Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2012 Ep. 0 Tales from the turtle lair

An online comic occuring before the 1st episode of the 2012 CGI series.

[@Igglybuff7]

I love how they incorporated the actual voice actors from the show to do the voice overs in this! But what I am most happy about is the fact that these interactive comics pay homage to Issue #21's plot from IDW's take on the Ninja Turtles; the issue was illustrated by the franchise's co-creator Kevin Eastman himself! In that story's adaptation, the assassin, who happens to be Tengu in this version, fights the boys in different styles in the martial arts all the way from topside to the lair by the abandoned church. It was visually less obvious in the comic that he turned out to actually be Splinter-in-disguise and the whole revelation in the end served as a very excellent touch. The whole point of the exercise was for the four turtles to un-learn what they already know in the their techniques because Splinter needed to teach them that their enemies don't always behave in predictable ways. To prepare for what was to come in the shadows... Okay, now I am done geeking out.

[@zeithqueen5044]

I love how Splinter recognizes that Mikey is even better than his 3 brothers, but he only needs to focus

[@lunastarz8703]

Mikey has adhd so it’s hard for him to focus

[@drks650]

He dumb asf 😂

[@leahlovell6573]

I have ADHD to

[@terezahola6589]

He is not better. He has a POTENTIAL to be better - but he never gets even close to fulfill it :) that is pretty different thing.

[@Jbaxter85]

Mikey - "What's pizza" Splinter laughs & said "One of the many trasures of New York U'll soon discover."

[@RavenX364]

Fun Fact: The "To Be Continued" jingle is a remix of the game over music from the first TMNT Nintendo Entertainment System videogame

[@tintaco3894]

When Splinter at the end says ''Yes and no'' ¡¡I laughed so much when i saw turtles faces!!

[@leahlovell6573]

Me too bro

[@heathercrabtree5751]

It's so true!!! Mikey does have the most raw talent and is national gifted then all of his brothers combined!!! I love you Mikey!!! :D

[@terezahola6589]

Talent is nothing when you do not work hard to fulfill it - and Mikey has never come even close :)

[@seandewar47]

All in favor of having this be an actual episode say I

[@spinjitzumasterfalcon]

Unfortunately it never happened

[@rubylucylefty]

Aye

[@isaiahvilla6691]

I would say more like a Pilot Episode

[@jinpachimishima4415]

This is pretty cool. I’m a stickler for continuity though, so I can’t help but be slightly bothered by the fact that this is supposed to be a prequel to the show but Leo is already leader. Oh well. Still really great though! I have the DVDs of the show and this comic series is part of the “special features.” But it unfortunately does not have The voice overs and music, which is a real shame. Not sure why they didn’t bring that over.

[@railenherman6482]

I’m so glad to finally know what happens when you pass the Mikey game after so many years.

[@Dragonz318]

18:54 Mikey "BOOYAKA-SHA!" LOL I love these guys. I've liked the Turtles ever since I first saw them back in the 90's. Granted the animation for the Nickelodeon Turtles is different as is every other one. I enjoy them all. I have the CGI animated film and the game of that film, too. That one is really cool. Awesome job on putting this together. I love it. Thanks.

[@zellcrs]

Lol, if he strikes, counter with passing out.

[@vaguelygrem]

"What's pizza?" That makes me sad. xD

[@stevenmattrell3448]

xSoulfouxe This was supposedly a prequel of the first episode of the series. Though considering Leo doesn't become the leader until the first episode it's technically not cannon.

[@katetherobotcat9989]

Don't cry XD

[@Flowerbky]

Bruh I just realized how to beat the Mikey game and my younger self had real problems to do that until I had to really focus on what Donnie said

[@Uta_Chandra.H]

I missed out on this show during highschool but I managed to collect all the DVDs. Love the series since!🎉

[@Paul6492ROBLOX]

15:00 Of course we all knew that he would come to the series eventually.

[@humantrash7368]

"CASEY IS EVERYWHERE"

[@lyndseystpeter-qs8ee]

I love Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles it's such a awesome show!

[@Estetus]

Huh. I thought for sure that the code would be 1-9-8-4. Since... Well, the turtles first appeared in 1984.

[@Thetruslimthug]

Try p

[@detectivewaffles5635]

Ah sweet nostalgia

[@knangel]

Hey they had a small Casey Jones cameo in this! I hope that means they are going to bring him into the show soon XD

[@terimarable5645]

The part when splinters says mikey has more potential then his brothers reminds me of the last Ronin and rottmnt movie were mikey was the strongest and saying that makes me look back at both donnie and mikey training they serve them both cause form mikey training with donnie it shows how smart he is to unlock the door and form donnie training with mikey it shows mikey always tries focus and be strong and wise like his brother's and in the end he does.

