If the turtles never met Splinter
 

how do you think they would have turned out? I doubt that they would be ninjas. Maybe someone would have taken advantage of them and used them for criminal purposes. Or what if someone like Shredder found them first?

Or is there an alternate scenario you would like to see in an episode or comic book?

If Splinter hadnt found them, they probably would have died. There's plenty of critters in the sewers that could have made an easy meal of them... :cry:

I think the RatKing would've found them eventually and raised them as professional thieves but still sort of good guys, kinda like Robin Hood. They would steal from the rich and give to the poor or something.. I don't know!! Quit askin me these hard questions!! :P

i think (including that they had still been in contact with mutagen) they would have mutated into giant turtles instead of human-like turtles.

ummmmmmmmm guys first off, didn't shredder purposly pour the ooze down the drain and even if he had/hadn't know Hamato was in the sewers the ooze still would of gone where it had orginally gone, but so that means splinter wouldn't have found them so the wouldn't of ben mutated
end of story bye bye
P.S. if anything didn't make since its cause i just woke up.

yeah but that's just old toon....in the comics and movie and new show the TMNT and splinty are all accidents. so the tmnt would just probably have roamed the sewers...i think they would have eventually ran in to splinter....and maybe even got their shells shellacked and then they'd at least be friends, if not master and students, father and sons....

thats interesting, anything could have happened of course.
what if nobody found them and they grew up intelligent like they are but didn't learn anything educational like reading and all that. They'd probably have their survival instincts more developed and distrust anyone.

If shredder found em, i think raph would have taken after him.

if scientists found them they'd have been lab rat.

or if a zoo..well, they'd be an exhibit.

Thank goodness Splinter found them.

damn that is the scariest avatar I've ever seen...let's commence a jigglin...

I'd have to agree that without Splinter they'd be dead. Though the one about there instincts being more fine tuned sounds plausible too. But I doubt it...

maybe if they never met splinter, all the toy variations are what they could have been, actors- star trek turtles, musicians - heavy metal raph... and so on

Heck more like Under Corver Don, Raph The Magnificient, Wrestling Mike, and Cave Man Leo.

i think that some bum would find them and sell them to the carnival and they would be the main atraction come and see the mutated turtles and the elephant women!

I know Brinatello actually posted a fanfic/dream about this on her website. It was pretty entertaining to say the least.

IMO, I think they would've just developed their intelligence over time. Maybe if they were the ones who had found that Renisaunce artbook, they would've given themse;ves the same names.

the first thing I thought of when I read the title of this thread was: Teenage Mutant Wrestling Turtles :lol: dunno why

well i think that that albino alligator would of eaten raph and leo if no1 found them at all. theres so many ways this can go, rat king finding them, shredder finding them, a homless person fidning them, them finding splinter but becomeing enemys. or they could of just died all 2gether from not being able to find edible food.

Or what if Harry the Con Man found them and used them as his "lucky break"

they would probably just die no food i dont think turtles can live in the sewers...

Them finding Leatherhead was just pure luck. They were in the right place at the right time. Them dying is the most probable outcome. But it would make a cool fanfic if the Utroms did find them and raised them alongside Leatherhead. He is after all sort of like a cousin to them because of the ooze.

Though they wouldn't be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles anymore. They might never learn ninjitsu. They'd be under the tutelage of the Utroms.

Perhaps the Guardians would train Leonardo to become a Guardian. He seems to have the focus and determination for it.

Donatello would learn alongside Leatherhead and help them build their fantastic technology.

Raphael...well I'm not sure maybe train as well but the Guardians probably wouldn't know how to keep Raph's head focused like Splinter does. I just know I'm going to be flamed for saying this but...he might actually become a problematic person who would be quarantined by the Utroms until they could help him through his anger. Oh I know Leatherhead and Raph can both go for some anger management. :lol:

Mikey would be a total goof off always ruining the Utroms experiments. And of course teasing his brother Raphael and cousin Leatherhead. :evilgrin:

Though of course I'm basing how they are on how they are after Splinter raised them. Hypothetically their personalities could be way different than what it is. It is a question of nature vs. nurture. Some people believe you are who you are through your life experiences and how you are raised (nurture) some believe you gain your personality through your genes (nature). I think it's a little of both, but that's just me.

Oh and they wouldn't be named Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello, and Michaelangelo. Probably some weird alien names. Like Letarro, Raphanas, Denarro, and Mizak. Eh...you get the idea.

So what's with the name Leatherhead then? :lol:

Mortu: "And we named them as fittingly as we could... Leatherhead, Coolhead, Smarthead, Hothead, and Emptyhead"

:lol:

RFLMAO

Or they could do like what they did in "Gargoyles" and not name them. Refer to Leo "the Leader", Donatello "smart one", Raphael "angry one" nah that would make him angry "no one", and Mikey "fun one". And they could refer to each other as brothers. They'd probably have an impact on Leatherhead too. He'd be a slob because of the "fun one's" corruption :evilgrin:.

This would make a great fanfic or at least a good RPG.

if they were exhibits for a zoo they would eventualy bust out and like murder the Zoo people in der sleep. OOOOOOO WEEEEEEE OOOOOOOO!!!

If Splinter had not found them and trained them, they would have died. Plain and simple.

oh come on wheres ur imagination?

they would be no where near as skilled, they would be lazy and have no names since splinter gave them their names (he named them after rennessance painters).

yes we all know how they got their names but whos to say that they coudlnt of though of their own names. part of mutation is intelligence. so they could of easily listen to human words learn to speak that way and think of names themselfs. in reality theres many of possibilitys that could of happend to them besides just dieing. like i said just gotta have fun and use ur imagination,

I think they would've grown up (into large mutated turtles) and just lived the life of scavengers, struggling to get by with only each other to count on. They would have gone to the surface only out of necessity for better housing and food, probably deep in the woods somewhere where they would live 200+ years in solitude....

either that or they would've drifted out to sea and became Pirates!

thats a cool perspective of things....
wow... i dont think ive ever thought of that.

but i agree with....uh whoever said it i forgot,,,,

they're likey to be found by the utroms, just like leatherhead.

Those are all really good ideas...but what if say, tha garbageman found them? (eww can you see them all fat driving around in those little gocart thingys?) They would probably try to take over the world and name it "Garbageland" and each have their own empire...Or if Chung I from the next mutation found them instead? They would all be chinese instead.

oh man. bad mental image. mikey driving in a cart looking for garbage.. good idea.

i wounder though... if they were fat, then would their shell grow to fit their bodys? Then if they tried to diet and becone skinny...would the shell shrink?

In the old cartoon episode where they go 45 years into the future, they see Michaelangelo's older self overweight as a result of his over-eating and his shell is all soft and flabby.

i remeber this episode but cant remeber how they looked can u describe the rest of them

Raphael became a lazy-ass couch potato whose legs were so scrawny, he needed a cane to lean on; Donatello's vision began to go bad, so he needed reading glasses; Leonardo turned into a "fuddled old coot"!

Ehhh! Wrong answer. That was the original toon.

Stop being a jerk.