Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Spiral Comics)

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (sometimes called TMNT) is a comic book series based on the TMNT franchise and published by Spiral Comics.

Main

 * Leonardo/"Leo": The cool headed leader of the team. Leo is a lot like his master Splinter, defaulting to what Splinter would do and say if he's ever not sure how to do something. However, this is also his biggest flaw, as most of the time he doesn't go with what his heart tells him, listening only to what Splinter has told him, even in cases where Slinter is wrong. Leo usually likes to think things out far in advance before he actual does something. His weapons are two katanas.
 * Raphael/"Raph": The opposite of Leo in everyway. He is a hot head, very vain, stubborn and rarely listens to what Splinter says. Raph seems to have a problem with authority in general, as he also doesn't listen to Leo a lot and prefers to do everything his way. In fact, most of the time he out right claims he should be the leader instead. Though Raph's stubborness does come in quite handy sometimes, as no matter what he refuses to fall, even after taking the beating of a life time. His main weapons are twin sai.
 * Donatello/"Don"/"Donnie": A very intelligent individual, Donnie is the sorce of the team's tech weapons and just their technology in general. He is able to hack in to computers, break down firewalls, and is able to turn anything technology based in to a weapon. However, he also has all the negatives that come with being a genius, who has poor social ques, is very messy, and can't tell what someone's emotions are most of the time. His weapon is a bo staff.
 * Michelangelo/"Mikey"/"Mike": The self proclaimed comedian of the team. Mikey loves to tell jokes about everything, his brothers, his friends, his enemies, even just random people and things. He gets on the nerve of a lot of people, mostly Raph, but most of the time his comedic anticts are welcome, as even in the darkest of moments he is able to find light. He is a fan of pizza and is known for yelling "cowabunga!" as a catchphrase. His weapons are nunchucks.
 * Hamato Yoshi/Master Splinter: Splinter is the Turtles' master and adoptive father. He is extremely calm, and is usually seen meditating. It is a running gag in the comic about how old he is, as no one seems to remember, not even himself. However, despite his (supposed) old age, he is very, very good at martial arts. He can defeat all of the Turtles in both a one on one and group fight, and has apparently gone toe to toe with the greatest of martial artists.
 * April O'Neil: April is a reporter for the Channel 5 News. She will do almost anything to get her story, even putting her own life on the line. Because of this, she has gotten herself captured or in quite a bit of trouble a lot of the time, but she still does it because she is obsessed with and driven by finding the truth, refusing to stop even when her boss actually tells her to.

Recurring

 * Casey Jones: A sports based vigilante who wears a hockey mask. He is described by most characters as "the crazy guy" and he lives up to this, as he constantly puts his own life on the line, and yells "Goongala! Goongala!" as his war cry.

Villains

 * Oroku Saki/The Shredder: The Turtles' arch nemesis and the series' main antagonist. Shredder is the extremely deadly leader of The Foot Clan. He is trained in Judo, Taekwondo, Karate, Muay Thai, Jiu-Jitsu, and a made up martial art he created named Dansu No Hi.
 * The Foot Clan: An extremely deadly clan of ninjas.
 * Hun: Leader of the gang known as the Purple Dragons.
 * Baxter Stockman: A genius scientist working for the Shredder.
 * Alopex: a fox girl who works for The Foot and, just like all The Foot, is and extremely deadly warrior.
 * Mohawk: A member of the Purple Dragons.
 * Bruno: Another member of the Purple Dragons.
 * Rat King: A terrifying man who has the psionic ability to control rats. He is completely blind, wrapping a dirty peace of cloth over his eyes as a replacement for glasses. However, he has extremely good hearing, being able to hear someone's heart beating. He has a toothy smile which reveals he has multiple missing teeth and the ones he does have are rotting away. As if all of this wasn't enough, he is only seen eating two things: bugs and his own rats.

