TMNT: Official Movie Adaptation is the final comic book loosely adapting stories from the Golden Harvest/Imagi film continuity. The comic covers the events of the 2007 film TMNT, but is based on an earlier version of the script and thus contains multiple differences.
Solicit[]
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis (the Shredder), the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City. Tech-industrialist Max Winters is amassing an army of ancient monsters to apparently take over the world. And only one super-ninja fighting team can stop them – those heroes in a half shell – Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael! With the help of old allies April O'Neil and Casey Jones, the Turtles are in for the fight of their lives as they once again must face the mysterious Foot Clan, who have put their own ninja skills behind Winters’ endeavors..
Appearing in TMNT[]
Major characters[]
- April O'Neil
- Casey Jones
- Donatello
- Foot Clan
- Karai (debut)
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- Raphael/Nightwatcher
- Stone Generals
- General Aguila (death)
- General Gato (death)
- General Mono (death)
- General Serpiente (death)
- Yaotl/Max Winters (death)
Minor characters[]
- Aracknor (flashback only)
- Bigfoot
- Cretaco
- Centaur
- Diner Cook (debut)
- Jersey Devil
- Santino
- Splinter
- Succubor
Species[]
- Humans
- Monsters
- Mutant rat
- Mutant turtles
Locations[]
- Costa Rica
- New York City
- Jones apartment
- Sewers of New York City
- WintersCorp building
- Xalica (flashback only)
Synopsis[]
Three thousand years ago, a warrior named Yaotl and his quartet of generals made their way across Paxmec, the penninsula that today is known as Central America. They conquered everything in their path until they reached Xalica, where they performed a ritual during the star alignment known as the Stars of Kicaan, which opened a portal that summoned Thirteen Monsters as well as "rewarding" Yaotl with immortality, at the price of turning his generals to stone and forcing Yaotl to live his eternity knowing what he had done to his sworn brothers and sister.
In modern day Costa Rica, a band of guerillas led by one Colonel Santino harasses a village. One by one, the guerillas are snatched away and beaten, with Santino at the end - the culprit is one known as the "Ghost of the Jungle", Leonardo.
April O'Neil, who is in the country to wrangle a statue for businessman Max Winters, hears about this Ghost and presumes that it's Leo. After a local boy points her in the direction of where he was last seen, she falls down a cliff and Leo catches her. They have a heart-to-heart, with April telling him that the family hasn't been the same without him. Even though Don now has a tech support job and Mikey has been entertaining children at parties as "Cowabunga Carl"... Raph has been just sleeping the days away and nobody knows what he does at night, and there is still a restlessness in the family overall. She convinces him that something is still missing in his own life, and he disappears on her.
Back in New York, Mikey watches a news report on the mysterious vigilante "Nightwatcher". Mike, Don, and Raph argue about his brand of justice, with Mike thinking it's cool, Don thinking he's just a hothead, and Raph - who secretly is that hothead, almost coming to blows after he defends Nightwatcher and Don blows him off as contributing nothing and sleeping all day. Just as Raph launches a kick at Don, Splinter interrupts him and Raph runs off to brood. Splinter chastises Don as well, telling him that without tall four brothers, the family is not whole, and if he can't see that, then the family truly is lost.
April makes her way to New York but Casey hasn't shown up at the dock with the transport truck for the statue - he'd overslept. He finally gets in gear and delivers the statue to WintersCorp, accidentally smashing a vase and setting off an alarm in the process. Winters comes in and turns off the alarm, thanking April for bringing this prized statue to him. He says this statue - Aguila - and the others are more like family to him. April and Casey leave him to his bounty, finding his statement more than a little peculiar.
After they leave, Winters signals for Karai, new leader of the Foot Clan, to enter. She tells him she doesn't know quite what they've agreed to do on his payroll, but he tells her that they can start by "welcoming" his "friends" that are coming.
April expresses concern over her relationship with Casey, but Casey lazily assures her that things are fine. He goes out on vigilante patrol and comes across the Nightwatcher, revealing that he knows that he's Raph because he's a "big black metal turtle". They go to have a man-to-turtle chat, Raph telling him about the old man who was murdered that lead him to becoming the Nightwatcher, as well as his frustration with sitting by and letting crime "happen", and Casey talking about his own concerns with his relationship with April.
Winters gathers the four stone statues together and speaks of the alignment once more of the Stars of Kikin, and awakens the generals back to life, although they remain stone. Meanwhile, Leo returns to New York and speaks with Splinter, and the four turtles go out for a training run, but are interrupted by a roar coming from a nearby construction site. There, they find Karai and the Foot tangling with a giant simian beast. Karai attacks Leo, and he protests that they're there to help, but then she and the rest of the Foot slink away, leaving them to battle the Bigfoot. The creature causes the ceiling to cave in on the turtles, and while they're buried, General Mono knocks it out and takes it. The Turtles resurface, noticing that the beast is gone, and head back to the sewer when they hear sirens.
