Krang = Emperor of the Dark Side?
 

Here's a further Star Wars similarity. Right, the Technodrome's like the Death Star, Shredder's like Darth Vader, Splinter's like Obi-wan, Leonardo's like Luke Skywalker as he is the goody- two shoes of the 4 turtle's, Raphael's a bit like Han Solo providing the humour and sarcasm.

All he needs to do is call Leonardo "kid"!

Both Krang and the Emperor are lazy :P they sit back in their domain and let somebody else do the dirty work. They seem almost untouchable or one of the last to reach.

They have no friends only allies, and are evil.

Another thing, the emperor sits back in his throne-like chair in Return of the Jedi.

In the episode "Dinosaurs at the Earth's Core" Krang is seen in the Technodrome, in android body, sitting in a throne-like chair in the same pose, scarily reminiscent of the Emperor of the Dark Side!!!

You forgot to mention that stone warriors are like Krangs Storm Troopers :D

In the turtles movie they shredder do a darth vader impression of when he said I am your father. Good familiarizations of the turtles with star wars.

Oh yeah! Shredder saying "I am your father" in the movie. :lol:

The makers might've added as a joke or tribute to Star Wars. They didn't use their creative minds to think that one up!

Heheh we actually have a thread were one of the old members compared Star Wars to TMNT. I suggest looking it up, it's an interesting read.

I'd rather say that stone warriors are like the Emperor's elite guard (the guys in Red with a stick in the Throne Room) since they belong to Krang only. Foot soldiers are more like Stormtroopers : they never speak and are cannon fodder.

All of TMNT was influenced by Peter Laird's love of Star Wars and sci-fi in general.

...Ok? Pointless bump is pointless. :lol:

But his involvement with Krang was limited at best...

Anyway, comparing Krang to Palpatine seems like giving Krang more credit than he deserves. Krang is more like an ultra-pathetic Jabba.

I bet Cylons doesn't even remember making this thread.

Why are there two threads that are well more than ten years old coming back???





Buuuuuut...I'm going to call comparing Krang to Palpatine generous at bet. But also put him at least a few steps above Jabba. He's doesn't really stoop to that level of hedonism - and seems seems almost chastely asexual in comparison as well.

And, except for sending Shredder out to do his dirty work, he does quite a lot for himself. Shredder's just an errand boy at the end of the day.

Let's see if there's something else worth digging up...

Some of us have been here a very long time. :teek:

It's kind of funny, some people here now were only babies or not even born yet when some of us started posting here in 2002-2004.

I mean, I was in fourth grade for crying out loud...

I bet he forgot he once loved the Original Cartoon :lol:

It's so weird to think I was already a teenager in the early 2000's and so many other people were just kids. I feel like my generation was part of the "first wave" of internet fandom. Those of us who came online for the first time around the late 90's and early 2000's. And since back then the internet had just started, there was no "decades of past posts" on forums like this one or others...

Man it was like the wild west. No social media, no youtube or streaming media, you guys will never know what it was like.

Actually, this was probably made by the other original RaphAttack. When I asked Krang to merge my old account with Cylons, he accidentally merged an account that was almost identical in name. :tlol:

No, I don't do Star Wars. Never have. Now, if this had been a Star Trek comparison... :twink:

No, I remember liking it. When I was in elementary school. :trazz: I done grown up, pal.

Well, then...mystery solved!

Not entirely... there's still the mystery of why Cubed bumped this thread. :tlol:

Yeah, that is pretty true

Thats an easy one, Cubed is actually Krang. Look at the title of the thread, and the time period it was made (when Krang was active). This is him giving us hints towards the inevitable big reveal.

That was a theory by Andrew and it has been debunked by Machias... and even by Andrew himself.

The theory never made sense in the first place, anyway.

I've spouted that theory before, too.

I think I've become the crazy conspiracy theorist of the 'Drome.

Just ask FWL. :trazz:

Pah I'm so above the FW cartoon aren't I?

http://media1.giphy.com/media/11eSFDBBLEdjvW/giphy.gif

Ha, ha! :lol:

^ Some people like the OT as adults. Others, grow out of the OT as adults. Some grow out of the OT much sooner.

There's nothing wrong with either outcome.

I still like the OT, but, the vibe is sort of dwindling a bit for me.

Honestly, same for me somewhat.

Even despite all of its flaws, I used to love the OT up until I was 17 or so. I still like it but I think all the nostalgia that has been milked of it in the current decade has killed my nostalgia/enjoyment of it a bit. I have had stronger nostalgia for the 2k3 series in the past few years. That show ended nearly a decade ago already, after all. It certainly is no longer the "new ninja turtles cartoon".

To some extent, I get the feeling the FW cartoon is going to be seen as like the Super Friends or Spider-Man 67 of the franchise, maybe in like 10-20 years. You know, in the way that it was popular and the way a lot of people were introduced to the characters, but nobody can seem to figure out why it would ever be popular in the first place.

That'd be a good sign, since it'd likely mean we eventually got a more mature/serious version incarnation of the Turtles. But that's a very optimistic view you got there that I cannot share. I don't think the TMNT property will ever escape its FW influence ever.

Perhaps Viacom/Nick was the wrong company to acquire the TMNT property. Perhaps they'd have been better off in the hands of Warner Bros./DC.

I highly doubt that will ever happen, but you never know.

Yes because the Adam West iteration of Batman doesn't get new fans each day either... :roll:

The 80s TMNT wasn't even as camp at the Adam West show anyway.

Nah for reason given above.