#rottmnt timeline

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Rottmnt timeline:

Show starts in the summer, likely early to mid-July meaning April is out of school. (End of Aprils sophomore year)

Splinters birthday is placed in mid August

School starts again with Aprils Homecoming dance (start of Aprils Junior year). Operation Normal is early November, and Pizza week is sometime in January

The year progresses to Snow day which is most likely in February as that’s when New York gets the most Snow

Season one ends at the start of summer, during baseball season since The Shredder crashes a baseball stadium during a game

Lair games happens sometime in June (in the space between the start of season one)

Late summer boys go Todd scouting

End of summer the boys fix Draxum in time for him to start the school year as a cafeteria worker (start of Aprils senior year)

Big Mama’s battle Nexus New York happens in late spring, just short of a year since the last time they faces Shreddy

Krang comes two months after the finale, so it’s likely early fall (April is in college). 2 years since start of the show, it’s 2020

Season One follows more of the day to day/week to week whereas Season Two jumps around a lot more, likely due to its cut.

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RotTMNT Episode Timeline: Season 1

My 6th timeline so far, seems the least flawed at the moment so I’m going to post it. Reasoning under the cut!

Turtle Tots

-happens pre series

Mystic Mayhem

-first official episode in the series

-they didn’t go out trying to be heroes, but are proud of being heroes when they accomplish one (1) thing (not important, but adorable)

Origami Tsunami

-either the second or third episode, no later than that

-introduces them deciding to become heroes, but doesn’t introduce their characters the way mystic mayhem does

War and Pizza

-no turtle tank or other mutated villains mentioned

-raph’s powers are very new to where he can’t activate them, mustve just gotten his weapon

-COULD be before origami tsunami because April gets fired then is looking for a new job, but I am unsure, and it’s easier to say origami comes first

Donnie's Gifts

-is pre tank, meat sweats also seems to be their first encounter with a mutant in a villain capacity

Newsworthy

-HAS to happen early, because this is pre hypno part deux which is also pre tank

Minotaur Maze

-HAS to also happen early, because again, pre tank reveal

Shell in a Cell

-I put it here for another introduction to happen early, but namely after Minotaur Maze cause raph and leo have some unresolved tension by the end of that episode that could’ve added more fuel to the fire in this episode, where they finally resolve the issues

Repo Mantis

-HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME AS HYPNO PART DEUX

-spans about 4 days

Hypno! Part Deux!

-HAPPENS AT THE SAME TIME AS REPO MANTIS (during one of the 4 days)

-raph and leo have made up fully yay!

The Gumbus

-The turtle tank is a massive undertaking, so my HC is that Donnie isn’t in this episode cause hes working on it (maybe raph is doing some heavy lifting for don)

-the other non-Donnie episodes don’t work due to other plot things stopping them (you got served is later in season 1, nothing but truffle has to be AFTER Lou Jitsu the game)

-also, an introduction episode, which makes sense earlier in the season

The Purple Jacket

-if Donnie had a fully functional turtle tank full of lethal weapons, why would the purple dragons NOT steal it?

-and if they didn’t steal it, why would don depend on april’s bike for transport and not a shell hog??

-has to be pre tank, but my hc is near the finish of the tank, cause riding in april’s bike reminds Donnie why he wants a tank so bad

The Fast and the Furriest

-TURTLE TANK REVEAL

-has to be BEFORE every episode with the tank (a pretty good number of them) so is early series but has several buildup episodes before it

Down with the Sickness

-splinter gets sick cause of meat sweats

-could go basically anywhere but I like it here

Mascot Melee

-weird to put right after don gets mad at his dad, but down with the sickness likely provides a week or a few between the episodes before n after, since splinter now has to take care of his 4 sick sons

-taking care of said sick sons likely makes his robe fucked to all hell

-while splinter does mention training them, implying the episode happens later, this episode HAS to happen pre bug busters due to the appearance of the mascot mutants in bug busters

The Longest Fight

-Is clearly the second encounter with the foot the boys have had, given their overconfidence taking them on and raph’s confusion/dialogue about them not stealing paper

-this episode also introduces the motive of the foot, which tv show story wise, should happen earlier

-could be after bug busters but I think it’s before

Bug Busters

-introduces big mama/the hotel

-is early series, but all the mutants pictured by big mama as well as the tank must happen before this episode

-This means it has to happen after Turtle Tots, Mystic Mayhem, Origami Tsunami, Donnie's Gifts, Newsworthy, Minotaur Maze, Repo Mantis, Hypno! Part Deux!, The Fast and the Furriest, and Mascot Melee due to either meeting the pictured mutant or the tank timeline

WARNING: TIMELINE GETS LESS SURE THIS POINT ONWARD

(I begin placing things that make more sense based on a story, less based on physical evidence such as cameos/appearances)

Stuck on You

-after bug busters when leo goes rogue and they’re barely able to agree on a plan, raph decides they need to team build!