[@maxxgunner5573]

As much as I like the TMNT 2012 Series along with 2003, 2018 and 80s, they all should have been stylized in comic book form like this, because this is Nunchucktastic! Oh great, now I'm doing it.

[@setsers1]

It's been a long time since I've seen this. Good Memories.

[@FrostyMac]

I actually like this, but as a sound designer, that fight music when there’s no fight happening is infuriating

[@elainekelling324]

When master splinter said locked in mortal combat I was like: they had mortal combat back then? O. o

[@maxxgunner5573]

21:24 missed opportunity to make the code 1984. Would have been both another acceptable code sequence with a radical easter egg.

[@fantasywritertenten6618]

THIS got me into TMNT 2012. ^_^ thank you!!!!

[@tinywaterdrinker5136]

Shout out to the TCRI waste bins at the bottom of the pit

[@crystalglaceon6679]

"Jones is everywhere...." I thought of the episode, paracastia, when mikey starts freaking out, then Donnie slaps him..... My mind wanders to places of weird awesomeness....... O.o

[@galaxyroobear7600]

lol 25:14 they're all like"dafuq?" but poor mikey is crying :'( cheer up mikey boo he was just kiddin' u know you're a ninja

[@Powboy236]

they should have used this comic art and style in the new TMNT Out of the Shadows game instead of that crappy looking- well, 'look' for the comic cutscene portions...

[@Jinaria101]

I KNEW IT Raphael is the second oldest everyone says its Donnie but there’s so much that points to Raphael being the second oldest

[@Blackwolfninja89]

I love that the Sakura theme is used for the Ninja :)

[@ChloeOfTheCookies]

Cool! It's an entire episode! I love it! :D

[@1982stanwuify]

I8

[@leonardomilos9120]

OOhhh meeen, it´s TRULYY EPIIIIICCC AND AWESONEEE!!!!!!!! BOOYAKASHAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!

[@sunshinewabby]

😱 OMG THATS A FUTURE REFERENCE!!!! ITS CASEY JONES!!!!

[@tashajones7038]

Only one comment... But now there's only two comments...

[@courtneyverhoek9547]

ha! Leo is the oldest and wisest and the leader! (i knew those last two). Leo's my fave.

[@jinpachimishima4415]

Same man

[@simoneathenapangkoy460]

Me too!

[@johnkelso1492]

I love these guys they are awesome ninjas and I love their lair it amazing

[@kylephantom4]

I was like lol when I saw "Jones is everywhere" Now I just can't to see how Raph and Casey are going to meet in the series XD

[@leahlovell6573]

I love the TMNT 2012 show my favorite is mikey who else here loves mikey write it in the comments

[@brambleberryproductions1235]

question,he said leo passed,all he did was say the cages weren't locked,and they all fell,how has leo passed his test?

[@setsers1]

Lol Tmnt NES Game Over Music at 5:22 XD

[@tyrusward4397]

Kawaii Chan...

[@setsers1]

missed u too

[@kourage87]

Yes!! As soon as I heard it, I got the urge to play the game so badly.

[@myedg1520]

Rise of the tmnt raph finally got his dream to be the leader

[@allisonmayer9068]

12:52. All I thought was: Well I'll go get the popcorn. Cause its story time.

[@ksb4822]

17.12 "Do not Come on me Raphael" that made me laugh

[@user-oz9yq7kn9d]

17:12

[@1ario15]

I wish this was an episode

[@jennifersouthall9636]

This is amazing but it has a little mistake in it. Leo isn't the oldest; Raph is. Raph first, then Leo, Doni and of course Mikey :)

[@leahlovell6573]

Yes he is it is Leo raph Donnie and mikey

[@Jinaria101]

That’s only in the rise series. Leo has always been the oldest in every incarnation of the franchise. The rise series is one of the exceptions.

[@elleackermann7630]

I thought Splinter would be in the tengo costume thing.

[@CurtIsTheSillo]

I recognized it as well. It's nice they gave a shout out to one of their old games.

[@crcoghill]

oh god~ it's splinter~ i would have never guessed it was him~ who else would have know everything about the turtles and put them into tests to make them work as a team~? oh the shock and horror~.....sarcasm is hard to do on youtube. other than that, it's an ok comic.

[@ItsLukeyB]

Sarcasm is actually a sign of unintelligent insecurities... so gladly point out your plotholes next time you look in the mirror. Thank you! :)

[@crcoghill]

...what? "unintelligent insecurities"? i'm not insecure about how dumb or smart i am, i was just saying that it was obvious plot twist. sure, it's not bad, but just saying. hell, i said it was a good comic.

[@ItsLukeyB]

Lol, I was joking too. Sorry I was a little misleading. :)

[@crcoghill]

dang! i fall for those all the time. i've always been gullible. it's a curse. though, not all the time, but it pops up alot.

