Recap / Film Reroll Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II The Secret Of The Ooze

Cowabunga Dudes! Andy eats some pizza! Joz shouts about Las Vegas! Jon falls off a building! Kara takes a human life!

Episodes 123-124, 128-131 of Film Reroll. Based on the sequel to the 1990 blockbuster.

Time has passed since the defeat of the Shredder and the fall of the Foot Clan. The Turtles, feeling they are overstaying their welcome at April O'Neil's apartment, start to consider their future in New York City, and how they can go about rebuilding their lives. But, as is always the case, the city never sleeps, and crime never stops, as new dangers are beginning to emerge in the shadows, as Raphael discovers first hand.

Notably, due to the very first roll, the campaign quickly abandons the plot of the movie before it could even start.

Starring Jon Miller as Leonardo, Andy Hoover as Donatello, Kara Strait as Raphael and April O'Neil, Joz Vammer as Michaelangelo, and Paulo Quiros as the Dungeon Master.

Intercepted by Hocus Pocus.

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Tropes:

• Acceptable Breaks from Reality: invoked At the top of Part 2, Paulo decides to allow the rest of the Turtles (along with April) to meditate in order to figure out where Raphael is and how much danger he’s in. Later, Leo uses the same power to locate Raph in in the sewers. Granted, Paulo is exploiting the fact that something similar happened in the first movie.
• Accidental Misnaming: Raph wants to make it very clear that his name is not "Ralph".
• Accidental Murder: In Part 4, Raphael goes into a meditative trance and enters the mind of the glasses-wearing man he encountered in the bank... and in the process of trying to "soften him up" by sending him sensations of fear, Raphael manages to make the guy grab a machine gun and commit suicide.
• Achievements in Ignorance: Leonardo just happens to find the last generator room while looking for a place to meditate. Then he hacks the generator to pieces with his katana.
• Acting for Two: invoked Defied: Even though Paulo had let Andy play Keno for the start of the campaign, when Keno is at April's apartment to deliver the pizzas, Paulo takes over.
• Adaptation Amalgamation: Both Jon and Andy admit to playing their characters as they see them in general, not specifically as they were portrayed in this film. DM Paulo Quiros actually tried to Invoke this somewhat by having the players all watch the first film, hoping that would result in a better sequel than the one it really got.
• Admiring the Abomination: Åsmund Bøe calls Mikey a "a beautiful abomination" to his face. Mikey finds it rather insulting.
• Affably Evil: Downplayed: Part 2 sees April cross paths with Fred, a fellow reporter from the station who openly admits to shitting in the break room and acts very grossly towards April. But because of how Joz chose to play Fred, Andy points out Fred becomes too enjoyable to hate.
• After-Action Healing Drama: Once the other turtles find Raphael in the sewers, the number one priority is getting him patched up before he bleeds out.
• Age-Appropriate Angst: When overwhelmed with the situation in the bank and Raphael being shot multiple times, Donatello screams "I HATE BEING SIXTEEN!"
• A God Am I: Åsmund Bøe clearly has a god complex, something April chews him out on in a major "The Reason You Suck" Speech.
• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Variation: After Raphael, due to accumulated damage, Crit Fails a dexterity roll while trying to jump up towards a ledge, Kara (worried this means Paulo is going to announce she died) makes a point to complement Paulo on his DMing and being allowed to play Raphael, and stresses how they're friends.
• Air-Vent Passageway: Raphael considers breaking into a bank to stop a robbery using this method. However he ultimately decides to use the sewer instead, as air vents have no water in them.
• Amateur Sleuth: Keno starts investigating April’s apartment on his own after his weird encounter with his customers.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Kara (in and out of character) isn't sure if the building she winds up in towards the end of the first episode is a bank or a morgue, although signs point towards "bank".
  • By the end of the campaign, it is never fully made clear if Åsmund Bøe was serious about nuking New York.
• Anachronism Stew: Brought up when the players question whether or not low-light, portable cameras were a thing in 1991.
• Armor-Piercing Question: After Raphael dies at the hands of the terrorists, Leonardo goes full dark side and begins openly murdering the terrorists en masse on the grounds that "[t]hey killed Raph". It eventually gets to the point in Part 6 where Kara asks "Is this really about Raph anymore?"
• Artifact Title: The Rerollers point out that there really isn’t anything secret about the ooze in the film, and how this is believed to be an idea which got lost in rewrites.
• Badass Out of Distress: Leo and Mikey both manage to avoid being arrested by the SWAT team by - respectively - being rescued by April in her van and crawling up the side of the building.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Donatello and Raphael aren't exactly convincing when the latter claims he's about to shoot Keno through the door, but then Paulo reveals he was convinced enough to decide to go and call the cops.
• Bad Liar: After briefly getting spotted by Keno while shadowing him, Leonardo instead decides to cut his losses and double back to the apartment, lying to the others that he was successful in making sure Keno wouldn't compromise their location... only for Kara to Crit Succeed her "Detect Lies" roll for Raphael. Paulo decides this means Raphael could tell from Leonardo's eyes that he fucked up.
• Bait-and-Switch: When Jon rolls to escape from the SWAT officers, he reacts with disappointment, causing Kara to become distressed... which turns to anger when it turns out Jon actually succeeded his roll, and he wanted to succeed by a larger number.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: When April tries to acclimate herself with one of her guards, Paulo announces he Crit Succeeded a Will roll to resist her attempt. When Kara, annoyed, ponders what would've happened if he Crit Failed, Paulo happily reminds her that the last NPC she encountered that Crit Failed a Will roll was the one that killed themself.
• Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: The Rerollers wonder whether there’s ever been any installment — official or otherwise — where the Turtles actually become the renaissance artists they were named after.
• Blasting It Out of Their Hands: Raph throws his sai to disarm Brandon DeJulio, who is pointing a gun at him. While clearly non-lethal, it is mentioned that it still causes the cop to bleed.
• Blatant Item Placement: Zig-Zagged. DM Paulo Quiros denies the requests to have Caitlyn keep walkie-talkie or a camera in her van, but he does allow her having a pair of crowbars in the glove compartment.
• Blasting It Out of Their Hands: April manages to disarm one of the terrorists by shooting his gun hand.
