The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have been knocking around pop culture, kicking ass and eating pizza, for four decades—and the new animated movie, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem, reboots the franchise for a new generation.
This time around, the heroes in a half shell Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo are voiced by Nicolas Cantu, Brady Noon, Micah Abbey and Shamon Brown Jr., while their friend and ally, budding reporter April O’Neill, is played by The Bear‘s Ayo Edebiri. Martial arts movie star Jackie Chan plays their adoptive father Splinter, and the movie’s main antagonist Superfly is voiced by Ice Cube, backed up by a supporting cast of impressive cameo voices which include Paul Rudd, Rose Byrne, John Cena, Maya Rudolph, and Seth Rogen, who also co-wrote the script.
While Mutant Mayhem is a self-contained movie and offers up a fresh version of the turtles’ origin story, this project was also clearly designed to set up future installments in the franchise. And if there’s one thing that we’ve all learned from over a decade of Marvel movies, it’s that there’s no way to tease a sequel like including a stinger after the credits.
Does Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem have a post-credits sequence?
The movie does feature an epilogue, but don’t worry, you won’t have to stay seated and wait for the entire credits to roll before seeing it.
Spoilers ahead:
In a mid-credits sequence which plays almost as soon as the film is over, we catch up with Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo in a video diary as all four brothers adjust to their new life at high school, even attending prom, while April continues her investigation into TCRI.
But then the audience viewpoint pans away from the turtles, and we see that they are being spied on by TCRI executive Cynthia Utrom (Maya Rudolph), who still harbors a grudge against all mutants created by the “ooze” which transformed the turtles. But she is not alone: the final shot of the mid-credits scene reveals the silhouette of the Shredder, arguably the most iconic villain in TMNT history, who will undoubtedly be causing trouble when the sequel comes around.
Philip Ellis is News Editor at Men’s Health, covering fitness, pop culture, sex and relationships, and LGBTQ+ issues. His work has appeared in GQ, Teen Vogue, Man Repeller and MTV, and he is the author of Love & Other Scams.
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