Mutagen
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Mutagen, also known as Retromutagen Ooze, is a mucilaginous substance that has served as a key plot device in nearly every medium of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It is responsible for mutating, among others, Splinter and the four Ninja Turtles.
[edit] 1987 cartoon
It was revealed in the episode "Invasion of the Punk Frogs" that the mutagen can be made mixing nyotrinaline with Taxon-9.
[edit] Movies
As opposed to being labeled "T.C.R.I." in the Mirage comics, the canister in which the ooze is kept is written as "T.G.R.I.", in compliance with the plot. In the first film, the mutagen is shown as having been the substance that mutated Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo, Leonardo, and Splinter from ordinary animals into anthropomorphic beings.
Mutagen was a much more integral part of the second movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze. The Foot Clan had abducted Professor Jordan Perry and forced him to create a new batch of ooze. This mutagen was used to mutate a wolf cub and a baby snapping turtle into Rahzar and Tokka, respectively. Near the end of the film, Shredder drank some mutagen to become Super Shredder.
Jordan Perry explains to the Turtles that the ooze that mutated the Turtles and Splinter was a mistake. In Perry's words, "an unknown mixture of discarded chemicals was accidentally exposed to a series or radiated waves", results in the creation of the ooze which has "remarkable, but dangerous mutagenic properties." Donatello was pretty much disappointed and upset upon learning this, he always hoped that he found out the Turtles and Splinter were special, and believes that there has got to be more to it.
The canister was seen placed among the helmet of Shredder, the Time Scepter, and Yaotl's helmet in his trophy room in TMNT.
[edit] Video Games
In the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles GBA game, Mutagen canisters are used as health items.
