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Battle Nexus: New York
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode
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Season Code: 075-076
Episode: 11
Original airdate July 17, 2020
Written by Dale Malinowski
Supervising Producer Alan Wan
Producers: Vladimir Radev
Directed by Kevin Molina-Ortiz
Alan Wan
Voice Direction Rob Paulsen
Storyboard Artist: Max Collins
Christine Liu
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Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 2
October 12, 2019 - August 7, 2020
List of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes:

  1. Flushed, but Never Forgotten
  2. Lair Games
  3. Many Unhappy Returns
  4. Todd Scouts
  5. Goyles, Goyles, Goyles
  6. Breaking Purple
  7. Repairin' the Baron
  8. Air Turtle
  9. Pizza Puffs
  10. Sidekick Ahoy!
  11. The Hidden City Job
  12. Always Be Brownies
  13. Mystery Meat
  14. Donnie vs. Witch Town
  15. Raph's Ride-Along
  16. Hidden City's Most Wanted
  17. Bad Hair Day
  18. Fists of Furry
  19. The Clothes Don't Make the Turtle
  20. Battle Nexus: New York
  21. E-Turtle Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  22. Shreddy or Not
  23. Anatawa Hitorijanai
  24. Rise

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"Battle Nexus: New York" is the twentieth episode of the second season (Episode 11) of Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and is the sixty-sixth episode overall in the series. It first aired on July 17th, 2020.

Synopsis[]

Big Mama turns New York City into her new Battle Nexus arena and the TMNT have to fight to save everyone they love.

Appearing in Battle Nexus: New York[]

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Additional voices by Dave Boat

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Plot[]

The episode starts with the Mad Dogs, Splinter, Draxum and April on a family trip on the tour of New York City. Draxum says they must hurry, because he left Sloppy Joseph in the kitchen.

Suddenly, the sky gets dark and all the New Yorkers vanish. The Mad Dogs exit from an elevator (not noticing that April, Splinter and Draxum went missing, too) and are shocked at seeing their city so empty. Then, they hear a woman laughing from the distance. It is Big Mama, who has turned New York City into a massive Battle Nexus and has trapped all the people in the Mystic Orb. Inside the orb is an illusion of a peaceful cruise, so the people remain unaware of what happened.

Knowing that the Mad Dogs work so well together, Big Mama opts to not only separate the brothers, but also handcuff them to their enemies. Each pair must face off against one Battle Nexus champion.

  • Raph is with Ghostbear, much to his joy. They must fight the most aggressive yōkai, named Troll, on the George Washington Bridge. Ghostbear doesn't want to participate, and tries breaking free. But, Raphael convinces him to help. Together, they perform Ghostbear's signature move, the Hibernator, and defeat Troll. But, all of them ended up being flung off the bridge and into the water below. Raph's and Ghostbear's masks float up to the surface, much to the horror of his brothers.
  • Leo, along with Carl Sando, must make the fairy named Sprite laugh. Ever the sourpuss, she possesses the Statue of Liberty and threatens to squish them. Leo tries cracking jokes, but she doesn't laugh, and an argument between him and Carl ends up causing them to fight each other and Sprite to start attacking them at the same time. After Carl lands a hit on Leo, the latter realizes upon seeing Sprite trying to stifle a laugh that they can only make her laugh with physical comedy. Leo "fights" Carl by improvising all manner of ways to subject him to pain, such as making Carl fall down and hitting him with pies. Sprite laughs aloud, and Leo and Carl ended up winning.
  • Mikey is with his favorite chef, Meat Sweats. The pair must feed the Amphisbaena, a two-headed snake yōkai who is always hungry, until it is satisfied. Meat Sweats throws food at one head, while Mikey painstakingly prepares a dish. Meat Sweats yells at Mikey to hurry and feed the other head, but Mikey insists that a single well-prepared dish will do the trick. Meat Sweats soon runs out of food and Mikey starts to panic when he is missing an ingredient. Meat Sweats helps him out with some spices, and Mikey tosses the completed dish at the unfed head. The head Meat Sweats had been feeding snatches the dish, and the other head, wanting a bite, eats the first head. This results in the Amphisbaena eating itself out of existence as Mikey had expected, leaving him and a dumbfounded Meat Sweats as the victors.
  • Last of all, Donnie is with Hypno-Potamus. They must beat Cortex, the most intelligent yōkai, at chess. Donnie offers to play, but to his dismay, Cortex ends up turning him into the white set of figures. Worse still, Hypno, by his own admission, has little experience in chess and therefore doesn't know how to play it. Hypno, unsure of what to do, takes too long to make his first move and eventually, Cortex ends up becoming stressed out and demands Hypno to make his move while he pounds his fists on the table. This impatience unwittingly ends up costing Cortex the match as the force of slamming his fists down is enough to cause his own king piece to fall over; Donnie immediately declares victory by default for both himself and Hypno because Cortex has legally surrendered having "slain his own king" (with Hypno declaring himself as "king of chequers"). Cortex slams his head on the table in defeat having accidentally defeated himself.

