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I kind of wish they didn't exist outside of the OT and maybe IDW. They're not really all that memorable, at least to me.
When I saw the OT as a kid, I always thought Shredder/Krang's schemes would have been more successful if not for having to depend on those two.
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12-28-2017, 05:00 PM | #23 |
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I dislike ALL versions of Bebop & Rocksteady... ugh.
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12-29-2017, 06:35 PM | #25 |
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For me theyre great at what theyre supposed to do - be dumb, ill vote 10
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12-30-2017, 11:02 AM | #26 |
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Exactly. Times have changed, and we are past the era of incompetent bumbling idiot henchmen. Villains nowadays kill their minions for their failures, not keep them around and whine about 'being surrounded by idiots'.
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12-30-2017, 01:06 PM | #27 |
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I don't really know how to vote. I love them in their element (the original series), but as far as I'm concerned, they should have stayed there.
That said, though I'd much prefer they not be included in new iterations, I have enjoyed all of their current versions for what they are.
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12-30-2017, 01:13 PM | #28 |
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I don't really care for them, (not sure how many versions they are in) while I can appreciate some comic relief with the villains, not so much that.
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12-30-2017, 01:52 PM | #29 |
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Technically there are now 5 versions of them:
1. Original cartoon Bebop/Rocksteady 2. Archie TMNT Adventures Bebop/Rocksteady 3. Nick Bebop/Rocksteady 4. IDW Bebop/Rocksteady 5. Platinum Dunes Michael Bay Bebop/Rocksteady They appeared in the 4kids series during Turtles Forever but those were the crossover versions rather than new incarnations. Then there's the videogame versions which were only loosely based on the cartoons. Come to think of it all the incarnations of Bebop/Rocksteady are fairly different than each other. I don't know why people feel they're same across incarnations. |
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Well if you give me an option to vote for everything when you should only be allowed to vote for one then it's not my fault, it just tempts me. I also tend to vote for the underdog in polls even if it doesn't represent my opinion 100%.
I didn't like R&B as a kid but I grew to like them when I got back into TMNT and now I'm a big fan. I do think they can work in a more serious context, I always found them intimidating in TMNT II: The Arcade Game and in the action figures, in fact that's why I didn't like them as a kid in the cartoon, they weren't the badasses they were in my mind. Same with Slash. Quote:
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12-31-2017, 01:10 AM | #31 |
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They're not even terrible, far from it.
Teribble is Ch'rell as Shredder. What a reductive Kraang wannabe disgusting blob. |
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They can't really exist in a thing we're supposed to take seriously. At all. At the very least, in a thing where we're supposed to take Shredder and the Foot Clan seriously, if they're to employ them.
"But what if we make them super gritty and serious and competant?" Then that's not Bebop and Rocksteady. Plus, they're examples of the ooze behaving dumbly. Whether it's "touch this and then touch the ooze, then you're half of that!" or "it's your ancient animal genes come to roost after ooze exposure!"
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12-31-2017, 02:17 AM | #33 |
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We barely saw Ch'rell himself since they used Oroku Saki throughout the series even after the Utrom reveal. And what difference does it make? Ch'rell is what a 2k3 version of Krang would have been like, plus we also discover there was a real human Oroku Saki from ancient Japan in Season 5 anyway.
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I think, the FW cartoon pushed that a little too far sometimes (for my taste at least). But I see a potential in the two characters. I've read the IDW comics till the Northampton arc yet, and I think they have managed to present these guys as worthy opponents. Even the Nick series had moments where the two weren't that goofy. So I don't think just because their source is in the FW cartoon, this two guys are bad characters. That would be a bit prejudiced.
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Bebop and Rocksteady were never very competent, but there is a precedent for making them more serious and aggressive, as it is how they were in the First (and to a certain extent, the second) season of the Original Cartoon before they became more comedic and childlike.
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Maybe they were a twee more "serious and aggressive" in the first season, but they certainly were absolutely comedic and childlike even in their first appearances. It's arguably their hallmark "charm." Fine in the Fred Wolf show, radioactive in anything aiming to be taken even semi-seriously.
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Yes, okay, Crislers Law... but you missed my point.
You say, you can accept serious stories about teenage mutant ninja turtles, but you can't imagine any possible incarnation of B&R being treated serously? Is it possible, that you are arguing the whole time with Crislers Law - just not with the Turtles but with B&R? Don't think about them as menacing... let's forget that. How about an introspective one? To be humiliated and dehumanised to mere animals by selfish people and forced to be hollow mercenaries, humans treated like frenzied war dogs. To find themselfs in a state where any other chance to a socialized life is impossible, than to bow themselfs the will of their bosses, and find themselfs in battles they do not wish for. That could be something, huh?
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Though at that point... why even do so at all? They're not so intrinsically connected to the TMNT outside of nostalgia for the children's cartoon spinoff stuff. They didn't even appear in any films until the last one, which was a failure.
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Let's say so: what is it, that is "intrinsically connected to the TMNT"? Only the four turtles and maybe Splinter. Everything else could be thrown out and be reinvented (just think on the Mirage out of canon issues). That wouldn't make you happy either... My problem is not what is already there, but how it is used. And if it is used well, I'm happy with it.
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