TMNT is Reversing the First Film's Saddest Moment
The saddest moment in the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtleslive-action films is reversed in the current continuity of the IDW Publishing comic book series. In the comics, the Turtles have gone through their fair share of hardships and defeats, especially at the hands of the Foot Clan and their leader, the Shredder. After one particularly devastating defeat where the Turtles barely escaped the Foot with their lives, the comics reversed the Turtles’ saddest movie moment.
In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#29 by Kevin Eastman, Bobby Curnow, Tom Waltz, and Ross Campbell, the Turtles have fled to a house in Northampton owned by April O'Neil's family. They leave New York City in order to heal after they battled the Shredder and his evil clan of ninjas. The Turtles found themselves facing off against the Foot after their attempt at rescuing Leonardo who had been kidnapped by the Shredder and brainwashed into fighting alongside him. During the fight, his brothers were finally able to get through to Leo and extracted him without losing any more of their allies.
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While the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were successful in saving Leonardo, he was still badly injured from the violent conflict both physically and mentally. Leo’s greatest hurdle after leaving the Foot behind is resetting his mind and fully accepting that the Shredder is not his master and that Splinter and the other Turtles are his true family. To help with that process, the Turtles along with Splinter, April and Casey, go up to the wide-open forest property owned by April’s parents, a place of healing that is free of threats with Raphael being the one brother who is trying to help Leo more than the
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