Should the Turtles even sound like normal humans?

[Andrew NDB]

https://i.ibb.co/Wgwk6Wq/20200622-114537-turtle-300x202.jpg

Should the Turtles' voices sound raspier, more animal-like or maybe guttural, on the count of them not having normal human vocal cords (and probably not, you know, sounding like Rob Paulsen or something)?

[IMJ]

Basically between your thread here and those hideous drawings of the TMNT looking like actual warty turtles some years back, it's immediately become clear that a TMNT product should depict no verisimilitude outside of the TMNT simply walking around the real world itself. :lol:

Without the cartoony appeal, TMNT is nightmare fuel, man.

[Leo656]

Whether or not they "should", they do. So what the f*ck, man? :lol:

This is some "Should Superman be able to fly?" stuff. Theoretically, no. There's no actual scientific explanation for it. It's essentially just "wish magic" and has no basis in reality. A humanoid being with no wings or propulsion system by definition cannot achieve flight. Byrne tried to staple on some "psychokinesis" razzmatazz, but even then he was like "C'mon, don't think so hard. He can fly because he can, not because it makes any logical sense whatsoever."

Likewise, the Turtles sound like people because it's just easier that way. We've occasionally seen them sweat, too, and "technically" they shouldn't be able to do that either.

I'm always just like, "Okay, so the mutagen completely f*cked them up to the point they're like 70% human-ish and 30% Turtle, inside and out." Thinking about it any deeper than that is... well, the entire thing completely falls apart anyway.

"Realistically", upon being exposed to radioactive goo they'd probably just painfully melt to death. In which case this wouldn't even be a question. :lol:

[Bahamut810]

TMNT is good furry ****, not bad scaley ****...

[Coola Yagami]

I mean they have human limbs and whatnot. The mutagen/ooze gave em humanoid vocal cords.

[Andrew NDB]

I mean they have human limbs

No they don't.

[oldmanwinters]

I feel like Corey Feldman had the perfect "Mutant Turtle" voice.

[Leo656]

I feel like Corey Feldman had the perfect "Mutant Turtle" voice.

He does kinda "croak" when he speaks. :lol:

I mean they have human limbs and whatnot.

No they don't.

They are clearly "humanOID" limbs, Captain Pedantic. :lol: Ya knew what he meant, c'mon.

Love You. :trazz:

[Powder]

I feel like Corey Feldman had the perfect "Mutant Turtle" voice.

Came here to say this. :lol:

[LeotheLateBloomer]

I feel like Corey Feldman had the perfect "Mutant Turtle" voice.

Yup!

He does kinda "croak" when he speaks. :lol:

Yup!

Andrew, do you picture something like the recent Planet of the Apes films when the turtles speak?

[neatoman]

Yes, the odds of them turning out be screeching monsters without the ability to talk does seem more likely. But I guess a bigger question is, why are they often given California accents when they have lived in New York all their lives?

[Coola Yagami]

Yes, the odds of them turning out be screeching monsters without the ability to talk does seem more likely. But I guess a bigger question is, why are they often given California accents when they have lived in New York all their lives?

At least Mikey. Raph seems to be the only New Yorker among em.

[Andrew NDB]

Yes, the odds of them turning out be screeching monsters without the ability to talk does seem more likely. But I guess a bigger question is, why are they often given California accents when they have lived in New York all their lives?

It doesn't make any difference who is above the sewer manholes. It only matters who they see on the TV.

[Jester]

https://i.ibb.co/Wgwk6Wq/20200622-114537-turtle-300x202.jpg

Should the Turtles' voices sound raspier, more animal-like or maybe guttural, on the count of them not having normal human vocal cords (and probably not, you know, sounding like Rob Paulsen or something)?

I feel attacked...

I dunna man. I think the Hodgson's Law probably applies.

Also it's, Leo it's less a "Should Superman EVEN fly!?" and more a "Would Superman EVEN have INSERT HUMAN ORGAN/BODY PART!?"

[Leo656]

I meant from the sense of "Some things aren't even worth over-thinking", not as a straight analogy. :)

Also, Andrew's TV Theory makes sense, so let's play a game. The FW cartoon was the very first time we ever got to hear the Turtles' voices. Given the time period, if we agree that their TV watching influenced how they developed their speech, we can thus ascertain that "Fast Times At Ridgemont High" was FW Michelangelo's favorite movie growing up, that Sean Penn's Spicoli was his favorite character, and also, that Mikey saw Phoebe Cates's boobs about a million times.

But anyways, so that much we can pretty much write up as Fact. What I wanna know is, what were FW Leo, Don, and Raphael watching on TV growing up in order for them to adopt the voices and inflections that they did?

[LeotheLateBloomer]

Raph seems to be the only New Yorker among em.

Well since he's often the one going above the surface, he must've picked up on Brooklyn speech more than the others. The turtle who embraces NY the most.

[AquaParade]

I think it's an interesting question. It depends how seriously you want to take them, but I think it's worth asking.

[Coola Yagami]

Also it's, Leo it's less a "Should Superman EVEN fly!?" and more a "Would Superman EVEN have INSERT HUMAN ORGAN/BODY PART!?"

This reminds me of a comic where Superman and Lois are about to do it for the first time. Superman whips it out and Lois is like "WTF IS THAT?!" Superman is confused and is like 'it's my penis?'. It's off screen and we, the readers, don't see it of course, but it's assumed its some sort of weird looking... organ.

Lois is still dumbfounded and asks 'yeah but... why the pincers? What are they even for?"

