History Recap / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S1E23Parasitica

* PuppeteerParasite: Parasitica does this with Leo, Raph, and Don, and presumably the city. She failed to control Mikey however,

* UsefulBook: In an attempt to make Leo stop guarding the egg before revealing he is under the control of the wasp, Mikey attempts on using a comic book of his as toilet paper. When Leo found that out by the time he's freed from its control, he is really pissed off

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: The turtles but Mikey become infected by the wasp and become its servants.
** Well, Mikey ''does'' get infected, but he amazingly manages to keep his mind long enough to brew the cure for his brothers.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Leonardo becomes aggressive and obsessively protective of the wasp's egg after getting stung. Raphael [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by saying "Unmotivated bouts of anger are my thing". It quickly turns into OOCIsSeriousBusiness when the wasp venom takes over Leo's mind and he actively attacks and infects Raphael & Donatello. In the end, the turtles are all shocked when Michelangelo successfully cures them, and destroys the three newly hatched mutant wasps

* BlackEyesOfEvil: All the turtles except Michaelangelo get them after they are infected

** There's also the fact that the sting of parasitic wasps doesn't actually brainwash animals to watch over its egg. Rather, a parasitic wasp's sting ''[[BodyHorror lays said egg inside the animal's body]]'' and the larval wasp eats its way out. Justified [[NightmareFuel for fairly obvious reasons]].

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Leonardo becomes agressive and obsessively protective of the wasp's egg after getting stung. Raphael [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this by saying "Unmotivated bouts of anger are my thing". It quickly turns into OOCIsSeriousBusiness when the wasp venom takes over Leo's mind and he actively attacks and infects Raphael & Donatello. At the end, the turtles are all shocked when Michelangelo succesfully cures them, and destroys the three newly hatched mutant wasps
* PuppeteerParasite: Parasitica does this with Leo, Raph and Don and presumably the city. She failed to control Mikey however,

* VoiceOfTheLegion: Leonardo gets a really creepy one, complete with a ResistanceIsFutile speech. Donatello in an a particularly funny DeadpanSnarker moment says "Sorry to burst your possessed bubble Leo"

* AbsenteeActor: April and Splinter do not appear. Donatello mentions that Splinter has taken April on a training exercise.

* NauseaFuel: Raphael almost loses his lunch after seeing the wasp's stinger stuck in Leonardo's arm.
* NightmareFuel: In real life, most parasitic wasp species dont just brainwash their victims to guard their eggs, they actually paralyze their victims, lay their eggs inside them, and the host for the incubating eggs is eaten from the inside out when the larvae hatch.

* Dramatization: There is a species of parasitic wasps in real life that use other living organisms to watch the larvae. There is more BodyHorror than the one presented here.

* ReleaseDateChange: Parasitica underwent a massive ScheduleSlip. Its original intended air date was 11 May 2013. [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S1E22PulverizerReturns The Pulverizer Returns]] was moved up to that date and Parasitica was continually pushed back. It finally aired July 20, 2013.

** [[spoiler:Well, Mikey ''does'' get caught, but he amazingly manages to keep his mind long enough to brew the cure for his brothers.]]

* DwindlingParty: The Turtles are infected and brainwashed one by one until only Mikey is left. [[spoiler: He is eventually infected as well, but manages to successfully use Donatello's notes to make a cure before he succumbs to the infection.]]

* UsefulBook: In an attempt to make Leo stop guarding the egg [[spoiler:before revealing he is under the control of the wasp]], Mikey attempts on using a comic book of his as toilet paper. When Leo found that out [[spoiler:by the time he's freed from its control]], he is really pissed off

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After stinging Leonardo, the wasp flips over and dies. In RealLife wasps can sting repeatedly, and dont die afterwards like bees do, and even they dont die right away. Also the scene where the egg hatches and three fully formed adult wasps pop out, skipped over the larval and pupal stages.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Allthe turtles except Michaelangelo get them after they are infected

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Leonardo becomes agressive and obsessively protective of the wasp's egg after getting stung. Raphael LampShades this by saying "Unmotivated bouts of anger are my thing. It quickly turns into OOCIsSeriousBusiness when the wasp venom takes over Leo's mind and he actively attacks and infects Raphael and Donatello. At the end, the turtles are all shocked when Michelangelo succesfully cures them, and destroys the three newly hatched mutant wasps

* NightmareFuel: In real life most parasitic wasp species dont just brainwash their victims to guard their eggs, they actually paralyze their victims, lay their eggs inside them, and the host for the incubating eggs is eaten from the inside out when the larvae hatch.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After stinging Leonardo, the wasp flips over dies. In RealLife wasps can sting repeatedly, and dont die afterwards like bees do, and even they dont die right away. Also the scene where the egg hatches and three fully formed adult wasps pop out, skipped over the larval and pupal stages.

* NauseaFuel: Raphael almost loses his lunch after seeung the wasp's stinger stuck in Leonardo's arm.

* TheVoiceOfLegion: Leonardo gets a really creepy one, complete with a ResistanceIsFutile speech. Donatello in an a particularly funny DeadpanSnarker moment says "Sorry to burst your possessed bubble Leo"

* UsefulBook: In an attempt to make Leo stop guarding the egg [[spoiler:before revealing he is under the control of the wasp]], Mikey attempts on using a comic book of his as toilet paper. When Leo found that out [[spoiler:by the time he's freed from its control]], he is really pissed off.

* OutOfCharacterMoment: Leonardo becomes agressive and obsessively protective of the wasp's egg after getting stung. Raphael LampShades this by saying "Unmotivated bouts of anger are my thing. It quickly turns into OOCIsSeriousBusiness when the wasp venom takes over Leo's mind and he actively attacks and infects Raphael and Donatello. At the end, tge vturtles are all shocked when Michelangelo succesfully curesthrm, and destroys the three newly hatched mutant wasps

* NightmareFuel: In real life most parasitic wasp species, dont just brainwash their victims to guard their eggs, they actually paralyze their victims, lay their eggs inside them, and the host for the incubating eggs are eaten from the inside out when the larvae hatch.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After stinging Leonardo, the wasp flips over dies. In RealLife wasps can sting repeatedly, and dont die afterwards like bees do, and even they dont right away. Also the scene where the egg hatches and three fully formed adult wasps pop out, skipped over the larval and pupal stages.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After stinging Leonardo, the wasp flips over dies. In RealLife wasps can sting repeatedly, and dint die afterwards like bees do, and even they dont right away. Also the scene where the egg hatches and three fully formed adult wasps pop out, skipped over the larval and pupal stages.