Super Power Struggle

“Super Power Struggle”
TMNT: Back to the Sewer episode
Season Code:	S07E12
Episode:	155
Original airdate	February 21, 2009
Written by	Robert David
Supervising Producer	Matthew Drdek
Senior Supervising Producer	Lloyd Goldfine
Producers:	Gary Richardson
	Frederick U. Fierst
	Al Kahn
	Norman Grossfeld
	Thomas Kenney
Supervising Director	Roy Burdine
Story Editor:	Lloyd Goldfine
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"Super Power Struggle" is the twelfth episode of the animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) Back to the Sewer season.

Appearing in Super Power Struggle

Major characters

• Justice Force
  • Ananda (Carrie Keranen)
  • Chrysalis
  • Nano
  • Nobody
  • Raptarr (Marc Diraison)
  • Silver Sentry (Marc Diraison)
  • Stainless Steve Steel (David Wills)
  • Tsunami (Darren Dunstan)
  • Zippy Lad (Sean Schemmel)
• Michelangelo/Turtle Titan/Green Mantle (Wayne Grayson)
• Raphael/Green Mantle/Tortoise Boy “The Shelled Wonder" (briefly) (John Campbell)

Minor characters

• Green Mantle/Al Gordon (Sean Schemmel) (debut)
• Doctor Malignus (David Brimmer as Michael Alston Bailey)
• Fastidious Boy/Fastidious Man (Sean Schemmel) (debut)
• Mechazoid (Sean Schemmel) (debut)
• Tammy Tamlin (Carrie Keranen)

Species

• Humans
• Mutant turtle
• Robot

Objects and vehicles

• Green Mantle's Cape
• Nunchaku
• Sai

Locations

• New York City, 1968
• New York City, Present Day
  • Justice Force Headquarters
  • New York Comic Caucus

Plot

In 1968, during a battle against Mechazoid, the Green Mantle loses his cape and his superpowers. The cape floats to the ground and is found by Fastidious Boy. Realizing that it's the Green Mantle's cape, the boy runs off to add it to his collection.

Present day: When Raphael gets his hands on a powerful cape that grants him superhuman abilities, the Justice Force invite him to join their team, to the detriment of comic book loving Michelangelo. With Raphael telling the latter with no sympathy he's not responsible with powers causing them to fight over the vestment. However, the villainous Doctor Malignus has also set his eyes on it and both Raphael and Michelangelo must put aside their differences to stop him. In the end Raphael feeling himself not worthy and being a "superhero" wasn't his style gives up the cape to it's original owner.

See also

• Super Power Struggle/Gallery
• Super Power Struggle/Transcript

Quotes

Michelangelo: Raph, did you get taller?

Michelangelo: That’s what happens to evildoers when their paths cross the Turtle Titan! Raphael: And Tortoise Boy, the Shelled Wonder.

Trivia

• The Green Mantle is an obvious homage to the Green Lantern, specifically Hal Jordan.
• The reporter reporting on the Justice Force bears a striking resemblance to the 1987 April O'Neil in terms of clothing and hair. She also says she is reporting for Channel 6 news
• The New York Comic Caucus is an obvious allusion to the New York Comic Con.

External links

• "Super Power Struggle" at The Official TMNT Web Site.