The Leader of the Inuwashi Gunjin has returned, and he needs the Turtles' help to save his brothers. But when they reach his ship they run into a crazy collector who wants to complete his collection of living warriors by adding the Inuwashi Gunjin and the Turtles.
This episode provides examples of:
- Accidental Hero: Aramzedo's robot traps the Turtles and the leader of the Inuwashi Gunjin, but was about to leave the Turtles helplessly trapped in the ship, while taking the Gunjin with itself, if it weren't for Mike, who indignantly informed Aramzedo that him and his brothers were the only four of their kind in existence. This allows the Turtles to find where the Inuwashi Gunjin are being kept as prisoners.
- Action Figure Justification: Mikey's response when Raph teases him about his "dolls."
- Batman Gambit: The Turtles defeat Aramzedo by turning his obsessive collecting on himself.
- Berserk Button: Mike once again, gets mad and fights Raph for real, instead of taunting him, when he threatens his action figures.
- The Collector: Aramzedo collects rare warriors.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: The Turtles trick Aramzedo into ordering his Pack-bots to collect himself.
- I Can't Do This by Myself: The Inuwashi Gunjin hate asking for help, but are well aware that as the last of their kind they don't have the luxury of pride.
- Incoming Ham:Aramzedo: Behold the majesty of Aramzedo!
- Last of Their Kind: The Inuwashi Gunjin, which makes them rare enough for Aramzedo to want to add them to his collection.
- Living Doll Collector: Aramzedo is a mild example. He doesn't exactly turn his "collectibles" into toys, but he does seal them in plastic on a life-support pallet in direct imitation of "mint on card" action figures.
- Living Museum Exhibit: Aramzedo's "collectibles" are living creatures kept in stasis and put on display, notably in his "Hall of Humanoids."
- The Man Behind the Curtain: Aramzedo turns out to be the size of an action figure.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Aramzedo assumes that the Turtles come from a whole race like them, until Mikey indignantly says that they're not only the only four Ninja Turtles in existence, but priceless. Doubles as Accidental Hero because if Mikey hadn't done this, Aramzedo's robot would've probably left the Turtles helplessly trapped in the ship, while taking the Inuwashi Gunjin with itself.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: A single Pack-bot is able to capture the final Inuwashi Gungin and all four Turtles with little trouble.
- Proud Warrior Race: The Inuwashi Gunjin, of course.
- Pseudo-Crisis: The Turtles' ship is forcibly boarded by something with a large, menacing shadow that looks like the massive creature that captured the Inuwashi Gunjin and totaled their ship. The Gunjin tells the Turtles to prepare for the fight of their lives... then after the commercial break, it turns out to be a cute one-foot-tall Pack-bot. Subverted in that the Pack-bot turns out to be a formidable opponent that takes down all five of them.
- Robo Speak: The Pack-bots.
- Shout-Out:
- In the Cold Open, Mikey's using his action figures to tell the story of The Secret Battles, with characters like Arachnolad and the Outsider (standing in for the Beyonder.)
- The Dokepals are an obvious nod to Pikachu and Pokémon, right down to Aramzedo's claim that he had to 'collect them all', and their 'Doke-proof' balls that keep them contained within. What's more, Aramzedo's Pack-bots bear a striking resemblance to the Pokémon Paras
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- Tempting Fate:Mikey: This'll be cake. How hard can it be to take on one guy? (Enter Aramzedo's giant mech)
- Zerg Rush: The Pack-bots did warn Aramzedo that it would take all of them to collect that final "priceless" collectible....
