Every Ninja Turtles Villain From the Original Cartoon (1987-1996)

[@thepaper888]

I love how this list came out 3 years before Shredder's Revenge, and it's more relevant than ever. Next couple of years is going to be big for turtles. Read Last Ronin.

[@miamimagicians]

Ronon was good

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

Speaking of which, there is going to be a live-action movie adaptation of The Last Ronin.

[@JohnDWJ]

Tokka and Rahzar made the cartoon!? I had no idea.

[@blackphoenix77]

Me either!

[@cammy85]

Yup!! But as independent threats. They were created with the same mutagen that created Groundchuck and Dirtbag. The episode was loosely based on the fallout from that, though there was hidden agenda too.

[@JohnDWJ]

Whoa. What was the hidden agenda?

[@cammy85]

@@JohnDWJ Oh, all right. :) Even though it would spoil the episode. A billionaire hires a mutant hunter to clean the streets of all mutants, even the Turtles and their friends. Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Mondo Gecko and two of the punk frogs are captured. It's later revealed that the billionaire was a geneticist and his head was accidentally cross mutated with a slug; so now he wants to lead the mutants in an uprising and make the citizens their slaves.

[@JohnDWJ]

Ha! Wonderful. What time to be alive. Do you happen to know what season that was? Gonna have to go exploring.

[@nickstuetelberg1164]

Not going to lie, I forgot about a lot of those villains. But Baxter Stockman was always one of my favorite TMNT villains.

[@josephclegg3562]

Baxter Stockman had a twin brother named Barney.

[@nightmarebb7987]

Dexter Spackman?

[@erdemuykan9219]

@@josephclegg3562 I didnt know that thanks

[@josephclegg3562]

@@nightmarebb7987 who is Dexter Spackman?

[@josephclegg3562]

@@erdemuykan9219 Barney Stockman appears in the 87 TMNT cartoon series. His only appearance is in the season 4 episode "Rapheal Knocks Em Dead".

[@hardcoreboxingsport3311]

90% of all the characters only came out once and never came out again that's why a lot people don't remember them

[@toofaraheadofu7928]

Mhm. True, true.

[@chesspunk489]

I think it was the biggest flaw of the original cartoon. They should have had less villains with more appearances.

[@RetroCrunch]

I remember SLASH. Wished he were in more of the episodes..

[@josephclegg3562]

Wasn't Slash Bebop's pet turtle before he mutated?

[@mysteriousboi9567]

@@josephclegg3562 Well In The 2012 It was Raph's But 90's Idk

[@chesspunk489]

@@josephclegg3562 yes

[@user-si9fx4xb6v]

I agree, three episodes really does not seem like much, when you compare it the number of appearances by The Rat King, Leather Head, Shredder, Krang, Rocksteady and Bebop. Still his 1990's action figure was cool and he even appeared in the arcade video game Turtles In Time as well.

[@Kris_AB]

@@user-si9fx4xb6v Slash's '90s action figure was badass, yeah. I do NOT remember him in the cartoon.

[@awol2958]

So much nostalgia. Thank you for taking the time to make this 👏

[@PREPFORIT]

The Best is LeatherHead.... " I Garonteee " !

[@nightmarebb7987]

KRAANG!!

[@thomaslightwalker]

You betchaa i guaranteee

[@MeximidgeComedy]

Great list, didn't know 83% of these guys

[@Andrew-zv4fm]

Same here.

[@Faceghost881977]

Right, turtles got more bad guys than dick tracy

[@josephclegg3562]

Me either.

[@Machete87]

my bro had Anthrax' figure.

[@MeximidgeComedy]

Amature.

[@reedr7142]

Chrome Dome was one of my favorite action figures. Metalhead was a good guy by the time I was collecting, and Playmates couldn't seem to pick a side for Wingnut & Screwloose, as some packages would depict them on the "good" side, whereas others would depict them on the "bad" side. The same went for a few others like Mutagen Man, Pizza Face (who I think ended up officially being bad), and Muckman & Joe Eyeball.

[@Beelzebubba2823]

Yeah I remember that. I thought I was the only one confused by that. Especially Muckman and Joe eyeball

[@Dinosaur_News_Center]

Wow, I had forgotten there were so many human villains in the show.

[@LauraLegends]

I know right??

