#karai 2012 icons

[mushroomgrenade]

Lmao Im finally posting these guys as well, they've been sitting in my folder for a few months now

You can download them to use here on my Kofi :)

[leoraiforever]

[bichelangelo]

Lesbian Karai for anon !!!

credit appreciated :) not necessary

[kedamonomonoligh]

Omg..... This so um...

WHAT IT THIS???

[aquariumgirls]

i need to steal leo and donnies genders rn IMMEDIATELY. AUGH!!

[fabuloustrash05]

Some of My TMNT Hot Takes (PART 2) 🔥

Warning: More Opinions

Part 1 Here

I don’t like that in Mutant Mayhem Donnie is not a “science guy” but instead is more of an anime and pop culture geek. I’m not against him being an anime fan (I love anime too) but I wish we saw more of his science and being a tech genius side instead of him just liking stereotypical “nerdy stuff”. If that makes sense.

I don’t like the Punk Frogs (any version).

The 87 crossover episodes in the 2012 series (as much as I did enjoy them & are great episodes) should not have happened. They leave no real impact or development to 2012’s overarching story and just waste time. These episodes could’ve covered more important things that 202 was desperately lacking like like character exploration and character dynamic development. It was just nostalgic fanservice. The arc in S5 specifically would’ve work better as a movie instead of a 3-4 episode arc in the (most likely non canon) final season.

Shinigami being Mikey’s second love interests ruins her character a bit (for me personally). That was a pointless decision that did NOT need to happen. She would’ve been our first recurring female character to not be a love interest, but nope!

People are allowed to like/ship Donnie x April in ROTTMNT (this is coming from someone who’s not crazy about April being shipped with the Turtles).

I ship Yuichi with 2012 Leo more than Rise Leo (still ship Rise Leoichi, but I just think 2012 Leoichi is way more interesting, plus 2012 Leo deserves a good love interest).

The humans in Mutant Mayhem look ugly af (I know that was probably an intentional design choice but still. It looks bad.)

I hate Raph x Casey (any ver). I’ve stated in part one that I don’t like Raph (any version) being in a romantic relationship with human characters and yes, that meant him with Casey. Not only that but Raph and Casey being a couple ruins their whole dynamic and iconic friendship I love so much. I’m all for friends to lovers but they are a line that should not be crossed. Not every friendship needs to turn romantic.

2012 Karai’s hair looks bad.

Fans often over exaggerate Rise Donnie’s character and badly mischaracterize him in fanfics and fan comics to the point it makes him feel like he’s an entirely different character.

Shinigami should have been revealed to be a villain.

Rise Donnie was just as mean to his brother as fans claim 2012 Raph was to his. Yes, they both do love their families and I’m NOT saying either of them are abus!ce (they’re not), but fans praising Rise Donnie for doing similar things fans criticize/hate 2012 Raph for doing just makes them hypocrites.

Venus does NOT need to be in every iteration of TMNT. It gets kind of annoying when fans keep on saying that she should be in all the other iterations when in truth her presence would not make sense based on the already established canon story. The only (recent) version of TMNT where I think her being included would’ve fit the best and deserved to make her comeback in is ROTTMNT.

The side plot of 2012 Karai being mutated and later getting brainwashed by Shredder was a waste of time and the most boring arc in the series.

2012 April, Donnie and Casey being in a poly relationship does not fix anything with their problematic dynamic and massive flaws with one another. I'm not saying you can't ship all three of them together, you do you! Idc But in reality their relationship would be a train wreck, that's why I personally don't ship 2012 Capriltello.

Renet is probably one of the most powerful allies the Turtles have in the 2012 series.

Rise Donnie would NOT hate 2012 April. He’d go crazy over her psychic powers and want to study them to help her explore them more.

From what I've seen so far, Leo x Usagi seems like the only GOOD ship in the 2003 series (this hot take might change tho).

Raph had the best character arc and development in the 2012 series and changed the most out of the four brothers. Next would be Leo. With Mikey and Donnie have little development (or none at all sadly).

[misteria247]

Ya know something? Leo isn't the only one who craves violence in the 2012 series oh no no no.

April also craves this.

After seeing the one post a few days back from being tagged in it thanks to the lovely @000marie198 of Leo, April, Mikey and Raph committing vehicular homicide on a car mutant and seeing the giddy faces of Leo, Mikey and April, it's got me thinking about April and good God she's just as violent as our favorite blue clad leader.

Literally in the beginning of the show when April is kidnapped with her dad by Kraang her first response is to hit and kick them. And when they're put in their cell, April is seen clawing and biting at one of the Kraang bots, being pretty violent during the whole thing. Like that was only in episode one.

And then there was April and Karai's first meeting at the restaurant where at first April's pretty chill with Karai but as soon as she heard Karai say the iconic line Turtle Soup, her chill kind personality goes straight out the window. My girl quite literally begins to throw hands at a highly trained ninja, before kneeing her incredibly hard in the gut after saying something extremely sarcastic and throwing Karai's ass down the subway station staircase. And then there's the moment of fighting Super Shredder where April literally yeets him off a fucking building with her psychic abilities.

