#scratch tmnt

I want him so bad why aren’t people talking about him more

A small concept comic about the Stranger Things kids, Braverman and JD meeting the 80’s cartoon TMNT characters, based on the IDW graphic novel using the Mirage versions.

The big reveal is JD’s mom Jocelyn died after a deal Bud Dean had with the Foot Clan went sour, the building she died in being Foot property Bud blew up. Scratch, a toy only character that inspired separate cat characters, I thought would be fun to make a former associate of Bud’s before he Mutated into a cat.

Krang used to work with Vecna at one point, with Dimension X and other Krangzoids being the reason Vecna became a Mutant in this universe. Naturally Krang and Vecna became… estranged, due to Krang being Krang, lol.

Additional information on how the TMNT, Beetlejuice, Stranger Things and Heathers fit together:

In the Heathers AU Beetlejuice exists and is something of a side character when necessary. When Heather Chandler dies, she discovers Hell does exist as she was chucked into the Neitherworld for processing.

Red catches up to what JD, Braverman and the Hawkins kids learned some time ago, that the Earth has a shadow realm enveloping it called the Upside Down and that neighboring dimensions orbit it like moons, for our purposes, that’s the Neitherworld from Beetlejuice (named after the cartoon version but a hybrid of it and the movie/musical Netherworld) and Dimension X from TMNT. (Turns out Stranger Things has its own Dimension X though what it exactly is isn’t super clear, though presumably the creators named it in homage to the TMNT version.)

There are some general rules, as the Upside Down, Dimension X and Neitherworld don’t typically directly interact with each other, (Vecna’s genocidal goals are frowned upon in Neitherworld as it needs Earth as it is to function), but since Red entered Neitherworld all bets are off. She kicked out Beetlejuice from his house, because it looked nicer, slapped Vecna in the face for being a prude and telling him where to shove it, and has gone joy riding through all three dimensions with the Hot Rodding Teens from Dimension X.

It’s implied through Krang, when Braverman, JD and the Hawkins kids visit New York (loosely based on the official crossover but using the 80’s cartoon instead of Mirage), that the Upside Down used to be a normal Earth, but a failed incursion by Krangazoids is what mutated the planet into what it is now.

Scratch: From Concept to TMNT Icon - TMNT History