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* EleventhHourSuperpower: Raphael absorbs all of the accumulated Psycho Power from the Psycho Bombs, granting him a Psycho-Powered super form which allows him to defeat both M. Bison and Shredder [[OneHitKill in a single blow]].
* ActionGirl: Chun-Li for the Street Fighters, and Jennika for the Ninja Turtles.



* AscendedMeme: When Raphael is presumed dead, Ken's first response is "Bummer". This is likely a nod to the infamous "Cowabummer" meme which surrounds [[ComicBook/BatmanTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles another one of the Turtles' comic crossovers]].



* BigEater: Michelangelo is introduced taking a mountain of snacks from the snack stand outside of the area. This ends up biting him when he goes up against Chun-Li in the tournament, who is upset at him for [[AteItAll taking all the nachos]].

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* BigEater: Michelangelo is introduced taking a mountain of snacks food from the snack stand outside of the area. This ends up biting him when he goes up against Chun-Li in the tournament, who is upset at him for [[AteItAll taking all the nachos]].



* TheCameo: Pigeon Pete and Rufus make a brief appearance as some of the tournament fighters Shadaloo kidnapped to use as [[LivingBattery Living Batteries]].

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* TheCameo: Pigeon Pete and Rufus make a brief appearance as some two of the tournament fighters Shadaloo kidnapped to use as [[LivingBattery Living Batteries]].



* ContinuityNod: Jennika's previous life as a menber of the Foot Clan is mentioned during her fight with Shredder.

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* CasinoEpisode: Downplayed. The tournament takes place in a casino in Atlantic City, however, the casino itself rarely appears and is not relevant to the plot.
* CoolVersusAwesome: ''Ninja Turtles'' vs. ''Street Fighters''. And in the final issue, ''[[TinTyrant Shredder]]'' [[EvilVersusEvil vs.]] ''[[EvilOverlord M. Bison]]''.
* CombatParkour: Michelangelo is more agile and acrobatic than any of the other Turtles during his fighting. However, this is subverted during his fight with Chun-Li, an opponent who also quite agile and ''far'' more direct with her attacks.
-->'''Chun-Li''': Let this be a lesson: evasion works fine in the real world, but when you're forced to fight someone, eventually you have to actually--'''fight'''.
* ContinuityNod: Jennika's previous life as a menber member of the Foot Clan is mentioned during her fight with Shredder.



** A lesser example occurs with the cover of issue #2. Leonardo is seen facing off with Ryu while wielding a sword, despite none of the Turtles ever using any weapons during the tournament.



* TheDreaded: Stockman is greatly annoyed that Bison got the Turtles involved in their plans despite his warnings. He ''immediately'' decides that it's time to abandon ship once he learns that Shredder is free and tearing through Bison's soldiers.

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* TheDreaded: Stockman is greatly annoyed that Bison got the Turtles involved in their plans despite his warnings. He ''immediately'' decides that [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere it's time to abandon ship ship]] once he learns that Shredder is free and tearing through Bison's soldiers.



-->'''M. Bison''': '''--PSYCHO! [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHA]]!'''

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-->'''M. Bison''': '''--PSYCHO! '''--[[BigWordShout PSYCHO]]! [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHA]]!'''



* FireForgedFriends: Applies to the two hero groups as a whole, but especially Raphael and Guile, who start the series hating each other's guts, but gradually grow to respect one another.



* HairTriggerTemper: Raphael, naturally. It's so prominent that characters like Chun-Li and Bison are able to notice it almost immediately.

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* HairTriggerTemper: Raphael, naturally. as per usual. It's so prominent that characters like Chun-Li and Bison Bison, who have only known him for a few days, are able to notice it.
* HeroicSacrifice: Raphael chooses to absorb all the Psycho Power from the Psycho Bomb in order to disable
it almost immediately.before it can be launched at New York, knowing full well that so much negative energy could kill him.



* LetsYouAndHimFight: In true crossover fashion, the Turtles and Street Fighters, in part thanks to Stockman, mistakenly believe each other to be villains responsible for the kidnapping plot surrounding the tournament.

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* LateArrivalSpoiler: Anyone not familiar with the IDW Turtles up to this point might be confused why the Turtles would willingly put themselves out in the open and why everyone acts like giant mutant Turtles are a normal thing. Downplayed slightly in that the series takes place in an AlternateContinuity not connected to the main IDW series.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: In true crossover fashion, the Turtles and Street Fighters, in part thanks to Stockman, mistakenly believe Fighters briefly mistake each other to be for villains responsible for the kidnapping plot surrounding the tournament.and come to blows over it.


