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DONNIE & RAPH Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) | dir. Jeff Rowe, Kyle Spears
TMNT Ask Game:
Feel free to reblog!
What's your favorite iteration/version?
When were you first introduced and what was your first reaction/thoughts on the franchise?
How long have you been in the fandom?
Favorite non-turtle character?
Coolest mutant/alien design in your opinion?
An unpopular opinion of yours?
Do you read/write fan fiction? What was your favorite?
Do you make art or follow artists? What's your favorite art trend?
How much of the franchise have you seen/read?
Who's your favorite turtle? What's your favorite version of them?
What is one head canon you believe so strongly, you sometimes forget it's technically not canon?
Do you have an OC?
What's your favorite part of the fandom community?
Have you made any fandom friends through tmnt?
If you got mutated, what animal would you be mutated into? Which one would you want to be mutated into?
Who's your favorite villain?
the 90s movie is why Raph became my favorite character actually lol I still feel like bees such an underrated character especially now and days. I know you love him but if i remember correctly you weren’t a fan of his accent? I felt that was part of his charm especially in 03
His accent's just fine~! It's pretty charming, I agree; what occasionally grates is how not-teenager Raph sounds in some iterations. I mean none of them are voiced by teens, but he's like a 40 year old chainsmoker in 2003 😅 But I absolutely love his voice in 2012. Sean Astin needs to voice him forever, just sayin'.
oh well that tracks I can I see why that’s grating. I admit it took me a while to get used to Sean astin’s voice because I kept hearing Sam lol! I like nolen north to. I am glad it didn’t affect your enjoyment of the character I love 03 Raph lol
Oh Nolan North is also perfect. It's mainly 03's chainsmoker and the OG movie's...I don't know how to describe it other than it sounded too over the top? IDK. But no, they didn't ruin my enjoyment! I just kinda sat there blinking for a second going "ooookay" and then adjusted, lmao.
fair enough! I am glad I didn’t come off hostile asking lol
the 90s movie is why Raph became my favorite character actually lol I still feel like bees such an underrated character especially now and days. I know you love him but if i remember correctly you weren’t a fan of his accent? I felt that was part of his charm especially in 03
His accent's just fine~! It's pretty charming, I agree; what occasionally grates is how not-teenager Raph sounds in some iterations. I mean none of them are voiced by teens, but he's like a 40 year old chainsmoker in 2003 😅 But I absolutely love his voice in 2012. Sean Astin needs to voice him forever, just sayin'.
oh well that tracks I can I see why that’s grating. I admit it took me a while to get used to Sean astin’s voice because I kept hearing Sam lol! I like nolen north to. I am glad it didn’t affect your enjoyment of the character I love 03 Raph lol
what’s your opinion on the 1990s movie trilogy fir TMNT I mean?
Weeeeeell I was 15 when the first movie hit the cinemas and I went to see it there seven times--once two sessions one after the other--so that should tell you how much I enjoyed it! I never really liked the idea of it being live action because I didn't think they could pull it off, but when I went to see them on the big screen it worked just fine. My only incredibly superficial gripe was that they had Raph be the one beaten up by Foot and thrown through a window, and that's purely because I was heavily into the Mirage comics and that whole fight of Leo's across the city and the way it ended was an iconic experience for me, so I was disappoint they switched Raph in because he was more popular, ROFL. (And by disappoint I mean I had a moment of "aw. well, anyway.") They did well to bring some of the OG darkness to a kids movie and have it appeal to multiple levels of the audience, their Casey Jones was fantastic, their April was stellar, and I listened to that soundtrack on repeat for months.
Then Secret of the Ooze came out and I went to see it expecting more of the same, and... ngl my first reaction was kind of:
It was dumbed down, they weren't allowed to use weapons anymore, everything got slapstick, April got replaced, Casey got vanished, Donnie's voice actor had changed... but we call that Breaking Expectations. They'd been forced to make the movie a lot more slanted at kids and I was no longer really a kid at that point. I went to see it again with an adjusted bar and enjoyed it a lot more. They were still ninja turtles. I love me some ninja turtles. I saw that one four times at the cinema.
