Favorite ninja turtle rip-off
 

Which of the following is your favorite comic/cartoon inspired by TMNT ?

- ADOLESCENT RADIOACTIVE BLACKBELT HAMSTERS

- PRE-TEEN DIRTY GENE KUNG FU KANGAROOS

- COLD BLOODED CHAMELEON COMMANDOS

- BIKER MICE FROM MARS

- C.O.W.BOYS OF MOO MESA

- STREET SHARKS

- EXTREME DINOSAURS

- BATTLE TOADS

What about Samuari Pizza Cats?

And would Disney's Mighty Ducks count?

I liked Biker Mice From Mars as a kid.

Oh yeah, I forgot about Mighty Ducks and Samurai Cats. Road Rovers count too.

I guess Battle Toads.

I forgot how many Turtles ripoffs there were.


Would Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers count? I know the footage was taken from the Sentai series, but keep in mind the American additions like making the heroes teenagers (instead of warriors that had been frozen in time) and the title of the series, which seems to have been influenced by Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Nah, the Power Rangers were a rip off of Voltron.

I guess Disney's Gargoyles would also be considered a turtle rip off too, at least with the name scheme. The turtles were all named after reinassance artists, the Gargoyles, cities in New York.

I've talked to Greg Weisman on his blog a few times, and read about every entry there. He was more inspired by classic fantasy tales (Shakespeare and Arthurian for instance) than anything. So I don't really think TMNT had an influence on Gargoyles.

The naming might have been an homage. Impossible to know for sure; but the series is definitely not to be considered a Turtle rip-off.

Can C.O.W.Boys really be considered a "rip-off" considering it was created by a prominent TMNT artist who also created some of the series' most popular characters such as Leatherhead?

Technically, but I see where you're coming from.

Okay, maybe not the Gargoyles. BUT to a lesser extent, I think the Toxic Crusaders were a rip off of the Turtles. Now Don't get me wrong, I loved the Crusaders and the ultra-violent Troma Toxic Avenger movies they were loosely based on. But I guess since the same animation company that made the OT TMNT also made TC, you can't help but see the similarities;

DR. KILLEMOFF = SHREDDER
CZAR ZOSTER = KRANG
PYSCHO & BONE HEAD = BEBOP & ROCKSTEADY
RADIATION RANGERS = FOOT SOLDIERS

I even remember Toxie even saying in one episode " Just because we're mutants, doesn't mean we have to live in the sewers."

Remember
 

Remember that the TMNT istelf when debuting in 1984 originally is a parody of those hero comics about teenagers, mutant and ninjas who popular in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Now it looks like the TMNT is the originaly...

Battletoads. Only ever played it as a video game/arcade game, though. According to Wikipedia, it's not a rip of TMNT, it's

Street Sharks. By a long shot.

Anytime you can start an argument with this statement, you should probably not say anything.

I wasn't trying to start an argument.

And the point remains, wiki is not a reliable source

Probably Street Sharks.

And then there's this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...the_bear01.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_the_Bear

Always wanted to see someone use that exact phrase on a forum as there is so many things wrong with that statement.

1) The source footage for Power Rangers is Super Sentai. The source footage for Voltron is GoLion. Super Sentai predates GoLion by at least 4 years.
2) Both are made by Toei and Bandai, so neither is ripping off the other. Toei and Bandai are just doing what they know best which is big gaint robots.
3) Spider-Man had a gaint transforming robot before either show :P


Back on subject, I always enjoyed Biker Mice, though I don't remember much of it.

Wow Blade Raider. I didn't know that. Thanks for the info kid.