Subprime's Near Death Experiences
 

With the confirmation that "Knight" is going to be in the crossover, I like to discuss this topic. After reading the IGN article, I was like "How many times do they have to kill off Subprime". Due to time travel, Annihilation Earth doesn't count.

I'm telling you, something's up. And Subprime's previous near death experiences weren't even mentioned yet.

It's a running gag, akin to the deaths of Kenny McCormick. The little bastard comes out of non-survival scenarios all the time without explaination, that's the joke. I'm pretty sure the only episodes where he doesn't die are the ones before the Irma twist.

What I'm more interested in is who King is? We have Pawn, Rook, Bishop, Knight and Queen but no King.

I think it would be interesting to put them in chronological order, just so a more tidy record can be kept.

Given his former role, getting out of tough scrapes seems to be his specialty, and he's probably been a lot more than just the ones that left scars.
I actually assumed that his return after getting crushed was a situation where he had been hit so hard that his tendrils were permanently open...only to have them closed up again later on.

I'm guessing FW Krang.

Wasn't he a decapitated head though?

He had several conflicting origins, so it's hard to say, but yeah, that was one of them. Still, given the theme of this episode, there's a possibility they could tie their lore together.

Wouldn't that be a rather questionable retcon though? If the Dimension X of the Fred Wolf cartoon and the Dimension X of the Nickelodeon cartoon are the same Dimension X, wouldn't that just open up a can of worms regardless of how questionable FW's sense of continuity was?

The running gag reminds me more of The Joker from the Batman franchise.

I also like to see one of the 2012 Turtles mention that they thought Subprime was dead.

Depends how they go about it. Besides, who really cares? It'd be harmless fun, after all. Wouldn't be much worse than Turtles Forever's continuity meddling.