I liked the third one better than the second even with the obvious budget cuts and some laughable effects, and shout out to that one guy trying to date me at the time who decided to surprise me by meeting me outside the cinema as I left one screening-- and then goodnaturedly agreed to turn right around and go back in and watch the next one with me. (Guy was been down bad, okay, I took advantage.) Saw it three times.
So yeah, it's safe to say the trilogy was a welcome part of my whole coming of age thing. How they stack up now? I will happily watch the 1990 movie at any point, any time, and I owned it on VHS and still do somewhere in the house, though I no longer have anything to watch that VHS on. But the movie is very available in other formats and I'll watch it again every couple years! It is probably my most watched movie in history. By the time I hit 18 I'd watched that movie 27 times, and I've watched it a whole lot more since then. I can quote it back to front.
The other two?
Nah. They're too young, and I appreciate that they exist and I don't think they're bad movies, and they've got some great scenes. But they're not really for me and they never were. I probably will sit down and watch them again at some point in the future just for kicks, but they're probably a once every decade kind of thing at best.
Heavily quotable, though. And I'd still take the original trilogy in its entirety over... whatever it was Bay was trying to do.
Thanks for the question! <3
yeah the parents complained it was too dark which is why the sequels turned into that we try to pretend there’s only one movie.
Go ahead, Reblog fandom. REBLOG!!!!
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The most unique snowflake! Donny Boy => HERE
Love this guy!
These two would find each other absolutely hilarious
Why yes this is my second post about these two in a crossover setting anyway I’m normal 🫠
When I was eight years old, I stumbled onto a show that instantly wrapped itself around my heart. It wasn’t just something I watched after school or a bit of background noise while I drew or played—it was a world I slipped into like a second home. TMNT 2012 became a constant in my life, a place where the characters felt almost real, where the adventures lit up my imagination, and where I grew up right alongside them.
Years passed, and by the time I was nineteen, it felt like I’d lived an entire lifetime with that series. It had carried me through childhood, into my teens, and all the messy corners in between. I celebrated its highs, defended it in every argument, and built friendships around our shared love for it. For a long, long while, it felt safe.
But as I grew older, I also started noticing the cracks—not in the show itself, but in the community surrounding it. What had once felt warm and welcoming slowly twisted into something exhausting. The constant arguments, the hostility, the way people tore into April as a character, and the never-ending shipping wars… it all became heavier than the joy the show used to bring me.
Eventually, the toxicity drowned out the nostalgia. I found myself stepping back, then stepping away completely. Leaving the TMNT 2012 community felt like ending a long relationship—painful, confusing, but necessary. I still carry the fond memories of the show that shaped part of my childhood, but I had to walk away from the part that had stopped feeling like home.
Even now, I look back sometimes—not with regret, but with a quiet sort of gratitude. I loved it when I was eight. I honored it when I was nineteen. And I let go when it was time.
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Your reblog shatters my heart. I’m so sorry your own people ostracized you from what you most loved
As a closeted gay growing up in a hateful community, I too latched onto 2012. The way the turtles received hate and violence over something they had no control over… their appearance, or their being caught in a bitter love feud… I felt it on a spiritual level. They hid themselves from a hostile world, and when I never felt safe coming out to anyone in my life, I hid right alongside them. Watching them grapple, share my struggles to hide and just exist in peace was my lifeline. They were the only four I felt truly safe with for multiple years of my life
So it’s tragic we lost someone who grew up right alongside them, who gets the turtles and sees them for everything they are
TMNT fans: please, please be nice to each other here. We are a fandom bonded over characters rejected from society, and bullying/rejecting fans who share that bond flies directly against that. Remember, especially with Tales being recently cancelled, the more people we lose, the more this franchise falls away
We are all turtles here - we have all been rejected before. Lets make this place a beautiful place of acceptance - like we’ve made our own hearts for our fabulous four 💙❤️💜🧡💚
sorry to hijack this post but happened to me recently. I have severe issues that causes me to struggle with letting Things go because of that I lost friends because I wasn’t positive 24/7. I had friends block me because I told them they hurt my feelings I been banned from the only safe place on discord. It’s making me want to leave the TMNT fandom because of what my so called friends did to me.