• Bloodier and Gorier:
  • Raphael investigating the bank, as his opponents are armed with machine guns. He winds up getting two killed^note one by Friendly Fire, another more-or-less by accident as Kara wasn't trying to kill, and takes enough damage himself to result in briefly blacking out. It stands out even more with the original film actually being Lighter and Softer than its predecessor.
    • This carries over into Part 2 as Raphael gets into a long fight scene with an armed thug that tries to kill him; not only does he get shot several more times, but once both are in the sewers, Raphael winds up beating him to death with a sai.
  • Paulo ultimately admits that had Andy-as-Kenu caused the opening fight scene, and the Turtles used their weapons^note in particular, Leonardo using his sword, it would’ve been a bloodbath.
  • Part 3 sees things get ramped up slightly as Leonardo decapitates one of the terrorists in revenge for Raphael almost dying; his kill count jumps to five by the time he gets back to April’s apartment in Part 4.
  • What winds up taking the cake, however, is Raphael accidentally managing to make a guy blow his brains out.
    Joz: (horrified) You're a mind-murderer!
  • When Raphael successfully smashes in the face of a terrorist during his Last Stand in Part 5, Paulo cracks that the movie had to have this edited down in order to keep an R rating.
  • By the time the Marines show up to the air base by the end of Part 6, Paulo admitted that the majority of the terrorists were already dead by that point (thanks in part to Leonardo).
• Big Brother Instinct: While it's implied across the franchise that the turtles are all the same age, Raphael almost getting killed by the terrorists while at the bank causes Leonardo to go on the warpath while shadowing them at the end of Part 3 / beginning of Part 4. It only gets worse when Raphael dies in Part 5.
• Bittersweet Ending: New York is saved, but at the cost of Raphael’s life, and Leonardo getting possessed by a yokai due to murdering numerous terrorists. But, the turtles will always remain connected to their fallen brother via the Spirit Realm, and Paulo decides to add a post-credits scene showing everyone following through on their plan to go to Las Vegas.
• Briefer Than They Think: Kara points out that in the original comics, the iconic Shredder was a mere Starter Villain who died at the end of the first arc.^note  According to the writers, they wanted to wrap up the story because they weren’t expecting a continuation. It was only the later cartoon which turned him into a main villain.
• Broken Pedestal: Discussed: Leonardo decapitating a man and Raphael accidentally causing a Psychic-Assisted Suicide causes Michelangelo to start having trouble recognizing who his brothers are anymore.
• The Bus Came Back: Variation: Casey Jones, who appeared in the first movie but not the second, gets brought into the campaign when Kara decides to have April call him for backup regarding the bank situation.
• Call-Back:
  • After Michelangelo's enthusiastic greeting to Splinter^note "Hi, Splinter! Master Splinter!", Kara says "I'm four!"
    Joz: I mean, Michelangelo kinda is...
  • Andy joking that April and the Turtles are taking "the regular entrance" to April's apartment causes Paulo and Kara to immediately fire back with "You just gonna use the regular door?"
  • After Jon asks if Paulo’s Brandon DeJulio voice is meant to be Columbo, Paulo (after unintentionally slipping into it) decides to lean into it.
    • Similarly, after hearing Jon's Leonardo voice for three episodes, Paulo points out it's similar to the voice he used for Burke, much to Jon's dismay.
  • When Donatello, before leaving Raphael, offers advice on traveling through a mental labyrinth^note using his left hand to find the left wall, Raphael remarks "And they're vowels, right? They're vowels."
  • In a depressing manner, Kara glumly admits that Raphael dying was more depressing than her accidentally shooting the President.
• Captain Obvious: After Donatello and Michaelangelo collectively figure out where the terrorists are hiding in the sewers, Leonardo tells Raphael he has to stay behind. Raphael then bluntly reminds him that he has one hit point currently.
  Raphael: I'm not happy about it, but it's not, like, a game day decision.
• Cherry Tapping: In effect: During Part 6, Paulo reveals he had been secretly keeping track of Leonardo's violent acts throughout the campaign, and as such starts asking him to make increasingly harder Will rolls the more he kills the terrorists. However, the act that finally causes him to fail a roll was the instance of him trying to avoid it by chopping off a guy's hand.
• Cliffhanger:
  • Part 1 ends with Raphael, having briefly blacked out from pain, waking up to see a spectacled man aiming a gun at his face, demanding to know who sent him.
    Kara: Oh, I assume that was our cliffhanger for the episode.
    Paulo: ...I think it is!
    • Meanwhile, Jon decides to add one additional scene: While the rest of the Turtles, along with Splinter and April, are at her van getting ready to leave for Las Vegas, Leonardo is pacing in worry, wondering where Raphael is.
  • Part 2 ends with Leonardo, who had climbed into a rooftop to get a better scope of what’s happening at the bank, falling, and landing in the road... right in the middle of a group of SWAT officers who were about to enter the bank. And to make matters worse, he’s undisguised.
    Kara: Wow, both of our episodes so far have ended with one of us falling on our back.
  • Part 3 ends with Leonardo once again finding himself surrounded by armed men. This time, it's when he tries to shadow the group of terrorists while in a tunnel... and gets caught in the middle of the group.
    Kara: Are you seriously telling me that we've had three episodes of this fuckin' thing, and all three of them have ended with a turtle failing a roll and being spotted by a bad boy?!
    Paulo: (Beat) Yes. With a gun, every time.
  • Part 4 winds up breaking the streak of "endings where the Turtles are caught by armed men": Michelangelo manages to dodge sniper fire long enough to sneak himself into an unknown conference room at the air base. Meanwhile, given how April is currently about to be brought into a meeting with "the Professor"^note in this case, Åsmund Bøe, Kara is convinced she's about to die.
• Cliffhanger Copout:
  • Downplayed in Part 3: Following the end of Part 2, Leonardo (and then Michelangelo, who suspected the worse) wind up in the center of a circle of SWAT officers, who proceed to try and arrest them... only for the two of them to then manage to escape, Leonardo by hitching a ride in April's van, Mikey by going to the rooftops. Although, as Paulo mentions, that was the end of the SWAT involvement in the plot, the Turtles become convinced that they are going to be pinned for what went down in the bank, and now find themselves needing to figure out what's going down.
  • Similarly downplayed in Part 4: At the end of Part 3, Leonardo finds himself similarly surrounded at both ends of a tunnel by the armed terrorists. At the start of Part 4, Jon proceeds to rules lawyer the fuck out of the encounter, not only managing to take down the men who were the closest to attacking him and get himself reasonably hidden, but he also managed to escape the encounter without getting shot once.
