Is any one Ninja Turtle really "older" than another?

*Andrew NDB* · 02-03-2009, 11:12 PM

This only seems to be the case in the spinoff universes like the cartoons and such (in the Mirage/Palladium RPG sourcebooks they are all the same age), but even in those it's pretty puzzling.

OK, four baby turtles are in a bowl, bowl falls into sewer and the four turtles are exposed to an ooze and mutate into the TMNT, right? How the f*** do any of them, even Splinter, determine which turtle is older than another turtle?

Assuming, for the sake of argument, by some freak coincidence there were two pregnant red-earred sliders (the TMNT's mommas) in the pet shop that laid their eggs at similar -- but different, by a couple weeks -- points in time... still, how would Splinter or the Turtles have any idea when they hatched and in what order?

And it's kind of irrelevant. Red-earred slider eggs are laid in sets of many. There may be some variance of hours or a day, tops, in what order they hatch in... but one is certainly not "older" than another.

02-03-2009, 11:12 PM	#1
Andrew NDB Weed Whacker Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Auburn, WA Posts: 34,543	Is any one Ninja Turtle really "older" than another? This only seems to be the case in the spinoff universes like the cartoons and such (in the Mirage/Palladium RPG sourcebooks they are all the same age), but even in those it's pretty puzzling. OK, four baby turtles are in a bowl, bowl falls into sewer and the four turtles are exposed to an ooze and mutate into the TMNT, right? How the f*** do any of them, even Splinter, determine which turtle is older than another turtle? Assuming, for the sake of argument, by some freak coincidence there were two pregnant red-earred sliders (the TMNT's mommas) in the pet shop that laid their eggs at similar -- but different, by a couple weeks -- points in time... still, how would Splinter or the Turtles have any idea when they hatched and in what order? And it's kind of irrelevant. Red-earred slider eggs are laid in sets of many. There may be some variance of hours or a day, tops, in what order they hatch in... but one is certainly not "older" than another.