TMNT: Family Issues

TMNT: Family Issues is a 2032 animated series created by Christine Lou and based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman. The series stars the voices of Haley Tju, Zeno Robinson, Phil LaMarr, Nolan North, Greg Cipes, Brian Tochi, Hoon Lee, Jim Pirri, and Ally Maki. The series centers on the Turtles as they struggle to adapt to live with their long-list sister, Diana.

The series was announced in 2030, with Liu hired as executive-producer alongside Andy Suriano, showrunner of 2018's Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman. The producers said they wanted the series to "show the true potential of Venus de Milo" after her highly controversial introduction in the live-action series Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation. The producers also did heavy research to accuretly potray Ninjitsu spirituality. The producers would also cite the Guardians of the Galaxy films and 2015's Paddington as influences. The writers wouod develop the seroes with a darker tone than previous animated TMNT projects, with the 1990 film and the 2003 series serving as inspirations.

TMNT: Family Matters would be released in May 3, 2032. A second season was be released in October 3, 2034. A film adaptation of the series, titled TMNT: Battle Nexus, was released on Netflix in December 25, 2033.

Synopsis
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been fighting crime for 2 years, but nothing coukd have prepared them from their biggest shock yet: They have a sister! Lost in the sewers as a child and raised by a Japenese martial artist, Mei Pieh Chi a.k.a Diana has just learned of her heritage and wants to join them, but personality clashes get in the way of Diana's dream of having a family after her adoptive father's passing. Between aliens, ninjas, and evil scientists, however, the Turtles will find that families are hard to live wuth, but worth all the effort.

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

 * Mei Pieh Chi (voiced by Haley Tju): A young and excitable mutant turtle and the TMNT's long-lost sister. The producers changed her name due to feeling naming a female character after an object was "a bad idea".
 * Leonardo (voiced by Zeno Robinson): The leader of the TMNT, who is calm in appearance but struggles with his self-steem deep down.
 * Donatello (voiced by Phil LaMarr): The nerdy scientist of the Turtles.
 * Raphael (voiced by Nolan North): The hot-headed but good-hearted second-oldest member of the TMNT. North reprises his role from TMNT (2007).
 * Michaelangelo (voiced by Greg Cipes): The youngest and most creative member of the TMNT. Cipes reprises his role from the 2012 series.

Allies and Friends

 * Splinter (voiced by Brian Tochi): A mutated rat and the Turtles' sensei and father figure. Tochi previously voiced Lronardo in the 1990s film series.
 * April O'Neil (voiced by Ally Maki): A young scientist and the Turtles' first human friend.
 * Shadow Jones (voiced by Zelda Williams): Casey Jones' daughter and April's daughter-by-law.
 * Leatherhead (voiced by Steven Blum): A scientific mutant cocodrile with anger jssyes, and Mikey's best friend.
 * Karai (voiced by Anna Akana): The leader of a rebel part of the Foot Clan.
 * Aska (voiced by Janice Kawaye): Karai's student.
 * Angel Bridge / Nobody (voiced by Diamond White): A young vigilante Mei befriends.
 * Casey Jones (voiced by Jeremy Renner): A vigilante and April's husband.
 * Mortu (voiced by Johnny Knoxville), an Utrom explorer and friend to the Turtles.
 * Churk / Fugitoid (voiced by Kevin Eastman), an Utrom scientist.
 * Robyn (voiced by Mae Whitman): April's adoptive sister, who stays at their family farm for the summer.
 * Dask, Kala, and Zak (voiced by Xolo Maridueña, Tara Strong, and Jack Quaid): Three kids from Dimension X and me,bers of the Neutrinos, traumatized by the war between Krang and tye rest of the Utroms.

