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* CaptainErsatz: "[[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Mr. Weasel]]" appears in the first Image story arc and is swiftly beheaded by Pimiko. He has four claws on perhaps only one hand.
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* CaptainErsatz: "[[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Mr. Weasel]]" appears in the first Image story arc and is swiftly beheaded by Pimiko. He has four claws on perhaps only one hand.
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* CrapsackWorld: The Mirage universe, as a whole. While there are lighter spots and good things ''do'' happen, the recurring theme is that nothing good ever lasts and everything ends in tragedy. Especially the glimpses of the future we get in Tales of the TMNT Vol 2, show that they're headed for a BadFuture and there is nothing they can do to avoid it. It's perhaps best summed up by Kirby's quote in the ''Donatello'' one-shot: "Life, at best, is bittersweet." It may not have been intentional by the creators, but these words come to sum up the entire Mirage continuity pretty neatly.
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** Mike, compared to the other Turtles. Outside the ''Michaelangelo'' spotlight issue, which does paint him as a happy-go-lucky, fun-loving guy, he tends to get ignored by the narrative both when it comes to characterization and any sort of role in the story. Some stories (especially the ones by Michael Dooney) would remember his goofball nature and have him make the occasional silly remark or clown around in the background, but for the most part he was just there as the fourth Turtle, getting very little focus and almost no characterization. He'd start getting bigger roles and more consistent characterization in Volume 3, and had his own storyline going in Volume 4.
** The Turtles themselves, especially in Volume 1, often take a back seat to their various guest
** Mike, compared to the other Turtles. Outside the ''Michaelangelo'' spotlight issue, which does paint him as a happy-go-lucky, fun-loving guy, he tends to get ignored by the narrative both when it comes to characterization and any sort of role in the story. Some stories (especially the ones by Michael Dooney) would remember his goofball nature and have him make the occasional silly remark or clown around in the background, but for the most part he was just there as the fourth Turtle, getting very little focus and almost no characterization. He'd start getting bigger roles and more consistent characterization in Volume 3, and had his own storyline going in Volume 4.
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* SpotlightStealingSquad: Raphael, ''espesially'' in Vol. 1. Of all the Turtles, he gets by far the most attention, and if an issue gives any single Turtle the starring role, it's almost certain to be Raph. This is eventually toned down in Vol. 3 and 4, where the focus is more evenly split between the four Turtles.
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* ContinuitySnarl: As mentioned under ExiledFromContinuity on the Trivia page, virtually all of the Guest Artist Era issues were removed from continuity due to legal reasons, and while this isn't a problem for the most part, since almost all of them were standalone stories, there's one exception; #28, "The Sons Of the Silent Age", directly references the events of #25/26, "The River", which no longer officially took place.
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* TheWormThatWalks: The truth behind The Shredders resurrection - he's essentially just a huge colony of worms with the memories and personality of the original Shredder, shaped like a human being. As seen when he removes his armor and helmet, even calling him human anymore is a stretch.
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* BittersweetEnding: The ending of Volume 1, and the original TMNT series as a whole: [[New York is left damaged after the Foot Civil War, Gabrielle is dead and Casey is left a widower with an infant daughter to care for, April's father and Karai's daughter are dead, and Splinter has been badly injured and weakened from his experiences in the forest. But the Turtles have achieved a measure of peace with their past, the Foot Elite have been wiped out, and the Civil War is over. The characters begin to drift back to New York, and start to slowly mend their relationships and look toward the future.
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* BittersweetEnding: The ending of Volume 1, and the original TMNT series as a whole: [[New York is left damaged after the Foot Civil War, Gabrielle is dead and Casey is left a widower with an infant daughter to care for, April's father and Karai's daughter are dead, and Splinter has been badly injured and weakened from his experiences in the forest. But the Turtles have achieved a measure of peace with their past, the Foot Elite have been wiped out, and the Civil War is over. The characters begin to drift back to New York, and start to slowly mend their relationships and look toward the future.
* BodyHorror: Anyone who finds their way to the Sky Highway quickly begin to mutate into grotesque, Big Daddy Roth-esque caricatures of themselves, which can range from just bizarre (Hildagaard) to really, really ugly (Quake Butt, Diddy Wah Daddy, Casey in his mutated form), to outright inhuman (Bone Ugly). The Turtles aren't affected at all because they're already mutants. Ironically, the people who end up on the Sky Highway don't seem to mind their new appearance much, and the Mutato-Heads even decide to return there and become mutants again rather than return to their boring lives on Earth.
* BodyHorror: Anyone who finds their way to the Sky Highway quickly begin to mutate into grotesque, Big Daddy Roth-esque caricatures of themselves, which can range from just bizarre (Hildagaard) to really, really ugly (Quake Butt, Diddy Wah Daddy, Casey in his mutated form), to outright inhuman (Bone Ugly). The Turtles aren't affected at all because they're already mutants. Ironically, the people who end up on the Sky Highway don't seem to mind their new appearance much, and the Mutato-Heads even decide to return there and become mutants again rather than return to their boring lives on Earth.
