Could the Turtles actually start out as humans?
 

It started as an uneasy feeling, a eerie hunch, when the actors were cast as Turtles and all looked their parts.
I remember posting about it and being relieved I wasn't the only one thinking it...
Then again- some thought we were insane.

I must admit I'd totally forgotten about it.
Until I saw the teaser today. And the dormant fear returned...

The fact that "heroes are created", The ooze-fueled Super Soldier machine,
and worst of all, how unsettlingly human the 'Turtles' look... The nostrils, the lips instead of beaks...

The more I think aboout it the more I think it's not just a paranoid imagination...

Also, let's be honest... knowing Michael Bay and his modern action movie henchmen, with the photomodel lead actresses and the humongous antennae falling from skyscrapers for the umptieth time...knowing what we know now after seeing the teaser and how realistic everything looks... I can't honestly imagine that -with the movie's 'creation of heroes' plot- they'd actually consider using baby turtles as guinea pigs to spawn the saviours of the city.

Seriously- I sure hope I'm wrong. I hope they didn't dare and that I'm imagining things...

Could be. The Turtles could have been teenaged Foot Soldier recruits, and Splinter could have been Hamato Yoshi, the guy training the Foot Soldier recruits who has a change of heart.

Dang it, Andrew... I'd have preferred that you said I was nuts...
Instead, you make it worse with a very likely sounding explanation...


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

;)

And at that point Michel bay will come out of screen and showe his middle finger in your mouth, wouldn't that be biggest **** you to the fans ever? :D

Yes. Yes, I believe it would... ;)

It's probably even the more likely scenario. Only question is if they bumbled onto the ooze and got accidentally exposed or if it was an intentional dosage/they were forcibly exposed.

I'd bet the former. I can just imagine some lame scene with their version of Dude Mikey, as a human, bumping into some canister, knocking it all over his brothers and Yoshi.

We should have let them be aliens.
That could have still pumped out some cool ideas.

TMNT IDW started them as young human boys, so sure why not. :tcool:

Reincarnation, it's completely different.

The poll needs a "I wasn't thinking about it before, but now you're freaking me out"-option

That's crazy, that's nuts, that's...completely probable. Oh man, its something I can totally see them doing. It would be an..interesting take on the origin.

I agree, there really should.

You're right. Totally should've added that option...

Anyway... Sorry to freak you out, buddy...

Just thought of another reason the Bay suits could've concocted this wacky idea...
If the Turtles truly start out as humans,- the lil' youngsters can go "Gee, that means I could be a Turtle too"...

haha, it's okay. I wouldn't be surprised if you were right

Given the choice, I'd rather not be right...

Ugh. I hope not.

Dear lord that would suck. Especially since they wouldn't be Teenagers anymore, we would have to call them Adult Mutant Ninja Turtles, or AMNT

Why would that mean they'd be non-teenagers? And if they're 18 or 19 they're still adults and teenagers.

Why not, they seemingly overhauled pretty much everything about Shredder.

It is believable that they start out as humans but I really hope that is not the case! In the movie, Splinter is played by a little person and I imagine that he is created the same way as the turtles. If they started out as humans, that would probably mean that Splinter would be the same size as the turtles. So maybe there is hope that they don't start out as humans.

We, Splinter as a human could still suffer from Dwarfism, like Trask does in X-Men Future Past.