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* AmbiguousDisorder: Not ambiguous since Mikey is confirmed to have ADHD.

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Not ambiguous since Mikey is confirmed to have ADHD.ADHD.
** Leatherhead seems to have a massive case of PTSD from all the Kraang experiments done to him.
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* {Sssssnaketalk}}: [[spoiler:Tang Shen speaks this way after she's mutated.]]

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* {Sssssnaketalk}}: {{Sssssnaketalk}}: [[spoiler:Tang Shen speaks this way after she's mutated.]]
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* {Sssssnaketalk}}: [[spoiler:Tang Shen speaks this way after she's mutated.]]
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* NeverMyFault: Yes Oroku, Tang Shen's injuries, the fact that she no longer loves you, and her [[spoiler:mutations]] are all most certainly your fault.

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* NeverMyFault: Yes Oroku, Tang Shen's injuries, the fact that she no longer loves you, and her [[spoiler:mutations]] are all most certainly your ''your'' fault.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: AdaptationalJerkass: The Shredder is was bad enough as his, but he's ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Mikey tends to get easily distracted. Justified since he is confirmed to have ADHD.

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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11309240/1/Same-Difference Same Difference]] is a WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 fanfic that explores the avenues taken from the many cases of ForWantOfANail mantioned above. The author, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1578614/Sunny-Lighter Sunny Lighter]], has explicetly stated that this is NOT a high-school AU. As the fic shows, a proper description of it would be more of a [[HumanityEnsues human AU]].

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[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11309240/1/Same-Difference Same Difference]] is a WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' fanfic that explores the avenues taken from the many cases of ForWantOfANail mantioned above. The author, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1578614/Sunny-Lighter Sunny Lighter]], has explicetly explicitly stated that this is NOT a high-school AU. As the fic shows, a proper description of it would be more of a [[HumanityEnsues human AU]].


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* AxeCrazy:
** The Shredder is '''not''' mentally stable in the slightest.
** Following her mutations, [[spoiler:Tang Shen]] has become incredibly feral. Stockman even comments that in that state, she and the Shredder are BirdsOfAFeather.

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* AdaptationalBadass: Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.

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* AdaptationalBadass: Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother. [[spoiler:She also becomes a mutant instead of Miwa, which puts her on the same level as Slash and Leatherhead.]]


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* GentleGiant: Leatherhead is incredibly soft-spoken and kind-hearted for a large crocodile mutant.


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* TokenHuman: After he returns to normal, Jason is pretty much the only human on the Mutanimals.
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* {{Yandere}}: '''Shredder'''. To say he's obsessed with Tang Shen would be an understatement. Once he learns she's alive, he does ''everything'' in his power to cut Yoshi out of the picture and gain her affections.

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* {{Yandere}}: '''Shredder'''. To say he's obsessed with Tang Shen would be an understatement. Once he learns she's alive, he does ''everything'' in his power to cut Yoshi out of the picture and gain her affections.affections.
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* HighSchoolAU: ''Completely averted''. Sunny Lighter has stated that this isn't the case. Though some chapters take place at the high school, these are few and far between.
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: Martin's reason for choosing to remain as Sir Malachi is because as a human, he was an utter nobody, but as Malachi, he not only has cool powers, but he can use them for good.
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* HeroOfAnotherStory: The Mutanimals became the protectors of New York during the Hamato families absence. They even get their own focus chapter in "Struggle on the Homefront".

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* AdaptationalBadass:
** Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.

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AdaptationalBadass: Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.


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** Casey ends up having a crush on Miwa.

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* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Miwa is never raised as Karai and is one of the Hamato clan.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.

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* AdaptationalHeroism:
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AdaptationalHeroism: Miwa is never raised as Karai and is one of the Hamato clan.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
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AdaptationalVillainy: The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.



* AdaptationalSpeciesChange:
** Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey are all born humans.
* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Not ambiguous since Mikey is confirmed to have ADHD.

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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange:
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AdaptationalSpeciesChange: Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey are all born humans.
* AmbiguousDisorder:
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AmbiguousDisorder: Not ambiguous since Mikey is confirmed to have ADHD.



