History Recap / FilmRerollTeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Leonardo and Donatello take on some of the terrorists in the control room, Leo manages to impale one with his katana, causing that terrorist to then crash sideways through a screen as he dies. When Jon says [[NotHelpingYourCase says]] he only wanted to do a ''little'' stab, Paulo [[SarcasmMode helpfully]] chimes in:

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: TheDragon, the man with the pince-nez glasses, both leads a group of mercenaries and personally opens fire at Mikey and Leo with an AK-47.

* PsychicAssistedSuicide: Impressively, Raphael manages to not only ''[[ExactWords technically]]'' do this in Part 4, but also he does it ''[[GoneHorriblyRight accidentally]]'': While in his meditative trance, he manages to reach the mind of the glasses-wearing man and, rather than give him anything that would identify himself, send over feelings of fear and failure to try and counteract whatever he's planning with the rest of the terrorists. All this accomplishes is make him convinced the Turtles are using telekinetic attacks on them, and prompt him to not only accelerate his plans[[note]]his last words are telling one of his men that they need to "fire" ''now''[[/note]], but also [[DrivenToSuicide blow his brains out with a machine gun]].

-->'''Fred''': [[{{Squick}} Well, what’s wrong that?]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: While DM Paulo Quiros ''had'' intended the US Secretary of Defense to be just a random, NoPartyGiven NPC, but Andy Hoover pointing out that this position would have been filled by UsefulNotes/DickCheney at the time made an impression pretty much obligatory.

* TemptingFate:
** After Keno drops off the pizza, and is greatly unnerved by his near-encounter with the Turtles, Andy contemplates calling the cops, but decides to instead go back to his job delivering pizzas, causing Paulo to comment that Keno is out of the movie. Later on, however, it's decided that he should go ''back'' to check in, and after ''another'' encounter with the Turtles and hearing April's less-than-convincing explanation for what's been going on at her apartment, Andy ultimately decides that Keno should make an anonymous tip to the cops.
** The ''exact'' moment that Jon complains about how well Raphael is doing against the armed thugs just by headbutting them repeatedly, that is when Kara starts to accumulate some bad rolls, ultimately resulting in Raphael blacking out.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The presence of a “B” in the basement floor creates some confusion, as the Rerollers wonder why somebody would draw a [[EverythingsWorseWithBees bee]] there...

* WidgetSeries: The Rerollers admit that for people who didn’t grow up with them, the very concept of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles may just seem baffling. It might not help that in transitioning from comics to animation, the franchise went from directly parodying Creator/FrankMiller’s ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} to becoming a more broad comedy about AnimalSuperheroes.

* ForWantOfANail: Because Kenu never got distracted by the goons with the van, he is able to deliver the Turtles’ pizzas in time... catching them flatfooted, as [[DidntThinkThisThrough they forgot to make sure they could]] ''[[SomethingWeForgot pay for them.]]'' And thanks to the absolute gong show in not only paying Kenu, but also trying to get him to leave without seeing them, [[ButterflyOfDoom he becomes convinced there’s weird ass shit going on at April’s apartment, and decides to call the cops]].

* DownerEnding: Discussed: In Part 2, Kara finally reveals what happened in the unreleased Die Hard campaign. After ''multiple'' failed rolls, John [=McClane=] found himself kneeling in front of Hans Gruber, who promptly killed him.

* ForegoneConclusion: Discussed: When discussing how the Die Hard campaign ended, Kara brings up what Paulo had said before Hans Gruber killed John [=McClane=]:

** Downplayed: [[ItMakesSenseInContext When everyone is discussing]] the [[TimeyWimeyBall the time nature of]] ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' at the end of Part 2, Paulo states that he wasn’t confused by the movie, but rather was bored.

* DistinguishedGentlemansPipe: One of the thugs Raphael beats down — nicknamed "the Professor" — has one. This was a ThrowItIn moment by Kara Strait which DM Paulo Quiros allowed.

