History WesternAnimation / TurtlesForever

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
-->'''2003 Leonardo:''' You don't understand, the Utrom Shredder isn't like your Shredder. He's vicious.
-->'''2003 Donatello:''' Lethal.
-->'''2003 Michelangelo:''' ''Competent!''

** '''Any''' Ninja Turtles fan who even just ''remotely'' heard of this movie would have already known of its highlights, apart from, y'know, the '87 Turtles: TheMultiverse and the Mirage Turtles. Heck, a clip of TheMultiverse slideshow is the picture of the ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'' main page.

* BewareTheSillyOnes; The "87 Turtles may be silly, but they have proven to be skilled fighters, even the advanced version of Foot Soldiers have proven they cannot go down easily, more resourceful and creative by weaponizing their environments, their vehicles called junks were able to fight an entire army of mutants and advanced robots

* TookALevelInDumbass: The '87 Turtles are considerably dumber in the special than they were in their cartoon. Instead of maintaining their original traits and being just as competent as the '03 Turtles, they're very childish and have one-track minds. They can barely handle any fighting as well, especially against the Foot Soldiers, enemies they regularly fought.

*** Even 2003 Shredder gets in on the act. He tells the Turtles to "Come and face your doom!" A line from the first issue.

* The Mirage Turtles calls the other Turtles (this includes both the 87 Turtles and the 03 Turtles) "sellouts", possibly referencing sentiments of Mirage comics fans in the late 1980's after the debut of the more child-friendly Saturday morning cartoon and the subsequent marketing of the Turtles in nearly every way possible.

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Serling of ''Fast Forward'' and ''Back To The Sewers'' doesn't appear in the film. Presumably, he was sent back to his own timeline in the aftermath of the seventh and final season but isn't given so much as any sort of HandWave as to where he's gone.

** The 1987 villains Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady would eventually had enough of the 2003 Foot Clan's extreme measures and abuse.

* FamilyUnfriendlyDeath: Almost happens to the Mirage Turtles: the Utrom Shredder, now a giant, starts crushing them in his hand, and judging by the way things were fading to the white void, he really ''was'' killing them.

* TakeThat: The movie seems to take a number of shots at the 1987 cartoon for its less serious tone compared to the 2003 version.

* BlatantLies: Double subverted with 2003 Raph. In the director's cut after being scolded by 2003 Splinter for his treatment of the 1987 Turtles, he humbly apologizes for calling them clowns. Then in the 1987 verse when the Turtle Van and Turtle Blimp is unveiled, his response: "What, your clown car's in the shop?"

* AdaptationalWimp: The '87 turtles. The movie ramps up their silly aspects to the maximum and makes it seem like they barely know how to fight, only getting by because their universe and subsequent Shredder are just as silly and incompetent as they are. [[note]]It should be noted the turtles and Shredder in the '80s series were skilled fighters and likewise intelligent, just that the ''tone'' of their show was LighterAndSofter compared to the more serious comics during it's airing.[[/note]] The film tries to go for a FishOutOfWater aspect when they come into the more serious '03 and later Mirage universes due to this, but if it succeeds in that, it is ultimately up to how one feels about the '87 series.

* TookALevelInJerkass: The 2003 Turtles were quite more rude than in their own show particularly towards almost ''anything'' that's was considered silly from the '87 universe.

** 2003 Raphael calling the Mirage Turtles "hardcases", although they ''are'' harder than ''he'' is.
--->'''2003 Raphael:''' How lame can a turtle get? Am I right? ''(Holds up hand for a high-five. Mirage Raphael slaps 2003 Raphael's hand away before putting him in an armlock and kicking him away)'' Hey! Ow! Geez, what a hardcase... ''(sees 1987 Turtles smiling at him)'' What?

* LetsYouAndHimFight: The first thing that the Mirage TMNT do when they appear is fight the other two sets of turtles. If 2003 Leo hadn't mentioned the Shredder, they'd all most likely be dead.
* LethalJokeCharacters: Downplayed, since their silliness can be irritating, they can be more useful since their creativity and resourcefulness can be proven awesome since they can take out an whole army of mutants and robots.

** Happens with the 1987 Turtles who are shown to be inferior fighters compared to the 2003 Turtles. Happens again with the Mirage Turtles overshadowing both. Slighty Subverted as the 1987 Turtles are proven to use their silly antics as a combat style in their unpredictable antics.

