Characters created for the original comic book incarnation of the turtles who never made it to the adaptations. For tropes relating to characters who also appeared elsewhere, please visit the franchise character page. Note: While all the characters here are technically adapted out, please note it only if the story they appear in was adapted without them in it.
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Shadow Jones
Shadow Jones
- Action Girl
- Anti-Heroine: In Tales of the TMNT #69.
- Future Badass: In Tales of the TMNT #69.
- Goth: During her early teen years.
- Happily Adopted
- Morality Adjustment: Tales of the TMNT #69.
- Parental Abandonment: Her biological mother, Gabrielle, died giving birth to her; her biological father is out of the picture for unknown reasons.
- The closest thing we ever get to an answer on her biological father comes from Urban Legends; according to that one, his name was Albert Puzorelli, and he and Gabrielle split up while she was still pregnant, before he himself died at some point. Due to Urban Legends having originally been removed from canon before its eventual conclusion made it ambiguous, it's debatable whether or not any of this is true, though there's never been anything to outright contradict it, either.
- Scars Are Forever: Her future self sports a scar through her left eye.
- Took a Level in Badass: Although she was always able to hold her own, her skills have taken a marked leap by the time we see her future self.
Gabrielle Jones
Gabrielle Jones
- Death by Childbirth: She dies giving birth to Shadow.
- First Love: Originally this to Casey.
- Satellite Character: To Casey.
Allies
Radical
Radical
- Arch-Enemy: To Carnage.
- Combo Platter Powers: She can fly, shoot energy, possesses a “sensing sense” and is super-strong. After she is revealed to be Native American, she also gains a slew of dream and nature-related powers.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In her second appearance, she seemingly dies to obliberate Carnage once and for all, but both are eventually revealed to have survived.
- Interspecies Romance: Becomes a Love Interest to Leonardo until her death.
- Killed Off for Real: Complete Carnage finally kills her in a later issue.
- Love Interest: To Leonardo.
- Magical Native American / Captain Ethnic: Although her initial appearance treat her as just another super-hero, future ones brings her Native American heritage to the forefront, making it, via retcon, the basis of her powers and outlook.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Like several other TMNT characters who hadn't been given a backstory by that point, Radical was originally given an origin story in a sourcebook for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, where she was originally a spoiled heiress until being given superpowers by aliens as part of a galactic war. When "Dreams Of Stone" was published, this was changed to her native american origin.
- Neck Snap: How Carnage finally kills her.
- Race Lift: Originally coded as white, the character was made a Native American in her second major appearance.
- Superheroes Wear Tights: Radical wears a skintight white bodysuit, even after she denies being a super-hero.
Mr. Braunze
Mr. Braunze
- Chrome Dome PSI: Has a bald head and voluntereed in a mental ability enhancement program during the 50s.
- Expy: Of Doc Savage.
Clark Ashton Allard
Clark Ashton Allard
A reclusive vampire who protects mortal humans by opposing the machinations of the vampire lord Traquer.- Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Manages to destroy Dagon by throwing it's summoning artifact into it's gaping maw. Yes, that Dagon!
- Expy: According to
Word of God, he's loosely based on Doc Savage and The Shadow. - Our Vampires Are Different: Can't fly under his own power, instead using a technological flight suit, and supplements his Healing Factor with a stasis pod.
- Token Heroic Orc: Fights other vampires, and have apparently been doing so for a very long time.
- Unexplained Recovery: After destroying Dagon, Allard disappears without a trace and presumed vaporized in the explosion, only for the final panel of the story to show him in one of his healing pods.
The Gosei Samurai Clan
A proud and traditional Japanese family that dates back to the height of medieval Japan, and who possesess the ability to psychically pass the experiences and knowledge of past Gosei from father to son. Unfortunately, the current head of the family, Hatsumi, is on his deathbed, and alienated from his only son, who has rejected the family honor and embarked on a life of crime. If Hatsumi cannot find a way to reach his grandson Hattori, the Gosei spirit will be lost.
- Black Sheep: Kenji, Hatsumi's son. He runs a criminal empire known as Goseico out of New York, disgracing both himself and his heritage.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: A rare voluntary example; Splinter agrees to trade bodies with the dying Hatsumi via Astral Projection, giving Hatsumi a chance to pass the Gosei heritage on to Hattori.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Despite his criminal ways, Kenji throws himself in front of an assassin's bullet to save his son. Both Hatsumi and Hattori are devastated by his death, in spite of their differences.