* TheStinger: Within the campaign proper: After Paulo declares the end of the “movie” he decides to pay off the running Vegas plot thread by announcing that the post-credits scene is everyone driving off to Las Vegas.

* HiddenWeapons: [[ParodiedTrope Parodied.]] The guards at the Black Raven facilitet are all blatantly trying to hide AK-47s behind their backs.

* ArmorPiercingQuestion: After Raphael dies at the hands of the terrorists, Leonardo goes full [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope dark side]] and begins openly murdering the terrorists en masse on the grounds that "[t]hey killed Raph". It eventually gets to the point where ''Kara'' asks "Is this even ''about'' Raph anymore?"

* NotDistractedByTheSexy: April’s attempts at seducing Brandon [=DeJulio=] end up not working, to her great embarrassment.

* DistinctionWithoutADifference: When Leonardo and Donatello take on some of the terrorists in the control room, Leo manages to impale one with his katana, causing that terrorist to then fall sideways through a screen as he dies and crash onto the ground a floor below. When Jon says [[NotHelpingYourCase says]] he only wanted to do a ''little'' stab, Paulo [[SarcasmMode helpfully]] chimes in:

* MathematiciansAnswer: As Kara calls to attention, the birthday Paulo gave Raphael (and, presumably, the rest of the turtles) is "Whatever".

** When Jon ''finally'' fails a Will roll and succumbs to Paulo’s secret mechanic relating to Leonardo’s bloodlust, he accuses him of wanting this end result to happen. This causes Paulo to [[SarcasmMode sarcastically agree]] that he made Jon kill everyone.

* RiddleForTheAges: Due to the Turtles managing to circumvent the nukes, and Leonardo murdering most of the terrorists, it remains unclear if Åsmund Bøe ''was'' bluffing about nuking New York or not.

** By the end of the campaign, it is never fully made clear if Åsmund Bøe was serious about nuking Nee York.

* MeleeDisarming: Donatello knocks an goon into some machinery after he points a gun at him and Leonardo.

* AchievementsInIgnorance: Donatello just happens to find the last generator room while looking for a place to meditate. Then he hacks the generator to pieces with his katana.

* AmbiguousSituation: Kara (in and out of character) isn't sure if the building she winds up in towards the end of the first episode is a bank or a morgue, although signs point towards "bank".

** Part 3 sees things get ramped up slightly as Leonardo [[OffWithHisHead decapitates one of the terrorists]] in revenge for Raphael almost dying.
** What winds up taking the cake, however, is Part 4: Raphael accidentally managing to [[PsychicAssistedSuicide make a guy]] ''[[DrivenToSuicide blow his brains out]]''.

* FaceHeelTurn: Killing too many people has Leonardo give in to his dark side, which leads to him getting possessed and temporarily going from a player character to an NPC.

* MeleeDisarming: Donatello knocks Åsmund Bøe into some machinery after he points a gun at him and Leonardo.

** It takes until Part 4 for Paulo to admit that Casey Jones died in the bank explosion. [[KickTheSonOfABitch It only took that long because the other players never bothered to ask (since April told the Turtles not to care about him).]]

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: When April tries to acclimate herself with one of her guards, Paulo announces he Crit Succeeded a Will roll to resist her attempt. When Kara, annoyed, ponders what would've happened if he Crit ''Failed'', Paulo happily reminds her that the last NPC she encountered that Crit Failed a Will roll was [[PsychicAssistedSuicide the one that killed themselves.]]

* NeverMyFault: The top of Part 4 sees Jon bitching that Paulo had railroaded him into getting surrounded by the terrorists at the end of Part 3... even though both Kara and Paulo point out Jon had done that to himself by failing another shadowing roll.
* NeverSayGoodbye: Leonardo and Donatello elect to not say ”Goodbye”, which is what Raphael said to them before dying in battle. Instead, they go with ”Smell you later.”