-thus… this

Mrs. Cuddles

-happens likely before nothing but truffle, and cloak and swaggart as this is an intro episode

-I put here cause don isn’t working on shelldon yet but can go anywhere basically? It’s the first reference that splinter isn’t just the lazy fat man he seems to be

-splinter and raph hanging out likely helped uplift him after being sad in stuck on you, plus prank could be revenge for doing that to the poor boys

Race

-I just put it earlier in the series cause of leo’s portaling inability. Def happens in season 1 cause of mayhem

Pizza Pit

-has to happen before Bullhop and Claok and Swaggart

-putting here cause after the first failed attempt at team bonding, clearly raph needed to make up for the discomfort of the stuck on you episode. Also pizza week!

May 2018: Bullhop

-happens in either May 2018 or January 2019, but I think season 1 is supposed to be entirely in 2018?

-the date is based on the calendar we see. We essentially see almost an entire week, and can determine the 6th is on a Sunday with the 12th on the next Saturday. Then look at the months in 2018 where those numbers fall on those days!

-pre smart lair, cause otherwise shelldon would’ve likely been seen trying to clean up bullhops mess

-episodes between this and bug busters were likely harder for leo to enjoy cause of his guilt about bullhop, he decides they have to help him (he regets)

Hot Soup: The Game

-casey intro episode

-seems mid show, but has to be before nothing but truffle and all other casey episodes

Smart Lair

-donnie made shelldon! Woo! He didn’t like cleaning up after bullhop it was a nightmare

The Evil League of Mutants

-reawakening of splinter’s body dysmorphia but also him beginning to try to be a better dad

-them finding out LJ is their dad

-Draxum’s motives changing from mutate all the humans and destroy his sons to find dark armor

Late Fee

-splinter gives sons a simple task n offers hugs. Is post shell in a cell, but other than that? Just. Can go anywhere again. I put it here.

Sparring Partner

-after evil league of mutants, raph wanted to spar more than his brothers usually want to. He got an idea from all the foot soldiers thus, this episode!

-has to happen post LJ: the game cause of casey

Nothing But Truffle

-has to be post Lou Jitsu: the game cause mikey goes on his own without raph, likely after he yelled at raph dr delicate touch style for bursting in on his first solo mission

Man Vs. Sewer

-is pre shadows of evil cause of the reference to “shady past” in terms of splinter: they don’t know his ID yet

-post evil league cause of crab brothers

Mind Meld

-has to be post shelldon and post purple dragons

-here cause donnie’s frustration at his brothers for stealing tires could carry over to why he wanted to fundamentally change them

Al Be Back

-post evil league of mutants cause of splinter’s increased effort to spend time with his sons (joining their band), pre shadows of evil cause IF LOU JITSU OFFERED TO BE IN UR BAND YOU’D SAY YES IMMEDIETLY so they clearly don’t know yet

-here cause Donnie joining in on brother’s tomfoolery as an apology to brothers and to repair the damage he did, ends up having genuine fun

-leo is more sus of donnie’s mistakes with tech cause of recent still healing brother bond wounds mayhaps?

Portal Jacked!

-THIS IS PRE YOU GOT SERVED

-leo’s portaling abilities are similar to “Mutant Menace” where he can summon big portals, but this is beforehand cause he’s less sure about summoning those portals and easier to portal jack overall

-hueso doesn’t like leo at all at the start. This episode is what makes him and leo closer, thus he asks leo for help in you got served

C.O.W.A.B.U.N.G.A.

-post nothing but truffle, because mikey’s fanboyness is toned down, the betrayal likely fresh in his mind

-can really go anywhere tho, season 1 or 2

The Purple Game

-post shelldon!!

-likely later on cause of leo’s successful portal and raph’s large mutant form, showing their mystic powers growth

Turtle-dega Nights: The Ballad of Rat Man

-pre shadows of evil cause splinter doesn’t yet know his boys are fighting crime (“what have you boys been up to??”)

