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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 87 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Their disguise for going out in public so people won't know they are mutant turtles is a trench coat and a hat. They even still wear their ninja masks.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you saw what looked like a giant ninja mask wearing anthropomorphic turtle stuffed into a trench coat, are you going to say anything?

The disguise is just a courtesy to let the average human have plausible deniability.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Didn't April also put them on the news all the time, calling them turtles? 🤔 I think the humans just didn't care. Why would they? The turtles weren't the ones robbing stores and beating up random people or throwing the city into Dimension X every week. That was, in fact, a human and a giant sentient brain.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

sentient brain

That's the usual state of brains, isn't it?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Er... Ok but do brains usually pilot a human shaped robo... Oh. Oh shit.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 week ago

Counterpoint: gestures broadly

[–] Cethin 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Presumably this means sapient, as in the thing humans have but other animals don't (the term sentient is often misused to mean sapient). In which case, no. Most brains are not sapient. Only humans are as far as we're aware currently, but definitely not ants and other insects that far outnumber us.

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's New York, they could easily go pretty much anywhere without being clocked as anything weird.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Isnt there a dude in New York who just runs around wearing a rat mask? I feel like the turtles are slightly more normal, also Vermin Supreme is close enough that at any given time he could theoretically be in New York.

Vermin Supreme is close enough that at any given time he could theoretically be in New York.

I don't know whether you're trying to scare New Yorkers or pique the interest of Schrödinger groupies 🤔

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[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Do you think they underestimate normal humans? It almost feels a little insulting.

[–] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

Can you blame them?

[–] errer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If you watch the show the humans are monstrously stupid. So yeah don’t need to put much effort into their disguises.

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[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This would actually be a pretty dope halloween costume.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried that one year, and it just came off like a creeper.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You still have to wear the turtle shell underneath

[–] simplejack@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

His mistake was being totally nude under the trench coat.

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[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] 4am@lemm.ee 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There is no ethical consumption

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Did... Did I indirectly kill Jamal?

[–] popekingjoe@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we all did. I had both Transformers and Ninja Turtles toys.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

No I'm pretty sure it was mostly this guy

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Like every Saturday morning cartoon in existence.

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As the target demographic in the 90s, I was happy to beg my parents for them and watch the TV shows. I saw it as a win-win.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I didn't have a ton of toys as a kid but I loved Ninja Turtles. When I got the sewer lair playset I was pumped. What I really wanted was the Technodrome though. I think that's what it was called. Wonder where all my TMNT dolls ended up?

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Well, the Ninja Turtles were originally an unsubtle Daredevil parody...

(Is "parody" the right word? I think they were part parody and part homage.)

[–] arken@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

That's why it's the "foot" clan. The ninjas in Daredevil were called The Hand.

Edit: and I just remembered, it's Master Splinter because "Stick" was Daredevil's sensei.

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 week ago

They were also mutated by the same ooze as Daredevil, iirc he fell in it and it blinded him, then dripped from there into the sewer and on Splinter and the Turtles.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

"Homage" is the word the creators would have used.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was also super violent, so I will forever remain surprised that it became a kids thing.

But then Nickelodeon decided to give the guy who made the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac a show and we got Invader Zim, so weirder things have happened.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What human would like to fly in a Zeppelin looking like a human body part?

Edit: Ok, makes sense:

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

it never occurred to me just how brand-conscious super heroes are in general.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

You obviously never saw Mystery Men.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Alfred is really Bruce's PR guy.

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

That could be anybody.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 19 points 1 week ago

Hey those toys ain't gonna sell themselves.

[–] shatterling@lemm.ee 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://media1.tenor.com/m/33EzbxFZQnEAAAAd/yogurt-spaceballs.gif

And I fell for it too. I had the turtles sewer boat, but always actually wanted the zeppelin

[–] shyguyblue@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The art of subtlety meets the reality of capitalism?

[–] simple@lemm.ee 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Lemmy user try not to bring up capitalism in every thread challenge (LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE!!!)

[–] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

They made some cool toys so why not bring it up?

[–] Hackworth@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I like how they didn't even bother to match the cartoon and toy versions like at all.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

That marketing copy is just amazing.

First of all, acknowledging that the blimp is "incredibly wacky"

Then trying to sell the fact that it doesn't float, mount or have any powered features as "Just you and good clean fun!"

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wanted the Technodrome so bad...

But this unlocked a memory of my very early 20s. We were having a party at my apartment and somebody got a big TMNT doll out. Like a foot long, don't remember which turtle. We tied it to a hook in the ceiling of the 2nd floor porch and strapped a bunch of fireworks to it including several rockets duct taped to the back of his shell. My roommate set it off while there were at least 15 people on that porch. Fucking hilarious, it spun around crazy fast exploding shit everywhere.

Kids- we are lucky nobody got hurt blah blah blah

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But they are right: You can’t sell cool toys with subtlety.

[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

So, you're not wrong, but... these shows were literally designed to sell the toys. They were basically half-hour commercials.

G.I. Joe, TMNT, Transformers, X-Men, He-Man, Power Rangers, My Little Pony... they were all built on the same model (hey kids! whine at your parents until they buy our plastic ~~dolls~~ action figures!).

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[–] itsnicodegallo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 week ago
[–] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

so that's who keeps sending the bloons in bloons td

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