The Shredder and the Rat King team up to fight the Turtles while Krang is set on bring the Technodrome back from Dimension X.
Tropes
- Heroic Fatigue: Burne's smear campaign and the Rat King's victory against them make the Turtles reluctant to go out to do more heroism out of fear that they'll just make everything worse.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Donatello thinks that Burne and Vernon have a point about their claims of the Superhero Paradox applying to them and The Shredder.
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: April records and broadcasts the Turtle's heroics on Channel 6, only to get a demotion for it when Burne — who's on an Anti-Turtle Campaign after the last episode — finds out about it.
- Put on a Bus: This episode marks Rat King's final appearance in the 1897 series.
- Villain Team-Up: The Shredder equips the Rat King with weapons to take out the Turtles for him.
