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Continuity mistake: Leonardo picks Yoshi up from the ground after reviving him; his bandana goes down his left shoulder, but in close-up goes down both sides of his neck. (00:48:30)

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Audio problem: Michelangelo runs inside the burning hut yelling "Here I go!" with his mouth closed. (00:46:10)

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Continuity mistake: In Niles' POV, during their first confrontation in the middle of the village raid Walker on his horse is in the shade, facing Michelangelo in sunlight. It's the opposite in their respective close-ups. (00:44:15)

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Revealing mistake: In a complete non-sequitur, the Turtles declare that they are friends, taking off their masks. Mitsu picks Raphael's helmet up herself; not only her hands chance place on the helmet at the cut, but the helmet is soft rubber under her fingers. (00:40:25)

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Revealing mistake: When Raphael tosses the sai breaking Mitsu's arrow in two as she is aiming at April and Whit, before it cuts to the close-up the actress is smiling as she turns around, obviously pleased because the take of the throw worked. (00:39:45)

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Continuity mistake: Whit and April are fighting by the spring, and just before it cuts to Mitsu preparing an arrow, Elias Koteas is pounced by a guy wearing colorful rags in black, orange and yellow patchwork, a blue and white pattern bandana and black and white striped legwarmers. Behind Mitsu, meanwhile...a guy with the same horrid fashion taste is charging. What are the odds. (00:39:35)

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Continuity mistake: April screams and squirms to free herself from the arrow that pins her sleeve to the tree. Her hand is in a different position in each shot. (00:38:30)

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Continuity mistake: The Turtles are fighting the rebels by the springs. The first time we see Leonardo fight some of them off, his first action is hitting (with the side of the sword, we assume, or he'd slice it) the head of a guy, but the 'hit' is really a miss, since no contact is even remotely made. (00:38:20)

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Audio problem: Raph quotes Terminator just before he jumps in the waste disposal chute, but the animatronic's lips don't move. (00:34:00)

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Other mistake: Apparently, Whit is the only prisoner in Lord Norinaga's dungeon who wants to be set free; everyone else does not react to the fight, ask to be released or struggle in any way. (00:33:00)

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Audio problem: April is lowering the cage where a random doppelganger of Elias Koteas appeared in Feudal Japan. She says "I know I am gonna regret this", but her lips are not moving. A moment later she shouts "Well, come on!" and again there's no articulation of sounds from her mouth. (00:33:00)

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Revealing mistake: The Turtles are preparing their time travel. Splinter tells them "The scepter will be in the temple, which means..." Pay close attention here, because now the rest of the sentence is obtained dubbing the line over a rewind of the previous footage. (00:21:50)

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Audio problem: Battling the Norinaga soldiers in the castle, Donatello parries several katana strokes using his wooden bo, which causes sharp metallic sounds every time. (00:22:50)

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Continuity mistake: When the guard tells Norinaga about his honor guards; "They're coming! They're behind the wagon!", Norinaga's hand placement changes between shot and reverse. (00:28:15)

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Other mistake: Not finding his scepter anymore, Norinaga speaks in English to the guards. It's rather stupid of him to do so since it's counterproductive to show vulnerability to his 'ally' he wanted dead at the beginning, but let's forget that. The problem is that his envoy addresses the Turtles outside the gate in English as well. He thinks they are the honor guards, fellow countrymen, there's no reason why he'd use English. (00:28:00)

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Plot hole: It is explicitly said, with a mathematical equation, that time travel requires subjects of equal mass to swap places. Eidan Hanzei has a good 4 inches over Paige Turco, and the 4 honor guards don't have the same build between themselves, and surely not weight the same as the big and muscular turtles, who also have their shell adding further to the mix.

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Plot hole: Michelangelo ends up in the forest completely by chance because he can't ride and his steed dragged him away from battle. Not only Mitsu is there in wait exactly on the tree branch he'll pass by, but also a bunch of villagers are standing by with a cart to fetch him. There's no possible reason why the leader of the rebellion would be lurking in wait setting up a trap in that random spot in the woods, away from battle, where no Norinaga soldier would be. (00:25:30)

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Continuity mistake: When Michelangelo loses consciousness and his helmet, the helmet rolls on the ground above his head, but when the rebels are approaching to pick him up and haul him on the cart the helmet is by his shoulder. (00:26:10)

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Continuity mistake: When Michelangelo shouts "Woah! Good horsey! Good horsey!" the scepter goes from his left hand to his right between shots. (00:25:35)

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Plot hole: April and Kenshin switch place in time as they were - by some extraordinary coincidence - holding the scepter "at the same time" (if the concept makes any sense) in the exact same pose, with a switch that takes several second of intense lightning storms and 'tornado weather' as one of the Turtles put it. Here there is the assumption that 4 priests would be around the scepter exactly at the same time, and when the Turtles do switch with Norinaga's elite soldiers instead they certainly were in completely different poses, far away enough to ride horses, who did not get spooked one bit by the lightnings and sudden winds but rode as if nothing happened.

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