* CallingTheOldManOut:
** April lashes out at her father for knowing that she was half-Kraang and never telling her.
* DamselInDistress:
** April starts out like this, and she ''really'' hates it.

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* CallingTheOldManOut:
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CallingTheOldManOut: April lashes out at her father for knowing that she was half-Kraang and never telling her.
* DamselInDistress:
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DamselInDistress: April starts out like this, and she ''really'' hates it.



* ForTheEvulz:
** When April points out that the Kraang could just harvest her DNA by taking her hair rather than put a large needle in her head, the Kraang admits she's right, but they just find the painful way more entertaining.

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* ForTheEvulz:
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ForTheEvulz: When April points out that the Kraang could just harvest her DNA by taking her hair rather than put a large needle in her head, the Kraang admits she's right, but they just find the painful way more entertaining.



* InSpiteOfANail:
** Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Both Raph and Miwa are impatient, aggressive, and rough around the edges, but they care and love their family, going out of their way for them.
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
** Leo is so much like Yoshi that Shredder has absolutely no issue trying to kill him when he avoids doing so with the other Hamato children.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
** With how dickish Jason's parents are and how much of a NiceGuy Jason himself is, you have to question the relation.

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* InSpiteOfANail:
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InSpiteOfANail: Three of the four(Raph, four (Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
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JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Both Raph and Miwa are impatient, aggressive, and rough around the edges, but they care and love their family, going out of their way for them.
* LikeFatherLikeSon:
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LikeFatherLikeSon: Leo is so much like Yoshi that Shredder has absolutely no issue trying to kill him when he avoids doing so with the other Hamato children.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
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LikeFatherUnlikeSon: With how dickish Jason's parents are and how much of a NiceGuy Jason himself is, you have to question the relation.



* RealityEnsues:
** Since Raph, Mikey, and Leo were born humans rather than mutants, once they mutate, they need to completely readjust. Not to mention that turtles have aspects of their biology that the three aren't used to. [[spoiler:Once they revert back to humans thanks to the retro-mutagen, they need to readjust again after having been turtles for so long.]]

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* RealityEnsues:
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RealityEnsues: Since Raph, Mikey, and Leo were born humans rather than mutants, once they mutate, they need to completely readjust. Not to mention that turtles have aspects of their biology that the three aren't used to. [[spoiler:Once they revert back to humans thanks to the retro-mutagen, they need to readjust again after having been turtles for so long.]]



* ShoutOut:
** After April starts developing psychic powers, Mikey calls her ComicBook/JeanGrey.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** Tang Shen becomes much stronger [[spoiler:after she gets mutated, with her injuries becoming completely healed and having enough physical strength to easily overpower the Kraang Huntterror.]]

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* ShoutOut:
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ShoutOut: After April starts developing psychic powers, Mikey calls her ComicBook/JeanGrey.
* TookALevelInBadass:
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TookALevelInBadass: Tang Shen becomes much stronger [[spoiler:after she gets mutated, with her injuries becoming completely healed and having enough physical strength to easily overpower the Kraang Huntterror.]]
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* TookALevelInBadass:
** Tang Shen becomes much stronger [[spoiler:after she gets mutated, with her injuries becoming completely healed and having enough physical strength to easily overpower the Kraang Huntterror.]]
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* SameSexTriplets: Quadruplets actually. This is part of how April was able to recognize the four when they saved her even when in ninja garbs, as quadruplets are extremely rare.
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* AmbiguousDisorder:
** Not ambiguous since Mikey is confirmed to have ADHD.


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* BadassFamily: Don't screw with the Hamato clan if you know what's good for you.


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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold:
** Both Raph and Miwa are impatient, aggressive, and rough around the edges, but they care and love their family, going out of their way for them.

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** He's not their father, but Shredder's ideas on parenthood for the children aren't exactly very good.



* AdaptationalBadass: Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.

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* AdaptationalBadass: AdaptationalBadass:
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Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.



* AdaptationalVillainy: The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.

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* AdaptationalVillainy: AdaptationalVillainy:
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The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.



* DamselInDistress: April starts out like this, and she ''really'' hates it.

