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April O'Neil is a teenage girl who is the first human and female friend of the Ninja Turtles.
History[]
April is a student at Eastman High, where she finds herself extremely interested in journalism. She attempted to read morning announcements for the school, but froze up in fright and began to vomit excessively, earning her the derisive nickname of "Puke Girl". Desperate to continue with her interests, she sought to find the identity of the mysterious super-criminal "Superfly" so that she could receive the kudos, as well as prevent the curfew that was set to be put in place due to Superfly's dangerousness.
One night while investigating, Raphael accidentally threw a shuriken and hit April's scooter helmet with it. While she was calling out the Turtles on their carelessness, a thief stole her scooter. In a mix of attraction to April and guilt, Leonardo insisted that they retrieve her scooter. The Turtles followed the thief into a chopshop and took out the criminals inside. April arrived to get the scooter back, and formally met the Turtles for the first time, finding out what they really were. The Turtles offered to tell her everything over pizza.
The Turtles gave April their origin story and she told them what she had been doing. After realizing that the only reason that April didn't immediately find the Turtles monstrous is because they helped her, Leo devised a plan that would get them both what they wanted; The Turtles would find and beat this Superfly, and April would document their exploits, thus endearing all five of them to the public.
The Turtles took out a series of goons on a chase to find out where they could find Superfly. Eventually, Bad Bernie spills the beans, saying that Superfly had hired a couple of his men to deliver a part to them, but he killed them when he got what he wanted, and are now forcing him to send out more men to steal and deliver a part or he'd kill Bernie, too. The Turtles take this part to Superfly in an effort to take him down while April records the action, but both parties are surprised to find that the other are mutants. The Turtles and Superfly's gang get chummy, and April urges them to complete the mission. The Turtles go along with the gang's transportation of the machine piece in an effort to disrupt it, but their attempt is thwarted and they are forced to crash off of an overpass, where they are caught by T.C.R.I.
April rushes off to find Splinter to help bust them out. She convinces Splinter that she is a friend, and he infiltrates T.C.R.I. headquarters to rescue them. He frees them, and just in time for them to wonder how he found them, April crawls out of a ground-level duct. Afterwards, Splinter forces April to go home while he and the turtles head to the boat graveyard outside Staten Island to stop Superfly's plan. Reluctantly complying, April steals one of TCRI's bikes when her scooter had a flat tyre.
April kept in hiding to monitor the action, and the Turtles convinced Superfly's gang, who didn't really want to harm humanity in the first place, to turn against him. They all fought off Superfly and rushed him, pinning him to his machine and knocking him out of the boat and into the water with it. Unfortunately, it then went off, mutating Superfly into a massive creature with a whale body, only picking up more animals as he made his way through New York City. When April saw the media painting the Turtles and Superfly's family in the same light as Superfly himself, April knew she had to do something, and so she ran into the Channel 6 building and took over the reporter's position, mostly overcoming her fright to save her new friends as well as the city, only vomiting a little, briefly. This turned the city's opinion on the Turtles and the other mutants, and they helped them take down Superfly.
In the aftermath, the curfew did not come into effect and the school's prom was uncanceled as a result. April's locker graffiti changed from puke-based insults to hailing her as a hero, and she met the Turtles on their first day at Eastman High. Leo went to prom with her, although she tried to clarify with him that it was only as friends.
Tales of the TMNT[]
Leo Nardo Stands Alone[]
Two months after Superfly's downfall, April invites the Turtles to a costume party, which she also reluctantly attends, simply wearing antenna in lieu of her beanie. When the Turtles don't arrive, she tries to text them, only for her phone to die and leaves it to recharge while heading out for a bit. Upon exiting, April comes across Leo, who explains a woman named Bishop is after him and his brothers with Mechazoids. Realizing she left her phone behind, April and Leo head inside as some partygoers greet Leo before the Mechazoid shows up, forcing them to take the stairwell when it disables the elevator. While Leo went to distract the Mechazoid, April recovers her phone and discovers Donnie had been frantically texting her before discovering he's in Times Square. However, April grabs a fire axe to save Leo from the Mechazoid by striking it between its legs. After knocking it off the fire escape, April and Leo find the Mechazoid was leaking oil as it fled, and decide to follow it to Bishop, and hopefully his brothers.
Night of the Mechazoids[]
April approaches Leo, who barged into a restaurant called Dive, mistaking it for Bishop's lab.
Raph vs. Water[]
April and Donnie watch a recorded interview of Splinter detailing a flood that had occurred days earlier, but the latter just speaks vermin, so Raph decided to dub him.
Physical appearance[]
April is a teenage black girl with short auburn hair, which she wears in locs, brown eyes and freckles on her face. She also wears glasses. Unlike her previous incarnations, April is plus-sized. She wears a black shirt with a white print, a buttoned yellow jacket, ripped jeans, white socks and white canvas sneakers. She also wears a black beanie on her head, a golden pendant around her neck, and a silver spiked bracelet on her right wrist. April also carries a messenger bag around with her.
Personality[]
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Trivia[]
- This character is an adaptation of April O'Neil, first created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. This version was developed by Brendan O'Brien and designed by Woodrow White.
- This is the second version of April to be designed as black (and non-white in general) in a TMNT TV series or film.
- The first is April O'Neil from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, also produced by Nickelodeon.
- This is the third teenage incarnation of April in TMNT, following her incarnations from the 2012 TV series and from Rise of the TMNT.