April's lack of a lovelife in the original cartoon

[Leo656]

I definitely got the sense that Shredder had eyes for her, more than once.

Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy

Pretty sure the Herp wouldn't be enough to keep some away.

Pretty sure you're right. #TigOlBitties

[TommyT]

Originally Posted by MikeandRaph87

As far as April's stats,considering the Turtles are supposedly around 5ft tall and she is not even an inch over 5 feet, I find it off. I would have though April to be around 5'6.

I'm sure that was meant as 5'8" not 5'.08".

And plenty of heathy women have a healthy weight of 115lbs. It was the 80's, and the fatdemic wasn't in full swing yet.

Just because 40% of the US is fat, doesn't mean 115 is underweight.

Also, we all know a turtle dick is impressive as all hell, and there were 4 of them.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I definitely got the sense that Shredder had eyes for her, more than once.

Ah, I actually completely forgot about that

In one of the European vacation episodes, when Shredder was trying to conquer the world using a magical sword (and make himself king in the process), he explicitly tried to make April his queen.

Had he succeeded in his plan there, you could've expected a royal dynasty that ruled the earth, all descended from April and Shredder

[CyberCubed]

Is there anything that contradicts that profile from Turtles the Arcade game saying April is 27? That feels like it would be right about her age in the original cartoon, but I don't know if she was ever stated to be anything else.

Funny how that videogame profile also shows April sporting some massive cleavage with her top unbuttoned, she didn't have it like that in the show. Looks like a pic you'd see in a modern day online dating site like OKcupid or tinder but it's from 1991.

[FredWolfLeonardo]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Is there anything that contradicts that profile from Turtles the Arcade game saying April is 27? That feels like it would be right about her age in the original cartoon, but I don't know if she was ever stated to be anything else.

In "Leatherhead: Terror of the Swamp", April does say that she is 28.

Close enough, I guess.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

Funny how that videogame profile also shows April sporting some massive cleavage with her top unbuttoned, she didn't have it like that in the show. Looks like a pic you'd see in a modern day online dating site like OKcupid or tinder but it's from 1991.

And that is one reason why I think the game is lying about her being 115 lbs.

No way is a woman of her height (which I think could also be wrongly reported, she towers over the turtles) and curvature that light

[Leo656]

I was gonna say, I definitely remember April explicitly stating in at least one episode of the old cartoon that she was either 27 or 28 but I couldn't remember which.

I also think 115 lbs is extremely light for a woman about 5'8 with that amount of "curvature". I'm about 5'8 with a fairly "slight" but reasonably athletic frame, BMI about 26%, and I weigh on average anywhere between 160 and 175 depending on a variety of factors. Granted, I'm a dude, but my arms and legs aren't significantly thicker than any average person, be they male or female. The median "healthy" weight for anyone who stands 5'8 would be between 130 to 150 based on a variety of factors. A woman at that height who weighed 115 would be borderline anorexic-looking. They definitely wouldn't have such large, full breasts. I used to perform physical evaluations on people almost every day and there really isn't a ton of variance in body types and body structure. One of my most fit female clients is about 5'7 with almost no body fat, with fairly ample, er, "assets", and she recently weight in at about 142.

Given the way she's drawn, I'd put FW April at about 130-ish if she's 5'8. That's about average, especially given how she's neither drawn to be "buff" nor a stick figure.

This does roll right into something I always used to laugh about in fighting games, though, with the characters' body weights being just completely wrong. Like half the guys in Street Fighter II or whatever would always be underweight by a good 30-50 lbs based on how muscular they were drawn to be and what their listed height was. Always gave me a chuckle, but moreso once I started working in the fitness industry and was constantly looking at data on what weights generally went with various body structures.

Bottom line, video games are generally bullsh*t when it comes to getting vital stats correct. But I guess that's to be expected, given how most games are programmed by stick-thin, chain-smoking Japanese people who probably don't work out. How're they supposed to know? They're just making up numbers.

[turtle1237]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Interestingly enough as a kid, April being single made her that much more desirable. Like I don't think it woulda been the same if she was fawning over a guy consistently on the show as an official love interest.

I'm case you're wondering about say, 2K3 April, I was too old to care if she had Casey or not.

And all this time I thought it was the boobs and butt.

[turtle1237]

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

Ah, I actually completely forgot about that

In one of the European vacation episodes, when Shredder was trying to conquer the world using a magical sword (and make himself king in the process), he explicitly tried to make April his queen.

Had he succeeded in his plan there, you could've expected a royal dynasty that ruled the earth, all descended from April and Shredder

Shredder may of been evil, but he knew that once he took over the world, who was going to be in his bed.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by turtle1237

And all this time I thought it was the boobs and butt.

Well I'm not saying that wasn't a factor 😂

But I guess how it's similar to how most boy band types have to appear single so they don't crush the dreams of their fangirls knowing they're really dating someone else.

[IndigoErth]

Agree that 115 lb is rather light for someone 5'8 and doesn't really match how she's designed. That was my average weight for the whole of my adult life up through my 30s and always been thin at that weight and only 5'4. She'd have been rather thin at that weight.

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

But I guess how it's similar to how most boy band types have to appear single so they don't crush the dreams of their fangirls knowing they're really dating someone else.

lol Sells more merchandise.

[Dejablue]

didn't April leave Irma to die once? For the sake of a story?

Yeah definitely married to her career.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by Dejablue

didn't April leave Irma to die once? For the sake of a story?

Yeah definitely married to her career.

Are you thinking of the ep she went to get a magnet to pull the magnetic bug away from her? It only looked like April was running away but she came back with the construction vehicle that has the huge magnet pulling thing on the crane and saved her.

[ABrown]

In the season 8 episode "Cyber Turtles", while they didn't necessarily pair up April and Casey romantically. I've always felt that in that episode, they were trying to pay homage to their relationship in the first live movie.

Originally Posted by FredWolfLeonardo

And while we're on the thread, I call bull in the OP's picture which states that April was only 115 lbs, I don't buy it.

[TommyT]

My wife is 5’5”, 105, C cups.

You guys think fat is skinny.

[oldmanwinters]

FYI, 4Kids-era April was listed as 10 pounds heavier in the official bio card that came with her action figure in Japan:

[Candy Kappa]

So konami FW April is underweight and JP bio card 2k3 April is in the lower end of normal weight by bmi standards

[oldmanwinters]

Originally Posted by Candy Kappa

So konami FW April is underweight and JP bio card 2k3 April is in the lower end of normal weight by bmi standards

For comparison's sake:




Considering the big reveal about Saki/Shredder, he seems way underweight to me. I assumed he was basically all metal.

[Candy Kappa]

The Saki suit is probably made out of some light alloy alien tech to simulate a human weight.

[lonewarrior20]

I bet you part of it might have been the ethics and censorship board. After all we can't show she might be sleeping with someone and not married, better to have her single and not seeing anyone so the young mind can fantasize about her dating them and only them. Then again that might explain alot of the porn that's popped up over the years.

[TommyT]

Funny how people project themselves into what's "normal".
April was 115, a normal health weight. If you fat, its time to diet. get over it.
We've seen the pictures. Most of you are more than big boned. That doesn't mean April is in anyway underweight. Normalizing obesity is wrong.

And if you fat and you trying to say fat is normal, well, these days, I guess it is, but its now 1/3rd is fat, and that's not a good normal, even if it the new normal.

This is why so many of you are getting sick. Put the GD pizza down.
Also, the turtles would weigh almost twice that. Bone shells would be heavy AF.