#tmnt rant

[dylniz]

I will never not be upset at how badly the writers fumbled 2012 April 😭 cool design, cool concept and they still were completely incapable of writing a teenage girl.

They just missed so many opportunities to make her more of her own character. In season 1, April does a bunch of investigation and even undercover work for the turtles, hinting at her usual journalist characterisation, only for the later seasons to just…like completely ignore it??? They gave her no hobbies, no personal interests which is such a shame considering she was a teen girl in the early 2010s meaning the possibilities are ENDLESS.

In my heart she’s a hunger games tumblr book nerd with a secret 1D obsession. Also into journalism and even writing stories.

I don’t even wanna address the love triangle lol that’s a mess on its own 😭 What makes me sad is that we see over and over again how Donnie and April CAN WORK and CAN have their moments…but then for every step forward the writers took with them they took 10 steps back, with their dynamic being the exact same the next ep. tysm to @nerdy-turtle-enthusiast for their fixing apriltello works that I absolutely love

anyways short rant while I work on chapter 4 of mutant reign 😛

[tmntforeverinmyheart]

HEY HEY TMNT FANDOM!! GET YOUR FUCKING SHIT TOGETHER AND ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT THE MM / TOTTMNT BOYS AND GIVE THEM SOME LOVE!!

God this fandom has such a problem with favoritism it’s insane.

Give these boys some love DAMMNIT!!

The movie is fucking amazing and beautifully animated!

The show is fucking amazing, beautifully animated and has the most realistic teenage dialogue I’ve heard out of any TMNT.

Like seriously the chemistry the actors have together has taken TOTTMNT to a whole new level of fun and dynamic character interactions that is rarely seen. Not only do they feel like siblings but they feel like friends.

They are fleshed out and have had their own story arcs. The show is funny and has a balance of goofy and angsty. The boys have a healthy, emotional dynamic with eachother, while also having their individual flaws. The stories are so unique and the way the show flows is very well done.

And now it’s canceled, just like ROTTMNT. Mutant mayhem had an incredibly beautiful animated show with only 2 seasons that had so much story left to show.

So.. where’s the love, where’s the petitions, where’s the outrage, where’s the anger and determination.

You say rise got forgotten, there are less than 500 fics on AO3 for Tottmnt. Excluding t-cest, there’s more like 200.

WAKE THE FUCK UP AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR THIS INCREDIBLE SHOW.

You say you care so much about canceled Tmnt and bringing it back, but do nothing for TOTTMNT.

I’m sorry about ROTTMNT, I truly am. But it’s been 3 years, letting go is sometimes kinder than false hope.

You want to fight for something that has a better chance, fight for TOTTMNT. A recent cancellation, still fresh, still raw. This is what needs to be fought for, if this Tmnt lives on then the world expands, characters are brought back, another crossover movie could happen.

TOTTMNT STILL HAS A STORY TO TELL!

These boys barely got their time, they deserve better. They deserve what RISE never got, a second chance.

This is a cycle that the tmnt fandom has fallen into.

Old iteration canceled - new iteration begins - hate, pain and anger, - new iteration cancelled

Like how Tmnt has slowly been changing Leo and raphs argumentative relationship throughout the iterations,

We can change this generational divide in this fandom.

EVERY TMNT DESERVES A CHANCE!!!

SAVE TOTTMNT

DONT LET THEM CANCEL ANOTHER TMNT SHOW!!

[jupiter-raven]

TMNT 2003 Is the Best Version

I don't care if people don't agree, it's my opinion, but as a huge fan who has watched (almost) every single iteration of these no longer teens, teenage adventures! Saturday mornings I would watch the original 1987 series on teletoon retro, then switch to whichever channel was showing the 2003 version.

In my opinion, the 2003 TMNT series had a lot of cool concepts and really focused on each of the brothers individual growth. I'm not usually a fan of Leo (I like him but not as much as other characters) but I liked Leo this series. The fact each turtle had a different mode of transportation was also a cool detail. Mikey used a skateboard, classic, while Raph- rollerblades, which fits him well because of his sais, he has to get up close and personal to fight which can be done easier on blades over a skateboard. Donnie used a bicycle, which again, fits him. A bike is timeless, dependable, and one of the easier things to use which lets Don focus on his inventions. Finally, Leo has a scooter. I don't have much to say about that since it seems more like a "what other thing can we give him?" And I personally can't think of anything either.

I also loved the fact that each turtle was a different shade of green, and how they found a way for shredder to keep coming back as a threat was cool too, on top of the fact that Shredder was more organized crime than ninja rival since he had the purple dragons under his thumb and hired Baxtor Stockman.

It was definitely darker than the original cartoon, (not the comics) but done in a way that was still appropriate for kids at the time. To this day I'll still randomly sit down and watch the series start to finish. Unfortunately, it makes some of the newer version seem less appealing. Like the 2012 version. I liked the first season and some of the second, but it felt like it was trying to use what the 2003 one did to be successful instead of coming up with new ideas after season two. The character designs were cool for some of the new mutants but it just wasn't right for me.

The Rise of (2019 version) cartoon was fun and explored different dynamics. It wasn't meant to be taken as seriously since I compared it to Teen Titans go, so it doesn't feel fair to compare that one.

Mutant Mayhem (2023 movie) reminded me of what I enjoyed about the 2003 (some things definitely bugged me but it was still a good movie!). This is because it took a different approach that was still possible within the universe and explored new dynamics again.

Another thing that came from the 2003 version was the 2007 movie, at least, it feels like it was heavily inspired by the dynamics and story within it while also acting as a continuation for the original live action movies (1990s) it also ended up with a Game Cube version of the game (my brother and I played it so much we could get through it without ever being hit by an enemy!) and if the 2007 doesn't count to some, I don't think we can forget about the Turtles Forever Movie. As someone who watched and liked the 1987 turtles, they definitely didn't do them justice in my opinion, but they were fun and added a funny dynamic between how people view cartoons from the 80s and cartoons from the 2000s.

I probably have more to say, but that's all I have for now! I will definitely be posting more TMNT content because they have been my favourites since I was little and still are to this day!

OH! HOW COULD I POST THIS AN NOT MENTION THE PUNS!!!

Everything had something related to turtles and it was amazing. Shell Cell, Battle shell, shell cycle, so on and so forth.

[clover-j-aspen]

just got past the space arc in tmnt 2012

THIS TIMELINE IS SO SCREWED??

THERE ARE TWO PAIRS OF THE MAIN 6

THE PAST PAIR IS IN SPACE

THE FUTURE PAIR IS ON EARTH

THERE ARE TWO HONEYCUTTS

THEY JUST GLOSSED OVER THE MOST INSANE PLOTHOLE IN EXISTENCE

WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THIS SHIT BRO

IM GOING TO EXPLODE WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HECK BRO

WHERE WOULD THOSE OTHER VERSIONS GO???

WHAT IN THE WAHT BRO.

This feels extremely half-assed bro

genuinely so freaking lazy ngl

my brain cannot wrap itself around ts im actually gonna explode

this goes against so much logic im gonna cry

[vi0l3ty]

Honestly why does every iteration of Leo from TMNT have horrible love interest? Like they cannot give him a love interest that makes sense. I know ppl in the TMNT 2003 fandom ship him with Usagi but I felt so gross looking at that ship. Everything in the Usagi comics and in the TMNT shows makes him feel so much older than the boys in my mind. I can’t like that ship. 😭

And don’t get me started on Leo X Koya. Leo can only handle so much of Raph and his attitude what makes you think he would like to be with someone as rough and temperamental as Koya. Who, realistically, is much more angrier and violent than Raph!

Really the only one I kinda see is April and Leo from Mutant Mayhem but even then that’s a BIG maybe. Because realistically Leo only has a puppy crush and it’s so surface level. Anyways. Unserious rant outtt.

