#tmnt urban legends

[theresistanceneverquits]

They were vile for this btw

[genetello]

The Don from mm/tottmnt has a costume reminiscent of the cyborg Don from urban legends(imade comic)

[misteria247]

I'm gonna say something-

I propose......that the tmnt boys have a good adult future.

No dying/dead brothers or friends or dads.

No aliens taking over the planet and turning everything into either a wasteland or dustbowl.

No descendants of Shredder wanting to fuck shit up for them and ruining their lives.

No clan/alien/mutant wars.

Just a normal, happy adulthood and future. Doing mundane things like getting married or cooking a nice dinner or having a movie night with friends and family or hell even having a job or side hobby between ninja stuff. Ya know nice, soft things and not hmm I don't know UNRELENTING TRAUMA?????? THAT'D BE NICE YEAH????????????

[cobaltcable]

I know nobody asked but I'm gonna share this anyway since it's been eating my brain lately.

My dream cartoon/movie adaptation of the TMNT series would be a kinda sorta re-imagining of the 2003 series or 1990 movie continuity that adapts EVEN MORE of the original 1984 Mirage comic’s stories. Including stories from the image comics Urban legends run and eventually leading into TMNT: The Last Ronin and its universe of stories. All in one seamless long-running story. Maybe even with some re-contextualized stories from other popular TMNT continuities like the 2007 movie, the 2012 series, or IDW, but mostly sticking with the original comics. This will probably never happen but a guy can still dream!

[eg-tmnt]

Pimiko!

This was supposed to be part of a set. I'll link the set if/when I finish it.

[cutepastelstarsalior]

Raphael Hamato from Urban Legends

[gachacatt]

Day 13 - Urban In 1935, it was claimed in East Harlem that an 8-foot Alligator inside of their sewer systems, which was publicized intensely and spawned the claim and urban legend that there's Alligators all across NYC's underbelly, along with spawning the same rumours in other cities aswell. According to old stories, they were flushed down to the sewers, and found each other, quickly bonding with one another soon after to thrive. Realistically, the sewers arent healthy enough to have any fully grown alligators roaming underneath, especially in Manhattan. But there's been reports of rescuing small babies, so perhaps this is one of the most believable?

[nerves-nebula]

*coughing and blinking blearily* Raph trying to befriend Casey without scaring him cause Splinters instilled them all with extreme paranoia about humans and being dissected by the government.

so he leaves Casey gifts and scribbled notes like he’s some kind of sewer fairy god mother and Casey likes that but also sets up a trap to catch this weird cryptid who’s leaving webbed tracks all over his camp site

and their first face to face encounter starts with them beating each other up cause Casey tried to catch Raph in his trap, and then it ends with them bandaging each others wounds once Casey realizes Raphs the one giving him gifts

[lycankeyy]

Guys if any fans of tmnt are still following me through my incessant fnf posting please get this comic . It's so good. Holy fuck

Vibrates into the sun

[mikeywayarchive]

My Chemical Romance bassist Mikey Way has a new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Comic with "anime inspired" art and a villain that goes back to the original '90s toys

By George Marston published June 24, 2024

Mikey Way is turning the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' greatest love into their worst enemy

Full article under the cut:

(Image credit: IDW Publishing)

My Chemical Romance is one of the most popular bands of the last 20 years, and in the time since their last official release, several of the group's multi-talented members have branched into comic storytelling - including bassist Mikey Way, whose latest comic is a short in the upcoming anthology comic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black, White, and Green #2.

A veritable teen idol of his own thanks to My Chem's beloved presence in the punk and emo scene, Way is tapping into a deep-seated love of both the TMNT and their personal favorite food of pizza for a story that captures the youthful energy of the Turtles in a way that only someone who was there for their meteoric rise and pop culture presence could.

(Image credit: IDW Publishing)

"I was a massive Turtles fan as a kid! Being born in the '80s, wave one of Turtlemania hit when I was about eight years old, so safe to say I was all in," Way tells Newsarama. "My older brother was into the black & white comics early, so I was at least aware of the Turtles prior to that big boom, but my fandom really came alive with the original cartoon series." 

