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* BlindfoldedVision: Splinter fights the Turtles while blindfolded in the beginning, and easily bests them. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses this against the Rat King, whose power is to see through rats' eyes. After losing his seeing-eye rat, and unable to see through Splinter's blindfold, the Rat King fails quickly.]]

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* BlindfoldedVision: Splinter fights the Turtles while blindfolded in the beginning, and easily bests them. [[spoiler:In In the end, he uses this against the Rat King, whose power is to see through rats' eyes. After losing his seeing-eye rat, and unable to see through Splinter's blindfold, the Rat King fails quickly.]]



* DisneyVillainDeath: Rat King after Splinter blinds him and gets him to fall into a pit in the Undercity. [[spoiler: We visit his corpse there in [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S4E21DarkestPlight Darkest Plight]] 2 years later after Splinter falls down there himself thanks to the Shredder]].

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Rat King after Splinter blinds him and gets him to fall into a pit in the Undercity. [[spoiler: We visit his corpse there in [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S4E21DarkestPlight Darkest Plight]] 2 two years later after Splinter falls down there himself thanks to the Shredder]].



* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the cold open, Irma says rats have a lot in common with people.
** She also vows to one day figure out where April and Casey are always running off to, implying she'll meet the turtles.
* IronicEcho: The Rat King, once he's rendered blind, [[spoiler:is left to the exact same treatment he gave Splinter, being taunted and beaten while trapped stuck in the dark]]. Some of the camera angles and character movements are even exactly the same.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:This episode features the death of this continuity's version of the Rat King, who gets a DisneyVillainDeath. He would return in "Darkest Plight" in Season 4, but as a hallucination, and his corpse appears in that episode.]]

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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the cold open, Irma says rats have a lot in common with people.
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people. She also vows to one day figure out where April and Casey are always running off to, implying she'll meet the turtles.
* IronicEcho: The Rat King, once he's rendered blind, [[spoiler:is is left to the exact same treatment he gave Splinter, being taunted and beaten while trapped stuck in the dark]].dark. Some of the camera angles and character movements are even exactly the same.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:This This episode features the death of this continuity's version of the Rat King, who gets a DisneyVillainDeath. He [[spoiler:He would return in "Darkest Plight" in Season 4, but as a hallucination, and his corpse appears in that episode.]]

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* {{Fainting}}: Irma faints twice.

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* ShoutOut: The part where Mikey throws Ice Cream Kitty at The Rat King is one to ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}''. The cooler it was being kept in is even red and white like a Poké Ball.

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* BodyHorror: The failed human test subject, who begs The Rat King to [[DeathSeeker just kill him]].

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* BodyHorror: The failed human test subject, who begs The Rat King to [[DeathSeeker just kill him]].give him cheese.

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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to ''Of Mice and Men''.

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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to ''Of Mice and Men''.''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''.



* ThemeNaming: The Rat King seems to have taken naming his rats after famous Greek/Roman people; his "eyes" are Aristotle, and the giant rat he rides upon is named Caligula.

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* ThemeNaming: The Rat King seems to have taken naming his rats after famous Greek/Roman people; his "eyes" are Aristotle, and the giant rat he rides upon is named Caligula.Caligula.
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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan!Batman.]]

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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan!Batman.Christian Bale's Batman.]]
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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Nolan!Batman.]]

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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy Nolan!Batman.]]
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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[TheDarkKnightSaga Nolan!Batman.]]

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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[TheDarkKnightSaga [[Film/TheDarkKnightSaga Nolan!Batman.]]
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** Rat King naming one of his rats Aristotle may be an indirect reference to ''[[Literature/RatmansNotebooks Willard]]'', where the lead rat was named Socrates.

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** Rat King naming one of his rats Aristotle may be an indirect reference to ''[[Literature/RatmansNotebooks Willard]]'', ''Literature/{{Willard}}'', where the lead rat was named Socrates.
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** Rat King naming one of his rats Aristotle may be an indirect reference to ''{{Willard}}'', where the lead rat was named Socrates.

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** Rat King naming one of his rats Aristotle may be an indirect reference to ''{{Willard}}'', ''[[Literature/RatmansNotebooks Willard]]'', where the lead rat was named Socrates.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Rat King.

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* DisneyVillainDeath: Rat King.King after Splinter blinds him and gets him to fall into a pit in the Undercity. [[spoiler: We visit his corpse there in [[Recap/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012S4E21DarkestPlight Darkest Plight]] 2 years later after Splinter falls down there himself thanks to the Shredder]].


