Some of Master Splinter's data bits have turned up in a massively multiplayer online role-playing game that Mikey plays called SuperQuest. To retrieve the data bits the Turtles must enter the game and follow the game's rules, experiencing the world of SuperQuest as they go.
This episode provides examples of
- Animorphism: The game makes Leo a Changeling, who has the power to turn into any animal.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Don realizes that the dragon can be defeated by attacking its belly when it rears up to roar.
- Basement-Dweller: The admin wizard appears to be this in real life.
- Bewitched Amphibians: Raph's misunderstanding of what was meant by giving a "token of affection" to the witch gets him turned into a non-anthropomorphic frog.
- Boss Battle: The fight against the three-headed dragon for the second key.
- Butt-Monkey: Raphael. When the turtles first the game he is turned into a Court Jester. Then when he mistakes that he has kiss a witch he gets turned into a frog.
- Calling Your Attacks: The Ultimate Gamer does this with all his moves.
- Closet Geek: When one of his underlings discovers that Hun is a gamer, he threatens to rip his tongue out if he ever tells anyone what he saw.
- The Comically Serious: Leo being a Changeling keeps on transforming into different animals, while maintaining his serious personality.Leo: (turns into a crab) Not exactly what I had in mind.
(later, he keeps trying to transform into other animals)
Leo: (changes from a crab into a penguin) No. (changes into a goldfish) This is humiliating!
Raph: (who was turned into a frog as punishment) Welcome to my world. - Court Jester: The game turns Raph into one, much to Mikey's amusement.
- Death Glare: Raph tries to crack a joke when he learns that they will be transformed into in game avatars, but Don is not in the mood.Don: Our data will be filtered through the game's content. We step through the portal, there's no telling how we'll step out.
Raph: What are you saying, Donny? We might become Orcs or something? Hahaha!
(Don stares at him, stone faced, Raph stops laughing)Raph: I hate video games. - Enemy Mine: Hun teams up with the Turtles to defeat a cheater in the game, though only the viewers are aware of it.
- Expy: The Ganondorf expy from "Home Invasion" returns in the game world. Also, the Ferryman NPC is an expy of Charon.
- The Ferryman: Literally, the ferryman NPC. Actually a disguise for the Ultimate Gamer.
- Gamer Chick: The Ultimate Gamer is a little girl in real life.
- Guilty Pleasures: In-show variation with Hun. Running the Purple Dragons is one thing, but who would've thought he plays the same MMORPG that Mikey does? Not to mention he, unknowingly, met the Turtles in it and helped them get Splinter's data bits.
- How Do I Shot Web?: Leo doesn't quite get the hang of his shapeshifting ability right away.
- Irony: Size doesn't seem to matter for Hun.
- Magic Pants: While Leo's changeling outfit disappears when he turns into various animals, his normal bandana, belt, and knee and elbow pads remain.
- Most Gamers Are Male: Almost every significant player character in the game is revealed to be male in real life.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: This is the first tip-off to the audience that the "NPC" ferryman isn't what he seems...
- Robe and Wizard Hat: Donnie's in-game avatar.
- Shout-Out:
- The title of the episode is a nod to EverQuest. Many of the features of the online game world are references to World of Warcraft, and there also seems to be nods to The Lord of the Rings Online.
- Raph, transformed into a non-anthropomorphic frog, dances and sings a ragtime song to distract the Ultimate Gamer.
- Stealth Pun: In order to defeat the Ultimate Gamer, Leo, who is a Changeling in game and can transform into animals, changes into a white lion. 'Leo' is the Latin word for "lion".
- Tactical Suicide Boss: Don notices that the three-headed dragon is on a strict attack cycle where it fires, rises, roars, and exposes its vulnerable underbelly.
- UltimateGamer386: This episode is actually the Trope Namer.
- We Need a Distraction: It falls to Raph, who's been turned into a frog wearing a jester outfit, to distract the Ultimate Gamer whilst the others power their attacks to defeat him.Raph: Uh, why is everyone looking at me?
