Current Events > April O'Neil is now black in latest TMNT

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toyota
10/20/18 7:53:59 PM
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au_gold
10/20/18 7:55:59 PM
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Hell yes, I love Megan Fox.
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 7:56:48 PM
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Hell yes, I love Megan Fox.
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Skye Reynolds
10/20/18 7:57:10 PM
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Diversity isn't the problem.
The lack of her signature womanly figure is the problem.
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boxington
10/20/18 7:57:44 PM
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why does it look like she's simultaneously leaning against something and standing straight
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Awesome
10/20/18 7:58:09 PM
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FF_Redux
10/20/18 7:58:25 PM
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 8:01:46 PM
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Awesome posted...
is this real?

yes it's for the nickelodeon show

meanwhile splinter looks like this
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/d/da/Rise_splinter.png
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I is smart
10/20/18 8:03:23 PM
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SSJGrimReaper posted...
Awesome posted...
is this real?

yes it's for the nickelodeon show

meanwhile splinter looks like this
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/d/da/Rise_splinter.png

Jesus fuck... they are really committed to making TMNT as terrible as they can aren't they?
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ninjarobot_22
10/20/18 8:03:33 PM
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Another nail in the coffin.
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kayoticdreamz
10/20/18 8:04:59 PM
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I is smart posted...
SSJGrimReaper posted...
Awesome posted...
is this real?

yes it's for the nickelodeon show

meanwhile splinter looks like this
https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/tmnt/images/d/da/Rise_splinter.png

Jesus fuck... they are really committed to making TMNT as terrible as they can aren't they?
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Vyrulisse
10/20/18 8:05:49 PM
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Skye Reynolds
10/20/18 8:05:54 PM
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April was biracial in the original comic.

If nothing else, this version is already a lot better than the 2k12 version.
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Jagermeister513
10/20/18 8:06:22 PM
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April was white in the original comics.
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Garioshi
10/20/18 8:06:34 PM
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@SailorGoon
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Sayoria
10/20/18 8:09:25 PM
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We can either make a new character, or colorize/reracialize the character!

I'll never understand this. It is like they want controversy behind changing race in things.
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Skye Reynolds
10/20/18 8:10:43 PM
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Sayoria posted...
We can either make a new character, or colorize/reracialize the character!

I'll never understand this. It is like they want controversy behind changing race in things.


They do. It's called viral marketing.
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SuperMedz3
10/20/18 8:13:07 PM
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Canceled
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ZMythos
10/20/18 8:14:06 PM
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The animation and art style are weird compared to the original, but the episode I saw was decent. I like the over-the-top flair it aims for.
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iPhone_7
10/20/18 8:17:00 PM
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The sanctity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is being trampled upon. Get Vanilla Ice we need his help
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kingdrake2
10/20/18 8:23:06 PM
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iPhone_7 posted...
The sanctity of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles is being trampled upon. Get Vanilla Ice we need his help

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ACHEEKSMALLOY
10/20/18 8:27:03 PM
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eston
10/20/18 8:27:29 PM
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Based on these two character designs I would guess the whole point is to make them different from the old characters, like a reimagining. And since I'm not part of their intended audience, I can't say it bothers me at all.

I grew up on the old cartoon and read the comics when I got older, and those two were very different from each other too.
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 8:28:24 PM
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Vanilla Ice is doing TMNT mac & cheese commercials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GqND0Dm4sw" data-time="

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spaghettyhoop
10/20/18 8:31:41 PM
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Skye Reynolds posted...
April was biracial in the original comic.

If nothing else, this version is already a lot better than the 2k12 version.


No she wasnt. She was originally intended to be half Asian but ended up portrayed as a standard 80s white woman with a perm.
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DarkTransient
10/20/18 8:34:22 PM
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Skye Reynolds posted...
Sayoria posted...
We can either make a new character, or colorize/reracialize the character!

I'll never understand this. It is like they want controversy behind changing race in things.


They do. It's called viral marketing.


Given how almost every franchise that's done this has experienced a drop in sales - that they try to attribute to bigotry, but ignore the fact that many franchises that created new characters outright that have minority status do really well - you'd think they'd have learnt by now that maybe this isn't a great type of marketing after all.

