How do you feel about TMNT having few incarnations? Do you prefer it?

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Originally Posted by CyberCubed

There's not many "main" incarnations at all:

- 3 cartoons

- 3 major comics (Mirage, Archie and IDW)

- 2 movie continuities (original movies, Bay Movies)


The Nick animated comic is an off-shoot of the Nick cartoon. The Image series was written to be in continuity with Mirage (hence why there's no Mirage Volume 3), stuff like the TMNT Anime OVA is a Japanese off-shoot of the original cartoon. The videogames are again based off of whatever various cartoons or comics they want them to be. Next Mutation and the 2007 movie were loose continuations of the original films.

There are not many continuities at all.

By your own rationale isn't the Archie book just an off shoot of the '87 toon? It did become it's own beast and grow into something original, but it started just as kids tie-in book.

In my own personal head canon the Imagi film is part of Golden Harvest film series and NM is it's own beast.

I like having all these different versions of the story. By the time we get to later runs such as IDW and Nick they can pick and choose things and give them a fresh spin. I'm much more open to new interpretations of the TMNT franchise then other fandoms of mine. Such as Star Trek. I think that's because with Trek I've always been there on the ground floor (Prime Universe baby). With TMNT I was introduced via Fred Wolf, then Golden Harvest and then I finally read some Mirage.