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The original incarnation of Eastman and Laird's ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', and the one that, for better or worse, that essentially lit the firecracker. The first issue appeared in May, May 1984.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: After being driven out of New York by the Foot Clan in issue 10, the Turtles, Casey, and April escape to Northampton, Massachusetts- where Mirage Studios was located at the time.
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* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: During the assault on the Foot compound in "Return to New York," Raph has gone off the deep end and is out for the Shredder's blood, separating from the rest of his brothers intending to take him down himself. However part way through he's ambushed by Saki's elite guards and it's only Leo's intervention that saves his life. Raph acknowledges that Leo — whom Shredder nearly killed in ''Leonardo #1'', and after Raph called him a coward in part 1 — falls back to help Mike and Don, allowing Leo to face Saki himself.
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The original incarnation of Eastman and Laird's ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', and the one that got that, for better or worse, lit the ball rolling.firecracker. The first issue appeared in May, 1984.
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* BadFuture: The future of the ''TMNT'' universe, glimpsed in occasional time-travel and FlashForward stories, is a depressing place. The world has been destroyed by climate change, society has collapsed, strange radioactive monsters now litter the earth, and the Turtles have become estranged from each other for unclear reasons, with the implication that they will never see each other again.
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* BadFuture: The future of the ''TMNT'' universe, glimpsed in occasional time-travel TimeTravel and FlashForward stories, is a depressing place. The world has been destroyed by climate change, society has collapsed, strange radioactive monsters now litter the earth, and the Turtles have become estranged from each other for unclear reasons, with the implication that they will never see each other again.
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* BadFuture: The ''TMNT'' universe's future is a depressing place. The world has been destroyed by climate change, society has collapsed, strange radioactive monsters now litter the earth, and the Turtles have become estranged from each other for unclear reasons, with the implication that they will never see each other again.
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* BadFuture: The future of the ''TMNT'' universe's future universe, glimpsed in occasional time-travel and FlashForward stories, is a depressing place. The world has been destroyed by climate change, society has collapsed, strange radioactive monsters now litter the earth, and the Turtles have become estranged from each other for unclear reasons, with the implication that they will never see each other again.
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* AnAssKickingChristmas: Both the ''Michaelangelo'' and ''Leonardo'' one-shots.
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* AnAssKickingChristmas: Both the ''Michaelangelo'' and ''Leonardo'' one-shots.micro-series see the Turtles having adventures during their Christmas festivities. The "Return to New York" three-part storyline is also set on Christmas, but this is only indicated by an easily-missed date on a newspaper.
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* BalefulPolymorph: In Rick Veitch's "The River", Raphael is forcibly devolved into a normal turtle.
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* DownerEnding: The turtles' life story, if the tales set in the future are any indication.
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* ArtShift: Issue #8 of Volume 1, the crossover with ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'', is primarily drawn by Eastman and Laird as usual, but once the Turtles arrive in Cerebus' time, the background's are now drawn by ''Cerebus''' background artist, Gerhard, and Cerebus himself is drawn by creator Dave Sim. Sim uses a distinctly different inking style that makes the aardvark stand out a bit from the rest of the artwork.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: This is true of every version of the TMNT, but--especially taking all the random back-up stories into account--the Mirage Turtles really cannot go five minutes without being attacked by aliens or sent to another dimension or whatnot.
* WesternTerrorists: The Committee to Rebuild American Patriotism, the antagonist group in an early issue of the original series.
* WesternTerrorists: The Committee to Rebuild American Patriotism, the antagonist group in an early issue of the original series.
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* WeirdnessMagnet: This is true of every version of the TMNT, but--especially taking all the random back-up stories into account--the Mirage Turtles really cannot go five minutes without being attacked by aliens or sent to another dimension or whatnot.
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* WesternTerrorists: The Committee to Rebuild American Patriotism, the antagonist group inan early issue of the original series.Volume 1 #12.
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: After being driven out of New York by the Foot Clan in issue 10, the Turtles, Casey, and April escape to Northampton, Massachusetts- where Mirage Studios was located at the time.
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* AnachronicOrder: ''Tales of the TMNT'' Vol. 2.
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* AnachronicOrder: ''Tales of the TMNT'' Vol. 2.2 skips all around the timeline of the comics universe, with the primary intent of filling in the fifteen-year gap between ''TMNT'' Volumes 2 and 4, but also including stories set in the future or in the time frame of older stories.
