf clubs. He grabs a driver and proceeds to One-Hit KO Tatsu.
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Manchild
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Manchild: April describes Casey as "A 9-year-old trapped in a man's body."
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Throw the Book at Them
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e2de05e8
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Throw the Book at Them: In the opening scene, while Splinter talks about the "art of invisibility", Mikey orders a pizza from Domino's. Just as he tells the caller not to include anchovies on his pizza, Splinter throws a book at him.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e2de05e8
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Bash Brothers
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Bash Brothers: All four of the Turtles, which is even Lampshaded in the battle of April's apartment as they're not used to fighting with a man down.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e3d06d0c
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e4965307
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Composite Character
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Composite Character: Oroku Saki and Oroku Nagi. In the film, Saki, instead of Nagi, is the one who's Hamato Yoshi's rival and in love with Tang Shen. (Though a complete origin with Nagi was featured in the script and found its way into the novel and comic adaptations.)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e4965307
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Determinator
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Determinator: April. She won't stop in her efforts to get the scoop on the Foot, even when it's members are threatening her life.
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Divergent Character Evolution
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Divergent Character Evolution: To one of the greatest degrees ever. Not only were the Turtles' conflicting personalities pushed further than they've ever gone but each Turtle has a unique and distinctive look and body type that would make them recognizable even without their differently-colored masks. Leonardo is slim and athletic, Raphael is muscular with some tough-guy scars, Donnie is a little chubby but the second most muscular after Raph, and Mikey is short. The fourth movie mainly keeps these intact (although Donnie's slimmed down a bit) and gives Mikey Innocent Blue Eyes to help show off his youth and innocence further.
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Bad News in a Good Way
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Bad News in a Good Way: When April says she has to go to a neighbor's house four miles away to call Charles, Casey responds, "Hey, you just saved yourself an eight-mile round tripper. You were fired." April doesn't take it well—either the news or Casey's attempt at "sensitivity."
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Screaming Warrior
 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) / int_e6df8814
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Screaming Warrior: Raphael when they find their home trashed and Splinter gone. A better example would be his rescue of April from the Foot in the subway when he gets his missing sai back.
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The Oner
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The Oner: Shredder's introduction is done with a long, lingering shot down the corridor that swoops to the side as he walks down the hallway and meets his men, then goes behind him Tatsu helps with his cape.
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Genre Refugee
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Genre Refugee: This version of Casey Jones wouldn't look out of place in an R-rated vigilante action movie.
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