• Continuity Snarl: Part 3 sees Kara have a brief conversation between April and Raphael, which mildly freaks her out as, per her own words, she never talked to herself on the show before... even though she had back during "Last Action Hero" in both 2020 and 2022.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Two key incidents in Part 1 wind up setting off a domino chain that paint the course for the rest of the campaign:
  • When Keno arrives to April's apartment with the pizzas, the Turtles' less-than-ideal methods of acquiring the pizza and covering for the fact that April wasn't home yet (especially given how they briefly forgot to find money first) causes Kenu to become paranoid enough that (following a second visit) he becomes convinced that he should call the police.
  • When attempting to blow off steam before catching up with the others so they can go to Las Vegas, Raphael decides to do some solo crimefighting. After Paulo rolls off of a table he crafted for various crimes the Turtles would encounter, Raphael confronts a gang of thugs (lead by a guy calling himself "the Professor"), and stops a bodega robbery... but once that is over, and upon being told there's still time to burn, Kara asks Paulo to roll for another crime. That roll results in Raphael learning about a certain robbery going on at the bank...
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: The climax of Part 4 sees Michelangelo managing to make his way across the air base in New Jersey and dodge several snipers before sneaking into the main building.
• Cutting the Knot: When everyone tries to figure out how to heal Raphael's wounds as they escape in the van in Part 3, Donatello makes it clear that he can, but he just needs to not be in a moving van.
• Demonic Possession: Leonardo’s Mook Horror Show leads to him getting possessed by some kind of Yokai. By the end of the campaign, they are still Sharing a Body.
• Destruction Equals Off-Switch: April’s method of stopping the terrorist plot involves crashing every computer in their control room.
• Didn't See That Coming: Downplayed: After Paulo reveals the proper spelling for "Åsmund Bøe", he makes it clear the characters were not expecting that to be the spelling^note he then clarifies that it's Norwegian.
• Dirty Bomb: Over the course of Parts 3 and 4, the players start to suspect that this is the endgame of the terrorists’ plans.
• Dirty Communists: It’s speculated that the mercenaries are terrorists from the then-collapsing Soviet Union.
• Distinction Without a Difference: When Leonardo and Donatello take on some of the terrorists in the control room, Leo manages to impale one with his katana, causing that terrorist to then crash sideways through a screen as he dies. When Jon then says he only wanted to do a little stab, Paulo helpfully chimes in:
  Paulo: No, no, no. It wasn't the momentum, it was the dying that did it.
• Distinguished Gentleman's Pipe: One of the thugs Raphael beats down — nicknamed "the Professor" — has one. This was a Throw It In! moment by Kara Strait which DM Paulo Quiros allowed.
• Distressed Dude: After sustaining near-fatal injuries in the gun fight, Raph flees into the sewers and has to be rescued by his brothers.
• Downer Beginning: Roughly 35 minutes into Part 5, Raphael meets his end when several of the terrorists decide to search the van, and he fights a losing battle.
• Downer Ending: Discussed: In Part 2, Kara finally reveals what happened in the unreleased Die Hard campaign. After multiple failed rolls, John McClane found himself kneeling in front of Hans Gruber, who promptly killed him.
• Do Wrong, Right: After April admits to her editor, Bill, that she made up a story for the cop, he responds "I don’t mind you lying, but I don’t like you lying and not getting results!" Bill, for his part, claims to have never lied to the cops... while on the job.
• Dream Spying: The Turtles catch a glimpse of the villain while meditating, which is how they learn his location.
• Eco-Terrorist: The villains are environmental extremists threatening to launch a nuclear missile to New York if the requested sum isn’t paid. Subverted when it turns out that the whole thing is a bluff. The missile can’t actually be launched.
• The End... Or Is It?: By the end of the campaign, the remaining Turtles manage to thwart the terrorists’ plans... but Leonardo winds up losing himself to his anger. It is only upon the turtles and Splinter regrouping in the sewers and going into the Spirit Realm that they (and Raphael) manage to bring Leonardo back around. But no sooner do they return to reality does Leonardo hear a voice in his head...^note which Kara, with confirmation from Paulo, deduces is a yokai.
  ???: Alright... But you gotta sleep sometime, buddy...
• 11th-Hour Ranger: The two marines who are entrusted to look after Mikey just as the campaign is wrapping up.
• The Enemy Weapons Are Better: The surviving members of the Air Force personnel take weapons from the fallen terrorists, with April also taking a gun and some body armor. Justified in that they were completely unarmed.
• Epic Fail: While Joz failing a meditation roll initially was just a minor thing, it gets elevated to this when she (as Michelangelo) accidentally calls Master Splinter "Master Shredder".
  Kara: (bemused) That failed meditation roll took you to a bad place!
• Exact Words: After Jon states his plan of throwing Åsmund Bøe under the bus to the cops, the others call him out for saying that about the actual culprit of the crime. Jon then clarifies that he wants to literally throw him under a bus.
• Face–Heel Turn: Killing too many people has Leonardo give in to his dark side, which leads to him getting possessed and temporarily going from a player character to an NPC.
• Facial Horror: Raph throws a sai in the face of one of the Black Raven guards, a scene which (in the In-Universe film) had to be cut down to preserve the R-rating.
• Failed a Spot Check: After informing the Turtles that she was told her cat had died while she was at work, it takes about a minute for April to remember she never owned a cat.
• Family of Choice: Discussed: When Leonardo starts overly apologizing to April for potentially getting in trouble due to the actions of him and his brothers, April makes it clear that she is part of their family, and has no regrets over that connection.
• Foreshadowing: In Part 4, when confronting Leonardo over him killing some of the terrorists in cold-blood, Splinter warns him that unless he remember his teachings, Leonardo will be at risk of losing himself to his rage and anger. Come Part 6, and Paulo revealing his secret mechanic regarding Leonardo’s bloodlust, it turns out Splinter was being serious.
• Foregone Conclusion: Discussed: When discussing how the Die Hard campaign ended, Kara brings up what Paulo had said before Hans Gruber killed John McClane:
  Kara: (as Paulo; apologetic) "I... I- I have to kill you now. I jus- There’s... I- I- there's nothing el- I jus- there’s- I can't not kill you."
  Andy: I can see Alan Rickman delivering that, too. That he’s, like, out of options.