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* DamselInDistress: DamselInDistress:
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April starts out like this, and she ''really'' hates it.



* InSpiteOfANail: Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: Leo is so much like Yoshi that Shredder has absolutely no issue trying to kill him when he avoids doing so with the other Hamato children.

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* InSpiteOfANail: InSpiteOfANail:
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Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]
* LikeFatherLikeSon: LikeFatherLikeSon:
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Leo is so much like Yoshi that Shredder has absolutely no issue trying to kill him when he avoids doing so with the other Hamato children.children.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
** With how dickish Jason's parents are and how much of a NiceGuy Jason himself is, you have to question the relation.



* RealityEnsues: Since Raph, Mikey, and Leo were born humans rather than mutants, once they mutate, they need to completely readjust. Not to mention that turtles have aspects of their biology that the three aren't used to. [[spoiler:Once they revert back to humans thanks to the retro-mutagen, they need to readjust again after having been turtles for so long.]]

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* RealityEnsues: PapaWolf: Yoshi is as much of this as Tang Shen is a MamaBear.
* RealityEnsues:
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Since Raph, Mikey, and Leo were born humans rather than mutants, once they mutate, they need to completely readjust. Not to mention that turtles have aspects of their biology that the three aren't used to. [[spoiler:Once they revert back to humans thanks to the retro-mutagen, they need to readjust again after having been turtles for so long.]]
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange:
** Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey are all born humans.


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* MamaBear: '''Never''' harm her children unless you want Tang Shen to raise Hell. [[spoiler:Triply so after she becomes a mutant.]]


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* SelectiveObliviousness: The Shredder ignores all obvious evidence that Tang Shen is happy with Yoshi and no longer cares for him even as family.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Leo is so much like Yoshi that Shredder has absolutely no issue trying to kill him when he avoids doing so with the other Hamato children.

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So many [[ForWantOfANail nails]] thrown into the mix. A world where Tang Shen survived, where Miwa never became Karai, and where the turtles are ''humans'' rather than mutants. Either way, knowing Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey, there are still going to be some insane adventures. Hey, their ninjas, you expect them to be normal?

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So many [[ForWantOfANail nails]] thrown into the mix. A world where Tang Shen survived, where Miwa never became Karai, where Yoshi never mutated, and where the turtles are ''humans'' rather than mutants. Either way, knowing Leo, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey, there are still going to be some insane adventures. Hey, their ninjas, you expect them to be normal?


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** Yoshi/Splinter having never mutated into a rat cuts out the Rat King's relevance.
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* AbusiveParent:
** Jason's parent's are ''kinda'' dicks. They kick him out after he mutates, and while they embrace him when he returns as a human, they go back to being jackasses when they learn that he was the mutant gecko they kicked out.


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* FantasticRacism:
** The siblings, being human this time, start out slightly wary of mutants due to most of the ones they encounter either being feral of crazy.
** Jason/Mondo Gecko's parents absolutely '''HATE''' mutants. While they were in "The Shelter" during the Kraang invasion, they actively tried to rally everyone there against the Mutanimals despite said mutants literally being their only chance for survival at that point.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation:
** Mondo Gecko's real name is Jason.
** Sir Malachi's real name is Martin.
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* WosrtWhateverEver: ''A Few Aprils to Many'' is literally April's worst day ever. She constantly gets treated like a damsel due to being a target for the Kraang, ends up being next to useless when the group was fighting the Kraang at TCRI(even Gecko, who has less fighting experience than her ends up being more useful), gets captured, cloned, nearly tortured, and at the end of the day, learns that she's half-mutant alien.

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* WosrtWhateverEver: WorstWhateverEver: ''A Few Aprils to Many'' is literally April's worst day ever. She constantly gets treated like a damsel due to being a target for the Kraang, ends up being next to useless when the group was fighting the Kraang at TCRI(even Gecko, who has less fighting experience than her ends up being more useful), gets captured, cloned, nearly tortured, and at the end of the day, learns that she's half-mutant alien.

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* CallingTheOldManOut:
** April lashes out at her father for knowing that she was half-Kraang and never telling her.
* DamselInDistress: April starts out like this, and she ''really'' hates it.



