History Characters / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987

* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: He and his organization claim to protect mutants shunned by humans; Donatello and Raphael, sick of being HeroesWithBadPublicity and [[UngratefulTownsfolk dealing with the ingratitude of humans]], decide to join them... until they discover H.A.V.O.C. mutating a captive man and realize their real goal is to mutate people to dominate humanity completely.

* AdaptationNameChange: In the 1987 animated series, he is named Usagi Yojimbo, but the original incarnation from the comic series (which is titled ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'') is named Miyamoto Usagi.

* BassoProfundo: Thanks to voice actors James Avery, Dorian Harewood and Bill Martin.

* BellyDancer: April and Irma are dressed like this in the episode "Shredderville".

* BellyDancer: April and Irma are dressed like this in the episode "Shredderville."

* DependingOnTheWriter: Burne never likes Turtles personally, but sometimes he's aggressively against them, and other times Burne only gets angry with them if they mess with the Channel six building or his reporters. Burne is at his nicest in mid season 3 to 4, due to the Turtles rescuing him in [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S03E07BurnesBlues Burne's Blues]], conversely he is at his nastiest in season 8 starting from [[TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987S08E01GetShredder Get Shredder]].

-->Voiced by: Creator/PeterRenaday, Creator/TownsendColeman ("Donatello's Badd Time," "Michelangelo Meets Bugman Again")

* HarmlessVillain: At least from the second season on. They were always idiots, but after the first season, their stupidity grew to the point they were completely ineffectual. They also became a lot more laid back and put-upon as well.

* PutOnABus: Like all the Technodrome villains and the Channel 6 crew (except April), once the retool occurred.

* VillainDecay: While they weren't exactly geniuses in the first season, they were still extreme physical threats to the turtles, especially in their second appearance after being mutated. From that point on, they became more or less ineffectual against them, and even some humans.

The most-iconic version of the Turtles' sidekick and evangelist. April Harriet O'Neil is a television reporter for Channel 6 News and one of the turtles' first human friends and allies. Easily-spotted by her [[HeroesWantRedheads red helmet of hair]] and [[AdventurerOutfit yellow jumpsuit]].

* CommuttingOnABus: At the end of his mutation episode, he ended up accidentally getting shifted out of range with the world. Afterwards, he would reappear off and on in several more episodes, only for each appearance to end with him getting banished to another dimension again, to the point he was chagrined [[OhNoNotAgain every time it happened]].

* CommuttingByBus: At the end of his mutation episode, he ended up accidentally getting shifted out of range with the world. Afterwards, he would reappear off and on in several more episodes, only for each appearance to end with him getting banished to another dimension again, to the point he was chagrined [[OhNoNotAgain every time it happened]].

* CommutingByBus: At the end of his mutation episode, he ended up accidentally getting shifted out of range with the world. Afterwards, he would reappear off and on in several more episodes, only for each appearance to end with him getting banished to another dimension again, to the point he was chagrined [[OhNoNotAgain every time it happened]].

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Following his first appearance in which he was kicked out of the Ajax Pest Control company, he sided with Shredder.

* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Following his first appearance in which he was tricked by Shredder into building thousands of his Mousers to attack the city, followed by [[NoSympathy getting captured by the Turtles]] and [[MisplacedRetribution arrested for the chaos Shredder caused with the Mousers]], upon returning, he sided with Shredder to get revenge on the Turtles.

* GoodParents: For as stern as he can be about the study of ninjustsu and keeping up with training, Splinter absolutely loves the Turtles. He frequently refers to them as his sons, trains them to be ninja teens, and destroys the Retro-Mutagen Ray to save the turtles from Shredder turning them back into ordinary turtles. Splinter did this knowing that the Ray was the only chance he would ever have to be human again. [[ActOfTrueLove Didn't matter.]] [[PapaWolf Splinter's sons were in danger; that's all there was to it]].

* NotSoAboveItAll: Is usually exasperated by his sons' antics, but occasionally laughs them off or even joins in. He's also shown his skill as a [[JustForPun "shredder"]] when he challenged Leonardo to a skateboarding contest in "Leonardo Lightens Up."

* GuileHero: All of them can be seen as this, as they sometimes use trickery to overcome their foes.