How Is It Best to Utilize The Punk Frogs?

[MikeandRaph87]

The Punk Frogs as a collective unit of four appeared only twice and had four other episodes which two appeared, mainly Genghis and Napoleon. They also got a shout out in the anime two parter. They have always been my favorite allies because of their concept as a Turtle Team B. At least that is what they appeared to be to me. I always wanted to see a scenario where they had to step in the TMNT's place without resorting to fan fiction. I admit some of their concept like Bebop and Rocksteady is outdated as they had reference in name to the late 70s and 80s Punk movement that has long since ended. I didn't care much for the mutant frog colony that Nick presented in the single episode. The reason is there were so many of them. If there were four of them,equal in number to the Turtles it would fit their concept better. I have nothing against the way Napoleon was portrayed in The Croaking,but would rather see more of an equal screen time for Genghis, Rasputin, and Attila. How could the other fab four work in the future?

[neatoman]

Being mutants, it might mess up the flavor but I'm sure there's a BBQ sauce good enough...

[Prowler]

The problem with the Punk Frogs is that, unlike the Turtles, they didn't have distinguishing personalities. They all acted the same. They were just a bunch of naïve mutants with stereotypical southern accents. Also, the Turtles had been training with Splinter for years whilst it took Shredder only what, a week to train the Punk Frogs? Felt a bit forced.

[MikeandRaph87]

Originally Posted by Prowler

The problem with the Punk Frogs is that, unlike the Turtles, they didn't have distinguishing personalities. They all acted the same. They were just a bunch of naïve mutants with stereotypical southern accents. Also, the Turtles had been training with Splinter for years whilst it took Shredder only what, a week to train the Punk Frogs? Felt a bit forced.

One thing I thought of was giving each Turtle an analog with a Frog. Napoleon could be similar in personality to Michelangelo while Genghis could be similar to Leonardo. Attila could be Raphael's analog while it would be a stretch at the moment but can be adapted to work, Rasputin be the Donatello analog. It could be a template to start from and expand upon. We already see those traits in incarnations already that would make Napoleon the Michelangelo of the group as well as Genghis the Leonardo of the Frogs.

I do agree that the training within days expecting them to match the years of the Turtles training is too much of a stretch to let slip in the 'hey,we have to make it work for the sake of the episode's plot' concept.

[neatoman]

Or maybe deep fried...

[Prowler]

Frog legs are eaten in some parts of my country, but cant' say I've ever tried them. I wonder if they're any good...

[MikeandRaph87]

Come on Neatoman, I am looking for some serious contributions to this subject.

What of my idea of the Punk Frogs each reflecting a different Turtle? It would give the Turtles more individual stronger friends within the group the way that Casey Jones is with Raphael or Mondo Gecko is with Michelangelo.

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

Come on Neatoman, I am looking for some serious contributions to this subject.

What of my idea of the Punk Frogs each reflecting a different Turtle? It would give the Turtles more individual stronger friends within the group the way that Casey Jones is with Raphael or Mondo Gecko is with Michelangelo.

But then you'd have just another Turtle team... except they'd be frogs.

[CyberCubed]

People eat Frogs? Maybe in third world countries like they eat monkey brains.

[pferreira]

Originally Posted by neatoman

I've eaten kangaroo from an Australian food truck,

I'm sure Skippy is proud.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

At best, vaguely frog-like aliens on some planet.

Kind of defeats the whole purpose of using them.

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

Come on Neatoman, I am looking for some serious contributions to this subject.

You expecting serious contribution from him regarding the FW show?!

Originally Posted by neatoman

F#ck 'em, they're an inherently bad idea and it's better to forget about them than to pretend anything interesting can some out of them.

Good for you, anyway getting back to the topic...

The Punk Frogs were terrific in their first appearance but I don't think the writers did enough to make them central to the plots. In their later appearances they were sort of tagged on. I do agree they needed more to tell them apart in personality. Great, great execution of idea but not developed over the course of the show.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by Prowler

The problem with the Punk Frogs is that, unlike the Turtles, they didn't have distinguishing personalities.

They were still OK characters, without any need to explore their personalities deeper since they were only in a few episodes. Also, I don't care much for them appearing in other versions.