- Merger of Souls: The Gosei Heritage functions this way; it's a psychic collective of all the experience, knowledge and skill of the family's past, with each holder adding his own to it before passing it on before his death.
- Ret-Gone: Several years after the first story, the Turtles once again encounter Hattori, who's experiencing some sort of psychic glitch that is slowly killing him. With a little help from Renet, it's revealed to be caused by Savanti Romero, who is scheming against the Gosei samurai in medieval Japan, forcing the Turtles to travel back in time to stop him.
Enemies
Complete Carnage
Complete Carnage
- Archenemy: To Radical.
- Elemental Shapeshifter: He can take properties of things he has touched.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Much like Radical, he was a normal person who gained superpowers after he was struck by a freak lightning bolt.
- Multiple-Choice Past: Like Radical, his origin was originally revealed in one of the sourcebooks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles & Other Strangeness, where he had been a failed pro athlete before being Touched by Vorlons as part of a billion-years old interstellar conflict. This was retconned when the "Dreams Of Stone" story was written.
- Killed Off for Real: Thanks to Leonardo's well-timed prayer to Coyote, he is tricked to take the properties of water, causing him to die.
Bloodsucker
Bloodsucker
- Brought Down to Normal: Raphael eventually manages to drain the Bloodsucker of the mutagen by drinking his blood, reverting him back to a normal mindless leech, with only a lingering memory of the taste of turtle blood.
- Cannibalism Superpower: After his mutation, Bloodsucker not only becomes sentient, but also gains the ability to steal the abilities of everything else he drains, such as gaining the ability to speak by eating a human game warden.
- The Dragon: For the Old Man River, who lets it to has its way as long as he gets to study the turtles' mutant properties.
- Extra Eyes: It has six eyes.
- Heroic Build: Feeding on its human victims gave Bloodsucker a muscular physique.
- Hungry Menace: It is motivated by its need for more blood.
- Take Over the World: Bloodsucker's continued feasting on humans makes him dream of the entire world being his game preserve.
The Mutato-Heads
The Mutato-Heads
- And the Adventure Continues: "And the Road goes on forever...".
- Artistic License – Cars: Justified; The Sky Highway lets drivers do things with their vehicles that really isn't mechanically possible.
- Badass Biker: While he'll happily drive anything, Bone Ugly's prefered mode of transportion is motorbikes, and he's even dressed in the classic biker leathers.
- Beatnik: Invoked with Diddy Wah Daddy, who's described as the Mutato-Heads resident poet and chronicler. He even dresses like a stereotypical beatnik.
- Blood Knight: Not traditional fighting, true, but it's in the same spirit; the Mutato-Heads live for fast cars, smashing stuff, and causing wrecks.
- Body Horror: Like everyone else on the Sky Highway, the Mutato-Heads are horrifically mutated. Quake Butt is by far the most human-looking one, which is saying something.
- Brought Down to Normal: After everyone is returned to Earth after crashing over the edge of the Sky Highway, the Turtles and Casey discover that the Mutato-Heads have returned to human form.
- Car Fu: The Mutato-Heads have perfected this kind of fighting to an art form.
- Cyborg: Rusty Dusty, who's body has partially been replaced with car components. His eyes have been replaced with a speed and fuel gauge respectively, there's small wrenches and cranks where his teeth should be, and a fuel line leaking oil sticking out of his lower back.
- Dem Bones: Bone Uglys head is just a skull, and a disembodied one at that.
- Drives Like Crazy: Even compared to the other drivers of the Sky Highway, and that's just the way they like it.
- I Choose to Stay: At the end of the story, as they discuss the regular, boring lives they'll be returning to, the Mutato-Heads decide they prefer the exciting life of a Mutato-Head and return to the Sky Highway, becoming mutants again.
- The Leader: Bone Ugly, though this doesn't really show much in the story itself.
- Karma Houdini: They're not actually punished for stealing Casey's car, the Turtles just end up letting them go after they become human again and they blame their actions on their Mutato-Head personalities. Once the Turtles are gone, the former Mutato-Heads decide to head back to the Sky Highway and continue wreaking havoc there rather than remain on Earth as normal humans.
