Could you imagine 2012 episodes in say, the FW, 2k3, Rise and Tales series?
 

Inspired by THIS thread...
https://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sh...ad.php?t=67694
...I figured it to be funny to think about 2012 episodes in different TMNT series.

And I'll start with one which would fit perfectly in the "Tales" series. "I think his name is Baxter Stockman." This is because the Tales series Splinter is very strict in his upbringing of the boys and I can so see him going "And what would you think would be a fitting punishment?" after the Turtles' skate stunt gone wrong.

Another contender for a Tales remake would be "Mikey gets shellance" I can SO see the Tales Turtles in that Kitchen rampage scene which opens that episode. Heck, that one would also work with the Rise series.

For the FW series, I can see "The Pulverizer" and "The Pulverizer returns", certainly that scene in which Splinter tells Donatello that if he trains him, whatever happens to Timothy will be his responsibility. Not to mention the switching weapons scene from the "Returns" episode. I can just hear the 1987 Splinter tell the turtles to embrace the unfamiliar.

I think that "The invasion" two parter would make for an EPIC 2003 series episode. That interaction between Casey and Raph, the conflict between Leo and Donnie and the fight of Splinter and Leatherhead against Shredder would work out so well in that series' canon.

Heck, I would love to see a FW, Tales or 2k3 version of "The Gauntlet" it would result in three VERY different takes on what I consider to be one of the very best ever 2012 episodes.

Let's see...

1. "New Friend, Old Enemy" could basically work in any cartoon. It's not hard to imagine any cartoon version of Mikey being tricked by a secret villain like that.
   
2. "Monkey Brains" could work in 4Kids provided Falco is separate character from the Rat King. I think it could also work for Tales. FW and Rise seem a bit too silly for that plot.
   
3. "The Pulverizer" is not too dissimilar from the Zach episodes of FW or the episode with that slacker in Tales.
   
4. "The Pulverizer Returns!" I suspect will essentially get remade in Tales.
   
5. "Parasitica" could work in 4Kids.
   
6. "Invasion of the Squirrelanoids" I could see in Rise and Tales. It seems too dark for FW yet too absurd for 4Kids.
   
7. "Slash and Destroy" is another episode I essentially imagine will get remade in Tales.
   
8. "Fungus Humungous" might as well be a remake of the Lovecraftian episode of 4Kids but is distinct enough to work as it's own story.
   
9. "Pizza Face" barely fits into FW (superficially dark) and I could see it happening in Rise.
   
10. "A Foot Too Big" is basically a sillier take on the concept of a bigfoot hunter in 4Kids. Not sure if it was intentional but still.
    
11. "The Noxious Avenger" as previously stated is a remake of a FW episode already, slightly grosser maybe but essentially the same.
    
12. "Meet Mondo Gecko" might as well be a Rise episode.
    
13. "The Weird World of Wyrm" shares one of the... Uhm... More infamous aspects that many episodes of FW have, please look it up if you have no idea what I'm talking about.
    
14. "The Outlaw Armaggon" does seem like the sort of DC/Marvel homage that you would see in 4Kids.
    
15. "The Arena of Carnage" is bizarre in the sense that it seems more like a remake of its 4Kids counterpart than an adaptation of the comic book story it was based on in the first place.

And that's about all the ones I can think of without needing to rewatch them.

Good point about Arena of Carnage. I remember a bunch of us were asking Peter DiCicco wtf about Zeno not just being named Traximus since they’re literally the same character.

He claimed they weren’t aware of Traximus and it was just parallel thinking and that ALL of their Triceraton’s had to have a “Z” in their name lol

I do seriously doubt that they hadn't seen the 4Kids version of that story before. The 2012 episode features scenes that resemble the new scenes the 4Kids episode added, while weirdly enough having fewer similarities to the Mirage story than the 4Kids episode. It's not just that the characters Traximus and Zeno are similar in concept, but the scenes they're in and the backstories they have are very similar too. There are also other changes that they share, like the Turtles fighting the Spasmosaur instead of it being the opponent for other combatant. Not to mention that the 2012 omits parts like the commentators and Monza Ram, which the 4Kids version did. With all of that mind, not only is the 4Kids one the more accurate adaptation but the 2012 version really does look more like it's directly based on it instead.

While it is technically possible to do that by accident, it's pretty weird that they would make virtually identical changes and additions, while also omitting various details from the comic that the other one did include and not really including anything the other adaptation may have missed. So, I do strongly suspect they watched the 4Kids version and based the script on that because it was just easier to a TV episode and take notes instead of reading the comic, then were embarrassed to admit that's what they actually did and renamed the added character in attempt to gain plausible deniability.