Cloaking Brooch

**Cloaking brooches** are a recurring mystic device in *Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles*.

## Overview

A cloaking brooch is a mystic device that is used to fully alter its users' physical appearance when worn on their body. It does not impact its users' voice, however. Cloaking brooches can be used by Yōkai with the effect of granting a seamless human appearance. When a cloaking brooch is worn by a human-born mutant, it simply restores their human appearance prior to their mutation. Cloaking brooches can also change their users' appearance to something non-human such as a teddy bear. It is currently unknown if or how cloaking brooches work when worn by humans. Cloaking brooches take only seconds a generate a disguise after being worn and seconds to turn off. They can be turned off by pressing them and they automatically turn off when removed from their user, restoring them to their true form. It is currently unclear if Yōkai can choose the appearance of their disguise or if a disguise is randomly generated by the cloaking brooch.

Cloaking brooches can take a variety of appearances. A trucker hat is seemingly used in "Newsworthy", orange brooches are used in "Bug Busters", gold gemstone-adorned brooches are used in "Operation: Normal" and "Cloak and Swaggart", and a red bow tie brooch is used in "Hidden City's Most Wanted".

The use of cloaking brooches is normalized in the Hidden City and are utilized in places of employment that serve both Yōkai and human clientele and are given as gifts between Yōkai as revealed in "Cloak and Swaggart".

## History

Cloaking brooches first appeared in "Mystic Mayhem". Bounty hunters Garm and Freki each wore one to pursue Agent 64 in New York in service of Baron Draxum.

In "Newsworthy", Clem wore a cloaking brooch to conceal the mystic section of his candy store.

In "Bug Busters", the Grand Nexus Hotel staff wore cloaking brooches when working in the human section of the hotel.

In "Operation: Normal", Sunita wore a cloaking brooch to disguise herself from the Foot Clan.

In "Cloak and Swaggart", Sunita's cloaking brooch was stolen by Meat Sweats at the Salt Rock Club and worn by him to regain his human form to resume hosting *Kondescending Kitchen*. Sunita and April O'Neil worked together to reclaim it from him. The Sando Brothers also wore cloaking brooches to host a talk show.

In "Repairin' the Baron", Garm and Freki wore cloaking brooches to search for Draxum in New York to carry out the Council of Heads' order for his arrest.

In "Hidden City's Most Wanted", Draxum wore a cloaking brooch to disguise himself to allow himself to navigate the Hidden City without being recognized by the Hidden City police.

## Appearances

### Season 1

* "Mystic Mayhem" (used by Garm and Freki)
* "Newsworthy" (used by Clem)
* "Bug Busters" (used by Grand Nexus Hotel personnel)
* "Operation: Normal" (used by Sunita)
* "Cloak and Swaggart" (used by Sunita, Meat Sweats, and the Sando Brothers)

### Season 2

* "Repairin' the Baron" (used by Garm and Freki)
* "Hidden City's Most Wanted" (used by Baron Draxum)

## Trivia

* Big Mama's human disguise is commonly mistaken by fans to be produced by a cloaking brooch due to the red amulet she wears with her jabot, however, it was confirmed in December 2020 by *Rise of the TMNT* executive producer Andy Suriano in a Tweet that Big Mama's human disguise is not the product of a cloaking brooch, but actually her shapeshifting mystic power.