History Main / TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats

* In the wake of the craze, Music/RayStevens recorded "Teenage Mutant Kung Fu [[CluckingFunny Chickens]]", about a quartet of fighting chickens.

** Even Creator/MarvelComics got in on it with ''Power Pachyderms'' (parody) and ''ComicBook/BruteForce'' (played straight).

* {{Parodied}} In ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator'', where you can find the "Creator/MichaelBay [[ToiletHumor Turdles]]" hanging out in a sewer in Goat City Bay. On the console edition, they look like normal humans wearing green tracksuits and bandanas, but in the PC and mobile versions they much more closely resemble the original Ninja Turtles, except with the head of [[WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}} Shrek]].

* {{Parodied}} In ''VideoGame/GoatSimulator'', where you can find the "Creator/MichaelBay [[ToiletHumor Turdles]]" hanging out in a sewer in Goat City Bay. On the console edition, they look like normal humans wearing green tracksuits and bandanas, but in the PC and mobile versions they much more closely resemble the original Ninja Turtles, except with the head of [[WesternAnimaton/{{Shrek}} Shrek]].

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* ''Film/SpacedInvaders'' focuses on five aliens that are clearly inspired by the turtles.
* The ''Film/WarriorsOfVirtue'' are five anthropomorphic kangaroos.

* The VideoGame/{{Battletoads}} from the videogame of the same name. Unique in that it doesn't follow many of the sub-tropes, instead taking place in a world that looks like it came from a heavy metal record cover.

* The Cheetahmen from ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}''. They were the "featured" game in the multicart, as series creator and Active Enterprises founder Vince Perri intended to launch a multimedia franchise in the same vein as ''TMNT''. This fell through when it became apparent that the press and the gaming public did not take kindly to a rather subpar game.

The format is more or less this: A team of heroic monsters (aliens, mutants, or magical beings) are somehow created, awakened, or arrived in the modern world. Usually a [[CityOfAdventure modern American city]]. They are honorable creatures who set out to [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]], usually under the training of an OldMaster, but the average person fears them for their appearance, so they must hide from {{muggles}}. However, they befriend one or two open-minded humans, usually either children or career women. These women or children end up being the team's friends and guides to modern Earth, and become their [[SecretKeeper secret-keepers]], or alternatively their KidWithTheLeash. Together, they all fight supervillains and evil creatures while keeping their identities a secret to maintain normalcy.

The secret-keeper will often [[BatmanInMyBasement hide them]] in the beginning, but since the monstrous team usually has at least three members, they typically end up getting their own headquarters. It's a good thing that AbandonedWarehouse/office building/ornate palace was around! Alternatively, they already have an established home in a place where humans generally don't go, such as the WildWilderness or AbsurdlySpaciousSewer.

The format is more or less this: A team of heroic monsters (aliens, mutants, or magical beings) are somehow created, awakened, or arrived in the modern world. Usually a modern American city. They are honorable creatures who set out to [[TheyFightCrime fight crime]]. The average person fears them for their appearance, and they must hide from {{Muggles}} or humans. However, they befriend one or two open-minded humans, usually either children or career women. These women or children end up being the team's friends and guides to modern Earth, and are {{Secret Keeper}}s, and may also be the KidWithTheLeash. Together, they all fight supervillains and evil creatures in a CityOfAdventure.

Since these shows are usually aimed at young boys, expect TheSmurfettePrinciple to be in full swing. The heroes are usually [[LastOfHisKind The Last of Their Kind]], with no females[[note]]except maybe TheChick[[/note]]. Consequently, InterspeciesRomance will usually be explored, [[{{Shipping}} particularly by fans]], especially if the SecretKeeper is a career woman.

The SecretKeeper will often be [[BatmanInMyBasement hiding them]] in the beginning, but since the monstrous team is usually a FiveManBand or PowerTrio, they usually get their own headquarters. It's a good thing that AbandonedWarehouse/office building/ornate palace was around!

* The Cheetahmen from ''VideoGame/{{Action 52}}''.

* Many other [[FurryComic anthropomorphic]] [[AnimalSuperheroes animal superhero]] comics which were "inspired" by the Turtles. They spawned [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics121.html a bunch]] of "adjective, adjective, adjective, noun" anthropomorphic imitations/parodies, but those were mostly dreamed up by fans and wannabe pros looking to cash in (TMNT #1 was VERY rare and up to $2-300 in demand). This didn't stop until it crashed the comic market (the famous "black and white implosion" which was a dry run for UsefulNotes/TheGreatComicsCrashOf1996).

* The original ''[[ComicBook/TheTransformers Transformers]]'' -- with the Witwicky family and G.B. Blackrock as the human allies.

* ''ComicBook/SamiTheSamuraiSquirrel'' is a rare solo example.

