What if the turtles were cockroaches?
 

Let's say in an alternate universe, the kid and his bowl of pet turtles didn't show up that day and we had cockroaches crawling in the mutagen instead. I have a feeling Splinter would had trained them reguardless of their species lol. I can totally see Shredder and Krang making bug puns.

And the award for "Most Pointless Thread" goes to TurtleFan2012

^ can second place be any of cybercubeds threads?

There ARE other creatures down in sewers like spiders, rats, roaches. Just imagine if 4 roaches crawled in that mutagen.

edit - I guess people are not familiar with "what-if" scenarios. You guys must not heard of such things :teek:

What if they were the Racist Alien Big-Boobied Explosions?

Imagine all the shippers hooking up mutant cockroaches. Oh yeah.

Lol really?!:lol:

Give me turtles any day over cockroaches. Yeah I can just imagine the bug puns "You're beginning to bug me".

They would probably look like Chong or Scumbug.

Splinter would probably kill them with fire.

Oh I know I would. I hate those things. DX

Don't see why people are so rude and calling this a pointless topic. The question here is would this series have been as big and popular as it is today had they used other animals besides the Turtles?

I prefer Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs!

(clap hands) :)

Thank you! I hate when you ask a question and people get on your case about it. It's like they never heard of "what-if" topics before.

I would've gone with something a little more interesting than cockroaches, like what if they were some kind of farm animal like cows or pigs?

This. Why not ask:
"Would the Ninja Turtles have been successful if they were something other than Turtles?"

Cockroaches, no the show would probably not be as popular because they are disgusting.

Pretty much any animal that can be deemed cute could be substituted and an argument could be made they could carry a franchise like this one.

Four ninja rats would actually be a cute show and kind of remind me of the Redwall series.

But no cockroaches or spiders would probably turn a lot of people off.

That's kind of another reason I made such a stink about this thread. The question has been asked before. I can't remember when, but I do know it was most likely asked on this very same forum.

There was a forum I used to use called TheClubbingForum it was God awful for people b*tching and getting on your case. Funny thing was I met a couple of people from the forum in real life and they were completely different, they were friendly and didn't get on my case once. It was a forum full of keyboard warriors.

Does this answer your question?