April in the nick toon series [Archive]

CyberCubed

11-02-2012, 08:28 PM

She seems to be aware that Don has a crush on her. But rather than either reject him outright or make fun of him, she's just trying to brush it off.

Honestly, how would YOU feel if a creepy mutant Turtle wanted to get together with you while you were worrying about your kidnapped father?

Jephael

11-02-2012, 08:56 PM

I take it you haven't had much experience with the female fans, CyberCubed.

zkarlette

11-02-2012, 09:03 PM

I take it you haven't had much experience with the female fans, CyberCubed.

Indeed, he has been hiding under a rock or something...:lol:

The Stryker

11-02-2012, 09:08 PM

For all if Cybercubed's rambling he's actually fairly spot on here. How is she 'stuck up'? By not jumping his shell at the first opportunity?

Jephael

11-02-2012, 09:11 PM

Perhaps I should've explained my little in-joke better. I wasn't picking on CyberCubed, I was pointing out the humerous irony of how a lot of nutty fangirls out there would kill to be in April's position.

zkarlette

11-02-2012, 09:17 PM

Jephael

11-02-2012, 09:19 PM

I wasn't referring to anyone in particular... though I was tempted to give an example earlier. Besides, I didn't mean any offense. Some of my closest friends in the fandom are fangirls.

NinjaMan

11-02-2012, 09:26 PM

Hopefully Donnie won't get too crushed when Casey shows up.

Vivi

11-02-2012, 09:41 PM

Hopefully Donnie won't get too crushed when Casey shows up.

I sense a love triangle coming up.

That is, if Casey is supposed to be around a similar age to them (not sure).

CyberCubed

11-02-2012, 10:07 PM

I sense a love triangle coming up.

That is, if Casey is supposed to be around a similar age to them (not sure).

Casey will be 18.

It'll be interesting 'cause April will be underaged while Casey won't be.

Lisardo

11-03-2012, 01:05 AM

I can see why she'd be weirded out by the whole thing. After all he's not exactly human. For the most part she's being very kind to Donny.

Btw, I gotta comment, I wonder where they got the whole Donny/April idea from...(these are fanarts, not mine mind you):

2k3 series...April and Donny both "brains"
http://raphaella.deviantart.com/art/The-Brains-Colored-12159610?q=favby%3Alisardo%2F10068934&qo=376

Then we have the new 2k12 series, where they copied pretty much the same idea...hmmm
http://nichan.deviantart.com/art/TMNT-2012-Donnie-x-April-331458415

Donatello19

11-03-2012, 07:21 AM

Maybe she just doesn't want to turn him down just yet because she knows he would be very sad. He did save her after all.

BubblyShell22

11-03-2012, 07:52 AM

I don't think she's stuck up, but she knows that a relationship of the romantic variety won't work. I think she's trying to give subtle hints, but Don's not getting them yet. I think eventually she'll have to turn him down more forcefully, and I think she's reluctant to really do that.

CyberCubed

11-04-2012, 12:36 AM

She's handled rather well, I think.

I wish we'd see her other family though.

Xav

11-04-2012, 01:28 AM

Btw, I gotta comment, I wonder where they got the whole Donny/April idea from...(these are fanarts, not mine mind you)From the 2003 series they hinted at it. Obviously the 2012 series expanded it a lot more.

CyberCubed

11-04-2012, 08:42 AM

From the 2003 series they hinted at it. Obviously the 2012 series expanded it a lot more.

April kisses Donatello in at least two episodes of the original cartoon too.

Jephael

11-04-2012, 09:53 AM

April kisses Donatello in at least two episodes of the original cartoon too.

Yea but she also kissed Michaelangelo a couple times in the classic series.

Coola Yagami

11-04-2012, 11:04 AM

Yea but she also kissed Michaelangelo a couple times in the classic series.

that two-timing tease!

ImDoneItsOver

11-04-2012, 01:03 PM

Its an interesting dynamic but I think it boils down to "What the heck! We have mutants living under our streets?" It will be fun to see how the "relationship" develops :)

sdp

11-04-2012, 01:09 PM

Rooish

11-04-2012, 05:49 PM

Pretty spot-on, CyberCubed.