* ForWantOfANail: Because Kenu never got distracted by the goons with the van, he is able to deliver the Turtles’ pizzas in time... catching them flatfooted, as [[DidntThinkThisThrough they forgot to make sure they could]] ''[[SomethingWeForgot pay for them.]]'' And thanks to the absolute gong show in not only paying him, but also trying to get him to leave without seeing them, [[ButterflyOfDoom he becomes convinced there’s weird ass shit going on at April’s apartment, and decides to call the cops]].

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Ausman Burr calls Mikey a "a beautiful abomination" to his face. Mikey finds it rather insulting.

* AGodAmI: Ausman Burr clearly has a god complex, something April chews him out on in a major TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.

** Part 4 winds up [[RunningGagged breaking the streak]] of "endings where the Turtles are caught by armed men": Michelangelo manages to dodge sniper fire long enough to sneak himself into an unknown conference room at the air base. [[ZigZaggedTrope Meanwhile,]] given how April is currently about to be brought into a meeting with "the Professor"[[note]]in this case, Ausman Burr[[/note]], Kara is ''convinced'' she's about to die.

* ExactWords: After Jon states his plan of throwing Ausman Burr under the bus to the cops, the others call him out for saying that about ''the actual culprit of the crime''. Jon then clarifies that he wants to ''[[LiteralMetaphor literally]]'' throw him under a bus.

* HidingBehindTheLanguageBarrier: Downplayed: Ausman Burr's interrogation of April gets interrupted by a phone call he takes, which he answers in a foreign language that Kara (wrongly) concludes is French:

* ItCanThink: Ausman Burr is surprised and fascinated to learn that the Turtles are not mere animals but thinking, intelligent beings.

* ManipulativeBastard: Ausman Burr tells April that he’s lying about his intentions to his employees (who, as he puts it, “are not good men”) and that she shouldn’t take what he tells them as gospel. Regardless of whether or not ''this'' is in and of itself a lie, it qualifies him for the trope.

* MeleeDisarming: Donatello knocks Ausman Burr into some machinery after he points a gun at him and Leonardo.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Variation: When Ausman Burr tells April his men searched her van, Kara panics and insists they show that scene since [[RememberedTooLate Raphael and Splinter were still in the van]]. Paulo agrees to do so... but because the men who were sent to search the van were armed, all this accomplished was [[TheHeroDies Raphael's death]].[[note]]While it stands to reason [[InSpiteOfANail this would've still happened even if Paulo didn't cut to it]], the fact that Raphael was Kara's favorite turtle made his death all the worse.[[/note]]
* MyGodYouAreSerious: Ausman Burr's allies have this reaction when they hear that he is ''actually'' planning to launch the missile. [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] in that he might still be bluffing.

* OneSteveLimit: Defied: There's two different characters named "The Professor" in this campaign. One is the leader of a leather-clad gang that was harassing a shopkeeper, and the other [[GreaterScopeVillain is revealed to be Ausman Burr.]]

* RememberedTooLate: When Ausman Burr announces his men had searched April's van, Kara halts the scene to remind Paulo that Raphael and Splinter are ''still in the van'', and as such should be allowed to do that scene first.
* RiddleForTheAges: Due to the Turtles managing to circumvent the nukes, and Leonardo murdering most of the terrorists, it remains unclear if Ausman Burr ''was'' bluffing about nuking New York or not.

* ShoutOut: Towards the end of Part 5, when Ausman Burr is telling her she needs to be put into captivity for the time being (as to not get into any shenanigans as the eco-terrorists' plan approaches the endgame), April (due to a successful "Professional Skill: Reporter" roll) says she understands. [[VideoGame/DeadRising "[She's] covered wars, let's say."]]

* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Following the death of the man with the pince-nez glasses — ultimately just a hired gun with NominalImportance — the campaign properly introduces Professor Ausman Burr, an international eco-terrorist.

** Repurposed in Part 5: When Ausman Burr is explaining to April that the goal of his group is to fight back against the various industries of America creating toxic waste, he outright asks if she knows what the "secret of the ooze" is. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Namely, that it's negatively impacting the "poor and disadvantaged".]]