The World Trade Center as the TMNT Saw It
 

Gotta hand it to Roseangelo for putting together this informative and respectful tribute to the Twin Towers as they appeared in TMNT media over the years.

http://www.ninjapizza.net/2011/09/te...-new-york.html

Some of these references were ones that I hadn't noticed before, like the cameo in the 4Kids series.

Also, as pointed out by Rose in her post, a History Channel documentary special featured Sam Riegel's (voice of Donatello in the 4Kids series) video account of 9-11 from the viewpoint of the Gateway Plaza. It's available here. An interview with him is also available if you click on "Watch the Filmmaker interview" underneath the video he filmed.

I saw it.A great tribute indeed.

that's very cool

Very haunting after watching that climax in "The Big Blowout". Don says: "The Earth is on its way to Dimension X!" Also, "I'm afraid the Earth is doomed".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGrx59ge_gk

It was also that "Enter The Fly" scene that freaked me as a kid. It just shows that without nonfiction, there can be no fiction!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkAQk...ature=related- A special surprise from fantasy to reality!

But what a strange incidence that both fiction and nonfiction meet; I may never see anything like that again in my life!

:tthumbsu:

That is a great tribute!

I applaud her

good job

abit related to the video link but seeing those clips was just too much for me
I was only a senior in high school in Brooklyn (across the river from Manhattan) but I could see the whole thing unfold from the window in my school. Man that was just too much. Rest In peace to those lives lost ten years ago.

Great tribute. I am very impressed.

I remember when in one of the tales- I think it involved Donatello- the WTC was there. Even though the story was drawn after 2001, it took place before that terrible day.

Always remember. Never forget.

Something tells me that if one of the 4kids directors caught the twin towers being put into the background, they would have erased it.

Its actually pretty unethical to see the Twin Towers in a cartoon made in 2003...

Thanks, everyone. I'm really glad this got such a positive response. It's hard to even begin to think about how to address this topic in general, let alone on a trivial entertainment website, but once I started work on this I think it ended up writing itself.

Here's a page from the first volume of Super Turtles that features the WTC.

http://puu.sh/5z0b

I don't know. I mean I'm ok with it. Even if I had lost a loved one in one of the twin towers on 9/11/01, I don't think I'd be offended by the towers just appearing in the background. Now recall the Simpsons episode where they went to New York: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cit..._Homer_Simpson. If a cartoon today were to go and actually do an episode featuring the twin towers, then there certainly would be cause for people to be offended. And rightfully so. But I see nothing wrong with just having the towers appear in the background. In a way, I actually think that it can be viewed as paying respect to the lives that were lost on 9/11.

I remember a teaser trailer for the first Spiderman movie and at the end of the promo the helicoptor the bad guys were in gets caught in a web that was spin between the WTC.That tralier after 9-11 was never seen again.Just an example.

I totally disagree. Not that it was some profound statement or was all over the news or anything, but I love the fact that the background artists (and whoever else) defied the terrorists when drawing that scene.

awesome tribute-

That was the greatest teaser I have ever seen for a film. It gave me chills, and still does when I watch it on youtube from time to time. But I can understand taking it out of theaters and not including it on the dvds after the events of 9/11.

I shall add that in Mirage Vol. 1 #2, Baxter states that unless he is paid $20 million, one of the WTC towers will topple. Then the news reporter describes him as an "unidentified terrorist" and then questions if the threat is real or just a hoax, given that it was three minutes after the schedule time Baxter would have destroyed one of the towers and the building was still standing. Although the WTC eventually still stood, the Rextab building did get destroyed, completing Baxter's betrayal of April. At least in the OT, it's Shredder as we all know is a clear villain, but this earlier example really has a more menacing twist to the story.

I don't. It was created before it happened. Might as well include it on the DVD. It was one of the most Spider-man things he ever did in the whole movie series. I get people were upset but 10 years later it's not gonna hurt anyone if a teaser trailer is put as a bonus feature on a DVD.

If you're that sensitive don't watch it. We're not gonna go erase the WTC from all past media, that would be retarded. Disney actually did that to some old Spider-man TAS episodes and it pissed me off. They better fix that in the DVD release, if they ever do one.

Seeing the WTC should only be considered offensive if someone is peeing on them or somehow defacing it's memory. If someone makes a period film about 90's New York I expect to see a shot of those towers standing tall and proud.

If we let the Towers be removed from all existing media, the terrorists win!

But seriously, Spitfire's right. Taking them out is almost more offensive than leaving them in. They existed, it's silly to erase that because of how they were destroyed.

absolutely agree with Spitfire & Jester...

There was in fact a movie documentary made a few years ago about a tightrope walker who strung a line between the two towers and walked across it successfully. It made no mention of the later 9/11 attacks.