#ninja have problems

[excali8ur]

Weird dream.

[turtleblogatlast]

[ cw: death mention / strangulation mention / stabbing mention / blood mention / self-sacrifice / codependency mention in tags / ]

I think a lot about how common it is for Raph to be the one to have direct focus put on him when Leo gets into all his near death experiences.

Like, when Leo is thrown off a building, it’s Raph who’s right there jumping after him, not even thinking about the consequences to himself when he does. When Leo almost gets skewered by the Krang, Raph’s right there to take the blow and send Leo to safety without a second thought. When Leo’s being strangled to near death, it’s a Krangified Raph doing the job, doing exactly what Raph would never, ever want to do. When Leo is telling Casey Jr to close the portal, it’s Raph who tries desperately to convince Leo otherwise.

Likewise, Leo is consistently very single minded when Raph gets forcibly separated from them. Both when in the sewers and by the Krang, Leo is dead set on finding Raph first and foremost.

I also think it’s interesting that during each of Leo’s near death experiences, the lightheartedness of his words during them goes directly hand in hand with both how close Raph is to him physically and how much danger Raph is also in in that moment. From a literal “I told you so” as Leo’s falling away from Raph to a soft joke about how “hero moves” are Raph’s style - both of these are on the more morbidly carefree side and both of these notably take Leo farther away from Raph and, in turn, have Raph not in immediate danger.

On the other side of things is the apology from Leo, heedless of the danger he himself is in as he seriously and genuinely speaks to a Krangified Raph face to face. Then there’s Leo’s freezing and desperation as Raph takes a hit meant for him and sends just Leo to safety, leaving Raph himself behind. Both of these involve much closer proximity and Raph being directly harmed - these together make Leo much more vulnerable in his words and actions, something not even the threat of death can make him.

These two care about each other so much, and they’re way too much alike for their own good.

[dragonpyre]

Young Justice au where post canon, Ra's decides to finally just dump Jason in the pit for whatever reason and now he has a screaming teen/adult on his hands that he kind of didn't prepare himself to deal with it

[hotheadedhero]

Right, Google, no need to out me like this

I came here to read, not to be judged

[calypsolemon]

sometimes people negatively criticizing DR will say things like "it must be bad writing otherwise it doesn't make sense why the ninja act differently in [DR situation] than they did in [MOS situation]" with no further justification for why that would be the case and it's like. my brother in spinjitzu the Situations are Different

[forgetful-nerd]

Each time an older iteration of TMNT meets a younger one, they become instant older brother figures for the next iteration. And each time they interact, the older TMNT generation get stressed out so much that they age by like 10 years.

[ssswadaa]

nobody:

shino in naruto: path of the ninja on the nintendo ds:

[sweeneydino]

What's one of your favorite episodes of Rise? :0

Hard to say as I love all the episodes 😭 but I guess I would be Shadow of Evil. Just seeing Splinter take charge as soon as he realizes the foot are expanding, going after them, and basically proving he's still an incredibly dangerous foe, was just so satisfying.

I think some people forget that just because he's "gross", fat, and lazy, that he's actually the strongest Splinter. He just doesn't show it because of his past and his depression. Also his silliness.

Bro just conserves a ton of energy 😤

Ended up going on a rant- whoops.

[saline-coelacanth]

I will forever be so upset that the Ice Chapter didn't give us a Kai VS Ice Emperor fight like come OOOON!

And I'm not even coming at this from an oppo angle. Like yeah, I love oppo, everyone knows that, but it just feels like such a missed opportunity to have Kai have to fight Zane and have him be the one to get him to snap out of it. But no, it has to be Lloyd because he's Lloyd.

And another thing that makes me so upset regarding the missed potential here is the fact that in the Fire Chapter, the big bad villain is Aspheera. And at the end of the Fire Chapter, Zane is the one who defeats her, you know, the master of ice. So then in the Ice Chapter, it would make sense that the one to defeat the big bad would be Kai since he's the master of fire and it would make for good parallels or whatever. But no we don't get that.

At the very least we get that awesome, badass scene where Kai defeats Boreal and saves the others. That scene was amazing, I just with we got a little more from Kai, you know?

[blue-tailed-artist]

Day 22 is scratchy.

[revitalizationrat]

Yeah, so basically,,, I don't know how to color, if anyone has any tips🙏🙏 I'll be happy to learn

[fabuloustrash05]

Look, if you don’t like 2012 April that’s totally 100% valid. We’ve all got different opinions and we’re all not gonna like/hate the same characters, HOWEVER calling her a “pick me girl” is one of the most incorrect statements said to describe her as a character.

[haro0o]

One of frame I’m using for a video smkksks

I can make him a better man I SWEAR—

[writer-room]

Rewatching the earlier, and even pilots episodes, of Ninjago are so WILD man. First of all, you notice all the things that are just plain forgotten about or pushed aside in later seasons. Kai originally being the main character, sure, we all know that one, but Cole was heavily implied to be, or become, the leader of the Ninja, that was Cole’s thing. Zane was automatically described with having a sixth seer sense, when nowadays it shows up very, very infrequently. Lloyd used to basically be the Avatar, does anyone remember that? This kid was just the Avatar.

And then you remember the silly things. Like how the skeleton army was once a threat. Like...the skeletons. We battled a giant snake, smaller snakes, robot armies, sentient video games, Garmadon a billion different times, the Overlord, Oni...and the skeletons used to be a worthy adversary. The skeletons.

Did you all remember that Cole’s earth dragon used to...breathe earth? I’ve been forced to remember. Rocky used to breathe earth as a form of attack. It was shown through brown swirly wisps in that beautiful, incredibly shitty 2011 effect. The Underworld used to be implied to be the place where all dead people went, or at least the bad ones. We never heard of a Departed Realm. Do we remember the time Cole had a scene that was a direct parody of Michael Jackson? I sure do. Genuinely the highlight simply because I don’t know how to describe the emotion I felt upon seeing it.

[jazzy-a]

Source: Brandon Rogers JKJkjkj

(If you couldn't tell, I originally only had 2k12 on this >D<)

[mixelation]

About Minato’s teammate. I think that they’re an uchiha. It’s a headcanon of mine lol

That’s a really popular fan theory, I think. Well, the most common theory I see is that his female teammate is specifically Mikoto and the male one is Teuchi the ramen guy (or sometimes even Fugaku). However the Minato oneshot basically disproves they’re any previously named characters:

I don’t think the female teammate looks like Mikoto (and Mikoto likely is older than MinaKushi— remember Itachi was like five when Sasuke was born. Not impossible for her to have had him as a teen, but unlikely.) BUT I think headcanoning her as an unnamed Uchiha is reasonable. Like I think if Kishimoto intended it, he would have given her a sharingan here…. But he also didn’t give her a name, so I’m not sure he intended anything at all. It’s a reasonable headcanon.