11-08-2017, 01:13 PM | #361 |
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Are black people a different species? I really can't wrap my head around why this is an issue. April's skin color doesn't change he from being the Turtles HUMAN friend and link to the surface. Making Splinter a hamster changes something firmly established in cannon. Splinter is specifically mentioned to be a rat. April's race isn't coded to her character the same way?
One wonders if this would even be an issue if Andre hadn't mentioned it, and we just met April and she was black.
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It's dumb, dumb, dumb. It's just people out there who aren't even thinking just wanting to find and grasp at anything they can to "improve" the Turtles' individuality. They don't need it, they're fine.
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Red-Eared Sliders mature individually by size not age, so it's entirely possible for them to be "different age" through different maturity rate
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11-08-2017, 01:24 PM | #366 | |
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But yeah, I agree with you. Although how can we even know exactly how old the Turtles are or even make an estimate? I mean Turtles live a long time don't they? What makes people so sure, including the turtles, that they're teenagers. I guess they were infants when they fell down the drain and the ooze initially gave them the human brains of children and then they developed maturely and physically like ordinary human children do? And by the time the actual series starts they're in the teenage phase of their lives? |
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Other turtles can live a long time. Alligator snapping turtles can live 200 years.
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Same breeder/owner (of the parents), but different nest seasons and grew at different rates; Mikey the fastest (and youngest), Leo the slowest (and oldest), and Donnie and Raph just average (and probably from same nest, given it's always been unknown which is "older"), all reaching a sellable size around the same time. Although as for how they'd even know... Who knows. Maybe the shop owner was able to supply that info on the year/month of hatching. |
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11-08-2017, 01:48 PM | #369 |
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And who would he supply it to? The kid's dad? The kid? How would they have ever passed this information on to the Turtles?
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11-08-2017, 01:50 PM | #370 |
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And thus the Nick series used Mutation Day as a stand-in.
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This is definitely true, just look at all the discussions for all reboots and their changes. Anyone remember Catwoman the movie? People went crazy, I didn't care since it wasn't meant to be Selina Kyle and her super powers made sense since it's in continuity with Returns whose catwoman also "gained powers". I think I'm the sole fan of that movie in all of the internet. I'm actually really open to change and like new things, I'm usually a fan of the lesser liked examples of games and whatnot. but even I have my "established" ideas of what a certain franchise needs and shouldn't change. |
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11-08-2017, 01:56 PM | #372 |
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Hey, I said "who knows," didn't I? lol As much as I usually want to try to make logical sense of stuff myself, well some of it is going to have to be cartoon magic that what went on in a small pet shop in NYC in the 80s is an unknown.
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11-08-2017, 02:26 PM | #373 |
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Which I love.
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11-08-2017, 02:39 PM | #374 |
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I wouldn't mind if "black April" looks like Angel from 2k3/IDW. Where she's dark skinned but basically ambiguous.
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11-08-2017, 02:58 PM | #376 |
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Of course the turtles are white. California surfer dudes in new York. Even when it comes to Japanese stuff, other than Leo the rest come off as Americanized white dudes trying to do that wild and crazy Japanese thing. Though they sure had fun making Mikey talk black on the Nicktoon, son. As for Black April, the 'feeling left out because she's black in an all white school' might work BUT no cartoon for kids is going to show such blatant racism against her. I bet they'll look for any excuse to have the schoolkids shun her other than race. Now I do wonder just how much stereotypes this version of April is going to endure. We've never had a particularly cool and modern April before.
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11-08-2017, 04:05 PM | #378 |
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Shredder talks about Japanese stuff in various OT episodes, and referenced Japan a lot of times. I'm not sure if he ever said any Japanese words although I might be forgetting something. Not to mention when Shredder's Mother and brother showed up in the cartoon, they were also both Japanese. Kazuo Saki and his mother was a Japanese woman.
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11-08-2017, 04:07 PM | #379 |
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Do those even exist anymore? I mean outside of, like, parts of Utah or something?
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His quarters in the Technodrome are also shown to be very Japanese in aesthetic. And when he takes his mask off (or lazily puts a hologram of himself over it?), there's absolutely no doubt that he's from Japan.
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