David Wise

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David Wise is an American televison animation writer. He is perhaps best known as the head writer for the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, where he wrote over one hundred episodes. He was also the single most prolific writer for the The Transformers cartoon, penning fifteen episodes.

Generation 1 cartoon

• Attack of the Autobots
• Day of the Machines
• Microbots
• Make Tracks
• The Secret of Omega Supreme
• Kremzeek!
• Auto-Bop
• The Girl Who Loved Powerglide
• The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1
• The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2
• War Dawn
• Trans-Europe Express
• The Rebirth, Part 1
• The Rebirth, Part 2
• The Rebirth, Part 3

Convention appearances

• BotCon 2004 (unofficial)
• BotCon 2009

Recycle-o-matic

David, rather unapologetically, recycled concepts and ideas from old work for use in the new. This is rather understandable considering how prolific a writer he was, and just how much he was called on to write. However what it means is that many Transformers set pieces, concepts and even plots wound up appearing in later series, especially Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many other ideas seem to have actually started life as plots for earlier series, like He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Which Transformers stories were recycled? Wellll...

• "Attack of the Autobots" — Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles episode "Slash - The Evil Turtle from Dimension X".

• "Day of the Machines" — Recycled from He-Man and the Masters of the Universe episode "Day of the Machines".

• "Microbots" — Recycled for a short segment of TMNT episode "Shreddered and Splintered".

• "Kremzeek!" — Sections recycled from the He-Man episode "Day of the Machines", "Kremzeek" was later recycled almost completely for the TMNT episode "The Big ZIPP attack", and The Mighty Ducks episode "Zap Attack".

• "Auto-Bop" — TMNT episode "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X".

• "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" — Recycled wholesale for TMNT episode "Poor Little Rich Turtle".

• "Trans-Europe Express" -- Recycled the climax for TMNT episode "Hot Rodding Teenagers from Dimension-X."

A little less forgivably, Wise also recycled the basic structure and story from the Donald Glut episode "War of the Dinobots" for his TMNT episode "Usagi Come Home", even down to the main villain watching a video recap of a previous episode, and lamenting how a third party ruined his plans. Then again, he also wrote the Clock King and Riddler origin episodes for Batman: The Animated Series, so we'll let it all slide.

External links

• David Wise on the Internet Movie Database
• A Spy in the House of Tomorrow - David Wise's blog
• Interview with David Wise on the Moonbase 2 podcast