Yes, it gets people talking about your product, but it reduces actual sales.
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 8:35:11 PM
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Anyway Raphael is black
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ACHEEKSMALLOY
10/20/18 8:54:00 PM
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SSJGrimReaper posted...
Anyway Raphael is black

So he's not the same race as Lex Luthor then? Interesting
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SuperMedz3
10/20/18 8:54:19 PM
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SSJGrimReaper posted...
Anyway Raphael is black

It is green machine
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iPhone_7
10/20/18 9:52:48 PM
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kingdrake2 posted...

Yes its being ruined. How can TMNT be taken seriously anymore when theyre pulling this s***.

#NotMyTMNT
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Mister_Spyker
10/20/18 10:00:51 PM
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I'm 100% for the inclusion of minorities in all forms of media, especially black women. But this looks awful. Those glasses just scream third-wave-feminist.
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Alucard188
10/20/18 10:10:47 PM
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Why does she look like a fucking preteen?
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 10:12:19 PM
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Alucard188 posted...
Why does she look like a fucking preteen?

because she is i guess

cartoon april hasn't been an adult since the 2003 series
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Alucard188
10/20/18 10:13:07 PM
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But who will Mikey have sexual tension with now?
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NeonOctopus
10/20/18 10:14:32 PM
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what the fuck. Those designs look awful.

Give me 80s busty April O'Neal. I legit had a crush on her when I was a kid lol >_>
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ModLogic
10/20/18 10:20:10 PM
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alls good lads

got a token BLACK character now. diversity check passed. who cares about minorities not on the SJW bare minimum tolerance list.
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Blighboy
10/20/18 10:30:10 PM
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Alucard188 posted...
But who will Mikey have sexual tension with now?

Donatello was legit trying to fuck April in the 2012 show

The show dived back and forth between treating it as a joke and a serious character arc

I have no idea how it ended up because I never watched past season 3
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CyricZ
10/20/18 10:31:36 PM
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Having lived through six Ninja Turtles series, seven movies, eighteen video games and a billion comics, I don't really care what liberties they take with the formula at this point.
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Polycosm
10/20/18 10:33:52 PM
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CyricZ posted...
Having lived through six Ninja Turtles series, seven movies, eighteen video games and a billion comics, I don't really care what liberties they take with the formula at this point.

Yeah, I mean... those character designs are ugly as sin, imo (nothing to do with race), but I'm not the target audience and I don't at all expect to be catered to, so... whatever. Let them do their take.
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YourDrunkFather
10/20/18 10:34:38 PM
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Something about a black girl with an Irish AF last name is kinda lol worthy to me
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Jedor1000
10/20/18 10:34:44 PM
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I dont mind black April but I do mind this ugly ass style and going back to the cripple old man Splinter after we had such a great one in the last cartoon series.
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CE_gonna_CE
10/20/18 10:36:20 PM
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Wat
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boxington
10/20/18 10:37:32 PM
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YourDrunkFather posted...
Something about a black girl with an Irish AF last name is kinda lol worthy to me

I thought she was related to Shaq
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SSJGrimReaper
10/20/18 10:37:51 PM
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i wonder if they'll make casey jones black too
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Skye Reynolds
10/20/18 11:53:46 PM
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SSJGrimReaper posted...
cartoon april hasn't been an adult since the 2003 series


TMNT (2007)

You'd be forgiven for forgetting that movie existed. lol
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Touch
10/20/18 11:54:33 PM
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I remember when the pornstar April O Neil had a snaggletooth
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Funbazooka
10/21/18 12:01:31 AM
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Can't wait for April to become a guy and the turtles to become women turtles. Because then we will have achieved gender equality.

I think I saw some art depicting that scenario.
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Skye Reynolds
10/21/18 12:10:59 AM
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I'd be willing to give Venus De Milo a second chance. Just don't give her magic powers or make her a Mary Sue this time. Oh, and have Shredder defeat her the first time they fight. You can't just walk in and beat the series villain. You've gotta earn that right.
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TheCyborgNinja
10/21/18 12:18:36 AM
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They should make her Shaq's relative.
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