What if the TMNT Brotherhood premise was changed?

*Refractive Reflections* · 03-27-2013, 10:32 PM

In most depictions, if not all (except The Next Mutation) the Turtles had all grown up together as brothers. (Yes in TNM they were not brothers, but grew up together. But that's beside the point in this thread.

) How would you feel if the Turtles discovered their brotherhood after the fact they were trained as ninjas? ...Let's say, each from a different individual master/sensei? ...Or if we were to push it even further...maybe each trained in a different martial art besides ninjutsu?

Take for example if the four Turtles were somehow separated, similarly in the OT to Mondo Gecko's situation, with Splinter being able to find less than 4 of them. And the other one to three Turtles grow up with other "adoptive" parents/siblings (other mutated animals, by themselves [like the Punk Frogs], or humans [Mondo Gecko's situation]).

It would put an interesting "monkey wrench" on the TMNT premise itself? What do you guys think?

It could be an intriguing twist, since in the end, it could make their brotherhood bonds even stronger upon discovering it since they each would have known how it felt to be alone and without siblings. It's one thing for one to face the world with a group of siblings (the original TMNT premise), but a far harsher experience when one is all alone facing the world.

Interesting....concept?
Tell me what you guys think!

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Refractive Reflections Mad Scientist $Refractive Reflections's Avatar$ Join Date: Nov 2012 Posts: 2,371	What if the TMNT Brotherhood premise was changed? In most depictions, if not all (except The Next Mutation) the Turtles had all grown up together as brothers. (Yes in TNM they were not brothers, but grew up together. But that's beside the point in this thread. ) *How would you feel if the Turtles discovered their brotherhood after* the fact they were trained as ninjas? ...Let's say, each from a different individual master/sensei? ...Or if we were to push it even further...maybe each trained in a different martial art besides ninjutsu? Take for example if the four Turtles were somehow separated, similarly in the OT to Mondo Gecko's situation, with Splinter being able to find less than 4 of them. And the other one to three Turtles grow up with other "adoptive" parents/siblings (other mutated animals, by themselves [like the Punk Frogs], or humans [Mondo Gecko's situation]). It would put an interesting "monkey wrench" on the TMNT premise itself? What do you guys think? It could be an intriguing twist, since in the end, it could make their brotherhood bonds even stronger** upon discovering it since they each would have known how it felt to be alone and without siblings. It's one thing for one to face the world with a group of siblings (the original TMNT premise), but a far harsher experience when one is all alone facing the world. Interesting....concept? Tell me what you guys think! Last edited by Refractive Reflections; 03-27-2013 at 10:40 PM.
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