colored bandanas or no?

[Splinter]

Originally Posted by ArashiPanduh

I like the colored bandana mostly because if you look up the meaning of the colors, they fit thier turtle's description almost right on ususaly.

Exactly. You know that you and I have spoken about this a lot. But the colors really do match their personalities. If you look up color meanings. Here's a couple color meaning things, the second one for each character is the Japanese color meaning. They are actually very close to their personalities in most respects.

Leonardo -
* Blue is the color of the sky and sea. It is often associated with depth and stability. It symbolizes trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, intelligence, faith, truth, and heaven.

* Blue is the color of the Virgin Mary, and is associated with girls who have similar pure qualities. In addition, it is the color of water and the sea, with all the symbolic references already discussed for that element - that is, blue usually indicates femininity, life, purity, etc., just as water does.
Blue can also symbolize peace, calm, stability, security, loyalty, sky, water, cold, technology, and depression.

According to Henry Dreyfus, indigo blue, ai, mirrors the color of the vast ocean surrounding the Japanese islands. This shade of blue is very commonly seen in Japanese art and clothing.

Raphael -
* Red is the color of fire and blood, so it is associated with energy, war, danger, strength, power, determination as well as passion, desire, and love.

* Red can symbolize many things; from blood, to love, to infatuation. Basically red symbolizes strong emotions, or things of strong emotions rather than intellectual ideas. For example, red can symbolize excitement, energy, speed, strength, danger, passion, and aggression.
According to Henry Dreyfus, it is popularly felt that red, the color of blood and fire, represents life and vitality. Red also signifies the color of the sun: a symbol of energy, radiating its vitalizing life-force into human beings. Red is also looked upon as a sensual color, and can be associated with man's most profound urges and impulses. Ironically, red cats symbolize bad luck.

Michelangelo -

* Orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow. It is associated with joy, sunshine, and the tropics. Orange represents enthusiasm, fascination, happiness, creativity, determination, attraction, success, encouragement, and stimulation.

* Orange can represent energy, balance, warmth, enthusiasm, flamboyant, and demanding of attention.

Donatello -

* Purple combines the stability of blue and the energy of red. Purple is associated with royalty. It symbolizes power, nobility, luxury, and ambition. It conveys wealth and extravagance. Purple is associated with wisdom, dignity, independence, creativity, mystery, and magic.

* Purple can represent royalty, spirituality, nobility, ceremony, mysterious, wisdom, enlightenment, cruelty, arrogance, and mourning.

[Karpo_007]

Those actually fit the chracters pretty well.

[heretic888]

I prefer the all-red look. Gives the characters less a feeling of "Power Ranger"-ism and it also just flat-out looks cooler.

[Lisardo]

Well remember the Power Rangers came after TMNT and stole ideas from them, prolly including colors.

Yeah those do match their personalities quite well.

Yeah I guess I should have had an 'either' poll option, but at the time I didn't think of that. Oh well, you can always say what your opinion is too.

[heretic888]

Well remember the Power Rangers came after TMNT and stole ideas from them, prolly including colors.

No, they didn't.

Yeah, the Power Rangers came later IN AMERICA... but characters and ideas like that have been in Japan for decades.

[jeff the cheff]

I usually like stuff from the old cartoon better, but the read masks look a lot cooler in my opinion.

[Silver Turtle]

I personally like the multi-colored bandanas. The red ones just seem odd to me. And those colors fir the personalities well.

[Mondo J. Gecko]

I'm a Fan of both, While the Colored ones do help show there individuality, the Red ones made it so that the turtles could show there individuality by they way they acted.......

[Splinter]

Originally Posted by Mondo J. Gecko

I'm a Fan of both, While the Colored ones do help show there individuality, the Red ones made it so that the turtles could show there individuality by they way they acted.......

But they really didn't have all that much of an individual personality, in the way they acted. Not in my opinion anyway, in the early mirage stuff. And heck, going by Volume IV, the Utroms tattoo'd them, so they could tell them apart when they didn't have their signature weapons with them.

[Jephael]

I love the multi-colored masks just because it allows artists for the shows to utalize all 3 primary colors as well as all 3 secondary colors.

[heretic888]

But they really didn't have all that much of an individual personality, in the way they acted. Not in my opinion anyway, in the early mirage stuff.

They had far more individual personality in the early Mirage books than most of the old cartoon series (the new series, based on the Mirage books, seems to try and differentiate them a bit more).

In the Mirage comic, you could always see them doing their individual "hobbies", such as with Don tinkering, Leo reading popular fiction, and Mike and Raph sparring. In the cartoons, they were almost always doing the same things, such as eating pizza, watching movies, playing video games, etc etc. The time the original TMNT spent at the farmhouse (which the new series bumped over erroneously) also really highlighted the differences between them.

Just my opinion, of course.

[raphael90]

Personally, I prefer the colored bandana style...I'm not sure I would have liked red bandanas for all four on the cartoon.

[RedFreak]

Since I grew up with the colored bandana's, I was shocked when I first saw the all red one's. I thought "Oh no! They've cloned Raph 3 times!" Then I realized that they all had the same color. I like the colors more, especially for the cartoon/movies. Gives the cartoon a more colorful look too.

[Keroscene]

It's irrelevant in the black and white books anyway, but the coloured bandanas do make it a lot easier to tell what's going on. Actually, for me, the Mirage books started out not really emphasising any character differences at all, so it didn't really matter who was saying what. But then you want to mass-market something, so individual personalities have to be emphasised...it's a lot easier to sell that way.

Have to wonder what kind of teenage boy would opt for purple or orange though...and how long they fought over who gets to have red.

[Splinter]

Originally Posted by Keroscene

Have to wonder what kind of teenage boy would opt for purple or orange though...and how long they fought over who gets to have red.

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that Splinter probably assigned their colors. Especially if he followed color meanings, and based them off their personalities. It makes sense to me anyway.

[Leo_Ninjitsu]

Well the Red Bandanas were pretty sweet.
I didn't have trouble telling them apaart since you could just look at thier weapons.But I prefer the different colors.since they fit the characters well.

[Kali]

Originally Posted by Vintage Splinter

I'm going to go out on a limb, and say that Splinter probably assigned their colors. Especially if he followed color meanings, and based them off their personalities. It makes sense to me anyway.

I figured something like that. Except in my little fic, I don't think he put any previous thought into their colors or names.