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==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
* Each of the Turtles is endowed with a [[Sashimono]], or feudal banner, throughout his quest. The banners correspond to the environment where the quest takes place. The {{linkWikipedia|Kanji}} (Chinese characters) on their banners are taken from <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:風林火山|風林火山]]</span> (read as <span lang="ja">ふうりんかざん</span> ''{{linkWikipedia|Fūrinkazan}}''), which comes from {{linkWikipedia|Sun Tzu}}'s "{{linkWikipedia|The Art of War}}" battle tactics. These battle tactics were also used by the {{linkWikipedia|Daimyō}} {{linkWikipedia|Takeda Shingen}} during the {{linkWikipedia|Sengoku period}} of {{linkWikipedia|Feudal Japan}}. "The Art of War" was originally written in {{linkWikipedia|Old Chinese}}, and its terms are spoken in Japanese using {{linkWikipedia|Sino-Japanese vocabulary}}.
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* Each of the four Turtles is endowed with a [[Sashimono]], or feudal banner, throughout his quest. The banners correspond to the environment where the quest takes place. The {{linkWikipedia|Kanji}} (Chinese characters) on their banners are taken from <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:風林火山|風林火山]]</span> (read as <span lang="ja">ふうりんかざん</span> ''{{linkWikipedia|Fūrinkazan}}''), which comes from {{linkWikipedia|Sun Tzu}}'s "{{linkWikipedia|The Art of War}}" battle tactics. These battle tactics were also used by the {{linkWikipedia|Daimyō}} {{linkWikipedia|Takeda Shingen}} during the {{linkWikipedia|Sengoku period}} of {{linkWikipedia|Feudal Japan}}. "The Art of War" was originally written in {{linkWikipedia|Old Chinese}}, and its terms are spoken in Japanese using {{linkWikipedia|Sino-Japanese vocabulary}}.
 
** Leonardo's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:風|風]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">ふう</span> ''fū'', meaning "wind". (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">かぜ</span> ''kaze''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「疾如風」</span>, or "Be swift as the wind."
 
** Leonardo's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:風|風]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">ふう</span> ''fū'', meaning "wind". (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">かぜ</span> ''kaze''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「疾如風」</span>, or "Be swift as the wind."
 
** Michelangelo's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:林|林]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">りん</span> ''rin'', meaning "Forest". (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">はやし</span> ''hayashi''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「徐如林」</span>, or "Be as silent as the forest."
 
** Michelangelo's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:林|林]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">りん</span> ''rin'', meaning "Forest". (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">はやし</span> ''hayashi''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「徐如林」</span>, or "Be as silent as the forest."
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** Donatello's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:山|山]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">さん</span> ''san'', meaning "Mountain". With a Japanese sound rule called {{linkWikipedia|rendaku}}, in some words it becomes <span lang="ja">ざん</span> ''zan''. (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">やま</span> ''yama''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「不動如山」</span>, or "Be as immovable as a mountain."
 
** Donatello's kanji <span lang="ja">[[wiktionary:山|山]]</span> is read as <span lang="ja">さん</span> ''san'', meaning "Mountain". With a Japanese sound rule called {{linkWikipedia|rendaku}}, in some words it becomes <span lang="ja">ざん</span> ''zan''. (The native Japanese reading is <span lang="ja">やま</span> ''yama''.) The full phrase is <span lang="ja">「不動如山」</span>, or "Be as immovable as a mountain."
 
* A "Vision Quest" is an attempt to achieve a vision of a future guardian spirit, traditionally undertaken at puberty by boys of the Plains Indian peoples, typically through fasting or self-torture.
 
* A "Vision Quest" is an attempt to achieve a vision of a future guardian spirit, traditionally undertaken at puberty by boys of the Plains Indian peoples, typically through fasting or self-torture.
* When Raphael enters the cave, he says there's no pirate ship, this is a reference to the movie ''{{linkWikipedia|The Goonies}}'' which [[Sean Astin]] starred in.
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* When Raphael enters the cave, he says there's no pirate ship, this is a reference to the movie ''{{linkWikipedia|The Goonies}}'' which [[Sean Astin]] starred in, which featured a pirate ship full of treasure.
* The scene where the Turtles are in the forest at night, surrounding the camp fire with the spirit of Master Splinter coming from the fire is reminiscent to a familiar scene from the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)|1990 movie]].
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* The scene where the Turtles are in the forest at night, surrounding the camp fire with the apparition of Master Splinter's spirit coming from the campfire is reminiscent to a familiar scene from the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990 film)|1990 movie]],  where they had the same encounter.
 
** Michelangelo also appears to be the one crying the hardest, similar to the first movie too.
 
** Michelangelo also appears to be the one crying the hardest, similar to the first movie too.
 
* Leonardo's hunter outfit and the Deer he struggles to hunt with a bow and arrow are both references to [[Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage]] V1 #11: {{storylink|True Stories}}.
 