-post evil league of mutants cause splinter’s body dysmorphia is fresher than at the start of the series (my hc is it got a bit worse before he had an evil to face, aka between evil league of mutants and shadows of evil) and he’s actively trying to spend time with his sons more even if he’s not exactly good at it yet

Shadow of Evil

-HELPS DIFFERENTIATE MORE PLOT cause boys find out a lot of info, so episodes where they don’t know said info must come beforehand

Jupiter Jim Ahoy!

-happens post shadows of evil cause boys know Splinter aka Dad = Lou Jitsu aka DnA donar

-the allure of dad is LJ is fading fast cause they’re remembering their dads a bit lame, but they still love him

Operation: Normal

-no boots exist in shadows of evil on the armor, thus this is AFTER shadows of evil, but BEFORE bending enemies to your will

Raph's Catchphrase

-post meeting and getting used to Cassandra as an enemy, but pre how to make enemies cause Cassandra isn’t draxum’s minion atm, she’s still with the flame heads

The Mutant Menace

-has to be post AI be back, takes stockboy out for the rest of the season

-other than that, this placement is p general, put here to space out armor episodes

How to Make Enemies and Bend People to Your Will

-post shadows of evil

-pre warren and hypno (via the shredder armor, it doesn’t have any hands yet)

Mystic Library

-LATE series, because of raph’s adept use of his mystic powers

-the foot guys messing with the turtles is maybe a power trip cause they feel more powerless with draxum in charge? That’s more of a HC though

The Ancient Art of Ninja Hide and Seek

-post shadows of evil, because splinter is training the boys more seriously

Warren & Hypno, Sitting in a Tree

-post shadows of evil and how to make ppl bend to your will

-April’s birthday episode!!! Now if only I could put a concrete date to the episode-

-armor is closer to being finished, but not actually visualized

You Got Served

-happens after portal jacked due to the nature of leo and hueso’s relationship then vs this episode

December 2018-March 2019: Snow Day

-has to happen after late fee but??? No idea otherwise

-it’s just. Here. Cause idk where else to put it

-theres NO OTHER indication of seasons???? It snows for 1 day and never snows again??

One Man's Junk

-boys know about mystic armor (are actively trying to find it), thus post Shadow of Evil

-we don’t see the armor in this episode, so hard to tell how far it’s completed, presumably a lot though

-unlike warren stone where they came across the armor, they’re actively searching, likely cause they can feel the proverbial end of the road approaching

Cloak and Swaggart

-sandro brothers are seen w/o mutation, BUT splinter is taking the boys on a serious camping trip?? Also the thing with sunita’s boots having to be after shadows of evil… Seems to conflict with each other

-thus I am going with the idea that the Sandro brothers are wearing cloaking brooches

-otherwise this would fuck with everything so hard

-putting it down here so there’s a more even spread of sunita and a break between plot stuff

Insane in the Mama Train

-end of season 1, happens after everything else

End Game

-end of season 1, happens after everything else

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Introducing Lita May!

I’d originally introduced Lita to my patreons, but Ive now changed a lot of her backstory (and design), because I was struck by inspiration at like three in the morning, (and was getting fomo from all the other absolutely adorable turtle babies I’ve been seeing)

So we all know Donnie created a mech body for Raph thanks to concept art, but in this AU, I feel like Donnie would be juuuuust morally questionable enough to think creating backup clones first would be a good idea. He wasn’t expecting the small bits of Krang tech he had to incorporate to have such a huge impact, tbh he wasn’t even really expecting anything at all—which is also why he used his own DNA for the trial run, and…since Donnie wasn’t expecting a success, he was pretty shocked at the final result.

Donnie was also only able to observe the first month and a half of “incubation” (tube not egg), but was, unfortunately stuck at another resistance base for so long, when he returned, Lita May had grown a substantial amount and was ready to be removed from her tube (he was back for like two days before she started opening her eyes and reacting to stimulus). She took three months total to grow.

Raph and Leo kinda don’t really know how to react to her. Leo immediately clocks the Krang characteristics and is pretty furious. Raph is just confused, but when Donnie fills them in on the origin of Lita’s birth, Raph’s not too happy either. Neither one takes it out on Lita. Donnie does get a pretty severe talking to. Mikey, Timothy and Cass are so excited, and April is beyond shocked to be named the godmother. The family keeps Lita a secret, but it’s evident that she’s got some Krang in her, and they all know that the other members of the resistance might try to hurt her, and ask Renet to take her. Casey loses his playmate, but he does get to see her every few months.