• Fish out of Water: Caitlyn Evans is taken quite aback upon meeting Splinter and the Turtles, fainting immediately and still being very nervous around them upon waking up.
• Friendly Fire: One of the robbers Raph fights at the bank ends up shooting his buddy dead by mistake.
• Friend on the Force: Officer Engelhardt, a policeman April is on good terms with, whom she questions for information about the terrorist attack.
• Good Cop/Bad Cop: When Keno refuses to leave (due to being concerned that April was being held hostage in her apartment), Andy successfully rolls Diplomacy... while Kara successfully rolls Intimidation. As a result, Donatello and Raphael (already pretending to be April's doctors) get into a "fight", with Raphael threatening to use his "gun" if Keno doesn't leave.
  Donatello: Oh, you took the safety off, and you're pointing it at the door, but the pizza guy is right on the other side!
  Raphael: The time for safety has passed!
  Donatello: Oh no, you're cocking it like that! Oh, and you're aiming it directly at his most sensitive portions through the door!
• Gossip Evolution: Shortform: When Michaelangelo calls April's workplace to find out where she is, he claims that he's catsitting for her after the other catsitter got sick. The secretary taking the call doesn't put too much care into writing down the note, resulting in April showing up at the apartment, saying she was told her cat died (which takes her a minute to remember she doesn’t own one).
• Go Through Me: Mikey drives in front of April when the terrorists point their guns at her, holding onto a core for leverage... until they start shooting and he jumps out of the way of the bullets, leaving April unprotected. Fortunately the shooter still misses.
• Give Me a Sign: When everyone is talking about the franchise at the start of Part 1, Kara recounts the time she and her family tried to watch Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III when she was a child, but kept having trouble finding a working VHS tape of it. But because they were too determined to watch it, they finally found a tape that worked... only to realize the movie sucked, and that the universe was probably trying to warn them.
  Kara: The VCR was trying to help us!
• Hand Wave: After giving Bill a gruff, slurring voice, Paulo abruptly remembers that Bill is a character from the movie, and does not sound like that. He quickly decides it was a result of him drinking and smoking that night.
• Hard-Drinking Party Girl: April and Caitlyn were apparently both this back in college. Caitlyn is by all accounts still keeping it up.
• Head Crushing: Raph brutally kills the blonde, long-haired henchman in this manner.
• The Hero Dies: After four episodes of it being touch-and-go, Raphael meets his end in Part 5 when he and Splinter find themselves needing to fight the terrorists that decide to search April's van, and one successfully blind-fires.
• Hero of Another Story: DM Paulo Quiros states that Caitlyn had her own offscreen adventures after getting separated from the others following Raphael's death, but that there wasn’t enough time in this campaign to tell them.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: The Turtles believe that they will be blame for the bank robbery, meaning that they will have to go on the run from the law.
• Hidden Weapons: Parodied. The guards at the Black Raven facility are all blatantly trying to hide AK-47s behind their backs.
• Hiding Behind the Language Barrier: Downplayed: Åsmund Bøe's interrogation of April gets interrupted by a phone call he takes, which he answers in a foreign language that Kara (wrongly) concludes is French:
  Kara: Okay, [April speaks] French.
  Paulo: 'Kay. If you can give me a roll, I'll tell you that that was not French.
• Historical Domain Character: DM Paulo Quiros had intended the US Secretary of Defense to be just a random, No Party Given NPC, but Andy Hoover pointing out that this position would have been filled by Dick Cheney at the time made an impression pretty much obligatory.
• I Call It "Vera": The van April borrows from her friend Caitlyn is called "The Stephen Russel", named after a jackass ex-boyfriend from college.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him!: Master Splinter warns Leonardo of this after he admits to killing one of the terrorists in cold blood.
• Internal Reveal:
  • The robber who captures Raph is quite shocked to see that he’s an antropomorphic turtle.
  • April's decision to borrow a van from her "old buddy" Caitlyn Evans results in her being introduced to the Turtles and Splinter.
  • Captain Michael Schwartz is very taken aback after realizing that he and his men have been rescued by anthropomorphic turtles, but soon realizes that he just has to roll with it.
• It Can Think: Åsmund Bøe is surprised and fascinated to learn that the Turtles are not mere animals but thinking, intelligent beings.
• Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Leonardo does this to one of the mercenaries to learn more about Black Raven. Lampshaded by Kara Strait, who compares him directly to the trope namer.
• Jar Potty: invoked Implied: When April meets up with Fred (another reporter from the station) in Part 2, he brings up how April was supposedly taking a break from work. In response, April insults him by mentioning the “rumors” that he’s shitting in the break room.
  Fred: Well, what’s wrong with that?
  April: (silence; Paulo and Andy giggle) ...alright, Fred? We j- we simply don’t have time.
• Joke and Receive:
  • Two-fold: After Leonardo justifies leaving the apartment in order to shadow Keno, mentioning he was going to call the cops, Paulo points out that Keno didn't actually decide to do that; as such, Andy (barely audible over everyone else) jokes that "retroactively", he decided to call the cops. When Paulo brings this up later on, Andy decides to instead try and find his way back to the apartment in order to double check on things... and it's only after that visit that he decides to call the cops.
  • At the top of Part 3, right as Paulo is about to start recaping the plot, Kara sarcastically mentions they're going to get into an extended discussion about what it means to be a hero (something they did for about 20 minutes during the soundcheck^note Jon had called to attention that his character sheet for Leonardo lacked anything for "heroism", which caused everyone to talk about exactly how the Turtles are heroes). As such, when Paulo starts explaining that, Kara quickly states she was just joking.
• Killed Offscreen:
  • It takes until Part 4 for Paulo to admit that Casey Jones died in the bank explosion. It only took that long because the other players never bothered to ask (since April told the Turtles not to care about him).
  • Michael Schwartz and most of his men are massacred by three of the terrorists, who unlike them are armed. Leonardo brutally murders them in response.
• Know When to Fold Them: Raph wisely decides to retreat after being beaten and shot to near death by the robbers.
• Language Barrier: The Turtles manage to listen in on the bad guys’ conversation, but they really don’t get much out of it since they are speaking another language (presumably Russian.)
• Last Words: Raphael's dying action in Part 5 is to use one last act of meditation to send out the words "I love you." to his brothers.