* Leonardo's hunter outfit and the Deer he struggles to hunt with a bow and arrow are both references to [[Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Mirage]] V1 #11: {{storylink|True Stories}}.

Revision as of 14:20, 30 May 2018

Vision Quest
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series) episode
Questing
Season Code: 308
Episode: 60
Original airdate January 18th, 2015
Written by Todd Casey
Supervising Producer Ant Ward
Producers: MacGregor Middleton
Peter Hastings
Brandon Auman
Ciro Nieli
Vladimir Radev
Directed by Sebastian Montes
Voice Direction Andrea Romano
Supervising Director  Ciro Nieli
Episode chronology
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"Eyes of the Chimera" "Return to New York"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Season 3
October 3, 2014 - September 27,2015
List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episodes

Episodes:

  1. Within the Woods
  2. A Foot Too Big
  3. Buried Secrets
  4. The Croaking
  5. In Dreams
  6. Race with the Demon
  7. Eyes of the Chimera
  8. Vision Quest
  9. Return to New York
  10. Serpent Hunt
  11. The Pig and The Rhino
  12. Battle for New York, Part 1
  13. Battle for New York, Part 2
  14. Casey Jones VS. The Underworld
  15. The Noxious Avenger
  16. Clash of the Mutanimals
  17. Meet Mondo Gecko
  18. The Deadly Venom
  19. Turtles in Time
  20. Tale of the Yokai
  21. Attack of the Mega Shredder!
  22. The Creeping Doom
  23. The Fourfold Trap
  24. Dinosaur Seen in Sewers!
  25. Annihilation: Earth! Part 1
  26. Annihilation: Earth! Part 2

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Vision Quest is the 8th episode of the third season and the 60th episode of the 2012 Series. It aired on January 18th, 2015.

Synopsis

Leo takes the Turtles to train in the woods in an advanced ninja ritual; the Turtles must overcome their weaknesses and face their enemies to become a true ninja.

Characters

Major Characters

Minor characters

Plot

The episode begins with Leonardo in the woods, armed with a bow and arrow, hunting after a deer. The deer runs away and Leo falls out of the tree, hurting his injured leg. As he looks up, the deer has returned, shrouded by light for a moment, then angrily attacking Leo. Leo watches the deer run away, surprised at its sudden attack.

Meanwhile, at the farmhouse, Raph and the others are training by splitting logs.April attempts to do the same, with Casey holding a log in place with his hands for her to do so, but when she attempts to break the log with a kick, she unintentionally hits Casey and he is swiftly sent to the ground. Leo then arrives, he had a realization in the woods: That he and his brothers have been so immersed in the use of technology and attending to personal matters that they've neglected to connect with nature. Leo tells his three brothers that they will spend three days in the forest meditating, concentrating on practiced awareness, and eating only what they can forage, commenting that a true ninja must become one with nature to master himself. Casey believes that Leo's idea is not the best. But April disagrees with Casey, remarking that she's tired of hanging out at the farmhouse and that the idea of camping appeals to her. Unfortunately, Leo abruptly exempts her from the expedition, telling her that the expedition is for the ninjas only, which he doesn't succeed in joining their expedition, although Casey is happy because he now can spend some time alone with her, much to Donnie's dislike.

Out on their expedition, The turtles meditate in the woods, cross rivers, practice ninjutsu, and meditate some more, at night suddenly the leaves levitate up to the sky which frightens Mikey. Leo finds the deer that attacked him earlier. Raph jokes that saying he probably knows that 4 losers are lost in the forest. Strangely, he disappears behind a tree and reappears in a strange humanoid form. Donnie, Mikey and Raph instantly suspects it's a mutant and attacks it only to wind up hitting each other, Leo orders his brothers to stop, and the deer disappears. The Turtles set up a campfire for the night. But as they were feeling bored, the campfire suddenly turns blue, and grows, and manifest itself into Master Splinter.

Master Splinter explains that his spirit has detached from his body, but he's still alive. He then tell the turtles that they must overcome their disabilities. Leo asks where he is, but Splinter asks them to continue to train because they have no chance to defeat Shredder for now, especially since Leonardo's knee injury. He suggested they spend a day alone in the forest, to meditate on their fears and spiritual weaknesses. Raphael is like fire, and must learn to focus and fight. Michelangelo is distracted too much, he must learn to remain calm as the forest. He blames Donatello to be too focused on his mind, and not enough on his physical strength; he asks him to become as powerful as the mountain. Leonardo must be an exemplary leader and follow the example of wind, unstoppable. Splinter tells the boys to sleep, for the next day, they will face challenges on the spiritual plane that will be just as deadly as the ones they have faced in the real world. Then, as suddenly as he appeared, he’s gone.

The next morning, Leo says that their quest is clear, they forage new new weapons and gear and journey alone to face the fears things that hold us back. Raph has steel claws like Shredder, Donnie earns a staff with an axe, Mikey will get Kamas, and Leo will use a bow and arrow. They spread out for their Quest.