[@zorayachavez7100]

Shredder krang bebop rocksteady and lord dreg

[@zorayachavez7100]

Bebop rocksteady tokka and rahzar

[@robbiewalker2831]

@@LauraLegends Some Villains originated from the comics (a few, like Leatherhead, weren't really villians, technically), some were loosely based on a concept from the comics (Krang is based on one of the Utroms from the comics, except Krang is evil) some were original (Bebop and Rocksteady, who were created by David Wise and Peter Laird, the latter of whom was the very reason why the Fred Wolf variant was more present Turtles Forever than in the 2012 Nick series), and some were bad additions (Don Turtelli's original design, not shown in the video, would make for an intimidating character; his second design, that was in the video, does not. Also Lord Dreg is a moron for saying he's evil, then later say he isn't, like he's a modern day politician).

[@jamescheung4771]

​@@zorayachavez7100 and don't forget about Groundchuck and Dirtbag

[@EidoEndy]

Never realized just how many human villains were on the show. So many mad scientists.

[@theotakutopian7426]

We also had the Swatter, who was really just a nerdy guy posing as a Shredder knockoff. He only had one episode, as did many of the villains featured in the video.

[@whatifguy9675]

This video is like a time capsule. Shredder's Revenge had a lot of bosses I hadn't known. This is what I call doing your homework. Nice video!

[@triplepinata27]

That’s another reason I love that game. It shines light on characters most ppl don’t know or talk about! It was cool to see some of them get addressed. Though most of the bosses are/should be known

[@TeddXplosion]

The only villain from SR I didn't recognize was Tempestra.

[@BryonYoungblood]

@@TeddXplosion Given she only appeared once, I can see why

[@zachhaumesser2092]

@@BryonYoungbloodtechnically twice! She was part of night of the rogues episode when Shredder got Tempestra, Leatherhead, the rat king, slash, Kromedome and two action figure characters that would appear for the first and only time, but not have much of any backstory, Anthrax and Scumbug. it seems in recent years they have acknowledged her more. Like in shredders revenge, and hopefully NECA will make an action figure of her!

[@zeldabombsquad1144]

This took me back to my childhood, where I'd watch this EVERY morning before school, thank you

[@quack34]

This makes me want to pop in the DVD's and watch them all right now!

[@TruthhTalkk]

Me too some of the DVD’s only have 3-4 episodes it’s so annoying

[@great159]

The human villains sucked. The mutant villains were all that mattered. The shows cast really started to tank with the last 3 seasons. Season 1 and 2 had the best animation and were a little dark at times👍

[@Latoshajsinspiration]

What about shredder

[@fdoyle]

"This Raptor guy, does he have a beak or a nose?" "Yes"

[@adontebarnes8407]

Krang barely edges out shredder for me(rip james avery)...they are both hilarious to me! Thank you for uploading this you are the bestess

[@antisious]

This video is 3 years old and im just now finding. Why????

[@johnbuck4395]

Yeah, I noticed shredders revenge features quite a few of the old cast 👍

[@andysilva9067]

Shredder was my biggest villan! Good work laura!

[@MKF30]

Thanks for upload, you have a nice voice Laura. :P TMNT rocks!

[@thatrandomredengine9430]

I find It funny they kept Tokka the same, yet Razor is like soft spoken and mature compared to his original 😂

[@frenchfrey65]

I never realized so many villains were just ordinary humans, Rat King, Shredder, and Tatsu (whom isn't on the show, only movies) are the only human bad guys that made the video games, with good reason it looks like.

[@ashesGeek]

I'd say TMNT desperately needs more charismatic non-Foot Clan human villains like Bishop

[@Shadowtrooper09]

I found this randomly and decided to watch it because I always remembered this cartoon on TV,I always remembered the theme song and I remembered the villain playing a piano that can destroy the city with the sound waves and I remembered Leonardo constantly playing video games in a arcade and how the other turtles were telling each other Leonardo’s playing a video game and he couldn’t stop and it was giving him bad dreams and there was this voice coming from the video games and the games turned into monsters of Electricity, Ice and i think other elements too, this was all before I saw this video and so I decided to see what their names were again and I found them, Maestro and Tempestra, wow I can’t believe I forgot their names but these villains were pretty devastating in my opinion, thanks for showing this so I could see

[@horrorhound8564]

YES ! Thank you for this vid.