1980s characters

 * Leonardo (voiced by Cam Clarke): The leader of the alternate Turtles.
 * Raphael (voiced by Rob Paulsen): The most sarcastic of the alternate Turtles.
 * Michaelangelo (voiced by Townsend Coleman): The "party dude" of the alternate Turtles.
 * Donatello (voiced by Barry Gordon): The most intelligent member of the alternate Turtles

Villains

 * Oroku Saki / The Shredder (voiced by Hoon Lee): The leader of the Foot Clan and the Turtles' archenemy. Lee reprises his role from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
 * Krang (voiced by Jim Pirri): An alien warrior from the Utrom race and the Shredder's ally. Pirri reprises his role from Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie.
 * Baxter Stockman (voiced by Phil LaMarr): The Foot's chief scientist, who wears a fly-like armor. LaMarr reprises his role from the 2012 series.
 * Koya (voiced by Brittany Ishibashi): A mutant falcon and leader of the Shredder Elite.
 * Bebop and Rocksteady (voiced by Khary Payton and Frank Welker, respectively): The Shredder's enforcers.
 * The Rat King (voiced by Michael Keaton): A terrorist capable of mind-control rats.

1980s characters

 * Shredder (voiced by Jim Cummings): The alternate Turtles' arch-enemy.
 * Krang (voiced by Pat Fraley): Alternate Shredder's partner.
 * Bebop and Rocksteady (voiced by Barry Gordon and Cam Clarke): Alternate Shredder and Krang's henchmen.

Other characters

 * John MacDonald (voiced by Rob Paulsen): A Channel 6 reporter. He was created specifically for the series.
 * Chung I (voiced by Jackie Chan): Mei's late first adoptive father. Chan previously voiced Splinter in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.
 * Keno (voiced by Eugene Cordero): A pizza delivery boy who is friends with the turtles.

Music
The score for the series would be composed by Michael Giacchino, who previously worked with executive producer Steven Spielebrg on the Jurassic World films. Giacchino would use the main theme for the 1987 series as a "letimof" for the Turtles as a team, as well as compose individual themes for each of the Turtles that "capsuled" each of their personalities from both a surface and "deeper level", as well as a theme for Splinter that "works as both a classic martial arts mentor melody, and that of a father".

In addition to Giacchino's score, the series would feature a cover of the 1987 theme performed by Patrick Stump as the opening theme. For its ending theme, the series would use the 2015 single "Rock the Halfshell" by Partner in Kryme, who previously performed the song "Turtle Power" for the 1990 film.

Film adaptation
A film adaptation of the series, titled TMNT: Battle Nexus, was released on Netflix on December 25, 2034. The film, a crossover with the 2003 and Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, would see the Turtles and their counterparts from other realities being transported to the Battle Nexus. According to director Sage Cotugno, the other series were chosen due to respective desires to explicitly acknowledge the 2003 series and "see the Rise versions react to more traditional turtles". The filmmakers would also avoid using the 1989 versions due to the characters having already being used in previous crossovers.

Trivia

 * This is the second TMNT series to have co-creator Kevin Eastman involved in a creative capacity; he previously wrote a season five episode for the 2012 series.
 * This is the first animated series to feature Venus de Milo, albeit under a different name.
 * According to Eastman, the character was renamed "Diana" due to being the name of both a Renaissance artist (much like the four other Turtles) and Wonder Woman.
 * Eastman said the creators were "extremely mindfull" of the criticisms regarding the character, to the point of creating "a list of everything that people hated about her that we must avoid".
 * This is the second animated series to have Splinter be a mutated rat as in the comics, after the 2003 series.
 * Five cast members previously worked together on The Owl House: Zeno Robinson (Hunter/Leonardo), Mae Whitman (Amity Blight/April O'Neil), Kevin Michael Richardson (Tarak/The Shredder), Eric Bauza (multiple characters/Splinter), and Jim Pirri (Alador Blight/Krang). Composer T.J. Hill also worked on the first season of The Owl House.
 * Eastman felt that the focus on Mei and havimg the Turtles be seasoned crimefighters with an already established rogue gallery allowed the series to stand out from the previous shows.