Anyone else not okay with the turtles able to pull their heads into their shells ?
 

I hate when the turtles do that. It is just annoying and disturbing. So I made this thread to see if anyone else felt that way.

If it didn't bother me in the 1990 movie, it certainly isn't going to bother me in the Nick show. :tlol: Yeah, it's kinda silly but the whole concept of mutated ninja turtles is to begin with - you've gotta roll with it.

It doesn't bother me because real turtles do that too

It's hilarious and certainly not exclusive to this iteration.

Hell no, it doesn't bother me. Why would it? & why now, of all times, rather than 25 years ago? Why is it annoying or disturbing? Real turtles do it, & so too have the TMNT, forever.

I feel like I'm missing something here, don't real Turtles do this? Haven't the Turtles always done this?

Yeah, I'm with everyone else. Doesn't bother me.

Not so much that it is done, that's fine, but how it's executed with this animation/models that kinda bugs me.

Similarly and even more-so if they pull any limbs in. Just wtf. It's not just pulling their head and limbs in close to their body...it's, hey, my shoulders/chest cavity just entirely swallowed my head and my human-proportioned limbs just sucked into my abdomen.

http://i.imgur.com/ieI0meA.gif

Have them do that and get an x-ray, seriously... Someone needs to fan art that or something. lol

#NotAllturtles

Why would something Turtles actually do bother me?!?!:-?

Nah. I think it's funny and like others pointed out, turtles actually do it.

Is it wrong for me to have found this funny? :lol:

But yeah, it looks a tad freaky with these models. Their head's pulled in, it leaves just a bare patch of smooth skin where the neck and head should be. Whole arms and legs? Another round flat patch of skin, as if the arm or leg never existed. :P

I think it's funny! Also, it looks hilarious the way it's all cartoony. In a cartoon. On Nickelodeon.

Gotta give kudo to this post. *l*

While I agree that sometimes it just looks odd when they pull various limbs or their head into their shells, sometimes it's better to go for the comedic value rather than holding to actual limits of physicality.

I do like it when they use some of their more animalistic traits to their benefit... like Splinter using his tail to smack them on occasion. Husband and I are watching 2k3 together in the evenings (and mocking them), and he recently cried out, "You have a SHELL! F'king act like it! 'Duhr, what's this thing on my back?'" (I think they were having arrows shot at them at this point... something a carapace would easily block.)

Alright, I see quite a few people are ok with it. That's good to know. But for me, not in a billion years will I like it.

Wow, they even make ninja turtles toys like that. I didn't know that. Thank you for the information oldmanwinters.

Naahh, doesn't bother me at all. As a matter of fact I actually love when they do things like that. It's adorable and most turtles actually do that anyway. I really love it when they rely on their turtle instincts like when they're swimming, retreating and I've seen the Nick turtles flutter.

Do the the 2003 turtles do that ?

Thinking about it, I don't remember the following iterations ever doing the shell-tuck:

4Kids (2003) Cartoon
IDW Comics
Mirage/Image Comics

Unless I'm wrong here, which is entirely possible, it seems that the Mirage canon never did this, but the Fred Wolf cartoon started it. The shell-tuck makes perfect sense (they are Turtles after all) and so it caught on with all other major non-Mirage based TMNT iterations.

And yes, the argument can be made that IDW shouldn't be labeled as Mirage-based; considering though that the tone of the comic is much more serious than any of the cartoons have been, I think the label is acceptable for at least this example.