The caption read something like 'it was now when Lois remembered she was going out with an alien. LOL

[IMJ]

This reminds me of how sometimes creators like to take existing I.P.'s and sort of fashion them into a genre flick that would fit. It would be like doing a G.I. Joe movie in the style of Platoon, or doing a Batman movie more like Silence of the Lambs than a comic book flick.

With that said, imagine that sort of sci-fi horror flick akin to "Critters" or Gremlins with those voices and these designs...

https://i.imgur.com/hE6ZDVil.jpg

[TigerClaw]

That's kind of a silly question, Because they always sounded human, Some of there voices were of the stereotypical variety, but eventually they had natural sounding voices that were close to the voice actor's own voice.

[Powder]

That's kind of a silly question, Because they always sounded human, Some of there voices were of the stereotypical variety, but eventually they had natural sounding voices that were close to the voice actor's own voice.

Nothing you say ever makes any sense.

[Andrew NDB]

That's kind of a silly question, Because they always sounded human, Some of there voices were of the stereotypical variety, but eventually they had natural sounding voices that were close to the voice actor's own voice.

I don't remember the Mirage comics including any "Play me!" electronic audio devices with them. Maybe I'm way off.

[TigerClaw]

I don't remember the Mirage comics including any "Play me!" electronic audio devices with them. Maybe I'm way off.
We only known how they sounded like thanks to the 87 series. So its how we always heard them, Though they kind of stopped doing the stereotypical voices after they did the 2012 series.

[Andrew NDB]

We only known how they sounded like thanks to the 87 series. So its how we always heard them, Though they kind of stopped doing the stereotypical voices after they did the 2012 series.

Oh, you mean the children's spinoffs? Those don't have anything to do with the Mirage stuff/the source material.

[IMJ]

Oh, you mean the children's spinoffs? Those don't have anything to do with the Mirage stuff/the source material.

:lol::lol::lol::lol:
Some of the things here that require explanation fascinate me.

What's more is that he'll be more offended by what I just said there than your routine use of passively/veiled calling someone an idiot, you know? Which is, ironically yet even more behavioral evidence.

[oldmanwinters]

This reminds me of a comic where Superman and Lois are about to do it for the first time. Superman whips it out and Lois is like "WTF IS THAT?!" Superman is confused and is like 'it's my penis?'. It's off screen and we, the readers, don't see it of course, but it's assumed its some sort of weird looking... organ.

Lois is still dumbfounded and asks 'yeah but... why the pincers? What are they even for?"

The caption read something like 'it was now when Lois remembered she was going out with an alien. LOL

:teek:

Dang, what kind of "comics" have you been reading?

[Andrew NDB]

:lol::lol::lol::lol:
Some of the things here that require explanation fascinate me.

What's more is that he'll be more offended by what I just said there than your routine use of passively/veiled calling someone an idiot, you know?

https://us.v-cdn.net/5022456/uploads/editor/le/l8j0pckdsvoe.gif

[Coola Yagami]

:teek:

Dang, what kind of "comics" have you been reading?

Like I said the goods are off screen.

[IndigoErth]

Yes. Why? Because humanoid and just the 'fact' that raspy or otherwise odd voices would very possibly get really annoying to listen to.

Imagine watching a 2 hour movie and, for a random example, it stars a group of characters who all sound like they've been smoking heavily for 50 years. Good god, no thanks.


screeching monsters
:lol::tlol:

Thanks, I hate it. Though I feel like it would at least ward off most humans. Maybe not Shredder, etc., but the Purple Dragons and other thugs might quickly learn to avoid them based on that scare factor alone. lol

But I guess a bigger question is, why are they often given California accents when they have lived in New York all their lives?

Except for Raph, I likewise, as already been mentioned, always figured it was based on tv. Raph was influenced by the locals. Mikey... the too easily assumed surfer movies. Leo and Donnie definitely from national news and other programming that has the general American accent typically used on tv.

[Ninjinister]

"Their verbalization alone is a biological anomaly." - April, IDW micro-series issue

[Wingnut II]

Yes. If they can talk like people, that's fine.

[Sumac]

What else they should sound like?
It's not like we have examples of actual turtles speaking human, so...

[Coola Yagami]

What else they should sound like?
It's not like we have examples of actual turtles speaking human, so...

Probably like how Tokka talked. Imagine an hour and a half of 4 guys with screechy voices and a limited vocabulary.

[Sumac]

Probably like how Tokka talked. Imagine an hour and a half of 4 guys with screechy voices and a limited vocabulary.
Yuck.

I wonder is there anyone who would like that?

[Andrew NDB]

What else they should sound like?
It's not like we have examples of actual turtles speaking human, so...

I would think "just a little off." A little inhuman.

[jalexbrown]

If you're so committed to just the original Mirage comics and nothing else anyway, then why not just read the comics and hear whatever voice you'd like? It doesn't make sense to try to NOT let someone else have what they want when it doesn't really conflict with what you want. If you want raspy, inhuman, barely-comprehendible voices, then just read it that way. Why, oh WHY, would you ever think that removing their human voices would be a good in any audio-visual medium? Just so you can utterly annoy the people that want to enjoy things besides the Image comics?

[FredWolfLeonardo]

I wonder if tmnt will eventually get their own “Christian Bale" voices in an attempt to sound super edgy, but just end up sounding super silly instead:

"We must rememmber (incompresensible and raspy growling in between every word), what Master Splinter taught us, rrrrrr rraaarre rrrraaarrr rraaarrrrrr."

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[Prowler]

Should the Turtles become humanoid like mutants who can speak and have brains identical to ours? Should they have human like diets instead of eating whatever their species of turtle eats? I doubt actual turtles eat pizza!