What if April stays as a teenager
 

How would you guys feel if April became a teenager permanently in future media such as comic books, cartoons, TV shows, movies, etc.?

I would not be a happy camper.

I wouldn't mind, but I doubt that will happen.

This is already not happening. April is an adult in the movie and in IDW she's in College.

I'd like it. In other versions it works because the turtles were adult-like, but think about it: four teens hanging out in the sewer with a full grown woman. I find that odd. Just my opinion, however.

It depends, if there's no meaning to it, I'd say no.

In the Nick version, it makes sense cause since the Kraang were trying to find her since she was born and looking for her for 15+ years, plus the fact that she is indirectly the reason the turtles and Splinter became mutated in the first place, it adds something to the story that she is around the same age as the Turtles, and where they were mutated the same time she was born.

If she was in her 30s in the Nick show, that wouldn't have had nearly as much meaning. But the Turtles and Splinter being mutated as the first cause and effect of The Kraang showing up in New York to find April, that has significant meaning.

That was the main reason she was made a teen in the first place. The love triangle thing is an add on, but the former of what's stated above is the main reason. People that don't think that, whatever, but just put two and two together and it's pretty clearly written out as such.

So if there's reason, sure they can do. But if it's doing it just to do it, I prefer them not.

Nick's April is my favorite to date. I'm not sure if her being a teen has anything to do with it but if the sum of her character requires a younger age, then it's fine.

if it's done right...sure.

but after watching Nick April......I think I rather April remain a young adult.

or at least 18.

I feel they only made April a teen in Nick so she could be a love interest....

No, just now. Hate how they are doing her in the Nick show, she's probably my least favorite incarnation. (Megan Fox doesn't count) feel's like they have changed her only so Donatello can slob all over her. April has a purpose, she's turtles connection to the human world, as a teenager she doesn't work that great...

Whatever, as I stated two and three posts before respectively, think that if you want. It's not a bit accurate, but think that if you want.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm the only one that notices things or looks closely at how a story is being done. :ohwell:

like I said I don't mind a teen April, if done right. I was so excited for teen April actually.

but looking at her now....the love triangle seems to be taking over her character...which causes me to believe that's one of the main reasons they turned her into a teen in the first place.

but it's not just the love stuff I have a problem with....it's her whole story.
I hate the fact she has powers....I hate the fact she's the "key" I hate the fact she's fast learner, and I hate the fact she's not good friends with the other 3 turtles(even if she wasn't a teen and was like this I'd still hate it)

there are some great scenes that happened because she is a teen...but just not nearly as many as I thought she would..or should have.....

Nick April has so much potential....

I understand you like Nick April, but that doesn't mean you have to disregard any criticism for her. This April has flaws.

I love Nick Mikey...but even I know he has major flaws that need tweaking.

I wouldn't like it
 

She would be portrayed better because obvious reasons but still not on board with it

I'm not saying she has no flaws, I don't like the fact she has powers either, I'm very bugged by that.

I'm saying don't say things you know aren't true, because if you or anyone honestly thinks the only or even main reason she was made a teen was for a love interest, then I'm sorry but you're not paying attention to the story if you truly think that.

You must be blind. She's aged down so she can grow up with the Turtles and have a reason to hang with them.

A 30 year old woman hanging with Nick's TMNT would make no sense.

Why does she have to be 30 if she were to be an adult? You guys do realize there's this whole decade between teenage years and 30, right?

Those don't count.

20 is still an adult, by making April a Teen, it shrinks down the world of the TMNT.

okay....what about a 20 year old in college?? :-?

Sure, why not.

Teen April is doing great.

Wow. For real? I guess IDW April is just a figment of my imagination.

I'm pretty sure 2003 April was just 23 also.

Makes sense to me, I never saw April as much older than 25 in that show, and it never seemed "weird" to me that she was friends with teenagers. I'm 24, and I love hanging out with the teens in my tae kwon do class (and the students much older than me, in their 40s, are also fun to be around), and that's how it always felt with April. It's not really like she called them up to chat about nothing or dropped on by for a whatever hang-out day like high school buddies do. But she let them stay at her place when they were in danger, and they did the same for her, or she would drop by for holidays and the like, and given that they have saved her life on numerous occasion I don't see why she would find the fact that she's a few years older than them a good reason NOT to be friends with them. Amusingly, even though older April hypothetically spent less time with the turtles, her friendship with them feels way more real than teen April's does.