- Shout-Out: The Mutato-Heads, along with every other driver on the Sky Highway, are based on the works of cartoonist and custom car designer Ed "Big Daddy" Roth.
- Was Once a Man: Like all the other inhabitants of the Sky Highway, the Mutato-Heads were normal human beings until they stumbled into the alternate dimension.
Traquer
Traquer
A monstrous vampire lord who's hatred of humans and their modern civilization have driven him to drastic measures.- Fantastic Racism: Despises mortal humans and the fact that with their numbers and modern technology, they could exterminate vampire-kind, forcing the undead to hide in secrecy rather than prey on them like they used to.
- Suicidal Cosmic Temper Tantrum: Is willing to help summon an Eldritch Abomination that will more than likely destroy all life on Earth, vampires included, as long as humanity is wiped out too.
- Villain Team-Up: With the worshippers of Dagon, using the artifacts gathered by The Whateley family.
Foot Clan
Oroku Nagi
Oroku Nagi
- Adapted Out: Nagi remains the only character from the original comic book never to be appear in any other incarnation.note His role is usually taken by Saki or other suspiciously similar substitutes.
- Back from the Dead: He returns as a ghost haunting Tang Shen's house until he is exorcised.
- If I Can't Have You…: Nagi beats Tang Shen when she chooses Yoshi.
- Posthumous Character: Nagi's death is what causes Saki/Shredder's Start of Darkness and his eventual murder of both Tang Shen and Hamato Yoshi.
- Small Role, Big Impact: He only appears in flashbacks and is already dead by the time of the first issue, but were it not for his actions and resulting death, the events of the series wouldn't have happened.
Cha Ocho
Cha Ocho
- Crusading Widower: His wife was killed by a random bullet, and he eventually joined the Foot in order to track down her killer.
- Friendly Enemy: Although he's openly antagonistic against Leo, he has no problem with sharing drinks with Raph.
- Scars Are Forever: Leo scars him as punishment after he kills his wife's killer.
Lin
Lin Koyobashi
- The Mole: She's a police officer who's secretly a member of the Foot Clan.
- Scars Are Forever: Lin gets hit by shrapnel from a hand-grenade in her first appearance, scarring her face.
Utroms
Professor Obligado
Professor Obligado
- Adventurer Archaeologist
- Badass Bookworm
- Posthumous Character: His first appearance chronicles the moment of his death.
Image Characters
Pimiko
Pimiko
- Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother had a tryst with Shredder and became pregnant, not wanting the child, she gave Pimiko away to her brother, Lord Komodo who trained her from birth to be a kunoichi under HIS control. (Also apparently never threw her a birthday).
- Good Hair, Evil Hair: Raphael cuts off her ponytail during their last battle before she becomes an ally.
- Heel–Face Turn: Joins the turtles after both faction of the foot tried to kill her and Ralph after electing Lady Shredder as the new leader (Helps in the fact Raphael actually spared her life in a battle to the death).
- Not So Above It All: Admitted she always wanted to be part of a birthday party and accepted the invitation with gusto.
- In 'Urban Legends #24' she let loose a 'Cowabunga' as a battle cry.
- Stripperific: Wears what one could argue a ninja bikini.
- Parental Abandonment: Her mother abandoned her at her uncle doorstep.
- Prehensile Hair: Well prehensile pushing it, but during her battle with Raphael to claim leadership she used a blade type weapon connected to the end of her ponytail
Headhunter
Kujikiri
A female assassin that appeared in Big Bang Comics #10.- Meaningful Name:Her real name, Kujikiri is more likely a reference to real world practice (Kuji-kiri) of using hand gestures found today in Shugendō and Shingon Mikkyō. It is also present in some old and traditional schools of Japanese martial arts including but not exclusive to schools that have ties with ninjutsu.
King Komodo
King Komodo
King Komodo is a mutant komodo dragon, who refers to himself as Go-Komodo's "half brother".- I Owe You My Life: Believed to have been killed by Donatello when he blew up Go-Komodo's mansion, King Komodo was instead rescued by Pimiko. This act of kindness helped King decision overthrew his brother when he tried to order for Pimiko death.
- Mind Control: King Komodo has the ability to dominate minds more primitive than his own.
