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** That said, the bulked up, full-head bandana wearing Raphael actually [[OlderThanTheyThink predates this version]], as that design was also used for [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014 the Michael Bay]] [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesOutOfTheShadows produced movies]]. However, this version being the leader was original concept invented by this series.
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* Misanthropic comedian Creator/LewisBlack voiced a balding man that got mutated into a red bipedal spider with a temper problem. He advanced further with this concept in Disney/Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut.''
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* Minae Noji voices Tang Shen in "Tales of the Yokai". In the 2014 movie, she played Karai.
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* Creator/MichaelDorn of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' appears in "Annihilation: Earth!" as Mozar and this character is the BigBad for the first half of the fourth season. The fifth season's ShowWithinAShow is a parody of Dorn's ''The Next Generation'', which bookends the seasons after the first season parodied the original ''Star Trek''.
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* The "Mutant Apocalypse" three-parter shows Raph's future self having bulked up considerably and with a full-head bandana. His design in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (which was announced months ahead of the three-parter's airing) has those exact signature aspects. What's more, he's the acting leader!
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* The "Mutant Apocalypse" three-parter shows Raph's future self having bulked up considerably and with a full-head bandana. His design in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (which was announced months ahead of the three-parter's airing) has those exact signature aspects. What's more, he's the acting leader!leader!
* This show has Creator/RobPaulsen, the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 previous actor of]] Raphael, voicing Donatello. A few years later, Creator/SamRiegel, the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 previous actor of]] Donatello eventually went on to voice Raphael in the 2016 short ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5906060/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Pizza Friday!]]''
* This show has Creator/RobPaulsen, the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 previous actor of]] Raphael, voicing Donatello. A few years later, Creator/SamRiegel, the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 previous actor of]] Donatello eventually went on to voice Raphael in the 2016 short ''[[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5906060/ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in Pizza Friday!]]''
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* A training simulation has the Turtles riffing on ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The following year the Turtles were announced as [[GuestFighter Guest Fighters]] for ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' which isn't just made by the same company that makes ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' but also features guest characters from the series.
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* A training simulation has the Turtles riffing on ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The following year the Turtles were announced as [[GuestFighter Guest Fighters]] for ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' which isn't just made by the same company that makes ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' but also features guest characters from the series. The Turtles would later appear as skins in ''VideoGame/{{Brawlhalla}}'', which also features Street Fighter characters and skins of Street Fighter characters in ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6''.
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* After Leo develops a crush on Karai, he goes to April to talk about it. April is initially on board with it until she finds out Leo's LoveInterest is in the Foot clan. Then, in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMutantMayhem'', Leo has a crush on April herself. So now April flipping out seems appropriate for different reasons.
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* Donatello/April and Leonardo/Karai were both [[{{Shipping}} ships]] that only received mere [[ShipTease teasing]] in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]] rather than anything serious. This series takes those teases and makes them officially acknowledged InUniverse.
* Donatello and Casey's friendly rivalry and name calling in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 1990 film]] all of a sudden becomes a lot funnier now that the two have received DieForOurShip between those who pair them with April in this series.
* In the 2003 series' Fast Forward era, the Turtles had to fight evil clones of themselves. Donatello's evil clone is the tallest and skinniest of the 4 evil Turtles (much like the 2012 Donatello), Raphael's evil clone is the shortest (which reflects the 2012 Raphael being shorter than Leonardo and Donatello), and Michelangelo's evil clone is basically a nincompoop who barely makes sense (which matches the 2012 Mikey's Flanderized [[AdaptationalDumbAss stupidity]]).
* Donatello and Casey's friendly rivalry and name calling in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 1990 film]] all of a sudden becomes a lot funnier now that the two have received DieForOurShip between those who pair them with April in this series.
* In the 2003 series' Fast Forward era, the Turtles had to fight evil clones of themselves. Donatello's evil clone is the tallest and skinniest of the 4 evil Turtles (much like the 2012 Donatello), Raphael's evil clone is the shortest (which reflects the 2012 Raphael being shorter than Leonardo and Donatello), and Michelangelo's evil clone is basically a nincompoop who barely makes sense (which matches the 2012 Mikey's Flanderized [[AdaptationalDumbAss stupidity]]).
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* Donatello and Casey's friendly rivalry and name calling in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1990 1990 film]] all of a sudden becomes a lot funnier now that the two have received DieForOurShip between those who pair them with April in this series.
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HilariousInHindsight in this series.
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* Donatello/April and Leonardo/Karai were both [[{{Shipping}} ships]] that only received mere [[ShipTease teasing]] in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]] rather than anything serious. This series takes those teases and makes them officially acknowledged InUniverse.
* Donatello and Casey's friendly rivalry and name calling in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles 1990 film]] all of a sudden becomes a lot funnier now that the two have received DieForOurShip between those who pair them with April in this series.
* In the 2003 series' Fast Forward era, the Turtles had to fight evil clones of themselves. Donatello's evil clone is the tallest and skinniest of the 4 evil Turtles (much like the 2012 Donatello), Raphael's evil clone is the shortest (which reflects the 2012 Raphael being shorter than Leonardo and Donatello), and Michelangelo's evil clone is basically a nincompoop who barely makes sense (which matches the 2012 Mikey's Flanderized [[AdaptationalDumbAss stupidity]]).
* In "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2", the Turtles find a canister of mutagen. Mikey suggests that they drink it and reasons that if you mutate a mutant, you get a super mutant. That's exactly what happens when Dogpound takes a mutagen bath and turns into Rahzar.
