Wait, so Mike's chuks have scythe blades in them and Don's staff is now bladed?
 

Sounds cool to me.

I approve as well. What's with all these pacifist complaints anyway?

Does remind me a bit of that 2k3 episode, when they are fighting off some mousers.

Leonardo: Guys! The only way to stop them is to slice their heads off!
Michelangelo: Well, aint that great news, for the turtles with the BLADES!

I can just imagine Don thinking to himself: Hmm, that gives me an idea!


So yeah, all the better to slice up mousers (and pizzas) with...

I find the pop-up blades silly, why not just give them a Naginata and a Kusarigama.

I've stated my love for it in every thread, but yeah, I love it.

'Cause fans love to complain.

Plus I am assuming the guys are like 15/16 in the new show and even if someone wants to make an argument a certain character has pacifist tendency it would be far more likely these would develop as they got older anyway.

At least that's my take :twink:

Very good point, but werent they all 15/16?

Well in the comics the guys aged over time and I personally felt any pacifist tendencies Don had grew with him as he aged.

In the beginning all the guys were all kinda about kicking butt. :twink:

I've always felt that the Turtles should be adept at using weapons other than their preferenced ones (which is why I thought that "trade weapons" part of "What a Croc" was really cool), so to see them using similar-but-different weapons is fine with me. And besides, Mike has already used tonfa and a grappling line regular in previous incarnations. What's one more notch on his belt?

My only fear, as I addressed in another thread, is that if they give the Turtles with bludgeoning weapons bladed weapons, and they only end up fighting human oponents... All they'll ever be able to do is "cut down conveniently placed chandeliers" (the 4Kids series was surpringly lax in letting Mike and Don thwak their foes with their weapons).

So I hope they fight a lotta robots and actually get to use the sharp parts of their weapons to do something other than deflect lasers and cut rope.

ive said it before and ill say it again i love the blades. Lets give the TMNT a fresh start.

Yeah, that would be pretty awful. "The TMNT all have awesome weapons and now... watch as they... don't use them." If we go back to Krang and Bebop and all of that with armadas of robot Foot Soldiers and maybe Rock Soldiers, maybe not a problem. Sounds like that's probably the case.

Welp, because Don's primarily a pacifist.

I can see what Reira is saying, how traits grow with age, and there is no doubt the early Turtles were very much about kicking butt. But even in the early series Donatello exhibits many pacifist tendencies. As early as issue #2 he is taking the back seat with fighting in favor of his computer skills (it is only Leo, Mike, and Raph who fight the mousers) and his one-shot shows him to be extremely sensitive. I always liked that Donny didn't have a blade...he used the simplest of weapons while being the most complex Turtle, at least in my opinion.

I guess I'm just anal, but I prefer Donny to stick with his plain old bo staff without a blade. However, I will also say I'm looking forward to seeing what Nick has up their sleeves...

I can point you to pics from Mirage TMNT Vol. 1, #20, where Don wields a bo-staff with a blade at the end of it. And cuts some muthaf***ers up.

He's also killed a dog, killed people, used guns, threatened suicide, and more.
He may be more mellow than the others but I wouldn't call him a pacifist.

Lol no doubt Don knows how to cut 'em up like the rest, just wanted to make a case that his weapon, sans blade, reflects his pacifist tendencies. But like I said, I'm looking forward to what Nick has in store!

Heh, I see your point...(no pun intended) :lol:

The blades are a neat idea can't wait to see what Nick has in store.

So bladed chucks are okay with the censors and the regular bladeless kind are not?
I like their original weapons but don't really mind at all about them using other kinds.

I hope the top of splinter's cane twist off into a dagger

I guess I really won't know what my feelings are on the use of other weapons or the addition of blades to existing weapons until I completely understand the reasoning behind it. In the comics they would use different weapons here and there, but nothing really overshadowed the original weapons they were given.