#tmnt cockroach terminator

[ihave4obsessions]

Have a reenactment of my first watch of the show/ fandom i decided to let consume my entire life

Me 13 years ago: aww how could raph hate such a cute little guy?

…ok its understandable now. Love how donnie geeks out over his adult son now though.

What the ever loving fúck is that?!

*end of terrible reenactment*

[dysfunctional-doodle]

now i WOULD go rest after the whole ypi business HOWEVER. is there any way to convince you to watch it because OH MY GODDDDDDDD THIS IS MY FAVOURITE SERIES EVER!!!!!!!!!!! it’s certainly not the best written tmnt series out there (ESPECIALLY with the romance…. shudders)

HOWEVERRRRRRR there are a lot of awesome things about it i really like….. i think one thing i like the most about this iteration (besides the very obvious obsession about sunset duo) is THE VOICEACTING. in a tmnt voiceacting teirlist i would put almost every rise character in s tier and yet STILL, despite the fact i put donnie in b, 2012 IS MY FAVOURITE VOICE ACTED SERIES. the original ask includes the giant navy battleship line and. yeah. sean astin’s delivery makes it a kajillion times funnier to me. IDK MAN THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT SPLINTER’S VOICE THAT IS SO SATISFYING TO ME. AND THE WAY SHINIGAMI LAUGHS???????????????? HRGHHHHH

also a big fan of the dynamics between the turtles…… the absolute brothers of all time. sobs (again it’s very obvious which duo is my favourite hfhdbsjbsdj)

also this might be a slightlyyyy controversial take but mikey’s adhd is written really really REALLY well in my opinion. like ok donnie said he hasn’t matured since age six and infantilisation is a big problem with neurodivergent people HOWEVER. a big part of mikey’s character is that he doesn’t like being underestimated and wants to prove he is capable but also. as a person with adhd. YEAH I TOO FEEL LIKE THE PERSON IN MY BRAIN IS A SMALL CHILD. the reason i peaked in primary school is because, back then, i was only slightly less mature than my peers. now as i’m in secondary school i realise i am like a TWO YEAR OLD compared to these people. when i was in s1 i would call myself the twelve year old toddler because that was essentially how mature i felt i was. SO THE STRUGGLE IS REAL. maybe there are times he feels slightly stereotypical but hey, everyone has their stereotype moments, right??? (as cliche as it is i feel like everyone has had a “hey, look, squirrel!” moment in their life). yeah i just relate to 2012 mikey on a spiritual level. like every time he’s on screen he does something and i think WOW. that is LITERALLY me (which is why i’m surprised that one poll i have more people think i’m like sonic than mikey?? but i’m not complaining, sonic is super cool)

the 3d animation is cool (the increase in skill is very obvious as you progress further through the series) and the fight scenes are just. MWAH. SO satisfying.

also SOME of the romance is pretty ok! raph and mona lisa are great. also arguably raph and casey (but we’re not ready for that conversation i think).

i have a full disc set of all five seasons that included a list of all the episodes and whenever i finished an episode i REALLYYYY REALLY enjoyed i would highlight the name in pink sharpie… here are all the episodes i marked :3 (i might need to rewatch some of these)

the pulveriser

cockroach terminator

parasitica

the good, the bad, and casey jones

plan 10

a foot too big (i’m actually not too sure about this one right now, might need to rewatch it)

journey to the center of mikey’s mind

revenge of the triceratons (this one is only half highlighted for some reason)

bat in the belfry

tokka vs the world

requiem (sobs. sobs so so hard.)

end times

when worlds collide: part 2 (i think this one is where the giant navy battleship line comes from)

it’s ok if you don’t want to watch it or you’re not able to watch it but if you can and you don’t end up liking it THAT’S OK I TOTALLY GET IT THERE ARE A LOT OF PARTS THAT SUCK

erm anyways that was my strange ramble. sorry for invading your ask box 👍🏼

(oh yeah, the comics are pretty cool too)

(guess who michalina’s favourite character + duo is challenge (impossible))

Ok I will say oddly enough I’ve read the comics for 2012. Weird, but I pirated found them and enjoyed reading them, they were fun.

I have watched a few episodes - I did like the speed demon episode (I love the dynamic of 2012 donnie and Casey mirroring the 90s movies even down the name insulting scene where they are going through the alphabet) and I like parasitica a lot. I have watched others like journey to centre of Mikey’s mind, Buried Secrets, and the usagi episodes, and also the final episodes of the Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (? I cannot remember the name, but the one with the insect guy as the villain who’s name I can’t spell and can’t be bothered to Google lol), that one where Donnie becomes dumb, the vampire ones, but that’s it.