Literally these are only a few instances that I can think of off the top of my head from my memory alone where April literally chooses violence as her go to. Like April's just as bad as Leo and it's honestly hilarious. Like both of them are the chillest ones out of their little family and they're both are also the first ones to immediately go for the violence option whenever shit goes down like bro. 😂

[microstmnt]

Oh my god, I’m finally uploading Shredder’s design (alongside Karai’s first)

Anyways, I don’t have a lot to say about Shredder (for being the TMNT’s most iconic villain, I don’t have a lot of ideas for him...) all I can say is I love Rise’ take on the armor being the evil one and I love characters doomed by the narrative (will he get a redemption arc? Uhm... not really but kinda). I wanted a (slightly) more realistic take on the Foot Clan, so now they’re kinda like a mafia, or at least it was during Saki’s father time, now they get weirder and more supernatural by the day... It was also because of the Foot Clan that the mutagen existed on the first place, for some reason (like I’m not the one writing this...) they also had a bunch of scientists in their pockets and were doing experiments and created the mutagen

Karai, alright I’ll have to be honest here, I don’t really care about her, I think my favorite interpretation of this character was Rise, but I also liked the idea of her being a teen and also struggling with morality (wich is funny becacuse I found it annoying in the 2003 version but I also did not like her in 2012...), but I think giving her a second master/paternal/maternal figure in Twig really helps in giving her another way of living... she will get better after the Battle Nexus arc, but because I find it funny her rivalry with Leo will remain.

[redheadlesbianfreak]

What did you think about the Michael Bay TMNT movie? I haven't seen it and don't follow TMNT in general, but I'm curious about what you thought because his movies can be pretty divisive.

This is an interesting ask, because I definitely have a lot to say about these two movies! I'll start with the designs of the turtles. I think these are one of my least favorite designs for the turtles, and I'll explain why. For one, the TMNT have always been very short and stocky. This is because they are usually mutated from tiny turtles you would find in pet shops (such as box turtles or red-eared sliders). The turtles themselves are generally around 5 feet or even 4 feet depending on the adaptation.

((I'll go ahead and list a few examples. Here are the heights of the turtles tallest to shortest in 2012: Donatello is 5'6, Leonardo is 5'1, Raphael is 5'0, and Michelangelo is 4'11. In the 2003 series, the turtles are roughly the same height at about 5 feet. The adult human characters tower over them. The original turtles depicted in the Mirage comics are even shorter! Donatello is 5'1, Leonardo is 5'0, Michelangelo is 4'8, and Raphael is the smallest at 4'6!))

This is a bit silly, but I care a great deal about the turtles being small! I think it's cool to have a group of guy superheroes who are short and stocky, rather than massive, muscular dudes. It subverts expectations and gender roles. And it really adds to the idea that these guys are underdogs, as you have these short kings going against giant mutants. It's something I've always appreciated. The designs of the turtles in the Bay movies really feels like it's trying to appeal to this weird male fantasy by making them huge monsters.

But it seriously backfired. Most die-hard fans were creeped out by the designs, and trying to make them look "realistic" made them look awful. They aren't very expressive and they do NOT look like teens--more like 40-year-old men. The only people I've seen who like these designs are middle aged women who think the Bay turtles are hot. Given the... specific camera angles they use for the movies, I guess I don't blame them. It feels like they accidentally sexualized the turtles in trying to make them fit this male fantasy ideal.

Onto the characters. I think that Donnie and Raph are the best. Raph is the most likable turtle by far, leading me to think that Raph is Michael Bay's favorite. Leo is pretty awful and it feels like he hates his brothers in the second movie. Mikey is also terrible, constantly flirting with and harassing April, which feels out of character for him. I don't feel a brotherly dynamic like in the other iterations. Raph and Leo act like divorced parents who are fighting over the custody of their children, Mikey and Donnie. Mikey and Donnie don't feel like they have a lot of agency at all.

Master Splinter is okay. I don't remember much about this version of Splinter and his design is way too realistic. They decided to have this version of Splinter start out as a rat, and I prefer it as him starting as a human who mutated into a rat. April is oversexualized in a pretty dehumanizing way. Megan Fox stated that she was treated poorly by Michael Bay, so it's uncomfortable watching her in this film. This version of Casey Jones is one of my least favorites; they made him a cop instead of a vigilante, which is super anti-Casey.

The villains are very forgettable. Karai doesn't do anything in the first or second movie, and I can't believe they did her dirty twice. The Shredder is equally boring and unmemorable. I usually enjoy the Shredder a lot, so the fact that this version doesn't stand out isn't great. I liked Bebop and Rocksteady just fine for the second movie, and I also liked Baxter Stockman as well. Overall, the villains were far too generic, which is disappointing given TMNT's history of super iconic villains.

Now for the plot. The first movie's plot is super weak, and it doesn't feel like there's a main character. I think Raph is supposed to be the main character, but I can't tell. I don't remember much about the plot itself, aside from a few key moments. One moment that stuck with me was a scene where Donnie says that he licks the frosting off poptarts and puts them back in the box. That's the first thing that comes to mind when I think of the 2014 movie, not even the famous elevator scene. Do what you will with that information.

