Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures

Major story arcs

Spin-offs

Audioplay adaptations

Main characters

• Leonardo: The leader of the group. He is the most talented fighter and is closest to Master Splinter.
• Donatello: The inventor of the group, Donatello builds most of the Turtles' gadgets and vehicles. In the future, he wears a purple jacket and is seen without his mask.
• Raphael: The wisecracking jokester of the group. However, as the series progressed, he became more angry and sullen like other incarnations. In the future, Raphael wears a hat and an eye patch.
• Michelangelo: The most relaxed member of the group, he is mostly into eating pizza and goofing around with Donatello.
• Hamato Yoshi/Splinter: Sensei and surrogate father of the Turtles. Former leader of the Foot Clan in Japan. Betrayed by Shredder and mutated into a humanoid rat.
• April O'Neil: Initially reporter for Channel 6 as in TV show, but later becomes free-lance journalist. Trained by Splinter in ninjitsu and the katana.
• Oroku Saki/the Shredder: Current leader of the Foot Clan and arch-enemy of the Turtles, as well as one of the main villains of the series.

  Supporting characters

• Wrestler Turtles, The wrestling costumes worn by the Turtles on the Stump Asteroid were designed by Eastman and Laird in 1983 and were actually intended as real suits for the TMNT to wear in their self-published comic book series. The idea was quickly shelved, however, and the Turtles were outfitted in their familiar costumes: bandanna, elbow and knee pads, belt, etc. Creators Brown and Murphy incorporated the discarded costumes into the Adventures title, feeling they were an important part of TMNT history, and that they should not be hidden away and forgotten in some drawer. Most notably, Raphael wore his wrestling outfit, a black full body leotard, for some time after returning from the asteroid.
• Cudley the Cowlick, An alien in the shape of a cow's head who transported the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the Stump Asteroid, where they would fight against several aliens in their wildly popular "wrestling" outfits. Mirage Studio's staff artist Steve Lavigne created Cudley. As of Tales of the TMNT #52, Cudley was brought into Mirage continuity.
• Man-Ray, An anthropomorphic manta ray that the characters met in an adventure and was later spilled over into the Mighty Mutanimals comic book series.
• Jagwar, As his name implies, he is a jaguar-like mutant that the Turtles met when in South America. Another spillover character into Mighty Mutanimals. Jagwar was created by Mirage Studio's writer Stephen Murphy and artist Michael Dooney.
• Dreadmon, A hyena-like mutant with superhuman speed and stealth-like capabilities who guarded an Aztec temple in South America and once again spilled over into Mighty Mutanimals.
• Vid Vicious, a man with a television grafted into his body which was used to hypnotize people.
• Wingnut and Screwloose, An alien bat and an alien mosquito from the planet Huanu, they first met the TMNT in issue #8, where they were seen vandalizing windows before the Turtles stopped them. They appeared again in issue #13, where they briefly assisted the Turtles in battle against Maligna's Malignoids. Later on in the series, they joined the Mighty Mutanimals.
• Mondo Gecko: A teenage gecko who shares Michelangelo's affinity for skateboarding, leading them to be close friends. He later joined the Mighty Mutanimals.
• Scul and Bean, Two aliens, one with a meteorite launcher in his skull, and both with tremendous mandibles. They were generals in the army of Maligna.
• Maligna and the Malignoids, The matriarch of a vicious society of insect-like aliens who attempted to overtake Earth and one of the main antagonists of the series.
• Chien Khan, A dog-like man who controlled a large empire of ninja, whose second-in-command was a young fox-like woman named Ninjara.
• Ninjara, Chien Khan's second in command, until after the TMNT defeated Chien Khan once and for all and convinced Ninjara to join them in their battles against evil. She became one of the group for the greater part of the series afterwards and Raphael's girlfriend.
• Oyuki Mamisha, A teenage girl from Japan who was up to no good, until April O' Neil and the Turtles showed her that life could be better. She became April's sidekick for the spin off-comic April O' Neil, in which Chien Khan returns to his former glory in a battle with a demon who also took control of a large group of ninja.
• The Nova Posse, A team of space adventurers that hail from Dimension X. Their commander is Luna Azul, and the other five members are Exeen, Grotto, Rave, Trip, and Zebulon. They take care of Qark after Sarnath's fate is left unknown in issue #50.
• Tattoo, A Japanese sumo wrestler who obtained his name for having multitudes of tattoos. He asked Splinter for a favor and requested that the TMNT rescue his Chihuahua "Inky" from a group of Yakuza who wanted him to throw his next fight for gambling purposes.
• Al Falqa, A talking eagle co-created by Mirage Studio's artist Jim Lawson that the Turtles encounter in Saudi Arabia.
• Katmandu, A four-armed tiger-like creature clad in ancient East Indian Armour. The Turtles encountered him in the People's Republic of China. Katmandu was created by Ryan Brown, a Mirage artist.
• Null, A businessman wearing a purple leisure suit who was ultimately responsible for the death of the Mighty Mutanimals when he contracted a group of cyborgs to kill them and one of the main villains of the series. The death was highly controversial and somewhat gory, as a spread of machine-gun bullets tore the group down. He was also responsible for a three-part story arc in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles storyline including the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: Death, Famine, War, and Pestilence. Null himself seemed to be somehow the leader of the group, giving orders to Death, who in turn controlled the other Horsemen like puppets. Null seemed to be somehow linked to Hell. Originally the character had two small horns projecting from his forehead, and with every new deed of evil he committed he grew more demonic-looking. Eventually he grew larger horns, a demon-like tail, and wings like a bat.
• Death, Famine, War, Pestilence, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
• Armaggon, An evil, time-traveling, talking shark who set the scale for the "Future Turtles" timeline in which the TMNT travel to the future and meet their future selves, wherein Splinter has died, and Ninjara has left Raphael, who is missing an eye.
• Verminator X, Also known as "Manx" and is half-cat, half-machine, as well as being Donatello's apprentice. He is only apparent in the future timelines, and eventually has a catharsis in a controversial book in which Raphael is willing to kill him for the greater good, resulting in destroying the machine that had taken over and poisoned Verminator X's mind. At the end of this arc, Verminator X survives and becomes good once again.
• Scumbug, An exterminator called in to spray the Shredder's lair and is turned into a giant cockroach.
• Wyrm, A mutated monster planarian worm that fought Scumbug.
• May East, created by Stanley Wiater and Ryan Brown, is an ancient evil sorceress from whom April O'Neil is descended.
• Chameleon is a mercenary spy working for the highest bidder. He first appears in issue #9 as a well-dressed agent with a characteristic lazy eye, having stolen top secret weapons plans from the United Nations. Shredder covets these plans for himself, and sends Bebop and Rocksteady to capture Chameleon and retrieve the plans. Hiding from the authorities in the sewers, Chameleon finds himself in the middle of a battle between the two and the Turtles, and is captured after hiding the weapons plans in the sewer wall. He is then mutated into a human-sized chameleon by Shredder after divulging the whereabouts of the plans. Using his newfound powers of camouflage and light radiance, Chameleon outsmarts Shredder, Bebop, and Rocksteady, and retrieves the plans. He then covertly returns them to the U.N., deciding that some things are just not worth profiting over. Chameleon encounters the Turtles later on in issue #51, hoping in vain to reverse his mutation.

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