History in Brief (for Meta Heroes App)

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Because the wiki leaves something to be desired.

• Created in a lab by Baron Draxum, a yokai who wanted to create invincible warriors who could help him destroy humankind, in a bid to head off a prophecy he interpreted as meaning that humans would eventually destroy all yokai. He used the DNA of the human Lou Jitsu (real name Hamato Yoshi) to mutate Leo and his three brothers (who are all different species of turtle).


• Lou Jitsu, not wanting to see four adorable turtles get turned into living weapons, fought Draxum to escape with the turtles after their mutation. He was hit with the mutation ooze during the chaos and mutated with rat DNA, becoming a human-rat mutant.


• Lou Jitsu changed his name to Splinter and named the boys Raphael, Leonardo, Donatello, and Michelangelo, and moved them into the sewers where he would raise them. He was supposed to raise his kids in the way of the Hamato clan, teaching them how to fight in case they would ever need to face his family's ancient enemy the Shredder, but he didn't want to so the kids got no real traning.


• At some point between this and the start of canon, the boys met a human girl named April who became their best friend.


• One day the boys and April saw a cute dog-like creature getting kidnapped and tried to save it, leading to them meeting Draxum and learning he was the one who mutated them to be soldiers. In the chaos they accidentally let loose Draxum's "oozesquitos," which can mutate humans into animal-human hybrids. The boys decide to form a vigilante team called the Mad Dogs, with Raph as leader.


• During their adventures they have run-ins with the Foot Clan, a group of cultists who unbeknownst to the boys are trying to gather pieces of the Dark Armor so they can resurrect the Shredder. Eventually, Draxum joins with the Foot Clan in order to use the Dark Armor for his own purposes.


• Eventually Splinter came clean to his sons that he is Lou Jitsu, and explained the Dark Armor to them. The boys tried to stop Draxum from finishing the armor but were captured, and, trying to save them, Splinter gave over the last piece of the armor to Draxum: the armor's helmet, which he had been using as a teapot.


• Draxum used the armor to become powerful, but the boys remembered that they had broken the teapot when they were kids, and used a toy to fill a hole where a piece was missing. The boys hit the toy, which effectively stops Draxum, but also allows the spirit of the Shredder inside the armor to partially awaken. The Shredder is alive but in a feral state.


• Leo gets help from Big Mama, a yokai mafia boss, to stop the Shredder. He uses a collar Big Mama gave him to subdue the Shredder, turning him into a mindless slave, and Big Mama took the armor and locked it away.


• The boys continue their life fighting crime and hanging out until Big Mama traps them all in a "game" that she is broadcasting for money. The boys fight their way through, but then Big Mama sets the collared Shredder on them. Shredder is then taken by the Foot Clan so they can try to fully resurrect him.


• Needing a way to beat the Shredder, the boys travel into Splinter's memory and find a repressed memory about a weapon that has been locked away in a spiritual realm. The boys travel inside to get the weapon and learn it is actually one of their ancestors named Karai, who is also the daughter of the man who became Shredder many generations ago.


• The kids bond quickly with their ancestor (who they call Gram-gram), but by pulling her out of her prison they have also accidentally awakened Shredder's true nature. Their home is attacked by Shredder and the Foot Clan, and Splinter is captured while Karai is killed. Karai's spirit possess April so she can help the boys defeat the Shredder.


• The boys learn to unlock their mystic Hamato ninpo, allowing them to fight at their full potential.


• They beat up the Shredder in a wicked fight scene and everyone works together to defeat him and send his soul to the afterlife.


• Afterwards, with the day saved, Splinter abruptly announces that Leo is now the leader of the team, a position Leo did not ask for or want.


• Some months later, Leo is not taking his job as leader seriously, leading him to fight with Raph. During a mission he tries to show Raph up and ends up losing an artifact known only as "the key," which is taken by the Foot Clan.


• A boy named Casey comes back in time from the year 2044 and warns the boys that because they lost the key, the Foot Clan will open a portal and allow in an evil race of aliens known as the Krang, who were sealed away many years ago and if let out will destroy earth. In Casey's future, the brothers failed to stop the invasion and are dead, and Casey was sent back to hopefully cause a different outcome.


• The boys go to try and get the key, but everything goes to hell quickly and Raph orders a retreat. Leo tries to stay behind and get the key himself but is almost killed; Raph spares him at the last moment and is subsequently captured and zombified by the Krang.


• Angry at himself and the Krang, Leo tries to bruteforce his way back to Raph. This goes terribly and he realizes he needs to shape up and start taking this leader thing seriously, and stop trying to be the best and coolest.


• Leo sends Casey to get to the key (which he does) while he, Mikey, and Donnie go to the Krang ship to try and pilot it back through the portal it came from, while also getting Raph back. Leo fights with the zombified Raph and manages to break through to him, pulling him back to his true self. Together again, the four brothers try to fight the Krang but the Krang is too strong.


• Out of options, Leo teleports himself and the Krang through the portal into the prison dimension the Krang was sealed away in and then tells Casey to close the portal with the key, which destroys the Krang's ship and seals the Krang away, but also locks Leo inside with the alien.


• His brothers save him but for Meta Heroes I'm taking him from before that happens :)