[@LauraLegends]

❤️

[@zafrier]

Killer pizzas, Krang clones, the computer that helped Baxter Stockman in some episodes

[@andyshistorylessons8278]

Love the epic music you played for the video!

[@logan1758]

Shredders Revenge had a song called "A Few Screws Loose" and while it does make sense for Metalhead, Screwloose wouldve probably been a good boss candidate along with Wingnut for that song!

[@bigkidforever6388]

I did nor realize there were so many villains. Thank you for putting the video together.

[@TLC21]

I love ur choice of music for this video

[@dmace81]

I loved Don Turtelli and The Rat King. They were underrated in my opinion.

[@ashleyrandall5408]

Don gave up on April too fast. Have his partner get her other foot, and she would have lasted another minute at best.

[@tsbkttkr]

Thanks for the video..Krang was the most iconic antogonist in early days of ninja turtles, from what i remembered

[@enyelredfieldlivegaming]

Shredder is the all time favourite for me of this series and in 80s is better represented than the Michael Bay films

[@RetroCrunch]

Bay RUINED the Turtles with those movies.

[@JMFSpike]

@@RetroCrunch Bay's films were not that great, but they weren't completely terrible overall. If you can get over the horrible design of the turtles, and that horrible fart joke they threw in, the first film is okay. The second film is even better, but it still doesn't come close to the original trilogy. However, The CGI animated film was easily the worst TMNT movie of all time. It was just super boring, and the turtles looked like frogs. It's only saving grace was the Leo vs. Raph fight on the roof.

[@josephclegg3562]

1. Shredder and Krang 2. The Ratking 3. Baxter Stockman 4. Leatherhead

[@Stathio]

The first Michael Bay film was complete trash, but I was actually really impressed by the second one- it actually feels like it was made for the fans, and feels like it tried to undo a lot of the crap that was hated about the first one. Go into it with a chill, open mind and expect a dumb live-action cartoon and it's actually pretty decent if you're a Turtles fan.

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

IAM THE BEST!

[@omacktube]

So many garbage villains, so many mobsters. Thanks for the info

[@Izzo8xc]

Triceratons footclan and krang will always be the most famous villians

[@erdemuykan9219]

@@Izzo8xc what about shredder and baxter stickman?

[@Izzo8xc]

@@erdemuykan9219 yeah the foot clan as shredder is the leader and baxter in most terms ends up working for him now

[@tylerlamb9930]

Leatherhead, Slash, and the Rock soldiers are pretty popular as well. Though I also enjoyed Titanus. I liked his plot of trying to get the turtles to side with him by claiming to help all Mutants. Granted he was an obvious rip off of Magneto from X-men, I think he has potential to be rebooted in a modern tmnt story or show. I could see him being a separate antagonist from Shredder and Krang.

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

@@erdemuykan9219 *Stockman

[@ProudGrip]

Granitor, Pizzaface, Tattoo, Scumbug, Scrag, Wingnut and Screwloose, Mondo Gecko (started as a villain), Hothead are the ones missing off the top of my head... wish they would've included Armaggon and Tora in the cartoons too

[@jayhernandez9285]

I knew some were missing on the list .

[@johnnysalazar5399]

Napoleon bonafrog and Casey Jones were brief enemies

[@PokeTMNT1988]

I want an electrozapper vs bugman 2 pk NECA PLEASEE AND THEN TEMPESTRA AND MONA LISA REX1 AND MACC

[@Alexandermedo1]

Nice. I always looking for some video or something that could contain them all . The games and movies makers should really watch this before they attempt to make another TMNT work

[@Spiritkill1]

Shredder, Rocksteady, Bebop, Rat king, Leatherhead, Krang all are good.

[@Thraka5]

I forgot how many throw away villians there were. Krang and shredder are my favorites. Bebop and rock steady the best henchmen.

[@peterogness9443]

Great video bye the way your videos are awsome and your an awsome youtuber

[@kendallgo]

You forgot Z, the pandimensional spacecraft computer

[@csmith3243]

Shredder was the funniest but I always liked slash.... prehistoric turtlesaurus 👊

[@bluprecision1914]

KRANG with that whiny voice was my favorite villain

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

He was funny. I liked him.

[@ravenRedwake]

Triceratons are awesome. I used to have a lot of the toys back in the day.

