Mikey Goes To Oz
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When Mikey takes some time away from a loud family squabble he accidentally ends up getting “flushed” down the sewers. This winds up sending him to the colorful land of Oz where he meets a good witch, a wicked witch, a brainless scarecrow, a heartless Tinman, a cowardess lion, and a powerful wizard, all disguised behind very familiar faces.
A canon adjacent spin off set before the season one finale but after they discover Splinter is Lou Jitsu
I wanted to fit each of the boys into their “you’ve had this all along” category. Leo isn’t brainless, in fact he’s pretty clever with a street smart, people reading ability on par with Donnie’s intelligence. Donnie isn’t heartless, he just has a tough time expressing his feelings. They are complex and unalgorithic but he can get just as excited or sad or angry as anyone, as much as he may deny it. Raph isn’t a coward, but being brave sometimes means admitting you’re scared and that you maybe don’t have all the answers. You dont have to be strong all the time and you don’t have to do it by yourself.
In the movie Dorothy’s journey home is also a representation of her running away. The important thing was to remember there were people who cared about her. Mikey is experiencing a similar phenomenon, wanting the escape the bad vibes in the lair. His “you’ve had it all along” is interesting because it is an object, since the Ruby kneepads could’ve taken him home the whole time. And sometimes getting home means going on a journey only to realize you never left.
I put April as Glinda because Glinda appears as a defender of the weak, and I see April in a similar light. Always willing to help and beat someone up if it is so required. Splinter as The Wizard of Oz represents Splinters own willingness to hide behind different personas, his running from the past and the pulling back of the curtain for Mikey in timeline. The Wizard grows through the movie, albeit quickly, and ends up leaving Oz to go home leaving his legacy with the scarecrow, the Tinman, and the lion. In this case the passing of the baton to his sons.
Meanwhile Draxum as the wicked witch felt much more how Mikey sees Draxum at this time in the show, mostly just an antagonistic force who wants something from them. Fun fact: I imagine throughout this dream, Draxum is uninterested in being the wicked witch but is pressed into it via plot. Hence his disinterest in being “melted.”
Additional characters not pictured: Big Mama as the Wicked Witch of the East (those were her Ruby kneepads!!) and Todd as the Mayor of Munchkin Land. If you can think of more, feel free to leave them in the comments or tags.
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i finally reached wano! and the zolu reunion is just as good as all those manga panels i read before i even got to it for myself alksdjs
plus i have a small comparison i want to point out with the ending of the zou arc - to see how luffy and zoro were all smiles even when going separate ways for a while:
with most of the other strawhats (except robin and franky lol) being so freaked out by how luffy chose to get from the elephant of zou, falling down, basically. but luffy and zoro were just smiling at each other!
"see you in wano!!!" "you bet!!"
(and robin just waving and smiling is so cute too!)
and then you have the wano reunion, with luffy trying to guess who that person in distance might be,
until luffy hearing more of the conversation and putting it together that it's really zoro! (plus blushing!)
and the fact that they're again smiling so brightly at each other is just beautiful! <33 (i missed zoro in the past arc so much..finally at last, they're once again together. i will have to watch the anime version too)
I'm not sure which one of them is saying the 'it's been forever!' bc the verily hints more that it was zoro saying that, but either way it's so funny bc it was like a month max, right? maybe less,. so the fact that they were missing each other so much!! it just warms my heart so much <33
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u know when luffy woke up in alabasta and yelled to zoro the second he walked into the room "zoro! long time no see!" zoro was twirling his metaphorical pigtails n blushing bc luffy was missing him in his sleep
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Do I think Hunter and Willow were already talking about getting married and building a home together when they were still dumb teenagers and had been dating for less than a year? Yes, I think they were doing that.
Do I think that was a good idea? No, they probably should NOT have been doing that.
Did it work out somehow? Yes. Out of pure idiot luck, it did work out.
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