"Followed up by the Playmates toy line and then into the live action movie, it really checked every box imaginable for me," Way explains. "The characters and the world building had something for almost everyone. While I was initially into Michelangelo, (because of his name and the nunchucks) I grew into way more of a Raphael fan. He's got more layers as a character in my opinion."

(Image credit: IDW Publishing)

Way's brother is, of course, Gerard Way, singer of My Chemical Romance and founder of the DC imprint Young Animal, which published Mikey Way's first comic, Collapser, which was co-written by Shaun Simon with art by Ilias Kyriazis. For TMNT: Black, White, and Green, Way collaborated with artist Nikola Čižmešija and colorist Lee Loughridge, whose art you can see in the newly revealed pages from the story seen here.

"I love Nikola’s style so much!," Way says. "He has this fantastic anime inspired quality to his work, and it lends itself perfectly to a Ninja Turtles story. I was floored by his pencils and he was a pleasure to work with."

As for the content of the story itself, it all comes down to something that many fans of the TMNT probably love as much as the Turtles do themselves: pizza. Way brings in a classic villain, Pizza Face, who first appeared in the original TMNT toy line in 1990 as a villainous pizza chef, before being revived in the 2012 animated series as a mutated pizza blob.

(Image credit: IDW Publishing)

"I wanted to do a story that was an ode to '80s horror, with a nod to Candy Man or the urban legend of Bloody Mary," Way says of why he chose Pizza Face.

"The character of Pizza Face fascinated me as a kid, because he looked like the mascot on most Pizza boxes mixed with a 'Freddy' or 'Jason'," Way continues. "That mythology I created in my head as a kid really stuck with me. When the opportunity arose to write a Ninja Turtle story, it was literally the first thing that popped out of my head."

And yes, Mikey Way does have a favorite pizza place: 

"Star Tavern in Orange New Jersey. Hands down the greatest there is, in my opinion."

(Image credit: IDW Publishing)

Though Way's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Green story is only eight pages, Way does plan more comics to come very soon - though he's not quite ready to say exactly what just yet.

"I feel like I have more stories that I want to tell," he hints. "At the risk of sounding vague, I would say one can expect an announcement of some sort very soon."

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Black, White, and Green #2 is on sale now.

[theresistanceneverquits]

TMNT birth years

[tmntkiseki]

Oh damn, some more previews have been made available for the TMNT 40th anniversary comic anthology, one of which includes the complete listing of stories and the writer/illustrator credits. They are as follows

Mirage Comics

Mirage 1 Story

Story, Art: Kevin Eastman

Poem: Edgar Allen Poe

Letters: Tom Napolitano

"Monsters"

Story, Art, Letters: Jim Lawson

Colors: Steve Lavigne

"Gang Wars"

Story: Tristan Jones

Art: Paul Harmon

Letters: Tom Napolitano

Urban Legends

"Downtime"

Story: Gary Carlson

Art: Frank Fosco

Colors: Adam Guzowski

Letters: Tom Napolitano

TMNT Adventures (Archie)

"The Man Behind The Mask"

Story, Art, Letters: Chris Allan

Saturday Morning Adventures (1987)

"What About Tomorrow?"

Story: Erik Burnham

Art: Sarah Myer

Colors: Luis Antonio Delgado

Letters: Shawn Lee

2003 Series

"Splinter Forever"

Story: Lloyd Goldfine

Art: Khary Randolph

Colors: Emilio Lopez

Letters: Tom Napolitano and Shawn Lee

2012 Series

"Kraang Among Us"

Story, Art: Ciro Nieli

Letters: Shawn Lee

Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

"Farewell"

Story, Art: Andy Suriano

Letters: Tom Napolitano

IDW

"Father's Day"

Story: Tom Waltz

Art: Michael Dialynas

Letters: Tom Napolitano

"Teen Spirit"

