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Synopsis

1500 years ago in medieval Japan, Hamato Yoshi, a Japanese ninja master, is assassinated by his rival Oruku Saki. He will resurrect later in the form of a rat.

The rat will die and will reincarnate an incalculable number and will circumnavigate the world.

At the beginning of the 21st century, he landed in New York and he met four baby turtles and in an accident, they all fall into a mutagenic liquid. Under the effect of the product, the five animals mutate little by little until they develop an anthropomorphic aspect, as well as a human intelligence and dexterity. Splinter then becomes the adoptive father of the turtles, which he raises and trains in the martial arts so that they can survive an environment that will never accept them.

Splinter owns a book on the art of the Renaissance, mutant turtles are named after artists of that time : Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Donatello.

The turtles are each specialized in the use of a specific weapon (the Ninjatōs by Leonardo, the sai by Raphael, the bō by Donatello and the nunchaku by Michelangelo).

They love pizza, the basis of their diet. Their war cry is Cowabunga !

Development and Production

The series was created to put the Ninja Turtles back on the scene after the commercial failure of Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows. This new live-action series combines elements already existing (Shredder, the Foot clan, Krang, the Triceratons, Bepob and Rocksteady, ...) but also original (Oni and Tyrannus for example).

The seasons are rather short because of budget but also to have a plot that does not scatter too much with too much subplots.

The series is inspired by cartoons from 1987, 2003, 2012 and 2018 but also from the trilogy of the 1990s and of course comics (Mirage, Image but especially IDW) and the film in CGI TMNT. For the last seasons, the stories will be inspired by Marvel and DC Comics stories like The Dark Knight Returns, No Man's Land, Civil War and Spider-Verse and even the novel The Island of Doctor Moreau by HG Wells.

Seasons 1 and 2 will feature the classic characters of the Ninja Turtles but seasons 3 to 7 will consist of two parts and two different stories each with original stories. Seasons 8 to 10 will be the shortest with only one story following on 10 episodes.

The series could potentially be renewed for an eleventh and final season with stand-alone episodes coming together at different times in the series to celebrate the franchise's 50th anniversary but also to solve some unresolved sub-plots and explore a piece of Japanese mythology already a bit exposed in seasons 3 and 5 and tell the true origin of mutants and mutagen.

