April O'Neil is a young human woman who has appeared in almost every version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise. April is usually the Ninja Turtles' first human ally in most incarnations, and is generally portrayed as a news reporter and a very good friend of the Ninja Turtles: Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michelangelo, often acting like a big sister or surrogate mother to them. April's love interest in the franchise is often Casey Jones, who is also a close friend and human ally of the Turtles.

April made her first appearance in the Mirage comic series in 1984 as a computer programmer. She was later portrayed as a strong-willed news reporter in the Turtles' first animated series, as a warrior in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures comic produced by Archie Comics, and various other personas in different TMNT media.
While depicted as a red-haired adult white woman in the comic series and the 1987 and 2003 animated series, she is depicted as being a teenager in the 2012 and 2018 animated series, and also black in the latter series, its 2022 film, and the 2023 film Mutant Mayhem. Her love interests have varied, though she is typically paired romantically the vigilante Casey Jones.

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