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The first and so far only live-action tv series starring the [[
The series begins with some familiarity: The four iconic anthropomorphic reptiles do battle with the Foot Clan and its leader, the Shredder. The turtles' master, Splinter still aids his sons with advice, and Leonardo and Raphael bicker amongst themselves. Suddenly, Splinter's spirit is rat-napped by an army of dragon warriors called the Rank. Led by their ill-tempered dictator, the Dragon Lord, the Rank ruled the world before they were banished to the Realm of Dreams by a mystic mirror. Splinter's friend, Chung I., a Shinobi master from China, was killed by the Rank, but not before telling his apprentice Mei Pieh Chi of her origins.
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Turns out Mei Pieh Chi is really a pet turtle from Chinatown in New York who was covered in mutagen and became an anthropomorphic, 5 foot tall, talking turtle. Mei returns to New York, meets the other four turtles, uses her Shinobi magic to [[Mind Rape]] the Shredder right off the bat, effectively leaving the Foot without a leader, and rescues Splinter's spirit. Unfortunately, she accidentally helps the Rank escape, who take up the mantle as the new major threat to the turtles. Mei joins the four brothers and is given the nickname Venus de Milo.
The show only lasted 26 episodes, and was canceled after the end of the first season, with any hope of a second season permanently scrapped. Reception was not great, as fans of the first show and to an extent, [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Mirage
The show ended up in [[Disney]]'s hands when they bought Saban Entertainment, but Saban Brands has now got the show back, along with the other Toei collaborations ([[Power Rangers]], [[VR Troopers]], [[Beetleborgs]], and [[Masked Rider]]). The franchise itself is owned by [[Nickelodeon]]. As of 2011, the show is now available on Netflix. Shout!Factory will begin releasing the series on DVD in September 2012. Prior to that, the series had previously seen a Region 2 DVD release, although in a heavily edited form (and under the "Hero Turtles" banner, as the word "Ninja" was a no-no in Europe at the time)
For more details on the ''TMNT'' franchise in general, visit the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' page. For a list of some of the characters in the series, and the tropes that apply to them, visit the franchise [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
=== ''Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation'' provides examples of: ===
* [[Action Girl]]: Venus de Milo
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Actor [[Gary Chalk]], who plays Silver, an ape in ''Next Mutation'', also plays ape/[[Transformers|Transformer]] [[Beast Wars
* [[Berserk Button]]: Venus is one for Laird.
* [[Big Bad]]: The Dragon Lord.
* [[Black Best Friend]]: Andre for Splinter.
* [[Blind and
* [[Blunt Metaphors Trauma]]: Venus. Well, she is new to American culture.
* [[Canon Dis Continuity]]: Laird despised this show to the extent that as far as he's concerned, it doesn't exist.
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* [[Clip Show]]: TWO episodes in just one season. One focus on Raph and Leo while the other was about Venus.
* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: ''Ninja'' and ''shinobi'' are pretty much the same thing. As a female ninja, they could have gotten away with labeling Venus as ''kunoichi''. But they didn't.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: It really wouldn't be TMNT without one, but the ''Next Mutation'' theme gets major points just for starting with the line "[[Exactly What It Says
** Followed by - "Check it out, another one found, made her way to Chinatown..."
* [[Eye Scream]]: Though it's played up. Dr Quease TORE ONE OF HIS EYES OUT FOR A SCOUTING ROBOT. He later has to destroy it to get Venus' DNA. This just seems to merely annoy him since he just clones a new one.
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