#1987 april o'neil yellow jumpsuit

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[jadethest0ne]

Yes YES THIS!

May I also add on the fact that I hear people (very well-meaning people, mind you) harp on 1987 April for her supposedly "demeaning" character design. They don't like her because her appearance, to them, is eye-candy meant for a male gaze. And, listen, I understand that assumption and that knee-jerk reaction to decide that it is "problematic". At first glance, she seems like a token female character in a 1980s show primarily marketed to young boys amongst a largely male cast. But I assure you that is NOT her character or her role in the show. And I find it a teensy bit disconcerting and hypocritical that these (again, very well-meaning) people are doing exactly what they'd admonish others for doing - judging her based on her looks.

If you are just seeing a woman in a yellow jumpsuit who is just a damsel in distress, then you are just as bad as any womanizer for pushing that narrative and that legacy onto an amazing character.

Furthermore, it means you don't know April O'Neil.

She is such an amazing character in the 1987 show! She is scrappy and fearless! She has so much agency as a character. A damsel in distress has no agency because it's the narrative acting on the character or using them as plot device. But like the graphic above shows, it's April who is constantly acting upon the narrative. She is the one who goes into dangerous situations because she wants to get that story. She wants to fill that report! She wants to beat her cowardly co-worker, Vernon, in getting the scoop, so that she can wrestle her way to the top of her very sexist workplace and show up her terrible boss! And yeah, that might occasionally end in her capture. But that's on her. It doesn't just randomly happen for no reason.

She always has an important part to play by either pushing the TMNT into action, getting important pieces of information, or even helping out and supporting the turtles in other ways. She has goals! She has sass! She is in nearly every episode!!! She's largely the character that the audience can relate to most as she's the one we follow in our discovery of the TMNT.

April is ingrained in the narrative and an important part of the cast, and to have people relegating to her as anything other than a recklessly brave and badass companion to the turtles are doing her such a disservice!

Have I ever mentioned that I LOVE 87 April??

@pumpkinpie59

[reneg661]

Is an introduced as a television reporter for Channel 6 News. She was employed by Burne Thompson, though because of her headstrong nature and passion for her work, she expressed frequent disagreement with the assignments he gave her. She also butts heads on a regular basis with Vernon Fenwick, the director/camera operator whose enormous ego compelled him to beat April on her stories whenever possible. April was best friends with Irma, the receptionist at Channel 6. She lived in an apartment in New York City, though during the course of the series, she was forced to relocate because of a variety of indirectly Turtle-related mishaps. In seasons 8-10, April was fired by Burne Thompson and became a freelance journalist. April has chin-length auburn hair. Her body is athletic in build, and her eyes are either dark brown, black, blue, or green. She could usually be found wearing a distinctive yellow jumpsuit with a white belt, a watch, and white boots. When at the beach, she wears a yellow bikini with matching flip-flops.

April O'Neil (c) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Art (c) reneg661

[demifiendrsa]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge - April O'Neil

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge will launch for Nintendo Switch and PC via Steam in 2021.

Character overview

Sporting her iconic yellow jumpsuit and trusty reporting gear, April unleashes flurries of hits against the Foot Clan’s devious soldiers via new gameplay. Her agility and far-reaching slide kicks help her close in on targets quickly, and she once again proves the turtles can rely on her unwavering support, even through slices of pizza.

Game overview

Heroes in a Half Shell

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge features groundbreaking gameplay rooted in timeless classic brawling mechanics, brought to you by the beat ’em up experts at Dotemu (Streets of Rage 4) and Tribute Games. Bash your way through gorgeous pixel art environments and slay tons of hellacious enemies with your favorite Turtle, each with his own skills and moves – making each run unique! Choose a fighter, use radical combos to defeat your opponents and experience intense combats loaded with breathtaking action and outrageous ninja abilities. Stay sharp as you face off against Shredder and his faithful Foot Clan alone, or grab your best buds and play with up to four players simultaneously!

