S3E09: Enter the Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)

## Summary

"Enter the Rat King (Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians Version)" (Japanese title: Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King) is Season 3's ninth episode, and the twenty-ninth episode of the series "Teenage Mutant Ninja Mobians (1987)."

## Plot

The episode opens on J. Jonah Jamieson talking with Seifer Almasy on the phone in his car of finding a perfect editorial to report on at Channel Six. Suddenly, after hanging up, a rat attacks him when, after Jamieson got rid of it, the car crashes into Lou and Eddie's police car, making Lou and Eddie write a ticket to him. At the Channel Six building, Jamieson arrives and orders Elise Oriana III, Adagio Dazzle, and Twilight Sparkle to report an editorial on New York City's rat problems. In the sewer lair, the TMNM and their allies convince Charmy Bee to not go out for pizzas due to the rain outside by explaining that there's a box of pizza mix in the kitchen. But upon getting the box, a rat emerged from it, having ate the pizza mix. After the TMNM and their allies chased it around, the rat gets away. Then Elise and Tai Kamiya's groups arrive and explain their editorial report on rats when the TMNM and their allies explain about the rat they just chased. Then after Elise and Tai's groups leave, they were about to return to the Channel Six building when an army of rats chewed on the news van's tires, flattening them. Then running to the Channel Six building, Elise and Tai's groups are nearly ambushed by the rat army when they managed to take a bus nearby back to the Channel Six building. Upon their return, Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle begin their editorial report on rats, which the TMNM and their allies are watching on their TV when suddenly, a mysterious figure with rats following him around turns the power on the Channel Six building off, disrupting the editorial report. After Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle turn the power back on, the figure then abducts them, and right after that, Jamieson, Seifer, and Elise and Tai's groups discover their disappearance and then Elise and Tai's groups tell the TMNM and their allies of what happened via their Mobiancoms.

Upon arriving at the Channel Six building, the TMNM and their allies meet up with Elise and Tai's groups and decide to work together in two groups to find Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle, especially upon noticing that they don't have their Mobiancoms that are laying on their vanity desk. After recruiting Cloud Strife, Aerith Gainsborough, Kara Wallaroo, and Roxanne Pear, the TMNM and their allies begin their search in the sewers. In an abandoned subway station, Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle awaken to find themselves tied and gagged. Then the figure reveals himself to be a man that lives and commands among rats called the Rat King and after he unties and ungags the three girls, he then locks them in a cage, revealing that he kidnapped them and is imprisoning them because he doesn't want them to spread lies and trashtalk about rats. Then he shows off his flute skills on his rat army and immediately, Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle conclude that the Rat King is crazy. In the sewers, the TMNM and their allies continue their search when Elise and Tai's groups contact them, having learned from Izzy Izumi that he found a note written by the Rat King that Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle are kidnapped by the Rat King. Back in the Rat King's lair, the Rat King offers Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle a bowl of ratatouille to eat, but they refuse it by slapping it aside. Then after they tell the Rat King off that the TMNM and their allies will come and save them, the Rat King soon learns that the TMNM have mentors in Cloud and Aerith. Then despite Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle refusing to tell him what and who Cloud and Aerith are, the Rat King immediately figures out by guess that Cloud and Aerith are rats and proceeds to leave with his army of rats to go attack the TMNM and their allies and control Cloud and Aerith, much to Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle's concern. In the sewers, the TMNM and their allies are still having no luck when suddenly, the Rat King appears with his rat army and plays his flute, putting Cloud and Aerith under his control.

