Saturday, June 04, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 4: The baddies


Shredder
The most iconic of the TMNT's adverseries and the antagonist in most of the universes. The leader of the Foot Clan, the Shredder wears a modified samurai armor with lethal blades covering his arms, shoulders and lower legs. He and Eric Sacks wanted to release poison gas from the roof of Sacks building, and turn around and sell to the government the cure made from the mutagen in the turtles blood, while Shredder will force the remaining people to live under his rule. He was defeated by the combined might of the Turtles and April where he falls to the street below. As the police converge on Shredder, he does manages to crawl to the spilled mutagen sample that fell with him.


Karai
Karai is a high-ranking member of the Foot Clan and will do whatever it takes to get the job done. She's fiercely loyal, smart, and a warrior when it comes to honoring the task at hand. The Foot Clan is her family and she has the utmost respect for Master Shredder —although she does question his decision to recruit Bebop and Rocksteady.


The Foot Clan
In the reboot films, the Foot Clan are no longer considered an international ninja cult, but rather an modern American terrorist organization.Instead of black unitard-clad masked ninjitsu warriors, they are portrayed as fully armed men that wear black military-like uniforms and often wore kabuki-style masks to conceal one's identity.


Rocksteady and Bebop
A bumbling henchmen duo under Shredder's command. Rocksteady was a red-haired Caucasian man sporting simple beige cargo pants, while also occasionally sporting a strong army helmet on his head in his mutated form. Bebop was a plump African American man with spiked bracelets and a purple mohawk. The Shredder developed a plan to defeat the Turtles by mutating members of the street gang that Rocksteady and Bebop are a part of so that they would have abilities greater than the Turtles'. Rocksteady and Bebop both volunteered to undergo the procedure (though neither was particularly aware of what it would entail) first with the promise that it would allow them to exact revenge on the Turtles. Although the transformation did make them larger and stronger, they remained incompetent simpletons and were completely inept at stopping the Turtles or carrying out Shredder's plans. Throughout most of the series, they tried to attack the Turtles with brute force, without applying knowledge and strategy.


Krang
Krang was originally a warlord from Dimension X who commanded an army of Rock Soldiers under the leadership of General Traag and Lieutenant Granitor. He took the completed Technodrome (a powerful mobile battle fortress) for himself, and then banished Drakus (who helped Krang build it) to Earth. Eventually, Krang would be banished from Dimension X as well, but not before being stripped of his body and reduced to a brain like-form. To compensate for his lack of a full body, Krang makes use of an android body with incredible strength and the ability to increase his size.

Friday, June 03, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 3: Supporting allies


Splinter
Splinter is a mutant rat, foster father, and sensei of the Ninja Turtles. He raises them into adolescent fighters to combat the Foot Clan and protect New York. April meets Splinter, who remembered April before he mutated, when he and the Turtles were ordinary test animals in a lab manned by Dr. O'Neil and Eric Sacks. April used to videotape herself in her fathers lab when she was little, and loved Splinter and the Turtles, personally naming them and feeding them pizza, which they all loved.
However, Dr. O'Neil learned that Sachs was up to something evil, and burned the lab down, at the cost of his own life. April saved Splinter and the Turtles, and took them to the sewers to be safe, with Splinter alone possessing enough intellectual ability at this time to remember April and her kindness. The mutagen soon took effect, granting Splinter and the Turtles enhanced intellect and anthropomorphic bodies.


April O'Neil
As a child, her father used the Ninja Turtles and Splinter as test subjects for his mutagen experiments, with April treating them as her pets, feeding them pizza when they were little. After her father destroyed his lab, she placed the Turtles and Splinter near a sewer grate.
As an adult, she worked in journalism at Channel 6, but felt that her talents were under-utilized reporting on relative puff pieces such as a new sports movement. While trying to follow up on an attempted story of stolen chemicals from a docking port, she first witnessed the Turtles active as vigilantes, later finding them when they thwarted a Foot Clan attempt to take hostages in a subway station. After hearing their names, she realized their ties to her father's work, but revealed the truth to Eric Sacks before the Turtles and Splinter could warn her of his real agenda.


