Pop Culture References of Wizard101: Wizard City – Go Ninja, Go Ninja, Go!

Pop Culture References of Wizard101

Staff – Stick, Splinter
Purple Ninja Pig – Donatello
Orange Ninja Pig – Michelangelo
Red Ninja Pig – Raphael
Blue Ninja Pig – Leonardo
The Shedder – Shredder
B-Bug/Roachsteady — Beebop/Rocksteady

http://www.wizard101central.com/wiki/Quest:Go_Ninja,_Go_Ninja,_Go!#axzz7R0wIrvHc
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles

Landscaper Doug sends your wizard on a quest to find out who has been shedding all over the tunnels of Wizard City’s Underground. Doug has been getting blamed and doesn’t like it. You first meet up with B-Bug and Roachsteady

After defeating B-Bug and Roachsteady, Doug the Landscaper will then send you on a quest to defeat The Shedder. Along the way you will meet Staff, a Ninja Master (Staff’s name alludes to the original inspiration for the Ninja Turtles as part of the Marvel comics Daredevil mythos. Stick, a ninja master trained Daredevil) and his adopted sons, The Ninja Pigs.

Eventually you will tangle with The Shedder, B-Bug, and Roachsteady and once you have defeated them all you will have cleared Landscaper Doug’s good name.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is an entertainment franchise created by American comic book authors Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. It follows Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo, four anthropomorphic turtle brothers trained in ninjitsu who fight evil in New York City.

In most versions, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are created when four baby turtles are exposed to radioactive ooze, transforming them into humanoids. They fight evil in New York City, where they reside in the sewers.

Leonardo, typically the leader, is the most disciplined and skilled turtle; an expert swordsman, he wields two katana and wears a blue bandana. Raphael, usually portrayed as the strongest and most reckless turtle, wears a red bandana and uses a pair of sai. Donatello uses his intellect to invent gadgets and vehicles; he wears a purple mask and uses a bo staff. Michelangelo is the least disciplined and most fun-loving turtle, and is usually portrayed as the most agile, he wears an orange bandana and uses nunchucks.

Splinter is a mutant rat who is the wise adoptive father of turtles and teaches them ninjitsu.

The Turtles’ nemesis and most prominent foe is the Shredder, who leads the criminal ninja clan known as the Foot along with his buffoonish henchmen, Bebop and Rocksteady, a mutant rhinoceros and warthog.

Additionally the name of this quest is an allusion to the lyrics from the Vanilla Ice song featured in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze. View the video here.

I have always loved the pop culture references in Wizard (and Pirate) 101. This series was inspired by a series I did featuring the Heroes of Lemuria and their ties to early 20th Cent. pulp heroes. This is the fourteenth article chronicling the #W101PopCulture references starting in Wizard City. The current list of all the (known) Wizard City references can be found here. These articles were originally put together for a Facebook group I belong to. Although I am well versed in Pop Culture references but I do not claim to have caught them all. Let me know your favorites in the comments and if I’ve missed one you caught, let me know so I can add it to the list.

Text for this article is excerpted from the linked wiki pages

The character images from the ‘Go Ninja! Go Ninja! Go! quest are from Wizard101, and are copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment.
They are being used in a way that qualifies as fair use under US copyright law.

Stick is TM (c) Marvel Comics

All Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Images TM (c) Paramount Global
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles created by Eastman and Laird