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* MythologyGag: Glimpses of the Turtles' futures in Volume 4 reveal that Raphael will one day lose his left eye. In the non-canon Volume 3, he already did.
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* GrandFinale: The "City at War" storyline was the epic conclusion to Volume 1, running for an entire year and thirteen whole issues, and depicting the final conflicting between the Turtles and the Foot Clan. It was also the final Turtles story which both Eastman and Laird worked on together, making it a fitting end to the "''Eastman and Laird's...''" era.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: After the Turtles are defeated by the Foot Clan and forced to leave New York, April notes in her diary that Michelangelo doesn't tell jokes or hang out with his brothers any more, instead staying in a barn by himself and working out obsessively.
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The first issue is ''very'' dark and violent, featuring an origin story filled with murder, lust and revenge, and four identical turtles who scowl constantly, brutally cut down a gang of street thugs, and tell the Shredder to commit seppuku. Things get a lot less gritty from the second issue onwards, as the turtles gained more distinct personalities, a good amount of humor was introduced, and the antagonists moved away from street-level humans to sillier stuff like mad scientists and aliens, although things did tend to get serious again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The first issue is ''very'' dark and violent, featuring an origin story filled with murder, lust and revenge, and four identical turtles who scowl constantly, brutally cut down a gang of street thugs, and tell the Shredder to commit seppuku. Things get a lot less gritty from the second issue onwards, as the turtles gained more distinct personalities, a good amount of humor was introduced, and the antagonists moved away from street-level humans to sillier stuff like mad scientists and aliens, although things did tend to get serious darker and more violent again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
* TwentyMinutesIntoThePast: Volume 1 issue 11, released in June of 1987, begins in January of that year, before working its way through the following months to the then-present.
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* {{Tulpa}}: [[spoiler: April O'Neil]], suprisingly.
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* WoundedHeroWeakerHelper: Issue #10 sees Leonardo having been severely wounded by the Foot in the previous issue, and with the other Turtles busy fending them off, Splinter and April are left to drag him to safety on their own.
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: That's ''Eastman and Laird's'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, thank you very much.
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* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: That's The covers of every issue until #50 were keen to remind you that it's ''Eastman and Laird's'' Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, thank you very much.
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The first issue is ''very'' dark and violent, featuring an origin story filled with murder, lust and revenge, and four identical turtles who scowl constantly, brutally cut down a gang of street thugs, and tell the Shredder to commit seppuku. Things get a lot less gritty from the second issue onwards, as the turtles gained more distinct personalities, a good amount of humor was introduced, and the antagonists moved away from street-level humans to sillier stuff like mad scientists and aliens, although things did tend to get serious again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The first issue is ''very'' dark and violent, featuring an origin story filled with murder, lust and revenge, and four identical turtles who scowl constantly, brutally cut down a gang of street thugs, and tell the Shredder to commit seppuku. Things get a lot less gritty from the second issue onwards, as the turtles gained more distinct personalities, a good amount of humor was introduced, and the antagonists moved away from street-level humans to sillier stuff like mad scientists and aliens, although things did tend to get serious again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[CerebusTheAardvark [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
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* MartialArtsForMundanePurposes: Raphael using Chinese butterfly knives to trim a Christmas tree. This scene made it into the 2000s ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 TMNT]]'' cartoon.
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* EvilOverlord: Savanti Romero.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Oroku Saki became bitter and resentful after his older brother, Oroku Nagi, died at Yoshi's hand. He grew up to become the feared Shredder and killed Yoshi to avenge his brother. After Shredder is killed, his adoptive daughter Karai comes to New York.
* EvilOverlord: Savanti Romero.
* EvilOverlord: Savanti Romero.
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The original incarnation of Eastman and Laird's Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'', and the one that got the ball rolling. The first issue appeared in May, 1984.
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Played up to a ridiculous degree with April in issue #14 of Vol. 1. The villain of the issue grabs her by the upper arm, and this makes her so helpless that she doesn't even try to struggle or escape when she's gagged and then taken away.
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* StandardFemaleGrabArea: Played up to a ridiculous degree with April in issue #14 of Vol. 1. The villain of the issue grabs her by the upper arm, and this makes her so helpless that she doesn't even try to struggle or escape when she's gagged (not bound, just gagged) and then taken away.
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* {{Crossover}}: Several, notably with [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]], ComicBook/{{Cerebus}}, the WesternAnimation/WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa, The ComicBook/FlamingCarrot, and ComicBook/TheSavageDragon, among others.