The timing is creepy more than anything. I do think the crush is a little overdone and serious. I don't see why April couldn't be attracted to Don if Don is attracted to her (since the Turtles are emotionally and intellectually the same as humans), but I'd prefer that neither was attracted to either.

TheSkeletonMan939

11-04-2012, 05:55 PM

I don't see why April couldn't be attracted to Don if Don is attracted to her.

Keep in mind this is something like what the turtles would look like in real life.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/realtmnt1.jpg

Rooish

11-04-2012, 06:01 PM

Or like in the first movie? They're way less freakish in that.

Right, but why would a Turtle be attracted to April? Humans must look just as weird to the Turtles.

FearlessLeader

11-04-2012, 06:12 PM

Keep in mind this is something like what the turtles would look like in real life.

http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/realtmnt1.jpg

As someone who has grown up on Science Fiction in particular Star Trek I can't help but chuckle at posts like this.

People can be attracted to all manner of different looking "people" one of my favorite Trek races are the Cardassians which are a reptile humanoid species that have neck ridges and scales. Yet after a while you stop kind of realizing how different they look and instead tend to focus on what amazing beings they are :twink:

NinjaMan

11-04-2012, 07:29 PM

As someone who has grown up on Science Fiction in particular Star Trek I can't help but chuckle at posts like this.

People can be attracted to all manner of different looking "people" one of my favorite Trek races are the Cardassians which are a reptile humanoid species that have neck ridges and scales. Yet after a while you stop kind of realizing how different they look and instead tend to focus on what amazing beings they are :twink:

I don't know if parents would take kindly to bestiality though lol.

zkarlette

11-04-2012, 07:38 PM

What about beauty and the beast? Or hellboy?

The Stryker

11-04-2012, 07:42 PM

Oh jesus. Not this stupid can of worms again.

Also Beast was a dude.

FearlessLeader

11-04-2012, 07:43 PM

I don't know if parents would take kindly to bestiality though lol.

We have argued this before on these forums, but I guess it comes down to if one considers the guys animals or humanoids.

Because I frankly don't think bestiality applies to them. :trazz:

The Stryker

11-04-2012, 07:51 PM

Just....stop. Let's not start this whole thing AGAIN. "I'd f*ck a dog if it was as tall as me and talked!" great!

Now let's leave it at that.

Rooish

11-04-2012, 08:31 PM

The SHOW opened this can of worms. It's kind of not irrelevant. Please stop coming onto topics and telling people to stop talking about what they want to. If you don't want to participate don't reply.

Cure

11-04-2012, 08:33 PM

The SHOW opened this can of worms. It's kind of not irrelevant. Please stop coming onto topics and telling people to stop talking about what they want to.

No, it didn't. Donnie has a crush, and I'm sure that's as far as it'll ever go. Kids wouldn't read more into it than that, and certainly not as much as the deviants on the internet.

Rooish

11-04-2012, 08:37 PM

Right, well I didn't say anything about having sex with the Turtles, for one. I said the crush was a bit overdone but I didn't see why Don having a crush on April made any less sense than her returning his feelings. I'd rather not see any of it frankly, but I don't think that it's inconceivable, in this show's world, for a human to like a turtle if a turtle likes a human.

CyberCubed

11-04-2012, 08:37 PM

One of the staff members at the conventions already said that Don and April will never seriously start dating or become an item.

Thank goodness for that.

BubblyShell22

11-05-2012, 06:33 AM

I'm sure it'll be one-sided on his part. You can already tell that she doesn't return the feeling at all.

Lisardo

11-07-2012, 10:17 PM

I thought his crush would be a little more subtle and not he's all over her all the time, thought it'd be a few gags and that's it. Doesn't bother me a lot so far though.

As far as previous incarnations I actually saw a Donnie/April thing years ago, maybe not intentional but yeah in the OT, 2k3 and even TMNTII on the NES has a few scenes that made me like the pairing.

