Is Raph destined to lose an eye?
 

I mean think about it. In the Image comics, he's blind in one eye. In the fan fic Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden, he loses an eye. In the episode Same as it Never Was, surprise, he loses an eye. And I'm pretty sure in the Archie comics he loses an eye at some point.

Is that really Raphael's future? To be cycloptic?

Don't forget Archie's Future Raph having but one eye. Stands toi reason that any way you sclice it....Raph loses an eye....

Thats eye must have done something ..to be hated by so many... :ohwell:

He just have more badass look with the one eye only. Besides - he looks really good in the eyepatch :)

Well, if you ask me, The whole thing about Raph losing an eye is probably a way to hint at him that he's to rash and careless and takes too many stupid risks. I'm sure that after he loses his eye, he becomes more cautious and careful afterwards.

To me, a Raph with one eye kinda symbolizes the turning point for Raph. The point when he finally gains self-control and is able to focus at the task at hand without taking unnecessary risks. Kinda like a form of enlightenment.

Well it wasn't a risk that cost him an eye in the Archie series, it was a missle from Armaggon.

Well..... I think Ryona has a point and I also agree with robweiller he does look more badass

1. Don't count fanfiction
2. Don't count volumes not in continuity

I'm just saying in all these genres they all share that in common.

Let's not forget this image by Eric Talbot.
http://www.ninjaturtles.com/gallery/talbot01.jpg

How could you deny it? ;)

http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/1...ureraph7nj.jpg

Raph could be like Snake Plisken from Escape from New York. Heh, heh, heh. Both great, badass characters.
Instead of:
"Call me Snake."
"The name is Plisken!"

It could be:
"Call me Raph."
"The name's RAPHAEL!"

And I could definately see both these guys screwing with authority like Snake does at the end of both Escape movies. Nice patch there, Raphie boy.

I never knew he lost an eye in any of the comics. But I havent read more then one of each. Not even sure if I have read more then one, heh. How does he lose it?

Well, in the Image comics he get's half his face mangled in an explosion, and is blind in his left eye. And in the Archie comics, it's a future version of him, who lost it when he and the others were attacked by Armaggon. And as for the fan comic MNT Gaiden, he lost it shielding Mikey from a possesed Leo's attack.

Oodly enough, it's always his left eye he loses.

You dont need to be double posting, that second post so could have been in the first.

Anyways heres scans of his eye losing in Archie's.

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/2...seseye12ga.jpg

http://img391.imageshack.us/img391/2...seseye20fb.jpg

I believe that might actually be meant as a quasi-religious metaphor since the left side of the body is considered to be evil (I won't get into the whole biblical stuff since it's not permitted here) meaning the eye being gouged out or scarred was a symbolic cleansing of Raph's spirit.

Well, Mirage DID publish some short stories set on the distant future where an older Raphael is seen with his left eye missing (one in the Michaelangelo micro-series' back-up story, another in the RPG supplement After the bomb, plus the Talbot pin-up), and those are canon. All the other variations reflects this future of the Mirage Raph.

http://www.actiontattoos.com/tmnt/raphexile.jpg
http://www.actiontattoos.com/tmnt/newraph3.jpg

Thoses images are at The TMNT Empire fan site.

Heh, "quasi-religious metaphor" - wonderful - it's strange I didn't come up first with a theory like that - I'm aging :ohwell:

Also in Greek mythology left side of human body (especially left hand) is considered evil and dishonest.