Which was your preferred Turtle romance?

[billbot85]

I voted for Raph and Mona Lisa. I wished that they had made more episodes featuring the two of them working together. It's too bad they only featured Mona Lisa in one episode, I thought she was pretty awesome.

Although I do love the Donnie and April romance in the 2012 series. I think it's more intriguing than just having all 4 crush after her.

[InsaneZane]

Originally Posted by gobo

Slash & Binky

Originally Posted by Powder

Put me on ignore.

Thats a good freaking idea! Man, even your picture looks like a punk. How can you be such a punk and still love Turtles so much?
You remind me of a gang banger who has to "stop and smell the roses" cuz he loves flowers so much.

[Powder]

Originally Posted by InsaneZane

Thats a good freaking idea! Man, even your picture looks like a punk. How can you be such a punk and still love Turtles so much?
You remind me of a gang banger who has to "stop and smell the roses" cuz he loves flowers so much.

btw... I'd like to see you point out 1 thing i said that was hypocritical..
Now theres just hot air coming from your pie hole.
Plus, you should re-read my post because i changed it right before you responded and it contains something you should see

I'm done, reported.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by InsaneZane

Thats a good freaking idea! Man, even your picture looks like a punk. How can you be such a punk and still love Turtles so much?
You remind me of a gang banger who has to "stop and smell the roses" cuz he loves flowers so much.

Wha??

Made me think of:
http://youtu.be/7_6KMGB_Pkw?t=1m33s

[InsaneZane]

good report me... It's people like you that made me stay away from this place for several years and its people like you that'll run it into the ground,
"Mr. Popular"

Originally Posted by Jester

Wha??

Made me think of:
http://youtu.be/7_6KMGB_Pkw?t=1m33s

[Jester]

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

The only real romances was Mike with Sara and The Regenta in the comics.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And Leonardo and Radical.

And Raph+Ninjara in Archie.

Mikey and Kala and Donnie and April are the only toon relationships that hints at romance, and we know that Donnie's isn't going anywhere. Leo and Karai strikes me more as mutual respect as equals and honor bound warriors. Same with Lotus. Raph and Mona is WAY inflated by fans. I mean, was there any flirting or anything there? Aside from Mona using it to get aboard ship?

[Zulithe]

Raph/Casey. April be jelly.

[InsaneZane]

Originally Posted by Zulithe

Raph/Casey. April be jelly.

lol Bromance!!

[Candy Kappa]

Mikey and the Styracodon Princess was a one night stand with bad after effects, hardly much romance

[CowabungaMikey]

Originally Posted by gobo

Slash & Binky

This guy here

Venus and Leo for me. It coulded be really interesting.

[DonatelloNinja82]

Originally Posted by Jester

And Raph+Ninjara in Archie.

Mikey and Kala and Donnie and April are the only toon relationships that hints at romance, and we know that Donnie's isn't going anywhere. Leo and Karai strikes me more as mutual respect as equals and honor bound warriors. Same with Lotus. Raph and Mona is WAY inflated by fans. I mean, was there any flirting or anything there? Aside from Mona using it to get aboard ship?

Raph and Ninjara should be a choice.
Raph did say to Mona Lisa that he thought she was cute. She remarked that she was a "groteque mutant" and he said he thought she was "Kinda cute".

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by InsaneZane

denial. as simple as that.

I think you're the one who's in denial, actually.

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by Shreddhead

I personally dislike just about any turtle romancing. It just always feels tacked on and basically useless. I think Don's crush on April in the nick show is ok, it sets up a lot of jokes which Im fine with- as long as it doesnt go anywhere. And I always liked how all of the turtles kind of had a crush on April in the OT, but it was extremely innocent and only at certain times.
This is about as far as I want any turtle romance to go:

Look kids, Leonardo is seducing you.

[Shreddhead]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Look kids, Leonardo is seducing you.

Sha-Wing!!

[raph27]

My fav relationship is InsaneZane and Powder's hatefest.

[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by RaphaeltheAwesome13

My fav relationship is InsaneZane and Powder's hatefest.

Gotta love some daily 'Drome Drama.

[BubblyShell22]

Originally Posted by Shreddhead

Sha-Wing!!

Bow chicka wow wow. I love Leo's pose there.

[InsaneZane]

Originally Posted by RaphaeltheAwesome13

My fav relationship is InsaneZane and Powder's hatefest.

this made me laugh

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

Look kids, Leonardo is seducing you.

I don't get the big deal about the relationships thing, but to me TMNT has always been a bit more light-hearted (which is to say, not as goofy as the OT but not as dark and fatalistic as Mirage). To me, the thought of the Turtles never having emotional attachments to anyone of the opposite gender isn't very realistic, "the species question" notwithstanding (because that's honestly a very superficial argument and has been worked around many times before), and frankly, I find the idea of the Turtles living for about a hundred years or so while completely alone, isolated, and never knowing anything like romantic love to be a little more gloomy and depressing than I care for TMNT to be. To me, the fact that love and relationships exist in real life means it can and even should be on the table for use in fictional stories.

I "get" that, to some, the tragic and lonely existence is part of what they like about "their" TMNT. Or for others, it's "just a kids cartoon" and stuff like that has no place. I get that, to those people at either extreme, adding in any kind of relationship angle ruins things for them. And that's fine, for them, but what they like is not entirely the kind of TMNT stories I want to read all the time.

Likewise, if they're gonna "go there", it should be done well or it's pointless. Frankly, they haven't had much success in "going there", so I do get why some people hate the very idea of them having relationships or being attracted to someone. It can be and has been done poorly in the past. But that's not to say it can't work or should never be attempted. Conversely, that also doesn't mean that romance or stories of relationships should become the focus of the stories or overshadow everything else that's going on, but I don't think it should have to. The Superman books didn't become mini-romance novels once Lois and Clark got together and got married, for example, but it did free up both characters to become more well-written and dynamic characters than they'd been in decades, as well as allowed writers to try some entirely new ideas with the characters (to varying degrees of success).

I thought Ninjara and Raphael in the Archie books was an example of doing it well, and it made Raphael much more interesting (and tragic) as a character, giving him an actual arc and a storyline which expanded on the ONE story he always normally has (you know, the one where he's a complete loner who's angry all the time... THAT never gets old or redundant. WE GET IT.). Seeing him go through an entire developmental cycle of meeting someone, building a relationship with them, sabotaging it with his own self-destructive behavior, and eventually losing them, made Raphael a much more interesting, dynamic, and REAL character than I can remember seeing him being portrayed elsewhere. Adding Ninjara to the mix didn't hurt Raphael's character in the least, rather she "fixed" it and made him infinitely more interesting, and had the series continued, they could have done a lot to explore Raphael psychologically, as in WHY he's so damn angry and self-destructive, to the point of alienating everyone he cares for.

So I think it works, it can be done, but no need pointlessly throwing it in unless it makes sense. For one, I think the guys deserve at least a fleeting chance to be happy, the wall-to-wall misery and bleakness in some of the fiction is a bit much at times. But that's not to say it should overtake everything else or be done for no real reason, either. I would vote for Raphael/Ninjara as the best example of doing it right, but I didn't see it on the list.

[Megafoxy]

My vote would be Raph/Mona and Leo/Venus.