Shit that grinds my gears about tmnt

Tyron_Leung

Why did they make hamato yoshi splinter?

I get it, it was goofy concept but that's the beauty of it mirage tmnt was a JOKE in its inception you dont need to explain the joke, It's not supposed to be taken litterally. But what is grounded in reality.

Did you know Rodents such as Squirrels Rats & Mice are intelligent animals who can problem solve and be trained to do intricate task like play basketball and maze run and are genetically close to humans and have high I.Q.'s like Primates Chimpanzees Gorillas Orangatauns Ravens Dolphins and k9s, so it's not out of the ordinary for a Rat to remember his owners martial arts and japanese culture in his subconscious or attempt to mimic human behavior
plus the foot are basically maginicans like the marvel comics ninjas like the Hand so what if splinter was supernaturally endowed before mutation to have prolonged life longer than a normal ordinary Rat, Why would they make splinter hamato yoshi ruining the joke of the first issue?
Why would they take the 87 toon concept of splinter is hamato yoshi a step further and made the turtles themselves formerly human following the Hollywood trend of grounded in realism trope, that ninja can't exist in modern age? Why didn't tang shen reincarnate as a mutant mother for the boys or made splinter tang shen why is she only a ghost wandering purgatory that can only be seen by yoshi Leonardo and Donatello what was tang shens role if death a joke in the idw canon why couldn't tang shen been resurrected like her husband and children and what was raph leo Mikey and dons Japanese human names ? And why they age up the turtles in the first issue but made raph a toddler in later comics being lost on the streets living with a homeless man and kidnapped by bishop?

Tatoruzu

I agree.

There is so much goofy unexplainable shit in TMNT, so it seems weird that people take issue with the rat version of Splinter.

We're okay with aliens, mutated animals, and ninjas with giant shells on their backs... but we're going to draw the line at a rat learning martial arts?

Whenever "logical explanations" are shoehorned into obviously goofy stories, it just ruins it.

It's like how Mutant Mayhem showed the turtles stealing because I guess we desperately needed to answer the question "how do the turtles get food!" It's fucking retarded. No other iteration felt the need to work in an explanation for this. There was no explanation for how Mikey got money for pizza in the 1990 movie. Because there didn't need to be. The entire premise is silly on its face, so there's no need to go into these weird explanations.

On the flip side of that, I'm okay with people liking Hamato Yoshi as Splinter if it's just a personal preference or whatever. There are a lot of fans of '87 and 2012 TMNT, and those fans are just more familiar with and more comfortable with Hamato Yoshi as Splinter. I guess I can understand that. I really only take issue with it if their reasoning is just "rat Splinter doesn't make sense"

Gort

idk i really like the whole reincarnation angle. id hardly call i grounded either its literally a fantasy element. either way isnt the whole why wasnt tang shen reincarnated thing explained in 150? so its not really a plothole its just kind of something thats stupid. either way tang shen is kind of just the uncle ben of tmnt

Tatoruzu

Gort

tang shen is kind of just the uncle ben of tmnt

Gort

Tatoruzu i cant tell if youre being sarcastic or not lmao i just mean in every continuity where shes present shes only there to die for someone elses character development

Tyron_Leung

Tatoruzu atleast uncle Ben Richard parker and Mary Parker and Thomas Wayne and martha Wayne was ressurected and given character development beyond being killed off heck even tchaka tchallas father is given development wolverine parents and family is developed but in the tmnt lore tang shen is fridge she couldn't be a kunoich she's just reduced to a sexually abused victim to orroku nagi or orroku saki and orroku nagi isn't developed either besides being combined with saki making shredders motivation a coochie crash out Incel.

Tatoruzu

Gort I'm serious lol. I've never made that connection before

Leonardo1984

I also prefer Splinter and Hamato Yoshi being separate characters. I feel like a lot of the time it’s an excuse to not have to write two different characters and go over that original backstory. It’s lazy.

Tyron_Leung

Leonardo1984 also they are refraining from the shared Daredevil origin story which has not been put to live action and even the Daredevil movies doesn't do the origin of the blind man accident