The second movie's plot is a huge improvement. It looks nicer and it does a better job with the characterization. There is a clear main character in Leonardo and he does have an identifiable character arc. They recycled the tired "Leo vs Raph" plotline, which is disappointing. But that's an issue I have with most TMNT movies, so I try not to hold it against this one too much. Mikey is also less awful to April in this one, so that's neat I guess. They still have a scene where April dresses up as a "hot schoolgirl" for no reason, which is embarrassing.

They do come up with a cool concept: Donnie finds out how to make a substance that will turn the turtles into humans, and they can live on the surface. Leo tells Donnie to keep this from Mikey and Raph, who are hurt that Leo made that decision for THEM when they do find out. The whole thing causes Mikey and Raph to split from the team to work together, and it's honestly a really cool idea. In the end, all four decide to remain mutants. I do wish they did more with this concept, as it's super cool and adds nice tension to the plot.

I do have some issues with this movie. Remember how I said they made Casey Jones a cop? This movie has a bunch of bizarre military and police propaganda. The TMNT franchise is generally pretty critical the military and government (see the way the President of the US is depicted in TMNT 2003). But the military is depicted as not only the Good Guys, but they also accept the TMNT as heroes. In most other versions, the turtles are seen as monsters by the government and general public, and are essentially vigilantes as a result.

I would like to end with talking about the production of these two movies. Mainly the elephant in the room: Michael Bay. Many of the actors who've worked on this movie (notably Megan Fox) have stated that they were abused by Michael Bay. The working conditions were horrible. Even though the sequel improved some things writing-wise, it doesn't matter if the people working on this movie were abused. I don't want to see Michael Bay working on this franchise ever again, or frankly, working in film at all. They could easily give the job to a director/writer who would not abuse those working on the movie.

[sunnylighter]

1987, 2003 (Chrell, Tengu, and Cyber), 2012, and Rise. On a scale of 1 to 10, how do you rank these versions of the Shredder?

Hmm

1987- 5, not a very effective villain, but he's funny. Iconic.

Chrell- 9, very scary voice and doesn't stay dead. Very nearly killed the turtles multiple times. Nearly wiped out all of TMNT reality.

Tengu- 6, the demon army was cool and he's got a cool backstory, but we didn't see much of him.

Cyber- 5 Just a light copy of Chrell and got beat more by the turtles. Not very memorable. Even Karai fought against him.

2012- 9, also scary and crazy. Obsessed and can't see he's just making everything worse. Will burn the world if it means killing he 'won'.

Rise- 7, Good build-up and epic boss fight, but not much by way of personality. Cool backstory, though.

[heroicmultiverse]

//Remaining icon checklist:

Ms. Marvel (Need MCU Icons)

Mystique (Need Live-Action Icons)

Nebula (Have some icons, need more)

Peni Parker

She-Hulk (Need Jen icons from the comics)

Spider-Man (Need comic icons and MCU icons)

Spider-Punk

Envy Adams

Kim Pine

Knives Chau

Ramona Flowers

April O'Neil

Donatello

Irma Langinstein (2012 version)

Leonardo

Michelangelo (Found some, need more)

Oroku Karai

Raphael

Gwen Tennyson

GoGo Tomago

Honey Lemon

Trina Aken

Dr. Horrible

Elastigirl

Violet Parr

Voyd

Jenny Wakeman

[beetlegoose01]

Happy Pride Month 2021! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🌈

To celebrate, I decided to make some improved pride icons that don't look as messy. I know I missed some flags, so if you have any requests don't be shy and pop in my inbox for a request. 🌈 I might do a Rise version too.

These are my personal headcanons, so don't go yelling at me if you don't agree with them. 🤨

Shinigami- Lesbian

Leonardo- Asexual

Raphael- Trans

Donatello- Nonbinary

Michelangelo- Queer (thanks @rhythmsmith !) Flag designed by @ breadchoi

April O' Neil- Pansexual

Casey Jones- Bisexual

Karai- Bisexual

Bebop and Rocksteady- Gay

Renet Tilley- Polysexual

[pacificon]

request icons | karai serpent {TMNT}

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[gray-edits]

Hi hello! Do you think you can make serpent Karai icons from tmnt please and thank you!

hello hi!! these were quite a challenge because i had to make my own transparent images, considering the two bottom icons contain the only ones i could find. hope these are good enough for you!! :}

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[cuddles-edits]

Comic Book Crushes

Valentine’s Day Icons

Harley Quinn from Batman: Arkham City - Harley Quinn’s Revenge

Loki Laufeyson from Marvel Cinematic Universe

Poison Ivy from Batman: Arkham Asylum

Oroku Karai from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)

Kim Pine from Scott Pilgrim

Mona Lisa from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (IDW) (haven’t read them, but I love her design, she’s so adorable)

Raven from Teen Titans

Thor Odinson from Marvel Cinematic Universe

Starfire from Teen Titans

Not a lot of guys this time, unfortunately.

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