Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

I don’t know why everyone was surprised they’re black. Rise and the Bayverse TMNT implied it as well.

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Literally a hologram and not real
    Weak bait

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Strong enough for this site.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is literally the first time Ive seen anybody try to start shit over this.

        I do kind of like how Raph is always the big guy now.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >This is literally the first time Ive seen anybody try to start shit over this.
          https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/137074359/
          https://desuarchive.org/co/thread/137138516/
          Just two of the threads at random. There were a lot of them because the page trended on reddit or twitter or something.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I love how everyone just ignores the fact this came from a Power Rangers crossover

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Is the powerbunga suppose to have a double meaning for black power?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                It's a combination of Power Rangers and Cowabaunga you nimrod

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I know that, but it can easily be a BLM, Black Power Thing

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The world would be a better place without your crazy ass in it.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Context gets in the way of the race bait.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I do kind of like how Raph is always the big guy now.
          For (You)

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They've never had a set race
    >Fred Wolf Mikey got turned human and was white
    >IDW made them reincarnations of Japanese teens
    >A Nick Summer Short had them as white
    If you're offended by them using hologram disguises and look black you're pathetic but you're also pathetic if you insist THIS is the only definitive design for human TMNT

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The bottom line is this, the turtles could be any race of humans BUT if you want to be profitable and successful make them white. Anything else you deserve your money lost, bankruptcy, and failure. And while we're at it death to IDW TMNT and death to Tom Waltz and troony Campbell. Of course death to israeli Shit Seth Rogen.

      This franchise has become a real shit show.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        How do ya feel about the Stranger Things crossover and rumored Cobra Kai crossover

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        seven ninja mutant turtles what the frick

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          The yellow one is a dreadfully poor OC and the Mystic is one people hoped would go the frick away, again.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I'm not really offended or angry but the implications is this was how they see themselves inside and I just politely disagree with that. They were raised Japanese in a Japanese home they should see themselves as Japanese. Can't we politely disagree with things anymore?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >They were raised Japanese in a Japanese home they should see themselves as Japanese.
        Most iterations have the TMNT more like second gen teenagers. They live in New York, so they listen to stuff like urban music, chow down on pizza. Even 80s turtles hated Sushi

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Even 80s turtles hated Sushi
          The ol' "RAW FISH!?" gag.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >80's turtles hated sushi
          >me putting anchovies on my marshmallow and seafood pizza

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is fair

        The bottom line is this, the turtles could be any race of humans BUT if you want to be profitable and successful make them white. Anything else you deserve your money lost, bankruptcy, and failure. And while we're at it death to IDW TMNT and death to Tom Waltz and troony Campbell. Of course death to israeli Shit Seth Rogen.

        This franchise has become a real shit show.

        You're a malding loser

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Sure, that makes perfect sense. i just think it also makes sense for them to picture themselves as black, given that they were born and raised in america and were raised by a rat - they have no japanese physical features to latch onto .

        I think it would actually be kind of funny for them to get turned into their ideal human and realize they're all different races,but as their brothers they're forced to argue with each other as to which race works best. It could never happen, but it would be a funny examination of the ways different cultures have inspired and influenced both america and the TMNT.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >leo insists they should be japanese to honor splinter's heritage
          >raph thinks being black makes more sense considering the demographics of new york. plus he likes rap
          >donny just thinks being white works best. not racis' or nuffin just that he associates with white culture
          >mikey, having recently gotten into mexican soap operas, has decided to become a beaner.
          would be hilarious.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Mikey trying to have his cake and eat it too by begging Raph for an N word pass.

            >Mikey doesn’t get it but Casey does

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              What's up my Goongigga?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        blacks are huge weaboos so it makes sense that the turtles look like your average dbz fan

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Even when they're black and human, they're committing the sin of Big Ralph and Little Mike. Why won't it stop?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Palette swap turtles good

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        More like it's just not that big of a deal for them to be the same height. Pretty easy to mix it up without having Mikey be a little kid.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think people just don’t like the idea of their body types being uniform since their lifestyles aren’t uniform.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            That's a good point I hadn't considered. I just don't think them varying in size, shape, or clothing really adds anything. Subtle stuff like Donnie having goggles on his forehead constantly or Mikey having a chipped tooth is good, but the hand bandages and pants are too much

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I misread this post and thought you said they like the uniform body types contrasting the non uniform personalities

            That's a good point I hadn't considered. I just don't think them varying in size, shape, or clothing really adds anything. Subtle stuff like Donnie having goggles on his forehead constantly or Mikey having a chipped tooth is good, but the hand bandages and pants are too much

