Genie is a character appearing in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Saturday Morning Adventures. He is the Genie of the ring and his cousin is the Genie of Alladin's lamp.
History[]
After a mild mishap with one of Donatello’s inventions, Michelangelo starts to wonder if his laid-back attitude isn’t holding his brothers back. While skateboarding in the sewers to clear his head, Mikey hits an object and goes flying. When he goes to see what he ran over, he discovers a ring with a large, red stone. To get a better look at the ring, Mikey begins wiping the dirt off, which activates the ring's power. Mikey then meets a genie who can show him exactly what the world would be like without him…and decides to do so.
The genie, named Genie, transports Mikey to a parallel world where he was never mutated. Without the Turtles' heart, Hamato Yoshi, who was already beginning to spiral into despondence and depression, continued down that path and raised the three remaining Turtles as a more malicious, hard-lined ninja clan. They were awarded a home in the sewers by New York City's mayor, Shredder, but they secretly plotted to overthrow him in order to install Yoshi as the city's leadership. Michelangelo learns all of this after attemptiong to return to his home, but is attacked by Splinter, who does not know him. Mikey flees, but is set upon by Dark Leonardo, Dark Raphael and Dark Donatello.
Michelangelo tells Genie he can’t believe this is the world without him in it. Genie explains that everyone changes the world just by being in it. You never know how big a hole you leave behind. Mikey is knocked out by the Dark Turtles, but comes to with an aching head and sees that he is falling through the clouds. Diving alongside him, Genie says he’ll take his ring back now that he’s granted the wish Michelangelo needed. After seeing how he influences the world around him, Michelangelo can put up with anything. As he removes the ring, Michelangelo asks why he feels like he starred in an after-school special. Genie replies that this was more fun to watch. He takes the ring and says he’s off to help someone in Encinitas and reminds Michelangelo that there is no reason to feel inferior for being who he is. Genie also tells him to look out below. Michelangelo looks down and sees the fast-approaching skyscrapers of New York City. Screaming, Michelangelo plummets to the ground and then awakens in his own bed.