Reimagine Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as drastically as you can.

[neatoman]

Originally Posted by Asha

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how about this?

That is adorable, where is it from?

[IndigoErth]

Originally Posted by MewMeow

Yeah, like making them go into the sewer, but it's also a PORTAL to present-day LA!
Nick Jonas will be Shredder!

Spoiler:

If it can be done like a parody so it's purposely pointed out who Shredder is (esp if we can do a series of these with different people as Shredder - including Bay! - and all get a beat down from the Turtles), I want this so bad... lol

[turtlefanforever]

how about instead of turtles being turned into teenagers it's teenagers being turned into sharks. and instead of pizza they eat hamburgers

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Didn't someone already do a cartoon of that? I think it was called, um.... Street Sharks. Yeah, pretty sure that was it....

I'd be more interested in seeing "Pre-teen Dirty-gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos". Because it was a rip-off/parody that someone actually came up with years ago. A parody of a parody- this is something that just screams for a series!

[Wildcat]

Not sure how many people read my idea in the previous page, if at all, but ever since then I've been thinking about this. It really intrigued me and made me think about other franchises too.

My idea wasn't very drastic after I thought about it but if we do have to keep the 'mutant' aspect it makes it harder to deviate from its original concept.

Other things I came up with (not exactly solid ideas):

Make it an anthropomorphic world, like Sonic or something. Have the turtle characters be ninjas. No mutagen or krang.

What if the turtles were scary creatures, almost like in horror movies. They weren't good but not evil either. Making them ninjas makes it corny though. How did these things get into martial arts, lol.

[Apteis]

Soul's Winter.

[turtlefanforever]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Didn't someone already do a cartoon of that? I think it was called, um.... Street Sharks. Yeah, pretty sure that was it....

I'd be more interested in seeing "Pre-teen Dirty-gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos". Because it was a rip-off/parody that someone actually came up with years ago. A parody of a parody- this is something that just screams for a series!

yeah that was the joke

[Wildcat]

Ok I gave it more thought and this is what I came up with. It's as different as I can think without losing the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" base.

It's set in the future where cloning has been perfected but it's only for medical purposes.

The local mob has been causing chaos all over the city for years with their gang of ninja assassins. After years of struggle, law enforcement is finally able to take them down. They get the death sentence and their boss gets life in prison.

An accomplice on the outside tells his boss of a plan he has that could bring back their gang through cloning. They only need a sample of their DNA (hair or blood left on clothes etc.) It would take time and would need to set up an underground cloning operation.

After a few years of work the clones are in their final stage of growth. However there's an accident that causes turtle DNA to get sucked into their tubing. The doctor hired to do the illegal cloning has a small pet turtle that he accidentally drops into their tank (or he could mix up samples from experimenting on turtles...whatever you prefer).

When they finally come to life they are humanoid turtles. The assassins are back but bigger and stronger than before. Now they plan to break their boss out of prison and take over the city again. Plus they now have the possibility of creating an army of other mutants.

[victory_angel]

I have a script I'm working on. It sort of follows the base of what we know about TMNT universe

Turtles created by accident
Splinter is a rat that had been Hamato Yoshi's pet
Splinter raises turtles as his children and trains them in Ninjitsu
Turtles told the world outside would not accept them.
April starts out as a college intern working for Stockman.

Differences:

Oroku Nagi has a minor part in the story's beginning.
Oroku Saki is not a 7 year old kid when his brother dies.
Oroku Nagi murders Tang Shen (implied that both Nagi and Saki had their way with her before killing her)
Hamato Yoshi is stabbed from behind trying to avenge his wife, Yoshi kills Nagi as his last act on earth. Splinter leaves scratches on Oroku Saki's face.

Events in which Splinter finds the Turtles take place in Japan.
When the turtles are around five years old Splinter follows Oroku Saki to America.

Raph and Mikey are not above using their ninja skills to steal pizza. Mikey refers to it as the "Three-fingered Ninja discount"

Leonardo is the only turtle that visits Donnie's lab.
Donnie feels they are meant to be more then just ninja.

Here's the link to what I have so far. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4r...ew?usp=sharing

[miru]

Millions of years ago, the ancient turtles known as Archelon found themselves in what is now the Galapagos Islands. They laid their eggs. Those that could not move on into the deep were raised by the native tortoises. These turtles bred into the tortoises' gene pool over time. Archelon returned a few times to lay more eggs until their extinction. But their genes lived on in the tortoises. These tortoises lived in lonesome harmony for ages.

One fateful day, a mysterious glowing lettuce formed. Some of the tortoises ate it. Devouring it gave them odd reactions and transfigurations. They soon began to walk on two legs, and develop a humanistic shape. Eventually, some developed a soul. Once there were 100 human-like turtles, they divided into 5 tribes of 20. These five tribes are:

* Leonus- Blue, focused on governmental processes, such as democracy and colonization.
* Dondu- Purple, focused on science.
* Rapha- Red, warlike.
* Mikus- Orange, agricultural.
* Venna- Pink, religious and magical.

