Team T.N.T.

*This article is about the 2013-2015 series. For the 2021 remake, see Tori and Nora.*

## Description

Team T.N.T. was a series made by Nisha C from 2013 to 2015.

In 2021, they brought it back, but due to the problematic nature of some of the content ( whitewashing, antagonizing people of color, etc. ), it had to be significantly reworked.

## Synopsis

### Episode 1

On Tori and Nora’s 13th birthday, their mom gives them a special present: a dusty old book. Tori is uninterested, but Nora quickly gets into it. She discovers the book is a sort of encyclopedia for some mythical world known only by the vague name of “the Otherside”.

That night, Nora finishes the book and makes another curious discovery. A string is taped to the last page, and tied onto the string is what appears to be a key. Nora looks at it for a while, then goes back to sleep.

The next day, Nora tells Tori about the key. Tori takes Nora to her room. She opens the closet and pushes her clothes away to reveal an ancient-looking door. Tori asks Nora if the key could fit in there. Nora is confused and asks Tori for an explanation. Tori says that one day, when she was clearing out the closet, she accidentally knocked the wooden panel at the back over and found the door. She tried to open it, but it was locked. She was hoping Nora’s key might be able to open it. Nora puts the key in the lock and it fits.

Once through the door, Tori and Nora find a whole other world. Nora looks through the book, which she had brought along, and finds that this new world is just like the book’s description of the Otherside. As Nora admires the scenery, Tori notices that she and Nora look different. Their hair is blue and they are wearing dresses and golden accessories. She points it out to Nora and Nora, being a tomboy, is repulsed, but soon accepts it. Suddenly, Nora hears something. An armored figure rushes out from behind the rocks, carrying a clipboard, which looks incredibly out-of-place and mundane considering the fantastical circumstances they’re in.

## Major Characters

Nora - Tori's twin sister. A tomboy, but is forced to be more "feminine".

Tori - Nora's twin sister. May look and act like a stereotypical "girly-girl", but is actually tougher than she appears.

Tyr - A Norse warrior god and the first character Nora and Tori meet on the Otherside.

Akhenaten - The antagonist of Team T.N.T.

Tutankhamun - Akhenaten's disowned son. Helps the protagonists, despite being related to their worst enemy. In the remake, he is replaced by Chandha.

## Changes

A list of changes made in the remake

* The term “Otherside” or "Other Side" is now used to describe the real world instead of the mythical world. The mythical world is now referred to as the Nine Realms
* Tori and Nora are best friends rather than twins.
* Tori is Norwegian and Nora is Black.
* People of color are not whitewashed or antagonized.
* Various characters, Tori and Akhenaten, for example, are depicted as LGBTQiA+.
* Beings of the Nine Realms are divided into three orders: Astrals, Divines, and Mortals.

## Trivia

* T.N.T. is an acronym for the three main characters: Tori, Nora, and Tyr. This particular arrangement of the letters was chosen to resemble the word "TNT" because at the time, Nisha was desperate to sound cool. In 2021, the series was remade, removing Tyr as a main character and thus reducing the name to Tori and Nora.