Bebop's Mohawk/Ponytail in season 1

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Powder

"My black friends said it's okay if use the N word as a term of endearment, that must mean all black people are fine with it!" -How you sound.

Yeah. Kinda can't compare 'white boy' to the n word. For one thing the former isn't bleeped or censored on tv. Much stronger word. It's outdated 90's slang. Plus this applies to everyone I know. Not just 2 or 3 people and not necessarily all friends. A random co-worker could have easily had gotten pissed and call me out on it. Yeah you can say the n word and I guess some black people won't mind but some will get in your face about it. I personally find it disrespectful and don't get why they chose to popularize it but whatever.

I honestly don't know if you had a lifetime of people calling you that when you were younger or whatever but it seems to hit a particular nerve to you and you alone. Either way I was called out on it, again by you and you alone, and I refrained from using it. So what's the problem?

[Jester]

[CyberCubed]

How ironic a debate about Ebonics is happening in a Bebop thread. And at least I didn't cause it this time!

[Powder]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

Yeah. Kinda can't compare 'white boy' to the n word.

I'm not saying they carry similar weight, but the point remains that just because some people say something is okay doesn't mean it flies with everyone.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

How ironic a debate about Ebonics is happening in a Bebop thread. And at least I didn't cause it this time!

Woke the neighbors laughing at this.

[Coola Yagami]

Originally Posted by Powder

I'm not saying they carry similar weight, but the point remains that just because some people say something is okay doesn't mean it flies with everyone.



Woke the neighbors laughing at this.

It doesn't fly with you so I stopped using the term. So why keep bringing it up. And Cubed, does the n word count as Ebonics?

While we're on the subject even though our thoughts clash heavily, you know in cool with you right Cubed?

[turtlefanforever]

Originally Posted by Jester

Must...refrain....from pointing out....the irony.....

People use this thing for fan art/stories, information, debate tmnt, sell or buy toys. No where does it say belittle people. Create a flawed hierarchy, and express your opinion of false superiority over other members of the forum.

[Slime State Alumni]

Originally Posted by Coola Yagami

How bout everyone shut up and talk about the turtles. This constant jabbing at one another is ****ing embarrassing.

You know, for posterity.

[Discogod]

So a thread about the minutiae of TMNT has devolved into bitching, backstabbing, insults, accusations of racism and people calling Powder a jerk?




It's like the entirety of the 'Drome, crammed into a single thread...

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Amen to that. But to get BACK TO THE SUBJECT OF THE THREAD- I recently re-watched some of the early episodes, and noticed this, myself. Incidentally, I don't think it was his ROOTS showing, since that would make the Mohawk itself brown and the ends purple, not the other way around. Maybe he just stopped dying the ends because it was too much work. Warthog hair is extremely stiff and thick, after all. I'd imagine it doesn't take dye very well.

[Coola Yagami]

I just realized... Didn't bebop just have a normal Mohawk as a human and then the Mohawk/ponytail thing after he mutated?

[Powder]

True. & given it wasn't dyed, are we supposed to believe that he gained an actual tail on the back of his head? Never thought of that before, but it does totally look like a warthog tail.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

No, it's just a ponytail that's tied lower down instead of at the top. I've got some screen-caps that clearly show it has a band of some sort down near the end. And it's very clearly part of the Mohawk. Maybe he did it that way to LOOK like a tail?


Edit: I just went back and looked through those screen-caps, and there is one shot during the scene just before Shredder mutates them (when they are strapped down) where you can see his Mohawk goes all the way down the back of his head, so it looks like he grew it out into a ponytail afterward.