How old are the characters in IDW?
 

So how old are the characters?

From youngest to oldest, my guess is:
Metalhead, 5-40 weeks.
Most of the animal characters (ignoring reincarnation), less than 6 years.
Angel, 16-20.
Casey, April, Karai and Lindsey, 18-23.
Bebop and Rocksteady, 25-38.
Hun and Brooklyn, 40-50.
Baxter and April's parents, 45-55.
Harold, 55-65.
Shredder, I forgot the century in which he was born, assuming it's the 1500's he's at least 500, give or take a century.
Kitsune, Rat King and Chi-You, Shredders age plus at least 200, probably way older.
Krang, ignoring that time might not pass the same way in Dimension X, millions of years old.

I don't even want to guess about the other alien characters, because that's too difficult.

April/Casey are probably around 20-21.

Karai has to be way older than April and Casey.

I'd place April, Casey and Angel in the 18-22 range. They're college aged kids. Karai strikes me as probably mid to late 20's if not older. Lindsey is well into her career and could be in her 30's or 40's if not older.

I can see Karai being around 28 or her early 30's.

I'd guess that Hob is probably the oldest mutant character, considering he was a relatively well cared for pet cat before he was thrown out, and cats have relatively long lifespans compared to the other animals that have been mutated so far. Foxes live about five years in the wild, so Alopex could be near that age but most likely no, she was probably mutated at a young age. I haven't read the early issues in a while but if I recall correctly aren't the Turtles only like 2, 3 years old tops? They were pretty much baby sea turtles when they were mutated and not that much time has passed in the series, relatively speaking.


the Mystical Family is probably like thousands of years old, older than some civilizations


why would Krang be millions of years old???

His father Quanin was alive during the dinosaur age and did not die until a fairly recent point in time. Of course, Krang lives in another dimension so time might pass slower there.

What I wonder is how Leatherhead survives so long? :roll:

I guess time could pass at a different rate in Dimension X but I'd always just assumed their technology was so advanced they could travel to any point on Earth's timeline

ooze?

I've been wondering if he's basically going to be a three hundred year old mutant alligator pirate when he finally appears

If that was the case, why do they seem to only interact with earth in a chronological order? Do they not want to risk paradoxes or something?

Time travel? Mutation? Procreation? Hibernation? Red herring?

Ooze provides immortality, and basically the Utroms lived on a planet full of that stuff. I'm pretty sure they can't travel time.


Yeah, but how, for what reason? Is this version of Leatherhead will be one of Krang's soldiers and a villain to the turtles? Or the captive of Krang?
I just don't see it yet why would anyone provide him Ooze.

... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I don't think anyone really intended to provide him with it, remember TiT #3? The good pirates' threw the ooze from Krang's wrecked headquarters into a swamp on Burnow Island, where an alligator ended up swimming around in it

But that was actually mutagen, I think Bobby actually confirmed it back in the TiT#3 topic. Unless they aslo dumped Ooze into the swamp... Or mutagen has life-extending features too.

Oh damn, I always get those confused

In my humble opinion:

Angel: 20-22.
Casey and April: 19-21.
Karai and Lindsey: 27-32.
Bebop and Rocksteady: 33-35.
Baxter: 38-42
Hun and Brooklyn: 40-45.
April's parents: 45-50.
Harold: 55-60.

Wait, didn't the ooze and mutagen are the same?
I thought it has different name in different world(Like in Earth we call it mutagen, in dimension X they call it ooze)
Or I just get confused too:???:

Ooze is the raw material that mutagen is made from. Or at least that's how I understand it —I'm sure someone will correct me if not.