• Late to the Realization: Variation: During the intro to Part 5, Andy admits that having listened to all of the previous parts (in particular either Part 3 or 4), it had finally dawned on him that everyone is at risk of dying at this point in the campaign.
• Literal Metaphor:
  • "You're supposed to talk shit in the break room, I think you missed a crucial part."
  • When Kara succeeds a fast talk roll by 3 when talking to Fred, Joz (who’s playing him) jokes that April’s talking too fast.
• Locked Out of the Loop: The Turtles have no bearing on what is going on at the bank: there’s several heavily armed men taking hostages, and at one point an explosion is set off.
• Long Runner: At six parts, this campaign is (currently) the second-longest Film Reroll campaign, behind Memento and Halloween 3's seven-part lengths.
• Loophole Abuse:
  • Discussed: After referencing how they discussed the franchise's connections to Daredevil at the start of the campaign, Kara-as-April asks Paulo if she knows an equivalent to the Night Nurse so that Raphael can get medical attention in Part 3. She fully acknowledges she was "swinging for the fences" with this, and as such isn't upset when Paulo shuts it down.
  • During Part 5, Kara eventually discovers that, as she explains, Jon had tried to meta-game the campaign by texting her, something Jon (not even pretending to deny) clarifes was in regards to something two hours prior.^note Given when in the episode Kara calls this to attention, it can be presumed Jon's meta-gaming was in regards to Raphael getting caught in the van.
• Manipulative Bastard: Åsmund Bøe tells April that he’s lying about his intentions to his employees (who, as he puts it, “are not good men”) and that she shouldn’t take what he tells them as gospel. Regardless of whether or not this is in and of itself a lie, it qualifies him for the trope.
• Master Actor: April tells Detective Brandon DeJulio an elaborate lie, trying to make herself seem like an innocent spectator who was not at all involved with the goings on at the bank.
• Mathematician's Answer:
  • As Kara calls to attention, the birthday Paulo gave Raphael (and, presumably, the rest of the turtles) is "Whatever".
  • When Leonardo is asked what "[his] deal" is^note meaning the fact he's a giant turtle by one of the Air Force guys, he begins to awkwardly explain how Blackraven had been taken over by the terrorists.
    Air Force Guy: (cutting off Leonardo; awkwardly) Now, okay, I... yeah... That's not the part I was specifically asking about.
• Metaphorgotten: When justifying having Raphael go off to stop a second crime after the bodega robbery, Kara compares it to having eaten a very spicy chicken wing, but the pain of the wing making you want a second one. This causes Joz (who may or may not have been in-character) to start pleading "They have wings in Vegas! They have wings in Vegas!"
  Kara: (in the Raphael voice) I'm a vegetarian now!
• Melee Disarming: Donatello knocks a goon into some machinery after he points a gun at him and Leonardo.
• Mood Whiplash: As Kara mirthlessly points out, after Raphael gets gunned down in the van, the immediate next scene involves Michaelangelo getting into a slapstick fight against a couple terrorists.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Variation: When Åsmund Bøe tells April his men searched her van, Kara panics and insists they show that scene since Raphael and Splinter were still in the van. Paulo agrees to do so... but because the men who were sent to search the van were armed, all this accomplished was Raphael's death.^note While it stands to reason this would've still happened even if Paulo didn't cut to it, the fact that Raphael was Kara's favorite turtle made his death all the worse.
• My God, You Are Serious!: Åsmund Bøe's allies have this reaction when they hear that he is actually planning to launch the missile. Subverted in that he might still be bluffing.
• Mythology Gag: While preparing her trip to Las Vegas, April changes into a rather familiar yellow jumpsuit.
• Nature Hero: Downplayed, but Joz argues that the Turtles should be able to read the behavior of the sewer animals, due to being more in time with them. DM Paulo Quiros allows this.
• Never My Fault:
  • The top of Part 4 sees Jon bitching that Paulo had railroaded him into getting surrounded by the terrorists at the end of Part 3... even though both Kara and Paulo point out Jon had done that to himself by failing another shadowing roll.
  • When Jon finally fails a Will roll and succumbs to Paulo’s secret mechanic relating to Leonardo’s bloodlust, he accuses him of wanting this end result to happen. This causes Paulo to sarcastically agree that he made Jon kill everyone.
• Never Say Goodbye: Leonardo and Donatello elect to not say “Goodbye”, which is what Raphael said to them before dying in battle. Instead, they go with ”Smell you later.”
• Nice Character, Mean Actor: invoked Part 3 sees Kara almost break into tears on more than one occasion over hearing how sympathetic and caring Jon was playing Leonardo.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • When Andy and Kara decide to play Good Cop/Bad Cop to try and get Keno to leave the apartment, Paulo had failed his will roll for Keno, meaning he would've just left and not called the cops. But the second Raphael claimed he was going to shoot him, Paulo reveals that Keno quickly changed his mind.
  • When Keno decides to leave, Leonardo decides to shadow him from the rooftops... only to get caught (albeit partially hidden in the shadows) by Keno when, by pure chance, he looks up and sees him.
  • When Keno comes back and talks with April over the intercom, Michaelangelo decides to coach her through the conversation, telling her to explain away the random creatures he's been seeing as being the result of her apartment having a severe infestation problem. But because April (confused by what's been going on) fails to properly relay that explanation, Keno ultimately concludes that this is when he needs to call the cops, and does so.
• Noodle Incident: Donatello mentions that he tried arguing for a move to Ohio in the past.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: April’s attempts at seducing Brandon DeJulio end up not working, to her great embarrassment.
• Not Even Bothering with an Excuse: Towards the end of the campaign, everyone stops trying to pretend that Leonardo hasn't become a mass-murderer:
  Paulo: Alright, Leonardo, how much death are you dealing this turn?
• Not Helping Your Case: When the main Air Force guy from the group Leonardo frees asks if he murdered the terrorists holding them captive, Leonardo tries to explain it away by saying he was “a mean guy”, a tactic that Kara openly says is making the situation so much worse for Leonardo.
  Leonardo: I did-I did decapitate that guy.
  Air Force Guy: Okay, cool. Cool, cool, cool... Uh, what's... what's going on? W-what's your deal?
  Leonardo: Well... uh, bunch of... uh... really mean... meanie... mean guys... (Kara cackles) I think, took over the base-
  Kara: Jon, you are making it so much worse.
