Would a Turtle wearing a green bandana work?

[CyberCubed]

We never had a Turtle with a green bandana for the obvious reason it would blend in too much with their skin tones, but I wonder.

We have the main 4 Turtles:

Leo = blue
Raph = red
Mike = orange
Don = purple

Slash: Black

Next Mutation Venus: Light Blue

Jennika: Yellow.


They used up all the obvious colors but green. I wonder if it would ever work or happen one day.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

We never had a Turtle with a green bandana for the obvious reason it would blend in too much with their skin tones, but I wonder.

We have the main 4 Turtles:

Leo = blue
Raph = red
Mike = orange
Don = purple

Slash: Black

Next Mutation Venus: Light Blue

Jennika: Yellow.


They used up all the obvious colors but green. I wonder if it would ever work or happen one day.

Lita and the 3 weasels all had pink bandanas too.

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

We never had a Turtle with a green bandana for the obvious reason it would blend in too much with their skin tones, but I wonder.

We have the main 4 Turtles:

Leo = blue
Raph = red
Mike = orange
Don = purple

Slash: Black

Next Mutation Venus: Light Blue

Jennika: Yellow.


They used up all the obvious colors but green. I wonder if it would ever work or happen one day.

Or they could just all wear red like they were meant to... just a thought.

[IndigoErth]

Green could work, technically, but sounds about as exciting as wearing a shirt that matches your flesh tone.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

Green could work, technically, but sounds about as exciting as wearing a shirt that matches your flesh tone.

Green could work, As long as its a different shade of green.

[Andrew NDB]

Red. Black. Or white. Those are the only acceptable colors for TMNT bandannas.

[TigerClaw]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Red. Black. Or white. Those are the only acceptable colors for TMNT bandannas.

Didn't Leo wore a black bandana when he got corrupted by the foot?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Red. Black. Or white. Those are the only acceptable colors for TMNT bandannas.

On what grounds?

Mirage fanatics pick the dumbest of hills to die on, it's bizarre.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

On what grounds?

Mirage fanatics pick the dumbest of hills to die on, it's bizarre.

I get it. You're all about the rainbow.

[frank_one]

They should wear a tartan.

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I get it. You're all about the rainbow.

I just think "They all HAVE to wear red or the entire thing is stupid!" is... stupid.

Because TMNT, on its face, is already stupid. It IS. Pretending it's somehow MORE stupid if they wear one color instead of a different one? Also stupid.

"It's all fine otherwise, but the masks? Those COLORED MASKS are a bridge too far!"

Like for f*ck's sake, it is THE dumbest thing about the franchise to have a bug up one's ass about. The entire "TMNT" thing is a farce and I'm sick and tired of pretending it isn't. It's a stupid franchise full of stupid dumb bullsh*t and frankly, I'm ashamed I ever liked it in the first place. It's SO f*cking dumb.

But to pretend that Colored Masks are the dumbest thing about any of it? Get therapy, guys. You can't be a TMNT fan in the first place and pretend to have standards of taste. That's impossible, because TMNT Is Dumb. You're simply illustrating that you become irrationally upset over very innocuous things.

Who cares what color masks they wear? The entire thing is a f*cking sh*tshow that two drunk, stoned idiots who failed out of every "real job" they ever had thought up when they were high. Stop treating it like one of them wearing blue somehow undermines the "purity" of the entire exercise. There's no "purity" to undermine. It's a farce. All of it. And it was a farce way before anyone swapped colors on the masks.

People act like the Mirage material is "sacred" and way more serious than it was ever intended to be, because the alternative is to accept just how pathetic it is to have spent 40 years obsessed over a property that's so unapologetically vapid. I get it, we as humans have a need to inject deeper meaning into things so we can make them feel "important", and so we in turn can feel better about ourselves. "We're not 'wasting our lives' on childish nonsense, no sir! This stuff is DEEP! It's IMPORTANT!"

Except no, it isn't. It's dumb, it was always dumb, and we're dumb for liking it. It is what it is, trying to trump up how oh-so-serious it really is does nobody any favors. It's denial, that's all. Deep, deep denial.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Leo656

I just think "They all HAVE to wear red or the entire thing is stupid!" is... stupid.

Because TMNT, on its face, is already stupid. It IS. Pretending it's somehow MORE stupid if they wear one color instead of a different one? Also stupid.

"It's all fine otherwise, but the masks? Those COLORED MASKS are a bridge too far!"

Like for f*ck's sake, it is THE dumbest thing about the franchise to have a bug up one's ass about. The entire "TMNT" thing is a farce and I'm sick and tired of pretending it isn't. It's a stupid franchise full of stupid dumb bullsh*t and frankly, I'm ashamed I ever liked it in the first place. It's SO f*cking dumb.

But to pretend that Colored Masks are the dumbest thing about any of it? Get therapy, guys. You can't be a TMNT fan in the first place and pretend to have standards of taste. That's impossible, because TMNT Is Dumb. You're simply illustrating that you become irrationally upset over very innocuous things.

