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| - John O'Neil is the father of April O'Neil in the IDW comic series. In the this version April's parents - are still alive under the names "John" and "Elizabeth". However, it is mentioned by April that her father had suffered a stroke some time ago, which almost caused her to chuck her studies in order to look after of him. Up until his stroke, John was employed as chief assistant at Stock Gen, the genetics laboratory of Baxter Stockman, which is responsible for the transformation of Splinter and the Turtles into mutants; thus he also knew of the Ooze, the basic material for Stockmans experiments. It was through his initiative that April there got her internship through which she then became the Turtles and her father's girlfriend, but he and his wife already had at that time a hunch that something in this laboratory was not right. Some time later, the Turtles were traced by agents of the Foot Clan to the O'Neil Farm, while Elizabeth made acquaintances with the Turtles in a very dramatic way. After April and Splinter had declared her necessary, Elizabeth received from her daughter a vial of Ooze, which she used to heal her husband from the effects of his stroke. Then they returned to New York to be closer to their daughter, and opened their old antique shop again.
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