The first scene following the reveal of Splinter's abduction? The Turtles retreating to April's apartment.
The Turtles nearly lose their father Splinter, and Splinter nearly loses his sons.
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Adult Fear: The movie has the fear of losing your loved ones.
Outside of these instances, he spends most of his screentime screwing around with Mikey.
Adaptational Personality Change: Donatello's intelligence is expressed more subtly here than in most other adaptations limited mostly to making nerdy or esoteric references when attempting to join his brothers in being Totally Radical and fixing a truck with Casey (and somebody patched the payphone in the lair).
When Splinter lectures him about it, assuring him that he and his brothers will always be there when he needs them, he is seen quietly weeping. His temper is treated as a serious problem that he thinks he has to deal with alone.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: This version of Raphael is portrayed as a much more troubled teen than the versions before him (and indeed, after him).
Although this was mentioned in the sequel. This isn't brought up in the movie, so exactly why these turtles raised by a Japanese rat all have Italian names is never explained.
Adaptation Explanation Extrication: In the version of the origin story recounted in the comics, Splinter got the turtles' names from a book on Renaissance art that had washed down a storm drain.
Likewise, with Raph out of commission, Don is the one Casey develops a friendship with.
This brings Casey, who at this point had only met Raph, back into the story.
Raph is the one who gets ambushed by the Foot instead of Leo, as in the original comics.
(This is not the case in the shooting script, which adapted the Oroku Nagi plot word-for-word.)
The movie keeps Hamato Yoshi's rivalry with another man for the love of Tang Shen, but there's no reference to Oroku Saki's brother Oroku Nagi, and Saki himself becomes the rival.
Adaptation Amalgamation: TMNT movies of the The '90s (especially the first one) were primarily adapted from the original 1984 Mirage comics (the first movie was primarily based on the first issue, along with plot points taken from the Raphael and Leonardo one-shots, the Exile arc, and the Return to New York arc) but also included elements of the 1987 animated show (the logo, the show's Lighter and Softer approach, the color-coding of the turtles, their love for pizza, their Catchphrase "Cowabunga", and April being a reporter, as well as April being rescued by the Turtles from street punks).
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene: The whole farmhouse subplot.
The sewer pipes are separated from the canals, and while real storm drains aren't quite that large, the New York system is large enough for a man to stand in.
Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Averted the Turtles are clearly using storm drains to travel (with Splinter explicitly stating that he found the book he used to name them in one) and their home is located in an abandoned control station (in the sequel they move into what appears to be an old pneumatic transit station).