Leo: Hey, Since Were Going To The Movie Theater You Should Leave Your Swords Here.

Leo: Hey, since we’re going to the movie theater you should leave your swords here.

Usagi: NO! I mean, can I at least keep Willow Branch on me?

Leo: I don’t think so. Why?

Usagi: Oh well just, there was this alien invasion from a different dimension and it kinda messed me up. Willow Branch helped me defeat them by like portal chopping them?

Leo: …

Usagi: I know it’s weird and very specific but I… I just don’t want to be without Willow Branch.

Leo: No, I totally get it WE ARE SNEAKING HER IN!

What a silly little boy

Raph: Today we’re doing some team building exercises, starting with the classic trust fall.

Leo: Pass.

Raph: This exercise is mandatory, Leo. Sit back down.

Mikey: Don’t you trust us?

Leo: I trust you and Raph. Donnie though? He will drop me.

Mikey: How could you think so lowly of your own brother?

Donnie: No, no, he’s right. I will drop him faster then a politician’s approval rating post election.

Alright, I think we’ve all seen the Leo and karai parallels which are definitely evident, but I don’t see enough, or any for that matter, Raph and Saki parallels.

A fierce protector of the Hamato clan, a leader and family member (or even father figure since so many people think Raph stepped up often to parent the others) who encounters the krang, is taken over by their power and twisted into a monster that harms their family? Specifically Karai? Karai who is a parallel to Leo??

I’ve seen so many people point out the way that Leo is held by Shredder is very similar to the way krangified Raph holds him when he tries to kill him but they never make the full connection. Interestingly they attempt to kill him the exact same way, claws and everything. Raph saves Leo both times, once from Shredder and then from himself.

(Not so) Fun fact! Shredder holds Karai the same way as he kills her.

How about the fact that even as Shredder kills her, Karai manages to reach out and find saki- even if just for a moment she pulls him out of his prison, just like Leo does for Raph.

The only difference is Leo succeeds in bringing Raph all the way back while Karai dies trying since both her and Saki have been weakened from their time in the twilight realm.

Both Raph and Saki were fully conscious under the krangs control and had to watch as they attempted to kill their family. Saki had to witness his daughter be killed by his own hands.

The Shredder is what Raph would’ve become if Leo hadn’t been able to reach him in time, or if Raph hadn’t found enough strength to break free.

Anyways have a nice day/night 😁👍

I genuinely believe that Yuichi would find Leo’s jokes absolutely hilarious  

In the scrapped movie intro both future Leo & April mention Leo having a team & the members of Leo’s team can later be seen getting orders from Leo

The members of Future Leo’s team seem to be made up of Todd, Draxum, a grown up Baxter, Hypno, Warren & an unknown moose character. I was curious about who the moose on Leo’s team was & discovered that he was probably Monty Moose 

Monty Moose is a toy line only character from the 1987 series which is a fun little reference but through some digging about the scrapped Rise episode I also found out that Monty was supposed to have appeared in season 2 in a scrapped episode called The Return of Monty Moose