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The Ninja Turtles were a quartet of mutant turtle brothers who opposed the likes of the Foot Clan and Baxter Stockman. As of the end of The Last Ronin, all four members are deceased.
History[]
At some point, the Turtles, along with their rat master Splinter, entered into a blood feud with Oroku Saki, the Shredder, and his Foot Clan. The feud did not quite end with Shredder's death, and eventually a shaky truce was put into place with Saki's daughter, Karai.
One day for reasons not yet divulged, Karai broke the truce and Splinter was attacked and nearly mortally wounded by the Foot Clan. This sent Raphael off into a rage unseen even in him before, and culminated in a fight with Karai that left him dead and her comatose. Karai was extracted from the water where the two combatants ended up and placed into a stasis pod.
Ten years later, Karai's son Hiroto began to devise his vengeance on the Hamato Clan. A peace negotiation was proposed and Donatello and Splinter headed to Japan to broker this deal with Hiroto. It was an ambush and the two mutants were killed in the battle.
While those two were in Japan, Baxter Stockman triangulated the signal of Zayton Honeycutt, the Fugitoid, and aimed to take his cybernetic body for his own demented plans. Casey, April, Honeycutt, Leonardo, and Michelangelo were ambushed by Stockman's synja and their rebellion had to battle their way through Stockman's forces. As April made an effort to rush Honeycutt to safety, Stockman detonated his Spider Mousers. The resulting explosion killed Leo and Casey, left Honeycutt a disembodied head, and cost April a literal arm and a leg.
Michelangelo was now the sole survivor of the team and as he assumed April dead, thought he was the last out of the entire Hamato Clan. He spent years alternatively dealing with survivor's guilt and training to take down Hiroto and other nefarious entities such as the Death Worm. Eventually making his way back to New York City, Mikey was beaten severly by Hiroto's forces. He attempted seppuku in the sewers, but he collapsed from blood loss, and was brought back to the Lair by Casey Marie Jones, the elder Casey and April's daughter. Mike, April, and Casey lashed out at Foot targets, including finishing off Stockman. All through the while, Mike trained Casey in martial arts and philosophy. Eventually, Mike made it to Hiroto and finally faced him in combat and killed him, only to die of his own injuries shortly after.
The Ninja Turtles were succeeded in spirit by a second team, raised and trained by Casey Marie.
See also[]
- Faction gallery: Ninja Turtles