History Fanfic / HeroesInTheShadows

* MythologyGag: The antique store the Hamatos run -- Second Time Around -- is based on the antique store April O'Neil ran in [[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comics]] and the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles live]]-[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze action]] [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII trilogy]].

* AdaptationalAngstDowngrade: Hamato Miwa was raised by both of her birth parents (as well as four brothers) and lived what was an otherwise normal life in New York (ninja training not-withstanding), inluke her canon counterpart who was raised by The Shredder.

* WouldHurtAChild: Dr. Falco drugs and experiments Donatello while he works at the lab, using him as a test subject for his experimental psychic mutagen serum. When Donatello finds out and fights back, Falco tries to physically restrain him with the intent of continuing the experiment, only to get flipped onto his back.

* LikeFatherLikeSon: Much like his biological father, Raphael was raised by his birth-clan's enemy and his defining personality traits are his BloodKnight love for battle and his temper. [[LikeFatherUnlikeSon Unlike the Shredder however]], Raphael was raised knowing full-well of his origins and being raised in a fairly functional family life with friends and many siblings, making him much less unstable than Saki.

''Heroes in the Shadows'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' fanfic by Musical Ninja, a fanfic where Tang Shen survived that faithful night and the Turtles are instead their human sons.

* OrcRaisedByElves: Recognizing the kind of horrors being raised by someone like the Shredder could bring about, Yoshi takes his son Sousuke and flees with him to America along with Tang Shen, Miwa and Leonardo. He was raised as a member of the Hamato Clan, having been given the name "Raphael".

** While Raphael isn't their biological brother, he is still fiercely protective of his younger brothers, even volunteering to

* MythologyGag: The antique store the Hamatos run -- Second Time Around -- is based on the antique store April O'Neil ran in [[Comicbook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage the original Mirage comics]] and April lived over in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles live]]-[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze action]] [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII trilogy]].

The fanfic can be read on Website/FanfictionDotNet [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11683193/1/Heroes-in-the-Shadows here]].

* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: In canon, Donatello and Dr. Rockwell have a very vitriolic relationship, their first meeting involving Rockwell beating Donatello beating within an inch of his life and later the two butting heads as their team's resident [[TheSmartGuy Smart Guys]]. Here Dr. Rockwell is Donatello's employer, Donnie having earned his way into his lab, and become protective of him whenever they are in danger.

* HumanityEnsues: This version of the turtles are all instead Yoshi and Tang Shen's human children.

** While the Shredder's motivation in the parent series was based on a wounded ego and envy over Yoshi's marriage to Tang Shen, all of this culminating in him blaming Yoshi for Tang Shen's death, here he has the more reasonable reason in that he believes that Yoshi killed his son when he burned down the Hamato Estate, unaware that he had raised him as a member of his own family.

** While the Shredder's motivation in the parent series was based on a wounded ego and envy over Yoshi's marriage to Tang Shen, all of this culminating in him blaming Yoshi for Tang Shen's death, here he has the more reasonable reason in that he believes that Yoshi killed his son when he burned down the Hamato Estate, unaware that

Miwa, Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, & Michelangelo lived a regular life until the day they save April O'Neil from the Kraang. Now they spend part of their time protecting New York City from aliens and evil Ninjas led by an old enemy, The Shredder. Not easy being a Teenage Ninja.

!!''Shards of a Memory'' provides examples of:

''Shards of a Memory'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' fanfic by Musical Ninja, a fanfic where Tang Shen survived that faithful night and the Turtles are instead their human sons.