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admonition ! This article incorporate spoilers for Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II # 4While buff are well aware that there have been a few ‘ Fifth Turtles ’ inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtleslore – both extend and otherwise – one of them predates all the others by being an unofficial ‘ Fifth Turtle ’ for years before recently being named as one of them duringTMNT ’s latest risky venture .
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are presently combat the Rat King in the ongoing Armageddon Game effect , but in a separate ongoing serial publication , the Ninja Turtles are crusade alongside the Power Rangers to stop the combined wickedness of Rita Repulsa and General Krang . In fact , this series is a sequel to the firstMighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlescrossover dangerous undertaking , and it has raise the original assumption dramatically . Not only are the two separate worlds of theTMNTandPower Rangersmerging into one , but the fiber within those worlds are doing so as well . The Power Rangers have been mutated into theMighty Mutant Power Rangersafter losing their connection to the Morphin Grid . Similarly , the TMNT have become Dimension X ’s translation of Power Rangers themselves – and they were n’t the only ones . The first quality to siphon exponent from the other universe and undergo a alone transformation was none other than the unofficial ‘ Fifth Turtle ’ himself : Casey Jones .
Casey Jones is TMNT’s Original Fifth Turtle, & Power Rangers Proves it
InMighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II#4 by Ryan Parrott and Dan Mora , the Mighty Mutant Power Rangers are combat the evil forces of Rita Repula and General Krang on Earth while theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have partnered with Shredderand secretly traveled to Dimension X. The Turtles ’ plan was to break into Krang ’s Technodrome and find a vulnerability they can exploit . Meanwhile , Casey Jones – who has become the seemingly villainous Ranger X and has been ‘ act with ’ Rita and Krang – is happen upon as a forked agent by Rita herself . Rita says that she never truly trusted Casey , even after granting him his Ranger X soma , state that she knew , in his heart , he was always , “ really a polo-neck ” .
Casey Jones ’ Ranger X was never evil , he was just pretend to be to get the drop on Rita and Krang . But , Rita see right through that , and upon looking back at Casey ’s history with the Turtles , it is easy to see how . Along with April O’Neil , Casey Jones is one of the first humans who not only get wind the Turtles , but accepted them and genuinely became friends / offense - fighting partners with them . The IDW PublishingTMNTuniverse ( which is presently the series ’ prime canon ) takes their relationship even further by making Splinter something of Casey ’s surrogate father . In the early days of IDW’sTMNT , Casey ’s biological father was a drunk and physically abusive towards Casey . That is , until Splinter stepped in and put Casey ’s daddy in his place – which , thankfully , put an ending to the abuse for a period of time . This second was integral in Casey ’s life , as he in conclusion feel like he was a part of a family that loved him and would be by his side no matter how hard thing got . Not only that , but when Splinter save Casey , he take him as his fifth son , and Casey ’s actions from that point frontward reflect that .
Casey Jones is and has always been the greatest ally the Ninja Turtles have ever had , and he even doubles down on that fact by becoming an evil Power Ranger and tangle with the herculean magic of Rita Repulsa just to avail them save the macrocosm . But , as Casey ’s origin and Rita ’s remark explicate , Casey Jones was always more than just theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ greatest ally , he ’s been their Fifth Turtle comrade all along .
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II#4 by BOOM ! Studios and IDW Publishing is available now .