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I see. Anyways I jud can’t buy Donny and Mikey being as good shape as Leo or Raph. Leo’s the most devoted to being a ninja so he won’t have the same body as Mikey who focuses more on pizza, skateboarding or video games. I can see the argument of it not mattering, but a person’s body represents themselves ya know? I say 2012 did it best in how it’s not too much . Though I did find Rise interesting for making them different types of turtles

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah not a bad point about the working out with the different personalities. I always just assumed that at the end of day all the turtles are taken their training very seriously.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Varies from incarnation but generally they’re never physically all on the same level

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                They aren't, but Mikey and Donny still kick ass routinely. I picture Leo and raph having more technical skills from training, but them all generally being the same size from their active lifestyle

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The general problem with trying to make them too different is that they aren't an assembled team who came together from different backgrounds. They are 4 brothers who were raised and trained together under the same master, under the same conditions. They should all be at about the same level of skill and power to start with. Donnie didn't train less than Leo and Raph, so he shouldn't be a twiggy nerd who needs glasses just because he "does machines" in his free time. Likewise for Mikey. They all eat pizza and play video games, so Mikey shouldn't be a weak shrimp who is somehow less capable.

                Raph can be bigger because he does the most extra strength training. Donnie has more gadgets and tools than the other 3. Leo is more focused and strategic because he spends time between training meditating and studying. Mikey can be the wild card because he spends his free time doing all kinds of stuff. It's that simple.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >The general problem with trying to make them too different is that they aren't an assembled team who came together from different backgrounds. They are 4 brothers who were raised and trained together under the same master, under the same conditions. They should all be at about the same level of skill and power to start with.
                Disagree, because that treats them like video games characters rather than individuals. Two students under the same master aren’t always gonna have the same physiques. Most incarnations have some of the turtles doing the bare minimum and others like Leo pushing themselves further. Even tracing back to the Mirage comic and Fred Wolf cartoon, they were never all on the same level. I picture all of them as martial artists’ builds but obviously deviation would happen.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You've missed the point entirely. Superhuman giant turtles who trained their entire lives are all going to be roughly on the same level to start, but that wouldn't result in half of them being significantly and noticeably weaker than their brothers just because the other half trains more seriously. Raph and Leo can be stronger, but Donnie and Mikey shouldn't be scrawny weaklings.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Superhuman is a stretch. They’re meant to be just anthromirphic turtles, and that means they can have different builds like regular martial artists. And yes, the people who don’t train as hard aren’t gonna have as much physical fitness as the ones who do. It’d be weirder if Mikey did match Leo, it would make Leo’s efforts pointless if he could do the bare minimum like Mikey and get the same results.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Superhuman is a stretch.
                Okay, so you're admitting you know jack shit about the TMNT. Stop posting.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I’m talking intention. You can have scenes like from 2012 where they get hurt with an RPG once or 2003 where they lift a giant rock together or Bayverse. But the TMNT have always been intended to be characters who can die to stuff like bullets or knives, not superhuman just mutants which is why they don’t instantly outmuscle every human they meet physically and have to rely on skills. They’re sort of in between DC street level and Marvel street level

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >But the TMNT have always been intended to be characters who can die to stuff like bullets or knives, not superhuman just mutants which is why they don’t instantly outmuscle every human they meet physically and have to rely on skills
                None of that is true, you know.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Humans like Karai have consistently proven to be on or above their level physically which is why they have ti out skill her

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Karai is above their SKILL level, not their physical level, and only when the plot demands it, because one of the writers wants to jerk off to Karai like they always do. The turtles can survive shit that would kill humans and recover from injuries that would cripple humans. Ooze is powerful shit and always has been.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I like it. It sows just enough doubt that when they actually starting whooping ass it's a little surprising. The same thing with Splinter being this old rat but still able to handle himself. You can have Raph be the agressive one, Leo be the calm devoted one, Donny utilizing tools, and Mike using his humour. At the end of the day they are all ninja and would probably murder you in reality before getting a slice of pizza.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      People like the idea of them differentiating aside from bandana and shade of green. On top of that Mikey’s a lazy bum and most current Raph iterations have him work out more than the rest due to his anger like a gym rat. Personally I prefer short Raphael but muscular Raphael like Wolverine

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >I prefer short Raphael but muscular Raphael like Wolverine
        Makes sense. working out when you're still young is supposed to damage your growth plates, causing you to be shorter.

