#next mutation

[introverted-ghost]

Doing this again since tottmnt is out n stuff

Previous one if you wanna see how the stats change

[mutant-art]

Prompt list!!!

We're starting this small project with our Christmas art challenge ☃️❄️🎄🌟

Traditional art, digital art, fan fiction, gifs, edits... All is welcome!!!

There is no order, you can start and continue with any prompt you like

Remember to use the tags so we can track and reblog your work!!!

[awzominator]

Dayum another turtle victimized by boobs and unnecessary cartoon woman features 😔

Why does she have big chest and lips…and eyelashes… we were rooting for you rise

[imagionationstation]

So apparently there's a canon female turtle named Venus de milo. Did you know this? If not, I compel you, GO DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE.

You think I would claim to know all about turtles and yet not recognize the name Venus De Milo??

YOU DEEPLY OFFEND ME, GOOD ASKER! /jk

I know the Next Mutation Venus (Scary), the canceled Rise Venus, the Easter Egg Venus image in 2012, IDW Venus, @cupcakeslushie's Venus who is basically a Venus in a canon iteration in my mind by now, and a whole lot of other Venus's (mainly fan oriented) that I am obligated to learn about. Because reasons.

I went done that rabbit whole years ago and have no intention of returning down there, thank you very much 🫡

[cabbt]

You know, I'd watched every single TMNT show that existed multiple times. I know the lore, the mini episodes, most of the external content for every single one of those shows... But there was one show that I had never had the guts to finish, one show that I'd only watched 6 episodes before giving up on it for multiple years.

Until now.

And that was Next Mutation, the show nobody wants to acknowledge its existence. And I wanna talk about it real quick. Not just the bad, but the good as well, because as substandard as it was, there were some elements I genuinely liked about it. Not a lot, but gotta take what we can find. So if you'll indulge me, let's get started.

I mean, there's a reason nobody talks about it, and that's because it's hot garbage lol. There's a LOT wrong about that show, from the acting, to the stupid sound effects they added everywhere, to the "fight scenes", if I can even call them that, to even the fact that the costumes for the turtles and splinter in action scenes couldn't even close their mouths anymore, so they look idiotic. I'm not gonna spend too long on the bad because I'm sure it's all been said before, but I will summarize what I found the worst of it.

Spoiler alert that you learn in the first episode, but if you didn't know, this show has an extra turtle, Venus the Milo, who is honestly the only good friendly character in that entire show. She's not perfect in any way, but she is the only one to have character growth and any sort of maturity in that group, Splinter included. But adding a female turtle means they felt the need to make all the male ones macho and gross. Like stuffing their faces right next to her boobs and shaking their booties in her face type of gross.

The poor girl lost her master, her only family, and seaked a connection with the others so badly throughout the show, meanwhile the others were quick to tell her they were not sibblings (they never even used that term past the first 2 episodes, instead refering to each other as "friends") because they wanted to go out with her (spoiler alert, she never did, with any of them).

They also loved to make fun of disabled people, specifically this poor blind guy that played chess with Splinter in the park. For an entire episode, they just made him the dumbest, clumsiest blind person to ever exist, and it was just sad, for a lack of a better word. He didn't just bump into things, the moment he was in their lair, he decided it was a good idea to grab everything without asking and mess around with everyone's equipment and toys with no care in the world. He almost whacked Venus in the face, managed to ruin a smoke bomb by tossing it on the floor and even fired an arrow near his face before thinking it was a hook for his hat, despite his hands literally brushing over the feathers of the arrow. He thought Leo's sword was just a kitchen knife and used Raph's sai to remove his socks, without asking for permission for any of those things I might add. It was an excruciating episode and I really did not enjoy it at all.

In another, they refused to consider that a dragon (nothing to do with purple dragons, they are legit dragon people, the main enemy group of this show) could ever be good, because "all dragons are bad" until realizing that one of them "wasn't like the others", and it just felt pretty racist to me. Oh and they also killed the Shredder before bringing him back as a hobo to clean garbage trash with the turtles.

You get the gist, there's a lot I could say about the bad, and I could rattle on about it all day, but that's not what this post is really about.

No, what I want to talk about is the ONE episode I found legit interesting. Calling it "good" would be an overstatement, but there's a few main things I really like about that episode. And it's episode 12: Turtles Night Out.

But first, a very quick backstory. In a previous episode, the turtles met a hunter guy (very caricatural, but if you can get past the clichés, he's actually kinda funny sometimes). This guy was trying to illegally sell an endangered species of turtle (I believe it might've been a red-eared slider, but I don't know for sure, maybe you can tell from the picture).

Of course, the turtles wouldn't let him have that baby turtle, which led to this incredible ending.

Anyway, it seemed that that turtle really marked Mikey, because in episode 12, we learn that Mikey actually hosts an illegal radio channel, where he talks, plays music and even answers calls (we later learn that a lot of those dragon enemies actually love that radio show and regularly listen to it, which is admittedly pretty funny). While he's driving in their truck and talking to his audience, back at the lair, Splinter has this quick exchange with Donnie.

Splinter: "Donatello, tune in Michelangelo's show." Donnie: "But you hate that show." Splinter: "I don't hate Michelangelo. Tune it in."

Which is very cute imo. It means that despite hating the show, he will still make an effort to listen to what his kids make. This is one of the traits I really like the most about a Splinter, so it was fun to see it here (and only here, he never does anything like that again sadly).

