This made her the first official female turtle introduced to the series, three years before Venus de Milo's debut. In the winter 1994 Archie Special, April was mutated into a turtle herself. Because of her frequent adventures with the Turtles, she lost her job at Channel 6 and became a freelance reporter.
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In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures series produced by Archie Comics, April began as a carbon copy of her animated counterpart from the 1987 TV series, but the writers developed her into a competent warrior after training with Splinter. In the September 1985 re-printing of issue one, artist Ryan Brown depicts April as a katana-wielding ninja warrior in his back cover pin-up. Eastman has since claimed that April is supposed to be mixed-race, while Laird retains that April is Caucasian. When the character was first conceived, she was initially planned to be Asian, but was named after an African-American woman that Eastman had once known. There is frequent debate, even among Eastman and Laird, over April's ethnicity. Most subsequent incarnations of April are redheads. The Mirage Studios version of April has dark brown/black hair (though early color reprints of Volume 1 depicted her hair color as red/light brown). Although the trip helped April cope with her demons and led to her eventual return to New York, her family history remained unexplored. Questions of realness and morality were too much for April she bid farewell to Shadow and Casey and travelled to Alaska to be alone with her thoughts. Although anything that Kirby drew with pencil would vanish after a while, April's father used a pen, which might explain why April lived past thirty without vanishing. She was drawn by her father before his own biological daughter Robyn O'Neil was born.
With the help of Renet, a time-traveler who took April back through time, it was revealed that April was really a living drawing brought to life with the help of Kirby's crystal. To deal with the emotional strain she became a female version of "Nobody", a vigilante crime fighter, until her identity was discovered by Casey Jones. The intervention saved April before Baxter's nanobots could reach her brain stem and kill her. With the help of the Utroms, the Turtles injected April with turtle versions of nanobots to stop Baxter's plan. In Volume 2 of the TMNT comics, April was attacked by a huge robot controlled by the brain of her former boss, Baxter Stockman, and injected with nanobots. During the mid-1990s, April became romantically involved with the violent vigilante Casey Jones, and the two of them eventually raised Shadow, the child of Casey's late wife Gabrielle, as their own. April and the Turtles retreated to a farm house in Northampton, Massachusetts to recover and during this time she suffered recurrent nightmares about the Foot Clan's attack. The shop was subsequently destroyed in a battle between the Turtles and Shredder and the Foot Clan. The Turtles later successfully fended off a MOUSER invasion.Īfter leaving her job with Baxter, April decided to open an antique shop. Robots chased her into the sewer where she was promptly saved by three of the Turtles.
She helped program his MOUSER robots but, after discovering Baxter was using them to burrow into bank vaults, she fled his workshop. In the original Mirage Comics storyline for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, April O'Neil was a skilled computer programmer and assistant to a famous yet nefarious scientist, Baxter Stockman. In film, she has been portrayed by Judith Hoag ( 1990), Paige Turco ( 19), Megan Fox ( 20), and by Malina Weissman as the younger version of the character in the 2014 film. In the 2012 animated series, April is voiced by Mae Whitman, in which she is her late teens. She was later portrayed as a strong-willed news reporter in the Turtles' first animated series, as a warrior in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic produced by Archie Comics, and various other personas in different TMNT media.Īpril was voiced by Renae Jacobs in the 1987 animated series, Veronica Taylor in the 2003 animated series, and Sarah Michelle Gellar in the 2007 film TMNT. Her main love interest in the series is Casey Jones.Īpril made her first appearance in the Mirage comic series in 1984 as a computer programmer. She is the first human ally of the Ninja Turtles. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #2 (October 1984)Ĭasey Jones (love interest/boyfriend/fiancee/husband)Īpril O'Neil is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics. Artwork for the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book 2 3 vol.
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