Orange Triceratons Are The Meanest Bastards In TMNT: Shredder’s Revenge
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge is stuffed to whatever the turtle equivalent of gills is (lungs?) with enemies eager to stomp on our half-shelled heroes. But above all others, the meanest are almost certainly the orange Triceratons.
Now, I'm not a TMNT lore hound, so I wasn't familiar with the Triceratons before I began playing Shredder's Revenge over the weekend. But, with a cursory skim through their Fandom page, I've learned that these bipedal triceratopses breathe nitrogen and get "sick" and "delusional" if they take in any oxygen. That's pretty badass and I have no choice but to stan — theoretically. In practice, these oxygen haters are the meanest bastards I've encountered so far in Shredder's Revenge and I get annoyed whenever they appear on screen.
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They first show up in the Natural History Museum in "Dinosaur Stampede!," the game's eleventh level. As you stroll by a display, a pair of Triceratons stand still, pretending to be part of the exhibit, then jump down and start wailing on you. Another waits further down, hidden behind a triceratops standee. Later on, one jumps through a painting! From the Fandom wiki's assessment that they become delusional when exposed to oxygen, you might expect these Triceratons — who are not equipped with any kind of mask, hose, or tank to get that sweet, sweet colorless, odorless element into their lungs — to swing recklessly and charge randomly. But, the trickery they display in this level flies in the face of that hypothesis. The Triceratons are clearly thinking ahead, lying in wait, and formulating plans for how to strategically rout our heroes in a half shell. Despite being aliens from the
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