Karai returns to Winters and berates him for failing to tell him that his "friends" were monsters and that the Ninja Turtles would be there. Winters says he has no idea what Turtles she's talking about and sends off his generals to accompany in gathering the rest of the monsters, despite Karai's protests that they don't need help.
Splinter catches their shenanigans from the construction site on TV, and gathers his sons to dress them down, especially Leo, who he hoped would bring order back to the family. Raph angrily goes out to patrol with Casey. Meanwhile, the Foot and Stone Generals continue gathering monsters, and one, a giant vampire bat, appears before them, before it is snagged by a rope and knocked out by Mono. Another general, Gato, notices Casey and Raph, and Aguila fires a disc that lodges into Raph's carapace. Aguila sends Mono after them, and Raph throws a ninja smoke bomb so they can hide, but Raph suddenly is feeling out-of-sorts.
Casey takes Raph back to his and April's place, and Don mends him up, and finds the disc lodged in his shell. He notes that it's made of obsidian and carved with Aztec writings, and after Casey tells him that the statues were walking around shot at them, April surmises that there is a chance that that the "Legendo of Yaotl" - a warrior king who became immortal and his generals turned to stone - was true, and that Winters was Yaotl all along. Don provides further evidence in that the disc has Winters' name literally all over it. Raph wants to take Winters and the "stone jokers" down, but Leo says they need Splinter's blessing to pursue. Raph angrily says he quits the team and heads out the window.
Winters toasts his forthcoming success, and Aguila expresses his concern that they will lose their immortality once all thirtreen monsters have been gathered. Winters seems to welcome it.
Don and April find that once the portal reopens after the monsters have been gathered, more monsters will pour out, taking over the world within weeks. Leo says they should just go take care of this mission without Raph, but Splinter chastizes him and says that the team is incomplete and to go get his brother.
Mono says that he thinks that Yaotl means to betray them, and Aguila, having already come to that conclusion when talking with their "brother" earlier, says that the thirteenth monster must not be found, so they may retain their immortality. Meanwhile, Raph, as the Nightwatcher, hears a commotion at a diner, and finds the Jersey Devil terrorizing the establishment. He fights the little beast, which scurries away, but the Diner cook thinks somehow that he's trying to rob him. A shuriken hits the wall next to Raph, and he sees Leo on a rooftop in the distance. He chases him until they come to a larger roof, and the two turtles confront one another, with Leo still unaware that Raph is the Nightwatcher.
The two fight, and Leo knocks off Raph's helmet, finally realizing that the Nightwatcher is his brother. The fight only gets more intense from there, with Raph finally knocking Leo down. Raph suddenly realizes how close he came to killing his brother, and runs off, while the Stone Generals sneak up behind Leo and tag him with a disc, taking him to Winters to masquerade as the final monster so that his plan will be foiled.
Raph sees Leo get taken away, and returns home to plead for help. Splinter agrees, and the six of them - Splinter, April, Casey, and the remaining turtles - head to WintersCorp. As they fight their way past Karai and the Foot, Winters tries to reopen the portal, only for the thirteenth containment unit to fail. Aguila reveals that they sabotaged his plan to retain their immortality, even as Winters protests that immortality is a curse.
April sees that the door has been knocked open, and they head inside, but they still have Foot Ninja coming at them as they get in. Casey duplicates his vase-smashing accident earlier, on purpose this time, to seal the perimeter. They break Leo out of the containment unit, and Raph hands him back his katana. Suddenly Winters is knocked flying, and April wastes no time telling him that he needs to send the monsters home. He tells her that was his intention all along - not to take over the modern day world, but to end his existence. Karai and the Foot make their way in, and the Generals offer for her to join them. She states that it would be dishonorable to betray her employer, even if it meant working with their adversaries. Winters dispatches her to go retrieve the final monster, with Casey and April choosing to accompany.
As the portal opens, more monsters pour through. The Turtles fight the Generals, while Winters and Splinter send the monsters back inside. The Turtles knock the Generals back into the portal, just as April, Casey, and the Foot return with the final monster. Sending it back in, the portal implodes. Karai warns them that the next time they meet, they may have future business together... that involves "familiar faces from their past". Winters begins laughing, finally able to claim his prize of death, and withers away to bones.
Back in the lair, Splinter places Yaotl's helmet on a moment shelf, with Raph offering the Nightwatcher helmet and Mike giving him the Cowabunga Carl head as well. Splinter, April, and Casey watch the Turtles run off to train, with the master proclaiming that the most noble battle of all is the one to stay together.
See also[]
- Comic gallery
- Comic transcript
Trivia[]
- On page 17, Nightwatcher is misspelled "Nightwtacher".