#tmnt 2012 thoughts

[purplepixel]

OK I NEED TO TALK ABOUT THIS:

The 2012 turtle's reaction to the chris bradford finale foreshadowed how I'd feel towards the season 4 finale.

And idk if this was done on purpose, or if this was accidental and just bad writing. Spoilers for the last two episodes of 2012 TMNT season 4.

Every season in TMNT 2012 has the characters occasionally watching an old cartoon that will often foreshadow or tell the audience what this tmnt episode will be about. We get to see the finale of season 4's cartoon show, the Chris Bradford show, in the second to last episode. At first glance, it seems to foreshadow its own episode, Requiem.

Hero character is on a building, someone falls off a building. That's the common denominator of both the Chris Bradford final episode and the episode requiem. Unlike the episode requiem, the Chris Bradford finale is sudden with little to no pay off and has the turtles going..."that's it?"

Which is the opposite of the episode it's showcased in. The episode requiem has one of the most emotional showdowns and death where the actors, storyboarders, and animators put their heart and soul into it. I'm convinced the entire budget went to this second to last episode.

The episode after that on the other hand. The actual finale episode "Owari" is a different story. I'm gonna ignore the questionable writing choices they made to get certain characters where they needed to be in the last moments of the episode bc I have a lot of issues with that but that's not what this is about. This is about Leo and Shredders final stand off.

Actual spoiler time. Shredder should've died either after Leo almost got through to him but went ahead and stabbed him, or when the bros had shredder pinned and Donnie used the retro-mutagen. Not the moment we got.

The death we got seemed to happen...randomly? Why this moment? It was a simple attack that Leo has done before. What made this instance more special? Was it splinters word of wisdom? (Which made no goddamn sense btw) The anime esque freeze frame we get held no emotional weight. It felt simply like a "Leo was faster and stronger" moment. Which. Who cares? This is a weak character moment on both Leo and shredder. A good hero vs villain final fight should ALWAYS be more than just "they were faster/stronger". This is hero vs villain finale showdown 101.

It doesn't help that the final shot we see was unclear on what actually happened. It did not read that he died by Leo's sword at all. Which btw shouldn't have been able to happen anyways since we established that his swords can't pierce shredders heart but whatever. I'm ignoring that rn.

I'm wondering why that creative choice. Did Nickelodeon not want to show a kid killing someone? They had no problem with showing splinter being brutally stabbed on screen an episode earlier. Is it only ok if shredder kills someone? The cross fade from that one "dramatic" freeze frame shot to the next scene paired with all the other context I mentioned had me go..."thats it?" After that, I didn't care that Leo walked to the edge of the cliff and dramatically dropped shredder's helmet. Bc I was still stuck wondering "wtf happened. And also. THATS IT??" Just like the turtles reaction with the Chris Bradford finale.

So I'm wondering. Bad writing? Or was the audience supposed to feel that way towards Shredder's death? If the latter. That's a weird writing choice. Why do that to your big villain of FOUR seasons? And if the former. Well this is 2012 lmao. With every good writing moment you get an equally bad or worse writing moment. Just kinda sucks this happened on arguably the best season of 2012

[midnightwins22]

TMNT 2012 Thoughts and Rankings

Hey everyone. I am finally finished with TMNT 2012 and now I see why everyone considers it like the best interaction of TMNT. Now for me personally, Rise of the TMNT well forever hold a special place in my heart because it was the show that made me fell in love with the turtle boys in the first place. With that being said, TMNT 2012 is for sure up there as far as one of my favorite cartoons. I'm just going to give some briefs thoughts and do some rankings

I'll be honest and say that it took me a while to get into the show. It is drastically different then Rise but I can honestly say that as the series went on, I actually liked some aspects of the show better then Rise. Like how it balances both the silliness and the seriousness (though it gets down right disturbing at times in Seasons 3 and 4). I would say that my favorite season is season 4 as I really loved the space arc and just the final episodes with the Super Shredder. My least favorite season is probably Season 1, though I really don't like the farmhouse arc in the first part of Season 3

If I was to rank who is my favorite turtle from this series, I would have to say that it would be Mikey. He is just down right adorable in this. His friendships with Leatherhead and Ice Cream Kitty are some of the cutest things I have ever seen. Not to mentioned that he pretty much the best lines. Raph is defintely a close second for me, though he did get on my nerves at times with his anger issues (I know that is part of his character but I really wished he wasn't so mean to Mikey as I think they have the best brotherly relationship of the whole show). Leo is third because I got tired of his self-sacrificing/ hero complex nonsense after a while, though I do think his character got better once the second half of season 3 came. Donnie is last because of his constant obession with April and just the constant bickering with Casey. Donnie however does have some funny lines and I really like when he and Mikey are paired up together (B-team sumpremacy)

I just wanted to share some of my thoughts on the TMNT 2012 and hopefully, in the future, I will make a post comparing some of the TMNT 2012 and Rise of the TMNT characters

[kewpie-notice-me]

this was made to help me better visualize 2012 leo in the Rise verse while reading crossover fanfics huehuehue

[forgetful-nerd]

This is how Splinter describes Donnie and Mikey respectively.