What puts me off is the romance and the (in my opinion) partial butchered character Donnie has due to it. He’s genuinely creepy and it makes watching it uncomfortable and wildly out of character compared to what I’m used to. I’ve never been a fan of romance, and I expect ally despise the whole “main character has a crush on someone else but is so nerdy they don’t know how to approach them” trope. The whole love triangle and the poorly written “love at first sight” which most the romances in the show are just put me off completely. I genuinely have tried other episodes but I cringe every time the Donnie/April romance happens. It’s a shame because when they let Donnie move on from April or not be simping after her I really like his slightly sarcastic, blunt yet sensitive nature.

I’ve heard they kind of throw away the romance at season 3 but it’s having to watch this until then tbh. Maybe one day I will give it a go if people really say it’s worth the suffering of my least favourite trope. You seem to like it a lot so maybe :)

[lazyvase]

Playable Characters I want in TMNT Legends

This is more of a wishlist than anything. I also mention which class they would be

Fugitoid (Tech)

Mona Lisa (Might)

Sal Commander (Cunning or Might)

Lord Dregg (Might)

Belebome (Cunning)

Wyrm (Spirit)

Bishop (Cunning or Swift)

Cockroach Terminator AKA Spyroach (Tech) [THEY HAVE THE MODEL ALREADY]

Stockman Pod (Tech)

Shiva Shredder (Might)

Claw Shredder (Cunning)

Mini Shredder (Swift)

Renet (Spirit or Tech)

Splinter [Young] (Swift or Cunning)

Shredder [Young] (Might or Cunning)

Kavaxas (Spirit)

Tatsu (Spirit)

Don Visioso (Tech)

Zombie Shredder (Spirit)

Sir Malachi (Spirit)

The Hammer (Might)

Ho Chan (Spirit)

Big Foot (Might)

The Finger (Cunning or Tech or Swift)

Savanti Romero (Cunning or Tech)

Scumbug (Might)

Antrax (Swift or Spirit)

Wingnut (Swift or Cunning)

Screwloose (Swift)

[soupofturtle]

A list of all TMNT 2012 episodes

Season 1

"Rise of the Turtles, Part 1" "Rise of the Turtles, Part 2" "Turtle Temper" "New Friend, Old Enemy" "I Think His Name is Baxter Stockman" "Metalhead" "Monkey Brains" "Never Say Xever” "The Gauntlet" "Panic in the Sewers" "Mousers Attack!" "It Came From the Depths" "I, Monster" "New Girl in Town" "The Alien Agenda” "The Pulverizer" "TCRI" "Cockroach Terminator" "Baxter's Gambit" "Enemy of My Enemy” "Karai's Vendetta" "Pulverizer Returns" "Parasitica" "Operation: Break Out" "Booyaka-Showdown, Part 1" "Booyaka-Showdown, Part 2"

Season 2

"The Mutation Situation" "Invasion of the Squirrelanoids" "Follow The Leader" "Mutagen Man Unleashed” "Mikey Gets Shellacne" "Target: April O'Neil" "Slash and Destroy" "The Good The Bad And Casey Jones" "The Kraang Conspiracy" "Fungus Humungous" "Metalhead Rewired" "Of Rats and Men" "The Manhattan Project, Part 1" "The Manhattan Project, Part 2" "Mazes And Mutants" "The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman" "Newtralized" "Pizza Face" "The Wrath of Tiger Claw" "The Legend of the Kuro Kabuto" "Plan 10" "Vengeance is Mine” "A Chinatown Ghost Story" "Into Dimension X" "The Invasion, Part 1" "The Invasion, Part 2"

Season 3

"Within The Woods" "A Foot Too Big" "Buried Secrets" "The Croaking" "Dream Beavers" "Race With the Demon" "Eyes of the Chimera" "Vision Quest" "Return to New York" "Serpent Hunt" "The Pig And the Rhino" "Battle For New York, Part 1" "Battle For New York, Part 2" "Casey Jones VS. The Underworld" "The Noxious Avenger" "Clash Of The Mutanimals" "Meet Mondo Gecko" "The Deadly Venom" "Turtles In Time" "Tale Of The Yokai" "Attack Of The Mega Shredder!" "The Creeping Doom" "The Fourfold Trap" "Dinosaur Seen In Sewers!" "Annihilation Earth!, Part 1" "Annihilation Earth!, Part 2"

Season 4

"Beyond The Known Universe" "The Moons of Thalos 3" "The Weird World Of Wyrm" "The Outlaw Armaggon!" "Riddle Of The Ancient Aeons" "Journey to the Center of Mikey's Mind" "The Arena of Carnage" "The War for Dimension X" "The Cosmic Ocean" "Trans-Dimensional Turtles" "Revenge of the Triceratons" "The Evil of Dregg" "The Ever-Burning Fire" "Earth's Last Stand" "City At War" "Broken Foot" "The Insecta Trifecta" "Mutant Gangland" "Bat in the Belfry" "The Super Shredder" "Darkest Plight" "The Power Inside Her” "Tokka vs. The World" "Tale of Tiger Claw" "Requiem" "Owari"