  • And when Leonardo insists on referring to the terrorists as "mean guys", Kara points out how this makes Leonardo sound psychotic:
    Kara: Stop, stop saying- if someone decapitated a man in front of me, I'd be upset. But if that man- if the person who decapitated someone then turned to me and said (parodying Leonardo's tone) "He was a bad boy... He was a meanie..."
    Jon: (talking over Kara) That's not- that's not what I said.
    Kara: (talking over Jon) I would lose my fucking mind forever. "What the fuck happened?!" (as Leonardo) "He did a boo-boo."
• Not Hyperbole: After Jon finally fails Paulo's secret Will mechanic in Part 6, Kara matter of factly tells Jon to hand over his character sheet. A couple scenes later, we see Donatello catch back up with Leonardo... only for Paulo to cut Jon off from trying to play him, revealing Leonardo's now an NPC. Kara casually admits she suspected Paulo was going to do this, hence that earlier comment of hers.
• One-Man Army: Leonardo kills a lot of Mooks throughout the campaign. Not strictly a good thing, as this is a setting where the supernatural is real and such actions can have spiritual consequences.
• One-Steve Limit: Defied: There's two different characters named "The Professor" in this campaign. One is the leader of a leather-clad gang that was harassing a shopkeeper, and the other is revealed to be Åsmund Bøe.
• Off the Rails: The very first roll of the campaign involves Andy, briefly being given the role of Keno, being asked to roll for perception, only to fail by one; not only does he fail to notice the robbers he noticed in the film^note thus negating the opening action piece, but he is able to arrive at April's apartment to deliver the pizzas while the Turtles are there. As a result of their less-than-ideal acquiring of the pizza, Keno gets spooked enough that^note after a second stop to double check on things he decides to call the cops to check in on April, forcing the turtles to decide to leave the city for a while.
• Off with His Head!: Leonardo decapitates a Mook with his katana as revenge for his buddies shooting Raph, and then another one while rescuing the hostages.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Thanks to a Crit Failed roll on Jon’s part when Leonardo and Michelangelo are jumping across rooftops to scope out the bank, Leonardo falls and lands in the middle of a group of SWAT members to close out Part 2.
    Leonardo: Hey, guys. Uh... nice night, huh?
  • This is basically everyone's reaction once Paulo narrates how Raphael accidentally "mind-murdered" the man in the glasses during Part 4.
• Once an Episode: As pointed out by Kara Strait in the third part, every episode of the campaign seems to end with a turtle failing a roll and being spotted by an armed criminal.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: When Raphael decides to blow off some steam by doing some solo vigilantism, Paulo introduces the players to the mechanic he developed for such a thing... prompting Joz to point blank demand that Paulo reveal if he's doing another "Summerspell".
  Joz: Any time you pull out tables, with certain, like...
  Kara: What?!
  Paulo: Summerspell didn't have any tables-
  Joz: Romance mechanics...
  Paulo: Oh, I guess it had the romance mechanic...
  Joz: Yeah, it did, and-and it fucked us all over, so I just wanna make sure: we're still doing TMNT, right?
  Kara: Paulo... any time a DM has a mechanic, I get suspicious.
• One Last Job: As the gang speeds to an air base in New Jersey to stop the terrorists before they can "fire" whatever it is they’re working on, Leonardo does some quiet contemplation over the events of the campaign thus far, and decides that once this adventure is over, he and his family are going to Vegas.
• Out of Focus:
  • When the other Turtles and April decide they need to head to Las Vegas for the time being, Raphael decides to spend the time waiting for everyone else to get the van by blowing off steam and doing some solo vigilante work. This takes up the second half of the first episode, with the campaign effectively concerning just Paulo and Kara doing this plot.
  • Downplayed: Although he still has a presence in the plot, after managing to barely survive the terrorists in the bank, Raphael is more or less sidelined as he tries to recover... before the events of Part 5 occur.
• Paper-Thin Disguise: As is tradition in canon, Raphael (and later Donatello)’s disguise simply consists of a trenchcoat and a hat.
• Paranoia Fuel: invoked Leonardo was already on edge when Raphael hadn’t shown up at the garage with the others, which is made worse when he learns about the situation at the bank, but when he finds him severely shot up and bloodied in the sewers, he is taken aback.
• Police Are Useless: Miranda — the 911 phone operator who answers April’s call — asks if she wants to call in an airstrike on the Black Raven facility, all to take out some guys with guns at a building containing heavy amounts of radioactive material. April asks if Miranda’s middle name happens to be Jeff.
• Point of Divergence: Because Kenu never got distracted by the goons with the van, he is able to deliver the Turtles’ pizzas in time... catching them flatfooted, as they forgot to make sure they could pay for them. And thanks to the absolute gong show in not only paying Kenu, but also trying to get him to leave without seeing them, he becomes convinced there’s weird ass shit going on at April’s apartment, and decides to call the cops.
• Potty Emergency: When forced to explain why Keno was able to "hear" April (in reality Michelangelo imitating her) but not see her, on top of the presence of several unknown figures in the apartment, Michelangelo-as-April claims she is having bathroom-related problems, with Donatello and Raphael claiming they're her "butt doctors". Needless to say, this doesn't exactly put to rest Keno's fears that she's being held hostage.
• Promoted to Playable:
  • Kara decides to take over April O’Neil starting in Part 2.
  • Inverted: after Jon finally fails a Will roll in regards to his bloodlust in Part 6, Paulo takes over playing Leonardo. This only really applies to one scene, as the rest of his family manage to bring him back around in the Spirit Realm.
• Psychic-Assisted Suicide: Impressively, Raphael manages to not only technically do this in Part 4, but also he does it accidentally: While in his meditative trance, he manages to reach the mind of the glasses-wearing man and, rather than give him anything that would identify himself, send over feelings of fear and failure to try and counteract whatever he's planning with the rest of the terrorists. All this accomplishes is convince him the Turtles are using telekinetic attacks on them, and prompt him to not only accelerate his plans^note his last words are telling one of his men that they need to "fire" now, but also blow his brains out with a machine gun.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • While April returns to the bank to investigate it, Crit Failing a criminology roll^note which Paulo decides, with indirect prompting from Jon, means April accidentally left fingerprints and then immediately failing Perception by one in trying to find the basement causes Kara to punch the shit out of her table.
    Jon: That sounds like a good roll.
