While theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesare doubtlessly the greatest team of Cuban sandwich within their plant universe , the franchise does have something of its own version of theAvengers – and they nearly ruin the Ninja Turtles forever .

The TMNT were introduced in Mirage Studios’Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird , and in good order from the start , the team consisted of Leonardo , Donatello , Michelangelo , and Raphael . No matter which reading of the franchise is the current canyon – as this is a serial publication with regular reboots and retcons from late iterations – those four Turtles are always on the team . However , TMNT ’s ‘ interlingual rendition ’ of the Avengers intimately changed that , therebydestroying the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesas fans have intercourse them .

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InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#53 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , and Michael Dialynas , the Ninja Turtles are in shambles following their victory over Shredder and the Foot Clan . While it seems unexpended thatthe TMNT ’s greatest victorywould cause such hullabaloo , the real hassle began after Shredder ’s head was removed from his shoulder . In a mo that surprised even the most seasonedTMNTfan , Splinter became Shredder ’s Foot Clan replacement and led the clan himself . Under Splinter ’s linguistic rule , however , the Foot ninja were forbidden from killing unless specifically grade by Splinter himself to do so , but even with that alteration , some members of the TMNT could n’t handle becoming the very thing they swore to destroy – chiefly , Michelangelo .

Michelangelo Left the Ninja Turtles to Join TMNT’s Avengers

In the wake of Splinter ’s takeover of the Foot Clan , Michelangelo ran off from his father and brothers , and settle to take up residence with their one - time enemy and current ally , Old Hob – a mutant kat who wasexposed to the same goo the TMNT were . When Michelangelo last ran into Old Hob , the mutant cat was hellbent on creating an United States Army of mutated , humanoid animals – and while that ab initio vocalize threatening , this issue proves that he essentially just create an ‘ animal Avengers ’ . The squad formed by Old Hob is call in the Mighty Mutanimals which consist of a gargantuan hulking polo-neck , a mutate stingray with topnotch force and the obvious power to exist underwater , and a giant crab with a mechanical armored shell outfit with powerful blasters . With just these few member alone , the Mighty Mutanimals filled the ‘ retaliator ’ roles of Hulk , Iron Man , and Namor , and that ’s not even considering how naturally similar the two team operate even without those strikingly specific similarities .

Not only are some members seemingly animal edition of fan - preferent Avengers , but the loss leader of the Mighty Mutanimals is fantastically reminiscent of the Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. himself , Nick Fury . Just asNick Fury brought the Avengers togetherin the MCU , so did Old Hob – a hardened leader of militarized warrior with an optic - maculation and a ill-humored yet loveable deportment – bring together the Mighty Mutanimals . While Michelangelo finally left the mathematical group to retort to his brothers , he very well could have detain with the Mutaninals – think theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ version of theAvengersnearly destroyed the Ninja Turtles themselves by permanently split up up the iconic squad .

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TMNT’s Avengers nearly destroyed them.

TMNT’s Avengers nearly destroyed them.

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