Casey Jones

Casey Jones is a character from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Mirage Comics
Casey first appeared in the Raphael solo issue "Me, Myself and I". Raphael runs into Casey beating some muggers and proceeds to stop him before the crooks are murdered. Jones and Raphael fight several times before making peace with each other. In the Mirage series, Casey is extremely violent, even more so than Raphael, but mellows throughout the course of the series. In "Shades of Gray," he accidentally kills a teenager who tried to mug him. The incident sent him into a drunken spiral, damaging his relationship with April O'Neil.

During City at War, Casey leaves town and eventually meets a pregnant woman named Gabrielle with whom he falls in love and marries. Gabrielle dies during childbirth and Casey is left to take care of her daughter, whom he names Shadow. After spreading Gabrielle's ashes, Casey returns to New York with Shadow and repairs his relationship with April. Often Casey has been known to shout the term, "Goongala," as a sort of battle cry.

In volume four he and April are shown married. They raise Shadow as their daughter and try to have a child of their own.

1987 series
In the original TMNT cartoon, Casey Jones is a crazed vigilante who fights crime as horrific as murder, to as petty as littering. He never takes off his mask in the series. This version of Casey does not play a central role in the cartoon, nor does he have a relationship with April. His most notable line was “When do I get to break something?”, and he also tended to call many villains "scuzzbuckets". Casey was voiced by Pat Fraley. In the Japanese Version, he was voiced by Issei Futamata and Akio Ohtsuka (NHK-BS2 Version).

He appeared in only five episodes, #41, Casey Jones: Outlaw Hero; #43, Corporate Raiders From Dimension X; #119, Leonardo Cuts Loose; #162, Night of the Rogues; and #177, Cyber-Turtles.

Movies
Casey Jones appeared in the first, third, and fourth TMNT movies. In the first and third movies he was played by actor Elias Koteas. In the fourth movie he was voiced by Chris Evans.

First Movie
Jones was first introduced to the Turtles in an altercation with Raphael. The two of them actually fought each other in a New York city park, just after Raphael stopped some punk from stealing a woman's purse. In the initial altercation, Jones used two Jose Canseco bats, which Raphael sarcastically asked if Jones in fact paid money for them, and a cricket bat to put Raphael in a garbage can.

Jones proved to be very uself in a fight when he joined the Turtles while them were being attacked by the foot clan above April's store.

After a rocky start, Jones developed a love interest with April O'Neil and the two of them kiss at the end of the first movie.

Second Movie
Despite his significant role in the first movie, as well as his developing relationship with April O'Neil Casey is absent for the entirety of the second film. Oddly enough he isn't even mentioned despite the fact that without him, Splinter would still be in the grasps of Shredder.

Third Movie
When the Turtles made their decision to travel to feudal Japan to rescue April O'Neil, Michelangelo recruited Casey to help Splinter keep an eye on Kenshin and the Honor Guards back home. Although very much subdued from the original film, Casey was still very much himself, and helped teach the finer points of living in the 20th century to the visitors from the past.

2003 series
Casey Jones is voiced by Marc Thompson.

Casey Jones first met the Turtles as a kids. When he was pushed around by a group of bullies, they tried to teach him ninjutsu. They failed, but inspired him to stand up against the bullies, using a hockey stick to fight them. His modern day battlecry originated from Michelangelo, which Casey tries to pronounce "Goro Goro Sama!" but came up with his own battlecry: "Goongala!".

Also as a kid, his father refused to pay protection money to the Purple Dragons. His father's shop was burned down and Hun told Casey to tell his father to pay up next time. Casey vowed to get revenge.

As he grew older, he became a vigilante. Fate brought him across the path of Raphael once again. Raphael stopped him from seriously injuring a Purple Dragon. The two fought with each other, but were brought together by their common enemy: the Purple Dragons.

After that, they became allies. Casey Jones would help the Turtles out with various operations and the Turtles would return the favor. Through the Turtles, he met April O'Neil, who he developed romantic feelings for. (April beat him in a Hand-to-hand combat battle in a episode in TMNT)

Fast Forward
In Fast Forward, it's revealed that Casey and April get married. They have children leading up to Cody Jones in the year 2105.

Trivia

 * In the 2007 film TMNT Casy Jones was voiced by Chris Evans who also played Human Torch, another wise cracking vigilante, in the 2005 film Fantastic Four and the 2007 film Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer.