human TMNT interpretations

[NeonTurtledude]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Uh, I can appreciate a good piece of fan art that depicts them as human and I can accept the idea of them using holograms or something to disguise themselves as human. The idea of them actually transforming into humans or starting out as humans (as in directly transforming from human to mutant turtles, not reincarnated as regular turtles first) is an idea I hate and hope never goes beyond that one episode of Fred Wolf.

Speaking of that episode, was the writer under the assumption that the Turtles used to be human? I know the episode is dumb in general and the writer clearly didn't put much thought into the script, as it treats their ninja skills as being inherently tied to them being mutant turtles rather than something they learned and even explicitly states that they can't be ninjas as human being (even though I'm pretty damn sure all ninjas in the real world were human), but it still states Mike ingested "anti-mutagen" which would imply it undoes mutations.

And even if we just assume he turns into a human being because he got human DNA from Hamato Yoshi and the episode simply worded the dialogue really poorly, why does he... Uh... Well... Not look much like Hamato Yoshi, if you know what I mean?...

Yeah like in the punk frog episode when Shredder made his hologram form.

it's been a long time since I watched the Gangs all here episode so I can't remember the details, another one that comes to mind is Splinter No More when he temporarily turned back into Hamato Yoshi.

as for the Turtles being humans, that would be more of a disguise or AU! thing, in most of the TMNT continuity I see the turtles as well mutant turtles, (unless it's specified that they're reincarnations in a specific piece of tmnt media).