To make matters worse, the 80's Shredder and Krang as well as their minions Bebop and Rocksteady free Ch'rell from his imprisonment as the redesigned Hun and Karai realign themselves with the released Ch'rell.
The 2009 television movie serves as the actual four-part finale to the 2003 series and centers around the Turtles encountering their 1987 animated counterparts, who have accidentally been transported to the 2003 Ninja Turtles' reality. There is also a running subplot centered on the engagement and wedding of April and Casey. After returning to the present day, the Turtles must battle a cybernetic version of the Shredder which was the result of Viral merging with the data of the exiled Utrom Shredder.
The main story would conclude in the seventh and final season, subtitled "Back to the Sewer", while sporting another redesign for the entire cast inspired by the designs from the 2007 TMNT film. They must also contend with futurist enemies like Sh'Okanabo and his minion Viral as well as dealing with the activities of Cody's greedy and ambitious uncle Darius Dun. The season's plot focused on the Turtles being transported about 100 years into the future to the year 2105 where they meet and befriend Cody Jones, the great grandson of April and Casey. The sixth season, subtitled "Fast Forward", would retool the series with a new art style and comedic tone. Season five would be the last to use the original character designs and animation style with its plot concluding the series' main story line. Towards the end of the fourth season and the beginning of the fifth season, the series undergoes a format change as the Turtles would be recruited by the Ninja Tribunal to use new mystic abilities to combat another version of the Shredder where this one is labeled as the original Shredder before Ch'rell assumed his identity. Upon his defeat at the hands of the Turtles by the end of the third season, Ch'rell is exiled to the ice asteroid Mor Gal Tal.ĭuring the fourth season, Karai continues to lead the Foot Clan as the very first female Shredder, Hun turns the Purple Dragons into a crime syndicate, and Baxter Stockman works for Agent John Bishop's group. Early on in the second season, the Shredder is revealed to be an Utrom criminal named Ch'rell. Later seasons have the Turtles contending with Agent John Bishop of the Earth Protection Force. They also fight the Foot Clan led by Shredder as well as the Purple Dragons led by Hun and the mad scientist Baxter Stockman. The series adapts a large scope of story arcs from the comics, with the Turtles' adventures combining elements of both fantasy and science fiction. As a result, the 2003 series is more adult-oriented, while still being considered appropriate for younger audiences. Unlike the 1987 TV series, the 2003 series more closely matches the tone of the original comics, with a greater emphasis on action and themes of familial bonds. Main article: List of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 TV series) episodes 4Kids also licensed the first 40 episodes to Cartoon Network in 2003, and Cartoon Network aired the series until mid-2005. For its final season in 2008, the show moved from Fox to The CW. The series ran for 156 episodes over seven seasons. It was co-produced by 4Kids Entertainment and franchise creators Mirage Studios, which co-owned rights to the show, with animation provided by the studio Dong Woo. The series premiered on February 8, 2003, as part of the Fox's FoxBox programming block (later known as 4Kids TV) and ended on February 28, 2009. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an American 2D-animated television series, and the first reboot and second animated series in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012 TV series)
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