What if every mutant in the Playmates toyline for at least 1 episode in the cartoon?
 

I'm talking about all the guys who never appeared in the original show.

Wyrm = very easy to do, have him be mutated in the sewers and write him similar to the toy commercial

Half Court = Make him some black basketball player that got mutated, he would become one of the Turtles friends

Sergeant Bananas = he's a war vet from Vietnam who came back to the states, the Turtles have to help him come back to peace with his inner self

Hothead = Do something where an ancient dragon consumes him but make him evil

Monty Moose = Turtles go to Canada for an episode.

Pizza face= Mikey sees a new pizza place opened in NYC, he decided to order pizza and finds out the pizza hypnotises anyone who eats it to rob bank and steal from stores. Later Pizzaface is found to be the mastermind using mind control ingredients on the pizza

Scumbug also deserved his own intro ep, make him a human exterminator who blames the Turtles for accidentally getting mutated.

Do Scratch.

Well assuming he's still in his cat burglar set-up, originally he was just some guy arrested and escaped from jail which is why he's wearing prison clothes. In the original show mutants never went to jail, so having him start off as a regular cat doesn't fit for me. So I'd have him just as a human, gets mutated into a cat, and the Turtles come across him. I wouldn't have any connection with Splinter because there'd be no point then.

Do Hot Spot.

Hot Spot was the dalmatian dog of a famous mad scientist who wanted to replace all the fire hydrants in the city with sludge machines to get revenge on the fire department who "fired" him. Hot Spot accidentally got mutated and decided to revolt against his master and help the Turtles bring him to justice.

Do Scale Tail.

Thanks ChatGPT, do Doctor El

Oh, OK! How about this:
He's a regular cat who got mutated by the same exact ooze spill as the turtles and then lost his eye in a fight with Splinter, so now he wants revenge. Because that's totally the backstory of Scratch and certainly no other character, how could anyone dare to say I am pointlessly using Scratch when I could have easily just used a different character?

Doctor El is a voodoo african jamaican who mutated himself with an elephant in the african safari, he going to voodoo up NYC!

What if every Turtles Variant in the Playmates toyline appeared for at least 1 scene in an episode in the cartoon?

We saw some of them like The Dark Turtle, but can you imagine seeing Sewer Surfer Mike, how about Chief Leo, farmer don, Bodacious birthdya raph

Do Fugitoid.

lol, well done.

Farmer Mike in the Northampton episode.

It's weird Fugitoid never appeared at all, they could easily do a second Triceraton ep with it involved in space loosely adapting the Mirage story into a single episode.

There were 2 different robots that appeared in the show that could've easily just been renamed "Fugitoid" with a "close enough" story that it could've worked.

The Fugitoid is pretty easy, the Space arc would have been pretty easy to adapt for that show regardless. Just swap TCRI out for the Technodrome and there won't be a problem.

Also would have been funny if the real Man Ray/Ray Fillet showed up, not that random bastardized "Ray" fish mutant they used in that one episode.

I've always felt the European Tour season was a huge wasted opportunity to do just that, considering many of the TMNT characters in question have sort of a cultural slant to them. Shoulda just been a world tour, & you'd have the likes of Lionheart in England, Hot-Head in China, Monty Moose in Canada, etc. It's also insane that there's an episode where Baxter Stockman turns half the city into mutant insects & it's all just original characters + the Channel Six crew. Imagine if that had included the likes of Antrax, Scumbug, Needlenose, Killer Bee, Flyboy, etc.

That one already exists.

https://i.ibb.co/JW0DF5hb/pizzaface.png

Bebop and Rocksteady are arrested by the New York City Police in Superhero for a Day before Shredder saved them.

I'm looking through a list of toys now and a disappointing amount of those old action figures are not their own characters, but rather the turtles and a few other major ones in different outfits. It's making me realise the line was less like it had a billion characters like MotU or Transformers and more like Barbie where it's basically just one character with countless outfits... Though I guess with Barbie you can at least mix-up the outfits and basically create your own if you have a lot of the dolls, Punk Rock Turtles have the outfits molded in, so it's not like you can put them on another figure.

Anyway, here's what I can imagine for the few action figures that didn't make it into the show and aren't just the Turtles in different outfits:

• Sergeant Bananas I can sort of imagine a Frank Horrigan scenario, where he is an experimental mutant soldier used to fight mutants. If you've played Fallout 2 you know what I'm talking about.
• Wyrm can be a lot like the IDW depiction, with him being a collective of worms.
• Doctor El can be like a cryptic from Africa, a mysterious monster inspired by the real life problem of elephants being a pest for farmers.
• King Lionheart can rule over an Island of Dr. Moreau type place.

What the hell? Did Pizza Face make out with Leo?

That's AI-generated. The scenes are from Tower of Power.

There's a bunch of figures we have to see get adapted in other TMNT media.
The one I want to see adapted the most is King Lionheart. Its a shame that character was never brought into the IDW comics given how we have mutant town. So many miss opportunities.