The Turtles' first words

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Originally Posted by Spawn Guy

Kids aren't interested in pre school ninja turtles.

If we want to go into the logic of the show, Splinter is always about...50 or so(?) after mutation because that's the rat age he was. The old toon turtles may have been the turtle equvilent of teenagers when the ooze hit.

Alternatively, they were man children.

Sounds logical enough.

Originally Posted by Sewer Bull

But what for? That wouldn't make any sense at all.

Only reason I thought so was because the Ancient One had already given Splinter his name, and to think the turtles would come up with a name for him right out of the blue and it be the same name he already had is a very unlikely coincidence; in the old toon, they called him Splinter as a nickname with no intentions of replacing or trying to figure out his real name.