Editing April O'Neil (section)

==Comics==
===Mirage Comics===
[[File:April ONeil TMNT 06-1986.jpeg|thumb|Artwork for the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Book 2 3 vol. 10, June 1986. With the prototype of April O'Neil. (third print).]]
In the original [[Mirage Comics]] storyline for ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Mirage Studios)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', April O'Neil was a skilled [[computer programmer]] and assistant to a famous yet nefarious scientist, [[Baxter Stockman]]. She helped program his MOUSER robots but, after discovering Baxter was using them to burrow into bank vaults, she fled his workshop. Robots chased her into the sewer where she was promptly saved by three of the Turtles. The Turtles later successfully fended off a MOUSER invasion.

After leaving her job with Baxter, April decided to open an [[antique shop]]. The shop was subsequently destroyed in a battle between the Turtles and [[Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)|Shredder]] and the [[Foot Clan]]. April and the Turtles retreated to a farm house in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]], to recover and during this time she suffered recurrent nightmares about the Foot Clan's attack.<ref>Eastman, Kevin and Peter Laird. IDW's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics #11. Jun 5, 2011, IDW.</ref> During the mid-1990s, April became romantically involved with the violent vigilante [[Casey Jones (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)|Casey Jones]], and the two of them eventually raised Shadow, the child of Casey's late wife Gabrielle, as their own.

In Volume 2 of the ''TMNT'' comics, April was attacked by a huge robot controlled by the brain of her former boss, Baxter Stockman, and injected with [[nanobots]]. With the help of the Utroms, the Turtles injected April with turtle versions of nanobots to stop Baxter's plan. The intervention saved April before Baxter's nanobots could reach her brain stem and kill her. The attack rendered April sterile. To deal with the emotional strain she became a female version of "Nobody", a vigilante crime fighter, until her identity was discovered by Casey Jones.<ref>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 20 (volume 4) Feb, 2005, Mirage.</ref> With the help of Renet, a time-traveler who took April back through time, it was revealed that April was really a living drawing brought to life with the help of a magic crystal. She was drawn by her father before his own biological daughter Robyn O'Neil was born. Although anything that the crystal's prior owner, Kirby, drew with pencil would vanish after some time, April's father used a pen, which might explain why April lived past thirty without vanishing. Questions of realness and morality were too much for April; she bid farewell to Shadow and Casey and travelled to [[Alaska]] to be alone with her thoughts. Although the trip helped April cope with her demons and led to her eventual return to New York, her family history remained unexplored.

===Archie Comics===
In the ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Archie Comics)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures]]'' series produced by [[Archie Comics]], April began as a carbon copy of her animated counterpart from the 1987 TV series, but the writers developed her into a competent warrior after training with [[Splinter (TMNT)|Splinter]]. Because of her frequent adventures with the Turtles, she lost her job at Channel 6 and became a freelance reporter.

In the winter 1994 Archie Special, April was mutated into a turtle herself. This made her the first official female turtle introduced to the series, three years before [[Venus (TMNT)|Venus de Milo]]'s debut. Archie also published two sets of three-part April O'Neil mini-series (from January through June 1993).

===Dreamwave Productions===
The second issue of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Dreamwave Productions)|Dreamwave Productions series]] (based on the 2003 animated series) focused entirely on O'Neil, consisting of a dream sequence showing how she had been pressured into a scientific career by her family despite having an interest in journalism.

===IDW===
In the continuity of the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW Publishing)|IDW comics]], April is a very bright science student who interns at Baxter Stockman's genetic laboratory ''Stock Gen'', where her father used to work before a stroke rendered him paralyzed. It is there that she first meets the Turtles and Splinter (at that time ordinary lab animals subjected to an intelligence-enhancing serum) and gives the Turtles their names.

April later nearly becomes a murder victim during a nocturnal break-in by a group of ninjas (the Foot Clan), who steal the Turtles along with several samples of Stockman's secret mutagenetic projects; the attempt at her life shakes her so much that she decides to take self-defense lessons from her fellow student Casey Jones, who later introduces her to the now-mutated Turtles and Splinter. April subsequently accompanies or assists the Turtles in their adventures and battles against their enemies, in the course of which she investigates Stockman's clandestine operations and makes an important contact in the Pantheon by incurring the sympathies of one of their members, Aka. While she and Casey begin a romantic relationship, Casey's self-doubts about his ability to protect his loved ones eventually cause them to drift apart.

After the establishment of Mutant Town, following a falling out with Baxter Stockman, April decided to move to Mutant Town, and is currently working as a reporter (in a reference to her career in various TMNT Media adaptions) to help show the outside world the true face of Mutant Town.