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* CycleOfRevenge: And how. Beginning with Oroku Nagi's death at Yoshi's hands, the entire conflict between the Turtles and the Foot revolves around this. Volume 3 also implies that Hamato Yoshi had other people looking for revenge against him, but this was never elaborated on.
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* DeadAllAlong: During "City At War", an injured Splinter is trapped inside an old silo, and is constantly visited by The Rat King, and who's seemingly cruel and uncaring words end up helping Splinter not just to survive, but also untangle some of the difficulties he had been dealing with at the start of the story. After recovering enough to escape the silo, Splinter stumbles across the long-dead remains of the Rat King, having apparently died after the end of his encounter with the Turtles several years before.
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* MistakenForThief: While trying to smuggle the Turtles back to her apartment in #3, April is mistaken for a group of bank robbers because they happen to have the same van she does, so most of the issue is spent driving around New York trying to get away from the police. Despite being innocent, April can't risk stopping because the Turtles are hiding in the back of the van.
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* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: By the time "City At War" takes place, the characters have begun to drift apart, April moves to Los Angeles to be with her sister after their father dies, Casey becomes a drifter, Splinter exiles himself in the woods, and the Turtles find themselves adrift with no purpose. Meanwhile, the Foot civil war is tearing New York apart.
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* OffWithHisHead: How The Shredder meets his final end at Leonardo's hands during the climax of "Return To New York". The Turtles takes his body with them and burns it on the Hudson to prevent the Foot from ever bringing him back again.
* SoWhatDoWeDoNow: After the events of "Return To New York", the Turtles grow increasingly listless and frustrated, since their entire lives had been spent training and preparing to face The Shredder, and with his death, they lose all sense of purpose. Made worse by the fact that since they're not human and have to live in hiding, they can't even build normal lives for themselves. This finally comes to a head in "City At War".
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* BadFuture: The future of the ''TMNT'' universe, glimpsed in occasional 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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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The overwrought narration from the first issue is gone by the second one, and never really appears again. Also, many characteristics of the TMNT universe known to casual fans (Such as April's job as a reporter and the Turtle's pizza obsession) originated in the cartoons and the comic adaptation of the cartoons and do not exist in this universe.
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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.
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* RaceLift: Although April O'Neil's race was never established during the original comics, or even agreed upon by the creators, her issue #4 redesign gave her several features which coded her as a Woman of Color, which gradually went away.
* RetCanon: A notable aversion. Despite the huge popularity of the '80s cartoon, the Mirage comics never adapted their own continuity to match it. Not until the 2000s did they bring in a handful of outside elements, and then only from the second cartoon -- which was heavily based on the Mirage comic anyway.
* 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 darker and more violent again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
* RetCanon: A notable aversion. Despite the huge popularity of the '80s cartoon, the Mirage comics never adapted their own continuity to match it. Not until the 2000s did they bring in a handful of outside elements, and then only from the second cartoon -- which was heavily based on the Mirage comic anyway.
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* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The first issue is''very'' dark and violent, played surprisingly straight, 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 more absurd stuff like mad scientists and aliens, although things did tend to get darker and more violent again whenever the Foot clan returned. One of the funnier issues, #8, ironically co-starred the actual [[ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark Cerebus]].
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The book was soon revived under a third volume, published by Image Comics as the official continuation of the Mirage continuity. It is mostly remembered for mutilating three out of the four turtles: Raph lost an eye and got various facial scarring; Leo lost a hand; and Don was so badly hurt he was forced to become a cyborg. Other notable events include Splinter's transformation into a bat-like creature; the introduction of Pimiko, a female ninja who was eventually revealed to be the Shredder's daughter; and the expansion of Shredder mantle to a full-blown legacy, with both Raphael and an unknown female (Karai, according to [[WordOfGod word of god]] after the fact) taking on the identity. The series ended inconclusively with cancellation, and although it was subsequently removed from canon, nods to it would appear once in a while.
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The book was soon revived under a third volume, published by Image Comics as the official continuation of the Mirage continuity. It is mostly remembered for mutilating three out of the four turtles: Raph lost an eye and got various facial scarring; Leo lost a hand; and Don was so badly hurt he was forced to become a cyborg. Other notable events include Splinter's transformation into a bat-like creature; the introduction of Pimiko, a female ninja who was eventually revealed to be the Shredder's daughter; and the expansion of Shredder mantle to a full-blown legacy, with both Raphael and an unknown female (Karai, according to [[WordOfGod word of god]] after the fact) taking on the identity. The series ended inconclusively with cancellation, and although it was subsequently removed from canon, nods to it would appear once in a while. \n It also saw two attempts at a proper ending - first a fan-made attempt in 2012 working from notes provided by the original team, and again in 2020, when the entire series was reprinted as "TMNT: Urban Legends", and original creative team Gary Carlson and Frank Fosco returned to publish three new, final issues, which wrapped up the story and ([[BroadStrokes more or less]]) lined it up with later continuity.
