What color is Mutagen?

[Foot Soldier Clang]

So if memory serves me right, in the 87 series Mutagen was a glowing purple/pink ooze. In the first movie, it was a translucent green color, while in the second movie it was a bright and vivid almost grass green. The Playmates figures had canisters of ooze that were sometimes green light-piping. I have no idea what it looked like in the 2k3 series.

Is there an official color for mutagen, or does it just change for ever depiction of TMNT?

Also, does anyone have any screen caps from the old show where mutagen is being used?

[Jester]

Mostly green. I think the only time it's purple is in the pilot of the FW series and the "Foot Ooze" toy. It was tutti-fruttie in Were-Rats, but in I think everything else, it's mostly green.

[Samhain]

Wasn't it purple-ish-pink in Turtles Forever?

[Jester]

Wasn't it purple-ish-pink in Turtles Forever?
Yep, you're right. I forgot that one...
:P

[oldmanwinters]

I'm gonna go with green, but it can appear to be a translucent pink in certain kinds of lighting.

[Jester]

I'm gonna go with green, but it can appear to be a translucent pink in certain kinds of lighting.
And it changes colors in icy or warm water.

[Foot Soldier Clang]

Wasn't it purple-ish-pink in Turtles Forever?

That's right, and it was also in a small beaker instead of the usual canister.

[Galactus]

In the first two episodes it was purple which was what Turtles Forever based it on. Pretty much every appearance since then it was green although I suppose it could be a different kind of mutagen.

The big discrepancy is "Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko" were they depicted the turtles being exposed to the mutagen completely differently to how it was shown in "Turtle Tracks" complete with green mutagen.

[tone-master21]

Here are some mutagen screencaps from the various season of the OT.

Season 1 episode “Turtle Tracks”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen3.jpg

Season 1 episode “Enter the Shredder”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen2.jpg

Season 2 episode “Invasion of the Punk Frogs”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen4.jpg

Season 3 episode “Mutagen Monster”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen13.jpg

Season 3 episode “Leatherhead, Terror of the Swamp”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen14.jpg

Season 3 episode “Michelangelo’s Birthday”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen15.jpg

Season 4 episode “Slash, Evil Turtle From Dimension X”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen5.jpg

Season 4 episode “Were-Rats From Channel 6”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen6.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen7.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen8.jpg

[tone-master21]

Season 5 episode “Planet of the Turtleoids”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen1.jpg

Season 5 episode “Mutagen Man”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen9.jpg

Season 5 episode “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen10.jpg

Season 5 episode “The Ice Creature Cometh”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen11.jpg

Season 7 episode “Revenge of the Fly”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen12.jpg

[Foot Soldier Clang]

Whoa that rainbowesque mutagen being dumped on Irma and Verne is weird :o

[Jester]

Whoa that rainbowesque mutagen being dumped on Irma and Verne is weird :o
Yeah, it's what you get when mutagen ages... :P

[oldmanwinters]

DrMFMJrb4w0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrMFMJrb4w0

[gobo]

What color is Mutagen?
Same color as ectoplasm.

[ssjup81]

Whoa that rainbowesque mutagen being dumped on Irma and Verne is weird :oYeah, but at least for that though, they had an excuse. *laughs at Rat King for not knowing how to make proper mutagen*

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Big Bug Blunder is also green.

[Candy Kappa]

maybe one of the ingredients are food coloring, any food color works :P

[Donnie]

It's funny to see how many times the color was changed! I definitely like the green ooze best...followed by the RAINBOW! Hehe just kidding, followed by the purple.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Looks like the first mutagen was pink, while later seasons would go for green.

[Mr._Mutant_Man]

All the colors of the rainbow!

The yellow mutagen in Michelangelo's Birthday seems to be a variant that makes whoever gets sprayed blow up like Harry Potter's aunt. Yet Shredder apparently never bothered to keep the formula for what nearly defeated the turtles.

Maybe they could have done something where other colors of mutagen have different effects, like kryptonite.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Green is also what's probably most famous.

[pannoni1]

Green is also what's probably most famous.

The TGRI/TCRI canister is what cements this debate, however as the most iconic source of mutagen. Even in the OT green mutagen is prominent than pink/violet as shown below. The animators were just unsure of what color mutagen really was early in the series; before the movie made green the predominant color from that point forward.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

The TGRI/TCRI canister is what cements this debate, however as the most iconic source of mutagen. Even in the OT green mutagen is prominent than pink/violet as shown below. The animators were just unsure of what color mutagen really was early in the series; before the movie made green the predominant color from that point forward.

Do black and white Mirage mention any colour?

[Galactus]

The yellow mutagen in Michelangelo's Birthday seems to be a variant that makes whoever gets sprayed blow up like Harry Potter's aunt. Yet Shredder apparently never bothered to keep the formula for what nearly defeated the turtles.

