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'''Purple Dragons''' or '''Purple Dragon Gang''' is a fictional street gang in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]] series. They appear in the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (comic book)|original comic books]] and the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003 series)|2003 animated series]]. The gang is from the [[East Side]] in [[New York City]].

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The Purple Dragons is the toughest street gang on the East Side. The Ninja Turtles fight them in the first issue of the original comic. The [[1984]] TMNT comics is the only TMNT version where the Purple Dragons do not work for the [[The Shredder]]. In the [[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987 series)|1987 cartoon]] and the Archie TMNT comics, the Turtles save Channel 6 news reporter [[April O'Neil]] from a street gang (containing the humans that Shredder will later transform into [[Bebop_(Ninja Turtles)|Bebop]] and [[Rocksteady_(Ninja Turtles)|Rocksteady]]); however this gang, sent out by the Shredder, is not named. In the [[2003]] TMNT cartoon the gang leader of the Purple Dragons is [[Hun_(Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)|Hun]], Shredder's right-hand-man. The Purple Dragons never appeared in the movies.

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