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* LuminescentBlush: Chun-Li gives one when Michelangelo remarks that he likes her [[AmazonChaser "intense vibe"]].


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* MistakenDeathConfirmation: Raphael is believed dead by the heroes after dispelling all the accumulated Psycho Power from his body; with Jennika taking his lack of pulse as confirmation. Only a few moments later, he recovers, telling Jennika that she should [[LampshadeHanging learn how to find a pulse]].
* MurderousThighs: Chun-Li, unsurprisingly, who manages to put Michelangelo into a choke hold using her legs.


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* NoodleIncident: Sometime before the start of the series, Bison sent his henchmen to kidnap Shredder so he could harness his Psycho Power. It is unknown how they accomplished this, apart from it being difficult and costing a lot of men.
* NotJustATournament: The Halo Soda-sponsored tournament is in fact just a ruse designed by Bison and Stockman to lure in powerful fighters so that they can kidnap them and drain their Psycho Power.
-->'''Ken''': Oh, for crying out loud. It's '''Shadaloo'''! Every time we think we've found a nice, well-organized international fighting tournament. It's '''all''' Shadaloo!


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* RapidFireNo: Stockman lets out multiple "nopes" after Shredder frees himself and begins beating Bison's guards.


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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Bison decides it's time to leave his lair once things start to get too chaotic.
-->'''M. Bison''': What? No, Balrog, I'm not '''hiding''' on the roof. There's just...a lot of chaos down below. People running, screaming. Trying to "save the day". And I can't be bothered.


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* TalkToTheFist: Chun-Li dispatches one of the Shadaloo soldiers this way [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor just as he's commenting how she's made it easy for them to find her]].
* UnknownRematchConclusion: The series ends showing Raphael and Guile engaging in their long-overdue rematch.
* VillainBall: CardCarryingVillain M. Bison cannot resist any opportunity to show off his power or grab onto new sources of it; unleashing hordes of Shadaloo soldiers upon the heroes, capturing Raphael and Shredder in spite of Stockman repeatedly warning him against it, and directing the Psycho Bomb towards New York City just as proof of how ruthless he is willing to be with them.


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* WeCanRuleTogether: Bison attempts to lure Raphael to TheDarkSide upon witnessing his Psycho Powered form.
* WithMyHandsTied: Chun-Li and Raphael are both handcuffed by Bison and Stockman, and still manage to effectively fight the two villains and their henchmen.

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* AdaptationalJerkass: At least at this point in the IDW comics, Shredder had mellowed out and become a good guy as well as mentor to the heroes. Here he's still evil and kind of a dick, even if ALighterShadeOfBlack to M. Bison.
* AlternateContinuity: The comic is set after the Armageddon game storyline of the ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW comic but is non-canon due to a few discrepancies in continuity such as Shredder still being evil while he had undergone a HeelFaceTurn at this point in the comics.


* BadBoss: M. Bison treats his newest lackey Baxter Stockman horribly and frequently yells at and even hits him.
* BigBad: [[Characters/StreetFighterTheFourKings M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.
* CrossoverVillainInChief: M. Bison of Franchise/StreetFighter is main villain with his lackies being rogues of the TMNT like Dr. Baxter Stockman.

* DiabolicalMastermind: M. Bison is a powerful criminal figure with an international crime organization, the Shadaloo syndicate, with international reach and a desire to TakeOverTheWorld.
* TheDragon: Dr. Baxter Stockman acts as M. Bison's right hand man and is behind helping him perfect the weapons called the Psycho Bombs to take over the world.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Baxter Stockman turns on M. Bison when Bison reveals that he intends to destroy New York with his newly designed Psycho Bomb weapon, as destroying his home city is way too far even for an evil MadScientist like Stockman.