What would be the point? Splinter'd just dip into his collection of magic moth balls to deflate the affected people.

Then again this is the cartoon were Donatello had a ray gun that changed peoples personalities just laying in a wardrobe yet never thought of using it on Shredder or Krang but was okay with using it on his brother.

[CyberCubed]

Then again this is the cartoon were Donatello had a ray gun that changed peoples personalities just laying in a wardrobe yet never thought of using it on Shredder or Krang but was okay with using it on his brother.

Shredder's personality already changed too many times in the old show, like when he thought he was Michaelangelo, or when his mind moved into Splinter's body, or the time he fell down and got amnesia but still wanted to blow up the city.

I think there were at least 3-4 plotlines where Shredder loses his mind.

[Stingray69]

Greens my favorite color and what I think of when I think ooze. But I quess it can be any color.

Any one else remember this ooze?

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k563/superman15857/IMG_0715.jpg

[Foot Soldier Clang]

Leo looks absolutely bored on that box :lol:

[pannoni1]

38 cents? Boy, have things gone up in value since then! And why would Mike and Don have to "share" a box?

Still, brings back memories when Nabisco commercials ended with NAH-BISS-CO! (ding)

[Stingray69]

I always wondered the same thing about box sharing. I feel like they got the short end of the stick. I mean I can't imagine they only had three flavors. Then again maybe they did and that's why they have to share.

[gobo]

Then again this is the cartoon were Donatello had a ray gun that changed peoples personalities just laying in a wardrobe yet never thought of using it on Shredder or Krang but was[n't] okay with using it on his brother.
Fixed that for you... :)
I think there were at least 3-4 plotlines where Shredder loses his mind.
Yeah. Any more than "3-4 plotlines" out of his 150 or so episodes would have been pointless repitition. :roll:

[Foot Soldier Clang]

I was rewatching some old TMNT Playmates toy commercials, and they usually refer to mutagen as "retromutagen". The file cards refer to mutagen as that as well. Is "retromutagen" the full term for the ooze? :tconfuse:

[sdp]

Isn't retro-mutagen the stuff that would turn them back to turtles/original state and mutagen the stuff that mutates you? That's why Shredder tried to attack with retro-mutagen not mutagen he wanted to undue the mutation not mutate themfurther.

[Foot Soldier Clang]

That's what I figured.

[ABrown]

Ya know what. I think there's a pretty easy answer to this question. The color of mutagen is whatever food coloring Shredder and Krang had available in the kitchen cabinet that day.

[pannoni1]

In any case, it suits well with classic Nickelodeon with all that Gak and Slime they did!

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I was rewatching some old TMNT Playmates toy commercials, and they usually refer to mutagen as "retromutagen". The file cards refer to mutagen as that as well. Is "retromutagen" the full term for the ooze? :tconfuse:

What's that image? No Foot soldiers are mutants, at least not in 1987 and Archie. Is it from the toyline?

[Foot Soldier Clang]

What's that image? No Foot soldiers are mutants, at least not in 1987 and Archie. Is it from the toyline?

Yeah the toyline. Like the image I like to use in my signature is from the Mutations line and is the "Mutation Chart" for the Foot Soldier figure. If you notice, it refers to mutagen as "retromutagen". I've seen it on other toys as well.

[ABrown]

Any one else remember this ooze?

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k563/superman15857/IMG_0715.jpg

No but I do remember the turtles ice cream that you can get when the ice cream man comes around. And sometimes they still carry it to this day.

Leo looks absolutely bored on that box :lol:

Ha, he's like "how the f*#k did I get stuck endorsing this?"

[Nintendophile]

(Talking about the original cartoon here.) Maybe, if we're looking for some kind of explanation for "pink" and "green", we could say that the "original" mutagen that mutated the Turtles was pink. Once Shredder found this out, he obtained the rest of that "original" mutagen. Then, when that ran out, he started to have to manufacture his own, which came out green, because it wasn't the "original" mutagen, it was "processed" mutagen.

It could explain why the earlier episodes seemed to have pink, and the later ones had green. Shredder ran out of the "original" stuff, and started having to make his own "synthetic" stuff.

Maybe? Eh? Eh?

(Outside of the cartoon, I'll always think of mutagen as green, though.)

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Yeah the toyline. Like the image I like to use in my signature is from the Mutations line and is the "Mutation Chart" for the Foot Soldier figure. If you notice, it refers to mutagen as "retromutagen". I've seen it on other toys as well.

Is it the original one or those mutatin' TMNT toyline.

[†Dr.Killpatients†]

Mutagen changes color when it gets unstable according to Donatello's opinion.

[Foot Soldier Clang]

When did he say that?

[†Dr.Killpatients†]

When did he say that?