Story: Ronda Pattison

Art: Pablo Tunica

Letters: Tom Napolitano

They also list all the art credits for the pinups that will appear in the issue, which include

Freddie E. Williams II

David Petersen

Ken Mitchroney (with colors by Aaron Hazouri)

Dan Duncan (with colors by Ronda Pattison)

Ronda Pattison

Sophie Campbell

Jodi Nishijima

Stan Sakai (with colors by Emi Fujii)

[glubby-guppiez]

*Random TMNT 2012 (mainly side characters) hc's bcuz hyperfixation

*(this is the best divider to ever exist btw)

*Warnings: Spoilers for TMNT 2012 ofc, mentions of gender dysphoria and trans related insecurity, transphobia, accidental arson, bullying, manipulation, ptsd, also the tone of the headcanons shift randomly also also typing quirk

*Chris Bradford is trans. )(e did a full transition, he did hormones, voice training, top and bottom surgery, a few different surgeries to make him look/feel more masculine, all the bells and whistles, even went the extra mile to do procedures to hide his surgery scars. )(e's closeted and does about everything in his power to make sure no one even question that he was assigned female at birth because he's scared of his social image of being the great macho man, Chris Bradford, crumbling.

*Leo mainly or solely uses fandom and fanfic socials like Wattpad, AO3, Amino, Tumblr, and maybe Twitter. She mainly interacts with Space )(eroes and Crognard The Barbarian fan posts and shows a special interest in gender swap aus.

*Later on, post show with Muckman's help the mutants are actually able to freely walk around humans without them completely flipping out and starting a mob to witch hunt after them.

*Speaking of walking around humans, Napoleon and the frogs down in Louisiana are considered local urban legend and humans get really excited when they spot the frogs in the woods.

*Dr. Rockwell is a very big coffee enjoyer and used to secretly steal coffee from the nearby shops around the mighty mutanimals hideout and on the rare occasion when someone caught him and called him out he would always use the excuse of the shops being owned by big corporations.

*Don Visioso is a deadbeat father of 5. )(e also has had multiple wives and many divorces.

*Mondo Gecko will call people posers if he's jealous enough of them.

*Ivan Steranko is also trans but has only had hrt and face masculinizing surgery and refuses to get top and bottom surgery.

*Anton Zeck is incredibly smart and performed extremely well in high school and even got free scholarships for how well he did.

*Shinigami is a big video game nerd and will geek out if anyone mentions one of the games she plays.

*The reason Anton hated the mutant name Mikey gave him at first is because it either sounds a lot like or straight up is a nickname old bullies of him gave in order to make fun of him.

*Premutation, Chris acts transphobic towards Xever (despite Xever being cis) out of jealousy and insecurity.

*Baxter Stockman is either a gay aroace trans mspec nonbinary man or a cishet ally. No in-between.

*Mini April cluster!!!:

*April has a deep love for literature and writes poetry in her spare time.

*She almost burned down the culinary class in her school once.

*She's questioning aroace.

*She felt extra empathy for Muckman because he reminded her of Kirby a little bit.

*She likes to hide stickers around the lair whenever has them on her person.

*She thoroughly enjoys having long conversations with each of the individual turtles. (It's her favorite way to spend time with anyone tbh)

*April does eventually take some time to properly learn Japanese and becomes pretty decent at speaking and reading it.

*)(er and Donnie often like to geek out together whenever they find anything new about aliens (both species they haven't seen yet and ones they know well like the kraang).

*End of the mini April cluster!!!

*Kirby O'Neil is a pretty decent cook. That man can make a mean chicken stew.

*Shinigami actually owns multiple cats. 2 ragdoll, 1 sphinx, 1 Persian, and 3 British shorthairs (I could name them all, but I don't wanna). Also, the majority of them are black cats. She feeds strays, too.

*The last headcanon is much to Karai's dismay because she is somewhat allergic. She gets headaches, her skin gets slightly irritated and she gets the sniffles if she's around cats for too long.

*Casey's younger sister wants to be a hair stylist when she grows up, so Jones let's her do his hair every once in a while and he flexes it to every one at the lair like: "Oh? My hair? Yeah, my sister did it for me. Pretty metal, what she did with it, right?"