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* AdaptationalJerkass: At least at this point in the IDW comics, Shredder had mellowed out and become a good guy as well as mentor to the heroes. Here he's still evil and kind of a dick, even if ALighterShadeOfBlack to M. Bison.
* AlternateContinuity: The comic is set after the Armageddon game "Armageddon Game" storyline of the ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW comic comic, but is considered non-canon due to a few discrepancies in continuity several discrepancies, such as Shredder still being evil evil.
* BadassBoast: Shredder gets one out
while he had undergone a HeelFaceTurn at this point in the comics.


is beating Bison's troopers.
-->'''Shredder''': You thought that would stop me? I have brought empires to their knees. Killed renowned warriors. Have you any idea who you're dealing with?
* BadBoss: M. Bison treats his newest lackey shows little to no respect to Baxter Stockman, disregarding his ideas constantly, yelling at him, and even slapping him for questining his judgement. He also chose not to tell him of his true plans to bomb Manhattan.
* BadassInDistress: Raphael and Chun-Li spend the entirety of issue #3 as Bison and Stockman's captives, and fighting their way to escape.
* BatmanGambit:
Stockman horribly tricks Ken into destroying the Psycho Bomb's controls by mentioning that they have limited time and frequently yells at this is the easiest way to destroy the bomb, but he doesn't wish his work to be destroyed. Later, the heroes try to convince Shredder to help them by mentioning that they should work together to stop Bison, knowing that Shredder won't cooperate and even hits him.
instead rush off to get revenge on Bison, therefore keeping them both distracted.
* BigBad: [[Characters/StreetFighterTheFourKings M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them Psycho Power to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail TakeOverTheWorld.
* BigEater: Michelangelo is introduced taking a mountain of snacks from
the world snack stand outside of the area. This ends up biting him when he goes up against Chun-Li in the tournament, who is upset at him for [[AteItAll taking all the nachos]].
* BookEnds: The series starts with a fight between Raphael and Guile, and ends with their rematch.
* TheCameo: Pigeon Pete and Rufus make a brief appearance as some of the tournament fighters Shadaloo kidnapped
to his will.
use as [[LivingBattery Living Batteries]].
* CardboardPrison: Invoked by Baxter Stockman after he is arrested, asserting that no prison can hold him. In response, Chun-Li tells him that he'll be sent to [[TheAlcatraz an offshore Interpol detention facility]].
* ContinuityNod: Jennika's previous life as a menber of the Foot Clan is mentioned during her fight with Shredder.
* CoversAlwaysLie: Different variant covers show off various characters from the ''TMNT'' and ''Street Fighter'' universes, including April O'Neil, Casey Jones, Spilnter, Krang, Bebop and Rocksteady, Cammy White, Zangief, Vega, Akuma, and Dan Habiki, who have no appearance in the story whatsoever.
* CrossoverPowerAcquisition: Shredder and Raphael are revealed to possess significant Psycho Power thanks to their innate anger and hatred. During the final issue, Raphael channels all of the accumulated Psycho Power from the Psycho Bomb, briefly attaining similar abilities to Bison.
* CrossoverVillainInChief: M. Bison takes the role of Franchise/StreetFighter is main villain villain, with Baxter Stockman as his lackies being rogues of the TMNT like lackey/partner.
* TheDragon:
Dr. Baxter Stockman.

Stockman acts as this towards M. Bison, though he insists that they are equal partners. Bison, [[BigBad of course]], thinks otherwise.
* TheDreaded: Stockman is greatly annoyed that Bison got the Turtles involved in their plans despite his warnings. He ''immediately'' decides that it's time to abandon ship once he learns that Shredder is free and tearing through Bison's soldiers.
* DiabolicalMastermind: M. Bison is a powerful criminal figure with an international crime organization, the Shadaloo syndicate, with international reach and a desire to TakeOverTheWorld.
TakeOverTheWorld.
* TheDragon: Dr. Baxter Stockman acts as M. Bison's right hand man and EnemyMine: The Turtles attempt to convince Shredder to join them by pointing out that they share an enemy in Bison, only for Shredder to turn his backs on them to fight Bison alone. Luckily, this is behind helping him perfect the weapons called the Psycho Bombs to take over the world.

exactly what they wanted.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Baxter Stockman turns on M. Bison when Bison reveals upon learning that he intends to destroy New York with his newly designed Psycho Bomb weapon, as destroying his home city is way too far even for an evil MadScientist like Stockman.