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Heroes shouldn't model themselves after a race that comits a majority of crime

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That’s how we know they’re black. No one would choose to be black unless they felt they were truly black

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >>>/pol

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That would be the israelites. Globally they commit every single white collar crime affecting every country on Earth.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    reminder the turtles all have white VAs for Rise

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Not Raphael and Mikey.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I can accept Raphael as black but no one else

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Mbappé
    i'm ok with this, good job

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      im so sick and tired of this urban culture shit being pushed everywhere.
      cant you frickers just let us have our little corner of the internet? is it so hard not to taint every little treehouse and every little unspoiled secret valley you come across?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        You lost this battle when they did The Ninja Rap Dance

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          a genuine question: what about Black folk intrigues you so much?
          Hardmode: dont mention genitals or sexuality,

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            The voices

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Rise
    Shit
    >Bayverse
    Shit
    >Turtles
    Were never human in any version and therefore cannot have any human race, unless transracialism is valid

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Reminder Bay had Raphael literally wear a doo rag

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is what his VA looks like.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is what his VA looks like.

        Reminder the Bay Turtles were based off Tom Hanks, Russel Crowe/Clint Eastwood, Leonard Nimoy and Bill Murray

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      People like really liked Bay and Rise Turtles

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, no they don't.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Were never human in any version
      Wrong

      >When Mikey eats an Anti Mutagen cookie he turns human.. And is white.

      Take your hologram power ranger bullshit somewhere else anon.

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    are people surprised?

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    But they're canonically Japanese reincarnations

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah reincarnation. As in they became something other than Japanese

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Like non-human turtles? Who were literally born as turtles and have never been anything else?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It’s like how Piccolo is black. They sound black

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Dude fricking Shaman King shows reincarnation != guaranteed race
      We literally have a cartoon about that right now

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Hawkman has been everything from Egyptian, Kryptonian to a New God. See I can bring completely unrelated Universes with different rules to support my argument too

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, that backs up my argument that you don't exclusively reincarnate into the same race
          The TMNT in IDW reincarnated from humans to fricking turtles

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Oh well I'm a fricking moron then I thought you were arguing the opposite.

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Shouldn't they be asian?

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are black people happy that the turtles are wearing blackface? Because the turtles are wearing blackface.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      No one cares but outrage grifters and even then it's such a small "who cares" amongst him

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm surprised that their heads aren't a bit rounder.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    amerimutts worship n*****s

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They're not black. They're turtles.

  15. 10 months ago
    Boco

    Reporter: A hate crime against a minority. Do the Ninja Turtles hate Asians?

    Leonardo: Hate Asians? W-we are Asian!

    Michelangelo: Asian?! We're Italian, dude.

    Master Splinter: You're fricking turtles!

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Kiddie rapist

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The turtles in rise were all effeminate gay black men and the bay turtles looked like nogs

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nogs works perfectly. They’re outcasts

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They are the race least like to be fricked with. They just have to worry about black humans.

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What is this, did I miss an issue? This art is better than the current issue...shame about that sphinx cat lady getting murdered, though.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It’s from the second crossover with Power Rangers

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >California surfer dude lingo
    >love skateboarding and video games
    >also they're giant talking turtles who grew up in a sewer learning ninjitsu from a giant rat
    >DUDE THEY'RE TOTALLY BLACK-CODED
    This is why TMNT needs to go away for about a decade and fade completely out of the pop culture collective consciousness. They've stopped being their own characters and have become vague concepts for morons and homosexuals to bend and mangle to fit their own personal bullshit.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The TMNT have always been very malleable characters. That’s the appeal. They have 4 basic personalities and each incarnation expands those into full character.Like how 2012 Leo and 2003 Leo are very different.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        There's some wiggle room, but "very malleable" is an exaggeration and when you go too far out from the originals, people notice and don't like it, which is why Rise failed.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I have seen a lot of fandom for Rise.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            General audiences did not like it, which is why it died and needed to beg to even get the movie made 2 years after getting cancelled.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Did you not like the movie? I thought it was well done

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're missing the point entirely.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              General audiences and the nether something is actually quality is not always a guaranteed connection. The new dynamics worked

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The new dynamic in Rise wasted an entire season and didn't figure its shit out until the 2nd season when it tried focusing on a serious overarching plot. Even if it did get good eventually, people still looked at these wildly different takes on well-established characters with their big anime energy powers and said "that's not the TMNT I know" and just didn't watch it.

                Rise does have some of the best directed and constructed action sequences of damned near any American action cartoon ever made, but it's completely kneecapped by it's own writing and characters. The biggest shame is that the animation team wasted all that effort on what ended up being a fairly unlikable incarnation of a multi-billion dollar IP.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >live in the sewer, in the ghetto
      >always getting in fights
      >eat garbage
      >all want to pound the one white chick they know
      I can see how some people might think they're black coded anon. The only reason I could never consider the TMNT black is that their dad is around.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Like non-human turtles? Who were literally born as turtles and have never been anything else?

        Reporter: A hate crime against a minority. Do the Ninja Turtles hate Asians?

        Leonardo: Hate Asians? W-we are Asian!

        Michelangelo: Asian?! We're Italian, dude.

        Master Splinter: You're fricking turtles!