[@CorthosPryme911]

You have me wanting to watch TMNT now. My favorite was the 1987 version of the Rat King.. Lol I cant tell you why he's always been my favorite as a kid because I dont remember why I liked him. Looking back now I think he was just underrated as he couldve done some real damage just by being able to control Splinter.. ::sigh:: Memories lol

[@187blackblade]

Slash is criminally under rated.

[@matthewchaloner8363]

Im sure you are missing a few villains here and there but good video

[@Kris_AB]

This vid reminded me that I had Groundchuck (the red bull-dude) as a toy, but I don't remember his episodes at all. I like the design, though.

[@DEADMETALSTAN]

What about characters who were originally villains but eventually became good guys? Like Mondo Gecko, the Punk Frogs, Muckman, Lotus Blossom Usagi Yomiujo etc.

[@princebloodgrave8097]

You had,Traag/Tragg, but forgot Granitor. 😢

[@MrKersey]

Exactly, there was no Lt. Granitor on the list.

[@princebloodgrave8097]

@Samarpit Makwana Um, yeah there was. That's where he first appeared. Look it up, & do some research.

[@princebloodgrave8097]

@Samarpit Makwana No, he was Granitor. Trust me, I know. ;)

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

I WILL KILL THE TURTLES AND CONQUER THE THE WORLD!!

[@BoshiYoshi]

What is up with Rahzar's voice?! Mister Oog's laugh sounded like Pee Wee Herman.

[@elsewhere8667]

Sounds like the announcer for Toonami

[@theartdragon1270]

Awesome great work

[@Supa.Nintendope]

Nicely done.

[@Dinobolt1]

You missed Scumbug. He only appeared in the same episode as Antrax, Night of the Rogues. But you still did an excellent job on this.

[@nerdcavenerds4522]

This is awesome must have taken forever to put together awesome. :) I'm always amazed at how many villains were human when the mutants were the best part. Out of all the stupid "cosplay and gimmick turtle toys we got you think they could have made more of the figures we seen in the show..... Thanks for making this. :) chrome dome slash and dirtbag were some of my favorites

[@Borat_is_the_GOAT]

Wow your have your iconic ones then your typical Saturday morning cartoon villains

[@marcuslyles4999]

Hearing the voice of the late great Tony Jay really takes me back to the Weekdays mornings and Saturday Morning Cartoons days, miss it them days man!!

[@Biggene0905]

Never got to see some these villians on screen until now thank you!!!

[@TranceEnding]

Holy shit lost childhood memories are rushing through my head! Awesome video!

[@nathanhileman3848]

The Turtles: "Turtles fight with honor!" Shredder: "But I fight dirty!" [Pulls gun] Shredder #1

[@keithaustinragsdale8182]

Killer vid chickie. Have a killer holiday weekend, and be safe! 🤘👽🤘

[@sheenthisma7103]

When it’s just a picture of the character it’s like an “in memoriam” reel

[@brinjasemurillo9862]

My favorite villain is leather head

[@justinw7323]

Remember when Leatherhead was a villain from Australia? In 2k3, 2k12 he was an misunderstood enemy at first but became friends with the turtles and chill too so he can control his anger.

[@ajaxmaxbitch]

New Letherhead and old leather head are good

[@Cloudman_813]

You forgot Mutagen man.. Cool vid though!

[@bv654]

He's the turtles allie

[@drmixer826]

So was metalhead I think?

[@drmixer826]

@Samarpit Makwana but he did turn good right?

[@EhCanadian316]

You may have been the first to do this list? Very well done & thankx :)

[@alexandermontunnas6815]

I WA waiting for this video

[@colmreilly8779]

Poor Baxter. No one else suffered like him.

[@Blazntrax81]

Laura! This was my jam as a kid! Love it. 💜

[@maxmiller5619]

Outside of pretty much the animal-themed villains, I forgot literally every one except shredder.

[@cryosapien4607]

Wingnut and Chrome Dome but no Armaggon or War?

[@LordPachotron82]

You missed some big ones like Granitor, the pizza monsters, Dirk Savage and Scumbug.

[@bunnygrill]

1:17 are those the same models for the kids from the care bear movie?

[@jeffreyscarbroughboardgame2822]

You should do race different series this is great

[@bobsapp3609]

forgot the other krang species that were giant lizards

[@TimmyCanadianComicHunter]

Great video

[@sirmicro]

What?? No pizza.. You tricked me!