* Minae Noji voices Tang Shen in "Tales of the Yokai". In the 2014 movie, she played Karai.
* Misanthropic comedian Creator/LewisBlack voiced a balding man that got mutated into a red bipedal spider with a temper problem. He advanced further with this concept in Disney/Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut.''
* In "The Gauntlet", Leo refers to the Turtles as Mighty Mutants. Guess who shows up in the third season? The Mighty Mutanimals. Also, they were investigating one of the group's future members, who in this case is Pigeon Pete.
* At the end of "Metalhead", Donatello considers tricking out his bo staff out with various gadgets and a missile launcher. Sounds an awful lot like the bo staff his [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles 2018-counterpart]] uses.
* In "Plan 10", Casey and April switch each other's mind during a battle at the Technodrome, and Casey even admits liking being a girl. [[spoiler: And then comes ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', where Casey ''[[GenderFlip is]]'' portrayed as a girl]].
* In "The Invasion", Casey is looking at what looks like an urban art painting of April with a [[AmbiguouslyBrown darker skin tone]]. The [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the TMNT show that followed this one]] had April portrayed as [[RaceLift black]].
* Creator/MichaelDorn of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' appears in "Annihilation: Earth!" as Mozar and this character is the BigBad for the first half of the fourth season. The fifth season's ShowWithinAShow is a parody of Dorn's ''The Next Generation'', which bookends the seasons after the first season parodied the original ''Star Trek''.
* In "The Manhattan Project", April calls Karai a witch. Following the latter's HeelFaceTurn, Karai partners with witch girl Shinigami.
* In order to fight Kavaxas, Donatello invents what are basically [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} proton packs]]. The IDW series actually had an official {{Crossover}} with ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' a couple years before this story.
* A training simulation has the Turtles riffing on ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The following year the Turtles were announced as [[GuestFighter Guest Fighters]] for ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' which isn't just made by the same company that makes ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' but also features guest characters from the series.
* The "Mutant Apocalypse" three-parter shows Raph's future self having bulked up considerably and with a full-head bandana. His design in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (which was announced months ahead of the three-parter's airing) has those exact signature aspects. What's more, he's the acting leader!
HilariousInHindsight in this series.
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* Donatello/April and Leonardo/Karai were both [[{{Shipping}} ships]] that only received mere [[ShipTease teasing]] in the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 2003 series]] rather than anything serious. This series takes those teases and makes them officially acknowledged InUniverse.
* Donatello and Casey's friendly rivalry and name calling in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles 1990 film]] all of a sudden becomes a lot funnier now that the two have received DieForOurShip between those who pair them with April in this series.
* In the 2003 series' Fast Forward era, the Turtles had to fight evil clones of themselves. Donatello's evil clone is the tallest and skinniest of the 4 evil Turtles (much like the 2012 Donatello), Raphael's evil clone is the shortest (which reflects the 2012 Raphael being shorter than Leonardo and Donatello), and Michelangelo's evil clone is basically a nincompoop who barely makes sense (which matches the 2012 Mikey's Flanderized [[AdaptationalDumbAss stupidity]]).
* In "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2", the Turtles find a canister of mutagen. Mikey suggests that they drink it and reasons that if you mutate a mutant, you get a super mutant. That's exactly what happens when Dogpound takes a mutagen bath and turns into Rahzar.
* Minae Noji voices Tang Shen in "Tales of the Yokai". In the 2014 movie, she played Karai.
* Misanthropic comedian Creator/LewisBlack voiced a balding man that got mutated into a red bipedal spider with a temper problem. He advanced further with this concept in Disney/Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/InsideOut.''
* In "The Gauntlet", Leo refers to the Turtles as Mighty Mutants. Guess who shows up in the third season? The Mighty Mutanimals. Also, they were investigating one of the group's future members, who in this case is Pigeon Pete.
* At the end of "Metalhead", Donatello considers tricking out his bo staff out with various gadgets and a missile launcher. Sounds an awful lot like the bo staff his [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles 2018-counterpart]] uses.
* In "Plan 10", Casey and April switch each other's mind during a battle at the Technodrome, and Casey even admits liking being a girl. [[spoiler: And then comes ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', where Casey ''[[GenderFlip is]]'' portrayed as a girl]].
* In "The Invasion", Casey is looking at what looks like an urban art painting of April with a [[AmbiguouslyBrown darker skin tone]]. The [[WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the TMNT show that followed this one]] had April portrayed as [[RaceLift black]].
* Creator/MichaelDorn of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' appears in "Annihilation: Earth!" as Mozar and this character is the BigBad for the first half of the fourth season. The fifth season's ShowWithinAShow is a parody of Dorn's ''The Next Generation'', which bookends the seasons after the first season parodied the original ''Star Trek''.
* In "The Manhattan Project", April calls Karai a witch. Following the latter's HeelFaceTurn, Karai partners with witch girl Shinigami.
* In order to fight Kavaxas, Donatello invents what are basically [[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} proton packs]]. The IDW series actually had an official {{Crossover}} with ''ComicBook/{{Ghostbusters}}'' a couple years before this story.
* A training simulation has the Turtles riffing on ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' and ''Franchise/MortalKombat''. The following year the Turtles were announced as [[GuestFighter Guest Fighters]] for ''VideoGame/Injustice2'' which isn't just made by the same company that makes ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' but also features guest characters from the series.
* The "Mutant Apocalypse" three-parter shows Raph's future self having bulked up considerably and with a full-head bandana. His design in ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (which was announced months ahead of the three-parter's airing) has those exact signature aspects. What's more, he's the acting leader!