Despite the TMNM and their allies refusing to fight Cloud and Aerith and trying to free them from the Rat King's control, Yuffie Kisaragi learns of the Rat King's flute control and using her mini-shuriken, breaks it, freeing Cloud and Aerith from his control, as well as making the Rat King learn that Yuffie is Cloud and Aerith's daughter and that the two senseis used to be humans. Then after distracting the Rat King and his rat army by breaking a nearby water pipe, spilling water on them, the TMNM and their allies get away. After resting for a bit, the TMNM and their allies resume their search. At the Channel Six building after the rain ended, Elise and Tai's groups discover the Rat King's lair on a security monitor's camera from a story they did before of abandoned subway stations. Then they and Seifer head down to the sewers to begin their search when Seifer, spotting a toy rat in the water, runs away in a panic back to the Channel Six building, thinking the toy is a rat monster. But regardless, Elise and Tai's groups begin their search without Seifer. In the Rat King's lair, Elise manages to unlock the cage she, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle are still locked in with her nail file and they exit the cage, making their escape without letting some rat sentries know of their escape. Upon his return to his lair, the Rat King discover the cage unlocked and empty and learns of Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle's escape. Then he scolds the rat sentries for failing to watch the three girls and then spotting the girls' footprints, he and his rat army go after them. In the sewers, the TMNM and their allies soon reunite with Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle and reassured them of Yuffie destroying the Rat King's flute, saving Cloud and Aerith from his control. With the Rat King, he and his rat army find Elise and Tai's groups upon smelling Applejack's apple-scented perfume and then they begin calling out for Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle. Hearing them, the TMNM and their allies, Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle arrive to them and just when the Rat King nearly captures Elise, Adagio, and Twilight Sparkle, as well as nearly capturing Christopher Aonuma, Ace D. Copular, and Comet Tail, the TMNM and their allies intervene and after Mimi Tachikawa angrily stomps on the Rat King's foot for badtalking her friends over his rats, one of the Rat King's soda pop can bombs falls off his torso belt, activating. After escaping it before it explodes, the Rat King and his rat army get away while the TMNM and their allies return to their homes and the Channel Six building. After Elise, Christopher, and Tai's groups return to their homes after their return to the Channel Six building, the TMNM and their allies, back in the sewer lair, wondering if they'll re-encounter the Rat King again, to which Cloud and Aerith agree, admitting that their first battle with him was "A stalemate." Then Miles "Tails" Prower introduces to the TMNM and their allies his new invention in the form of a Super Rodent Trap that'll might eventually catch the Rat King. Then the invention catches Sonic the Hedgehog and after Tails apologizes for this and unties Sonic from the red ribbon the invention tied him in, the TMNM and their allies happily laugh it off, believing from Cloud and Aerith that they doubt that "The world will beat a path to [Tails'] door over this one."

## Notes

* Heroes' Insult Count: 15 (1 by Jamieson, 1 by Seifer, 2 by Charmy, 1 by Ace, 2 by Adagio, 1 by Twilight Sparkle, 1 by Elise, 1 by Izzy, 1 by Roxanne, 1 by Knuckles, 1 by Applejack, 1 by Joe, 1 by Rainbow Dash)
* Villains' Insult Count: 2 (2 by Rat King)
* Insult count: 17
* Locations: City Streets, City Sewers, Mobians' Sewer Lair, Channel Six building, and Rat King's Lair
* Vehicles: Mobian Van and Channel Six Van
* Gadgets: Mobiancom
* The first episode where Loki and Uka-Uka's groups and their henchmen don't appear.
* While scaling the Channel Six building while the flying heroes flew, Tails recalls the events of "Sky Mobians," wishing for the Anti-Gravity Boots from that episode. He breaks the fourth wall to do so, referring that to "Episode Five of this season."

## Goofs

* When the TMNM and their allies head for the Channel Six building's window, the strap around Tails' bo stick is brown.
* Throughout the episode, the pattern of the color on the soda pop can bombs the Rat King is carrying on his torso belt changes.

