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Fridge Brilliance:

  • Raphael spends much of the film in a suit of armor, terrorizing the criminals of the neighborhood and seems to enjoy the fear that comes with it, with Leonardo disliking the Nightwatcher due to his methods. Given their most famous enemy, Shredder, tends to pride himself on being feared, Leonardo might feel the Nightwatcher is similar to their arch-enemy, who Raphael is unintentionally emulating.
    • For double brilliance, this works as a Mythology Gag, since Raphael did assume Shredder's identity in the comics.
    • Perhaps even Splinter realize this, hence why he solemnly tells Leo, who goes out to find Raph, that he "know[s] what [he has] to do".
  • Since the film is supposedly in the same continuity as the previous live-action movies, April changing occupations makes sense when you take into factors in the first two movies. She was frustrated with her boss Charles Pennington telling her to stop hassling Chief Sterns for his inaction, then she suddenly gets fired and presumably remains unaware why (Charles was blackmailed by Sterns to get April to back off and he'll erase Danny's criminal records), only that "there are circumstances". In the second movie, her other manager care more about ratings and try to get her to do a story on swimsuits, when she wishes to continue investing T.G.R.I. to help the Turtles. So the obstruction of news-reporting caused her to quit in disgust, and chose a career in archeology (which may have been her father's job in this continuity since he owned antique store before it was set on fire).
  • Upon closer inspection during Leo and Ralph's fight, one might notice that Leo is mostly defending and deflecting while Raph attacks aggressively; indicating that he doesn't actually want to hurt his younger brother.
  • Winter and Leo are both leaders who left their 'family' for a long time only to return and expect their family to fall in line with their plans, but things don't go that way. However, Winter is the one who changed while his family remained the same, in contrast to Leo expecting everything to just go back to normal but finding it's not. The Turtles are able to come back together and save the day, but Winter's family has no intention to change or set things right.
  • A lot of Yaotl's background details go unnoticed, but are full of this:
    • A lot of his Mayincatec roots go unremarked upon. His generals' armor is very Aztec-looking, with ornamental feathers, jaguar pelts, skirts, bare arms, and all of them wielding obsidian blades. Yaotl is shown in a suit of armor that looks closer to something from medieval Europe, but this fits the not-quite-reality worldbuilding - a suit like that in Ancient America would've been unimaginably valuable and made him extremely dangerous.

    • "Yaotl" itself is a Nahuatl name - Nahuatl being the common Aztec language that still exists - meaning "warrior," or "sower of discord," which fits him perfectly.
    • And the stone wheel they use to interact with the stars of Qiikan is clearly based on the Aztec sun stone, which fits with its perception in pop culture as a massive cultural artifact that nonetheless portends great destruction.

Fridge Logic:

  • Imagery of Winters during the reveal suggests that he was an Egyptian pharoah, a Roman general, and a Persian king. This is a bit more plausible than many examples of Beethoven Was an Alien Spy, because he's actually brown enough to pass for all of these races. But considering that he was in South America when he acquired immortality, it also implies one heck of a boat ride. The very earliest cross-continental explorers were the Vikings, in the 9th-century AD, but the Persian empire had its heyday approximately 600 years before Christ. How the heck did he get over there?
    • Based on the scene before the climax, where he's thrown very far, doesn't move, but then rears up breathing again, he seems to have Resurrective Immortality. If he truly wanted, he could have taken a boat from the Americas and sailed, relying on his resurrection to save him if he starved to death. If he had a hundred years to practice navigation, ship-building, mathematics, and captaining, he could've conceivably led an expedition that would make it. Or at least that would let him make it.

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