[@pookeemcaruf]

Nah I didn't know the turtles had so much beef with the mafia 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@joshuabrunken3848]

Few of the mobsters picked a fight with the turtle. Tony Vivaldi most notably.

[@mattmc9812]

We had only the first few seasons here in Australia so much of these I wasn't even aware of

[@favoritemustard3542]

Ya'll were ripped off!

[@defenderprime8046]

Oh man! I haven't seen the very first TMNT cartoon in such a long time, I don't remember many of those enemies, but a lot of them came back in the Nickelodeon Ninja Turtles cartoon, which was a super series in my opinion, and even Tokka and Razhar appeared in the Ninja Turtles 2 movie, Secret of the Ooze. Cool video, Laura! XXX

[@garthdavis2502]

Dr. Mindbender? Did Hasbro allow the name of a G. I. Joe villain to be used for a TMNT villain?

[@cammy85]

It's actually supposed to be Professor Mindbender. And he was one of the better scientist villains. That was quite the scheme. Surely, the mayor would've been smart enough not to believe a pledge to "end all crime for good". And it's the better of the Rex-1 appearances.

[@Flow-J.Simpson]

I posted the same thing! even professor mindbender is a legal team issue lol

[@robchris82x]

I remember watching TMNT when it was on during the morning, afternoon, and early Saturday mornings. They made so many episodes, even I can't keep up, the T.V. networks moved the cartoon to different channels... I missed this cartoon. I wonder they have it on DVD all seasons. Shredder's Revenge game is a Masterpiece!! Takes me back from playing the classic Konami arcade games. Games such as Hyperstone Heist (Genesis), and Turtles in Time (arcade/SNES). Hope they'll have new DLC soon.

[@johnnysalazar5399]

I had every action figure of the turtles and villains, plus the special addition versions like the tiptoe turtles and the ripcoard versions

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

I WILL KILL THE TURTLES AND CONQUER THE THE WORLD!!

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

@@johnnysalazar5399 I WILL KILL THE TURTLES AND CONQUER THE THE WORLD!!

[@timothy-yo4nm]

Yes they do have the whole series in a big box set I bought mine from Walmart it has every season.

[@thedestroyer2alltrolls411]

That’s a lot of villains! I’m still binge-watching the show on my Roku TV.

[@bryanvasquezescobar6200]

You forgot Tai San, and Sumo Kuma !

[@liquidcrow]

Did not realize that a good chunk of the bad guys where just villainous old men, lol

[@michaelmercury1297]

I used to watch this show all the time and I only recognize about 25% of these characters .

[@FocusRS500]

I didn't see muck man...

[@edivadR]

Great stuff, TURTLE POWER!!!!

[@pious83]

Baxter The Fly was always one of my favourites as a kid.

[@synarafrancis7137]

I was a huge turtle fan but I dont remember half of those villains. Trash rouge gallary besides the classic villains.

[@josephclegg3562]

Same.

[@toofaraheadofu7928]

They came and went according to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. They had a ton of ideas for unique villains.

[@bennydelarosa9064]

My favorite villian out of all them that I've seen when I was a kid is always the Shredder.

[@shredderorokusaki3013]

I WILL KILL THE TURTLES AND CONQUER THE THE WORLD!!

[@TheHellboy1980]

missing quite a few characters.....but not too shabby

[@TortugasNinjaArgentina]

Cowabunga!!! Great video!!!

[@OmegaPrimus]

I would have to say Slash is my favorite only because he was my favorite vintage TMNT figure next to Mutagen Man and the giant Krang toy.

[@CROSSTATT]

I wish that Tora and Shogun from "TMNT II:The Arcade Game" made an appearance. Well, a lot of characters from the video games should've been on the show. Any of the other characters should've been one-time only.

[@Giran_0]

Leatherhead well always be my favorite "I guarantee" Kind of low on female villians in the show

[@fmthebaron]

Too bad there wasn't more of Shreeka.

[@josephclegg3562]

Tempestra and Medusa.

[@Machete87]

i can't find the Tokka and Rahzar episode all i can find is the beat em arcade game or the 2nd Turtles film from the 90's

[@DiegoLPP22]

Great work

[@RainbowSlinky5]

Damn those were a lot of villains