Why TMNT (2012) Fails at Romance

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  @mdsystems4463 · 2 years ago · pinned

  Timestamps:<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI">0:00</a> Intro<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI&amp;t=194">3:14</a> Donnie x April (feat Cassy)<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI&amp;t=1592">26:32</a> Leo x Karai<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI&amp;t=2136">35:36</a> Mikey x Renet Tilley/Shinigami<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI&amp;t=2661">44:21</a> Raphael x Mona Lisa<br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVB6Ple0bI&amp;t=3481">58:01</a> Conclusion

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  @criptastical · 3 years ago

  Okay but the phrase &quot;they turned Leo into a full fruit ninja&quot; is the best thing I&apos;ve heard in ages

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  @SquidwardSmellsGOOD734 · 3 years ago

  I do agree with Raph x Mona being the best couple in the entire series. It wasn’t forced, awkward, or played for laughs, it felt natural, healthy, both characters bounce off each other really well, and, unlike his brothers, Raph actually wins the girl’s heart and earns it at the end.

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  @GreayWorks · 3 years ago

  I don&apos;t think it helps that Shredder&apos;s origin in this version was that he was a petty possessive man who couldn&apos;t handle romantic rejection and became obsessed with Tang Shen and would horde pictures of her in a very scary manner, and then you have Donnie just flat out stalk and take pictures of April.

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• BR

  @breaderikthegreat3224 · 10 months ago

  The only female character in the 2012 show I can think of that wasn’t a love interest for a turtle was the Ice Cream Cat

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• KH

  @khulanzuch5502 · 3 years ago

  Surprisingly, The turtle with the most rage issues has the most game in romance.

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  @Azulzinhokkk · 3 years ago

  I personally like April more as an adult, and working like an older sister to the younger Turtles. I hope we eventually get a dynamic like this again in the future. Ever since April got turned into a teen in 2012, we&apos;ve had few adult Aprils since.

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  @MorganWenninger · 3 years ago

  Can someone do an analysis about the friendship with Mikey and Leatherhead because I love that friendship

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  @stardust948. · 3 years ago

  I think a way to fix the whole Ralph giving Mona Lisa an Earth name is for her to give Ralph a Salamandrian name as well and make it more of a sharing culture thing. And throughout the show we have have Ralph learn more Salamandrian while Mona learns more about Earth

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  @Wandermidget · 3 years ago

  Gosh, Donnie and April&apos;s &quot;romance&quot; was the worst.<br>Not only did it sabotage Donnie&apos;s character, but he became such an insufferable jackass everytime he wanted to get in her pants (which was over 90% of the time they interacted). He my favorite turtle as well so it hurt even more witnessing it as the show aired over its five years. The whole show was telling him &quot;yo, it&apos;s not going to work out. She&apos;s not interested.&quot; Even Splinter was getting annoyed by it and that rat has the utmost patience for his sons.<br>And then April near the end basically gets gaslit into the relationship and the show pretends that Donnie did a good thing by persevering. &nbsp;Come on, man!

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  @mundoatena1674 · 3 years ago (edited)

  I think the reason so many people seem to think April is manipulative is because of two things: How quickly she is able to just throw away her friendship with the turtles (mostly cause the writers don&apos;t really know how to cause conflict between allies very well), which implies that she&apos;s only there because of wanting something, and because when presented with the opportunity to turn Donnie down, in A Foot Too Big, she kisses him and excuses his behavior, making him go back to the romantic circle, only to completely ignore his advances the next episode, which gives it an underlining tone of her not wanting him, but wanting him to want her. I don&apos;t really agree with either of this points because in both April is usually acting very out of character and it&apos;s obvious the writers just didn&apos;t know what to do with her.<br><br>Leo and Karai are... they are trully SOMETHING. Someone please tell me why the writers decided to keep making them flirt even AFTER they found out they were half siblings????? (Blood related half sibling, to make it worse) WHAT HAPPENED IN THE WRITING ROOM????<br><br>Mikey&apos;s and Raph&apos;s relationships have similar problems to me, but in different degrees. Both feel like a relationship thought last minute so that none of the turtles would end up not having a love interest, but their degree of success varies.<br><br>Mikey and Rennet doesn’t have anythinb inherently wrong with it, but it still doesn&apos;t work, Mikey tends to act a bit out of character because of the relationship and they just don&apos;t seem to have any chemestry at all. It&apos;s just... awkward.<br><br>Raph and Mona, however, have the problem of the rushed start. They fall in love and get in a relationship so quickly that it&apos;s a bit hard to take seriously as a romantic rather than just a one of crush, even tho they work very well together and it works to show Raph&apos;s soft side better (The writers do, however, manage to develop them romantically extremely well). Probably in a better written show, their relationship would have been considered a little bit weak because of the start, but here, just the fact that they&apos;re cute together manages to win a hundred points from the start because FUCKING FINALLY

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  @hazel.ii0 · 2 years ago

  the fact that the relationship advice april needed had to come out of the mouth of erma, who was a literal alien spy is crazy

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