Season 5

"Scroll of the Demodragon" "The Forgotten Swordsman" "Heart of Evil" "End Times" "When Worlds Collide" "Yojimbo” "Osoroshi No Tabi"/Journey of fear "Kagayake! Kintaro" "Lone Rat And Cubs" "The Curse of Savanti Romero" "The Crypt of Dracula" "The Frankenstein Experiment" "Monsters Among Us!" "Wanted: Bebop and Rocksteady" "The Foot Walks Again!" "The Big Blowout"

Raphael: Mutant Apocalypse (Season 5 arc set in a bad future)

The Wasteland Warrior The Impossible Desert Carmageddon

1 Note: A piece of Sonic fanart based on the Parasitica episode is how I first discovered the series, I was curious about the context behind it and learned about TMNT 2012 when I looked into it.

[srhunt]

I could’ve made this entire video JUST about TMNT 2012

I didn’t even bring up:

Buried Secrets (basically a fusion of Evil Dead and The Thing)

The Rat King

Squirrelanoids (their take on a Xenomorph)

Parasitica

Mutagen Man (remember when Donnie said he’d fix him and then never did?)

In Dreams and the Dream Beavers (Nightmare on Elm Street, they even got Freddy Krueger himself, Robert Englund, to voice two of the beavers with the Cryptkeeper, John Kassir, voicing the other two)

Cockroach Terminator

Speed Demon (idk if they ever confirmed it but I always believed it was a parody of Stephen King’s Christine)

And the aforementioned resurrected Shredder

This is barely scratching the surface. I think we can all agree that TMNT 2012 was the scariest iteration of the Turtles, especially for little kids.

But for the sake of my point, I wanted to show different versions to prove that violence has always had a part in TMNT.

I had a concerned adult approach me at work yesterday and tell me that Mutant Mayhem was “so violent”.

I responded with, “Really?”

But in my head I was thinking, “oh honey, that’s NOTHING”

(Mutant Mayhem had a few moments that made me go “OH GEEZ!” but its no where close to being the most violent TMNT project)

[drummergirl231]

But guys look at Donnie’s cockroach and how excited and proud he is to go on his first and last mission. 

[madscientistutm]

Countdown to the New TMNT Series: “Cockroach Terminator” Look Back

TMNT 2012 S1E18 (#18): “Cockroach Terminator” Analysis

Some of the worst episodes in an action cartoon center around melodrama. The need to over emotionalize a story rather than base it around other elements, important ones if you will, such as character development and linear progression. While it’s also important to throw in some fun moments: Raph’s screaming picking up where it left off in “The Alien Agenda”, Donatello getting cockroach juice on his chin, some good and funny lines by Michelangelo, and Leonardo talking Kraang by accident, the story needs to be more than the sum of its parts. It’s so frustrating, especially nowadays, when bad movies and television episodes that drive you crazy get passes from the rest of the audience because they end up being judged by their moments rather than the complete project. And while it’s not as melodramatic as future entries, “Cockroach Terminator” at times tries to beat us around the head with the theme of owning up to ones fears (with Raph lending a hand with his overemphasis on doing so near and at the end) while lacking any sort of actual development for Raphael himself or for providing anything of interest for the Kraang’s plot to drill down to the center of the city.

 But there’s more than that! If it wasn’t for the incontestably cool design of the cockroach terminator and the ghastly sight he becomes when he ‘molts’, it would be really easy to get lost as to who and what we should be concentrating on. Even though the Kraang’s plot is what we should be focusing on since it provides the most danger to the city, there’s a lot more interest and (ironically) danger to the turtles right then and there thanks to their newest creation. As was the case in “Metalhead”, their attempts to reach the epicenter of New York comes off as so fuzzy and vague it practically comes off as arbitrary.

 Of course, it doesn’t help that for as interesting and cool as the cockroach terminator gets, he also ends up becoming just as arbitrary as the Kraang do here, in hindsight, because even with the door left wide open for his return he never comes back! I mean, let’s get this straight! He is shown to be alive near the end of the episode, he proved to be a capable adversary for the whole team (mentally for Raphael and physically for the rest of the team), there are 106 episodes left at this point, and they can’t bother to bring him back once?! That is a PROBLEM! The best TV series’ don’t abandon characters and/or storylines that are neither finished nor have the door left wide open for a return and do nothing with them! He doesn’t even have a voice actor so there’s no excuse! That deserves a drop in the rating!

