S3E08: Yuffie the Hedgehog

## Summary

"Yuffie the Hedgehog" (Japanese title: Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle) is Season 3's eighth episode, and the twenty-eighth episode of the series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians (1987)."

## Plot

The episode opens with the TMNM and their allies, the mutants in their disguises, coming out the movies, having enjoyed "The Land Before Time." Then they heard a commotion in Cybertek Labs is happening again from Christopher Aonuma's group, and this time, Loki's group and their henchmen have taken the lab assistants, including Kara Wallaroo, hostage for Mutagen ingredients to create more mutants. After the villains finish forcing Kara and the lab assistants into making the Mutagen, the TMNM and their allies, with the mutants out of their disguises, come in, rescuing Kara and the lab assistants and engaging the villains in battle. But during the scuffle, the Komodo Brothers splash the Mutagen on Yuffie Kisaragi. Unaware of this failure caused by the Komodo Brothers, Loki's group and their henchmen got away again. Then in the sewer lair, the TMNM and their allies report to Cloud Strife and Aerith Gainsborough their successful rescue mission and that Loki's group got away with some Mutagen, until they spot Yuffie saturated in the Mutagen. But after training with Sonic the Hedgehog, Yuffie accidentally cuts herself on her mini shuriken while polishing it. Then in the bathroom, Yuffie offscreen mutated into a hedgehog while in the shower cleaning the Mutagen off. When Cloud, Aerith, and our heroes discover this upon Yuffie emerging from the bathroom screaming at her new form, Yuffie, wanting to become human again, begs Miles "Tails" Prower to change her back. Tails goes to create the cure, but to her panicked dismay, they're out of ingredients for the cure. Deciding to deal with her hedgehog form for now, Yuffie, under Cloud and Aerith's request, is trained by Sonic, Amy Rose, Shadow the Hedgehog, and Silver the Hedgehog on how to fight like a hedgehog upon discovering her special powers from the Mutagen's side effect is aquakinesis, the ability to control water.

Back in the Jotundrome, Loki's group and their henchmen, as well as Uka-Uka's group, angrily berate the Komodo Brothers for spilling the Mutagen. But when they learned that Yuffie was hit by it, they decide to take advantage by luring the TMNM and their allies in a trap with a new Anti-Mutagen Gun. At the surface, Yuffie got her aquakinesis under control and helped the TMNM and their allies stop two robbers from robbing a local jewelry store. After that accomplishment, Yuffie admits to the TMNM and their allies that she came to somewhat like her mutant form and wants to keep those powers for good use. However, Cloud and Aerith lecture her that they appreciate her powers, but they prefer that they like her as a human better than a hedgehog, for her powers may be special, but it's the inside of her that counts on who she is. Deciding to think over that advice, Yuffie goes off alone and rescues an old woman (The same old woman from Season 1) from a mugger, only for the old woman's purse to be ruined. Finally understanding what Cloud and Aerith meant by their advice, Yuffie cheered the old woman up by convincing her that she is special on the inside, no matter who she is on the outside, purse or no purse. Then after earning a $5 bill from the woman, Yuffie hears a burglar alarm at a bank and goes there, only to find Loki's group and their henchmen robbing the place. Just when she stopped them, the villains, upon learning of her aquakinetic powers from Uka-Uka's group earlier, electrocutes her with Pinstripe Potoroo's taser, knocking her out and capturing her.

At another street, the TMNM and their allies emerge out of the sewers, worried about Yuffie's long absence. Just when they split up to go search for her, their Mobiancom beeps and they answer, revealing Loki's group to have called them on Yuffie's Mobiancom. They offer to give Yuffie back and give them the Anti-Mutagen Gun to turn her back into a human in exchange for ingredients for the Mutagen. The TMNM and their allies agree, on the condition that they don't attack or go behind their word and to give them the Ant-Mutagen Gun. Unsure at first after hanging up, the TMNM and their allies then come up with a silent plan upon meeting the same old woman Yuffie helped before, inspiring the said plan. Later, they, except the old woman, arrive at the alleyway behind Times Square, and met up with the villains with their ransom. Giving them the closed-up bag containing what looked like the ingredients, the villains, as promised, return Yuffie to them and gives them the Anti-Mutagen Gun. Then our heroes got away while the villains found that the ingredients was actually the old woman's damaged purse, which now carries a whipped cream pie that splatters onto Pinstripe's face. Upon catching up to the TMNM and their allies, the villains fight them, but Tails managed to shoot Yuffie with the Anti-Mutagen Gun, changing her back into her human form. But just when Pinstripe was about to snatch the Anti-Mutagen Gun back, Tails breaks it by throwing on the ground, believing that the villains will shoot the mutants with it upon taking it back. Angered, Pinstripe got ready to shoot Tails after knocking him down and breaking his bo stick when the old woman fires her pistol at Pinstripe's tommy gun, breaking it as well. As the old woman threatens to hurt the villains if they hurt the TMNM and their allies, the villains go up to her to attack, unfazed by the threats, the TMNM and their allies then discover that Yuffie still has the last of her aquakinetic powers, and Yuffie saves the old woman by shielding her with her water body form that deflects the lasers from the laser guns, stunning Loki's group and the henchmen, and afterwards, Yuffie returns to normal for good, losing her aquakinetic powers. Then Loki's group and their henchmen are thrown in jail. But the next morning, the TMNM and their allies learn on the news from Elise Oriana III, Christopher, and Tai Kamiya's groups, Cloud, Aerith, Kara, and Roxanne Pear that Loki's group and their henchmen escaped because of Uka-Uka's group back to the Jotundrome. Regardless, the TMNM and their allies agree to resolve in beating Loki's group and their henchmen sooner or later when the time is right.

