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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #10 is the 10th issue of volume 4 of Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Appearing in #10[]
Major characters[]
- April O'Neil
- Casey Jones
- Honeycutt
- Splinter (death)
- Utroms
Minor characters[]
- Daniel Carrolson (debut)
- Donatello
- Dr. M'beka
- Karai
- Leonardo
- Michelangelo
- New York Fire Department
- Chief
- Lewis
- Meginn
- Murph
- Perez
- New York Police Department
- Raphael
- Rat King (apparition)
- Robyn O'Neil
- Shadow Jones
- Xihadists
Species[]
Locations[]
- New York City
- Kurtzburg Memorial Hospital
- Moon-Island
- New York Journal
- Statue of Liberty
- Northampton, Massachusetts
Objects and vehicles[]
- Mentawave cabinets
- Nanobots
- Ootie the Utrom plush
- SAL model android
- Utrom Exoskeleton
Synopsis[]
At the Jones Farm, Master Splinter pours some milk for a cat and feeds some birds. He pets the cat and heads back inside, missing that the cat is eyeing the birds.
Back in New York City, the procedure to remove Baxter Stockman's nanobots from April is beginning. Casey, Shadow, and Robyn all are understandably worried. The Utroms and Kurtzburg Memorial's medical staff work on injecting April with Nanoturtlebots - nanobots shaped like the Ninja Turtles and controlled by them via Mentawave cabinet back at the Utrom Island base to combat the buglike nanobots of Stockman. The nanobots fight, but this causes trauma to April, causing her stomach to bleed out.
Karai suddenly shows up in the Utrom base and teases Shadow and the incapacitated Turtles, and then offers Shadow a place in the Foot Clan, to which Shadow responds that she'll "think about it".
Daniel Corrolson, a New York Journal reporter, sifts through his backlog of incoming mail and finds an envelope marked "Xihad". Corrolson decides to watch the enclosed, unlabeled CD-ROM in his iBook and watches a manifesto from a Xihad member against the "invading" alien species. Shutting it off due to distaste of the content, Daniel and his colleagues are suddenly rocked by a nearby explosion.
The detonation has severed the connection between the Utrom base and Kurtzburg Memorial, thus rendering the Nanoturtlebots inert and allowing Baxter's bugbots to massacre them.
Back at the farmhouse, Splinter prepares a cup of tea. Behind him, the ghost of the Rat King appears, and Splinter suddenly starts feeling intense pangs. He takes a few steps and breathes out two last words: "My... ...sons..." before falling over dead. Meanwhile outside, the cat has caught one of the birds and holds its corpse in their mouth.
At the site of the explosion, the police hold off the crowds while the firefighters work to contain the blaze. Two of the latter - Lewis and Murph dive in to look for survivors. They end up finding eleven aliens still alive, but a few did not make it. After receiving this information, the Utroms inspect the datapipe, with one diving into the bay to find it's been blasted apart.
At the hospital, Casey wigs out, wanting to find out what's going on. Dr. M'beka, the lead doctor on April's procedure, assures him that there's just a temporary technical difficulty, and shoos him off, not wanting to reveal that their operation has been completely upended. However, Glurin reveals that he had been secretly running a program to analyze the Turtles' movements as the Nanoturtlebots fought, and that he could create a virtual data stream replay of their style to reconnect to the bots. This succeeds, but Stockman left a "Megananobot" - essentially a "boss" nanobot which remained dormant until the others were all destroyed - and it is headed straight for April's brain.
The remaining surviving Nanoturtlebots head for the Megananobot and battle it with all available ferocity, sacrificing themselves even, to damage it. They manage to destroy it centimeters away from ending April's life, and when they are extracted from April, only four are left surviving - each one brandishing each of the Turtles' signatures weapons. Glurin decides to keep these last four, just in case they may need them for another time.
Hours later, all of April's friends and family have come to her bedside as she recovers. Suddenly, a nurse brings over a phone for Leonardo. On the other end of the line is Steve, who informs Leo that Splinter has passed away.
See also[]
Notes and trivia[]
- At the time of this issue's publication, the characters and readers are under the impression that the Master Splinter has died, and given no reason to believe otherwise. However, it isn't until over seven years later that there is indication that the actual Splinter survived, and a whole eleven years after the publication of this book that Donatello discovers that the Splinter that had died was actually a doppelgänger, from an undisclosed adventure never seen before in publication. Since this doppelgänger story has not been published yet as of 2022, it is unknown just when this alternate Splinter took over for the mainline version.
- Daniel Carrolson's two panel monologue about his Apple computer being less likely to be susceptible to "vandalware" (an acceptable but non-standard synonym for malware) is part of a long-running theme of Peter Laird using the pages of the comic to personally shill (as in, not for compensation) Apple products due to his preference of them over Windows and Linux machines.
- Glurin quotes his "favorite fictional extraterrestial from Earth cinema" with "size matters not" - and is obviously referring to Yoda of the Star Wars franchise.