** Also 2003 Mikey being the '87 Turtles frequent target of a "noogie".

** Happens with the 1987 Turtles who are shown to be inferior fighters compared to the 2003 Turtles. Happens again with the Mirage Turtles overshadowing both.

** In the extended cut, [[spoiler:Karai implores 2003 Shredder to not kill the Turtles as that will destroy the entire multiverse. Shredder ultimately decides to do so anyway and ends his reasoning with "Then so be it!", a line he said in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIISecretOfTheOoze'' after Leonardo desperately tries to convince him to stop destroying the dock as it will kill all of them]].

** In the extended cut, [[spoiler:Karai implores 2003 Shredder to not kill the Turtles as that will destroy the entire multiverse. Shredder ultimately decides to do so anyway and ends his reasoning with "Then so be it!", a line he said in ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIISecretOfTheOoze'' after Donatello desperately tries to convince him to stop destroying the dock as it will kill all of them]].

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* BroadStrokes: The 1987 universe has the Turtles known to the public, 1987-Michelangelo having his nunchaku again rather than a grappling hook, and a Technodrome attack in New York having happened before the plot started, seemingly indicating it's somewhere in the earlier seasons.

* CurbStompBattle: When both sets of turtles fight [[spoiler:their Mirage counterparts, who would've likely killed them had 2003 Leo not mentioned Shredder's name.]]

** Also, the Turtle Van's travel between the two universes, destroying Foot Soldiers in the process.

* ExpyCoexistence: The Ch'rell incarnation of the Shredder for the 2003 series is a CompositeCharacter of both the Shredder and Krang but more often than not brings to mind Krang, on account of him being an evil, tentacled alien in larger PoweredArmor. In this movie, both Ch'rell and Krang finally meet each other and interact in both friendly and unfriendly ways.

* AdaptationalWimp: The '87 turtles. The movie ramps up their silly aspects up to eleven and makes it seem like they barely know how to fight, only getting by because their universe and subsequent Shredder are just as silly and incompetent as they are. [[note]]It should be noted the turtles and Shredder in the '80s series were skilled fighters and likewise intelligent, just the ''tone'' of their show was LighterAndSofter compared to the more serious comics during it's airing.[[/note]] The film tries to go for a FishOutOfWater aspect when they come into the more serious '03 and later Mirage universes due to this, but if it succeeds in that, it is ultimately up to how one feels about the '87 series.

* AdaptationDecay: In-Universe: The Mirage Turtles mock the other sets of Turtles appearance-wise and character-wise. Counts as LaserGuidedKarma for '03 Raph after all his ribbing of the '80s turtles.

* AdaptationalWimp: The '87 turtles. The movie ramps up their silly aspects up to eleven and makes it seem like they barely know how to fight, only getting by because their universe and subsequent Shredder are just as silly and incompetent as they are. [[note]]It should be noted the turtles and Shredder in the '80s series were skilled fighters and likewise intelligent, just the ''tone'' of their show was LighterAndSofter compared to the more serious comics during it's airing.[[/note]] The film tries to go for a FishOutOfWater aspect when they come into the more serious '03 and later Mirage universes due to this, but if it succeeds in that is ultimately up to how one feels about the '87 series.

* AdaptationalWimp: The '87 turtles. The movie ramps up their silly aspects up to eleven and makes it seem like they barely know how to fight, only getting by because their universe and subsequent Shredder are just as silly and incompetent as they are. [[note]]It should be noted the turtles and Shredder in the '80s series were skilled fighters and likewise intelligent just the ''tone'' of their show was lighter and softer compared to the more serious comics during it's airing.[[/note]] The film tries to go for a fish out of water aspect when they come into the more serious '03 and later Mirage universes due to this, but if it succeeds in that is ultimately up to how one feels about the '87 series.

* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: A variation, which could more accurately be described as "Villain couldn't have level-grinded even if he wanted to". By the time Ch'rell faces the Turtles in his first rematch, he had been frozen on an ice asteroid for a very long time, since the end of the third season, whereas the Turtles had only gotten stronger in countless more battles fighting against the Demon Shredder, level-grinding their way through the future and cyber-space, and various other adventures that improved their skills. The inevitable result of this was that the Utrom Shredder was defeated very swiftly, despite some of the hype the 2003 Turtles gave him as a warning to their '87 counterparts.