[nat-atulie]

WE HAVE BEEN ROBBED tmnt 2012 rant

so you know how season 5 is mid af and should not exist?? like they had no ideas at all- and the mutant apocalypse au pisses me off bc tf you mean they can grow hair? tf you mean they look like that- ATHEY DID LEO DIRTY-

MEENWHILE, WE COULD HAVE HAD BETTER THINGS, MAYBE NOT LORE STRUCTURED BUT FAN SERVICE-Y (and ik the main demographic was yung boys but idc)

Musical episode

i would have loved to see an episode where they all sing, ik the songs would be mid if they hired the wrong ppl, but come on- HAVE YOU HEARD ROBB'S VOCALS?? they should have pulled a musical in swellview thing on gawd- like it could have been one of baxters failed voice changers or enhancers, so they gotta find it and deeactivate it-

HUMAN TURTLES

... ok this would have caused controvercy BUT COME ON- we only got that once canonicaly and i refuse to think abt those shorts-

LIKE WHAT THE FUCK IS DIIISSS- THEY DID DONN ESSPECIALY DIRTY- LIKE-

in the 2012 version, they could have used splinters features when he was human and just soften them, maybe even skintone dyversity, and i know it would cause hate and stuff, but come onn, dont you agree?... i gotta design some of my own one of these days-

Fully filler ep

not just a pointless adventure that dont do shit to the lore like with usagi or sum- im talking like- we get to see what the turtles' day to day life is like, what they do when they arent on missions, how they coped, greived and lived after the canon was over and they had nothing to do- we kinda had that in the beebop and rocksteady special- but it was short lived-

so yuh, thats a few things they could have done- i would have personaly made that... wish i coule just make it myself-... any way, if you have any ideas, repost this and say what you think lol-

[verymundanetoday]

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TANG SHEN!!! :3

just doodled her as the normal album,

Charlie's inferno/the normal album/as it was/Hamilton/you are who you hang out with/city of angels

I'm gonna start talking about each of the characters here :p

so, in past iterations tang shen has had a romantic relationship with shredder, however in my iteration I made them siblings!!

in the art above she's meant to be about college aged, about freshman in collage. tang shen is bright, loving, curious, etc. but under her optimism she's afraid. she doesn't understand the same stuff her older brother, saki/shredder, does. saki is more brilliant than her and rocksteady is "less" brilliant than her, so she's just in-between, unsure what she's supposed to do in life, so she tries to follow in saki's footsteps.

rocksteady and bebop are saki and tang shen's half brothers btw.

bebop and tang shen have a special respect for each other, they're close, they're both just kinda in-between, not particularly smart or incredible, but not entirely disappointing or dumb. neither of them knew what they were supposed to do in life, as they weren't remarkable in any way, they weren't astounding scientists like saki, nor creative and impulsive visionaries like rocksteady.

but they both chose their path anyways, choosing to just follow their family, not knowing nor able to do anything else, not that either of them had much success in their siblings' respected fields.

they lived and died seeing themselves as "nothing remarkable"

:)

I do want to explore tang shen's character more and her relationships with her family, so I might talk more about her in the future. I love her and bebops relationship so expect more of that!

[my-name-is-bunnyfoxy]

Okay this is something I just now realized but why the hell did 2012 try to compare Leo and Raph's relationship to that of Shredder and Splinter to begin with??

I ask this because if I'm not mistaken, Splinter and Shredder's beef was because both wanted to be inside of a woman and that led to the most petty ass fight imaginable. Meanwhile the only time Raph and Leo ever fought over a girl was Raph telling Leo to fuck off from Karai, not because he was simping for her but because he genuinely didn't trust her and believed she was a horrible person. And Leo never also told Raph that him being attracted to Mona was weird because he wanted her but because he just found it weird.

What I'm getting at is, both rivalries are completely different and are barely alike. I feel like the only reason they are compared is due to Shredder and Raph having the same temper and jealousy towards Splinter and Leo. But still man those jealousies and anger are completely different. 😭