TMNT allies from Mirage comics

The Ninja Turtles been around for several decades with comics, shows, movies,and games. While they are a 4-man team, they did had help over the years.

Here is a list of TMNT allies over the years. I be mentioning the ones introduce in the old black and comics 1st.

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This is Splinter, he is the Turtles' ninja sensei. He is also a caring father of the four. He is the old wise type teacher of character that often gives helpful advise to the turtles. In some versions, he is a human known as Hamato Yoshi who got mutated into a rat. In other versions, he is Hamato Yoshi's pet rat that flee into the sewers after witnessing Shredder killing Yoshi. Splinter later get mutated to a human-size rat. His favorite hobby is watching Soap Operas.

Fun Fact: In the 1st issue of the Mirage comics, Splinter train the Turtles to be his personal hitman to assassinate the Shredder, not to help them prepare in the dangerous world. The later Mirage comics try to make Splinter closer to his other counterparts as a caring father.

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April O'Neil is the Turtles 1st human ally. She helps the turtles out as they go out the surface world. She had several different jobs in the different versions. She was a reporter, owner of an antique shop, scientist, archaeologist, or a teenager in school.

The 1st cartoon, she was more of a comical damsel in distress. Later versions have her trained by Splinter. She had ninja skills and sometimes armed with a sword.In the 1st cartoon, she infamously known for wearing that yellow jumpsuit that doesn't look like a reporter outfit.



In her 1st appearance in the 03 series, she's infamously known for not exactly looking like a regular scientist. All her later appearances in the 03 series have her in regular outfits. She infamously known to have Megan Fox cast as her in the newer live-action movies, and to Mirage comic fans, she's infamous for having a dumb origin story.

Late in the Mirage comics run, April time travel back to the time of her birth in the form of a cockroach. She witness her father found a magic crystal and use on pencil and paper which led to April being born. That's right, April is a drawing that came to life. Pretty dumb origin and during her time as a cockroach, her roach instincts gave in and did stuff that cockroaches do. I leave that to your imagination.

Fun fact: April in the original comics wasn't a fair skin redhead. She had a darker skin tone with dark curly hair(tho she did got a perm early on, it was the 80s). She could be White, Black, Hispanic, or Mixed. Nobody wasn't quite sure of her race. The cartoon and later versions pretty much have her as a fair skin redhead. People complain that the tan-skinned, dark hair Megan Fox didn't look like April but ironically, she was the closest to the original April

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Casey Jones is the other main human ally. He is a crime fighting vigilante that wears a hockey mask and equipped with sports gear as weapons. He's usual best buds with Raph since they're both hotheads and other similar things. He is usually April's main love interest. In the original cartoon, he was more of a recurring guest character than part of the main gang. He was more of an extreme comical crimefighter than a realistic man that's kinda clumsy that shown in other versions.

He was originally a parody of vigilantes at the time because they all have tragic backstories. Casey's origin in the old comics was he was inspired to fight crime after watching too many terrible cop shows.

In the middle of the comics, Casey quickly outgrew from being a parody. Casey accidentally killed a punk kid. This made him quit being the vigilante and became a huge drunk. He broke up April and drove across country. He later met a pregnant women called Gabriel and fell in love and got married. She died from childbirth a few months after. Casey took his new daughter and named her Shadow. He went to his mother's apartment in NYC and be the place's handyman. The mother then sold the apartment to new buyer, who happens to be April and the two got back together.

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The Fugitoid is the Turtles helpful cyborg friend from the planet D'Hoonib. He was once a (Non-Earthling)Human called Professor Honeycutt. An accident happen where his brain was transfer to a robot. The name Fugitoid is a mix of fugitive and android. He's on the run from both the Federation and Tricertion Republic due his invention, a teleportion devise. They want it to be used to teleport nukes inside the center of the planet. Being a peaceful pacifist, Honeycutt told them no.

He's in the new Nickelodeon cartoon and voiced by David Tennant/10th Doctor. Alloys-y!

