Why did April become a red head in all media outside of the comics?
 

Original cartoon: Red head

Movies: Redish hair, especially movie 2-3 April.

2k3 series: Red Hair

Archie comics: Red Hair


Sure, sometimes its brownish, but its intended to be red. Yet in the Mirage comics she is always depicted with black hair. Why the change?

Didn't she originally have red hair ? And changed it in the comics or did the just change the hair style? And truthfully I jst think she looks better in red hair.

There was a thread about this about 2 years ago so here are some more opinions on the subject:
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/sho...ighlight=april

I also remember reading somewhere that Mirage April was actually supposed to be Hispanic hence the curly hair.

I think the red hair came from the OT, since her hair was reddish brown hair there and they just went with red hair in the 2k3 show, Archie also started with reddish brown hair and slowly made it red. And the OT likely didn't think too much about it and they just made her hair brunette which is an interesting shade since it could kind of be dirty blonde hair or reddish brown hair.

Yep...You are right...I had read about Mirage "April o´Neil" was actually supposed to be dark and curly hair....Also I had read about a misunderstanding with her surname "O´Neil" that its an Irish surname, and so they change to and Irish red look girl for Miss O´Neil...

'Cause redheads are HOT.

Aww, you stole my answer!

*swishes her hair*

Yep...I think this is the crux of it.:twink:

Irma
 

And Irma must be some German-American, Austrian-American or German speaking Swiss-American or something. The name Irma exists here in Sweden too, but her last name Langinstein is from the German language.

Eww, my mom's a redhead!:ohwell:

I'd actually never noticed this, but she does have a reddish tint usually even if her hair is brown, heh.

I always figured it was because people with Irish last names are supposed to be redheads. I have tons of redheads in my family, so I don't see them as being terribly hot either.

I don't think it's much more complicated than the cartoon folks deciding they wanted to depict her with red hair (probably because of her Irish last name) and that incarnation of April overly influencing all of her subsequent incarnations.

Though Paige Turco didn't really have red hair, did she?

I don't know, April looks pretty much like a redhead on Richard Corben's cover depiction for the 1986 reprint of TMNT #2. That would have preceded the cartoons:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...irageApril.jpg

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...MNT2cCover.jpg

She's also a brownish-redhead in the First Graphic Novels reprint of issues 1-3. Granted those came out after the cartoon premiered, but it also lends credence to the possibility that April was a redhead. The confusion starts to come when she gets this "makeover" in issue 4 which almost makes her look African American:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...orp30-Copy.jpg
April makes the ironic joke about the stylist wanting to "shave her bald and dye the top orange" (her hair looked bright orange most of the time in the OT). Seriously, though, if that fro was a "mistake" than shy does April continue to wear it that way through just about all 62 issues of Mirage Volume 1? :-P

I like the way you think as well as Jo Dawn's response.

why does everyone keep saying her hair is brownish red in the OT. Am I the only one that noticed her hair was a orangery red in the original series? The only time her hair seemed more brownish than red was the last two seasons of Red Sky.

It looks like a perm to me, so she had no choice (perm is short for permanent, so the style stays till new hair grows).

In the original cartoon and movies April's hair is brown. It's been years since I read the Archie series but I remember her hair being brown in that series as well.

I think it was an inconsistent thing depending on who was doing the animation.

The normal look was pretty much orange:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...T/AprilA-1.jpg

The Dublin studio tended to go for more of a brownish tint:
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a56...T/AprilB-1.jpg

read the post beneath yours.

Seems like April's hair did have a generally darker tint in the first two seasons of the Old Toon that might have given rise to the impressions that her hair was brownish. Maybe it had something to do with the lighting or a heavier use of shadows? Later seasons tended to brighten it up into a more orange-ish tint.

1987 catoon
 

Probably to be like in the 1987 catoon, just like the TMNT's different bandana color.

even in the early seasons I always thought she looked like a redhead.

Hair colour
 

We will never know her true hair colour since people can colour their hair

Interesting thread, I've always thought they picked April's hair color at random.

The world needs more redheads. I support the peeps decision on making her a redhead.