"Were-Rats from Channel 6"

[Uki]

Maybe the multiple colors could be akin to that of Kryptonite...? ;)

[TurtleTitan97]

Maybe the multiple colors could be akin to that of Kryptonite...? ;)

Uki could be right. Sometimes its green, other times its another color.

[Stingray69]

Maybe the multiple colors could be akin to that of Kryptonite...? ;)

Hmm With each color having it's own abilitys.

[Hermano Dyvas]

Season 1 episode “Turtle Tracks”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen3.jpg
This is the original mutagen.

Season 1 episode “Enter the Shredder”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen2.jpg
still purple, still original mutagen.

Season 2 episode “Invasion of the Punk Frogs”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen4.jpg
I'm not sure what you get when you mix purple and blue but I'm willing to buy it's orange.

Season 3 episode “Mutagen Monster”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen13.jpg
At some point in the series regular mutagen became green instead of purple. This wasn't really classic mutagen though, other chemicals got mixed with it too. It didn't have the same results of classic mutagen. When the cows touched it. They just merged into a monster.

Season 3 episode “Leatherhead, Terror of the Swamp”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen14.jpg
Same comment as the one on the picture with the frogs.

Season 3 episode “Michelangelo’s Birthday”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen15.jpg
Again, not mutagen. It actually reversed rock soldier mutations and turned the turtles into balloons or something.

Season 4 episode “Slash, Evil Turtle From Dimension X”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen5.jpg
Not classic mutagen either. It was super mutagen, Krang and Shredder talk about it earlier in the episode. Good enough explanation of why it's not green or purple.

Season 4 episode “Were-Rats From Channel 6”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen6.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen7.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen8.jpg
This was expired mutagen. That's why it turned tutti frutti.

[Hermano Dyvas]

Season 5 episode “Planet of the Turtleoids”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen1.jpg

Season 5 episode “Mutagen Man”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen9.jpg

Season 5 episode “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen10.jpg

Season 5 episode “The Ice Creature Cometh”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen11.jpg

Season 7 episode “Revenge of the Fly”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen12.jpg

These are all great examples of regular mutagen having turned green i/o purple at some point in the series.

[CrazySquirrel]

Lol I forgot it was so many colors. In my head the answer was green til I read this today.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Another strange (alien) mutagen is this in Archie

http://tmntentity.blogspot.com/2011/10/merdude-vs-ray-fillet-3.html

where affected also become 5 000 years old. This can't be the same mutagen as Shredder and Krang used, as it don't turn them that old (at least not in the 1987 cartoon), even in Archie Raphael and Ninjara told they would live very long, but not thousands of years.

[gobo]

What color is Mutagen?
It usually looked white in the Mirage books.

[Galactus]

Speaking of mutagen in the Archie book Year of the Turtle had what Don described as crystaline form of mutagen.

You could also argue that the Muta Crystals from the anime was the same deal.

[stormbringer]

I wonder if we'll get rainbow kryptoni...er mutagen in the Nick series?

[Mighty Bebop]

Season 4 episode “Were-Rats From Channel 6”

http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/ae220/tonemaster21/mutagen8.jpghttp://www.environment-green.com/images/oil_slick.jpg????

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Mutagen changes color when it gets unstable according to Donatello's opinion.

Which episode?

[Hermano Dyvas]

Which episode?

Like he said 2 posts below that, were-rats from channel 6.

[Xav]

Any one else remember this ooze?

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k563/superman15857/IMG_0715.jpg Shouldn't Raph be on the strawberry ooze?

[Killer Moth]

Shouldn't Raph be on the strawberry ooze?

Great, now I want orange ooze. Or, short of that, Ecto-Cooler.

As for the coloring issue, purple, green, blue, black, it doesn't matter -- as long as it does what it does. I suppose for personal preference, I'd pick green after being used to the first toyline, and all.

[JakeSully]

They come in a variety of different colors mainly with the first being tutti-frutti, LOL.

[CyberCubed]

Bringing this thread back up because of the screenshots in the first page, proving the mutagen was green in most episodes of the original cartoon after the first season.

[Ninjinister]

Bringing this thread back up because of the screenshots in the first page, proving the mutagen was green in most episodes of the original cartoon after the first season.

Um... what

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Did Rocksteady just por water mixed with mutagen on Slash?

[neatoman]

Seriously, how hard could it have been to keep one consistant color?

[ToTheNines]

Seriously, how hard could it have been to keep one consistant color?

That's a good question. You should ask the guy in charge of coloring the turtles bandanas.

[CyberCubed]

I actually like the idea of mutagen being different colors depending on how unstable it is. That was actually a plot point in one of the episodes.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

As said before, the original films probably made green the standard colour (just like 1987 cartoon-Archie Krang made pink as standard-Utrom colour when the 2003 TMNT cartoon began).