I personally never saw a Donny/April thing in the Fred Wolf series. Don't think she was that close with any of them, maybe Leo since he was more mature (and rescued her the most), but even that's debatable. The first time I saw the Donny/April thing was in the 4K series, and it definitely was hinted upon. As others have said tho, I'm a bit surprized he's doing more than 'hinting' in the Nick series. I almost view it as a Beauty and the Beast thing, where he never really thinks he'll be with her, but still finds joy being around her.

pannoni1

11-09-2012, 01:15 PM

It seems like we'll have a more equal distribution of kidnappings the way that April has good self-defense skills (Martial arts basically teaches this). I would like her to take off her ponytail in an episode and have a different outfit much like we had in earlier series. Her voice is fine, being a little higher than any other version. Also check out "the 2012 April" thread for more discussion.

http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=33632&highlight=2012+april+nick

demoman

11-10-2012, 08:28 PM

(never say xever)

I like that April is slowly but steadily getting her own personality.

Also notice that most of her exchanges are with Donnie. Cute!

One of the staff members at the conventions already said that Don and April will never seriously start dating or become an item.

Thank goodness for that.

I disagree, I think them becoming an item would be a great aspect to this series. The tone would fit.

In this ep, anyone else notice that she's starting to...well, I wouldn't call it 'flirting back', but...warm up a tiny bit?

TurtleTitan97

11-10-2012, 09:12 PM

I disagree, I think them becoming an item would be a great aspect to this series. The tone would fit.

I'm sorry, but I disagree. I mean April's a human and Donnie is a mutant turtle. Nuff said.

NinjaMan

11-10-2012, 09:29 PM

I'm sorry, but I disagree. I mean April's a human and Donnie is mutant turtle. Nuff said.

I agree, I don't want them becoming an item. Leave that to Casey.

demoman

11-10-2012, 09:41 PM

I mean April's a human and Donnie is mutant turtle. Nuff said.

discouraged as I am from reading this, Ciro Neil's concept sketches has a lot of April interacting with the turtles as if they were normal fellow tween/teens.

I wouldn't even mind a weird love triangle if casey gets introduced, as long as the possibility keeps getting teased (and thus discussed, it's fascinating).

TurtleTitan97

11-10-2012, 10:04 PM

I wouldn't even mind a weird love triangle if casey gets introduced, as long as the possibility keeps getting teased (and thus discussed, it's fascinating).

I don't think it should. As shown in the episodes, it's obvious that April isn't interested in Donnie, and only sees him as a friend.

V4EVER

11-11-2012, 01:04 AM

I think the writers are keeping it as justa crush, kinda a Louis and Clark thing, I don't think it'l ever get serious, its target mainly to kids, most likely April will find a boy she likes and they'l play an episode out of Donnatello being jelouse, then realizing they can only be friends, yah we've seen it before lol

ZariusTwo

11-11-2012, 11:02 AM

I think the writers are keeping it as justa crush, kinda a Louis and Clark

Poor example. Lois and Clark ended up falling in love and getting married in the comics (even though it's been retconned as of 2011, the point still stands)

TheSkeletonMan939

11-11-2012, 11:25 AM

Poor example. Lois and Clark ended up falling in love and getting married in the comics (even though it's been retconned as of 2011, the point still stands)

It's a perfect example. The writers just needed a new idea seventy years later so they had 'em marry.

ZariusTwo

11-11-2012, 12:09 PM

You're forgetting Earth-2 Lois and Clark (aka the Golden Age ones) got married before the modern day ones, so it's still a poor example. Fact. Clark crushed on Lois and Lois recipricated his feelings eventually. This obviously won't happen with April and Donny.

I personally never saw a Donny/April thing in the Fred Wolf series..

Correct. If anything, April was always getting her tail saved by either Leo or Mike in that show.

Jephael

11-11-2012, 09:12 PM

Maybe they could do an episode where Donatello briefly becomes human and that gives him the courage to ask her out, but then she turns him down anyway.

Jester

11-11-2012, 09:16 PM

If that happens, I think I'd quit the show.

TurtleTitan97

11-11-2012, 09:19 PM

If that happens, I think I'd quit the show.

Yeah, I have to agree with Jester. I didn't really like it when that happened in the OT for Mikey. I thought that was strange.

oldmanwinters

11-11-2012, 09:20 PM

Maybe they could do an episode where Donatello briefly becomes human and that gives him the courage to ask her out, but then she turns him down anyway.

