New Movie Turtle Origins?

[discordiatookie]

Not that I'm 100% versed in Japanese tattoo history, but seeing that Yakuza (or other criminal factions) are known for being tattooed, I could see the Foot having their own riff on that.

Now, if Splinter was in the Foot in this version then getting tattooed may very well be part of his culture that he has passed to down to the turtles. Not that I'm saying that he has a tattoo gun either, chances are he's got a tebori set (http://inkarmy.com/tag/tebori-tattoos). If he can get a hold of the various weapons the turtles use, then I imagine he could knock together one of these!

On the other hand, they makers of the movie might just've went: know what would be totally rad? Turtles with tattoos man! *sniffs line of coke and high 5s all round!*

And another theory may be that gong Mikey here really loves all parts of human culture and really wants to be part of society.. One've his ways of expressing this is by getting inked, using the old compass and Indian ink trick! I know a few folk that done that back in the day (all a bit older than me I might add) and they all done it when they were in their early teens...

Either way, I dig the tattoo!