What color is Mutagen?
 

So if memory serves me right, in the 87 series Mutagen was a glowing purple/pink ooze. In the first movie, it was a translucent green color, while in the second movie it was a bright and vivid almost grass green. The Playmates figures had canisters of ooze that were sometimes green light-piping. I have no idea what it looked like in the 2k3 series.

Is there an official color for mutagen, or does it just change for ever depiction of TMNT?

Also, does anyone have any screen caps from the old show where mutagen is being used?

Mostly green. I think the only time it's purple is in the pilot of the FW series and the "Foot Ooze" toy. It was tutti-fruttie in Were-Rats, but in I think everything else, it's mostly green.

Wasn't it purple-ish-pink in Turtles Forever?

Yep, you're right. I forgot that one...
:P

I'm gonna go with green, but it can appear to be a translucent pink in certain kinds of lighting.

And it changes colors in icy or warm water.

That's right, and it was also in a small beaker instead of the usual canister.

In the first two episodes it was purple which was what Turtles Forever based it on. Pretty much every appearance since then it was green although I suppose it could be a different kind of mutagen.

The big discrepancy is "Michaelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko" were they depicted the turtles being exposed to the mutagen completely differently to how it was shown in "Turtle Tracks" complete with green mutagen.

Here are some mutagen screencaps from the various season of the OT.

Season 1 episode “Turtle Tracks”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen3.jpg

Season 1 episode “Enter the Shredder”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen2.jpg

Season 2 episode “Invasion of the Punk Frogs”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen4.jpg

Season 3 episode “Mutagen Monster”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen13.jpg

Season 3 episode “Leatherhead, Terror of the Swamp”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen14.jpg

Season 3 episode “Michelangelo’s Birthday”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen15.jpg

Season 4 episode “Slash, Evil Turtle From Dimension X”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen5.jpg

Season 4 episode “Were-Rats From Channel 6”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen6.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen7.jpg
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen8.jpg

Season 5 episode “Planet of the Turtleoids”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen1.jpg

Season 5 episode “Mutagen Man”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a...1/mutagen9.jpg

Season 5 episode “Michelangelo Meets Mondo Gecko”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen10.jpg

Season 5 episode “The Ice Creature Cometh”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen11.jpg

Season 7 episode “Revenge of the Fly”
http://i973.photobucket.com/albums/a.../mutagen12.jpg

Whoa that rainbowesque mutagen being dumped on Irma and Verne is weird :o

Yeah, it's what you get when mutagen ages... :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrMFMJrb4w0

Same color as ectoplasm.

Big Bug Blunder
 

Big Bug Blunder is also green.

maybe one of the ingredients are food coloring, any food color works :P

It's funny to see how many times the color was changed! I definitely like the green ooze best...followed by the RAINBOW! Hehe just kidding, followed by the purple.

Pink and green
 

Looks like the first mutagen was pink, while later seasons would go for green.

All the colors of the rainbow!

The yellow mutagen in Michelangelo's Birthday seems to be a variant that makes whoever gets sprayed blow up like Harry Potter's aunt. Yet Shredder apparently never bothered to keep the formula for what nearly defeated the turtles.

Maybe they could have done something where other colors of mutagen have different effects, like kryptonite.

Green
 

Green is also what's probably most famous.

The TGRI/TCRI canister is what cements this debate, however as the most iconic source of mutagen. Even in the OT green mutagen is prominent than pink/violet as shown below. The animators were just unsure of what color mutagen really was early in the series; before the movie made green the predominant color from that point forward.

Mirage
 

Do black and white Mirage mention any colour?

What would be the point? Splinter'd just dip into his collection of magic moth balls to deflate the affected people.

Then again this is the cartoon were Donatello had a ray gun that changed peoples personalities just laying in a wardrobe yet never thought of using it on Shredder or Krang but was okay with using it on his brother.

Shredder's personality already changed too many times in the old show, like when he thought he was Michaelangelo, or when his mind moved into Splinter's body, or the time he fell down and got amnesia but still wanted to blow up the city.

I think there were at least 3-4 plotlines where Shredder loses his mind.

Greens my favorite color and what I think of when I think ooze. But I quess it can be any color.

Any one else remember this ooze?

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/...7/IMG_0715.jpg

Leo looks absolutely bored on that box :lol:

38 cents? Boy, have things gone up in value since then! And why would Mike and Don have to "share" a box?

Still, brings back memories when Nabisco commercials ended with NAH-BISS-CO! (ding)

I always wondered the same thing about box sharing. I feel like they got the short end of the stick. I mean I can't imagine they only had three flavors. Then again maybe they did and that's why they have to share.

Fixed that for you... :)
Yeah. Any more than "3-4 plotlines" out of his 150 or so episodes would have been pointless repitition. :roll:

I was rewatching some old TMNT Playmates toy commercials, and they usually refer to mutagen as "retromutagen". The file cards refer to mutagen as that as well. Is "retromutagen" the full term for the ooze? :tconfuse:

Isn't retro-mutagen the stuff that would turn them back to turtles/original state and mutagen the stuff that mutates you? That's why Shredder tried to attack with retro-mutagen not mutagen he wanted to undue the mutation not mutate themfurther.

That's what I figured.

Ya know what. I think there's a pretty easy answer to this question. The color of mutagen is whatever food coloring Shredder and Krang had available in the kitchen cabinet that day.

In any case, it suits well with classic Nickelodeon with all that Gak and Slime they did!

Image
 

What's that image? No Foot soldiers are mutants, at least not in 1987 and Archie. Is it from the toyline?

Yeah the toyline. Like the image I like to use in my signature is from the Mutations line and is the "Mutation Chart" for the Foot Soldier figure. If you notice, it refers to mutagen as "retromutagen". I've seen it on other toys as well.

No but I do remember the turtles ice cream that you can get when the ice cream man comes around. And sometimes they still carry it to this day.

Ha, he's like "how the f*#k did I get stuck endorsing this?"

(Talking about the original cartoon here.) Maybe, if we're looking for some kind of explanation for "pink" and "green", we could say that the "original" mutagen that mutated the Turtles was pink. Once Shredder found this out, he obtained the rest of that "original" mutagen. Then, when that ran out, he started to have to manufacture his own, which came out green, because it wasn't the "original" mutagen, it was "processed" mutagen.

It could explain why the earlier episodes seemed to have pink, and the later ones had green. Shredder ran out of the "original" stuff, and started having to make his own "synthetic" stuff.

Maybe? Eh? Eh?

(Outside of the cartoon, I'll always think of mutagen as green, though.)

Mutatin'
 

Is it the original one or those mutatin' TMNT toyline.