She’s kept in the dark about her family’s future, and is pretty mad at Renet for not warning her of her anything, and she eventually gets sick of the secrets.

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You will never guess who is back on the Huggy Leo train...

(me its me. per usual I am on the huggy leo train <3)

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More future timeline stuff. Drawing Mikey's hair was a lot more fun than I expected.

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twenties mutant ninja turtles or whatever you call it

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Babysitting

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Hi again

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We're making moves

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wait a minute... a cowboy... from the future... involved with military/resistance groups... and one prosthetic robot arm...?

it all makes sense now.

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Making my own rottmnt timeline (that includes lost episodes) and i think I'm going to start making vent posts instead of finding new friends to harass with my problems until they're exhausted/hj

So far I've put the episodes in a tenuous order. Because they aired out of order (evidence: hypno part deux happens at the same time as repo mantis but airs well after repo mantis AND the appearance of the turtle tank, also the first episode to show hueso is the fast and furriest, NOT the episode they meet him) I've had to basically just. Use context clues to the best of my ability and a lot of pain, suffering, and some tears. Now I'm going to try and make a timeline based on. Ya know. Time. As much as I can anyway with the like 4 dates the series provides

Below the cut is copy pasted woes I've sent to a friend

(These messages are sent to a friend over 24 hours of agony)

Fml btw

I'm trying to figure out a timeline for rottmnt

It is n ot easy

Also... I think I'm going to make my life even more hellish and include the lost episodes

I do actually have a pretty great source for those luckily!

https://turtlepedia.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Archer.Warrior/The_Lost_ROTTMNT_Episodes

There's a number of episodes that have nothing besides their episode name, some of which one of the creators said could be fake episide names. It's mentioned in this post

https://www.tumblr.com/yujateaandpi/704460357578670080/our-happygirl500-fan-so-ive-been-digging?source=share

these are all the episodes that have NO released stuff besides the episode name. not a description, not any concepts, nothing. some of them i do think are real (april showers and mayhem flowers) but some of them. no idea tbh

the post discusses 2 that person thinks are real based on context clues but yeah idk how many of these ill include in my timeline given i have NOTHING to go off of 😭

April showers mayhem flowers I think is to address mayhem leaving

Maybe splash hogs is something to do with the shell hogs or meat sweats?

In the og battle nexus NY, big mama and shredder were supposed to fall down to the hidden city, her hotel completely crashing down through NY. Maybe spiders web widens was supposed to be them helping big mama, or trying to, something referenced in the aired version of the episode when splinter tried to help her?

Friend: I think that could be likely. Read something awhile a back stating that, season 2 was gonna be more focused on big mama as the villain n so on and that.. would've really fit

Yepp. Cause the funny thing is that battle nexus NY was supposed to happen MID SEASON

And after that, they're basically trying to find her and the shredder cause they both booked it, racing against the foot to do so

Also something I realized since I'm obsessing over rottmnt atm:

It's Mrs. Cuddles

Who the FUCK is she married to??

-later-

I can feel my brain deteriorating

So fast and the furriest, newsworthy, and mascot melee, HAVE to occur before Bug Busters in the timeline. That also means hypno part deux and repo HAVE to occur before then, as well as donnie's gifts and newsworthy. Mascot Melee is the latest to occur in that bunch, because it's the only one post turtle tank debut. The rest are either the debut episode or don't have any turtle tank

So far so good, right?

Thing is timeline wise I'm trying to also follow along mystic power trends, so raphs episodes struggling with mystic powers/not yet doing a full body mode has to also be before bug busters. War and pizza, minotaur maze, and maybe longest fight? If I remember right?

Well longest fight does have to be earlier in the timeline because raph says "the freaky flame guys are back stealing jewelry", kind of implying this is the second time they've seen the foot, so it's def earlier/mid season

Friend: I admire you for how dedicated you are to this- doing what Nick refused to do.

That does sound right!

