“The Power of Three” | |||||||
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) episode | |||||||
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Season Code: | 10 | ||||||
Episode: | 03 | ||||||
Original airdate | September 28, 1996 | ||||||
Written by | Jeffrey Scott | ||||||
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1996 Season 1996 List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes |
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"The Power of Three" is part 1 of the Shredder and Krang trilogy.
Appearing in The Power of Three[]
Major characters[]
- Donatello (Barry Gordon)
- Leonardo (Cam Clarke)
- Michelangelo (Townsend Coleman)
- Raphael (Michael Gough)
- April O'Neil (Renae Jacobs)
- Splinter
- Carter Dawson (Bumper Robinson)
- Lord Dregg (Tony Jay)
- Shredder (Bill Martin)
- Krang (Pat Fraley)
- Mung (Cam Clarke)
Minor characters[]
- Cab driver (Pat Fraley)
Species[]
- Alien
- Disembodied alien brain
- Human
- Mutant rat
- Mutant turtle
Objects and vehicles[]
- Bō
- April's sports car
- Carter's motorcycle
- Dreggnaught
- Katana
- Sai
- Taxi cab
- Turtle Line
Locations[]
Plot[]
The Turtles are making their way through a strange maze of deadly traps and alien creatures, which turns out to be a nightmare of Michelangelo's. He becomes convinced that they won't make it through their next battle.
Meanwhile, Mung tells Lord Dregg that he has encountered Krang and Shredder in Dimension X, and that they battled the Turtles for several years.
Donatello tells Carter that he may have formulated a cure for Carter's mutation, and after some indecision, Carter decides that he wants to be cured after all and return to college.
Dregg temporarily blacks out all of New York in order to teleport Krang and Shredder out of Dimension X. April is caught in a falling elevator, Carter must stop a runaway streetcar, and the Turtles and Splinter are washed out of their lair and down into a whirlpool.
Shredder and Krang aren't very enthusiastic about Dregg's offer of mutual global domination, since they are interested in destroying the Turtles themselves. They're chased into April's car by one of Dregg's minions, and she quickly contacts the Turtles to notify them that Shredder and Krang have returned.
Fortunately the Turtles have been washed out of the sewer by then, and are able to get a taxi to take them on a wild car chase where they fight with Shredder. However, the cars are teleported away by Dregg, resulting in a chaotic fight in which the Turtles must fight both Dregg's forces AND their old nemeses. Dregg eventually convinces a reluctant Shredder to join his side, but Donatello beams up a large amount of water from the flooded lair to temporarily disarm their enemies.
However, Leonardo is captured when he tries to prevent a nuclear meltdown, and the Turtles and April end up at their enemies' mercy. As the turtles are strapped into devices resembling alien operating tables and tubes are attached to them, Dregg reveals that he wanted them to stabilize their mutations so he could use them for his own ends: he's draining them of their mutagenic life force, skills and strength so he can kill them and use their powers for himself.
Unsurprisingly Shredder turns against Dregg again and captures Mung, demanding the latter transfuse the life energy into himself and Krang instead. But Dregg releases some Microbots which successfully immobilize Shredder and Krang by using the metal on their armor and walker respectively to meld restraints for them. As Dregg's troops load the two onto newly created operating tables, Dregg reveals he was going to drain them with the turtles to take Shredder's Ninjutsu skills and Krang's formidable intelligence for himself from the beginning.
As Mung starts the machine, April can only watch in horror as Dregg grows larger and more powerful even as Krang and the Turtles seem to be going critical. Michelangelo begins mumbling about his dream.
See also[]
- The Power of Three/Gallery
- The Power of Three/Transcript
Notes and errors[]
- One of the Bat-men sent after Shredder and Krang lacks wings.
- At the Newspan building, the elevator button that April presses flashes red, but the red light doesn't come out of the button; it comes on next to it.
- The interior of April's car is gray, but in one shot of Shredder and Krang when Raphael and Leonardo jump onto roof, the interior is yellow.
- Splinter surprises the Turtles when they're looking for him... even though they're depicted as looking in the general direction where he was sitting.
- When the Turtles are tied up by Dregg to have their life sources drained, they are lined up in the following order from left to right - Raphael, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo. But when Michelangelo speaks, he is suddenly next to Raphael.
- In April's car, Shredder is sitting behind April and Krang is sitting behind the passenger seat. After Dregg beams them to his lair, Krang is sitting behind April and Shredder is sitting in the passenger seat.
- When Dregg teleports the two cars, Shredder is dueling with Leonardo on the roof of April's car. However, once the car arrives, he then somehow ends up back inside the car with his seatbelt buckled.
- Shredder tells Dregg that he doesn't "take orders from an alien", which is a little strange given his partnership with the interdimensional alien, Krang.
- When Mung says "as you wish to Shredder", the bottom half of his jacket's collar disappears for a second.
- Shredder is the only character not seen moaning or screaming as Dregg starts the life draining process, this can be considered foreshadowing of his escape in the next episode.
Trivia[]
- First appearance of Shredder and Krang since "Turtle Trek".
- The sound effect for the vortex transporter in this episode included the sound effect of the transporters in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Home media releases[]
DVD[]
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Final Season
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Complete Classic Series Collection