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As the conclusion to the Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the movie goes all out in providing Awesome.
- In the future, Michelangelo is a full on sorcerer!
- April stealing dangerous chemicals from a hidden room in her university, without even getting caught. And it turns out those would come in handy in the group's battle against the Krang.
- The Turtles getting their mystic powers back, breaking free from Krang One's grasp, and they finally go by their official title.Krang One: It's pointless to resist Krang! Give up! You will be consumed like everyone else on this pathetic planet!Leo: Fat chance. We're not like everyone else on this planet. We are...Mikey: THE TEENAGE...Donnie: MUTANT...Raph: NINJA....Leo: TURTLES!!!
- And once they're freed, the Turtles proceed to bring out their powers in spectacular fashion, with Leo throwing one of his katanas into Krang One and teleporting over, creating a portal for Raph's giant avatar to emerge from to clobber the alien, with Mikey following up by trapping Krang One in his chains and sending him flying, with Donnie finishing the combo off with a massive onslaught of cannons and an equally massive explosion, leading straight to the turtles in a totally awesome pose together as seen in the page image.
- April, Splinter and Casey are definitely no slouches in their own fight with Krang 2, especially compared to their disastrous fight the first time with them. Splinter and Casey manage to keep up with the Exo-Suited!Krang 2 and keep her under a building long enough for April, manning a wrecking ball, to bring the half-finished building on top of it.
- After Krang Two's defeat, we cut back to the Turtles as they proceed to throw EVERYTHING they have at Krang One as a team. From Raph bringing out his giant avatar and Leo warping him around to attack from different angles, to Donnie striking from afar with his mystic weapon, and Mikey throwing an entire building at Krang One, it's quite a sight seeing the quartet back at full power against a single foe. It all culminates in the four bringing back the Mystic Hot Soup Hibernator with a few updates, with Donnie changing the rocket boosted fist to a rocket jetpack, and Leo using his katanas' warping abilities to close the gap between them and Krang One.
- The storyboards also have some really cool moments
that didn't make it into the final cut, specifically Donnie letting loose with a MASSIVE Macross Missile Massacre on Krang One, Leo teleporting a gas truck into Krang One to blow them up with Raph assisting him by sending his avatar hands through Leo's portals, and the Turtles proceeding to dish out a good chunk of damage on Krang One while in the midst of building up the Mystic Hot Soup Hibernator, including Raphael nailing a giant rocket powered dropkick to start off the combination attack. - Several villainous props have to be given to Krang One as well, as despite all the above-mentioned amazing moves the Turtles bust out, he still manages to effortlessly overpower them, and when they bring out the Mystic Hot Soup Hibernator? He overpowers it by flicking at them. Never before has an Invincible Villain looked so fearsomely cool taking out a show's heroes.
- The storyboards also have some really cool moments
- After it turns out the Turtles have no way of physically defeating Krang One, Leo decides to step up and make a Heroic Sacrifice after Raph leaves to save Donnie and Mikey, performing a Hold the Line battle against Krang One in order to trap him back in the prison dimension while Casey closes the portal. While it's an incredibly brutal battle on Leo's part, he manages to hold off Krang One long enough for his katana to get into the prison dimension, warping the two in just as Casey takes the portal key, trapping the two in the dimension and also destroying the Technodrome as well.
- Mikey unlocking his mystic powers to open a portal and rescue Leo from the Krang prison dimension. At first, it looks like it'll consume him like it did when his future self sent Casey back in time, but then Raph and Donnie aid him and share the strain long enough for it to work before they pull Leo, leaving Krang One helplessly howling in rage at how he's now trapped alone forever.