Meanwhile, Draxum suddenly realizes that he and the rest of the group are in the mystic orb. He tries to tell the others what is happening, but they don't listen until he points out that the turtles are gone and no one would willingly bring Foot Recruit anywhere. He leads the escape to a weak point at the bottom of the orb.

Returning to the center of the city, the three Mad Dogs are reunited at last, but they are heartbroken over Raph's demise. While the villains make their escape, Big Mama congratulates the Turtles, but announces that she is still keeping New York and its people for herself; she plans to use the New Yorkers as unwilling contestants in her new city-sized Battle Nexus. The Turtles then tell her that they anticipate that Raph, knowing his obsession with pro wrestling, will have survived his encounter with the Troll by playing dead and that he will launch a sneak attack on Big Mama using Ghostbear's signature Hibernator move. Indeed, Raph emerges from Big Mama's tower and uses his mystic powers to suplex her. Meanwhile, April, Draxum, Splinter and Recruit are freed from the orb. Now outnumbered, Big Mama calls the Shadow Fiend to fight them. He begins to chase Draxum, who is trying to find a way to open the orb to free the rest of New York. Eventually, they make it to the top of Big Mama's tower, but the Mad Dogs combine their powers to defeat him. Big Mama is about to use her ring to control Shadow Fiend again, but to her shock... the ring is gone!

Foot Recruit then reveals the ring in her grasp and tells everyone that there is no Shadow Fiend. As the monster's cloak blows away, the ominous figure is revealed to be the one and only Shredder. Foot Recruit orders him to attack the heroes, as Splinter orders Leo to open a portal to escape. The demon proves to be too fast as he knocks them around and begins to crush Raph and Donnie. Leo uses Mikey as a weapon to stop Shredder from beating their brothers, while Draxum helps April up to her feet. Leo cries to Splinter for help. Splinter watches in horror by seeing his family in danger. Thinking fast, he uses Leo's ōdachi to open a portal, allowing them to escape. As they all disappear through the portal, Splinter asks Big Mama to come with them, feeling that there is still something good inside her. Touched, Big Mama attempts to go with them. However, Shredder cuts off her exit.

Foot Recruit is furious with Big Mama for using the Shredder for her own deeds. The Shredder destroys the Grand Nexus Hotel, and it collapses to the ground. The recruit rides on the Shredder, and declares that the Foot Clan has risen again, leaving the episode on a cliffhanger.

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Trivia[]

  • Shadow Fiend is revealed to be the Shredder in this episode.
  • The mystic orb reappears in this episode, its first appearance is in "Insane in the Mama Train".
  • Cindy's parents who debuted earlier in "Operation: Normal" are seen in this episode.
  • This episode marks the final appearances of Ghostbear, Huginn, Meat Sweats, Muninn, Carl Sando, and Sloppy Joseph.
    • Carl's brother Ben does not appear in this episode at all, his final appearance having been in "Man VS. Sewer".
    • Huginn and Muninn only appear briefly in a flashback, their final in-person appearance having been in "Goyles, Goyles, Goyles".
  • It was revealed in July 2020 by Rise of the TMNT assistant director and story artist Ashe Jacobson in a Tweet that Leo's playful walk cycle right before he throws his final pie at Carl is a reference to a YouTube video by Roy Purdy.[1]
  • Big Mama's heel click following the conclusion of the Battle Nexus matches is a reference to a recurring visual associated with Kill la Kill's Kiryūin Satsuki. This was also referenced earlier in "Many Unhappy Returns".
  • The cat that eats the bird on the powerline following the conclusion of the Battle Nexus matches debuted earlier in "The Mutant Menace".

Errors[]

  • During Mikey's line, "The thing about that is us four work together," a claw on Big Mama's black arm is missing its color.
  • During the second camera angle of Raph's Hibernator entrance, a claw on Big Mama's black arm is missing its color.
  • Big Mama's left black arm only has three claws instead of four claws during Big Mama's line, "You'll never take the orb from my champion."
  • Throughout the fight between Shadow Fiend, Big Mama, and the Mad Dogs until this episode's end, Big Mama's black arms only have three claws instead of four claws.

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