TMNT: Family Issues/Tropes


 * Adorkable: Mei / Diana is just a cute littke dork.
 * Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Mei is shown grieving her father and trying to find a new family in the turtles, two missing things from her original version.
 * Adaptation Name Change: Or nickname. This version of Mei Peih Chi is nickamed "Diana" instead of "Venus de Milo", due to the Unfortunate Implications of naming a female character after an object.
 * Adaptation Personality Change: Mei goes from a non-nonsense Team Mom to an excitable dork akin to Starfire from Teen Titans (2003).
 * Adult Fear: In this version, Splibter didn't just "missed" Mei, he lost her. As a baby.
 * Jerk With a Heart of Gold: As usual, Raphael takes this prize.
 * Mythology Gag: Mei in this version uses tonfas as weapons, a nod to Mikey using them in her debut series.
 * Tearjerker: After Raphael commends Diana on her fighting skills with her tonfas, she reveals her father trained her. The scene then changes to a flashback of the two lovingly training together. When the scene returns to the present. Mei is left in tears.