10 Worst Fakeout Endings In Comics

7. Turtle Down!

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March 2015's TMNT #44 saw the unthinkable happen, as one of the Turtles was brutally killed off.

Despite plenty of near misses in the previous 29 years of comic book adventures, never before had one of the Heroes in a Half-Shell perished. That all changed in the fourth part of IDW's Attack on Technodrome story, with Donatello shockingly murdered.

With Donnie at home while his brothers launched an assault on Krang, the tech whiz is ambushed by Bebop and Rocksteady. While we initially get some of your standard comic book quips and back-and-forths, there's a darker edge to this action than usual. Rather than the meat-headed buffoons they'd often been portrayed as, Bebop and Rocksteady are colder and more clinical this time out - and they actually beat Donatello to death after first cracking his shell.

The news of Donatello's death was a major deal at the time, with it becoming the hottest topic in comics when it became known that one of the Turtles was being offed.

Taking away the impact of this most powerful of happenings, Donatello would soon be shown alive in spirit form, and his conscious would take over the body of Metalhead... before eventually being returned to his own body later down the line.

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