        >leo insists they should be japanese to honor splinter's heritage
        >raph thinks being black makes more sense considering the demographics of new york. plus he likes rap
        >donny just thinks being white works best. not racis' or nuffin just that he associates with white culture
        >mikey, having recently gotten into mexican soap operas, has decided to become a beaner.
        would be hilarious.

        *adjusts tie*
        *clears throat*
        *shuffles feet*
        *sips water*
        *taps mic*
        *inhales*
        *grips microphone very fast*

        >"They are black"
        ...
        >"so they can blend into the shadows better!"

        *drops mic*
        *stage dives into crowd*
        *face plants on the floor*
        *dies*

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >black skaters don’t exist
      Cope harder white boi

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    if you pay attention to OG comic book it was pretty clear thatthey were inspired by black teens of 21st century new york. their entire background paralled to what was happening at the time couldn't make it more obvious

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I would've assumed they were asian.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Matt Murdock knows martial arts doesn’t make him Asian

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah but he's a human being and the turtles are turtles. I don't know what race turtles are closest to biologically. The turtles are raised entirely by a Japanese man and in at least one version were reincarnated from Japanese people so it seems like that would be an obvious choice to me. I guess if you consider them being adopted they could be any, or multiple races instead of all one.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    WE WUZ JAPANESE N SHIET

  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Mikey has a surfer voice
    >implying Black's surf
    >Implying Black New Yorker's surf
    Got me to reply.

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >local Asian Philanthropist Oroku Saki has been indicted after allegedly committing repeated hate crimes against four African American teenagers
    >The billionaire has reportedly been seen requesting the teens be made into quote "black boy soup"
    >serious allegations against foreign transplant
    >this is Black April O'Neil channel 6 news. Back to you White Vern.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >White Vern

      Does that mean there is a, Black Vern?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Are you kidding? At this point the only people who haven't suffered a race change are Splinter and Kraang.
        I think even the Bay movies made Saki into a White guy. Let's not forget they made Baxter Stockman White in the 80's show

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Bay Shredder was essentially Stockman in a Shredder mech armor and named Eric Sack, then leaks spooked them into doing reshoots with a nameless Japanese Shredder who Sack inexplicably works with

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            I will give Bayturtles 2 props for real Baxter

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Remove props for not turning Stockman into a fly monster despite having Bebop and Rocksteady.

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    *adjusts tie*
    *clears throat*
    *shuffles feet*
    *sips water*
    *taps mic*
    *inhales*
    *grips microphone very fast*

    >"They are black"
    ...
    >"so they can blend into the shadows better!"

    *drops mic*
    *stage dives into crowd*
    *face plants on the floor*
    *dies*

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh no bro. She's gonna be super black isn't she?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nah Asian because magic Mystic crap

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        She would be half black/half asian.

        Oh no bro. She's gonna be super black isn't she?

  27. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    TMNT 2014 was directed by fricking JONATHAN LIEBESMAN. BAY WAS A PRODUUUUCEEEERRRRR.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How I feel when people say "Christopher Reeve" Superman. It's Donnor's movie

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        But it’s the actor people care about those are two different things than the Bay thing.

  28. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >When Mikey eats an Anti Mutagen cookie he turns human.. And is white.

    Take your hologram power ranger bullshit somewhere else anon.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Anti Mutagen cookie
      Should't that turn him into a normal turtle?

  29. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Are we not counting the official Nick made shorts where they had human holograms and were white?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      wait why is april disguised she's already human

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        That's Irma you fricking casual

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          but iruma wears blue

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >That's Irma you fricking casual
          No this is Irma.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            spoiler that shit next time. DISGUSTING!

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              frick you reeeeeeeeeeeeee

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            imagine banging Irma and feeding Kraang your cum.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            a yo real talk? WOULD

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            2012 TMNT is so overrated

  30. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Comic is called "Teenage Mutant N***** Turtles"
    What did they mean by that?

  31. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    uhhh no. He would be a baby tortoise. tortoises have clawed feet. Turtles have flippers!

  32. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >sewer people are black
    kinda racist ngl I've met black people and they didn't strike me as sewer dwellers

  33. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    wouldn't they be the same race as the human who last touched them before getting slimed by the mutagen?

  34. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's only Holograms and other time this been done before they were reincarnated Asian kids or White.

  35. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I expected them to be guido.

  36. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    green lovers come rescue me!

  37. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    What's the matter, Israel not getting bombed enough again?

  38. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Rise
    If they really want some change. I want to see Mikey and Donnie as older brother and Leo as youngest brother.

  39. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Michaelangelo saying "hella dope"
    That unironically bothers me off more that the black holograms

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      He always says shitty slang

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Yeah, surfer slang not ghetto rat slang.

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