I feel like a college student April would totally just hang with the turtles....I don't see how that would be a problem. She'd be that older sister that'd just chill with the turtles.

when I was a teen I hanged out with college students sometimes.

That would absolutely suck. I really prefer the 2003 version. I like the role she played as an "elder sis" to the turtles. And it eliminates any romance between her and any of the turtles

I really wouldn't care. As long as she's a good character and has a likable personality, she can be any age IMO.

They made the right decision for making her a teen in the Nick series, it would be weird to have her as an adult and wouldn't feel right.

"but she's always been an adult before!"

Well, the turtles have never acted like actual teenagers before. Now that they do, them hanging out with a woman in her 20's would be really weird.

Except not? Myself and others have mentioned how we, real life people, have hung out and been friends with people of various ages, including teenagers and young adults.

what? why would that be weird? a 20 year old hanging out with teens is not weird at all. 20 year olds are still immature! have you seen how college students act :D

20 year olds still like to have fun.

I was 17 for my freshmen year in college....and I had to hang with college students and they acted like teens.....:ohwell:

and besides that...isn't nick Casey 18? that's technically an adult. (at least in the US it is)

Casey's 18?

http://www.motifake.com/image/demoti...1230792718.jpg i will just leave this here

I'm pretty sure he is. Ciro said he was older than April and was held back in school

and TMNT wiki says he is XD (but you know wiki)

:roll:

I can't believe I even have to say this...

Who in cripe's name cares if this show or any show based on "fantasy" feels more realistic based on what we as people experience in real life? Whether it's based on who people hang out with, who they talk to, how friendly they are with everybody, or how much they communicate with one another. It's "fantasy", as in not real, and meant to be real. It's a show about mutated turtles that are obsessed with pizza, that are ninjas trained by a rat master trying to stop a bunch of aliens from another dimension. I think the realism aspect was thrown out the window a long time ago. If the show had "realism" to it, April wouldn't even be around the Turtles, because there would be no mutated turtles, and even if so, she be running for her life from them, as well as everyone else in New York.

I keep seeing people on multiple websites saying "I have in my life and I *yadda yadda*." so they should *blah blah blah* in this show too to make it feel more real because..."

Why?

"April should be older because..."

Who cares?

It's fantasy and I can't stand the "they should make it feel more real" ranting and raving. It doesn't matter.

Nothing about this show or franchise needs to feel or be real, because it isn't real. Any issue involving conversation is nothing but nitpicking, and people treat it like it's a travesty and an abomination of television. It's ridiculous.

then it's fine that she'd be older right? :-?

Uh...yeah. Because it doesn't matter.

I'm saying something doesn't need to be made more real because it's happened to "Us real life people", which is what I'm seeing people whine about, and that makes no sense at all.

People seriously need to stop saying that a cartoon needs to feel more real.

That would be like me watching the Toy Story movies, and then calling up Disney and saying "Yeah, you shouldn't make the toys talk because that would make it feel more real." :lol:

I mean seriously, I don't think that's ridiculous to believe that is it?

of course it doesn't need to feel real.

but...I think a little realism doesn't hurt either XD

I mean...I don't wanna see a 100 year old April hang out with the turtles playing video games and kicking butt XD......

I can't tell who you're ranting at? Us people are who explaining that a young adult hanging out with teenagers is not very far-fetched, or the people claiming that April needs to be a teen because it's more realistic since the turtles are teens and having her older would somehow be "weird"?

when I think of a 20 year old April hanging out with the turtles I think this

http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/...fe-d5li8h0.jpg

and this

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/20...fe-d60t3xd.jpg

it looks very natural to me ^_^

Good God that April needs to loose the afro.

Actually, I think it's the other way around, a full grown woman hanging out in the sewers with four teenage mutant turtles. I'm pretty sure in some states what she is doing is considered illegal.

But if she stays a teen, eh, don't bother me one way or another.

she's fudgin adorable with that afro!! :x how dare you!