* ForTheEvulz:
** When April points out that the Kraang could just harvest her DNA by taking her hair rather than put a large needle in her head, the Kraang admits she's right, but they just find the painful way more entertaining.



* ShoutOut:
** After April starts developing psychic powers, Mikey calls her ComicBook/JeanGrey.



** Mikey? Squirrels.

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** Mikey? Squirrels. Specifically the Squirrelanoids.


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* WosrtWhateverEver: ''A Few Aprils to Many'' is literally April's worst day ever. She constantly gets treated like a damsel due to being a target for the Kraang, ends up being next to useless when the group was fighting the Kraang at TCRI(even Gecko, who has less fighting experience than her ends up being more useful), gets captured, cloned, nearly tortured, and at the end of the day, learns that she's half-mutant alien.
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* EntitledToHaveYou: Oroku believes that everything is his right and nothing is ever his fault. From his perspective, Miwa, Shen, and her children should be ''his''. The only exception is Leo, and that's because he's so much like Yoshi that Shredder is disgusted by him.
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* InSpiteOfNail: Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]

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* InSpiteOfNail: InSpiteOfANail: Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]

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So many [[ForWantOfANail nails]] thrown into the mix. A world where Tang Shen survived, where Miwa never became Karai, and where the turtles are ''humans'' rather than mutants. Either way, knowing Leo, Ralph, Donnie, and Mikey, there are still going to be some insane adventures. Hey, their ninjas, you expect them to be normal?

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So many [[ForWantOfANail nails]] thrown into the mix. A world where Tang Shen survived, where Miwa never became Karai, and where the turtles are ''humans'' rather than mutants. Either way, knowing Leo, Ralph, Raph, Donnie, and Mikey, there are still going to be some insane adventures. Hey, their ninjas, you expect them to be normal?



** Casey and Ralph are best friends instead of total strangers in the beginning.

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** Casey and Ralph Raph are best friends instead of total strangers in the beginning.



* TheDreaded:
** The Shredder puts the entire Hamato clan on edge even before he arrived in New York.
** PlayedForLaughs, but Miwa is considered the scariest of the siblings. One of the reasons Dr. O'Neil wanted specifically Raph to guard him? Miwa scares him more than ''Leatherhead''.



** Ralph ends up TakingTheBullet for Kirby O' Neil, preventing him from mutating and Ralph mutating in his place.

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** Ralph Raph ends up TakingTheBullet for Kirby O' Neil, O'Neil, preventing him from mutating and Ralph mutating in his place.



* InSpiteOfNail: Three of the four(Raph, Mikey, and Leo) end up becoming turtle mutants. [[spoiler:Though they eventually change back to normal after Donnie creates enough retro-mutagen.]]
* NeverMyFault: Yes Oroku, Tang Shen's injuries, the fact that she no longer loves you, and her [[spoiler:mutations]] are all most certainly your fault.
* RealityEnsues: Since Raph, Mikey, and Leo were born humans rather than mutants, once they mutate, they need to completely readjust. Not to mention that turtles have aspects of their biology that the three aren't used to. [[spoiler:Once they revert back to humans thanks to the retro-mutagen, they need to readjust again after having been turtles for so long.]]
* SanitySlippage:
** Shredder's sanity has been going downhill for well over a decade at this point. He's more of a cold, calculating insanity rather than a raving lunatic insanity.
** Once Tang Shen [[spoiler:mutates into a medusa-esque snake mutant]], she becomes almost completely feral and lashes out at everyone except her children. She does start to regain a decent amount of lucidity after a while, but she's still pretty feral.



** Since Ralph is a new mutant this time, his fear of cockroaches is mixed with his self-consciousness about the fact that he's no longer human and is now a "monster".

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** Since Ralph Raph is a new mutant this time, his fear of cockroaches is mixed with his self-consciousness about the fact that he's no longer human and is now a "monster".



