In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, mystic power is a seemingly magical power associated with the Yōkai and is used in various forms throughout their society.
Overview[]
Mystic powers are magical abilities that are typically found in the Yōkai population. Mystic power takes many forms, including individual supernatural abilities as well as spells, potions, mystical objects, and portals and can be anywhere from supremely powerful to petty. Mystic powers are not exclusive to the Yōkai as humans and mutants are capable of harnessing them as shown in the Hamato Clan where a mystic power, Hamato Ninpō, is even a traditional clan technique. There may be differing categories of mystic power as the Council of Heads criminalizes Baron Draxum's use of "dark mystic forces" in "Repairin' the Baron". However, it may be possible that the "dark" label isn't given because of the mystic powers' inherent nature, but rather because of their malicious utilization.
As revealed in "Finale Part 4: Rise", all mystic power among the Yōkai is ultimately derived from Empyrean, a mutagenic substance which in the very ancient past poured from the eyes of a sacred giant statue in the Hidden City called the Crying Titan. Inside the statue's head lies the long-deceased skeletal remains of a Krang along with broken canisters which originally held the Empyrean. This same substance was also responsible for mutating the Yōkai in the very distant past.
The Kuroi Yōroi also has mystic powers, and it is shown that the Foot Clan use other mystic powers, such as the disembodied flames that appear on top of the heads of certain fully-inducted Foot Clan members like Foot Lieutenant and Foot Brute and in the clan member Foot Initiator. But the history of the tells that the Kuroi Yōroi was gifted to Oroku Saki 500 years ago by an oni—an individual of the same species as the skeleton found inside the Crying Titan's head. It is not specified whether these two Krang are the same individual or two separate individuals, and as such it is also not specified whether the power of the Kuroi Yōroi derives from the Empyrean or is a separate Krang technology.
Yōkai witches commonly employ verbal spells to use mystic powers such as "Let the sedentary sparkle!" to make fireworks emit from furniture.
Mystic powers can be forcefully arrested by mystic power negating technology and abilities as demonstrated by the anti-mystic devices the Hidden City Police deploy ("Hidden City's Most Wanted") and Krang One in Rise of the TMNT: The Movie. Both instances of mystic power negation were impermanent.
Technologies[]
- Anti-mystic device
- Arch of Aquinnah
- Banshee box
- Big Mama's train
- Cloaking brooches
- Don't Take Me for Granite
- Kuroi Yōroi
- Mystic communicator ("Hot Soup: The Game", "Insane in the Mama Train")
- Mystic Crystal
- Mystic Key
- Mystic Orb
- Mystic Ring
- Mystic Library
- Mystic weapons
- Oozesquitoes
- Portals
- Sands of Time Hourglass
Abilities[]
The following are the mystic powers that have been exhibited by characters:
- Laser beam emission
- Vine manipulation
- Handcuff creation ("Bug Busters")
- Energy constructs
- Fire breath
- Teleportation
- Emotional vampirism
- Flight
- Chlorokinesis
- Anatomical liberation
- Golem creation
- Object transmutation
- Flame head
- Spike protrusion
- Bodily reformation
- Mesmerizing presence
- Origami constructs
- Portal creation
- Telekinesis
- Shapeshifting
- Self-size enlargement
- Bone manipulation
- Fusion
- Tail extension
- Object possession
- Fire generation
- Paper assimilation
- Hamato Ninpō