If that happens, I think I'd quit the show.

Just so long as human Donny doesn't lose his "ninja powers."

Jester

11-11-2012, 09:27 PM

Just so long as human Donny doesn't lose his "TURTLE powers."
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oldmanwinters

11-11-2012, 09:36 PM

I can't even remember... was is "turtle powers" or "ninja powers" that Michelangelo lost in "The Gang's All Here" ?

Jester

11-11-2012, 09:50 PM

I could swear it's Turtle, because I remember thinking, "You're a trained Ninja, how does being a Turtle give you abilities that years of ninja training didn't?"

FearlessLeader

11-11-2012, 10:09 PM

I could swear it's Turtle, because I remember thinking, "You're a trained Ninja, how does being a Turtle give you abilities that years of ninja training didn't?"

Difference in body mass, weight and shape could certainly make him much more clumsy and sloppy. I assume losing his shell would completely change is usually center of balance and he would actually need to retrain himself how to move correctly??

That's really the only logical explanation I can come up with. I only kind of remember this episode in the old toon so I don't recall how bad Mikey's fighting is when he changes.

zkarlette

11-12-2012, 03:28 AM

I think that the April /Donnie relationship is adorable and has brought a lot of fun content to the show.

BubblyShell22

11-12-2012, 07:04 AM

I think the relationship is funny on Don's part with how he's so smitten with her, but we all know it isn't going to happen, and I have a feeling that when Casey Jones comes into the picture, things aren't going to go well for Don.

Ninjawolf

11-12-2012, 03:35 PM

The Donnie/April thing is adorable but it's definitly not going to happen... April will wind up with Casey as she does in just about every other verse... they're pretty much the franchises only Official Couple...

I do think Dante Basco will voice Casey (I think he'd be perfect for the role lol Casey could easily be a mix between Jake from ADJL (streetsmart New York teen) and Zuko (hot head))

ZariusTwo

11-12-2012, 04:33 PM

Jester

11-12-2012, 04:42 PM

Good ole Gabrielle.

Jephael

11-12-2012, 04:48 PM

They really ought to bring in Casey's other chick into the show just to make the whole thing more unpredictable

Good ole Gabrielle.

I was thinking the same thing. Infact I even suggested why not make Casey and Gabrielle roughly around the same age they were in "City at War" and give them a baby daughter by the name Shadow?

TurtleTitan97

11-12-2012, 04:51 PM

I was thinking the same thing. Infact I even suggested why not make Casey and Gabrielle roughly around the same age they were in "City at War" and give them a baby daughter by the name Shadow?

I don't think Nickelodeon would allow Casey to have a kid on the show since he's said to be close to April's age.

Jephael

11-12-2012, 04:54 PM

That's why I said the writers should make them older. Why do Casey and April always have to be an item anyway? I got enough of those two canoodling in the 4Kids series. I'd kinda like to see them with different beaus.

ZariusTwo

11-13-2012, 05:29 AM

I don't think Nickelodeon would allow Casey to have a kid on the show since he's said to be close to April's age.

That, plus Gabby has to pretty much DIE so he can get with April. I've always wondered just who he'd be with if she had lived on

CyberCubed

11-13-2012, 08:46 AM

Why are we discussing this when its confirmed Casey will be 18?

Gyt Kaliba

11-13-2012, 12:59 PM

Bossa Nova

11-13-2012, 09:09 PM

I still dunno why people get so hung up on the April/Donnie thing. It's clear that it's going to be nothing but a joke, and even if it wasn't, it would never go any further than showing them kiss or something (though even that would be unlikely, even if Avatar has shown some kissing).

And I kind of agree with the comparisons of it to Star Trek or lots of other titles that have human/unhuman relationships. It's hardly new ground.

I dunno about other folks, but the reason it's such a buzzkill for me (aside from being totally creepy), is that it makes it so that's what Don's all about. His main personality quirk is his love of machines, science and knowledge in general. Now that's second as his crush on April is what new watchers will identify him with first and foremost, which pretty much ruins his entire image and turns into some drooling fanboy nerd.

oldmanwinters

11-13-2012, 09:11 PM

I dunno about other folks, but the reason it's such a buzzkill for me (aside from being totally creepy), is that it makes it so that's what Don's all about. His main personality quirk is his love of machines, science and knowledge in general. Now that's second as his crush on April is what new watchers will identify him with first and foremost, which pretty much ruins his entire image and turns into some drooling fanboy nerd.

