TMNT Armageddon Game: Alliance #1. Preview and Discussion

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Originally Posted by neatoman

My theory? Well, considering they don't seem to know they're impostors, what with them straight up getting their roles mixed up ("Leo" uses the Sai for example) and them being shown to be confused when people point it out. What I suspect is that...

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... They're clones or unrelated mutant turtles given planted memories. What I suspect is that "QNA", that stuff the Utroms collected from the corpses of the Hamatos, is some kind of neural network map of sorts. So basically what I suspect is that the real Turtles got this QNA stuff inserted into them in order to make training them easier, that way they'd have muscle memory as part of their mutation. Which, yes, would mean they aren't really reincarnations of the Hamatos but rather just their neural clones. So what these other turtles could be is either failed prototypes/replacements in the project that created them, or clones given "QNA" from the turtles themselves.

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I do actually kind of like the idea that they're failed prototypes repurposed as impostors.

So far we know that they were created by Barlow and are known as the 'Null' Turtles as referred to in the solicitations which makes sense as it has been implied that Barlow is working at Madame Null's behest.
One other curiosity is that when Alopex found them in #127 there were five of them in bio-tanks (not including Venus of course) so there could possibly be one more that we haven't seen properly yet.