Who cares what color masks they wear? The entire thing is a f*cking sh*tshow that two drunk, stoned idiots who failed out of every "real job" they ever had thought up when they were high. Stop treating it like one of them wearing blue somehow undermines the "purity" of the entire exercise. There's no "purity" to undermine. It's a farce. All of it. And it was a farce way before anyone swapped colors on the masks.

People act like the Mirage material is "sacred" and way more serious than it was ever intended to be, because the alternative is to accept just how pathetic it is to have spent 40 years obsessed over a property that's so unapologetically vapid. I get it, we as humans have a need to inject deeper meaning into things so we can make them feel "important", and so we in turn can feel better about ourselves. "We're not 'wasting our lives' on childish nonsense, no sir! This stuff is DEEP! It's IMPORTANT!"

Except no, it isn't. It's dumb, it was always dumb, and we're dumb for liking it. It is what it is, trying to trump up how oh-so-serious it really is does nobody any favors. It's denial, that's all. Deep, deep denial.

Watch out, he's gonna link to that random Urban Dictionary entry somebody forced into existence

[Leo656]

They still can't even tell me who Crisler is!!!

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Leo656

They still can't even tell me who Crisler is!!!

I must have answered that about 50 times over the years here. You guys can't handle the truth, apparently.

And it wasn't just anybody that put that entry up. It was Kevin Laird.

[Leo656]

Well you didn't answer it recently and I'm too busy to go digging through 20 years of posts to find out. I've never heard of this "Crisler" guy and I demand to know why he's so important he has his own "law" named after him.

I mean shouldn't I have one by now? I have tenure. Here:

"Leo656''s Law": The mathematical certainty that in any discussion about something that is popular with the mainstream, Leo656 will inevitably show up to deride it as "stupid sh*t for babies and morons" and declare that he alone knows what proper standards of taste are."

There. Now that's established.

But I still demand that someone tell me who this Crisler guy is. Right Now.

[Andrew NDB]

Alex Crisler was one of Erik Larsen's FB buddies. Ages ago and after witnessing it happen in places like this for years before it, one day there was talk about TMNT on Erik's wall and an argument was had. I don't even remember about what, but it always goes the same way. Sure enough, out of the bag it came: "What are we even arguing about? TMNT is just about a bunch of turtles and a rat in a sewer, fer chrissakes!" or something like that. So, no, nothing special about the titular Crisler. Just some guy, but one that tipped the barrel one fateful day.

Years later I tried to find him again to show him the UD thing but I couldn't. Probably he didn't survive one of Erik's very tolerant purgings of any of his fans that don't agree with all of his horrible politics.

This makes me want to re-read those big back and forths with Erik Larsen and Peter David. They were so entertaining but now I wonder who was actually in the right.

[Leo656]

Curiosity Satisfied. Thank you.

[neatoman]

On the topic of making yet another mutant Turtle, in this case just for the purpose of giving it a green mask, can we just like... Forget about the concept of trying to do that? Entirely that is, regardless of the exact reason but especially for that particular reason.

It's like how Superman was clearly always meant to be the very last Kryptonian yet DC keeps insisting on making characters like Supergirl, the Phantom Zone prisoners, the citizens of Kandor, the Daxamites and Krypto. It kind of makes it feel like the only reason Krypton exploded was to just keep tradition. Likewise, what's the point of there being four mutant turtles from the same accident if there's going to be like four to ten more of the things?

Other types of animals getting mutated isn't exactly elegant but at least it doesn't directly undermine the status of the four mutant turtles. And I can kinda accept Slash, Tokka and the clones from FF because they're more or less just meant to be twisted monster versions of the concept. But if they're just going to copy the concept of the original four, what kind of "Original the Character, DO NOT STEAL!!!" bullshit is that?

The next time an editor is presented with another Kirby, Venus, Jennika or Lita, they damn well better have the balls and sense to take the concept art and literally wipe their ass with it in front of the person who drew it.

[mrmaczaps]

Originally Posted by neatoman

On the topic of making yet another mutant Turtle, in this case just for the purpose of giving it, can we just like... Forget about the concept of trying to do that? Entirely that is, regardless of the exact reason but especially for that particular reason.

It's like how Superman was clearly always meant to be the very last Kryptonian yet DC keeps insisting on making characters like Supergirl, the Phantom Zone prisoners, the citizens of Kandor, the Daxamites and Krypto. It kind of makes it feel like the only reason Krypton exploded was to just keep tradition. Likewise, what's the point of there being four mutant turtles from the same accident if there's going to be like four to ten more of the things?

Other types of animals getting mutated isn't exactly elegant but at least it doesn't directly undermine the status of the four mutant turtles. And I can kinda accept Slash, Tokka and the clones from FF because they're more or less just meant to be twisted monster versions of the concept. But if they're just going to copy the concept of the original four, what kind of "Original the Character, DO NOT STEAL!!!" bullshit is that?

The next time an editor is presented with another Kirby, Venus, Jennika or Lita, they damn well better have the balls and sense to take the concept art and literally wipe their ass with it in front of the person who drew it.

I'm all for some **alien** turtle-like creatures but seriously, no more MUTANT turtles... and off the handful of extras we currently have...

[Andrew NDB]

If they're wearing green masks they may as well wear no masks.