I guess it's entirely possible that Donny's mind has actually been... uh... stimulated by his crush. I don't think he was motivated to build uber-cool stuff like the T-Pod, T-Phone, and Metalhead before he laid eyes on April. So... maybe his testosterone is actually an asset to his techno-skill development.

Bossa Nova

11-13-2012, 09:23 PM

I guess it's entirely possible that Donny's mind has actually been... uh... stimulated by his crush. I don't think he was motivated to build uber-cool stuff like the T-Pod, T-Phone, and Metalhead before he laid eyes on April. So... maybe his testosterone is actually an asset to his techno-skill development.

Possibly, and maybe some people prefer to see it that way. Personally, totally not my cup of tea. That version of it pretty much makes him WAY too dependent on her for his development, instead of the capable and intelligent ninja he's always naturally been. His lacking fighting skills in this show is already having him come in last compared to his brothers, and figuring that his only motivation to expand his knowledge is because of April just makes him seem that much more pathetic.

Besides, he built the T-Pod and T-Phone purely for his brothers' and his own sake, so I doubt April really played a part in it. He only asked for her number after the fact that he'd built the T-Phone and as Raph even mentioned, it's not like he didn't really have access to it in the first place. As for Metalhead, sure, he was stoked it made him look cooler, but he built it more for the sake of his own frustration with his bo and how little he was helping his brothers, not because he looked lame in front of April (since she wasn't even there for the fight anyway).

Anyway, just all my opinion as a fan of Donnie who loathes this stupid crush and can't seem to shut up about it. :)

FearlessLeader

11-14-2012, 12:08 AM

Anyway, just all my opinion as a fan of Donnie who loathes this stupid crush and can't seem to shut up about it. :)

Wow, I will be honest I had never really looked at Donnie's development. In that way but now that you point it out I agree with you. Now I like want to rewatch the episodes just to observe and think about this.

Jephael

11-14-2012, 12:50 PM

Why are we discussing this when its confirmed Casey will be 18?

Okay, but has it been confirmed that he's gonna be April's love interest? If so, I'll let go of the Gabriel idea, but until then I'm going to entertain the notion of having her on the show.

Gyt Kaliba

11-14-2012, 03:32 PM

I dunno about other folks, but the reason it's such a buzzkill for me (aside from being totally creepy), is that it makes it so that's what Don's all about. His main personality quirk is his love of machines, science and knowledge in general. Now that's second as his crush on April is what new watchers will identify him with first and foremost, which pretty much ruins his entire image and turns into some drooling fanboy nerd.

Hmm...I hadn't thought about it, but they are playing up the April thing more than they are his intelligence. Not by a lot, IMO, but by enough of a gap that I do hope they even it out more as the show goes on.

I still don't really find it that creepy myself, but eh, everyone's open to your opinion, and you make your stance well. It's just the people who declare they don't like it without much backup that gets kind of old. You don't have that problem though:D

jinzin

11-19-2012, 04:47 PM

Personally, I'm really happy that the show took this direction and gave this crush factor to Donnie, it opens him up and gives him an entirely more rounded out personality. As the "guy who fixes stuff" Donny was easily the biggest non-character of the group and this adds a nice/new dimension to him that wasn't always there. It's going to be kind of a bummer when KC shows up. lol

Avatar Yuffie

11-19-2012, 05:02 PM

I really like April being a teenager. It removes the constant thing that bugs me with OT and 2K3.

Adding a fifth (teenage) character and clumsily attempted to make a five man band. They did this with Zack, Carter, Venus, Cody, etc.

The characters who didn't annoy me was Ninjara in Archie and Keno in Secret of the Ooze.

April gets to hang out with the guys more, is a human/teenage/girl surrogate for the fans and removes the need to make OCs. Donnie having a crush on her is interesting in 2K3, so I'm pretty much ok seeing him clumsily going about in the new show.