Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series): Difference between revisions

* [[Brainy Brunette]]: April O' Neil, Irma, and Mona Lisa.

** Though April O' Neil is more of a redhead.

** Also the Polarasoid Kids and the Starchild, initially.

* [[Breakout Character]]: Mikey became a ''hit'' with kids.

** He was mostly a quiet man after all.

* [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]]: The turtles' outfit of choice whenever outside the sewers.

* [[Cool Airship]]: The Turtle Blimp.

* [[Cool Big Sis]]: April was somewhat like this to the turtles considering she is older than them.

** Also Shredder's mom, for being able to put him in his place on numerous occasions.

* [[Cool Plane]]: The Turtle Blimp.

* [[Cut the Juice]]: Second variety; April stops one menace of the week this way.

** Another time, she stops a generator from overloading by pulling the power plug. She stops a GENERATOR by UNPLUGGING it.

* [[Da Editor]]: Burne Thompson, April's boss.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: The Red Sky Episodes.

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Leonardo and Lotus Blossom, and Raphael and Mona Lisa.

** In his 1st few appearances, Krang was undisputed [[Nightmare Fuel]]. His later character design was a lot more cartoony, but still a bit creepy.

* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: The episode "Shredder's Mom" proves that even Shredder himself is not immune to this trope.

* [[Everyone Loves Blondes]]: Michaelangelo for Kala.

** Also Zack for Caitlin.

* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]]: The Neutrinos.

* [[Incredible Shrinking Man]]: Twice: once in "The Incredible Shrinking Turtles" and again in "Funny, They Shrunk Michelangelo".

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: On several occasions.

* [[Ironic Echo Cut]]: In "Donatello's Degree", when the other turtles can't locate Don, we get one of these combined with a [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|Fourth Wall break]]:

* [[Ninja]]: [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|This one's]] [[Captain Obvious|a given]].

* [[No Fourth Wall]]: The Turtles and Shredder quite often stop to address the audience.

* [[Non-Mammal Mammaries]]: [[Justified Trope|Justified]] with Mona Lisa because she ''was'' human before her mutation.

* [[Number Two for Brains]]: Bebop and Rocksteady. Note they fall under ''both'' [[The Dragon]] and [[Dumb Muscle]].

** Splinter's kimono looks like pink, or is it some light purple?

* [[Recursive Adaptation]]: The Archie-published ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures (Comic Book)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'', at least in theory.

** Also Lord Dregg, who naturally has red glowing eyes.

* [[Remember the New Guy]]: Antrax and Scumbug in "Night of the Rogues".

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Burne, Vernon, and Irma were [[Put On a Bus]] sometime in the Red Sky seasons, but not before Burne blamed the destruction of the Channel 6 headquarters on the Turtles, and used Channel 6's airwaves for a virulent [[Hero With Bad Publicity|anti-Turtle media blitz]].

* [[Shoo Out the New Guy]]: Howie (a songwriter and a potential boyfriend for Irma) appeared in two straight episodes and was never heard from again.

** Also the monsters in the episode "The Case Of The Killer Pizzas" look a lot like another famous [[Alien|movie monster.]]

** The episode "Night Of The Dark Turtle" is an obvious parody of ''[[Batman]]''.

* [[Villainous Crush]]: Strangely enough, Shredder sometimes seems blatantly attracted to [[Hot Scoop|April]] in some episodes. [[Depending On the Writer|It really depends on the writer, though.]]

* [[Big "What?"|Wait, What? Whoa]]: In "Burne's Blues", Burne and Vernon spend the entire episode unsuccessfully looking for a news story about the Turtles. Just as soon as the reporters find the Turtles frozen on a factory loading dock, the two get randomly abducted by aliens that look like Elvis.

* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]: Baxter Stockman has an accent. Just..an accent.

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: In a later season we learn that {{spoiler|Leonardo}} [[Compressed Vice|is terrified of snakes]].