P.S. SengalBoy, from wordpress.com, described this as “a filler meant to promote toys and that’s pretty much all they did.” While even the great action cartoons such as Batman TAS, Gargoyles, even Avatar sold toys too, they hardly ever let this practice bog down and lose the flow (and quality) of their main storyline(s). That could help explain why there became so many characters (other than the creators’ need to jam in every reference from this franchise under the sun) as well.     

[craftypeaceturtle]

Okay, here's a list of pure nonsense fluff for the 2012 boys!

(This isn't a full list but this is what I've found so far, I'll maybe keep this updated as I find more)

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Baby Steps by maddiecakeo

A collection of stories about the boys growing up— Following their milestones and firsts, and Splinter just trying his best.

Words: 9000

(What it says on the tin! This is really cute and sweet in how it talks about Splinter being a dad to the boys. The first words chapter is my favourite, it's so cute and sweet!!)

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Starlight Through a Brother's Eyes by her_silhouette

Mikey's having a bad day and Donnie finds a way to cheer him up. Years later, Mikey returns the favor. A part of the TMNT Secret Santa 2014 thing going on on Tumblr.

Words: 4000

(Has some very slight angsty undertones but I think this should count as fluff. A great exploration of Donnie and Mikey's relationship. It was really sweet and explores a dynamic of them both especially looking out for each other and how you look back at comforting childhood memories)

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Everyone Needs Hug by anonymous

Leo wakes up on the wrong side of the bed. After a disastrous morning he is eager to meditate, only it all goes wrong when he trips and falls into some framed family photos.

While cleaning up the mess he comes across a photo he has no recollection of.

Words: 2000

(If you want some tooth rotting family fluff then this is the story for you. It's just a real sweet story about making the most out of seemingly ordinary simple moments. Shows a real sappy side of Splinter.)

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Where Do We Begin? (the rubble or our sins) by chazzthegreatandpowerful

Mikey is hit by cuddle pollen, and he and his brothers try to deal with it. (And maybe heal some family wounds along the way.)

Words: 5000

(Again some slight angsty undertones here but the focus is definitely on fluff and the angst almost happens off camera. Great! Fantastic! Explores the 2012's turtle's physical side and how close they are as they reignite a closer relationship with each other.)

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Returning Familiarities by Soft_Dragon

Or, while Leo recovers he gets to spend more time with his family and let's his guard down for the first time in a long while.

Words: 4000

(An angsty set up as it takes place shortly after Leo woke up from the coma but the focus is on the family slowly recovering and rediscovering Leo's joy and silliness. A really cute look into the relationships surrounding Leo. The scene with Leo and April I thought was so cute!)

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smoke signals by cxlesstial and HeyAssbuttImBatman

It's an unremarkable day in New York City when Casey meets a horrible goose. But then he meets his soulmates, so it's not all bad.

Words: 17,000

(Not going to be for everyone, this is a human au and soulmate au for April, Casey and Donnie. Has the most creative and stupid set up for a soulmate au but god it was fun to read. The scene of April and Casey meeting the brothers was fucking cute. This is just a sugary sweet romance, nothing but pure fluff!)

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Fear Exhaustion by hatwall

After the terminator cockroach diabolical, Raphael finds himself seeking out comfort from his brothers.

Words: 2000

(Finally some Raph centric fluff!! This takes an episode and has the brothers all chilling out and decompressing with each other. Good ol' bros supporting bros! Love how they described the itchy discomfort as Raph tries to settle himself after such a tough mission.)

I love the angst and hurt as much as the next guy, I totally get it. But does anyone have any like pure sheer fluff fics for the 2012 turtles?

I think I have thoroughly latched on to the 2012 boys and sometimes life is hard and I want to read some meaningless nonsense fluff of the guys. If you have any fic recs, I would forever be in your debt

[fabuloustrash05]

“2012 Leo isn’t a terrible cook! He made ramen in that one episode-”

[legendaryjohnmarston]

Oh yeah I think I've seen this episode before

[incorrect-tmnt2012-quotes]

“This is amazing. You’re scared of something I’m not. I’m tougher than you. I’m tougher than Raph!”

— Mikey, after finding out Raph is afraid of bugs

[hyperfixationtimego]

does anybody else ever randomly think about the fact that Donnie’s name for Spy-roach before it was mutated was “Chong?” No? Just me?

[lazyvase]

TMNT Legends is the best TMNT game because I get to fight the Cockroach Terminator

[hamatoclan76]

Has anyone else noticed how differently Raph acts when he is his ¨normal self¨ vs when he is scared? When scared he is much less likely to be defensive and apologizes quickly. I think it is because he is very aware of his phobia and he hates looking scared like that in front of his brothers.

Note: The scared Raph clips are ¨Cockroach Terminator¨, the others are from ¨Turtle Temper¨ and ¨The Good, The bad and Casey Jones¨