These tribes each occupied a sector of the island.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Does having an AU where Donnie is a (genetic)chimera/hermaphrodite count? It's a cross of the OT/movies with some 2K3 sprinkled in, but that's the biggest difference. This is for my main AU tale, not the "mirror-verse" one. Only Mikey and Splinter know of his dual-gendered nature. And Bishop is trying to "convince" them to co-operate with his research, by bribing them with the prospect of creating females. While he's spying on them, of course. And the Wyvern gargoyles exist side-by-side within the same universe. It's complicated.

[shuriken]

Originally Posted by Jester

I swear that has got to be at least the 3rd time you've linked this video.
I this point I think you're just making excuses to use it

[Mutant Ninja Anole]

Dang, somebody already made the Street Sharks gag.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

This would probably work:

Almost the same story, Oroku Saki chases Hamato Yoshi from Japan to the USA. Four turtles fall into New York City sewers and are mutated by an extraterrestrial ooze that had arrived on Earth. But when the turtles are at a very young age (and Splinter has just began pracicing some moves), Baxter Stockman tests his mousers and destroy the sewer tunnels and the turtles are separated from Splinter. (or Shredder attacks the swers knowing Hamato Yoshi, who is Splinter, is there)

All turtles survive and escape. During their childhoods, they live with some other people who take care of them, in different part of the world.

Just when the turtles are about to become teenagers, Shredder and Krang attack New York City. Splinter must now journey and find his four students, summon them and take them home, practice with them to train them to defeat the bad guys (if they begin training at 12, they will first take down thugs like Big Louie, Tony Vivaldi, Pinky McFingers and Beaver Cleaver and Wally Cleaver, before being prepared to take down Shredder and Krang at 14).

[Panda_Kahn_fan]

A very, very simple and streamlined Origin;

Hamato Yoshi is a modern Japanese Ninja Practitioner, one of these guys who practices the ancient martial art to keep it alive. Having immigrated from Japan to New York teach ninjitsu to people in stunt work and the television and film industry, he is a good and honorable man with a good sense of ethics. After the death of his wife, Tang Shen, Yoshi decided to avert his loneliness by going to the pet store to buy a pet. While looking around at the various pets, Yoshi gets bit by a rat in a cAge that manages to pierce his skin. Finally, he decides to buy four turtles, and leaves the shop with them in a glass bowl.

But as he was leaving the pet store, a TCRI truck, careening out of control, lost a canister that was sent flying, and smashed all over Yoshi, and the four turtles in the open bowl he was carrying. Yoshi stumbled into an alleyway, dropping the bowl, as a startling metamorphosis took place. Finding himself with a new-found adopted family, Yoshi- now splinter- quietly cleans out his old apartment, and moves himself and his new family into an abandoned subway terminal that connects to the sewers.

Over the next fifteen years, Splinter teaches his adopted children (filling the void left by his dead wife in his heart) teaches his four sons the art of ninjitsu- not only to defend themselves from a world that would never accept them, but also to defend the world above from monstrous threats. And it all changes when a nosy reporter attacked by a street gang comes stumbling into the Sewers...

Reasons;

1.) There really haven't been any ninja clans since at least the Meji restoration. Reconstructionists are where you are going to find modern practicing ninjas, not modern ninja clans running around in kabuki pajamas in modern day New York. Yoshi was probably trained by another modern practitioner, and never was part of a clan himself.

2.) This origin cuts all direct ties to specific villains or threats- yeah, you can later go into where the ooze came from, or some other such thing- but you don't need that information for the origin itself.

3.) The foot can still be worked in- Ororku Saki is a yakuza warlord, who admires the old ways, and tries to create a criminal organization in New York that combines ancient ninja techniques with modern weaponry. The foot is a recreation of an old ninja clan, not a super-secret group that survived the meji for some contrived and idiotic reason.

4.) An abandoned Subway junction is more sensible than some large, multi-room apartment-like complex just existing in the sewer for no good reason.

I'm not saying the goofier and wackier elements can't be brought in afterword, but I'd start the story in grounded reality, before taking off into the craziness and weird stuff.

[AnarkyLantern]

I'll have to think on this a bit but I gotta say I'm really digging this AU here: http://dashing-and-demure.tumblr.com...-hamato-family

[Mew]

Originally Posted by IndigoErth

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Spoiler:

If it can be done like a parody so it's purposely pointed out who Shredder is (esp if we can do a series of these with different people as Shredder - including Bay! - and all get a beat down from the Turtles), I want this so bad... lol

I also want Baxter Stockman to be Asian, April to be black, Krang to be a vision in Shredder's head, Bebop and Rocksteady to be animals before mutation, and have millions of references to Venus De Milo.

[Shark_Blade]

Baxter Stockman as an Asian? ... I'm imagining Hideo Kojima. April as a black girl? Lupita Nyong'o.

Nice.

[Allio]

From the "battle of the gods" post from earliar.

Thinking "Same as it Never was" in this universe is an outcome from if Shredder wins the the "Power of God" in which case he forms the universe in his own image. Donatello is sent to this future to view this outcome from the help of this Time's April and Lord Simultaneous (Whom in this universe just looks like Draco)

[Allio]

I had another idea

when it comes time for the "Leonardo" micro, instead of Leo or Raph getting beaten, it is Mikey

and when the fight in the "second time around" happens, Nobody is there to help