(Thank you dude that helped a lot)

Not to mention they underestimate the flame guys enough to keep watching skateboarding, cause they got a decently good victory against them the first time

Minotaur maze ALSO has to be pre turtle tank, because that's the episode they discover the mutant pizza place, which they visit when trying to find the turtle tankI think the gumbus happened while donnie was building the turtle tank. It's an introduction episode, so its earlier in the series, but there's 0 donnie (or raph, but raph could also be doing his own thing or helping get materials for don)I do think there should be some episodes between repo and turtle tank, because that was NOT a quick build, but there's only like 3 episodes without donnie and 2 of them have to happen a bit later

You got served has to happen after portal jacked, because portal jacked is when leo went from "annoying ass gremlin" to "begrudgingly my nephew". Why would hueso call for Leo's help pre portal jacked with how he was acting during the start of portal jacked? I think portal jacked is after the fast and the furriest, and cause Leo's been going there a lot he sees hueso as an adult he can get help from even tho hueso is annoyed af by him

And portal jacked should also happen earlier cause leo still doesn't understand how to get to the hidden city on his own, but if it happened after splinter began getting involved again not only would he be able to ask for the doohickey again, he'd probably *go to his dad for help in the first place*

So portal jacked is definitely BEFORE shadows of evil, despite what air dates tell you

Leo's portal powers are also more improved than the start, he's able to make large portals and usually succeeds at making them, but he gets the location wrong. Its probably just before or after late fee, where he also makes a large portal, but seems unsure if it'll work. Probably similar timing to mutant menace too, cause he makes a large portal but doesn't control where it'll go very well

So portal jacked is earlier making you got served later so it can't happen before bug busters

Nothing but truffle is the other no donnie episode, it has to happen AFTER Mrs cuddles though because she's in the episode. It also happens after repo, which does mean it *could* be while donnie is building the tank, but it's kind of implied meat sweats has seen mikey more than once or twice.

Idk, tbh I have a lot of trouble placing nothing but truffle

so far this is the timeline im most sure on. the highlighted episodes I have concrete evidence for their placement. i've inferenced the other two tbh but they make sense

as you can see, i havent even gotten to bug busters yet. it's so confusing rip

i think purple jacket has to be pre turtle tank because if the dragons could steal donnie's leathal weapon filled tank and use it, why would they NOT?? but they only stole his battle shells and tech bo, so i presume the tank wasn't finished yet so they didn't bother stealing it

shell in a cell just has to happen earlier to allow ghost bear to continue being a nuicence, i put it where it makes sense i think? may move it an episode or two higher or lower, but it's definitely within this list somewhere

I just thought this placement made sense cause the raph/leo fight in minotaur maze wasn't really resolved, so that tension could carry over to shell in a cell in which they make up and fight together

Smart lair I think is post bullhop, and bullhop is ABSOLUTELY post pizza pit

Things get more muddled after bug busters

The only things that have to happen a certain way is Pizza Pit -> Bullhop -> Smart Lair -> Mind Meld. There can be episodes between them, but they have to be in that order

-later-

Oh my god

Oh my god

Cloak and swaggart might be WAY EARLIER in the timeline than i ever expected what

There's a potential cameo of the Sandro Brothers pre mutation in it???

I'm losing my mind this would move every sunita episode up by a LOT

Cause this is the last sunita episode!!! But it has to happen pre evil league of mutants??

Oh my god

Now are they wearing cloaking brooches or name tags?

Probably name tags

Cause of the shape. Brooches are. Well. Brooches. Very semicircle. These are flat

But also this fucks with the timeline so badly?? Cause now shelldon has to be moved up, but also splinter is taking them on a training mission?? He didn't begin seriously training them until AFTER shadows of evil!

Fuck it. They're cloaking brooches. They panicked cause "I recognize that pig dude"

-later-

Should mystic library be before or after shadows of evil?

It's definitely later, cause raph uses full form mystic powers and increased size, his mystic powers are very adept. But how late?

Friend: Aftwr

Thank you

-later-

Tbh the biggest wrench in everything is Snow Day

Because Snow Day clearly takes place in *winter*

But there is NO WINTER IN ANY OTHER EPISODE

So it is just. An outlier

-later-

(NO SHAME ON THE PERSON WHO MADE THE INCORRECT TIMELINE BTW, THIS SHIT IS H ARD, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND MISTAKES)

If you read through all that thank you, you're lovely

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💥We bring to your attention our art collab!!💥

Me and @aimike17 have a lot of fun doing this 💞

The idea was that Leo and Donnie went on a stealth mission but everything did not go according to plan. Leo was too busy fighting to watch his back and Donnie didn't have enough time to stop the attack…

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Leo might not have got to spend much time with his niece in the doomed timeline but good timeline Mayday def has a fav uncle.

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TW: Blood/Injury

'You're a life saver, Casey Jones...'

He learned from the best :')

Gah...I just love making these bad future pieces..

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I fucked around and came up with a bad future Donnie design.

I spent time drawing this instead of studying for my chem exam 😀👍🏽