Vern Fenwick
In this reboot Vern Fenwick acts as April's cameraman, but is always trying to personally win over his attractive female colleague for himself. After he learns of the existence of the Ninja Turtles, he displays heroic characteristics despite his lack of fighting skills and contributes significantly to the happy resolution of the plot as he is the one who knocks out Eric Sacks.


Casey Jones
Casey Jones
is a corrections officer who works as a vigilante at night, and a close ally of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He eventually begins a relationship with April. He wears a hockey mask in battle, and wields either a hockey stick or a golf club when battling the Foot Soldiers.

Thursday, June 02, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 2: The main Turtles


The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are four fictional teenage anthropomorphic turtles who are named after four Renaissance Italian artists. They were trained by their anthropomorphic rat sensei in the art of ninjutsu. From their home in sewers of New York City, they battle petty criminals, evil overlords, mutated animals, and alien invaders while attempting to remain hidden from society.


Leonardo, more affectionately called Leo, is the eldest of the four and older brother to Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo. He is the tactical, courageous leader of the team and devoted student of his sensei Splinter, who firmly believes it's his ninja duty to protect the people f New York. As the most conscientious of the four, he often bears the burden of responsibility for his younger brothers, which commonly leads to conflict with Raphael. He can be identified by his blue mask and twin katana blades which he wields in battle.


Raphael, also known as Raph, is often regarded as having an aggressive nature as well as a rebellious streak (often struggling to comply to orders), and seldom hesitates to throw the first punch. He is often depicted with a very pronounced New York accent. His personality can be fierce, sarcastic and maddened, and oftentimes delivers deadpan humor. Despite his anger issues and fiery temper, Raph is determined and would stop at nothing to fight against evil, even when suffering from life-threatening injuries such as a broken shell. He wears a red mask and wields a pair of sai.


Donatello, also known as Don, is the "official" scientist, inventor, engineer, and technological genius of the brothers. is perhaps the least violent turtle, preferring to use his vast knowledge and calculative talk to solve conflicts, but never hesitates to defend his brothers. Don is known to be very calm and measured, and often being able to stay composed under stress, as seen when he managed to stop the toxic poison activated by Shredder on Sacks Tower in the first movie. He can be identified by his purple mask, and wields a telescopic bo staff in battle.


Michelangelo, more commonly known as Mike, is free-spirited, relaxed, and often goofy jokester and known for his love of pizza. He provides the comic relief, though he still has an adventurous side. The least mature and youngest of the four Turtles, he shows characteristics of a "surfer" type and is often depicted with a Southern Californian accent. Though identified by Master Splinter to possess the most "raw talent" of the brothers, Mikey seems to be more interested in goofing around. He wears an orange mask and wields a pair of nunchucks in battle.

Wednesday, June 01, 2016

TMNT Out Of The Shadows Part 1: Intro


Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows is the sequel to the 2014 hit film TMNT.
When danger threatens New York City, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles must emerge from the shadows to protect their home. The sequel sees the turtles team up with fellow masked vigilante Casey Jones to fight the Foot Clan and its leader, the evil Shredder, as well as mutated punks Bebop and Rocksteady, and alien warlord Krang.

Live-action
Megan Fox as April O'Neil
Stephen Amell as Casey Jones
Will Arnett as Vern Fenwick
Brian Tee as Oroku Saki / The Shredder
Tyler Perry as Dr. Baxter Stockman
Brittany Ishibashi as Karai
Laura Linney as Police Chief Rebecca Vincent

Voice actors and motion capture
Pete Ploszek as Leonardo
Alan Ritchson as Raphael
Noel Fisher as Michelangelo
Jeremy Howard as Donatello
Tony Shalhoub (voice) and Peter D. Badalamenti (motion-capture) as Splinter
Gary Anthony Williams as Bebop
Stephen "Sheamus" Farrelly as Rocksteady
Brad Garrett as Krang