Why The Origin Of The Turtles from The Intro Song and The Intro Story is different?

[yohanc]

Well, I had something that quite annoy me about the turtles origin of Nick's TMNT
Why the origin of the turtles from the intro song and the intro story is really different?

In the intro song as we can see, a mutated master splinter put the turtles into the mutagen and they turn into mutant turtles


But in the intro story, master splinter fight the krang and that krang drop the mutagen canister
then the mutagen splash to master splinter body that mutated him
After that splinter accidently drop the turtles and the turtles dropped into the mutagen acid then they mutated too into mutant turtles


For me, I am stick with the intro story
But why Nickledeon differ this origin of the turtles?
If someone actually forget the intro story, and he already watched a lot of TMNT episodes, he will somehow believe the origin of the turltes is the intro song ones, it's kinda annoying and can be misdirecting somehow

[neatoman]

There might be a number of reasons why it differs.

1. The intro might have been made before they hammered out the origin writing wise.
2. They thought the intro would be more visually interesting that way.
3. Storywise Splinter might be lying about the Turtles mutating on accident, for all we REALLY know Splinter could have mutated them on purpose.

[yohanc]

I think your second reason is the most logical one
I agree with that
But still it is misdirecting, how nickelodeon differs it

[Candy Kappa]

Or, it's just a intro, made for the theme song.

[Warhorse]

That is a good question. Why did Master Splinter decide to buy 4 turtles that very day? Now, I think I like the idea in the past, when it was just a random kid that wanted some pets and he got ran off the road and dropped them down a grate, but for a full grown man to just one day decide to buy them? There's something fishy about that. And how does he know which Turtle is oldest and youngest? That's been one of those glaring plot points that no one wants to try and make sense of. We just get , Leo is the oldest, Mikey is the youngest, and Raph and Donnie might be twins or interchangeable in their ege status.

[yohanc]

Yeah, I actually had that question in my head too
Why the hell some old karate ninja guy want to buy 4 turtles in the first place, I mean splinter had a daughter but she is still missing back then, so there is noone he can give that turtles to
But I think, we just can assume that splinter is really lonely since karai is missing and he didn't have anyone to accompany him in his life
So he buy 4 turtles to accompany him, and he wanted to pet the turtles just like his own sons
and I think, that is why after all of them get mutated, master splinter is so close to the turtles as if they are his sons
BTW, I am actually quite disapointed with nickelodeon though about this, because they just give really short intro story to the origin of the turtles and I fell they are a bit too rush about the intro story, they should explain it better and give some more intro story about the 4 turtles, like when they were kid, how they grew up and get their trainning from splinter until they become the teenage mutant

They're just too rushing it and that is lame
They should add that kinda story
Cause I believe there is a lot of fan that wanted to see how the turtles grow
Nickelodeon still can fix this though, just make a season 1 episode 0, a prequel before season 1 episode 1, it would be good

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by yohanc

In the intro song as we can see, a mutated master splinter put the turtles into the mutagen and they turn into mutant turtles

I doubt he's actually putting them in it, BUT I agree, I've always felt the animation makes it look like he did.

Maybe they simply put that bit in reverse because it looked better.

[victory_angel]

Originally Posted by yohanc

Nickelodeon still can fix this though, just make a season 1 episode 0, a prequel before season 1 episode 1, it would be good

Actually there is an episode 0, but its an interactive comic book on Nick.com

It just explains how each Turtle earned the right to become Ninja.
I agree we should see more insight as to what things were like when they were kids and we may yet see flash back moments that see them as kids.

[pannoni1]

After watching this again, I agree that it's clearly a departure, more so than the OT intros which showed a different origin; the first two intros show Splinter holding the Turtles and as he mutates, the Turtles disappear (especially the second intro where Splinter picks up the non-mutated Turtles and simply mutates) whereas in Turtle Tracks, Splinter mutates while he isn't holding the Turtles. It was clearly made for effect, almost a fan's impression to be made distinct from the actual story. That said, TV show intros are simply themed to what the reality is by allowing viewers to get into the show.

[Shiro Kame]

It's just an intro, just like in OT, were the turtles glowed, floating out of that manhole.

[yohanc]

Originally Posted by victory_angel

Actually there is an episode 0, but its an interactive comic book on Nick.com

It just explains how each Turtle earned the right to become Ninja.
I agree we should see more insight as to what things were like when they were kids and we may yet see flash back moments that see them as kids.

Well, thanks Victory_Angel to point that out for me
I had watched that comic books already, which there are 6 issues of it
It's good enough for me, although there is no story of the kid turtles in there
Btw nick's should point out that comic book in the first place, cause I believe there must be a lot of Nick's TMNT fans that miss out the comic books

[Luckyday]

I wonder if Shredder can brainwash Raph into believing that his mutation was no accident and that he was mutant on purpose by Splinter to be train for 15 years in ninjutsu to use be used as a tool in Splinter's revenge against the Shredder?

It would be a cool nod to the original mirage series, but at the same time this could have only work if Raph have never meet the Shredder.

[Warhorse]

Originally Posted by Luckyday

I wonder if Shredder can brainwash Raph into believing that his mutation was no accident and that he was mutant on purpose by Splinter to be train for 15 years in ninjutsu to use be used as a tool in Splinter's revenge against the Shredder?

It would be a cool nod to the original mirage series, but at the same time this could have only work if Raph have never meet the Shredder.

I have a feeling, if Shredder uses any brainwashing tool, it's going to be the one where Raph is always being passed up by Splinter for Leo. How Leo is the favorite student, closest to Splinter and so on and so on. He's probably going to twist that all up.