  • Feeling Raphael die in Part 5 causes Leonardo to decide to kill every last terrorist at the air base, which he decides to double down on after Crit Failing a roll to control his "Cold Blooded" skill... which Paulo stated was (originally) meant to be literal.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: The Dragon, the man with the pince-nez glasses, both leads a group of mercenaries and personally opens fire at Mikey and Leo with an AK-47.
• A Rare Sentence: Part 4 sees Raphael saying the words "I am but a vessel for God's light."
• Remembered Too Late: When Åsmund Bøe announces his men had searched April's van, Kara halts the scene to remind Paulo that Raphael and Splinter are still in the van, and as such should be allowed to do that scene first.
• Riddle for the Ages:
  • In-Universe: Mainly for ease of convience, Leonardo opts to not explain to the Air Force guys why he's a giant talking turtle:
    Air Force Guy: (unnerved) So, why- are- okay... You're a turtle? You're a giant talking turtle.
    Leonardo: ...yes.
    Air Force Guy: (unnerved) Okay... Um... why?
    Leonardo: Can we do backstory later, and... imminent crisis now? That'd be okay?
    Air Force Guy: Um... I guess...
  • Due to the Turtles managing to circumvent the nukes, and Leonardo murdering most of the terrorists, it remains unclear if Åsmund Bøe was bluffing about nuking New York or not.
• Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Barely avoided: When April and Michelangelo try to take out an armed terrorist in Part 6, Mikey decides (since he's holding a radioactive core that, if open, would kill everyone at the base) to kick the terrorist. Joz missed the first attempt... and Crit Failed the second, resulting in Mikey falling down face first. And just as Paulo announces the core had cracked, Joz quickly remembers she has Luck and rolls again, this time landing a successful kick^note it's worth noting that while her first roll was a success, she did a second roll anyway to see if she could get a better number... and rolled a second Crit Fail. Paulo decides to interpret the initial Crit Fail as Mikey getting a vision of an alternate reality.
• The Scrappy: invoked Discussed: When it seems like Keno's going to leave the plot entirely early on, the players (Paulo in particular) make a point of saying he sucks.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: The Turtles were already starting to plan leaving April's apartment at the start of the campaign, due to feeling they're overstaying their welcome. But due to Keno deciding to call the cops on them, it's decided that they should leave the city for the time being, latching onto Michelangelo's plan of Las Vegas.
• Security Blanket: Upon seeing how traumatized Caitlyn was due to meeting the Turtles, Raphael digs up a packet of M&Ms for her to eat to try and calm her nerves. Rather than eat it, though, she clings to it "like a blankie".
• Sequel First: invoked Unlike the other times they did a reroll for a film's sequel^note to coincide with Future Day, and Paulo was pretending it was a different film, separately, here it's openly acknowledged they are not doing the original film first, with Paulo explaining it was a sponsored campaign.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Kara Strait is very disappointed that — thanks to a long series of very unlucky rolls on her part — her investigations bring up little to no new information.
• Shout-Out: Towards the end of Part 5, when Åsmund Bøe is telling her she needs to be put into captivity for the time being (as to not get into any shenanigans as the eco-terrorists' plan approaches the endgame), April (due to a successful "Professional Skill: Reporter" roll) says she understands. "[She's] covered wars, let's say."
• Skewed Priorities: When expressing his concerns about potentially leaving the city, Leonardo accidentally places pizza above April on the list of things they'd abandon. Michelangelo winds up being fixated on pizza as he continues talking to Splinter.
• Soft Glass: Downplayed. Mikey manages to punch through a bulletproof window, though it does take him two punches and it’s mentioned that this hurts him.
• Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Following the death of the man with the pince-nez glasses — ultimately just a hired gun with Nominal Importance — the campaign properly introduces Professor Åsmund Bøe, an international eco-terrorist.
• Spiritual Successor: invoked
  • While Raphael is fighting the armed thugs at the city's bank, Kara comes to the realization that she and Paulo are in effect redoing the failed Die Hard campaign that was alluded to in the past.
    Paulo: If only I had made you a ninja turtle.
  • Across both Part 5 and 6, Andy and Jon start calling attention to the parallels they have noticed^note the fact they are fighting terrorists to prevent a nuclear disaster, and how a bunch of their allies accidentally got killed in an avoidable ambush between this campaign and the prior campaign on "The Rock", with Jon worried they might fuck up again and get another state nuked.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Considered: Towards the end of the second episode, when April leaves Fred, Paulo asks if he can be allowed to follow Fred instead of the turtles.
• The Stinger: Within the campaign proper: After Paulo declares the end of the “movie”, he decides to pay off the running Vegas plot thread by announcing that the post-credits scene is everyone driving off to Las Vegas.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: When Donatello starts expressing distress over not being able to go back to their old home, Raphael tries to comfort him by stating they have their homes on their backs (meaning their shells). Shortly afterward, when Leonardo expresses unease with Splinter suggesting they leave the city, Splinter repeats this mindset... before admitting he heard Raphael say it, due to how thin the apartment's walls are.
• Surprisingly Realistic Outcome:
  • When the Turtles try to get the pizzas from Keno without him knowing April isn't home, the issue quickly arises that they don't have money. As such, Donatello just takes the pizzas and shuts the door, telling him that he'll get the money later. As such, Keno not only begins banging on the door, but he also threatens to call the cops; after all, he needs to be paid.^note Luckily, Joz successfully makes a Scrounging roll for Michelangelo, and quickly gets the money.
  • Across both of his visits to April's apartment, Keno not only has two separate, borderline unnatural conversations with April^note granted, he was actually talking to Michelangelo the first time, who was imitating her, but also caught sight of some unexplainable creatures. At first, Andy is comfortable having Keno just leave the situation alone, but (via some prompting from Paulo) ultimately realizes that things are too weird to ignore, resulting in him making an anonymous tip to the cops.
  • Downplayed: When the idea of skipping town to head to Las Vegas becomes more and more agreed upon, Michelangelo asks April to come with. Given how she still has her job, she doesn't seem sure of sticking around long term, mentioning she could use some vacation time for the meanwhile.
• Sword of Damocles: The missile, and, on a smaller scale, the equally nuclear canisters Mikey threatens the villains with.
• Taken Off the Case: April's boss Bill threatens to do this to her if she runs afoul with the cops again... even though neither of them are cops.
• Take That!:
  • Kara openly admits she hates Leonardo, repeatedly calling him "a cop".