## 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
* Chris Thorndyke
* Christopher Aonuma
* Cloud Strife
* Comet Tail
* Cosmo the Seedrian
* Cream the Rabbit
* Dingodile/Dale Wallaroo
* E-123 Omega
* Eddie (Non-speaking cameo)
* Elise Oriana III
* Ember
* Espio the Chameleon
* Flash Sentry
* Fluttershy
* Froggy
* Gabumon
* Gatomon
* Gomamon
* Grubber J. Gribberish
* Izzy Izumi
* J. Jonah Jamieson
* Joe Kido
* Kara Wallaroo
* Kari Kamiya
* Kayla the Wolf
* Knuckles the Echidna
* Li'l Arturo de la Guerra
* Lou (Non-speaking cameo)
* 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
* Seifer Almasy
* 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

**Villains**

* Rat King (Debut)

## Episode Titles in Other Languages

* Japanese
	+ 下水道のげっ歯類の男！ ラットキング
	+ Gesuidō no Gesshirui no Otoko! Ratto Kingu
	+ Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King
* English
	+ USA: Enter the Rat King
	+ UK: Enter the Rat King
* Latin America Spanish
	+ Aparece el Rey Rata
	+ The Rat King Appears
* Castilian Spanish
	+ Aparece el Rey Rata
	+ The Rat King Appears
* Catalan
	+ Introduïu el Rei de Rata
	+ Enter the Rat King
* French
	+ Attaque du Roi Rat
	+ Attack of the Rat King
* Canadian French
	+ Atak nan Wa a Rat
	+ Attack of the Rat King
* German
	+ Der Kanal König der Ratten
	+ The Sewer King of Rats
* Italian
	+ Il Ratto Re delle Fogne
	+ The Rat King of the Sewers
* Portuguese
	+ Ira do Rei Rato
	+ Wrath of the Rat King
* Brazilian Portuguese
	+ Ira do Rei Rato
	+ Wrath of the Rat King
* Mandarin Chinese
	+ 下水道的啮齿动物！鼠王
	+ Xiàshuǐdào de Nièchǐ Dòngwù! Shǔ Wáng
	+ Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King
* Cantonese Chinese
	+ 下水道的囓齒動物！鼠王
	+ Xiàshuǐdào de Nièchǐ Dòngwù! Shǔ Wáng
	+ Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King
* Korean
	+ 하수구의 설치류 남자! 쥐 왕
	+ Hasuguui Seolchilyu Namja! Jwi Wang
	+ Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King
* Danish
	+ Kongen af Rotter
	+ The King of Rats
* Dutch
	+ De Koning van Ratten
	+ The King of Rats
* Swedish
	+ Kungen av Avloppsråttor
	+ The King of Sewer Rats
* Icelandic
	+ Stjórnandi Rottunnar
	+ The Rats' Ruler
* Norwegian
	+ Rottenes Hersker
	+ The Rats' Ruler
* Thai
	+ คนที่แต่งตัวประหลาดแห่งท่อระบายน้ำ! ราชาราษฎร์
	+ Khn thī̀ Tæ̀ngtạw Prah̄lād h̄æ̀ng th̀x Rabāy n̂ả! Rāchā Rās̄ʹḍr̒
	+ Rodent Man of the Sewers! The Rat King
* Russian
	+ Крысиный король канализации
	+ Krysinyy Korol' Kanalizatsii
	+ The Rat King of the Sewers
* Polish
	+ Wejście Króla Szczurów
	+ The Rat King's Entrance
* Finnish
	+ Rottien Kuninkaallinen Mies
	+ The Kingly Man of Rats
* Hungarian
	+ A Patkányok Királyi Csatornázója
	+ The Kingly Sewer Man of Rats
* Greek
	+ Το Βασιλικό υπονόμων άνθρωπος της Αρουραίοι
	+ To Vasilikó Yponómon Anthropos tis Arouraíoi
	+ The Kingly Sewer Man of Rats
* Hebrew
	+ מלך החולדות המלכותי
	+ Mlk Hhvldvt Hmlkvty
	+ The Royal Rat King
* Arabic
	+ ملك الجرذان الملكي المجاري
	+ Malik Aljurdhan Almalakiu Almajari
	+ The Sewers' Royal Rat King

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