Casual fans of 80s era comic books or recent Michael Bay flicks will doubtlessly recognize the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as🍎 a quartet of wisecracking anthropomorphic turtles intent on keeping the streets of New York safe from evil. Dedicated fans, however, will know that their goofy personas and preposterous pizza preferences a💫re a byproduct of the series’ 1987 transformation into a child-friendly property. Originally foul-mouthed and aggressive, the heroes in a half-shell ; co-creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird spent an afternoon doodling characters they found to be ridiculous, and the marriage between Japanese warriors and shell-toting reptiles snowballed from there.
While neither of the two wannabe comic-book artists could, at the time, appreciate how profitable their inside joke would become, children and pre-teens the world over would soon develop an insatiable craving for TMNT toys and television programs. To an outsider, these four heroes seem ridiculous, as slow, amphibious animals don’t typically come to mind when thinking of heroes. Yet, if audiences could accept concepts like Ant Man, then perhaps mutant turtles wouldn’🦄t be too much of a stretch.
As I’ve mentioned, the turtles weren’t initially planned to appeal to children. Though they’re now synonymous with popularity amongst a younger crowd, the adult-origins of these reptilian teens can still be seen in some of their products and media. Sure, they may seem friendly enough, but these dudes have manage🌺d to slip quite a lot past the censors.
25 ꦕ Coming To A Decision
The original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy is well known for its bizarre, borderline creepy use of Jim Henson-developed full-body costumes. While some TMNT fans out there likely love these movies, I feel that these suits mostly just 🍨succeed in scaring little kids an♋d bewildering older viewers.
If the costumes don’t put you off, though, some of the weird and off-color humor present in these films probably will.
There are more than a few strange quips sprinkled throughout the trilogy, but most will likely remember the moment in the second movie when Master Splinter came, on the roof, to a decision. I suppose the roof is a great place for silent contemplation and reflection. Yeah, that’s what they meant. Could I get a little more subtlety in my movie intended for pre-teens, please💝?
24 Claustrophobic 🐓
Originally intended as a parody of vigilante superheroes, Casey Jones’ tough guy attitude and wicked 80s hair metal look in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Secret of the Ooze is more than a little difficult to take seriously. You know what else is difficult to take seriously? Most o🐷f the dialogue in that movie. At the end of the day though, it’s a movie about mutated turtles fighting crime, so I’m not sure what I expected in the first place.
I’m kind of doubting the film won that year’s Oscar for best screenplay.
In one particular sceಞne, Donatello is accusing Jones of , and Jones is clearly confused about what that actually means. He threatens the turt꧅le, then responds with “I’ve never even looked at another guy before.” No, Casey. That’s not what he meant.
23 The Turtles On Oprah 🉐
Please, if you only watch one YouTube video today, . Not only has it made me laugh harder than any of the turtle’s dumb one-liners, but it reeks so profoundly of the ear🌠ly 90s that I could have sworn Nirvana was at the top of the charts again.
So, here we have Raphael (or it could be Michelangelo, the video quality is so bad that I can’t tell) admitting to an interest in an interspecies relationship with April O'Neil… live꧋ on Oprah. It is honestly difficult to process that this actually happened. All in all though, I would have to say that the expressions of shock and bewilderment on the faces of those kids is the best part. And, what did he say? She can’t hold her breath that long?
I’m sorry, what??
22 I Don’t Want To Set The World On Fire… 🌟
I’ve never been a fan of the animated Nickelodeon Turtles series; it’s always seemed to pan🔯der to a demographic much younger than myself. That’s fine, of course, it’s a Nickelodeon show and they are trying to captivate children—Iౠ just don’t have any interest in watching. The humor seems to be about on par with those schlocky 90’s movies, and I think that, excluding hardcore turtles fans, anyone over the age of fifteen would get pretty burned out after a few minutes.
That said, the show did have it’s darker moments.
Specifically, there is a moment in the show when New York City is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:destroyed by a mutagen bomb, leaving nothing but a wasteland behind. Seriously, a show intended for kids predicted a Mad Max style future where the worl♒d is full of mutants and marauders.
