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TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesare a squad of four ultra mutant teens who wish to goof off , have sport , and nonchalantly save the mankind from entire obliteration . At least , that ’s how they ’ve come to be known . However , in the original Mirage StudiosTMNTcomic serial , the Turtles were much , much darker . There were no bright colors , no ‘ pizza pie time ’ , and certainly no ‘ Cowabungas ’ to be had in the original series . Instead , fans got an nervy black and livid indie comedian featuring four hard-core sport exist in the sewer of New York , who were trained for one purpose : to wipe out .
Created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird in 1984,Mirage Studios’TMNTwas decidedly much more maturethan what the serial publication has become . Today , TMNTis a popular youngster ' attribute , with the Turtles acting more like teenagers than civilise assassinator - a trend that was establish with the release of the classic ‘ 90s sketch . However , despite how the serial evolved over the years , the original comics are always there for fans who need a more hardcore take on the Turtles . During that timein theTMNT ’s history , these are 10 of the most unbelievably dour moment from the original cartoon strip .
2024 marks 40 age since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles was created , and the series in celebrating with a genuinely incredible fortieth anniversary comic !
10The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Brutally Kill Shredder in their 1st Issue
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ' dark and gritty repute was unwaveringly established in the original serial ' very first issue . In it , fans get the intact origin story of the Turtles , as well asthe reason Master Splinter trained the TMNT as ninjas to begin with : to down Shredder . in the first place , the Turtles ' entire lives were shaped to pull off one assassination in fiat to take root a stock - feud that begin well before their fourth dimension - and the Turtles were successful .
The egress demonstrate in gruesome detail howthe Ninja Turtles nonplus , shredded , and poke Shredder until he was on the cusp of demise , before finishing their target off by hurl him from the top of a building . This was in spades a knobbed elbow room to introduce the TMNT , put the Turtles in a homicidal lighting mighty from the starting line .
9TMNT’s 1st Mouser Gruesomely Shows Why It was Created
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#2 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
TMNT ’s Mousers have always been remarkably grim , as the function of these trivial automaton is to trace mice and strikebreaker in New York City , and when it finds them , it exterminate them . Simple enough , and not unlike any other variety of pest control solvent . However , where the Mouser suffer on its own is that it ' eats ' the mouse and rats , travail their little bodies in its metallic sassing - and theTMNTcomic showed it .
It ’s not as though the Mouser see rodents and discretely kills them within its machinelike body , it chews them while the rodents squeal in horror and painfulness until they ’re finally dead , with blood dripping from the Mouser ’s jaw as it does so . This process is inhumane and ugly , and the first sentence it ’s shew is one ofTMNT ’s sorry moment .
8The Debut of the Utroms was as Disturbing as It was Shocking
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#3 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
Utroms are the race of interdimensional aliens that the ill-famed Krang belong to , and their first coming into court certainly laid the base for their villainous reputations inTMNTcanon . After being hurt by the Mousers , Splinter stumbles upon a mysterious understructure where three Utroms occupy , and each of them is sitting on a table with their ' human suit ' baby-sit vacant behind them . Their robotic stomach were unfastened , and their heart stared deadly at what appeared to be brains with faces and tentacles sitting in front of them .
Needless to say , this entire scene was fantastically shocking . However , as dark and terrifying as the scene is , the Utroms in the original comic were ironically a heartsease - loving species , and meant the Turtles no harm - though that does n’t detract from how terrific they were upon their first appearance .
7The Ninja Turtles Didn’t Hesitate to Murder Triceraton Soldiers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#6 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
When the Turtles are whisked away to another world , catch by unidentified beings , and forced to combat against anthropomorphic alien dinosaurs for reasons they do n’t in full understand , they do n’t waffle to kill their opponents . The Turtles are being push to struggle the Triceratons , and rather than knocking them out , or judge to reason out with them , or looking for way to get by this barbaric arena , the Turtles simply kill themas brutally as they stamp out Shredder .
The more modern TMNT would opt to negotiate with the alien species , especially if they were technically the invaders themselves . However , in the original comedian , the Ninja Turtles were more than coolheaded with shoot down an enemy , no matter the circumstances - which is as dark as it is badass .
6Leonardo Stuck a Shuriken in a Ninja’s Skull (While Another Ninja was Drowned)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#9 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Michael Dooney
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles once took on a mission that saw them efficaciously being bodyguards for a family that was being point by a mysterious ninja tribe that wanted to end this family ’s ancestry by pop every survive member . As the ninjas were nobble through this sept ’s house , the Turtles were watching them from the shadows , launch counterattacks much before these ninjas had the chance to strike .
