#mutants are human

[hero-villian-blog]

A Problem With Magento

Oh look another X-Men related post, yes I know I've been making a lot of posts about the X-Men recently. Anyways I wanted to throw my thoughts out about the character of Magneto and the dynamic he and Charles Xavier have. So Magneto is often depicted as a sympathetic villain who has good points, but at the same time falls into the whole oh but they do bad things like kill. Many sympathetic villains bug me in how they are depicted, and how they create unsympathetic heroes in turn. But That's not what this post is about, just remember Nimona is a great movie fight me! Okay back on track, Magneto and Xavier are often said to represent or be depicted like 2 individuals from the Civil Rights Movement. I don't like this because it basically plays into this old pitting of 2 individuals against each other post one of their deaths by a certain garbage nation leader. But also the person Magneto is often used to represent never tried to wipe all of the opposing side or rule over them. Something we see in the movies, comics, and tv shows. Like how in X2 Magneto basically tries to wipe out all non mutants. Which also ties into my previous post about the lack of mutant supporters and groups of people who have suffered in very similar ways mutants, and would definitely exist in such a world. That basically Magneto would wipe out those people as well, and the group that he shares an identity with as well. Speaking of that identity, does anyone else find it odd that Magneto adopts the ideology of the people who did that to him and others because of that identity? You have him referring to non mutants as bugs, lesser, etc. While referring to mutants as superior, gods, and goddesses with other characters adopting such language as well. With Magneto either trying to wipe out all non mutants all out like in X2, or like in rule over them like he plans to do in X-Men: First Class. Speaking of first class you have Magneto literally saying he agrees with everything that Sebastian Shaw says. It almost a bit worse given Magneto and other mutants associated with him like the Brotherhood of Mutants are an allegory for specific groups, and someone like Magneto adopting the ideology of the oppressors of said groups is just too similar to fear of said oppressors that said groups will do back to the oppressors what was done to them. It also falls into that same issue I made a post about where characters in the X-Men world act like mutants aren't humans. In the end I just find it weird an oppressed character would adopt the views of their oppressor, I don't think many would do something like that. The whole thing seems like there's almost an intent to make him a hypocrite. Small spoiler for X-Men 97 here.

Side note, while I get in X-Men 97 is having Magneto be better, and he is much better than many of his other depictions. But he still spits out some nonsense. Not saying everything he says in nonsense, he has some pretty good lines like the one in Episode 5.

[sixofclovers]

just regular human ninja teens

[cupcakeslushie]

I can never make up my mind on Mikey’s design. But I just felt like doing something different.

Also I love making Donnie and Leo look like legit twins. Their hair is basically the same, but Donnie’s is one big mess that he never styles lol.

[drnurssie]

RETURN OF THE HUMAN RISE DESIGNS!!!!!! mikey deserves a klunk

[tizeline]

Well. Every tmnt artist has to turn them into humans eventually, I suppose.

Sorry for not posting a ton lately, I have been................. playing fire emblem three houses.............. busy............ Also I've been feeling a little burned out on art, admitedly. Don't worry, it's very much temporary! Last month was just pretty high tempo for me, expecially with the Cell Talk comic, so I just needed to take a short break from drawing to also play fire emblem but I'm getting back into an art-mood now! I decided to draw humanified turtles as a bit of a warm up basically, I've been wanting to do it for quite some time so it was just a fun little thing for me :]

Anyway, some thoughts about the designs-

A lot of people draw Leo as blonde, and I was fully intending to draw him blonde as well, but then I just wanted to see what he'd look like with brown hair instead and I just.... liked that a bit more, so he's a brunette now. Also he has dimples because of course he has dimples. And Mikey has freckles because OF COURSE he has freckles! And Donnie ALSO has freckles because he's my blorbo and I give all my blorbos freckles cuz they're neat. All of them have pretty small eyebrows except for Donnie because he fills them in with makeup. I thought for a while of how I would translate Leo's facial markings into his human design, and I ended up settling for birthmarks (also some red eyeliner cuz his face needs a bit of red on it)

[indieyuugure]

Episode 3 of Fading Fantasies! Happy ending guys! I promise!

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[an-artistic-failure]

Some human design stuff. Is it obvious that Donnie is my favorite? 🤨

I change their designs every time I draw them. Leo has changed so much.

Also I literally just gave Leo my hair because I have no shame at this point.

[sariphantom]

So… funny story, this redraw of my old art last year was supposed to be my tribute piece for TMNT Day back on Tuesday but as usual, life got in the way and it took me a couple of days to get it done. Anyway… HAPPY BELATED TMNT DAY!

Original drawing:

[lotus-duckies]

i think there's something very interesting about the fact that irl, turtles aren't very social or familial in any sense but the ninja turtles are incredibly social and love caring for others and this is arguably the greatest example of their humanity

[tangledinink]

new cover art for i'm sorry, teenage mutant what now? btw :3c

[mikiib]

I’m in too deep- and no one can stop me... ANATOMY OF THE TURTLES! You are 100% allowed to use this as reference or add on if you think there is something I may have missed. Please credit me if you repost this anywhere thats not a simple reblog. I worked hard on this and I hope it shows! 

[hero-villian-blog]

Mutants are human

So recently I've been watching X-Men 97 with some friends, and something I keep hearing is people in the series constantly refer to each other as either human or mutant. While some non mutants making such a differentiation would make sense, I don't think it makes sense for mutants especially the smart ones, or even scientists to say mutants are different from humans. Also, it's not just X-Men 97, it's the movies and the comics as well. There's even a line from the movies where someone says humans evolved from Neanderthals and wiped out Neanderthals. All this misunderstands how evolution works. There is an evolutionary rule called the Law of Monophyly the rule goes that you will always be part of the group you evolved from. It's why humans are still apes and will always be apes no matter how much we evolve. Humans are also still sarcopterygian fish, and we will never stop being sarcopterygian fish. So mutants are humans and will always be humans. As for the Neanderthal thing, Neanderthals are a sister species to Homo Sapiens but are still part of genus homo making them humans too. Homo Sapiens did not evolve from Neanderthals either. So while I get maybe someone who doesn't know who evolution works or simply hates mutants would say mutants aren't humans. I don't get how scientists or someone like Charles Xavier would make such a blunder. I think the only character I've seen that didn't make this mistake and basically corrected everyone else, was the evil robot Master Mold. In his words, "That is not logical, mutants are human. Therefore humans must be protected from themselves."

[somerandomdudelmao]

I hadn't planned on doing anything more complicated than a sketch, but here we are…

[baskeigh-ball]

so yknow how big mama's nexus hotel employees all have cloaking brooches, at least the ones who work around humans? Yeah. HUMAN RAPH TIME BECAUSE I SAID SO BOOIII

inconsistent facial structure go brrr

[pointss]

Hmmm, the human version of ALL THE TURTLES??!!! >>:D

OKAY, THEY'RE HERE!💜❤️🧡💙

[tizeline]

Heuheeuhe turtlssss 🐢