Turtles wear red masks again

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

Originally Posted by WebLurker

I think the '80s cartoon has pretty much replaced Mirage as the source material. Multicolored masks? Love of pizza? Shredder being the Darth Vader of the franchise and clashing with the Turtles on a regular basis? Leonardo being the official leader? Those are pretty much unbreakable laws of the franchise today.

It can't become the source material, that will always and forever be Mirage. But the OT is what everyone knows, and everyone who makes turtle media draws from. As I said in another thread, there have been too many generations saturated with the OT elements, from multiple media sources. All major versions of TMNT going forward are going to be multicolored masked, pizza chomping, Bebop and Rocksteady fighting, ninja heroes.

With turtles, I see people drawing more from the mixed soup of all TMNT adaptations and generations, with mirage as the first foundational ingredient in the mix. But I don't see anyone in power ever just going back an making pure Mirage TMNT broth ever again. Unless a piece of media is directly tied to mirage, I don't see red bandannas ever being a thing in any turtle n ever again.