## Notes

* Heroes' Insult Count: 12 (2 by Sonic, 1 by Rouge, 6 by Yuffie, 2 by Old woman, 1 by Kara)
* Villains' Insult Count: 7 (1 by Komodo Joe, 1 by Mugger, 1 by Sephiroth, 1 by Orbot, 1 by Cubot, 1 by Loki, 1 by Pinstripe)
* Insult count: 19
* Locations: City Streets, City Sewers, Mobians' Sewer Lair, Jotundrome, Center of the Earth, Cybertek Laboratory, Amber Jewels, Bank, Times Square, and New York Police Department
* Vehicles: Pneumatic Module
* Gadgets: Mobiancom and Anti-Mutagen Gun
* Pinstripe makes a gangster's killing slang term "Sleeping with the fishes" while threatening a captive Yuffie in front of the TMNM and their allies while contacting them on Yuffie's Mobiancom.
* Sonic references the 1951 Disney film "Alice in Wonderland" and its original Lewis Carroll novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" at the very end of this episode.
* This is the third episode that actually shows some blood since "Mobian Tracks" and "It Came From Beneath the Sewers (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)." The first time with Vanitas and Myotismon's lower part of their lips being cut from Kara punching them and the second time when Yuffie cuts herself by accident.
* The movie the TMNM and their allies went and offscreen saw at the movies is the 1988 animated Don Bluth film "The Land Before Time."
* The old woman with the pistol from Season 1 is back again, and this time, she has, by now, warmed up to the Mobians and their allies because of her four grandchildren looking up to them as real heroes.
* Vector and Sonic both break the Fourth Wall in this episode; When Vector asked the old woman if she was the one who fended him and his friends off at gunpoint in Season 1, and when Sonic says to us that he doesn't mean mad as in "Wonderland crazy mad."
* This is also the first episode Rouge, or any other beautiful female character, takes, or taking, advantage of Pinstripe hitting her, or them, in combat in order to let his guard down.

## Goofs

* After the whipped cream pie splatters on Pinstripe's face, he wipes a huge chunk of whipped cream off his face, leaving only tiny tidbits of whipped cream residue on his face. Then in the next shot when Loki angrily speaks his realization that the TMNM and their allies tricked him and the villains, Pinstripe's chin and nose are covered in big whipped cream splatter residue, and then the rest of the episode after that, his face is all cleaned again.
* In one shot while Yuffie makes her testimony about being who you are on the inside to the old woman as well as being grateful instead of grouchy over the latter's damaged purse, the former's legs are colored peach instead of black like her furry body.
* Throughout the episode until she takes a shower, the saturated residue of Mutagen covering Yuffie (Due to the Komodo Brothers splashing her with the Mutagen) keeps changing from thin to thick splatters on her in different shots.
* In one shot, Pinstripe is wielding his tommy gun again while, with Loki's group and their henchmen, cornering the old woman, but that's an error; His tommy gun a moment ago was destroyed by the old woman shooting her pistol at it.
* In one shot as Yuffie squeezes some water from her fist into her glass cup, Rouge's red lipstick on her lips is colored a lighter shade of pink instead in that shot.
* The old woman's fake flower on her hat disappears in one shot while talking with the Mobians and their allies upon learning of Yuffie's capture.

## Character Appearances

**Heroes**

* Ace D. Copular
* Adagio Dazzle
* Aerith Gainsborough
* Agumon
* Allison Oriana
* Amy Rose
* Applejack
* Aria Blaze
* Big the Cat
* Big William "Billy" W. Williams
* Biyomon
* Blaze the Cat
* Braeburn
* Caramel
* Charmy Bee
* Cheese the Chao
* Chief Clancy Wiggum
* Chris Thorndyke
* Christopher Aonuma
* Cloud Strife
* Comet Tail
* Cosmo the Seedrian
* Cream the Rabbit
* Dingodile/Dale Wallaroo
* E-123 Omega
* Eddie
* Elise Oriana III
* Ember
* Espio the Chameleon
* Flash Sentry
* Fluttershy
* Froggy
* Gabumon
* Gatomon
* Gomamon
* Grubber J. Gribberish
* Hoffman
* Izzy Izumi
* Joe Kido
* Kara Wallaroo
* Kari Kamiya
* Kayla the Wolf
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Li'l Arturo de la Guerra
* Lou
* Matt Ishida
* Max the Wolf
* Miles "Tails" Prower
* Mimi Tachikawa
* Palmon
* Patamon
* Pinkie Pie
* Pokey Pierce
* Rainbow Dash
* Rarity
* Rouge the Bat
* Roxanne Pear
* Sanford "Snake" D. Ingleberry
* Shadow the Hedgehog
* Silver the Hedgehog
* Soarin
* Sonata Dusk
* Sonic the Hedgehog
* Sora Takenouchi
* Spike
* Starlight Glimmer
* Sunset Shimmer
* Tai Kamiya
* Tentomon
* Thunderlane
* Tikal
* Tiny Tiger/Tucker Tigerson
* TK Takaishi-Ishida
* Trixie
* Twilight Sparkle
* Vector the Crocodile
* Yuffie Kisaragi (Temporally mutated into an aquakinetic hedgehog)

