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Old 12-16-2018, 05:48 PM   #21
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Look up Buslady's old DA work. She did some TMNT anatomical studies that were pretty good- and probably as accurate as we will ever see. It was under the name LadyRSanti. Her skelatal and muscular studies are very good, and she even did one to explain the matter of TMNT "junk". My go-to's for anatomy research!
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Old 12-16-2018, 05:54 PM   #22
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Cool, I'll try to look it up, thanks.
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Old 12-16-2018, 09:40 PM   #23
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How often do you expect a talking turtle to use a phone?

Only as many times as they actually end up doing.

I headcanon that the turtles are either legit warm blooded, or the effects of mutation trump any reptilian short comings like being cold blooded if going by the "mutagen makes super soldiers" route. Which in that case, in my mind, means they might as well be warm blooded.
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Old 12-17-2018, 03:39 AM   #24
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How don't the Turtles die when the weather gets cold and they have to go out in the snow? I mean, they're reptiles. They have cold blood. Shouldn't snow and very cold weather kill them?
Or are they really?


"Tastes like leather and Sweat!"

I don't know if Peter Laid and Kevin Eastman were consciously aware of this but even in the original Mirage Comics they gave some pretty strong hints.

Donnie and April working side-by-side to disable Baxter Stockman's Mousers, sweating bullets as they do so.

The "Return of Shredder" saga from the Mirage comics has Leo fighting the Foot on his own in the snow, which is recreated in the 2012 series, he falls into the water and emerges with steam coming from his body and out of his mouth.


In the IDW comics, after Bebop and Rocksteady broke Donnie's shell, nearly killing him, Fugitoid operates Donnie in a industrial freezer to slow down his metabolism, after he does so, the other turtles attend their fallen brother and have steam coming out of their mouths.

Which leads to only one logical conclusion: They are Warm blooded.

Which also explains why Splinter could have them live in the sewers.
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Old 12-17-2018, 10:00 AM   #25
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In the FW cartoon there's an episode where Shredder and Krang have this missile or wtv that senses the heat in a person's blood. It doesn't chase the Turtles because they're cold blooded, and even Donatello tells that to Shredder. The missile naturally then begins chasing Shredder and his goons at the end.
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In the FW cartoon there's an episode where Shredder and Krang have this missile or wtv that senses the heat in a person's blood. It doesn't chase the Turtles because they're cold blooded, and even Donatello tells that to Shredder. The missile naturally then begins chasing Shredder and his goons at the end.
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In the FW cartoon there's an episode where Shredder and Krang have this missile or wtv that senses the heat in a person's blood. It doesn't chase the Turtles because they're cold blooded, and even Donatello tells that to Shredder. The missile naturally then begins chasing Shredder and his goons at the end.
But the FW cartoons also state that Krang is not an Utrom while he is in every other version of the franchise.
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Old 12-17-2018, 11:03 AM   #28
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But the FW cartoons also state that Krang is not an Utrom while he is in every other version of the franchise.
This is why TMNT is such a confusing property. Each universe is quite different from each other. How's to say what version is accurate or not anymore? Maybe then, the Turtles are cold blooded in the FW series but warm blooded in others? And Utroms don't exist in the FW toon, so I guess that's why Krang is not one in it.
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But the FW cartoons also state that Krang is not an Utrom while he is in every other version of the franchise.
Krang never says he is not an Utrom. We saw his species in Four Musketurtles (even if I'm aware with the continuity errors), and I wouldn't be surprised if they were called the Utroms.
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Old 12-17-2018, 12:32 PM   #31
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Seems a little varied from comments. In 2012, didn't Rockwell tease Donnie about warm blooded mammals being more intelligent than cold blooded?
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Definitely one of those many things probably better left to personal interpretation I guess, esp with conflicting details or dialogue to point out.
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How don't the Turtles die when the weather gets cold and they have to go out in the snow? I mean, they're reptiles. They have cold blood. Shouldn't snow and very cold weather kill them?
No..?

The term Cold Blooded doesn't mean they have cold blood, being in a cold environment won't outright kill a turtle. Cold Blooded is just a informal term for creatures that adjust their body temperature with the environment. Like Ectotherms primarily gain heat through their environment.
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Old 12-17-2018, 04:48 PM   #34
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Yeah, icold-cblooded basically just means their body temperature changes according to the surrounding environment, which is why reptiles bask or hibernate. They need heat to be active, but they don't automatically freeze in cold weather like warm-bloods do. They just go into torpor. (Though my theory is that while being cold-blooded, the TMNT CAN'T go into torpor without starving, due to their more human-like digestion and metabolism. So they wouldn't freeze, but they'd waste away from starvation if they hibernate, so they HAVE to stay active and warm... )
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Old 12-24-2018, 04:14 AM   #35
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But the FW cartoons also state that Krang is not an Utrom while he is in every other version of the franchise.
The Nick CG series tried to remedy this but created more problems with the FW continuity.
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Old 01-10-2019, 12:59 PM   #36
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I think I saw Krang using the keyboard controlling his android during Fred Wolf season 1.
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