** Mondo/Jason fears his parents despising and abusing him for his mutations, which already came to pass.

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** Mondo/Jason fears his parents despising and abusing him for his mutations, which already came to pass.pass.
* {{Yandere}}: '''Shredder'''. To say he's obsessed with Tang Shen would be an understatement. Once he learns she's alive, he does ''everything'' in his power to cut Yoshi out of the picture and gain her affections.
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* HandicappedBadass: Tang Shen suffered from sever injuries saving Yoshi from the Shredder's killing blow. She can hold her own in a fight well enough, but she's nowhere near as capable as she used to be. [[spoiler:Until she gets mutated and [[TookALevelInBadass takes a couple levels in badass]] because of it.]]

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* HandicappedBadass: Tang Shen suffered from sever injuries saving Yoshi from the Shredder's killing blow. She can hold her own in a fight well enough, but she's nowhere near as capable as she used to be. [[spoiler:Until she gets mutated and [[TookALevelInBadass takes a couple levels in badass]] because of it.]]]]
* WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: The fear-inducing fungi episode still happens, though some fears are different and some are added.
** Miwa is terrified of becoming Shredder's daughter and potentially killing her family.
** Since Ralph is a new mutant this time, his fear of cockroaches is mixed with his self-consciousness about the fact that he's no longer human and is now a "monster".
** Donnie is terrified of April hating him as well as the possibility that everyone he knows turns to monsters because of him.
** April's fear is now losing her father to the Kraang and the fact that she's one of them.
** Casey's is rats.
** Mikey? Squirrels.
** Leo fears failure as a leader.
** Leatherhead fears the Kraang for the experiments they did on him. His nightmare is fighting them for so long that he can't feel anything anymore and just gives in to their torture.
** Mondo/Jason fears his parents despising and abusing him for his mutations, which already came to pass.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Tang Shen is a Kunochi rather than a stay-at-home mother.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Miwa is never raised as Karai and is one of the Hamato clan.
* AdaptationalVillainy: The Shredder is ''way'' worse here than he was in the original series. WordOfGod states that the Shredder raising Karai in the prime timeline gave him something to anchor his sanity to. Without her, he went further down the loony bin than he would have ever gone.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul:
** Donnie and April become an OfficialCouple rather than it being a one-sided crush on Donnie's end.
** Casey and Ralph are best friends instead of total strangers in the beginning.
** Mondo Gecko/Jason is best friends with Mikey.
* AscendedExtra:
** Tang Shen survives, so this ensues.
** Sir Malachi becomes one of the Mutanimals rather than becomes a case of "WhateverHappenedToTheMouse"
** Mondo Gecko is given some more focus thanks to his connection to Mikey.
* ForWantOfANail: Many changes result from the various nails put in.
** Miwa never being raised by the Shredder has caused his sanity to decline much faster.
** The brothers being humans means that they properly know how to interact with them. This means Vic never becomes Spider Bytez and Mike never goes about trying to befriend Chris Bradford, so their invasion of the Hamato home never happens either.
** Baxter Stockman never gains his robot suit, though he still becomes one of the Shredder's minions.
** Donnie being human gives him fewer issues with trying to ask April out, and April has fewer reasons to say no.
** Ralph ends up TakingTheBullet for Kirby O' Neil, preventing him from mutating and Ralph mutating in his place.
** Tang Shen [[spoiler:becomes a snake mutant]] rather than Miwa.
* HandicappedBadass: Tang Shen suffered from sever injuries saving Yoshi from the Shredder's killing blow. She can hold her own in a fight well enough, but she's nowhere near as capable as she used to be. [[spoiler:Until she gets mutated and [[TookALevelInBadass takes a couple levels in badass]] because of it.]]
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So many [[ForWantOfANail nails]] thrown into the mix. A world where Tang Shen survived, where Miwa never became Karai, and where the turtles are ''humans'' rather than mutants. Either way, knowing Leo, Ralph, Donnie, and Mikey, there are still going to be some insane adventures. Hey, their ninjas, you expect them to be normal?

[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11309240/1/Same-Difference Same Difference]] is a WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012 fanfic that explores the avenues taken from the many cases of ForWantOfANail mantioned above. The author, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/1578614/Sunny-Lighter Sunny Lighter]], has explicetly stated that this is NOT a high-school AU. As the fic shows, a proper description of it would be more of a [[HumanityEnsues human AU]].
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