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* HypocriticalHumor: Leonardo scolds Michelangelo for his unhealthy food choices... while they're both shopping for ''pizza toppings''.
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%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
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* FightingFingerprint: Leonardo is able to figure out the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang's connection to Shredder by watching the gang leader's technique, as the only other ''sensei'' who could have taught it was Splinter.
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Tired of Shredder's endless demands to return to Earth, Krang complies and sends Shredder back. However, Shredder is denied access to any of Krang's technology, and so must destroy the Turtles without on his own. Enlisting a corrupt marital arts dojo and Baxter Stockman, the Shredder prepares a trap for his enemies.

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Tired of Shredder's endless demands to return to Earth, Krang complies and sends Shredder back. However, Shredder is denied access to any of Krang's technology, and so must destroy the Turtles without on his own. Enlisting a corrupt marital arts dojo and Baxter Stockman, the Shredder prepares a trap for his enemies.
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* NapoleonDelusion: Baxter Stockman's roommate at the insane asylum thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, mistaking the Shredder getting through the window as the peasants revolting.



* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely chelonaphobic[[note]]the fear of turtles[[/note]], ever since her brother placed a turtle in her bed as a prank when they were kids. She reasonably freaks out when she sees the four Mutant Turtles in the Channel 6 building (though they were framed by the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang. She later dumped Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. ''Mock'' turtle soup, to be exact.

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* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely chelonaphobic[[note]]the fear of turtles[[/note]], ever since her brother placed a turtle in her bed as a prank when they were kids. She reasonably freaks out when she sees the four Mutant Turtles in the Channel 6 building (though they were framed by the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang. She later dumped Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. ''Mock'' turtle soup, to be exact.exact.
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* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Burne tells his girlfriend Tiffany that he hates the turtles, Irma arrives with his lunch which happens to be turtle soup. This angers Tiffany, enough to make her dump him.

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* InstantlyProvenWrong: Half-wrong, kinda. When Burne tells his girlfriend Tiffany that he hates the turtles, turtles in general, Irma arrives with his lunch which happens to be [mock] turtle soup. This angers Tiffany, enough to make her dump him.accusing him of being a "turtle lover" and dumps him on the spot.
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* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely chelonaphobic[[note]]the fear of turtles[[/note]], to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.

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* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely chelonaphobic[[note]]the fear of turtles[[/note]], to ever since her brother placed a turtle in her bed as a prank when they were kids. She reasonably freaks out when she sees the point where she'd dump four Mutant Turtles in the Channel 6 building (though they were framed by the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang. She later dumped Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock ''Mock'' turtle soup, to be exact.

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* ClearMyName: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang" commit robberies all over New York, letting the actual heroes take the blame.
* CassandraTruth: April says that the Turtles are heroes, but her boss Burne Thompson says that they are a menace to society, and his girlfriend Tiffany (who loathes turtles in general) agrees.

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* ClearMyName: The Shredder creates the "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang" who commit robberies all over New York, letting the actual heroes take the blame.
blame. He hopes the real Turtles will do this so he can set his trap.
* CassandraTruth: April says that the Turtles are heroes, but her boss Burne Thompson says that they are a menace to society, and his girlfriend Tiffany (who loathes turtles in general) agrees. The involvement of the "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang" doesn't help her case.



* FrameUp: Shredder strongarms a martial arts class to pose as the Turtles while going on a city-wide crime spree, he hopes the real Turtles will surface from the sewers to clear their names, allowing him to make his move. Krang demands a quicker method, however, leading him to hire Baxter Stockman to abduct their master Splinter. While Burne falls for the frame-up, April already knows the farce and calls the turtles about the news.



* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany catches Burne having [mock] turtle soup for lunch, she dumps him.



* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.

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* TheLastStraw: TimeForPlanB: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.Krang chews out Shredder that his FrameUp plan will take forever to get the Turtles, he calls on Baxter Stockman to create a new Ratcatcher invention to capture Splinter and use him as a bait.
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* ExactlyWhatIWasAimingFor: Michelangelo aimed his nunchucks on cans of orange juice with one thug holding up the grocery store remarking that he missed, only for Michelangelo to blow to topple the juice on top of him.

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* ExactlyWhatIWasAimingFor: ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Michelangelo aimed his nunchucks on cans of orange juice with one thug holding up the grocery store remarking that he missed, only for Michelangelo to blow to topple the juice on top of him.
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* ExactlyWhatIWasAimingFor: Michelangelo aimed his nunchucks on cans of orange juice with one thug holding up the grocery store remarking that he missed, only for Michelangelo to blow to topple the juice on top of him.
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* OhCrap: While rescuing Splinter, the Turtles spot a giant battering ram aimed at him, too big for any of them to stop, so the have to hurry before Shredder triggers it.
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* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.

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* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely phobic chelonaphobic[[note]]the fear of turtles, turtles[[/note]], to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There's a rather dodgy scene where April asks Burne what he and his girlfriend were doing at the Channel 6 building after hours. Burne's girlfriend drapes her arms over him, giving him a rather seductive sounding, "Tell her, shnookums..." before a babbling Burne quickly lets April off the hook and runs back in his room with his date. Makes you wonder...