[plum-pitt]

GUYS THEYRE MAKING AN OFFICIAL CROSSOVER COMIC. THIS IS NOT A FUCKING DRILL.

ISSUE 13 OF SATURDAY MORNING ADVENTURES DROPPING IN JUNE.

updates below the cut —>

UPDATE #1:

Hiya! since this is blowing up just thought i’d stick this on here. I got this info from a YT community post from teddygamingreview, a smaller channel knee deep in the comics side of the tmnt franchise that i’ve been following for a while. From what i understand this is just teaser/promo material so there’s not a whole lot of other info out yet. Thats all, cowa-fuckin-bunga dudes

UPDATE #2:

TEDDYGAMING REVIEWS CAME IN CLUTCH ONCE AGAIN WITH A BREAKDOWN VIDEO

(Most important new info takeaway that wasn’t already laid out in the previous post, in case you don’t got time to watch right now: the issue after this has some villains from the 2012 series on the cover art, implying that whatever multiverse crossover shenanigans are going on might bleed into he next issue, at least to some extent?)

UPDATE #3:

THIS ONES TOO BIG SO I MADE A SEPARATE POST FOR IT, LINK HERE:

[sweeneydino]

since we got a random face reveal, how do the 2012 react to the face reveals the others? Or just Leo since we got his face reveal, and how does it happen? I feel like it would be on complete accident, like rise Leo is doing something kinda stupid and he falls and the hat just comes off (if that can happen-)

Im working on the others, but all of the rise boys get their complete face reveals in the WOH! Replacement of Vision Quest. And they are excited to see them.

They cannot completely show their faces before this, just like how they can't speak to each other, but do have some moments when they try to and are interrupted by some meddling ninja kids.

Rise Leo definitely has a few loser moments tho—

Also something that is loosely canon to woh.

[getindumdums]

It was Little Dragons AU Mikey- Dai. He did it. (*cough* I totally didn't also nominate Spikeangelo and ruin that—no—) // Ok, but originally me and Sweeney were struggling between Dai's dad (03 Leo) and Ronin. And wait, this could be SO GOOD for me—

The Old Men have joined the Running!

For context: The Reincarnated Last Ronin- "Spike" (made by @sweeneydino) apparently got his identity revealed by the 87 turtles by accident. But wait! Aren't my 87 turtles supposed to be the ACTUAL CANON ones? Weeell, let's just guess that they had scheduled another visit with the 12 turtles only to hit a miscalculation.

(Guys LOOK. I'm actually posting— Turns out having a Moot to draw with does wonders for inspiration. Ok but seriously now I feel bad for hardly posting art— Hmm. I’ll have to post more stuff for my fic~.)

Other art contributed by @sweeneydino

VOTE GDD 87 RAPHAEL FOR PRESIDENT!

Click for Sweeney's original art and for lil' a bonus ;)

Get in Dum-Dums, We're Going Vandalizing!"- My Fic!

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@tmnt-multiverse-election

Bonus:

[bontwisty]

Fun fandom observation

[1nk-ling]

Sooo...tmnt 2012.

I didn't mean to draw fanart.

My sister came up with some human designs and I loved them so much I had to draw some.

I got that line from an "Animaniacs" comic, incase you had any doubts about me being a nerd.

And the sad now 🥲

I have been in this fandom for barely a week and if anything happened to my boys I would kill everyone in the room and them myself.

[turrondeluxe]

2003!Mikey and 2012!Mikey being silly older and little brother chronicles 🐢🤝🐢 Pt 4 - Masterpost

[mutantmayhems]

My friends think I like to fight, but it's just not true. Sometimes I lose my temper and blow off a little steam—but I've never enjoyed it. I'm not a violent dog. I don't know why I bite.

RAPH AND ANGER

[in/sp]

huge shoutout to @shalaaex and @amascomet for their incredible art that inspired this! check out their beautiful posts!!

quote is from isle of dogs (2018)

[epicfirestormer]

Do you see my vision

[fabuloustrash05]

It’s crazy to think that the most normal relationship in TMNT 2012 was between a 5 foot tall turtle mutant that knows ninjutsu and a 6 foot tall lizard alien warrior.

[pezhead]

Lazy attempt at a city background~✨

[forgetful-nerd]

Here have some Donnie Quotes

[sweeneydino]

The calmer one, my ass.

More Krell 👉👈