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• This was Mako's last film.
  
  
• Oscar-nominated actor Mako was announced as the voice of Splinter at San Diego Comic Con the day before he died. Fortunately, he had finished the majority of his acting.
  
  
• All the Generals' names are loosely translated from Spanish: Aguila (means "Eagle"), Gato (means "Cat"), Serpiente (means "Serpent") and Mono (means "Monkey").
  
  
• The film was dedicated to the memory of Mako. Mako played Master Splinter in the film.
  
  
• Towards the end of the film, several items are shown that reference the live action movies. These include: The Shredder's helmet and staff, a Foot Ninja Mask, the canister of ooze that mutated the turtles and Splinter (labeled TCRI instead of TGRI, though a crack is strategically placed to work either way), the Time Scepter, Walker's hat, Lord Norinaga's helmet, and pieces of the suits of armor worn by the Turtles in the third film.
  
  
• During the first Nightwatcher scene, when the criminals are fleeing, one of the signs on the shops in the background spells out "monro" in hiragana, a Japanese writing system, which is most likely related to the writer and director Munroe.
  
  
• Specific dialog makes references to the previous live-action films. In the battle with the Foot Clan, Casey Jones says, "Two minutes for high sticking!" which was one of his lines from his introduction in the same film. The very last line of the film, spoken by Raphael is, "Man, I love being a turtle!" which has been spoken in each of the previous films.
  
  
• Despite the film taking place in New York City, only one real life New York landmark was shown, the Brooklyn Bridge. Most of the cityscape in the film is fictional.
  
  
• Splinter's appearance is generally consistent with the previous movies (in which he is depicted as having brown fur), although in this movie, he wears a proper karate gi, as opposed to dirty rags from the previous movies. His right ear is also no longer cut as it was in previous movies. Kevin Munroe jokingly responded that Splinter had an otoplasty.
  
  
• Jim Cummings is the only Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles actor to make it into this movie since his first TMNT appearance in the 1987 version of the classic TMNT cartoon series, which he played Leatherhead, Genghis Frog, and the 1991 alternate of Shredder.
  
  
• One of the arcades at the Turtle's lair features the character Zeus from Imagi's animated TV series, "Zentrix" (2001).
  
  
• During Raphael's finishing lines, the phrase "we strike hard and fade away into the night" was used. That was also the ending line in the first TMNT comic.
  
  
• As revealed on the director's commentary on the DVD one of the early drafts of the script had Raphael briefly dying and Donatello using Winter's technology to bring him back to life. This idea was turned down by Peter Laird however who disliked the idea of having one of the turtles dying.
  
  
• The film's lead track "Shell Shock" by Gym Class Heroes originated as a freestyle rap performed at a concert they performed at.
  
  
• The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie with the largest money budget ever made. The amount of it's budget surpasses the live-action trilogy's amounts.
  
  
• The first entirely animated Ninja Turtle movie.
  
  
• Some of the 13 monsters are based on actual 'monsters' from popular myth - the first one that appears in the unfinished building is based on the Yeti, the next one to be captured is obviously the Cyclops, the one that eats a pigeon on a building is clearly modeled on gargoyles, and the one in the diner brings to mind the Jersey Devil.
  
  
• Karai's first movie appearance. Karai is the daughter of Shredder in the comic book and 2003 animated TV series.
  
  

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