![]() The intervention saved April before Baxter's nanobots could reach her brain stem and kill her. With the help of the Utroms, the Turtles injected April with turtle versions of nanobots to stop Baxter's plan. In Volume 2 of the TMNT comics, April was attacked by a huge robot controlled by the brain of her former boss, Baxter Stockman, and injected with nanobots. During the mid-1990s, April became romantically involved with the violent vigilante Casey Jones, and the two of them eventually raised Shadow, the child of Casey's late wife Gabrielle, as their own. April and the Turtles retreated to a farm house in Northampton, Massachusetts to recover and during this time she suffered recurrent nightmares about the Foot Clan's attack. The shop was subsequently destroyed in a battle between the Turtles and Shredder and the Foot Clan. The Turtles later successfully fended off a MOUSER invasion.Īfter leaving her job with Baxter, April decided to open an antique shop. Robots chased her into the sewer where she was promptly saved by three of the Turtles. She helped program his MOUSER robots but, after discovering Baxter was using them to burrow into bank vaults, she fled his workshop. In the original Mirage Comics storyline for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil was a skilled computer programmer and assistant to a famous yet nefarious scientist, Baxter Stockman. In film, she has been portrayed by Judith Hoag ( 1990), Paige Turco ( 19), Megan Fox ( 20), and by Malina Weissman as the younger version of the character in the 2014 film. In the 2012 animated series, April is voiced by Mae Whitman, in which she is her late teens. She was later portrayed as a strong-willed news reporter in the Turtles' first animated series, as a warrior in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic produced by Archie Comics, and various other personas in different TMNT media.Īpril was voiced by Renae Jacobs in the 1987 animated series, Veronica Taylor in the 2003 animated series, and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the 2007 film TMNT. Her main love interest in the series is Casey Jones.Īpril made her first appearance in the Mirage comic series in 1984 as a computer programmer. She is the first human ally of the Ninja Turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 (October 1984)Ĭasey Jones (love interest/boyfriend/fiancee/husband)Īpril O'Neil is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. This was April O'Neil's first appearance in color. Not only does this story really begin to flesh out the family dynamics, but it also features an epic battle between Leo and the Shredder resulting in what was thought to be the death of Oroku Saki (for a second time).īetween foundational character development and the impact of its storyline through the films, 'Return to New York' stands out as the best TMNT story to date.Artwork for the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book 2 3 vol. While 'City at War' rightly earns praise for the epic fashion in which it brought about the conclusion of the first volume of the TMNT, no other story brought as much attention to the TMNT as 1989's 'Return to New York' from #19 - to 21 - collected in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection Volume 3 (opens in new tab).Īlthough the tension between ready-to-rumble Raphael and Leonardo the leader seems almost cliché at this point in time, it was in 'Return to New York' where the relationship between these two brothers is first and best seen at play. Read our review of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 - #7.īuy: Amazon (opens in new tab) 1. This, along with the entire first year of stories, is collected in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. Nonetheless, the uniqueness of the story Eastman and Laird concocted helped launch a green empire of comic books, cartoons, games, and films thanks to this must-read first issue that still stands up today as a bit of punk rock-ish comic book storytelling. The issue was dedicated to Jack Kirby and Frank Miller, and this first issue includes subtle (and not-so-subtle) homage to the latter's Daredevil run: Splinter and Stick as mentors to the budding martial artist(s) the evil ninja clans dubbed after human appendages and of course, the mutagen and radioactive liquid as the catalyst for their respective origins. With only 4,000 copies originally published by hand, this 1986 black and white oversized issue introduces the main characters and the conflicts we've all come to know and love.
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