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After the (second) death of Sophia Leigh, Miss Lara Croft took over as the new CEO of SLinc.

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Took the writers Donnie and Leo 5 seasons to find something to bond over

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Physically a Leo, spiritually a Mikey.

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I want to reiterate the fact I think that Rise Leo and 2003 Mikey are eerily similar in a lot of ways. To those who write Leo as all silent and a shell of himself after krang- I respect you but here me out: he still is a flamboyant king with Issues ™️ and very much in denial/uses humor as a coping mechanism…kind of like 2003 Mikey, right?

(Sorry for the sketch lines and untidiness overall! I don’t have much time rn to do proper art 😓)

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2003!Donatello is the real baby of the bunch <3

She's their sister fr, they're legit ganging up on Casey like he has ulterior motives lol

And then they got upset at the thought of her not needing to spend time with them anymore once she gets her shop back, help-

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Michelangelo: *walks into a room*

Other turtles: “LET’S FREESTYLE ABOUT THIS INCREDIBLE EVENT”

(Fair, honestly.)

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Shikamaru may be Naruto's best friend...

...but in Boruto he became such a stick in the mud.

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POV: you're Donatello in the 2003 series

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Background from episode "Space Invaders [Part 3]"

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*smoke emiting from clenched fist*

woman: OOOOoOOH NoO!!!! It’s meelltIINNGG!!

*ring melts off woman’s hand*

woman: MY PRECIOUS POWERRrRR RING! GONE FOORRVVERrrr..

woman: *screams like a pterodactyl* 

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It cannot be a coincidence!

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Every time I read "Amy was bastardized under Pontaff, she was nothing more than a stalker" my blood boil. To quote the YMMV page of Lost World on TV Tropes:

Character Rerailment:

Amy, surprisingly enough. In a cutscene, Amy is seen comforting the animal friends that Sonic has recently freed. In games like Sonic Adventure 1 and 2, Amy can be shown being a caring person in cases like the Flicky from Adventure 1, and this aspect of her character was nearly forgotten due to the character's Flanderization. Not once has Amy gushed about Sonic in the entire cutscene, and she was even seen having a normal conversation with him through the Miles Electric. Over the course of the entire game, Amy never even mentions her crush aside from the scene where she appears to die during the Deadly Six's world-draining.

Any and all complaints people have about "Pontaff writing" is usually completely nonsensical and baseless and stupid.

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Shikamaru and Kankuro are pricks (spoilers from the latest chapter of Boruto)

Gaara's life is at stake.

Kankuro phones Shikamaru for help.

Kankuro also asks Shikamaru to not tell Temari so she doesn't worry.

Temari. Gaara's sister. Shikamaru's wife. But above all else, an ADULT AND RESPONSIBLE WOMAN.

This is how they treat her.

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I've found many fanfictions that deal in their own different ways to the aftermath of every Donnie Trauma... except the Kirby one. You know, the ONLY incident that had a permanent bad ending in the cartoon. Do you think there's a specific reason?

I don't know myself. I would say it's because it's one of the weaker episodes in the series, but that doesn't make any sense because as a Donatello-focused episode, it really shows the kind of character he is when you take away his engineer/mechanic deal and just focus on Donnie and what he's like as a person, er, turtle. It's also an incredibly touching tribute to the late Jack Kirby, and Don's VA has gone on record saying it was his favorite episode to voice act in the series. (Never mind that it was also the only episode to have its ending reanimated so that it was closer to the original comic issue it was based on, like damn.)

My best guess is that it just tends to be overshadowed by the other Don traumas. Seasons 3 and 4 included multiple major story arcs where the plot decided to give him the short end of the stick (Space Invaders, Same As It Never Was, Good Genes), while The King was a single isolated filler episode from Season 1 that could, in theory, be removed from the series and not affect the plot too drastically. But that's just my thoughts on the matter, haha.

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I tried to make him smile...

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True story. I developed a hyperfixation for Sonic after I watched the cutscenes of Sonic Lost World (the scene where he was all alone really broke me), so for the first time I reached for the fandom. I found a small forum, joined, and poured my heart into describing how great of a character Sonic was for me, with all his strenghts and weaknesses. ...then, the freaking ADMIN of the forum replied, telling me "If you like seeing the emotional side of Sonic, forget about the games. He almost feels nothing there! Go read the Archie comics instead." They could have simply suggested me to search the comics, without downplaying the reason I joined the forum in the first place, but noo. THIS is the proper way to welcome a newcomer!

I'm very sorry to hear about that. That is definitely a very representative experience though, I'm sorry to say. So many people who call themselves Sonic "fans" really just genuinely do hate Sonic, I'm not being hyperbolic when I say that about them. They hate the games, they hate the people who make the games, and often they are hateful towards people who enjoy the games. And it's incredibly alienating because in the english speaking community of the internet, they feel like the majority.

But the truth is they're just a vocal minority. Every Sonic game sells millions upon millions of copies. For every youtube video saying such and such Sonic game sucked that gets 100K upvotes from people agreeing with it, there are 900K people who bought and enjoyed that game and are just quietly staying in their lane about it.

Even Sonic Lost World sold 700K in its first year before being ported to PC, and it was a Wii U exclusive. Do you know how many Wii U's were sold in 2013, the same release year as Lost World? Around 3 Million. Meaning almost one third of everyone who bought a Wii U that year also bought Sonic Lost World. That is a massive slice of a very small pie. Anyone who acts like Lost World's sales (before it ported to PC) are indicative of anything besides the fact that the Wii U was a failure of a console is being economical with the truth.

Don't be discouraged, that's all I can say. If they can't appreciate Lost World then that's their loss. And their sour attitude is no reason to not also give the comics a fair shake if you're interested in them and want to come to your own conclusions as well.

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And what if I cried until I threw up

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Don't show this to Randomalistic!