21 ꧋ Not All Fun And Gam♎es
As I’ve said, I think everyone knows the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a hilariously named group of mutants who patrol t♌he streets of New York City enacting vigilaไnte justice on those who seek to spread evil. Well, that might make the should sound a bit more noble than it actually is, as, from 1987 onward, the turtles spend about ninety-percent of their time cracking jokes and eating pizza.
Originally, the series wasn’t interested in captivating pre-teens.
As first envisioned by series creators Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, TMNT offered up a hearty amount of strong language, realistic violence, and168澳洲幸运5开奖网: adult-oriented debauchery. The move to make the franchise more appealing to kids came do to an interest in marking toys to children. Peter Laird was allegedly upset by the toned-down Turtles, and some fans are still upset over thi✤s artistic compromise.
20 ✅ 💜Becoming A Cyborg
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles have appeared in tons of different kinds of media; from movies to animated series, comic books, and even two cringey tours as a Pizza Hut-sponsored soft rock band. It is, in a way, funny to think that such an odd concept would become so ubiquitous, and to think that a pack of teenage reptiles would elevate to the pop-culture heights of Superman or Spider-Man.
Sure, they’ve been in a ton of stuff, including a great amount of animated television incarnations.
These are mostly remembered for being giggly, semi-vapid Saturday morning affairs. Some episodes, however, got a little dark. In the original animated series, a villain known as Dr. Stockman has many surgeries, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:replacing himself with cyborg parts by the Shredder.
That kind of crosses ꩵthe line for a kid’s show, wouldn’t you say?
19 ꧂ 𓂃 Gone For Good
Most people in-tune with popular culture have probably heard of the Shredder. He’s the merciless leader of the Foot Clan who has fiendishly opposed the Turtles since their inception. Though he’s been defeated by his pimple-faced, pizza loving adversaries many times, he always manages to come back and wreck more havoc, and it’s safe to say that he’ll do so until a set of mutant turtles is no long🐷er appealing to teens.
In the 2012 Nickelodeon cartoon, though, they actually manage to168澳洲幸运5开奖网: get rid of him once and for all. Most series simply refers to the villain as having been jailed or ambiguously defeated. Not Nick’s show, you literally get to see one of the turtles dealing the finishing blow. A few parents may have pushed to censor the scene, but TMNT fans across the g😼lobe were likely pretty stoked to see the Shredder finished for good.
18 ⛦ We’re Gonna N🌳eed A Bigger Shell
I’m not sure how 2014’s Michael Bay-produced Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles even managed to get a 22%𝔉 on . This movie is just so inexplicably awful that I’m not sure I could really put all of its failings into words. Thankfully I didn’t venture into theaters to go see it, but when I eventually caught it months after its release I was genuinely upset at having wasted an hour and a half of my life watching it.
There are tons of insipid lines of dialogue delivered by our heroes in this flick.
But the worst of this has to be an offhand remark offered by one of🍎 the turtles when they first meet April O’neil. “She’s so hot I can ,” Michelangelo remarks, upsetting a legion of both parents and fans in the process.
17 ꧅ They’ve Got A Strange And Disturbing Backstory
Let’s recap some of our favorite hero’s origin stories, shall we? Spider-Man was bitten by a radioactive spider, Captain America was encased in ice during the second World War, and Batman lost his parents at a young age. What about the Turtles, you ask? Well, they started out as a group of literal pets who mutated after coming into contact with 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:radioactive materials.
Alright, it isn’t quite as dark or depressing as some origin stories, but I find it objectionable because it’s, well, just kind of gross.
It also sort of ties in with the environmental message the turtles would come to﷽ embrace following their 1987 shift in tone. Careful where you leave your mutagenic wasꦆte, kids, otherwise you’ll have some real problems on your hands.
16 🌃 All In The Name
Perhaps part of the ninja turtle’s success comes from their ridiculous title: isn’t Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles just a bit more exciting than something like “Heroic꧟ Reptilian Teenage Warriors.” Alright, that actually does sound kind of cool, though it doesn’t really roll off the tongue.
The point here is that, in Europe, these green martial artists were known as the . Apparently our friends across the pond didn’t take to kindly to the idea of this quartet being ninjas as they were afraid tha💦t they’d influence kids to go out and replicate dangerous tricks they’d picked up from the 🐽comics.
The solution? Simple, just call them heroes instead of ninjas without changing the content. While rꦗidiculous, in a way, the turtles did manage to sneak past the North American censors.