Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Hard-Shell

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Heroes in a Hard-Shell is a 2D-animated action-comedy-drama series based on the hit underground comic Eastman & Laird's TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, as well as its many incarnations. It is currently running as a fan-fiction at: https://archiveofourown.org/works/14127303, as well as on the author's DeviantART gallery: TailsandSpike4EX, and on FanFiction.Net under the author named Sonic Thunder Saiyan Turtle (formerly known as Scrappy Doo Fan). They all go under the same name, but on DA, the chapters will be posted separately and not as frequently.

The series is rated TV-PG.

Synopsis
15 years ago on June 9, 1992, the recently-married HAMATO YOSHI and TANG SHEN had just moved from Japan to MANHATTAN, where they purchased 5 baby turtles from a pet shop. But due to an incidental encounter with a pet-store cat & rat, as well as a fight with some thugs in a pet store, they were all doused in a strange purple goop which transformed them into the animals that they respectively came in contact with...not to mention, it caused the quintet of tiny turtles to gain human qualities and traits. 15 years later in 2007, the 5 tiny turtle-tots have become five unusual turtle teens. At the helm is LEONARDO, the bold, self-proclaimed leader; the technologically-gifted and diplomatic DONATELLO; the short-tempered and wisecracking RAPHAEL; easygoing, adventurous MICHELANGELO; and meek, curious, & self-conscious VENUS DeMILO. The team ventures to the surface, only to end up coming to the rescue when the notorious Purple Dragons street gang threatens the city. But is there something (or someone) more fiendish pulling the strings?

The series draws inspiration from:
 * the original 1984 underground comic books, & the series that followed it
 * the 1987-1996 Murakami-Wolf-Swenson/Fred Wolf Films cartoon series
 * Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures, the comic series published by Archie Comics, and the Mighty Mutanimals comic spin-off
 * the short-lived live-action FOX Kids TV series (Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation)
 * the 2003-'08 4Kids cartoon (excluding Turtles Forever)
 * the currently-running IDW comic series
 * the 2-part 1996 Japanese OVA (Mutant Turtles: Chojin Densetsu-Hen)
 * the 2012-2017 CGI Nickelodeon animated series
 * the 2018/2019 Nickelodeon series
 * the first 2 live-action films with costumes done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop...and maybe SOME concepts from the cruddy 3rd movie, except executed better
 * the 4th, CGI-animated movie from 2007 (TMNT IV: Rise of the Immortals)
 * the 2014-'16 live-action film duology
 * the 1989 NES game
 * the Turtles in Time video-game, both arcade and SNES editions
 * the Game Boy trilogy:
 * Fall of the Foot Clan
 * Back from the Sewers
 * Radical Rescue
 * The Hyperstone Heist (Turtles in Time: The Sega Genesis cut)
 * TMNT: Tournament Fighters
 * TMNT: The Manhattan Missions
 * The Image Comics run (some concepts & characters)
 * TMNT: Odyssey, the fan-made comic which acts as an unofficial conclusion to the Mirage Studios era of TMNT.
 * Rescue-Palooza, the fan-made Ninja Turtles game based on the 1987 cartoon series

Seasons and sagas

 * Season One: The Krang Arc
 * 3-Part Pilot: Heroes in a Hard-Shell
 * 2-Part Special #1: Operation Neutrinos
 * 3-Part Arc: The H.A.V.O.C. Saga
 * 2-Part Special #2: Turtles in Time
 * 2-Part Season Finale: The Wrath of Krang
 * Season 2: The Shredder Arc
 * Season Two, Part 1: The Foot Clan/Mutation Mania Sagas
 * Season Two, Part 2: Ninja Turtles in Space Saga
 * Season Two, Part 3: Battle for New York Saga


 * Full-Length Movie Special 1: Turtles Forever: Re-Shelled
 * Full-Length Special: Bebop and Rocksteady Save the Universe! (takes place during the gap between Seasons 2 and 3)
 * DTV Movie: City at War: The Movie (stand-alone film)


 * Season 3: The Dragon Lord Arc
 * 5-Part Special: Bad Moon Rising/Unchain My Heart
 * Season 3, Part 1: The Sho-Kanabo Saga (First 13 episodes)
 * Season 3, Part 2: The Dragon Lord's Saga (The final 13 episodes)
 * 5-Part Special: The Wrath of Ch'rell (series finale, takes place six years after the Season 3 finale, based on the 2007 CGI film, TMNT IV: Rise of the Immortals)