[[WMG: The [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987 cartoon]] and the [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures Archie Comics series]] would have been nearly the same if it weren't for Armaggon.]]
As some of you may have noticed, before the Archie Comics series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures started doing its own material, the comic was a direct adaptation of the 1987 cartoon. In fact, the original three-issue miniseries was an adaptation of the first five episodes and the first four issues of the ongoing series were adaptations of the season two episodes "Return of the Shredder" and "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles". Aside from differences in coloring, character designs, and the omissions or modifications of some scenes and dialogue, the comic book adaptations were exactly the same as the episode.

As we know, in the cartoon, Baxter Stockman and the Shredder continued to find more fragments of the Eye of Zarnov(or Eye of Sarnath as it was called in the comic), eventually managing to reassemble it. Eventually, Baxter would be mutated into a fly by Krang and Shredder would continue to menace the Turtles with the assistance of Bebop, Rocksteady, and Krang until he was replaced by Lord Dregg in the final two seasons.

In the Archie Comics series, however, Armaggon went back in time and intervened, causing Baxter and Shredder to not get any fragments of the Eye of Sarnath other than the one that shrinks objects. This also caused Baxter to never continue working for the Shredder, and as a result, he never became a fly-man. This also caused the other changes of the origins of the enemies and allies of the Turtles that managed to appear in both the comic and the cartoon, plus Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady being banished to other planets to leave Shredder as the central antagonist. Armaggon's interference with the past altered the timeline and kept the continuity of the Archie Comics series from being a complete copy of the Fred Wolf cartoon's continuity.

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