Future of the Turtles

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Originally Posted by Leo656

So here's a hypothetical.

Pretend a version of You from the future came back in time to Right Now and said, "Yeah, there's gonna be another hundred versions of TMNT between Now and Then, and they keep getting dumber. In the future, the TMNT franchise is looked at with naught but mockery and disdain; any claims that it was once one of the most popular things around are met with snickers of disbelief. It's 100% just disposable entertainment for dipsh*ts, like those Transformers movies. Not only will there never be a version that you like, ever again, but the entire franchise is beyond a bad joke in the eyes of pretty much everyone."

BUT, here's the kicker: Future You has come back in time to let you know that YOU have the power to prevent that... but the flipside being, there will never be another version of TMNT ever again. Only nostalgia-based stuff like toys and video games, which never go away for any property; but no more cartoons, movies, comics, no more "new versions".

So... would you do it? Cancel the entire future of the property, with the caveat that at least things won't get any worse than they are Right Now? Especially armed with the knowledge from Future You that literally nothing they ever do with the brand will ever again be to your liking? Let's assume for the sake of argument this isn't some alternate-timeline Future You, but literally You In 40 Years. And you have 100% of the power to prevent this Dark Future, where most TMNT material that ever existed is trash and everyone thinks the brand is and always was stupid.

I would. I'd cancel that sh*t so hard. Right now, things are bad but it's still possible to see through some of the crap on the windshield to see the Good that once existed in this franchise. If things continue their current course, though, there won't even be any "windshield", just a three-inch thick layer of sh*t that nobody in their right mind would even attempt to scratch the surface of.

Bury it like Hillary's involvement in the deaths of soooo many people.