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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:This episode features the death of this continuity's version of the Rat King, who gets a DisneyVillainDeath. He would return in "Darkest Plight" in Season 4, but as a hallucination, and his corpse appears in that episode.]]
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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to "Of Mice and Men".

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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to "Of ''Of Mice and Men".Men''.
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** The rat extermination service billboard that appears in several scenes behind the Rat King is "Jonsey Kitty" Rat Exterminators. "Jonsey" is the name of the cat in {{Alien}} that Ripley risks her life to save before escaping.

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** The rat extermination service billboard that appears in several scenes behind the Rat King is "Jonsey Kitty" Rat Exterminators. "Jonsey" is the name of the cat in {{Alien}} ''{{Franchise/Alien}}'' that Ripley risks her life to save before escaping.
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** The rat extermination service billboard that appears in several scenes behind the Rat King is "Jonsey Kitty" Rat Exterminators. "Jonsey" is the name of the cat in {{Alien}} that Ripley risks her life to save before escaping.
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** Casey Jones attempts to disguise his real voice by talking like [[TheDarkKnightSaga Nolan!Batman.]]
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* ThePlague: Rat King's plan is to turn people into rats, then have them infect others until all of humanity falls under his control.

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** She also vows to one day figure out where April and Casey are always running off to, implying she'll meet the turtles.
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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to "Of Rats and Men".

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** The episode's title is most likely a reference to "Of Rats Mice and Men".
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** Rat King naming one of his rats Aristotle may be an indirect reference to ''{{Willard}}'', where the lead rat was named Socrates.
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* MythologyGag: The first person the Rat King plans to mutate into a rat is Irma. He actually did mutate her into a rat in one episode of the '87 cartoon.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the cold open, Irma says rats have a lot in common with people.
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* {{Fainting}}: Irma faints twice.
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* BodyHorror: The failed human test subject, who begs The Rat King to [[DeathSeeker just kill him]].
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* ShoutOut: The part where Mikey throws Ice Cream Kitty at The Rat King is one to ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}''. The cooler it was being kept in is even red and white like a Poké Ball.
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* BlindfoldedVision: Splinter fights the Turtles while blindfolded in the beginning, and easily bests them. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses this against the Rat King, whose power is to see through rats' eyes. After dispatching the Rat King's seeing-eye rat, and unable to see through Splinter's blindfold, the Rat King fails quickly.]]

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* BlindfoldedVision: Splinter fights the Turtles while blindfolded in the beginning, and easily bests them. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses this against the Rat King, whose power is to see through rats' eyes. After dispatching the Rat King's losing his seeing-eye rat, and unable to see through Splinter's blindfold, the Rat King fails quickly.]]

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* BlindfoldedVision: Splinter fights the Turtles while blindfolded in the beginning, and easily bests them. [[spoiler:In the end, he uses this against the Rat King, whose power is to see through rats' eyes. After dispatching the Rat King's seeing-eye rat, and unable to see through Splinter's blindfold, the Rat King fails quickly.]]



* LethalJokeCharacter: Ice-Cream Kitty proves surprisingly effective at fighting off the Rat King and his minions.



* ThemeNaming: The Rat King seems to have taken naming his rats after famous Greek/Roman people, his "eyes" are Aristotle, and the giant rat he rides upon is named Caligula.

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* ThePlague: Rat King's plan is to turn people into rats, then have them infect others until all of humanity falls under his control.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: The Rat King uses mutagen to create giant rats to serve as his {{Giant Mook}}s.
* ThemeNaming: The Rat King seems to have taken naming his rats after famous Greek/Roman people, people; his "eyes" are Aristotle, and the giant rat he rides upon is named Caligula.

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DisneyDeath: Rat King

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DisneyDeath: The Rat KingKing returns, and wishes to mutate the populace of the world into rats.
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* DisneyVillainDeath: Rat King.
* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Irma at one point accidentally sends rats plummeting into a fan. This is for the most part on-screen.
* IronicEcho: The Rat King, once he's rendered blind, [[spoiler:is left to the exact same treatment he gave Splinter, being taunted and beaten while trapped stuck in the dark]]. Some of the camera angles and character movements are even exactly the same.
* NeverTrustATrailer: Almost all of the marketing focuses on Ice-Cream Kitty, a character who is more or less just a comical subplot in an episode where [[KnightOfCerebus The Rat King]] appears.
* ThemeNaming: The Rat King seems to have taken naming his rats after famous Greek/Roman people, his "eyes" are Aristotle, and the giant rat he rides upon is named Caligula.
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