We all know Leo and his “lack of self-preservation skills,” but there is also Raph, with his “tough it out and maybe it’ll resolve itself” attitude, who needs constant monitoring.
rb with your most common recurring theme in your nightmares. mine is pregnancy
being abandoned and left to die alone
Re-watching "The Big Brawl" and I did not remember this scene. Now I am damn near sobbing from laughing so hard. I love Raph so much. 🤣
"i'm not triggered or upset by or even ideologically opposed to it, i just associate it with something so bad that i can't enjoy it anymore" is such a frustrating relationship to have with a piece of media
it’s covered in the fucking ooze!!
A drive through the city.
Name Reources
So, you’re writing a thing, and you need to name a character. And, as we all know, naming a character is a giant pain in the ass. I offer this list of shit I use pretty regularly, for this purpose.
Behind the Name (The etymologies are weird as fuck, in a few places, but it’s great if you’ve got a name and need to find other names that are from or derived from the same culture/language)
Behind the Surname (BTN for family names)
Academy of Saint Gabriel Medieval Names Archive (This is the go-to for medieval names in Europe and the Near East. Hardcore scholarship and a distinct lack of fucking around.)
Kate Monk’s Onomastikon (The original internet name resource.)
The Soldier in Later Medieval England (Actual names from English military rolls around the Battle of Agincourt)
England’s Immigrants (Non-native residents of England, 1330-1550)
Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain
Mapping the Medieval Countryside - People (People appearing in English inquisitions post mortem, 1418-1447)
Wiktionary’s Index of Biblical Names
Ancient Names Galleria (The weird shit is here. If you need Akkadian or Phoenecian names, those are totally covered.)
Trismegistos People (Names extracted from the Trismegistos Texts – mostly names from Graeco-Roman Egypt.)
Personally, I use the shit out of Trismegistos People, England’s Immigrants, and the Ancient Names Galleria. If you’ve got good sources I didn’t hit, feel free to add them in a reblog. I’m always looking for more good name resources. (And almost all of what I have is Europe and the Near East, with a little North Africa.)
Dropping this update in the most recent reblog in my notes, in the hopes it falls into as many laps as possible. Here’s some more good sources for names, this time with a more African focus.
Wikipedia Category: Surnames of African Origin (which is helpfully divided into sections by language)
Wikipedia Category: Amharic Language Names (I believe this list is primarily, if not entirely, given names.)
YorubaName (“an online intervention to preserve and document all Yorùbá names in a multimedia format.”)
Writing Adolescent Fiction: Character names: Kenyan, Tanzanian and Ugandan (a list of given names and surnames with notes on how full names are constructed in each culture listed)
Again, if you know any good sources, particularly for regions I haven’t covered, let me know!
Rebageling with some more good shit:
So You Want to Name a Sino (a fairly detailed guide on how to name a Chinese character without sounding like too much of a moron)
Most Popular Baby Names for Girls Since 1960 (most popular American girls’ names, by state, from 1960-2012, as a gif)
Popular Baby Names (the US Social Security database of naming trends in the US, with search options for date, gender, location, and trend)
A Guide to Names and Naming Practises (a UK government guide to common names and structure of names from around the world, split first by continent and then by culture. PDF.)
Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (an entire book on trends in English naming and name structure and the Puritan influence, from 1880. PDF.)
Things I am particularly looking for reliable sources for, if you’ve got them: North and South American aboriginal names, Southeast and East Asian names, names from the former USSR, Australian aboriginal names. (All of these by culture or language family, if possible, not just by current national borders.)
TMNT03′s defining moment that immediately made me fall in love with it
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Raph would become the nightwatcher Donnie would isolate himself Mikey would keep up morale and eventually snap and become the shredder just kidding