selfishmisery
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I'm trying to figure out how I'm gonna label some of these.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (franchise) - Timelines
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When you go over this universe you should count only 2 (maybe 3) video games
Turtles In Time (SNES version)
And Shredders Revenge
The devs of Shredders Revenge seemed pretty adamant about it being canon and said this game was the first time Party Wagon was said in the cartoon continuity. It also references Turtles in Time SNES as canon because we see Rat Kings destroyed footski from that game during his boss fight. Turtles in Times timeline placement is a bit tricky it's probably towards the end of the series but before red skies, it's set in 1992 (arcade says 1991 but that's not the canon version). Shredders Revenge though is definitely set after red sky seasons due to showing how kraang rebuilt his body after it was destroyed in the finale, and the technodrome is still destroyed on Balarephon where it was left in red sky.
The newer Saturday Morning adventures comics are set directly before red sky according to the writer. It also implies Turtles Forever is set in the future due to Shredder summoning a future technodrome with it being the turtles forever one. This probably means Turtles Forever is at the end of the 87 timeline tbh. The comics also set themselves in 1989 because they have a newspaper for the 1989 New York Mayoral election during the election story they did with Chrome Dome. Which means the series probably starts in 1987, retconning the 1991 date from once upon a time machine. Tigerclaw appeared in a recent story where the Turtles enemies from past, present and future all get summoned and the only villain they don't recognize is Dregg from the red sky seasons and they don't say anything about tigerclaw so the events of the 2012 crossovers have probably already occured (I believe someone did a timeline video placing them in Season 2 and Season 3 respectively. The 2nd crossover with 2012 is definitely after that episode where they get turned into balloons though since it's mentioned in that crossover (wanted bebop and rock steady)
