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.
He tended to recycle many of his script concepts for other shows. Ninja Turtles and Mighty Ducks, for example, both received their own version of "Kremzeek!"; the Ninja Turtles episode "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X" directly parallels "Auto-Bop".
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.
Generation 1 cartoon
Convention appearances
Recycle-o-matic
Which Transformers stories did David recycle for other TV series?
- "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 from parts of the He-Man episode "Day of the Machines", later recycled into parts of TMNT episode "Shreddered and Splintered".
- "Kremzeek!" — Recycled from parts of the He-Man episode "Day of the Machines", later recycled for TMNT episode "The Big ZIPP attack", and Mighty Ducks episode "Zap Attack".
- "Auto-Bop" — TMNT episode "Corporate Raiders from Dimension X".
- "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" — TMNT Episode "Poor Little Rich Turtle".
- "War of the Dinobots" — A Donald Glut episode recycled by Wise for TMNT episode "Usagi Come Home".
