Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[kenneth]

The Turtles have tattoos on them (Donatello's are not visible as he wears a lot of gear). This would be the second time they bear markings since Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003), where they underwent ninja training and received special markings to denote their increased chi mastery.

[tom]

Taran Killam is a huge fan of the Ninja Turtles and successfully lobbied to get a role in the film.

[richard]

Television news station cameraman Vernon Fenwick (Will Arnett) tells April to be happy with her puff piece stories. Arnett had earlier starred on The Millers (2013) as a television news reporter who frequently complains about puff pieces.

[wallace]

The highest grossing film in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle film franchise.

[duane]

Platinum Dunes' first non-horror film.

[richard]

The origin of Splinter and his Turtles is based on the IDW comics, where they were lab subjects and April O'Neil is a lab assistant who named them.

[norma]

Influenced heavily by the 1987 and 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. This is evidenced when April is saved from a Foot Clan attack and faints when she meets the turtles; the scene is taken directly from the 1987 cartoon, including the lines where April contemplates her sanity for having a discussion with the terrapin brothers and a talking rat. Another scene with the turtles wearing trench coats was cut from the film for timing. The elevator scenes are based on shots from the 2003 series when the turtles ride the elevator to the top of a building being used as a base for the foot clan, stopping at several levels along the way to fight, and ending with a face off against the Shredder at the top.

[nina]

The Channel 6 reporter McNaughton (Taran Killam) was a very obscure character from the "TMNT" Mirage comics.

[duane]

One subplot that was mentioned by actors that was cut out of the final film included the turtles believing that the public would see them as monsters and they always have to be away from society yet protect that.

[richard]

The Turtles are primarily influenced by their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) characteristics: Leonardo is a samurai, Raphael is a brute fighter, Michaelangelo is a cool punk and Donatello is a tinkerer.

[fred]

This is the first ever TMNT story that does not feature Hamato Yoshi, the Shredder's civilian rival and creator of Splinter and the Turtles.

[caroline]

Both James Saito (the first cinematic Shredder) and William Fichtner (Eric Sacks) appeared in Michael Bay's film Pearl Harbor (2001).

[leo]

Megan Fox, Will Arnett and Johnny Knoxville cited their children as a big factor in their decision to be in the film.

[ava]

When Michael Bay offered Megan Fox a role in the film, he jokingly added a potential nude scene to her contract, which she accepted, knowing she wouldn't have to commit to such a scene.

[norma]

Shredder's head design bears a distinct similarity to the Transformer Grimlock from Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014). That film was directed by Michael Bay, who produces this film.

[frances]

In all of TMNT media, Leonardo is the eldest of the Turtles.Pete Ploszek (Leonardo) is actually the youngest of the four actors who play the Turtles.

[frances]

Tony Shalhoub, Jeremy Howard, Will Arnett were all in the Men in Black films; Shalhoub was in the first two films, Howard was in the second film and Arnett was in the third film.

[jessica]

The Turtles are visually based on their Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) designs: the Turtles have no snoutsthe Turtles all bear bandage wraps on their shells, arms and legsLeonardo and Michelangelo have blue eyes and Raphael has green eyesMichelangelo is the shorter of the TurtlesDonatello is distinctly leaner than his brothersand Raphael is the most muscular and scarred, having a cracked shell.

[morris]

Jeremy Howard (Donatello) had appeared in an episode of Monk (2002), which starred Tony Shalhoub (Splinter) as the title character. Howard had played an alien enthusiast with a fetish for green-skinned aliens; his character Donatello has green skin.