Utroms are a race of aliens. A group of them crashed on the planet Earth long ago and were stranded. They disguise themselves as humans and own the TCRI building. They are the makers of the mutagen in half the versions of TMNT. The Turtles raided their base to learn the secrets of their origin and to find the missing Splinter at the time. After learning they weren't bad guys, the Utroms forgive the Turtles for raiding their building and finally went back to their home planet. They came back late in the comics run and made 1st contact with Earth.

In the 2003 series, an Utrom criminal named Ch'rell was responsible for crashing the Utrom ship. He later took the identity of the Shredder.

Krang was loosely based on these guys. Krang was a evil warlord that lost his body rather than part of an alien species that look like brains.

Secert of the Ooze was going to have a plot twist that Professor Perry was an Utrom. Since Krang is a major villain from a popular cartoon rather than a group of aliens from an indie comic, the audience can easily get it mixed up and the plot twist was scrapped.

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Some of you whose only familiar with the original cartoon be surprised Leatherhead is on the list of allies. That's because that version of Leatherhead is different from most of the other ones. In certain versions, Leatherhead is the only other mutant besides the Turtles. 

He was a flushed down pet that ended up in the Utroms area and accidentally got mutated. He became friends with them but he miss his ride to the Utrom planet and was left behind. The departure was rushed due to police, and Tricertions attacking (or Utrom Shredder in 03 series).

His personality is that he is basically an overgrown muscular Don. He can build alot gadgets. He has this Jekyll/Hyde or Bruce Banner/Hulk thing. He can easily go into a berserk state.

In the Archie comics, he was a human called Jess Harley till he got cursed to his alligator state.

Renet is a Timestress apprentice. She has a ditz personality. She takes the Turtles through time and space with a magical scepter. Her arch-nemesis is Savanti Romero. Due to being a time traveler, she meets the Turtles out of chronological order. Meaning the turtles can meet a fully matured adult Renet one time and then back to a ditzy teen the next time they see her. Mikey has a huge crush on her in 2012 series.

Fun Fact: There was one adventure where she and the Turtles go to ancient Japan to combat Savanti Romero and a giant lizard creature. Yes, the 3rd live-action movie was very loosely based on this comic.

Radical is a Native-American woman with superpowers. Her nemesis is Complete Carnage who can phase through objects. She never made any appearances outside of the original comic. In the distance future, she and Leo were a couple.

I am the vengeance, I am the night, I am Nobody

Nobody is a crimefighter that was once a detective. He was fired from his job when he tried to investigate a man who secretly was an arms dealer. The arms dealer issued a complaint about this cop was harassing him. Nobody is basically TMNT's version of Batman.

In one universe, he got killed anticlimactically and then brought back to life decades later. In another, he became a member of the Justice Force.

The Justice Force is basically TMNT's version of Justice League. There two generations of them. Most of the 1st generation is in a retirement home. Half of them had encounters with the Turtles before the Justice Force was established in the show, like Silver Sentry(Superman basically) and Nano is who is now mature and not a trouble maker. Mikey crimefighting identity, Turtle Titan is an honorarily member.

In the original comics, after the death of the Shredder. The Foot was in a civil war and all of NYC was in a crossfire. Karai who is head of the Japanese branch of the Foot came to America and made a truce with the Turtles to help her restore order to the Foot and she promise the Foot's vendetta against the Turtles be gone. The Karai in the old comics was very different to her later versions. She was Shredder's equal and old enough to have a daughter.

In the later versions, she is the Shredder's adopted daughter as well as his 2nd-in-command. She is a character in conflict, struggling between her honor and her loyalty to her father. At times, she's the Turtles ally or their enemy.

TMNT had crossovers with several other properties like Batman, Ghostbusters, a dozen indie comics back in the 80s. However, they are either forgettable one-shots or non-canon.

The best well know crossover that happens in multiple versions of TMNT is Usagi Yojimbo. Usagi's comics is basically Feudal Japan with animals. The reasons he appeared in alot crossovers is because creators of TMNT and Usagi Yojimbo are friends.

Image comics had the rights to TMNT comics in the late 90s and it was a continuation of Vol.1 and 2. Savage Dragon is a cop in Chicago who hunts down bad guys. He and the Turtles join forces several times.

Horridus is a character from Savage Dragon series. She was Mikey girlfriend during TMNT's Image run.