History Recap / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S1E21KaraisVendetta

%% * 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.

* HeroicResolve: No matter how many times Karai beats her senseless or throws her down, April just keeps getting right back up try again.

* GeniusBonus: The way Karai rubs her chopsticks together is a rude gesture that typically means one thinks the chopsticks are cheap.

* RealityEnsues:
** In addition to April's training as a kunoichi averting InstantExpert, her fight with Karai makes no attempt to dodge the hard truth that someone who's been training for years and has been in actual fights is going to beat someone who has never been in a serious fight and has only been training for, at most, a few months.
** Inversely, a skilled and experienced opponent can still lose a fight due to vulnerability and sheer bad luck, April managing to escape by kicking her down a subway staircase in a split-second moment of distraction.

* NotSoDifferent: April and Karai are both ninjas with father issues. Karai's reaction to April having a MissingMom also suggests this trope.

* Facepalm: Leo, Raph, and Mikey had this type of reaction after Donnie calls April his "Sweet Princess".

* DidISayThatOutLoud: After the turtles have gotten back to the Lair and Donnie is frantically trying to contact April on his T-Phone.

* FromBadToWorse: Played for laughs. What's worse than your sub being pursued by a sea monster? Finding out the sea monster is in love with the sub.

* DamselInDistress: The Foot Clan is after April this time [[DamselOutOfDistress but she takes care of it.]]

* CoolBike: Karai owns a sleek red-and-black motorcycle. It appeared for a brief moment in the previous episode, but gets a lot more screen time here. It bares more than a passing resemblance to [[StealthPun a Kawasaki Ninja.]]

** Donatello's caller ID on April's phone is labelled "Donny Boy", and his picture is decorated with a bow on his head and with flowers and stars around the border.

* HamsterWheelPower: The Turtle Sub is equipped with jets for quick action, but to charge them up and for stealth it also runs on three bicycles that move the flippers. Leo, Raph, and Mikey are the power source for those.

* NotSoDifferent: April and Karai are both ninja with father issues. Karai's reaction to April having a MissingMom also suggests this trope.

** Inversely, a skilled and experienced opponent can still lose a fight due vulnerability and sheer bad luck, April managing to escape by kicking her down a subway staircase in a split-second moment of distraction.

* TemptingFate: While in the Kraang's underwater lab, Leo tells the others to be quiet. Don points out there's no need for Leo to say that everytime since they're ninjas and they know how to be quiet. Cue Don's T-Phone ringing.

* RealityEnsues: In addition to April's training as a kunoichi averting InstantExpert, her fight with Karai makes no attempt to dodge the hard truth that someone who's been training for years and has been in actual fights is going to beat someone who has never been in a serious fight and has only been training for, at most, a few months.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Not only does the sea monster mount the Turtle sub, but Mikey quips "We're not that kind of sub!" The guys' faces as they realize just what the monster is doing arguably makes this a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.

* NeverSayDie: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] as the Sea Monster "attacks" the T-Sub:
-->'''Donnie''': "That's it! It's got us! WE'RE GONNA DIE!!"

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Not only does the sea monster mount the Turtle sub, but Mikey quips "We're not that kind of sub!" The guys' faces as they realize just what the monster is doing arguably makes this a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

* MeaningfulName: Karai goes under the fake name Harmony when pretending to befriend April. {{Foreshadowing}} The name Miwa can mean Harmony]].

* NotSoDifferent: April and Karai are both ninja with father issues.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: April is unharmed by the pure Kraang-water that a moment before had completely dissolved a pizza slice]].

** A quick eye will notice Karai's order at Murakami's restaurant before she says what it is: [[spoiler:The wooden piece has a Turtle on it]].

* MeaningfulName: Karai goes under the fake name Harmony when pretending to befriend April. [[spoiler:[[{{Foreshadowing}} The name Miwa can mean Harmony]].]]

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: [[spoiler: With both the Kraang and the Shredder out to capture her, Splinter and the Turtles decide that April will have to stay in the sewers with them for her own safety, at least until the crisis is resolved.]]

** In Space Heroes, the Captain states that if they keep bailing out their trainees, they'll never learn how to take care of themselves. This falls under SinkOrSwimMentor given the circumstances of those trainess.

* InnocentlyInsensitive: Donnie's reaction to April having to give up her entire life. (At least temporarily)

* DamselInDistress: The Foot Clan is after April this time.
** BadassDamsel: She takes care of it though.
** [[HeroStoleMyBike Damsel in Distress Stole My Bike]]: April jacks the pizza guy's scooter to escape Karai.

* CoolBike: Karai owns a sleek red-and-black motorcycle. It appeared for a brief moment in the previous episode, but gets a lot more screen time here.
** No one else is gonna say it? Karai's bike bares more than a passing resemblance to [[StealthPun a Kawasaki Ninja.]]

* FreezeFrameBonus: Donatello's caller ID on April's phone is labelled "Donny Boy", and his picture is decorated with a bow on his head and with flowers and stars around the border.

* GreenEyedMonster: Karai shows shades of this, demanding to know ''what'' makes April so special while she's pounding her into the dirt.

* JerkassHasAPoint: When April calls the turtles for help against Karai, Don wants to abort the mission and help her, but Raph points out that foiling the Kraang's water poisoning plans are more important otherwise they'll be endangering everyone in New York '''including April'''.
** In Space Heroes, the Captain states that if they keep bailing out their trainees, they'll never learn how to take care of themselves (though that one could be seen as a BrokenAesop since the trainess in question were on their first mission, had no weapons, were in mortal peril, and were left to be eaten).

* NotSoDifferent: April and Karai.

* RealityEnsues: In addition to April's training as a kunoichi averting InstantExpert, her fight with Karai makes no attempt to dodge the hard truth that someone who's been training for years and has been in actual fights is going to beat someone who has never been in a serious fight and has only been training for at most a few months.
* StaircaseTumble: Of course, Karai doesn't so much fall down the subway stairs as get bodily thrown down them by April.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Not only does the sea monster mount the Turtle sub, but Mikey quips "We're not that kind of sub!"

* RealityEnsues: In addition to April's training as a kunoichi averting InstantExpert, her later fight with Karai makes no attempt to dodge the hard truth that someone who's been training for years and has been in actual fights is going to beat someone who has never been in a serious fight and has only been training for at most a few months.