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  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Shadow and Renoir are this to the semi-canon Renoir/Davianna. Shadow and Renoir argue like a married couple at times and many of their interactions tend to come off as UST. Add the fact that they've had some rather tender moments, are far more developed as characters than Davianna, and seem to be shipped by Carole it's understandable why this is.
  • Moral Event Horizon: What Donatello does with his clone, "Leo", and especially Officer Tony Howard after the latter stumbles upon his lab and experiments.
  • Nausea Fuel: Frequently. Characters vomit on panel, mangled corpses abound and there's plenty of blood from the second panel on.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Renoir was initially disliked for being exactly like every perverted anime protagonist and their father - Often being called the worst part of the comic in the beginning. However, as he received character development, showed some hidden depths, and improved his mentor/student relationship with Raphael, fans of the franchise warmed up to him and he became praised among the fanbase for being an interesting deconstruction of what it would be like to be thrown into the Turtle's world without warning.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The major consensous on Davianna so far. Mostly due to not getting much character development outside her relationship with Renoir. Luckily this hasn't caused her to be a scrappy.
  • What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: ''Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is best known from child-friendly cartoons and comics, but this fancomic is based more on the original comics, that were a lot more violent and satirical. Tellingly, the cartoon it draws most from is the slightly darker 2003 one. The prologue should be warning enough to the reader.

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