  • When Michelangelo keeps pushing for the group to go to Las Vegas, Paulo states that he's willing to change the plot of the movie to allow that, since the original version of it sucked.
  • Downplayed: When everyone is discussing the time nature of Tenet at the end of Part 2, Paulo states that he wasn’t confused by the movie, but rather was bored.
  • When the possibility of April being mutated into a turtle is brought up, Kara demands that if that happens, April is given any other name than "Venus de Milo".
• Tap on the Head: Mikey takes out the guards by bashing their heads together. As far as the rules are concerned, this counts as using an Improvised Weapon.
• Tempting Fate:
  • After Keno drops off the pizza, and is greatly unnerved by his near-encounter with the Turtles, Andy contemplates calling the cops, but decides to instead go back to his job delivering pizzas, causing Paulo to comment that Keno is out of the movie. Later on, however, it's decided that he should go back to check in, and after another encounter with the Turtles and hearing April's less-than-convincing explanation for what's been going on at her apartment, Andy ultimately decides that Keno should make an anonymous tip to the cops.
  • The exact moment that Jon complains about how well Raphael is doing against the armed thugs just by headbutting them repeatedly, that is when Kara starts to accumulate some bad rolls, ultimately resulting in Raphael blacking out.
• These Hands Have Killed:
  • Downplayed in that Ralph himself doesn’t realize it, but the Rerollers do note that he did break his no-killing rule by offing one of the bank robbers.
  • Played Straight when Leonardo decapitates one of the terrorists, then completely abandons said rule and kills three more even after rendering them unconscious, all as revenge for them severely injuring Raph.
• They Would Cut You Up: Implied to be the reason for why Mikey refuses to come along with the marines.
• Title Drop:
  • invoked Discussed: When introing the campaign in the first episode, Paulo brings up the fact that in the original movie, the so-called "secret of the ooze" is that there is no actual secret, it's just chemicals, while Jon mentions how the original plan was for it to be revealed it was alien in origin.
  • Repurposed in Part 5: When Åsmund Bøe is explaining to April that the goal of his group is to fight back against the various industries of America creating toxic waste, he outright asks if she knows what the "secret of the ooze" is. Namely, that it's negatively impacting the "poor and disadvantaged".
    Jon: Is that a secret?
• Too Kinky to Torture: Downplayed, but Casey Jones actually likes it when April punches him.
• Too Many Cooks Spoil the Soup: The Turtles wind up making a complete clusterfuck of getting the pizzas from Keno because, as Kara puts it, there's "four Turtles, four plans": Raphael decides to put on his trenchcoat and fedora to open the door, Michaelangelo decides to imitate April's voice, Donatello decides to write a note telling Keno to just leave the pizzas at the door, and Leonardo decides to climb out of the apartment, go around the building, and sneak the pizzas away from Keno.
• To Serve Man: Defied. The other turtles apparently have to constantly remind Donatello that no, they should not start eating people.
• Tranquil Fury: When Kara-as-April states her intention to do some research into the bank back at the news station, Paulo tells her to roll for it. One roll later, Kara calmly states her next intention is to throw herself into a deep chasm, never to be seen again, and become an Unperson.^note Translation: Kara failed yet one more roll during her attempted investigation of the bank.
• Trauma Button: Discussed: After Raphael accidentally "mind-murdered" the glasses-wearing man in Part 4, Kara uneasily asks Paulo if being in the mind of a guy as he kills himself would affect Raphael at all. Paulo decides this requires a Fright Check at -3... which Kara Crit Fails. The end result is that not only is Raphael is briefly stunned, but seeing anyone die from then on requires a Fright Check.
• Tuckerization: Caitlyn Evens is named after a Patreon supporter, as is her van, Steven Russel, which is also an In-Universe example.
  • A meta example: In the mailbag segment, the Rerollers read out a message from a fan who named all of her Pokémon after them as a tribute.
• Unconventional Learning Experience: invoked When April is faced with the main computer system the terrorists were using for the base^note presumably including the missile, Kara is asked to roll Computer Operation (at a minus 2), a skill April doesn't have... and gets a Crit Success. As such, Paulo narrates that April, unsure of how to use a computer terminal, instead remembers a story she covered years prior about someone wrecking a computer system by accidentally entering a delete command. The second April enters said command, the computer systems go down.
• Unreliable Expositor: Kara Strait worries out of character that the guy Leonardo interrogated may have been this, and is upset with Jon Miller for not rolling detect lies on him. Subverted when it turns out that the guy was telling the truth anyway.
• Villain Has a Point: In-Universe, April agrees with the Big Bad that corporate enviromental destruction is abominable, and actually offers to help him combat it if done in a way which doesn’t get innocent people killed.
• We Have Reserves: During Raphael’s time in the bank in Part 1, Kara becomes convinced she’s gonna get killed... which she then shrugs off, stating her intention of claiming April O’Neil should that happen. As such, right at the top of Part 2, when the idea that Raphael might have died between episodes is raised, Kara immediately takes over April.^note Granted, he turned out to still be alive.
• We Need a Distraction: April shows up at the school where the Professor is situated with the pretense of wanting an interview, taking some attention off the Turtles as they begin their infiltration.
• Whatever Happened to the Mouse?: The last we hear of Casey Jones after he shows up in Part 2 is that he decides to sneak into the bank. Part 4 sees Paulo nonchalantly admit he died in the explosion.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Kara manages to get some severe mileage out of just headbutting her opponents as Raphael.
• Won't Take "Yes" for an Answer: When the gang arrives at Blackraven, a plan is hatched to have April act as the distraction (pretending to be there to interview whoever’s in charge) so the rest of the Turtles can sneak in. Leonardo and Donatello wind up having an extensive discussion about having April put herself in such danger... even though, as April herself says, “[she’s] said ‘Yes’ like six times”.
  Andy: (bemused) Right now, it’s just, yeah, Leonardo and Donatello rationalizing it to themselves.
• Working with the Ex: April brings Casey Jones along on the rescue mission, feeling that he may be useful even if she recently broke up with him on bad terms.
• You Keep Using That Word: The back half of the campaign causes Kara to develop a hatred over the repeated usage of the phrase "sneaky peak".
• Your Costume Needs Work: The SWAT team which captures Leo assume he’s just some guy in a turtle costume. (Arguably a bit of Leaning on the Fourth Wall, given that the costumes from the second film have been criticized as being a step down from their predecessors.)