Tatoruzu The movie that people point to when trying to prove the turtles are "black coded" also prominently showed the turtles stealing.
And if they are black coded so what that's the beauty of it anybody can see themselves as the ninja turtles black / brown, white, yellow, red
( I've seen people like the nostalgia critic Doug code the turtles as black playing a sound clip of menace II society or boys n the hood over the 1990 tmnt third act, the nigga turtles you tube parody, and a Instagram reel of a white guy putting ice cube voice over dub on Raphael. Gambit of the xmen is a theif and killer catwoman is a theif and a killer batman is a theif and killer we saw him steal an apple and give it to a starving child and he had to learn how to become a criminal in order to fight crime and go undercover as a hoodlum desguise as matches malone wolverine is a criminal and a murderer but nobody ever brings up the degenerate shite White people do such as steal cultures kill people and shop lift and riot and you forget that I've shown pictures of white supremacist biker disguised as antifa busting out windows with a hammer we can talk about January 6th insurrection and riots during sports games *)
It's not racist to point that out. Besides, I'm not the one who decided to depict the "black-coded" turtles stealing from an innocent abuela's bodega. It's a cartoon and the turtles are homeless also the other half of the turtles are white such as Raphael and Leonardo who were also in the scene stealing supplies
There is no good reason to depict the turtles stealing — why can't some things just be left up to the imagination?
The turtles are morally grey in mirage comics lore
Their crimes have not been left to the imagination it's been depicted in several incarnations of media from panels to screen. Current idw they're fugitives of the law assulting law enforcement and fire fighters and Raphael was an inmate, The turtles grand theft auto a flying car, the turtles are vigilante murderers, they broke and entered the t.g.r.i. lab to secure a canister of ooze from the foot, and to view classified information about their mutation, Raphael assaulting and attempted murder on his brother Michaelangelo for beating him in a sparring match for being a sore looser, they stole a movie illegally watching a drive in movie aliens without paying for a ticket, or broke and entered the t.c.r.i lab to find their missing pops splinter and destroyed equipment in the process of looking for splinter, aided and abetted the fugitoid sal the robot/ professor honeycutt from the galactic federation, they stoawayed in a triceraton space craft, Michaelangelo is a war criminal who slept with an intergalactic princess, the turtles stole a pizza man's pizza, the turtles murdered abunch of people, trespassing, loitering, they out ran the police in a high speed chase running traffic lights and speeding, the turtles been to space and human prison, they commited intergalactic terrorisim holding the triceraton emperor hostage, and stole his battle cruiser, casey jones assaulted innocent people like his boss assulted raphael who was trying to keep him from murdering civilians , murder on a kid being a vigilante, he was a juvenile delinquent in his upbringing, april breaking and entering and vigilantism, splinter grooming child soliders to be killers to fight his personal battles allowing 13 year old surrogate sons to drink alcohol at 13 years old and being and abusive father.
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