Black April

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by Utrommaniac

Yeah, Raphael probably does suffer the most by being the least teenager-y, maybe followed by Leonardo. What I can see working is a 17/16/15/14 age mix, which would create allowances in some of them having more adult-like behavior and growing-out-of-childhood behavior in a spectrum. With Leonardo being the most adult in behavior and Michelangelo the least.

Well haven't people been arguing for years that the Turtles are of different ages with Leo being the oldest and Mikey the youngest? It even says on some bios doesn't it? It's borderline official at this point.

Originally Posted by Jester

Are black people a different species? I really can't wrap my head around why this is an issue. April's skin color doesn't change he from being the Turtles HUMAN friend and link to the surface. Making Splinter a hamster changes something firmly established in cannon. Splinter is specifically mentioned to be a rat. April's race isn't coded to her character the same way?

One wonders if this would even be an issue if Andre hadn't mentioned it, and we just met April and she was black.

I don't think sdp was implying that in his not so logical comparison.