10 Marvel Villains The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Could Destroy

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Marvel Comics shows a lot of love for New York, and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are the city’s premiere sewer-dwelling reptilian heroes. If the boys ever wound up on the streets of Earth-616, they’d instantly blend in with the world’s mightiest heroes.

The Ninja Turtles are far stronger and more durable than the average human, thanks to years of training and mutant physiology. If the boundaries between worlds got thin, there are plenty of street-level Marvel villains the Turtles would absolutely destroy.

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The Hand Inspired The Foot

The Hand is only slightly mightier than the Foot, if at all. It’s more a matter of perspective. With ancient roots and leaders cloaked in mysticism, the gang of assassins is known for moving in silence to eliminate targets and training ordinary and extraordinary people to become killing machines. The Turtles would be in their element in a battle against the Hand.

Elektra bears a resemblance to Oroku Karai, and Raphael ends her in the pages of The Last Ronin. Cutting off The Hand wouldn’t be easy, especially with a brainwashed Elektra standing in the way, but with their trademark turtle powers of perseverance and grit, the Turtles could do it. Their ninja techniques could probably get Elektra to see reason and gain them a powerful ally in a new battle against evil.

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Taskmaster Would Be A Challenge

Taskmaster can copy any physical feats or techniques he can see. His fighting skills are unparalleled because he is a parallel of everyone else’s skills at the same time. He’d be an issue for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, especially one at a time, but the odds are in their favor if they can get their act together. Four-on-one isn’t fair for anybody, let alone giant hulked-out reptiles versus a human man.

Taskmaster is the fighter who teaches young fighters in the Marvel Universe, but an older incarnation of the Turtles with practiced tactics and focused minds would simply overwhelm him. It would be an intense battle, especially if Masters observed Splinter or Shredder, but the story could delve deeply into the Turtles’ conflicts with one another as they use each other’s weaknesses to destroy an unbeatable opponent.

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The Turtles Could Impress The Champion

The Champion is a big-haired Elder of the Universe who shows up on planets without warning, demanding to fight their toughest combatants. He sounds like a deeply troubled individual, and on Earth-616, he assaulted some of Marvel’s strongest combatants until the Thing impressed him enough to make him buzz off. The Turtles, at their best and most practiced, are far more intimidating opponents.

If the Champion’s interplanar meddling roped the Turtle into his macho quest for an equal match, they’d probably each fight him and lose on their own. If higher masters fought the Champion and lost, the Turtles would bond together to take him on. They might not win, but they could prolong the fight enough to shame the Champion into leaving.

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The Mandarin Needs His Rings

The Mandarin is a master of martial arts, but without the legendary ten rings, he’s just an ordinary human man. The Ninja Turtles don’t typically wield magical weapons, but that’s largely because they’re less common in the worlds they occupy. Earth-616 is very different.

The Mandarin is a warlord, and his armed forces aren’t entirely dependent on the powers of his magical artifacts. The Turtles would have to assemble an army of their own, but they’re capable of that. If they equipped themselves with some of the legendary weapons of the Marvel Multiverse, it would be an easy fight that could change the world.

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The Turtles Could Beat A Different Kind Of Mutant

Earth-616 and the various worlds of the Ninja Turtles all have something in common: mutants. The biggest difference between Marvel’s mutants and the mutanimals of the TMNT canon is the idea of mutation, as Marvel’s mutants are born with an X-Gene. The Turtles would stand with the X-Men anyway, but they’d have all-new villains to deal with. Without Magneto, the Brotherhood and their allies aren’t so different from the goons the boys are used to. Marvel’s mutants are very different from the mutated animals in the worlds of the Ninja Turtles, but Sabretooth bridges the gap.

Sabretooth likes stalking sewers, but the Turtles know their home like the back of their hands. The Juggernaut is not a mutant, but he often works with and against them, so the Turtles would use his momentum against him anyway. Toad would remind them of their usual foes, and Magneto couldn’t affect Donatello’s staff, which is arguably the most powerful weapon of the bunch. If they were fighting alongside the X-Men, the Turtles could wreck all threats to mutantkind, animal or otherwise.

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NYC’s Animal-Themed Goofballs

Spider-Man is one of New York’s busiest and most important defenders. His role as the friendly neighborhood hero would eventually put him in contact with the turtles if they landed on Earth-616. Spidey can usually handle his wackier low-level villains, but some of his animal-themed foes would be especially fun punching bags for the Ninja Turtles, and it would lead to even safer streets.

The Rhino would remind them of Rocksteady, whom they’ve bested on numerous occasions. The Vulture is an old man who isn’t prepared for four well-trained ninjas, and the Scorpion resembles several insectoid mutanimals the Turtles tangoed with over the years. Kraven could get involved if the Turtles resorted to lethal combat, but he wouldn’t get the chance to display their shells as trophies as they’d take the hunt to him by appealing to his sense of honor.

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Sandman Can’t Get Wet

Flint Marko is one of the most painfully misunderstood heroes in Marvel comics. His life of crime and extraordinary powers come with significant downsides and weaknesses, and his biggest weakness would make it easy for the Ninja Turtles to destroy him. That would be avoidable, however, if they got the chance to discuss and come to an understanding.

Sandman can travel unlike any other character, moving his entire form as a cloud of individual particles of sand. He can make constructs and use sand-based weapons, and he’d be a problem for the Turtles until they got him wet. Sandman and water don’t mix, meaning the miscreant would be barred from entering the Turtles’ home or causing any real damage.

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The Turtles Would Evict The Mole Man

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles famously live underground, significantly impacting their chances of running into other people on their way home. If they found themselves warped into the Marvel Universe, however, the Mole Man and his off-putting moloids would change that.

Harvey Elder had a terrible childhood along the sliding time scale until he found the truth behind the myths of the center of the Earth. His army of subterranean titans has terrorized The Fantastic Four and the people of New York for generations, but the Turtles are accustomed to fighting on Moley’s turf. The fight probably wouldn’t ever go above ground, as the turtles could likely tame and talk with the moloids and swiftly dispatch Harvey.

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The Turtles Could Wreck The Wrecking Crew

The Wrecking Crew is one of Marvel’s least fearsome foursomes. Their vaguely construction-based names and techniques come from the Wrecker’s magic crowbar, and they’re strong enough to cause problems for the Defenders, Marvel’s least coordinated team. The Turtles at their best are better than that, and they’d probably be a good fit with the Defenders.

What the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lack in mystical powers and energy manipulation, they make up for in technique and teamwork. The Wrecking Crew are B-List goons at best, and they aren’t typically bloodthirsty. They were all ordinary working-class farmers and physicists before their life of crime, so the Turtles could probably pummel them into seeing reason before things got too out of hand.

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Kingpin Wants To Own New York

Wilson Fisk is more of a monster than four sewer-dwelling humanoid turtles could ever be. Every hired gun in New York and beyond is at his beck and call, whether his sites are set on Hell’s Kitchen or the rest of the city at large. He’s good at staying in the public eye, but the Turtles are just as good at operating from the shadows.

Die-hard fans know the implicit connection between Daredevil and the Ninja Turtles. Their first appearance, when a truck carrying mutagen nearly hit a child and dumped ooze into the sewer, happened in Hell’s Kitchen and intentionally mirrors Matt Murdock’s superhero origin. If the Turtles teamed up with their one-time owner, they could bowl over Bullseye and any other hired goons between them and the Kingpin.

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