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
Convention appearances
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 from parts of the He-Man episode "Day of the Machines", later recycled into parts of the TMNT episode "Shreddered and Splintered".
- "Kremzeek!" — Recycled from parts of the He-Man episode "Day of the Machines", later recycled 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" — TMNT episode "Poor Little Rich Turtle".
- "Trans-Europe Express" -- 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.