Turtle Boys Don’t Cut Shredder No Slack

With Bebop and Rocksteady assaulting Channel 6 and stealing super gnarly devices to support Krang and Shredder’s latest twisted plan, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge sees the Turtles battling across a righteous range of timeless Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles locations. From Manhattan and Coney Island, to city rooftops and dank sewers, help the fearsome foursome trounce Foot Soldiers, Triceraton Warriors, and Rock Troops all the way to Dimension X!

Turtle Power

Enjoy stunning full-color pixel art graphics and a vintage Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vibe that will rock you straight back to the awesome 80s. Every character, vehicle, weapon, item, and background is directly inspired by the 1987 TV show, making you feel like you hopped into the television — with a dope mix of killer humor and action-packed adventures!

Key Features

Gnarly game design takes you back to the ’80s.

Beautiful full-color pixel art graphics.

Old-school gameplay enhanced with super-fresh mechanics.

Up to four players simultaneously.

Play with iconic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters and vehicles in diverse gameplay options.

Radical new story mode.

And totally more to come!

[sapphicconservative]

Hi! I hope you're having a good day. I'm not trying to pick a fight (because I agree with you) on the whole blackwashing thing of characters, but I heard somewhere that apparently April O'Neil was originally black in the comics and that's why they made her black in the new show? Idk if this is true (since the old comics kind of suck tbh) but I've seen people use that as justification to take a character that, at this point, is known for being a redhead and make her black "again". All of my white friends think it's great, but my mixed self is over here like "why can't we get new characters instead?" it would have been cool if they took like the concept of the girl turtle and made her into a human character. They could've made her black or a different race, but I guess that's too hard? I don't like the new tnmt anyway, I hate most of the character designs.

I'm doing alright! I hope your day is going well, too 💕

With April, it was always hard to tell what her true original race was because the comics were in black and white. Her hair was depicted as black and kinky on covers, so many people rolled with the assumption she was a black woman.

The wiki had this to say about April:

There wasn't really much about her race. This is a recent colored depiction of her in the classics where she has dark hair and light skin:

Here's the same panel with April in the original black and white version:

I couldn't find an early colored version of her, but personally, I've always interpreted her as a woman of Irish descent based on the name. The original Mirage comics, while iconic as they are, did not lay the foundation for April's appearance - or any of the turtles, given the black and white nature of the comics. In fact, the iconic colored masks we associate with the turtles? They all had red masks in the Mirage comics.

This all leaves us with two possible options -

1) April was intended to be a white woman with dark/red hair

OR

2) April is a light-skinned black woman

It doesn't even seem the people coloring the original comics (who are not the original creators, but most likely talked to them) are consistent due to her having two different appearances in the colored variants. Which is why people typically go with the next incarnation of TMNT characters - the 1987 cartoon.

It laid the foundation for the iconic looks by giving the turtles their different colored masks, and April her red hair and yellow jumpsuit.

[pocoslip]

Everyone knows April O'Neil 1987 is inspired by Fujiko Mine because David Wise likes Lupin the III BUT I doubt Eastman and Laird made 1984 April wear the Jumpsuit because I never heard anyone say Kevin and Peter likes the Lupin Anime too and she wears Blue in the Comics instead of the Famous Yellow

Did you know...

April's look in the cartoon came from a jumpsuit she wore in the comics and Fujiko Mine from Lupin III. Writer David Wise was a fan of the classic anime.

[refiningpalladium]

If it's the 1987 continuity, then a high stat in "girl" means you're a damsel in distress, sort of a living McGuffin, fought over by both sides, constantly in peril. A motivation for the good guys, if you will.

April O'Neil's statline is "Plucky redhaired girl reporter", btw. And her lowest stat is in "redhaired"; you can tell because her outfit isn't redhead-coded. That godawful yellow jumpsuit does not match her coloring at all.

The real problem with all existing tabletop RPG adaptations of the Teenae Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise is that in not one of them are your core numeric stats "Teenage", "Mutant", "Ninja" and "Turtle".