Stockman.
* EvilIsHammy: M. Bison, naturally.
-->'''Donatello''': But...20 million people...just as a '''demonstration'''? That's--that's...
-->'''M. Bison''': '''--PSYCHO! [[EvilLaugh HAHAHAHA]]!'''
* EvilVsEvil: Bison kidnaps Shredder in order to harness his inner Psycho Power for the Psycho Bomb. Once Shredder escapes imprisonment (and warms himself up on the heroes) he engages Bison in a grueling brawl; and is still seen fighting with him well after his plans have been stopped.
* FixingTheGame: Bison has the tournament's referee in his pocket, and uses him to disqualify Raphael from his fight from Guile so that he can kidnap him.
* TheGhost: Both Balrog and April O'Neil are mentioned in phone conversations, but never appear on-screen.
* HairTriggerTemper: Raphael, naturally. It's so prominent that characters like Chun-Li and Bison are able to notice it almost immediately.
* ItsALongStory: Subverted. Leonardo claims this about Jennika's relationship with Shredder, only for her to summarize it more succinctly.
-->'''Ryu''': Traitor?
-->'''Leonardo''': Long story. Very, '''very''' long--
-->'''Jennika''': He's my old boss. The end.
-->'''Leonardo''': I would have told it with a little more '''nuance''', but--
* LetsYouAndHimFight: In true crossover fashion, the Turtles and Street Fighters, in part thanks to Stockman, mistakenly believe each other to be villains responsible for the kidnapping plot surrounding the tournament.



* MadScientist: Dr Baxter Stockman is a fiendish scientist and old foe of the Ninja Turtles who's been helping M. Bison create a powerful weapon called the Psycho Bomb using his expertise.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: M. Bison plans to blackmail the world into his control using the Psycho Bombs. To show he isn't bluffing about the horrific consequences if they' re used, M. Bison intends to use one to blow up New York and kill the millions in it as a show of force.
* OneManArmy: Shredder utterly demolishes dozens if not hundreds of M. Bison's mooks with ease and also takes down both Ryu and Leonardo without breaking a sweat during their fight.
* TheRival: Guile and Raphael butt heads during the comic and become fierce rivals wanting to defeat the other in a fighting match.



* TakeOverTheWorld: M. Bison plans to create superweapons called Psycho Bombs and use their threat to blackmail the world into ceding control to him.
* VillainRespect: The BigBad M. Bison becomes fascinated with and appreciates Raphael's fighting ability and Psycho Power abilities.

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* MadScientist: Dr Dr. Baxter Stockman is a fiendish scientist and old foe of the Ninja Turtles who's been helping M. Bison create a powerful weapon called the Psycho Bomb using his expertise.

Stockman.
* MakeAnExampleOfThem: M. Bison plans to blackmail the world into his control using Bison's true plan. Instead of merely testing the Psycho Bombs. To show he isn't bluffing about the horrific consequences if they' re used, M. Bison intends Bomb on a small area of desert as Stockman believed, his intention is to use one to blow up decimate New York and kill the millions entire population to prove his willingness to use them.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Ken is tricked by Stockman into destroying the Psycho Bomb's controls, thus preventing its from being disabled. To a lesser extent, the Turtles and Street Fighters are unable to drain off the Psycho Bomb's energy as they already freed everyone Bison was using to power it.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: M. Bison's arrogance undoes his Psycho Bomb plan at almost every step of the way. Despite repeated warnings from Stockman, he cannot resist getting the Turtles involved
in his plans thanks to his fascination with Raphael's Psycho Power. When the Turtles and Street Fighters are distracted fighting one another, he sends an entire army of his troops out to capture Raphael and Chun-Li, not only revealing his presence but ending up giving the group several leads to his lair. And to top it as a show of force.
off, he kidnapped the Shredder to help fuel his Psycho Bomb, leading to him breaking free and distracting him long enough for the Turtles to interfere with his plans.
* OhCrap: Stockman ''freaks'' once he hears Shredder's voice and realizes that Bison kidnapped him to fuel the Psycho Bomb.
* OneManArmy: Shredder utterly demolishes dozens if not hundreds of M. Bison's mooks with ease and also takes down both Ryu and every single Shadaloo mook sent to contain him, before effortlessly defeating Ryu, Leonardo without breaking a sweat during and Jennika, and finally matching blows with Bison himself.
* ProperlyParanoid: Stockman's one stipulation in his partnership with Bison is that they avoid getting the Turtles involved since they will inevitably undo
their fight.
scheme. Sure enough...
* TheRival: Guile and Raphael butt heads during the comic and become fierce rivals wanting this to defeat the each other over the course of the story, repeatedly butting heads after their first match in the tournament.
* ShipTease: Between Michelangelo and Chun-Li.
* SignificantAnagram: Bison's latest front, the Halo Soda Corporation, is an anagram for "Shadalo", which quickly becomes apparent to the heroes. PlayedForLaughs at the end of the story when Michelangelo tries to come up with
a fighting match.