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* {{Crossover}}: {{Crossover}}:
** Several, notably with [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]], ComicBook/{{Cerebus}}, the WesternAnimation/WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa, The ComicBook/FlamingCarrot, and ComicBook/TheSavageDragon, among others.
**''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever''''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'' crosses over the Mirage comics with the other continuities.
** Several, notably with [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]], ComicBook/{{Cerebus}}, the WesternAnimation/WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa, The ComicBook/FlamingCarrot, and ComicBook/TheSavageDragon, among others.
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* SdrawkcabName: When Baxter Stockman uses his Mousers to hold the city at ransom, the genius chooses the Retxab building as his first victim. Presumably also a ShoutOut to the Comicbook/FantasticFour's headquarters.
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* SdrawkcabName: When Baxter Stockman uses his Mousers to hold the city at ransom, the genius chooses the Retxab building as his first victim. Presumably also a ShoutOut to the Comicbook/FantasticFour's headquarters.
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* ChildSoldier: Oroku Saki began his training to avenge his brother's death at the age of seven. He took the identity of The Shredder, founded the New York branch of the Foot Clan and killed Hamato Yoshi at the age of twelve.
* CombatPragmatist: When sent across the galaxy during the TCRI storyline, our heroes have absolutely no problem grabbing rayguns and opening fire on both human troops and aliens.
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* ChildSoldier: ChildSoldier:
** Oroku Saki began his training to avenge his brother's death at the age of seven. He took the identity of The Shredder, founded the New York branch of the Foot Clan and killed Hamato Yoshi at the age of twelve.
** The TMNT are only teenagers and have been training for years.
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** When sent across the galaxy during the TCRI storyline, our heroes have absolutely no problem grabbing rayguns and opening fire on both human troops and aliens.
** Oroku Saki began his training to avenge his brother's death at the age of seven. He took the identity of The Shredder, founded the New York branch of the Foot Clan and killed Hamato Yoshi at the age of twelve.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: The comic is very much this compared with basically every adaptation of it, particularly the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 '80s cartoon]].
** Lampshaded in the movie Turtles Forever where the '80s turtles and the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 '03 turtles]] were scared of the Mirage turtles.
** Since the comic is the first entry of the universe, it's easier to state that every other adaptation is LighterAndSofter in varying degrees, lest the comics fall victim to AdaptationDisplacement.
** Lampshaded in the movie Turtles Forever where the '80s turtles and the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 '03 turtles]] were scared of the Mirage turtles.
** Since the comic is the first entry of the universe, it's easier to state that every other adaptation is LighterAndSofter in varying degrees, lest the comics fall victim to AdaptationDisplacement.
* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference:
** The turtles usually all scowled and all had the same colour headbands.
** April was originally a brunette, not a redhead like she usually is. She was also [[AmbiguouslyBrown vaguely raced]] until she was later made un-ambiguously white.
** The turtles usually all scowled and all had the same colour headbands.
** April was originally a brunette, not a redhead like she usually is. She was also [[AmbiguouslyBrown vaguely raced]] until she was later made un-ambiguously white.
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* ForTheEvulz: This is the reason why Baxter Stockman decided to use his Mousers for crime when he'd already made a legal fortune with them.
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* ForTheEvulz: This is the reason why Baxter Stockman decided to use his Mousers for crime when he'd already made a legal fortune with them.
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** Presumably also a ShoutOut to the Comicbook/FantasticFour's headquarters.
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** Volume 4 takes place roughly fifteen years after the previous canonical volume.
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IDW (who has published other licensed {{Comic Book}}s) has gained the rights for publishing Ninja Turtles comics, which include reprinting this series, though Mirage retains the rights to publish up to 18 new issues a year. This has made finding it easier than it ever was, so check them out if you're interested.
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! The Mirage comic books series provide examples of:
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!! The Mirage comic books series
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* BerzerkButton: Steal or damage Casey's car in any way and he'll go nuts.
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* LawyerFriendlyCameo: The Turtles' origin as shown in the very first issue of the comic has the canister of mutagen that mutated the Turtles hitting a young boy in the face before being exposed to the turtles. The boy is all but explicitly stated to be [[ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} Matt Murdock at the time where he got blinded and started developing super senses]].
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* {{Crossover}}: Several, notably with [[ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo Miyamoto Usagi]], ComicBook/{{Cerebus}}, the WildWestCOWBoysOfMooMesa, The ComicBook/FlamingCarrot, and ComicBook/TheSavageDragon, among others.
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[[caption-width-right:350:The Original Turtles]]