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[hero-villian-blog]

On Self Inserts Part 1

So in recent discourse certain people will try to call certain media bad because one or some characters are self inserts, even if they actually aren't. S o I wanted to throw my 2 cents in on this by talking about the Heroes in Half Shells, the TMNT.

So a cosplayer who was cosplaying Mutant Mayhem's depiction of April O'Neil was used by certain people online to say that depiction of April was actually based on her, that Mutant Mayhem's April is an self insert, and that depiction was bad and the movie was bad. Which aside from it not being the case and the movie is a good movie, and said depiction of April is actually a good depiction.

There's this idea that is spread around that self inserts are almost inherently bad. But this ignores how many fictional characters are not only based on real people, but the authors themselves. We need not look further than the Heroes in Half Shells themselves to actually get a prime example. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are self inserts, they are apparently based on the creators and their friends. Not only that but April is actually based on Eastman's at the time girlfriend April Fisher. With her design in many comics making this fact obvious.