Line #13 Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003S2E20RogueInTheHousePart2


1	The Turtles have infiltrated the Shredder's ship, but all is not going to plan, and it looks like they're all in over their heads...
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6	* BittersweetEnding: Ends with Zog’s HeroicSacrifice in attempting to take down the Shredder with him onboard a flaming ship. It’s made worse when Shredder survives and Zog doesn’t.
7	* CainAndAbel: Hun views the Shredder as something of a father figure, making him Karai's adoptive brother in all but name. Yet he decides to [[LetsYouAndHimFight free Leo and have her fight Karai]], telling him that he may spare Splinter if Leo manages to finish her off, indicating that he hates her more than he hates the Turtles.
8	* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: Hun briefly trades blows with Zog the Triceraton, almost effortlessly.
9	* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In the comics, Zog was slashed to death by three Shredder mutants. Here, Zog takes on the Shredder and [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices himself]], taking Shredder down with him onboard a flaming ship, to buy time for the Turtles to escape.
10	* HandicappedBadass: Non-human examples: Several foot mechs are incomplete but fight anyway with ones without a head and with only one complete arm still putting up good fights.
11	* HeroicSacrifice: Zog, to defeat the Shredder. Also cements his position as a woobie, as much as a huge dino-man can be one. His efforts didn't stick, sadly.
12	* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: Leonardo gives Karai the chance to kill him, trusting that her honor will stay her hand, much to Splinter and Raphael's disbelief and horror.
13	* LetsYouAndHimFight: Hun, in an attempt to [[CainAndAbel sabotage Karai]], frees Leo and tells him to fight her.
14	-->'''Hun:''' Wait! Let's make this a little more interesting. ''(Cuts Leo free)'' Now, show us what you've got, sword boy. ''(Tosses Leo's swords back to him)'' Take her out, and I just might let the rat go free.
15	* MadeOfIron: Zog takes some serious injuries but keeps coming.
16	* NeverFoundTheBody: [[spoiler:Shredder and Zog]] at the end when they plummet into the ocean, although Shredder is quickly revealed to be alive.
17	* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Karai is fully intending to execute the turtles but Hun decides to free Leonardo and give him his weapons back because he hates her and tries to sabotage her attempts to prove her loyalty to the Shredder. In the ensuing fight Leo is able to persuade Karai not to kill him.
18	* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: The Turtles find a Triceraton that was accidentally teleported back to Earth with them, a soldier named Zog. Since he can't breathe oxygen, he's delirious, and thinks that the Turtles and Splinter are commanding Triceraton officers. They save his life, but he's still delusional, and they wind up taking him on a mission to fight the Shredder, during which [[spoiler: he dies]]. While the Turtles are [[spoiler: saddened by his death]], the fact that they knowingly and willingly manipulated a delusional alien by masking as his commanding officers, dragging him into a fight which is not his, and that if he were aware of who they were would consider them enemies and want to kill them is never addressed.
19	** To be fair, the timetable kind of forced them to drag him along. They found Zog right before a very urgent mission, leaving him alone with a limited nitrogen supply might not have turned out very well, with it being indicated they had hoped to do something for him afterwards. In fact, Raph even tried to save Zog when he made a TakingYouWithMe HeroicSacrifice but unfortunately it was too late.
20	--->'''Raph:''' We have to save him!\
21	'''Don:''' It's too late. He's gone.\
22	'''Splinter:''' My sons, [[HeroicSacrifice he has given us our lives]]. We must not dishonor his brave sacrifice.
23	* ShockAndAwe: The headless Foot Mech can electrocute anyone it touches.
24	* ShoutOut: Mikey's line: [[{{WesternAnimation/Underdog}} "There's no need to fear; Michelangelo is here"]]
25	* SwordOverHead: Done by Karai to Leonardo.
26	* UncertainDoom: The Foot Mechs are all apparently destroyed in the episode but due make two reappearances in the show (both were dream sequences but one was DreamingOfThingsToCome), making it possible that some were salvaged from the wreckage of the ship, such as the headless one which just fell into the water and the one with the laser cannon (he was ripped in half, but this was a fate another Foot Mech had remained functioning after earlier).
27	* UnreliableNarrator: Zog's opening narration given his delusional state and belief he and the Turtles are all on a mission for the Triceration Republic.

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