Issues

 * 1) "Turtles in Manhattan, Part I": After begging Master Splinter for a bit, Leonardo, Donatello, Michelangelo and Raphael are allowed to leave the sewers for a while as long as no one sees them. However, the team decide to save the life of reporter April O'Neil when she's almost killed by a gang known as the Purple Dragons for unknown reasons. She ends up passing out when she sees them, and the Turtles take her to the sewers, where Splinter explains their backstory to her, revealing he was once a human that loved a woman, but he was forced to beat and kill a man who loved her too, as he attempted to kill her when she picked Splinter over him. She and Splinter moved to Manhattan as Splinter refused to commit seppuku. Because of this, The Foot Clan, who Splinter was once a member of, sent the deceased man's brother, Oroku Saki, to kill Splinter. However, instead, Splinter was transformed in to a rat creature and the Turtles where mutated in to human-like animals, and they have been hiding ever since. After hearing this, April is shocked, as she reveals she did a report on the Foot Clan that got a member arrested, shocking the Turtles and Splinter, as now they know the Foot Clan has moved to America.
 * 2) "Turtles in Manhattan, Part II": The Turtles and April investigate what's going on with The Foot, coming across a meeting between members of The Foot and the Purple Dragons, two of the Dragons, named Mohawk and Bruno, are reprimanded by Hun, their boss, and a mysterious female ninja. The Turtles are then seen by another Purple Dragon, forcing them to fight. However, during the fight, all four Turtles struggle against the one ninja girl, but eventually Leonardo gets a good punch in, only for Hun to then begin fighting them, revealing he has an extreme amount of strength. The Turtles are then forced to retreet when the ninja woman gets back up. April escapes long before this, and considers posting a story about the Turtles, but then remembers Splinter telling her they're in hiding and decides against it. Later, the ninja woman, revealed to a fox girl named Alopex, reports to her master, claiming there're Turtles coming after them. After hearing this, her master claims they have a new main target before revealing himself to be the Shredder.
 * 3) "Hail to the King": After a short encounter with Mohawk and Bruno, the Turtles return home, where Splinter begins acting up. Splinter begins hearing a voice in his head demanding him to come to "the gathering". Splinter eventually loses control of himself, and skitters off in to the sewers. The Turtles follow him, finding out the man controlling him is named the Rat King and that he has the ability to control rats. The Turtles realize the Rat King is blind, and think they can defeat him easily, but as it turns out he knows they're their and has his rats attack, including Splinter. The Turtles are defeated very easily by Splinter, but Leonardo realizes that the Rat King most likely most likely has extremely good hearing, and that this is why he knew they where there. He tests this theory by screaming at the top of his lungs, which breaks the Rat King's concentration, freeing the rats and Splinter. Leo fills everyone in, and they begin making as much noise as possible, which causes the Rat King so much pain he ends up falling off in to a deeper part of the sewers, with the Turtles not being able to see him as he falls. The Turtles return home, and in this lower level of the sewers, the Rat King begins building his army back up.
 * 4) "Slash, Part I"
 * 5) "Slash, Part II"
 * 6) "The Wolf of Manhattan"
 * 7) "It"
 * 8) "I Ain't Lion"
 * 9) "From Men to Monsters, Part I"
 * 10) "From Men to Monsters, Part II"

Trivia & Easter Eggs

 * Currently, all of the Turtles wear red masks. This is a reference to the original comic series where none of the Turtles had colour coded masks, with all of them just wearing red.
 * One of Mikey's many jokes is "sometimes I wish I was a bird. Then I could fly over the bad guys", this is a reference to the TMNT RPG where the Turtles had supplement characters who where refered to as Sparrow-Eagles, or "Teenage Mutant Ninja Sparrows".
 * One of Leonardo's lines is "sometimes I feel like we need a fifth brother... sister... either or", refrencing the character Venus de Milo.
 * Raphael responds to this line with "that'd be horrible... for everyone", refrencing the fact Venus was almost universally hated.