**Villains**

* Arukenimon (Temporally changes into her Beast form in this)
* Cubot
* Demidevimon
* Dr. Eggman
* Dr. Nefarious Tropy
* Dr. Neo Cortex
* Dr. Nitros Brio
* Dr. Nitros Gin
* Hunter J
* Infinite
* Koala Kong/Kent Kong
* Komodo Joe/Joe Komadipatatim
* Komodo Moe/Moe Komadipatatim
* Loki
* Mephiles the Dark
* Mummymon (Temporally changes into his Beast form in this)
* Myotismon (Temporally changes into Malomyotismon in this)
* Nitros Oxide
* Orbot
* Pinstripe Potoroo/Paul "Pinstripe" Potolini
* Rilla Roo/Richard Rooter
* Ripper Roo/Ricky Rooter
* Sephiroth
* Tribot
* Uka-Uka
* Vanitas

## Episode Titles in Other Languages

* Japanese
	+ ユフィザヘッジホッグ！ アクアキネティックの戦い
	+ Yufi za Hejjihoggu! Akuakinetikku no Tatakai
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle
* English
	+ USA: Yuffie the Hedgehog
	+ UK: Yuffie the Hedgehog
* Latin America Spanish
	+ Erizo Aquakinético
	+ Aquakinetic Hedgehog
* Castilian Spanish
	+ Erizo Aquakinético
	+ Aquakinetic Hedgehog
* Catalan
	+ Yuffie la Aquakinètic eriçó
	+ Yuffie the Aquakinetic Hedgehog
* French
	+ Yuffie le Hérisson
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog
* Canadian French
	+ Yuffie la Lerison
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog
* German
	+ Yuffie der Aquakinetische Igel
	+ Yuffie the Aquakinetic Hedgehog
* Italian
	+ Avventura Acquacinetico di Yuffie
	+ Yuffie's Aquakinetic Adventure
* Portuguese
	+ Aventura Ouriço Aquacinético de Yuffie
	+ Yuffie's Aquakinetic Hedgehog Adventure
* Brazilian Portuguese
	+ Aventura Ouriço Aquacinético de Yuffie
	+ Yuffie's Aquakinetic Hedgehog Adventure
* Mandarin Chinese
	+ 刺猬尤菲！水上运动
	+ Cìwèi yóu Fēi! Shuǐshàng Yùndòng
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle
* Cantonese Chinese
	+ 刺猬尤菲！水上運動
	+ Cìwèi yóu Fēi! Shuǐshàng Yùndòng
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle
* Korean
	+ 고슴도치 유피! 수생 전투
	+ Goseumdochi Yupi! Susaeng Jeontu
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle
* Danish
	+ Yuffie's Mutation
	+ Yuffie's Mutation
* Dutch
	+ Yuffie's Mutatie
	+ Yuffie's Mutation
* Swedish
	+ Yuffie's Mutant Äventyr
	+ Yuffie's Mutant Adventure
* Icelandic
	+ Broddgöltur af Aquakinesis
	+ Hedgehog of Aquakinesis
* Norwegian
	+ Pinnsvin av Aquakinesis
	+ Hedgehog of Aquakinesis
* Thai
	+ ยุฟฟี่เดอะเฮดจ์ฮ็อก! การต่อสู้ทางน้ำ
	+ Yuf fī̀ dexa Hedc̒ḥ̆ xk! Kār t̀xs̄ū̂ Thāng n̂ả
	+ Yuffie the Hedgehog! Aquakinetic Battle
* Russian
	+ Аквакинетическая битва
	+ Akvakineticheskaya Bitva
	+ Aquakinetic Battle
* Polish
	+ Aquakinetic Bitwa pod Jeżem Wodnym
	+ Aquakinetic Hedgehog Battle
* Finnish
	+ Siilistä ja Akvapiineista
	+ Of Hedgehogs and Aquakinesis
* Hungarian
	+ Yuffie új Formája
	+ Yuffie's New Form
* Greek
	+ Σκαντζόχοιρων και Υδάκινητική
	+ Skantzóchoiron kai Ydákinitikí
	+ Of Hedgehogs and Aquakinesis
* Hebrew
	+ הטופס החדש של יופי
	+ Htvps Hhdsh Shl Yvpy
	+ Yuffie's New Form
* Arabic
	+ سلطات يوفي الجديدة
	+ Sulutat Yufi Aljadida
	+ Yuffie's New Powers

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