Warning: The following contains spoilers forTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem.TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesgot their start in a gritty comic book series in the 1980s, but since then, their story has been adapted for several animated movies and series, video games, and live-action movies. Their story has even been adapted for other comic books. The most recentNinja Turtlesadaptation isTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, which sees the turtles take on villains who are just like them.
Over the course of the movie, theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesface off against characters like Superfly, Cynthia Utrom, and more. After they work to save their beloved New York City, however, there are plenty of teases about what’s up next for the turtles. Some of those teases come courtesy of a sequence right in the middle of theMutant Mayhemcredits.
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What Happens In The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem Post-Credit Scene?
ThoughTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhemdoesn’t have a traditional post-credit scene, it does have a sequence in the middle of the credits. Unlike credit scenes in superhero movies like in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the tease is for what happens right after the Ninja Turtles have saved New York.
The four teenage turtles are enrolled in high school at the same schooltheir ally April O’Neilattends. They are welcomed by their classmates instead of shunned for their appearance, something Splinter had always been worried about. Vignettes show how each of them finds their own friend groups and has their own hobbies within the school setting. April and Leonardo, however, continue to look into TCRI, the scientific group responsible for the ooze that caused the turtles to mutate in the first place.
While the turtles attend Prom with their friends during theMutant Mayhemcredits, it’s revealed that Cynthia Utrom is keeping an eye on them. In fact, she’s using the technology at her disposal to spy on the mutated animals and their allies. She still wants to capture them, and she tells her employees that it’s time to call on anotherTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesvillain for help.
The Ninja Turtles Will Likely Face Shredder In The Sequel
The person that Cynthia Utrom tells her employees they need to call is The Shredder. Though there are plenty of other villains in the Ninja Turtles canon, Shredder is the most recognizable. The character appears in almost every adaptation of the turtles’ story, even when he’s not the primary villain.
Shredder’s original backgroundin theNinja Turtlescomicsinvolved him becoming a member of the Foot Clan to build up is skills and seek revenge on the person who killed his brother. That person was the man who owned a pet rat named Splinter. Splinter would eventually seek to honor his owner by stopping Shredder and the Foot Clan. It’s unlikely that the origin story for Shredder will be exactly the same followingMutant Mayhemsince Splinter is portrayed as a common New York City rat who uses exercise videos to originally learn (and teach the turtles) martial arts skills. That doesn’t mean Splinter and Shredder can’t eventually become arch enemies just like they are in other iterations of the story.
A sequel and a streaming series for Paramount Plus have already been greenlit forTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem. Though Shredder could pop up in either of those projects, it seems likely that he will be the main villain in a sequel movie, allowing other lesser-known villains to pop up in single episodes of the streaming series. The animated series that have come before have seen a lot of success with “monster of the week” formats with different villains. Shredder will be hunting the turtles down for Cynthia Utrom.
Cynthia Utrom Also Means There Is A Longer Plan For The Movies
Cynthia Utrom being the one really pulling the strings inTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhemmeans that there is a longer plan in place for the new adaptation. Though the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles initially believe that Superfly and his allies are the criminals in the city, it turns out that themutated animals like Wingnutand Scumbug who are with Superfly have been raised by him. He’s raised them to believe that humans are evil, and that idea is partly put in place by Cynthia Utrom attacking Baxter Stockman and trying to take Superfly and all of his siblings.
Cynthia Utrom tells the turtles her plan is to create her own version of super soldiers using the unknown chemicals in the ooze that Stockman used to create Superfly and his other experiments.The same ooze created the Ninja Turtles, which is why she wants their blood, to synthesize it and create her mutated animals. While that could be the truth, there could also be more to it than that.
Utrom, after all, is aNinja TurtlesEaster egg. Her surname is actually the name of a race of alien beings in theNinja Turtlescanon. It’s the same race of beings that Krang, the villain most often present in the late 1980s/90s cartoon series. The company that Baxter Stockman works for inMutant Mayhem, TCRI, is typically a front for the Utrom aliens inNinja Turtlesprojects, though their relationship to the ooze changes in different continuities.
With both Shredder and the Utroms on the way, the newest adaptation ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtleshas a lot of interesting storylines coming up.