[@crcoghill]

true.

[@airelizvelez7168]

I love my Ninja Turtles and I'm also huge fan😉💘

[@textingstoriescentralyt9790]

I am sooooooo with you I love the TMNT they are sooooooo cool

[@crimsonfrost2146]

Cuz he never seen one in his life. They lived in the sewer for 15 years without knowing about the surface.

[@nismosimo]

Omg! They don't know what pizza is yet!!! Lol!!

[@JayviLewis-rn9ik]

In tales of the tmnt 2012 mikey always saves the day but Raph Leo and Donnie don’t Mikey should be the leader

[@naturalnat3452]

And I'm just now finding out about this comic?!?! Wow!

[@nadiarey7547]

Wow, nice! Love the short story

[@lovelycinnamonrollqueen2866]

Did anyone even notice a BARELL!!! That says TCRI with the comic with Donnie

[@gunstrokethecybertronian4889]

Yes and it was two barrels I read them

[@gunstrokethecybertronian4889]

Jesse Fernandez Scratch that its three barrels of T.C.R.I

[@michaelawinter3443]

I'm loving this

[@cierraisaac9117]

Dude how did Master Splinter make his voice like that? And it's sound weird when Mikey said "What pizza?".

[@TheBlackslimer]

boyakasha? what happened to cowabunga?

[@AdamRWilkins]

anyone know why i'm not hearing any voice acting when i'm on the nick.com's site?

[@TMNTLover2012]

i love tmnt so much!! On the german website aren´t all comics

[@shann7567]

she didn't. u can find these comics on the nickelodeon website. I've read them like 1000 times. they're awesome!

[@dr4c0blade]

It left with the eighties.

[@diyrainbow4139]

oooooooooooo TURTLEZ🥰

[@hardygal2]

I frigging hate that electronic lock…

[@multiplefandomlover7179]

i love the series and these comics

[@oakland002]

Ok the combination lock that was good but those target things... Yeah don't see the point to them .. Like the fact that they were able to get the actual voice from the show

[@luana_0310]

Cool love this Video

[@petewentzpetewentzgirl4786]

Whats the website for this. ???

[@TeaDoogun]

Thanks for this, very fun :)

[@shann7567]

well, I don't think so. but if you go to nick.com you can watch them. just click on TMNT on nick.com and click comics.

[@MegaSuperkazimyoutub]

Jones is everywhere is that familiar because it has to be Casey. Two reasons, his last name is jones and there was a guy wearing a goalie mask

[@theguy6079]

epic comic

[@LachArtur]

Ya turtles think that master sprinter is tingoob or tingu what ever sdtupied name....... and u saw the faces like master splinter said (Master splinters voice) yes... abd no

[@TheOchitsuke]

Thanks for doing this.

[@Pilot231]

nice. =) Just as funny as the episodes.

[@TheBlackslimer]

and yet they still say turtle power in the theme song

[@Toffee_Coffee]

It sounds weird when Mikey says "What's pizza?"...........

[@SangheiliSpecOp]

Thaaannnkkk you!

[@kukumelon2316]

1:45

[@angelitastevenson6966]

i came here cuz its boring right now cuz its like midnight and the comic on the site has no sound anymore WAAAAAHHHHHHH

[@HassanGigant]

There are a lot of continuity errors here.

[@ADHadh]

I've found it myself: it's the Game Over jingle from the first NES TMNT.

[@SummerNight-lh4ob]

Really Donnie hitting Mikey

[@UmberRose]

Thanks for this!

[@ignusrakotoki4644]

How old is their fan Base? I mean, they're way too simple.

[@airelizvelez7168]

Well I'm 18 and I still watching Ninja Turtles

[@maxsotomayor3674]

Casey Jones was HERE!🏒 15:00

[@shadowcat63]

Cool very cool

[@tiphinisimms492]

25:12 was so funny u heard the record scratch

[@SolidSonicTH]

Mikey sounds like Beast Boy in my head.

[@ThirtyfourEC]

*spoilers* He's a Human transformed into a Rat (Human with rat features like the turtles are turtles with human features)

[@elijahirby250]

nice donatello the best every one two

[@MrJojilamassu]

0:59 mk reference

[@Benjamillion]

4:26 they can't even spell "definitely" right

[@Benjamillion]

no, it's just one of those words that our country is starting to lazily mispronounce these days

[@ADHadh]

That jingle at the end... doesn't it come from one of the NES games?

[@crayonpack]

I would actually laugh my tail off if I actually heard donnie say bla bla XD

[@inalichatlands9715]

WHAT IS THE WEBSITE CALLED o.o

[@luckff-112]

Hello it's me the one who made this video no joke

[@eat_a_friggin_snickers]

it's on the TMNT page of nick.com but they changed the sequence of the voicing and stuff which really sucks...