Characters

Turtles and Co Allies Villains
 * Hamato Leonardo : He wears a blue mask and his weapon is the katana
 * Hamato Michelangelo : He wears a orange mask and his weapon is the nunchaku
 * Hamato Donatello : He wears a purple mask and his weapon is the bo
 * Hamato Raphael  : He wears a red mask and his weapon is the sai
 * Hamato Yoshi / Master Splinter : He is the master and father of the Turtles
 * April O'Neil : She is a student and the first human encounter with Turtles, she will become their best friend
 * Casey Jones : He is a vigilante who will become the friend of Turtles and the boyfriend of April
 * Professor Zayton Honeycutt / Fugitoid : An alien scientist whose body was destroyed and who lives in a robotic body
 * Metalhead : A robot designed by Baxter Stockman to infiltrate Turtles
 * John and  Elizabeth O'Neil  : The parents of April
 * Punk Frogs (Attila the Frog, Genghis Frog, Napoleon Bonafrog and Rasputin the Mad Frog) : A group of mutant frogs
 * Renet Tilley : A time-traveler
 * Hamato Frida : The future daughter of Leonardo and Jennika
 * Hamato Noboko : The daughter of the future reicarnated Hamato Yoshi
 * Shadow Jones : The future adoptive daughter of April and Casey
 * Miyamoto Usagi : An anthropomorphic swordsman rabbit
 * Oroku Saki/Shredder / Super Shredder / Tengu Shredder : The ultimate enemy of the Ninja Turtles
 * Oroku Karai / Karai / Shredder IV : Shredder's daughter
 * Baxter Stockman : A crazy scientist who turns into a fly
 * Anton Zeck / Bebop and Ivan Steranko/Rocksteady : Two criminals mutated into animals
 * Arnold Jones / Hun and the Purple Dragons : A street gang and their leader
 * Rat King : One of the Dragon's sons who can control rats
 * Krang : An alien warlord
 * The Rock Soldiers (Tragg and Granitor) : Krang's soldiers
 * Mei Pieh Chi / Venus / Tokka and Chris Bradford / Rahzar : A couple of lovers transformed into mutants
 * Leatherhead (TBA) (enemy turned ally) : A mutant who will become a friend with the Turtles
 * Baron Draxxum (TBA) : An alchemist mutant
 * The Pantheon (Kitsune, Rat King, Aka, Manmoth, Gothano, Chi-You, Toad Baron, Jagwar, Koya, Lilith, Zodi and various animal gods) : A family of divine animal beings who are the children of the Dragon
 * Tang Yu / Oni : The brother of the late Teng Shu and the maternal uncle of the Turtles, he wants to avenge the death of his sister
 * Slash (enemy turned ally) : An experiment of Shredder who will become a friend with the Turtles
 * Drako / The Dragon : A Kaiju that would have inspired the myth of the Devil
 * The Kaiju : Giant and ancestral creatures who want to plunge the world into chaos
 * The Triceratons (Commmander Mozar, Azokk, Boss Zukko, T'Zirk, Zak, Gruell, Zarax, Zarg, Zarus, Traximus (and various others) : An extraterrestrial race of conquerors
 * Agent Bishop : A paranoid government agent
 * Armaggon : A mutant shark from space
 * Viral : A computer virus
 * Lord Dregg : An alien warlord
 * Ch'rell : An Utrom who wants to become the new Shredder
 * Kavaxas and Savanti Romero : Demons traveling in time
 * Rapahel of the AnotherWorld / Shredder II : Evil Raphael from another dimension
 * Jennika (ennemy turned ally): A member of the Foot Clan
 * Timothy Tatsu / Ultimate Ninja : An orphan wanting to become the greatest ninja of all time
 * Erich Sacks / Shredder III : A billionaire passionate about Japanese culture who will become the new Shredder
 * Baxter Stockman, Bebob and Rocksteady, Oroku Karai / Karai and Kang from the AnotherWorld : Alternative versions of the classic enemies of the Ninja Turtles
 * Takeshi Tatsuo / Shogun : The founder of Clan Foot
 * Tengu : A demon who will possess Shredder
 * Luke Walker : An English arms dealer
 * Shinigami / Mother / Tang Shen : The mother of the Turtles brought back to life
 * Dr. Cornelius Morrow / the Beastmaster : A mad scientist who practices barbaric experiments on animals to transform them into animals thanks to the mutagen
 * The Mighty Mutanimals (Bludgeon, Firefly, Herman, Pete, Mondo Gecko, King Komodo, Sally Pride, Nevermore and Dreadmond) (enemies turned allies) : A team of mutant animals created by the Beastmaster
 * The Aeons (Za-Naron) : Interdimensional techno-organic beings also known as Iron Angels, hunt down Ninja Turtles of other dimensions to assimilate them
 * The Street Phantoms (Tygrus / Tyrannus, Tiger Claw, Alopex, Xever Montes / Fishface, Dogpound and various mutants) : A terrorist and supremacist gang of mutants
 * General Darrius Dun (TBA) :
 * Caravaggio (TBA) : The lost brother of the Turtles Ninjas become a mutant snake turtle eater
 * The Brotherhood of Yaotl (Yaotl, General Aguila, General Serpiente, General Gato and General Mono) : Evil Aztec deities
 * Santino : A Mexican gang leader
 * The Utrom Empire (Quanin, Churk, Yoom and various others) : A race of intergalactic conquerors
 * Bloodsucker : The very first mutant in history
 * Otofuku : The Japanese deity of Gaeness and Good Mood
 * Orochi : A Japanese dragon with eight heads and eight tails
 * The Onis : Small creatures spending their time sowing discord
 * Hyottoko : A mask haunted by a joker spirit. 