Leo will travel on a bridge and sees the Deer Spirit. He sees the foot solder and ask if it was real suddenly dozens of foot solder arrive and ambush Leo. Raph travels to a cave and suspects something is keeping the torches lit and the foot solders ambush Raph also. Donnie is up on the mountains and the foot solder are trying to bring him down with hammers, and Mikey is in the forest and senses someone near. He throws a throwing star and the figure revealing it to be a swarm of foot ninjas.

Leo is seen battling the evil ninjas and the bridge falls, fortunately the turtle managed to grab the rope and swing to a mountain. Mikey is seen battling the foot ninjas and defeats the ninjas only to be kicked across a tree then an all to familiar voice says "It's been a long time" and Rahzar appears as Mikey's foe he must fight. At the fiery cave Raph fights and defeats the foot Ninjas with his flamethrower and in the water something jumps out the water revealing it to be Fishface, Donnie fights the foot ninjas and uses the foot's idea to bring the mountain down and instead brings them down, Donnie gloats for a second until Tiger Claw appears, Donnie denies it as him being real only to get painfully punched to the ground. At the mountain Leo was on he sees the Deer Spirit Guide and ask what lesson is but right behind him was the Shredder and tells him that he's failed. The Blue masked turtle draws out his swords and begin to fight but Shredder gets the upper hand using Leo's injured leg to hurt him.

Mikey is battling Rahzar and he begins to lose, Donnie, Raph, and Leo do as well. Mikey soon realized what Master Splinter was talking about and becomes silent, a raindrop falls on the dog-wolf's nose and Michelangelo sensed he is near and dodged his hits and managed to defeat his foe. Donnie is also defeated by tiger claw until he remembers Splinter's advice and threw Tiger Claw off the mountain. Raphael also remembers his master's advice he fuses his flamethrowers and claws and defeats Fishface. Leonardo is also defeated by Shredder. Leo puts himself down saying his injury is holding him back the deer spirit (in mid-air) helps him realize the pain was in his mind. Shredder suddenly grows into a giant and Leo now with confidence used the arrow to defeat Shredder with his arrow. The turtle picks up his katana saying "If I could beat you in the spirit plane, I could beat you in the real world.”

At the farmhouse, April finally is able to break a log. Casey just gawks in amazement, not at her accomplishment, but because the Turtles are emerging from the forest, each carrying a banner and in their new gear. April wonder what happen out there. Leonardo then makes a declaration: “It’s time — we’re going back to New York.”

Trivia

  • Each of the four Turtles is endowed with a Sashimono, or feudal banner, throughout his quest. The banners correspond to the environment where the quest takes place. The Kanji (Chinese characters) on their banners are taken from 風林火山 (read as ふうりんかざん Fūrinkazan), which comes from Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" battle tactics. These battle tactics were also used by the Daimyō Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. "The Art of War" was originally written in Old Chinese, and its terms are spoken in Japanese using Sino-Japanese vocabulary.
    • Leonardo's kanji is read as ふう , meaning "wind". (The native Japanese reading is かぜ kaze.) The full phrase is 「疾如風」, or "Be swift as the wind."
    • Michelangelo's kanji is read as りん rin, meaning "Forest". (The native Japanese reading is はやし hayashi.) The full phrase is 「徐如林」, or "Be as silent as the forest."
    • Raphael's kanji is read as ka, meaning "Fire". (The native Japanese reading is hi.) The full phrase is 「侵掠如火」, or "Be as fierce as fire."
    • Donatello's kanji is read as さん san, meaning "Mountain". With a Japanese sound rule called rendaku, in some words it becomes ざん zan. (The native Japanese reading is やま yama.) The full phrase is 「不動如山」, or "Be as immovable as a mountain."
  • A "Vision Quest" is an attempt to achieve a vision of a future guardian spirit, traditionally undertaken at puberty by boys of the Plains Indian peoples, typically through fasting or self-torture.
  • When Raphael enters the cave, he says there's no pirate ship, this is a reference to the movie The Goonies which Sean Astin starred in, which featured a pirate ship full of treasure.
  • The scene where the Turtles are in the forest at night, surrounding the camp fire with the apparition of Master Splinter's spirit coming from the campfire is reminiscent to a familiar scene from the 1990 movie,  where they had the same encounter.
    • Michelangelo also appears to be the one crying the hardest, similar to the first movie too.
  • Leonardo's hunter outfit and the Deer he struggles to hunt with a bow and arrow are both references to Mirage V1 #11: True Stories.
  • As Donatello said in the episode, deer are considered messengers to the gods in the Shinto religion. In various parts of Japan's Tōhoku region, a deer dance called Shishi-odori has been traditionally performed as an annual Shinto ritual.
  • A preview of the spirit fight sequence was shown at the NYCC 2014.
    • Some scenes that were shown in the animatic were cut in the final episode.

Quotes

"Raphael - So much for finding a hidden pirate ship…"

Gallery

Videos

NYCC_2014_-_Vision_Quest

NYCC 2014 - Vision Quest