Michael Bay says 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' are aliens,

[BlueStar]

The Turtles sold out in the 80s when they gave them all coloured headbands and turned them into kid-friendly Jar Jar Binks type characters, people are a bit late to complain about their canon being changed and them not bring true to their roots.

Except they were still earthborn turtles who were in ooze back during that time.

And before the 1987 cartoons Splinter was a rat who was mutated into a rat-man and then he became a human who mutated into a man-rat. Then in the movies he went back to originally being rat.

 

[tj_cool]

They're illegal immigrants?

 

[Veho]

They were bitten by a genetically modified spider.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

The fact that they were born together, and mutated together in the sewer from some ooze, and taken in by a ninja rat thing...That resonates through the entire show. It's the whole basis for their teachings, the reason why they are a close knit family. It also made them wholly unique.

Now imagine 4 turtle people from a race of (possibly) billions somewhere out there in the galaxy. Doesn't seem so special now, does it?

No, fuck you Michael Bay. I will not "chill". I don't care what the script looks like. You don't just fuck with the largest piece of canon in the entire franchise. Ninja Turtles was one of the largest childhood memories of MILLIONS of people across the globe. You don't just fuck with it and not hear anything about it, you fuckwit.

 

[Gahars]

They were bitten by a genetically modified spider.

Sorry. I hate to inform you, but Spider-Man will also be an alien in the latest installment.

 

[Thesolcity]

They were bitten by a genetically modified spider.

Sorry. I hate to inform you, but Spider-Man will also be an alien in the latest installment.

And black.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

On a related note:

 

[Gahars]

They were bitten by a genetically modified spider.

Sorry. I hate to inform you, but Spider-Man will also be an alien in the latest installment.

And black.

Hey, I'm not going to lie. I totally would have been down with Donald Glover playing Spider-Man in the new movie. If only...

 

[Thesolcity]

They were bitten by a genetically modified spider.

Sorry. I hate to inform you, but Spider-Man will also be an alien in the latest installment.

And black.

Hey, I'm not going to lie. I totally would have been down with Donald Glover playing Spider-Man in the new movie. If only...

Instead of that other guy doing the backstory of Spiderman?

 

[ShadowSoldier]

The fact that they were born together, and mutated together in the sewer from some ooze, and taken in by a ninja rat thing...That resonates through the entire show. It's the whole basis for their teachings, the reason why they are a close knit family. It also made them wholly unique.

Now imagine 4 turtle people from a race of (possibly) billions somewhere out there in the galaxy. Doesn't seem so special now, does it?

No, fuck you Michael Bay. I will not "chill". I don't care what the script looks like. You don't just fuck with the largest piece of canon in the entire franchise. Ninja Turtles was one of the largest childhood memories of MILLIONS of people across the globe. You don't just fuck with it and not hear anything about it, you fuckwit.

Pretty much this. If there's a planet of them, they definitely don't seem so special anymore.

 

[MEGAMANTROTSKY]

Doug Walker's take on Michael Bay's latest future fuck-up kind of cooled me off regarding the whole "aliens" thing. But not that much.
http://thatguywithth...hould-be-aliens

 

[Veho]

Now imagine 4 turtle people from a race of (possibly) billions somewhere out there in the galaxy. Doesn't seem so special now, does it?

Maybe their parents sent them here as babies to save them from the destruction of their home planet, and they're the last of their kind.

 

[ShadowSoldier]

Now imagine 4 turtle people from a race of (possibly) billions somewhere out there in the galaxy. Doesn't seem so special now, does it?

Maybe their parents sent them here as babies to save them from the destruction of their home planet, and they're the last of their kind.

Not sure, but is that a Superman reference?

 

[Veho]

They could still be unique and a tight-knit family if they were raised on Earth. In the sewer.

Deduct one million points for each of the following:
a) they came to Earth already fully grown (and "funny" and "edgy"),
b) they learned English by watching our TV broadcasts,
c) each turtle adopted a different jargon/lingo/speech pattern, so one speaks in ebonics, one like a literature major one like Clint Eastwood, and one in Broadway musical lyrics,
d) the latter is doing that because he was hit on the head.

Not sure how I would feel if they grew up watching 80s cartoons and are therefore still saying "radical", "righteous" and "cowabunga."

 

[Coconut]

What.
Just what.

OH OH OH, they should make a movie with teenage mutant ninja turtles VS Biker Mice from Mars!

 

[BasedKiliK]

Wait, this isn't an April Fools joke? FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

 

[JonnyPoots]

Wait, this isn't an April Fools joke? FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

Yeah, I really wish it was. Alas, it's been 'blaw-blawed' about for a while now.
no 4/1 joke, just active trolling on Michael Bay and "whoever else who cares to anger-[censored] my childhood"'s part .


EDIT: huh, I didn't know *[censored]* was a censored word here on the temp. [censored], i mean, learn something new everyday.

 

[gloweyjoey]

As a child of the 80's I grew up watching the original series. I also loved the movies, and at that age I was able to distinguish that the stories of the sets of Turtles were different, and both differed from the comic books quite a bit.

Then in 2003 TMNT started and I wanted NOTHING to do with it. They were not the same turtles I knew and loved, but the series followed the comic books more.

It wasn't until Turtles Forever, where three sets of turtles(prime, 80's, 2003) came together that I loosened up a bit on how essentially there are multiple versions of our favorite turtles.

Spoiler

Of course the 80's turtles cracking jokes was the best part.

Of course, I think its a huge cope out when someone goes the alien/aliens did it route, and no matter what it will always feel weird but really, Its not worth getting your panties in a twist about it especially with series like this that was started as a satirical comic book that very quickly expanded.
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On the subject of messing with the "canon", It's actually the co creator of the original comic book series Peter Laird that is telling everyone to "take a chill pill" and "relax" NOT Micheal Bay. Any decision on "canon" have been decided by this guy, and he seems to be on board. Hell, in the last volume of the comics he made them in their thirties.

Yeah, it's asinine, but let's get over it and accept it already. Maybe the movie after this one will be about the turtles in their 30's, who knows....

 

[the_randomizer]

Michael Bay + TMNT = FAIL



80s TMNT series FTW

 

[RchUncleSkeleton]

As a child of the 80's I grew up watching the original series. I also loved the movies, and at that age I was able to distinguish that the stories of the sets of Turtles were different, and both differed from the comic books quite a bit.

Then in 2003 TMNT started and I wanted NOTHING to do with it. They were not the same turtles I knew and loved, but the series followed the comic books more.

It wasn't until Turtles Forever, where three sets of turtles(prime, 80's, 2003) came together that I loosened up a bit on how essentially there are multiple versions of our favorite turtles.

Spoiler

Of course the 80's turtles cracking jokes was the best part.

Of course, I think its a huge cope out when someone goes the alien/aliens did it route, and no matter what it will always feel weird but really, Its not worth getting your panties in a twist about it especially with series like this that was started as a satirical comic book that very quickly expanded.
""
On the subject of messing with the "canon", It's actually the co creator of the original comic book series Peter Laird that is telling everyone to "take a chill pill" and "relax" NOT Micheal Bay. Any decision on "canon" have been decided by this guy, and he seems to be on board. Hell, in the last volume of the comics he made them in their thirties.

Yeah, it's asinine, but let's get over it and accept it already. Maybe the movie after this one will be about the turtles in their 30's, who knows....

The whole point is that Aliens are not Mutants, thus making them Aliens and calling them Mutants does not make any sense.