11-08-2017, 04:09 PM | #381 | |
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As for OT Shredder, it doesn't matter if he referenced Japan or whatever. He had no accent and spoke with enough perfect Anerican English to do comedy stand up.
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11-08-2017, 04:12 PM | #382 |
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I do wonder how far they're gonna go with the stereotypes. I hope they don't make April some kind of hoodlum or whatever. Just make her a black scientist/news reporter/student without any negative connotations. This is Nick's chance to showcase a positive black character.
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11-08-2017, 04:16 PM | #384 |
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Who knows. But hey maybe April will be a nerd.
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11-08-2017, 04:16 PM | #385 |
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Also this was a flashback to Shredder's childhood in one episode:
I love that he's still wearing his helmet as a teenager. Notice how they're wearing Japanese uniforms and Saki's skin tone. |
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How are they white? Only white people in USA can be surfers or something? What exactly would stop people from other races from having similar personalities to the Turtles? And that being said, I had never thought about what the Turtles would look like as human beings until you mentioned it lol. Well the VAs of the FW Turtles and the 2k3 Turtles were all White, so ofc they'd "sound white". But that means nothing really. Shredder has been voiced by 3 Black men so far, and no one thinks that makes the character less Japanese. Just like lots of kid and teenage male cartoons characters are voiced by women doesn't make the characters actual women. Quote:
What about his skin tone? He had the same as he did when he was an adult. Why is that strange? |
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11-08-2017, 04:43 PM | #389 |
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In the beginning of the FW series, Shredder did have a slight Japanese accent but dropped it before the First season even ended.
Atleast he sounds more Japanese than Nick and 2k3 Shredder though |
11-08-2017, 04:44 PM | #390 |
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In the 2k3 series I think Scottie Ray tried to give him an East Asian like accent. Not really Japanese but an accent that could fit someone from Korea, China or Japan. Karai had a thicker accent, iirc.
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11-08-2017, 04:54 PM | #391 |
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I will say though, I thought that the cartoon Splinter VAs with the exception of Hoon Lee did do a pretty good job at sounding asian.
I never got why some people didn't like 2k3 Splinters voice. Sure, I prefer the deep voice from the 80s and 2k12 toon but i found his 2k3 voice to be alright. |
11-08-2017, 05:01 PM | #392 |
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Wow the tags for this thread
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11-08-2017, 05:04 PM | #393 |
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The Turtles are green, dude
I don't see why we'd try to impose race on them
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Yeah, this show has already led to some pretty interesting discussions and mixed receptions with all the changes that are being made.
And it hasn't even come out yet. Could this be the next TMNT 2014? Quote:
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Lest we all need to be reminded, we're talking about teenage mutant ninja turtles. They have no understanding of what it means to be human, they've just been picking up bits of culture along the way. And living in New York City, one of the biggest melting pots in the world, they would have been exposed to a pretty wide variety of things. Although now that we're talking about it I'm very curious what their origin story is going to be in the new show
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FWIW, my mother always thought the Turtles were Japanese. I mean, she obviously knows it's an American property, but she thought the Turtles themselves were Japanese, just like Splinter and/or Yoshi and Shredder. Which is also why she found them having Italian names to be very odd |
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In cases where Yoshi became Splinter and a little DNA mixing may be involved, then I gotta agree with her that if they've got a touch of human in them from Splinter than they'd indeed be Japanese.
Unless... the kid in other versions last touched them (or a pet shop owner), then who knows. Although when voice actors taken into consideration... until the next series mixes it up, so far they've been a bunch of 'green apples' much of the time, so to speak. |
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The Turtles basically acted and talked white, C'mon you all know this, even though technically they're Turtles. If all 4 of them were cast by black VAs and spoke will all sorts of black slang, I know fans would have been calling them the black turtles even though, again, they're Turtles not human. Same if they were voiced by and sounded Hispanic. It doesn't change the fact that they're turtles and not humans, but you still would have people making green card jokes.
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