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The Ninja Turtles are the protagonists of the IDW comic series, and sometimes of the spin-off series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe and accompanying miniseries. Their origin is slightly different in this comic compared to other forms of Ninja Turtle media, as they are the reincarnations of four human teenage ninja warriors of Clan Hamato from centuries ago, reborn as turtles and then mutated. With the later addition of Jennika, who was previously a human from the Foot Clan, there are five.
Roster
- Donatello, a.k.a. Donnie or Don
- Jennika, a.k.a. Jenny
- Leonardo, a.k.a. Leo (leader)
- Michelangelo, a.k.a. Mikey or Mike
- Raphael, a.k.a. Raph
Prominent associations
Deceased characters in italics.
- Ace Duck (friend and ally)
- Aka (sympathetic to the Turtles, rare ally, then murdered by Kitsune)
- Alopex (former enemy, now friend and ally, later temporarily under Kitsune's control, has an on-again-off-again romantic attachment with Raphael, and became a fellow founder of the Splinter Clan)
- Anchovy (initially pet and friend, but now loyal to Bebop and Rocksteady)
- Anemon and Eymo (friends and allies)
- Lindsey Baker (acquaintance and sometimes ally)
- Bea (student of Splinter Clan)
- Bebop and Rocksteady (enemies)
- B'een Go (friend and ally)
- Jonathan Bishop and the Earth Protection Force (mortal enemies, then he and one of Slash's clones killed each other)
- Bludgeon (enemy, then neutral, then enemy again, now of uncertain status)
- Angel Bridge / Nobody (friend and ally)
- Brooklyn S. Bridge (acquaintance)
- Buck (Raphael's best friend when he was homeless, now dead)
- Dask, Kala and Zak (friends and allies)
- Diamond (enemy)
- Woody Dirkins (friend and sometimes ally)
- Darius Dun (mortal enemy, now dead)
- The Dragon (mortal enemy to all mankind, formerly dead, then resurrected by Kitsune using Aka as a sacrifice, then killed again Oroku Saki and Splinter at the cost of Splinter's life)
- The Foot Clan (former enemies under the Shredder, then frenemies under Splinter, then enemies under Oroku Karai; now whatever remains of them are of uncertain status)
- The Ghostbusters (friends and allies)
- Hakk-R (former enemy)
- Old Hob (former enemy, now sometimes ally but not friend)
- Old Hob's weasels Zink, Zanna and Mushroom (their father tried to sell them, now friends and adopted wards)
- Zayton Honeycutt / Chet Allen / The Fugitoid (friend and ally)
- Ivan (former partner-in-crime with Jennika and Silas)
- Arnold Jones / Hun (enemy, then semi-reconciled with Casey but remained enemy to Casey's mutant friends, then sacrificed his life to save Casey from Bishop)
- Casey Jones (friend and ally)
- Kitsune (enemy, now of uncertain status)
- Kleve (former ally, now enemy)
- Klunk (pet, friend and ally)
- Wesley Knight and Darkwater (former enemies)
- Koya (former enemy, then neutral but still hated Leonardo, then enemy again)
- Krang (enemy, then presumed dead, but survived as parasite inside Leatherhead's body)
- Leatherhead (intermittent enemy, but regarded with sympathy)
- Kara Lewis (briefly ally, now neutral)
- Harold Lilja / Kirbyfan (intermittent friend and ally)
- Mona Lisa (friend and ally)
- Lita (friend and adopted ward)
- Manmoth (friend, but not ally)
- Ma'riell (friend and ally)
- Libby Meitner (acquaintance and sometimes ally)
- Metal Don / Metalhead (initially ally, then enemy, now deactivated)
- The Mighty Mutanimals (formerly mostly friends and sometimes allies, but lost most members who were friends, and now have an uneasy relationship)
- Patrick Miller (former non-antagonistic enemy, now dead)
- Mondo Gecko and Seymour Gutz (friends and allies)
- Planet Neutrino (allies)
- Madame Null (enemy)
- April O'Neil (friend and ally)
- John and Elizabeth O'Neil (friends and allies)
- Oroku Karai (enemy, then ally, then enemy again, now of uncertain status)
- Oroku Saki / The Shredder (former mortal enemy; reconciled with Splinter, then committed suicide; resurrected by Splinter at cost of Splinter's life, and now anonymous ally)
- The Pantheon (some enemies, some allies, some neutral, most regarded as a mortal threat)
- Pepperoni (pet, friend and ally)
- Pigeon Pete (friend and sometimes ally)
- Poly-95480 / Polly (friend and ally)
- Sally Pride (friend and ally)
- Puggle and Bandit (acquaintances, sometimes opponents)
- The Purple Dragons (allies under Angel Bridge, enemies under Hun, then allies under Casey Jones)
- The Rat King (enemy)
- Man Ray and Herman (acquaintances loyal to Old Hob, sometimes allies, now of uncertain status)
- Renet (friend and ally, also of the Mirage Turtles)
- Children of St. Robert's Orphanage (friends and former students of Clan Hamato)
- Sheena (friend and student of Splinter Clan)
- Silas (Jennika's ex-boyfriend)
- Slash (initially opponent, then friend and ally, then temporarily under Bishop's control, then freed, but was murdered by Bishop)
- Slash's clones (initially enemy under EPF control, then one was killed, then Jonathan Bishop and the other clone killed each other)
- Splinter (initially father and ally, then frenemy, then enemy, then ally, then died helping Oroku Saki kill the Dragon)
- Baxter Stockman (enemy, but occasional partner)
- The Street Phantoms (former enemies)
- Stump (unsavory associate)
- Tang Shen (mother of the four and ally, died long ago)
- Toad Baron and frog minions (occasional opponents, otherwise neutral)
- Tragg and Granitor (usually enemies)
- The Triceratons (mostly allies)
- The Utroms (allies except for Krang loyalists)
- Victor and the Savate Ninja (enemies, now dead or defeated)
- Zenter, Gizzla, and Trib (friends and allies)
- Zodi (enemy, one-time partner)
- Zom (friend and ally)
Trivia
- From the time the Turtles mutated, up to at least The Trial of Krang, they have been identified socially as teenagers, with it strongly implied that all four of them were indeed real teenagers when their past human selves died centuries ago. In terms of the overall chronological age of their spiritual selves, they are at least as old as the birth years of their long-dead human selves. As turtles, their age has never been unambiguously determined, and the IDW continuity has remained just as ambiguous about the relative passage of time in-universe, making it unclear how much time has passed since their birth as turtles or since their mutation day except that they have remained teenagers during their entire mutant lives so far. This chronological ambiguity stands in direct contrast to the Mirage continuity, which eventually gave its Turtles a fixed birth year of 1970, and Mirage stories have variously depicted them at a different age depending on the chronological setting of the story during the characters' lifespans in the 20th and 21st centuries.