They turn the radio on, and Mikey tells his ever growing audience that he's organizing a rave party. Using his popularity, he decides to hosts a costumed party, where people can come in disguised as their favorite animal, to raise money for endangered species. This is the only time in that entire show where we see any of the turtles have any sort of mature hobby or activity. Seriously, throughout the show, outside of Donnie sometimes making some machinery and the guys fighting once in a while, all these dudes ever do is chat online, cook food, and make all the mistakes dumb teenagers ever do. Leo will sometimes read books or train and Venus meditates, but that's it. So this episode was a real breath of fresh air to see that Mikey not only manages an entire radio show, but also took the time to plan and organize a rave party just to raise money for a good cause. Good on him.

I will mention though that Mikey and his brothers/friends kept making weird flirty comments to all the girls at the party, so that did put a damper on my enjoyment of that episode, but still, at its core, the radio and raising money trait fits perfectly for a Mikey and it was really interesting to see. They also had to fight the hunter guy and some thugs, who were angry that someone dared making money in their turf without their approval, and had to pretend to be clumsy or dancing while kicking those guys' butts so the rest of the crowd wouldn't freak out, a bit like they did in one of the 90s movies. It was pretty enjoyable, one of the rare fights that didn't feel overly ridiculous to me. Too bad all the other episodes sucked ass lol.

There's a LOT more I could say about that show. I didn't even mention the last episode being a flashback episode instead of a real ending, or that regularly, one of the turtles would want to save the life of a dubious person (enemy, half enemy, unknown, whatever), because it's the right thing to do and they might get an alliance out of it, but the others just... refuse to help, honor be damned (and yes, I very much include Leo in that, he refuses to help almost more than the others), or even talk about that human scientist working for the dragons (think Baxter Stockman but more excentric and much less charismatic), who was so infatuated with Donnie that it gave me some gay vibes in one episode

But this post is already way too long as it is, so I will end up by saying that according to Donnie, in that show, their body temperature is around 63.2F/17.3C (instead of 97.6F/37C for humans), and does not seem to shift depending on the outside temperature, unlike cold-blooded creatures, so... mesothermic confirmed?

[duckdodger]

HI TO THE ANON THAT REQUESTED THIS !! Yea ofc i know her !! here u go !! I hope i see Venus in more future media <33 !! Have a lovely day to u too !!

[bullfroganarchy]

hello folks!

I am undergoing a MASSIVE project in which I will be making a video reviewing, and discussing every single TMNT media (sans the Mirage comics and video games)

I have a small request, and that is, if your a fan of TMNT in ANY capacity, please reply in comments /tags your:

Favorite Character

Favorite Villian

Favorite Love Interest/Couple

Favorite Show/Movie

Least Favorite Character

Least Favorite Show/Movie

Why you like TMNT? What makes your favorite 'good' and your least favorite 'bad'?

Any hot takes/opinions/ thoughts regarding TMNT

You dont have to answer every single question, and if you would like to not be put in the video please lmk in your reply!

[freezethez]

So me but turtle in different TMNT iterations

And yes most of these are traced from the og art of the show/Live action ss/comic stuff

The stuff I traced

I kinda mostly wanted to like capture the og art style (+I was lazy)

[stinkystargirl]

my daughter. yes, she has every disease known to man kind. yes, she beats every single one of them with her bare fists. [repost]

reblogs appreciated!!

(btw she is on my redbubble!)

[turtle--soup]

TMNT haul this year 💙💜❤🧡

1990 Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles annual, Saturday Morning Adventures Volume 3, the Deluxe Edition(!!!) of Mutants Unleashed, Space Raph, High School Mikey and Raph, Next Mutation Raph and TMNT and Other Strangeness!

Happy holidays everybody!

[neverheroes]

Today I am acknowledging the existence of Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation because I need to emphasise this one thing: Venus de Milo* is not their sister.

You know her, the turtle with the inexplicable tit-mounds leaving us to wonder if all the turtles are reptile, mammal, ~or some other third thing~. The one Spinter missed scooping up, who wandered her way to Chinatown and was adopted by a shinobi magician who took her back to China and raised her to be a badass chi-magic using tessen-wielding ninja**.

*Seriously, Artemisia was an option and they went with naming her after a creation of da Vinci’s instead of literally any female master, ok. **Historians hypothesise that ninjitsu originated in China and was brought to Japan by refugees, the more you know.

This version of the guys are brothers by circumstance. The guys are a family but none of them are blood relatives. The guys do not share DNA with Mei Pieh Chi (Venus) and did not share a childhood. The show deliberately did this so they could have the option to go in romantic directions.

That’s it. That’s the post.

[introverted-ghost]

This has 100% been done before but I’m curious

Please reblog for larger sample size

[mrmistoffles]

While I adore all the people standing up for all of the other iterations of TMNT, where is there love for next mutation. I mean, I understand that it's all little bit strange, but we all have that estranged family member that we all don't know how they're related but they are.

We need to stop treating next mutation as the red headed step child of the family and start treating them like the weird uncle that sits in the corner spouting off conspiracy theories

Thank you for coming to my TEd talk

[slady-ao3]

Uploading pic for a fic.

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Shredder from Ninja Turtles: Next Mutation

[bodybybane]

Remembering Venus de Milo, TV's Only Female Ninja Turtle, 25 Years Later