In Le Tartarughe Ninja, April O'Neil is a news reporter for Channel 6. This version of April is an amalgam of the character in the 1990 movie and 1987 TV series.
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April O'Neil is among the reporters trying to get a statement from New York Police Department Capitano Stearnes regarding a recent crime wave. April flummoxes Stearnes with her assertation that she was told that forensics had no leads, despite the captain's insistence that they were on top of the investigation. Wrapping up her report, April declines a ride home from her cameraman, Ted, and decides to walk home. Cutting through an alleyway, she is startled to find a gang of masked ninja robbing a truck. They give chase and April trips on a curb, and as the ninja close in on her, a pair of green hands reach out from the darkness and smack the closest ninja with a bō, and the rest of them are similarly felled.
April goes to her apartment and finds Piede Ninjia inside, ransacking the place. Running down the fire escape and screaming, she catches the nearby Leonardo's attention. She again trips, knocking herself unconscious this time, leaving Leo to knock out the ninja and bring her back to the lair for recovery. April wakes up startled to find she's in the company of mutant turtles and a mutant rat. To ease her mind, Splinter offers to tell her of their back story; he was once a human man, Hamato Joshi, who lived in the sewer with four baby turtles that he believes a child had lost. One day, a canister of a strange substance began to hyper-evolve the turtles, changing them into anthropomorphs. Joshi himself was turned into a rat-man, as before he found the turtles in their predicament, he had been caring for sewer rats. Joshi, a ninja from Japan, raised these Turtles as his sons and students, training them in the martial art of ninjutsu. Arrivano le Tartarughe
April reports on a recent discovery of improperly disposed mutagen, found when an excavation crew began work at a dump site. She interviews Captain Stearnes, Doodley, and Sullivan, the later of which is the public prosecutor. She comes to the conclusion that the culprit is the Techno Biological Research Institute (T.B.R.I.). The next day, newly mutated Bebop and RockSteady and some ninja show up at Channel 6 to wreck the place. Bebop spots April, and the two of them give chase. April presses a button on an alert beacon Donatello had given her, and just as they capture her, the Tartarughe arrive. They beat up the mutants, causing them to flee, and the ninja, who simply surrender. Bebop e RockSteady