*Tigerclaw is the only Foot Clan member to not bully Baxter Stockman.

*Someone manipulated and lied to Alopex in order to make her hate and hunt down her brother.

*After season 4, Baxter Stockman leaves New York and takes over Stockman Industries. (If you're unaware of what that is, it's on billboards that the turtles pass throughout the show the most notable appearance being in the ending scene of the final season 4 episode, 'Owari'.)

*Slash deep down still misses The Newtralizer.

*Leatherhead kind of freaks out (apologies for the bad wording) when someone fully wraps their arms around his neck when hugging him because it reminds him of the restraints the Kraang put him in.

*Pigeon Pete learns how to bake so he can make his own bread.

*The turtles get a Wii (or whatever the universes equivalent is).

*Mondo Gecko gets an old Xbox and plays Tony )(awk games, Bully, and Twisted Metal on it.

*Ivan and Anton actually move out to New Jersey post show.

*Alr, that's all for now, toodles!!!

[misteria247]

I'm so angry right now I'm thinking about Tmnt: Urban Legends and the recent chapter I'm in and in this chapter there's this superhero who protects a neighboring city near New York. His name is The White Knight.

And I've just realized that it's a parody of The Dark Knight.

He's supposed to be Batman.

First they pull the cute blonde haired child who's named Shadow but her real name's Maria thing which gives off Sonic the Hedgehog vibes and now this??????

When will the madness end?????????

[cobaltcable]

Also, this doesn’t count since it’s in urban legends, but Mikey says this and it’s one of the most Mikey things I’ve ever seen.

Look at how proud of himself he is for that

Common misconception about the og mirage ninja turtles comics that really pisses me off is that all of them are just “the angry one”. Like no the hell they ain’t. They’re just grittier than all the incarnations that came out after they did. Leo is still the leader, Don still does machines, Raph is still angry (he’s just angrier than usual), and Mikey still cracks jokes. You can see all their personalities in there if you pay closer attention to how they’re each written.

Leo is the first turtle we meet in issue #1 and he is not only narrating the entirety of the first battle against the purple dragons, but you can CLEARLY SEE HIM LEADING THE CHARGE IN FRONT OF THE OTHER TURTLES IN THE FIRST PAGE AND LANDING THE FIRST BLOW ON THE SECOND PAGE (with Don right behind him). We also see him coming up with plans as early as issue #2, when he leads the other turtles to distract the mousers while Don and April reprogram them. Another example of Leo’s personality would be the Leonardo micro series issue (which was adapted in both 2003 and 2012) when he fights the entire foot clan on his own before shredder throws him through April’s window, showing that he is still clearly the most skilled and disciplined of all the turtles. Raph even comments that Leo is probably getting carried away with his training.

Raphael is even more obvious. In issue #1, Raph is described by Leo as so eager to fight that he’s actually quivering with anticipation. Later on in the story, the Raphael Micro series issue (which was adapted directly into the 2003 series S1E4: Meet Casey Jones and to a lesser extent the 1990 movie) He loses control over his anger while sparring with Mikey and nearly kills him in the heat of the moment. Then he meets Casey jones who makes him struggle with his anger even more before they bond over fighting crime.

Donatello isn’t as over the top as his later incarnations, but he’s still very much the smart one. In issue #2 the fist thing we see him doing in his down time is fixing up a circuit board. And later in that same issue he tells April he’s familiar with computers and helps her reprogram the mousers all by himself. In issue #11, April writes about Don fixing up all of the old machinery around the farm house to keep himself busy.

Mikey's sense of humor might be the least obvious to spot, but he still has his silly moments. At the end of issue #4 we see him pull this silly stunt when he's almost left behind by the other turtles. In the Michaelangelo Micro Series issue we see him shred on a snow sled and adopt klunk before geeking out in a toy store.

The turtles have always been the turtles. Whether they all have red bandanas or not they're still the same turtles we all know and love.