Is Baxter even a good villain?

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

I like "By Bye Fly", and that episode where he tries to kill the TMNT with the bells on some churchtower.

[BentonGrey]

Yeah, I remember that episode. It was a pretty good one! I'm hoping that I'll get a chance to do a story arc with 'ol Baxter in my mod, as he is one of my favorite villains from the series.

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

Originally Posted by BentonGrey

Yeah, I remember that episode. It was a pretty good one! I'm hoping that I'll get a chance to do a story arc with 'ol Baxter in my mod, as he is one of my favorite villains from the series.

I love fanfiction based on the 1987 TMNT cartoon.

[Redeemer]

Originally Posted by Granitor

Exactly, being an artist myself (graphic artist) I have grown to enjoy and love art for what it really is. I had never been one to think and ponder about things but once i started to really get into art that all changed. The thing with art is normally you dont find something someone has never done before. If you do happen to be the genius to create soemthing new and fresh, well you will be graced as the new picasso of our time. Breaking down art is really not all that hard, just as everyone said before me it all comes back to someone. You take someone else's work that you like and make it your own, within reason! You legally cannot take the exact same thing but you cant take the general idea, say mutated turtles and call them the 4 great artist of our time. Make then fight crime and kick butt while living a hidden life only known to a few humans. Even movies do this, look at how many spin off movies or how many well I have seen that before movies come out. Its just what we as humans do. When we like an idea we break it down and try to think of other ways to approach that same idea with our own opinions which in return can make something completly different that has come from that 1 original idea.

Thank you, art is suppose to express emotion and tell a story. It is different for each person bc of their interpretation

[BentonGrey]

Originally Posted by J 1982

I love fanfiction based on the 1987 TMNT cartoon.

Well, my mod is loosely based on the 'toon.
http://forums.thetechnodrome.com/showthread.php?t=30566
I'm really hoping to be able to get enough art assets to keep telling stories for a while. I have an arc with Baxter as The Fly penned out, and I would definitely like to be able to reach it.
A work in progress shot of good 'ol Baxter:


It's interesting, because we are living in a culture in which only that which is "new" is held as having literary value. Now, y'all are right in quoting Solomon, there is "nothing new under the sun." So, instead of actually coming up with new ideas, what is held up as "great literature" in the modern day are works in which an author does something clever with narrative or some other element of form. It doesn't matter if the material itself is terrible, abrasive, and dehumanizing, what matters is that the author thought of some "new" way to tell the story. It's something I've never been comfortable with about my field...probably the reason I prefer older literature and the type of adventure fiction embodied in the Turtles. There is value in the concept of anthropomorphic amphibians, no matter how silly or derivative the concept may seem.

[BitchinPicturesChris]

I think both version of Baxters are great.

The fly Baxter is a complex sympathetic villian. He never really tried to be evil and just constantly got screwed by Shredder (and the Turtles). I think it's kinda sad how his story ended though. Being stuck in that weird dimension thing after befriending that computer just made me feel bad for him.

[NameGoesHere1066]

I've always had a little soft spot for Baxter. In both series. It's too bad he never got to return to normal after everything that was done to him.