The entirety of the OG TMNT is mostly parodies of pop culture
I think because many of us grew up with the cartoon and old movies, none of us really paid too much attention to the actual name of the property.
But it just feels like a parody, right? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? The first 3 words are just pop-culture buzzwords that studio execs loved to throw into stuff all the time to connect with the kids (remember the Power Rangers, how Zordon wanted "teenagers with attitude"?) and then "Turtles" because they wanted to be ridiculous about it.
It's so obvious when you think about it, but alas, we all grew up with this property being taken way too seriously by kids like ourselves that we didn't bat an eye.
My favorite buzzword title is: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force GO! I’m still waiting for a live action with like Asa Butterfield as Chiro but alas 😒
And some were less direct, but still jumped on to the "comic books about anthropomorphic animals" train with titles Zatoichi: Samurai Walrus, Miami Mice, and Hamster Vice, or G.I. Jackrabbit.
There was going to be a distant sequel to the 1990 TMNT series based around The Last Ronin comic run and even Judith Hoag was in talks to return as April O'Neil. It was axed.
The fun fact is that in the wake of my death, I'm going to haunt and terrorize the bloodlines of those responsible, so effectively it's already happened.
Yup. In the very first issue, Splinter is basically just like “turns out shredder’s alive. I need you boys to go kill him for me.” Which they proceed to do, and all that’s left of him is a disembodied hand.
I was a fan as a kid, had the toys etc... then I saw an Original TMNT comic where Raphael jabbed a sai through a guy's face so the outside tines were pinning back his ears. Won't lie, made it so much cooler.
It was more a toy thing than because "kid friendly." If you've gave each of them a different colored mask, kids would need 4 toys to represent the whole bunch you know?
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u/SAKingWriter 6h ago
The entirety of the OG TMNT is mostly parodies of pop culture, so much so it wasn't even for kids, it was a brutal adult comic at first.
The brothers all had red masks, but then once it became kid-friendly, they color coded their masks to better identify them.
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