* Going way, way back, the original ComicBook/XMen basically started off this way, minus the pet human.
* Going back even ''[[UrExample further]]'', the ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness started out as this]] back in the Silver Age with their Secret Sanctuary in the quiet little town of Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, and their SecretKeeper and honorary member Snapper Carr, who even had enough of the TotallyRadical element of this trope for the whole team. [[UnbuiltTrope It didn't work out in the long run]], as Snapper felt increasingly alienated by the League and was coerced into revealing their headquarters by a MugglePower movement lead by John Doe [[spoiler: actually the Joker]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots Challenge of the GoBots'': The initial FiveEpisodePilot was like this. Since the Gobots' cover has been completely blown by the end of that StoryArc (it's not as if Leader-1 didn't ''try'' to observe the ObstructiveCodeOfConduct at first), subsequent episodes show the Guardians interacting with Earth's people and governments completely out in the open.

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' spoofs this. The show centers around a group of anthropomorphized beings and their sole human accomplice. However, unlike its predecessor, the characters in-question are half-fast food items, they live in a suburban slum, almost never fight crime/solve mysteries, the trio is almost entirely dysfunctional, and their sole human accomplice is a sleazebag who hates them.

* ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' cartoon, which may as well been called "Hockey-Playing Twentysomething Extraterrestrial Mallards". About a group of anthropomorphic ducks from a world surrounded by puck-shaped asteroids where hockey is SeriousBusiness (...you mean they're Canadian? *[[http://www.instantrimshot.com/ rimshot]]*) fighting space dragons and posing as a regular hockey team in modern-day [[UsefulNotes/LosAngeles Anaheim]].
** To be fair, they 'pose' as a hockey team by actually playing hockey in a league. But they still fight space dragons and villains-of-the-week. They're pretty much outed as aliens in the first few episodes.

* ''WesternAnimation/WildWestCowboysOfMooMesa'' is TMNT in TheWildWest with cows, though like the SWAT Kats they lived in a world with others like them (the Mesa in question was a HiddenElfVillage created when an irradiated comet struck the late 19th century Western plains, raising it above the clouds and anthropomorphizing all the cows and some other animals) and they were lawmen. Significant in that the C.O.W.Boys were created by Ryan Brown, a writer and artist for TMNT who created many of the designs of the action figures and some beloved characters like Leatherhead, and the Mighty Mutanimals as a team. The Turtles also crossed over with the C.O.W.Boys years after the show went off the air.

* ''WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots'': The initial FiveEpisodePilot was like this. Since the Gobots' cover has been completely blown by the end of that StoryArc (it's not as if Leader-1 didn't ''try'' to observe the ObstructiveCodeOfConduct at first), subsequent episodes show the Guardians interacting with Earth's people and governments completely out in the open.

* In a back-up story of a ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' comic book (Marvel), WesternAnimation/DangerMouse faces Enraged Mutant Ninja Poodles.
* In ''Comicbook/SuperSons'', Superboy's jamas have a ''Turtles''-like logo reading "Boxer Frogs".

* In issue 17 of Cherry Poptar-[[ScrewedByTheLawyers uh, sorry, Cherry Comics]] Cherry dons a yellow jumpsuit,and as "May O'Doul" reports on the Young Genetically-Altered Samurai Lizards Warhol, Picasso, Lichenstein and Keane. And then of course she has sex with all of them.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTRex'' is a rather odd take on it. Much like the ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'', T-Rex is an anthro superhero team who live in a vaguely Noir-ish flavored world of [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals humanoid dinosaurs and reptiles]]. The T-Rex are a literal FiveManBand, in that they're five brothers who sing and play music in a night-club vaudeville act, recruited by a benevolent MadScientist and outfitted with PoweredArmor, HarmlessFreezing ray-blasters, a "Rexmobile" transport and a secret base to battle the crime problem in Rep City.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvengingApesOfAfrica'', an 80s Marvista Entertainment animated movie which featured six African gorillas orphaned by an EvilPoacher who gain super-powers and human-like intelligence after being exposed to an ancient healing potion, growing up to become defenders of Africa's wildlife, specifically seeking to defeat the poaching kingpin Harry B. Richbone. Yes. This existed.

* Many other [[FurryComic anthropomorphic]] [[AnimalSuperheroes animal superhero]] comics which were "inspired" by the Turtles. They spawned [[http://www.misterkitty.org/extras/stupidcovers/stupidcomics121.html a bunch]] of "adjective, adjective, adjective, noun" anthropomorphic imitations/parodies, but those were mostly dreamed up by fans and wannabe pros looking to cash in (TMNT #1 was VERY rare and up to $2-300 in demand). This didn't stop until it crashed the comic market (the famous "black and white implosion" which was a dry run for the DorkAge market collapse).

* The original ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'' -- with the Witwicky family and G.B. Blackrock as the human allies.

* The ''[[https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/K9_Corps]]'': Another obscure line of action figures that is centered around canine-human hybrid super-soldiers. The premise is very similar to G.I. Joe.

* WesternAnimation/SuperDuperSumos is a twist on this format with human sumo wrestlers. The Sumos aren't aliens or monsters, but they have supernatural sumo powers and were raised apart from contemporary society. They must adjust to life in Generic City; their open-minded "normal human" guide to modern life is [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Prima]], their young cousin. The sumos don't have to hide like most examples, but people find them to be unusual. The villains are [[EvilInc Bad Inc.]], a corporation which wants to take over the world and creates an unusual {{Kaiju}} [[MonsterOfTheWeek each episode]].