significant anagram for himself.
* TakeOverTheWorld: M. Bison plans to create superweapons called and Stockman's ultimate goal through the Psycho Bombs and use their threat to blackmail the world into ceding control to him.
Bombs.
* VillainRespect: The BigBad M. Though he wishes to use him as a battery for his Psycho Bomb, Bison becomes remains fascinated with and appreciates Raphael's fighting ability skills and natural Psycho Power abilities. Power.
* VillainTeamUp: Baxter Stockman joins forces with M. Bison and Shadaloo.
* ZergRush: Bison's troops successfully employ this twice on the heroes, managing to overpower them long enough to capture Raphael and Chun-Li and later overwhelm Raphael completely. [[MookHorrorShow Unfortunately for them]], these tactics don't work so well against the Shredder.
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* BigBad: [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.

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* BigBad: [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison [[Characters/StreetFighterTheFourKings M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.
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''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter'' is a {{crossover}} comic between ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' (the [[ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW IDW comic]]) and ''Franchise/StreetFighter'', consisting of a five-issue miniseries, written by Paul Allor with art by Ariel Medel. The comic miniseries ran from June to November of 2023.

A new martial arts tournament is being held in Atlantic City, attracting fighters from all across the world to test their might. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have excitedly decided to take part in the tournament and find themselves facing off against the legendary Street fighters. The two sides intend to prove themselves against each other and a fierce rivalry is born as they face off. However, a new threat to both the Turtles and Street Fighters seems to be on the horizon, as a mysterious enemy is kidnapping the participants of the tournament and both sides will need to team up to get to the bottom of this mystery.

!!''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter'' contains examples off:
* AdaptationalJerkass: At least at this point in the IDW comics, Shredder had mellowed out and become a good guy as well as mentor to the heroes. Here he's still evil and kind of a dick, even if ALighterShadeOfBlack to M. Bison.
* AlternateContinuity: The comic is set after the Armageddon game storyline of the ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIDW comic but is non-canon due to a few discrepancies in continuity such as Shredder still being evil while he had undergone a HeelFaceTurn at this point in the comics.


* BadBoss: M. Bison treats his newest lackey Baxter Stockman horribly and frequently yells at and even hits him.
* BigBad: [[Characters/StreetFighterMBison M. Bison]] is the mastermind behind the plot of the comic to kidnap fighters and siphon their power to use them to create Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world to his will.
* CrossoverVillainInChief: M. Bison of Franchise/StreetFighter is main villain with his lackies being rogues of the TMNT like Dr. Baxter Stockman.

* DiabolicalMastermind: M. Bison is a powerful criminal figure with an international crime organization, the Shadaloo syndicate, with international reach and a desire to TakeOverTheWorld.
* TheDragon: Dr. Baxter Stockman acts as M. Bison's right hand man and is behind helping him perfect the weapons called the Psycho Bombs to take over the world.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: Baxter Stockman turns on M. Bison when Bison reveals that he intends to destroy New York with his newly designed Psycho Bomb weapon, as destroying his home city is way too far even for an evil MadScientist like Stockman.


* LivingBattery: M. Bison and Baxter Stockman's new Psycho Bomb weapon is powered by Psycho Energy which is found in skilled martial artists. To power the Psycho Bomb, they kidnap both Chun-Li and Raphael to harvest their powers for the weapon.
* MadScientist: Dr Baxter Stockman is a fiendish scientist and old foe of the Ninja Turtles who's been helping M. Bison create a powerful weapon called the Psycho Bomb using his expertise.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: M. Bison plans to blackmail the world into his control using the Psycho Bombs. To show he isn't bluffing about the horrific consequences if they' re used, M. Bison intends to use one to blow up New York and kill the millions in it as a show of force.
* OneManArmy: Shredder utterly demolishes dozens if not hundreds of M. Bison's mooks with ease and also takes down both Ryu and Leonardo without breaking a sweat during their fight.
* TheRival: Guile and Raphael butt heads during the comic and become fierce rivals wanting to defeat the other in a fighting match.



* TakeOverTheWorld: M. Bison plans to create superweapons called Psycho Bombs and use their threat to blackmail the world into ceding control to him.
* VillainRespect: The BigBad M. Bison becomes fascinated with and appreciates Raphael's fighting ability and Psycho Power abilities.
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