In one instance , Leonardo confuse a shuriken at a ninja , hitting him straight in the forehead- blood squirt from his head , with one-half of the artillery still nonplus out of his skull - and another ninja was drowned in a outpouring by another Turtle Brother . The Ninja Turtles were n’t messing around on this foreign mission , and they did n’t offer a straight - inch of margin .
5TMNT’s Triceraton Ally Guns Down Foot Clan Soldiers (& Impaled Others on His Horns)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#20 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Jim Lawson
After total across a lost Triceraton all alone in the New York City sewer , the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles recruit him to help in their on-going mission against the Foot Clan . Since the Triceraton had his own grounds for want the Foot dead , he fit to join them . Upon reaching a Foot Clan base of operation , the Turtles and their new , unexpected ally permissive waste no metre in their brutal dismantlement of the nefarious ninja clan - include and specially the Triceraton .
Using a giant gun that he take from his homeworld , the Tricerton guns down a room full of Foot Clan soldiers like it was nothing , shredding their bodies with a seemingly endless shelling of bullets . Then , when the Triceraton was pullulate by Foot Ninjas , he take to using his horn to stake the ninjas through their stomach .
4Raphael Uses a Gun to Kill One of Shredder’s Elite Foot Clan Soldiers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#61 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Jim Lawson
The traditional weapon handle by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are arguably as iconic as the Turtles themselves . While the Turtles have been be intimate to change their weapon from meter to time reckon on the circumstances , they almost never opt to use artillery . However , in the early days ofTMNTcanon , the Turtles were ninjas in the purest signified , meaning they ’d utilize any weapon system available to them to ensure the death of their foe - including guns .
In this case , Raphael had his back against a bulwark as one of Shredder ’s elect soldiers was close in on him while threatening one of his friend . injure and without his twin sai , Raphael looked around him to see what he could use to kill the Elite ninja , andthe Ninja Turtle found a grease-gun that was dropped by a dead Foot Clan soldier - and Raph proceeded to botch his enemy away with it .
3The Debut of the Rat King in TMNT Lore is Shocking (for More than 1 Reason)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#55 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird, and Jim Lawson
While modern fans acknowledge the Rat King as an elder god in the IDW PublishingTMNTuniverse , he was originally something far more disturbing . The Rat King was a human beings who mutilated his body in an attempt to sort himself from the rest of humanness , and that was immediately obvious when the Rat King made his shameful full debut . However , his show alone was n’t the only affair about the Rat King that was immensely troubling .
The Rat King fall across Splinter as the mutant rat lay injure in the sewer , and he would n’t stop hear to convince Splinter to eat up other ( non - mutant ) rats for survive , rather than just help him . It ’s a twisted episode , especially upon its finish when Splinter gives in and eat a so-and-so out of pure despair - something the Rat King educe capital pleasure from .
2TMNT’s Casey Jones Kills a Kid During One of His Patrols
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#48 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird and Jim Lawson
Casey Jones has been a valiant vigilante inTMNTcanon right from the start , and remains so to this day . However , there was a second in his past that rocked Casey to his burden , making him question if he was even any different from the criminals he was beating up . One night during a everyday patrol , Casey challenges a gang of felon , unleashing his unique brand of brutal judge upon them . However , what he did n’t make love until it was too late , was thatone of them was just a kid , and Casey unintentionally kill him .
This narrative is cry " Shades of Gray " , and it ’s one of the heaviest in the entireTMNTcatalog . For many issues afterward , Casey goes through torturing internal struggles , which only makes this obscure moment inTMNTthat much darker .
1Shredder’s Resurrection is an Unnatural Horrorshow in TMNT Lore
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#21 by Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird and Jim Lawson
While Shredder ’s demise was the first ' dark moment ' inTMNTcanon that localize the smell for the quietus of the serial , his resurrection is arguably even darker . Shredder explains to Leonardo that the Foot Clan find his mangled cadaver and breathed new life into it through a salmagundi of advance engineering and ancient spells . This method of resurrectionsucceeded in land Shredder back , but his consistence was a maimed pickle of scarred human body .
Not only was Shredder himself a disturbingly unnatural sight , but his resurrection also pay life to a act of mutant clones of Shredder , each one more horrifying than the last . Plus , the vicious action that was sport during Leonardo ’s battle against Shredder , and the other Turtles ' battle against the Mutant Shredders was vicious and pictorial , make this one of the 10 sullen moments in the originalTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlescomic .