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%% * GettingCrapPastTheRadar: There's a rather dodgy scene where April asks Burne what he GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and his girlfriend were doing at persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the Channel 6 building after hours. Burne's girlfriend drapes her arms over him, giving him a rather seductive sounding, "Tell her, shnookums..." before a babbling Burne quickly lets April off future, please check the hook and runs back in his room with his date. Makes you wonder...trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

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* {{Bigot}}: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.



* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.

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* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.him.
* TragicBigot: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.
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* Bigot: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.

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* Bigot: {{Bigot}}: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.
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* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldDo: When the turtles watch a videotape that shows the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang robbing a jewelry store, Leonardo realizes that the technique of Smash is the same as only two senseis in the world: Splinter and Shredder, and of course they conclude that Shredder is behind this.

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* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldDo:
RevealingSkill: When the turtles watch a videotape that shows the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang robbing a jewelry store, Leonardo realizes that the technique of Smash is the same as only two senseis in the world: Splinter and Shredder, and of course they conclude that Shredder is behind this.this.
* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.
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* FantasticRacism: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.
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* Bigot: Tiffany is extremely phobic of turtles, to the point where she'd dump Burne merely for ordering turtle soup. Mock turtle soup, to be exact.


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* BreakingTheFourthWall: April breaks a fourth wall of sorts when she assures the Turtles that she was winking at Splinter over a TV screen.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Burne chews out April demanding to know what she's doing talking to the turtles at the office so late, she asks him what is he doing at the office so late with his girlfriend Tiffany alongside him. He sheepishly giggles, makes up an excuse and leaves with her.

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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When There's a rather dodgy scene where April asks Burne chews out April demanding to know what she's doing talking to the turtles at the office so late, she asks him what is he doing at the office so late with and his girlfriend Tiffany alongside him. He sheepishly giggles, makes up an excuse were doing at the Channel 6 building after hours. Burne's girlfriend drapes her arms over him, giving him a rather seductive sounding, "Tell her, shnookums..." before a babbling Burne quickly lets April off the hook and leaves runs back in his room with her.his date. Makes you wonder...
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* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.

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* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.him.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldDo: When the turtles watch a videotape that shows the Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang robbing a jewelry store, Leonardo realizes that the technique of Smash is the same as only two senseis in the world: Splinter and Shredder, and of course they conclude that Shredder is behind this.
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* CassandraTruth: April says that the Turtles are heroes, but her boss Burne Thompson says that they are a menace to society, and his girlfriend Tiffany (who loathes turtles in general) agrees.
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* PaperThinDisguise: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang"'s costumes; their leader merely disguises his face with a red eye mask, and the other members wear paper bags made up to look like turtle heads.

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* PaperThinDisguise: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang"'s costumes; their leader merely disguises his face with a red eye mask, and the other members wear paper bags made up to look like turtle heads.heads.
* TheLastStraw: When Tiffany caught Burne having turtle soup for lunch, she separates from him.
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* FreudianExcuse: Tiffany hates turtles to death because her brother had once placed a turtle in her bed when she was five years old.
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* BlindWithoutThem: The cash register woman tells the news of the turtles who saved her from the crooks, although she's generally unsure just what kind of reptiles they were due to not having her glasses.


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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: When Burne chews out April demanding to know what she's doing talking to the turtles at the office so late, she asks him what is he doing at the office so late with his girlfriend Tiffany alongside him. He sheepishly giggles, makes up an excuse and leaves with her.
* InstantlyProvenWrong: When Burne tells his girlfriend Tiffany that he hates the turtles, Irma arrives with his lunch which happens to be turtle soup. This angers Tiffany, enough to make her dump him.
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* CardCarryingVillain: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang", the leader even tells the victims to remember the "Turtle" part of the name, he even gives a person a card with their name and number.
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* MuggingTheMonster: The minute he returns to Earth, Shredder is beset by some two-bit hoods. He scares them off by slicing a tree branch down single-handedly, reminding viewers that while he has no chance as a conqueror, he's still a master martial artist.

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* MuggingTheMonster: The minute he returns to Earth, Shredder is beset by some two-bit hoods. He scares them off by slicing a tree branch down single-handedly, reminding viewers that while he has no chance as a conqueror, he's still a master martial artist.artist.
* PaperThinDisguise: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang"'s costumes; their leader merely disguises his face with a red eye mask, and the other members wear paper bags made up to look like turtle heads.
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*BadBoss: Krang effectively becomes this to Shredder for the duration of the second season. He cuts Shredder off from all forms of assistance while simultaneously berating him for past and present failures.
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* ClearMyName: The "Crooked Ninja Turtle Gang" commit robberies all over New York, letting the actual heroes take the blame.
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Tired of Shredder's endless demands to return to Earth, Krang complies and sends Shredder back. However, Shredder is denied access to any of Krang's technology, and so must destroy the Turtles without on his own. Enlisting a corrupt marital arts dojo and Baxter Stockman, the Shredder prepares a trap for his enemies.

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* EasyImpersonation: The "Crooked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Gang", who are clearly humans in turtle uniforms.
* MuggingTheMonster: The minute he returns to Earth, Shredder is beset by some two-bit hoods. He scares them off by slicing a tree branch down single-handedly, reminding viewers that while he has no chance as a conqueror, he's still a master martial artist.

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