Something About The Foot Clan, I Wasn't Thinking Of Drawing The Villains In This Style But I Don't Think

Favorite turtle 🐢💙 ((+some closeups))

I'll see you all one day soon

Yapping about Leo

This.

He just looks so kind. Oftentimes, the animations are very over the top and cartoonish (which I love too, btw!), but these pictures, it feels like there's a soul behind them.

I don't know, maybe I've just been a Leo fan for so long that I've started seeing things, but these feel like real emotions to me.

Overall, Leo is a very empathic character. Mikey is seen as the glue that holds the team together, but I think Leo plays his part in that as well. He's also the one who tells everyone they did a good job as a team or individually.

Yea, he's a cutiepatootie!

TMNTember 2024 Day 21: Favorite Alien

MONA LISA WILL ALWAYS BE MY NUMBER 1 GIRL, but I have been growing a liking to Rook aka Irma for a while now. She deserved better. It would’ve been cool if Irma and Rook were revealed to be the same person, like Irma was Rooks undercover name so she could keep an eye on April and get close to the Turtles to retrieve intel for the Utrom council. I did actually make a rewrite based on this concept that you can check out HERE.

Tmaynt Day 14-17

one day our noses will meet, in the flesh

A Character First, A Love Interest Second: RaMona Did It Right!

((A TMNT 2012 RaMona Analysis))

Something I feel we as a fandom don’t give Raph enough credit for is how he’s the only brother to NOT have a “love at first sight” trope with his love interest Mona Lisa, and I feel that says a lot about his character and relationship with her, not only that, but it saves Mona’s character.

How you may ask? A lot of people don’t seem to realize this, but I love how when Mona Lisa is first introduced she’s not immediately established to be a love interest unlike the other girls. Mona is given some time to be her own character and show off a bit of her personality. For the other girls, there introduction is through the Turtles POV, established as a love interest FIRST then her own character/personality is shown later. This is made clear just from each Turtles reaction when first meeting their love interest. We are introduced to the female character through the “love at first sight” moment!

Donnie

Leo (I hate that I’m using this as an example this but this help prove my point)

Mikey

I wanna clarify before people start assuming, no, I’m NOT saying that the other 2012 girls have no personality. They do, it just bothers me how they were introduced. Them being the love interest seemed more important to establish to the writers then her own character first.

Meanwhile for Mona Lisa; she’s introduced to the audience NOT the Turtles. This gives her a chance to establish her character/personality first then show her as a love interest later!

We learn just from her introduction scene and even her moment when confronting the Turtles that she is: strong willed, prideful (she’s proud of being the warrior she is and takes her battle’s seriously), stubborn (fight first, ask questions NEVER, like Raph), honorable, loyal (we learn she’s a lieutenant and respects and highly looks to her Commander), and even a bit short tempered (again, like Raph).

Her and Raph even get to speak to each other and have a little banter of threats before romance between them starts to blossom. There is no love at first sight. Unlike the other Turtles who immediately fall in love with the girl just from looking at her and thinking she’s pretty. Their feelings for each other took more time.

Raph did not fall for her looks like his brothers, he fell in love with the person Mona is. Physical attraction (I believe) is very important in a relationship and Raph does show and admits he does in fact find Mona attractive (Ex: calling her a beautiful work of art) but her looks is not what caught his attention. It was her personality, her spirit and capabilities as a warrior! I saw someone mentions this in another post once, but on rare occasions do we get to hear the other Turtles explain exactly WHY they like their love interests other then that they found the girl pretty (Yes, Donnie admits he thinks April is “cool” and Leo says Karai’s “fun” but that’s not enough!), meanwhile for Raph from the very beginning he has his list of reasons ready as to WHY he likes Mona! And he has no shame to admit it proudly!

And throughout the rest of their relationship, we see more of those reasons unfold. We see Raph and even Mona show more reasons as to why they love each other so much. And unlike the others ships, we actually get to see them act and be a couple! They flirt with each other, embrace and hold hands, make out, write love letters to each other, etc. The reason they worked so well is because as I said we get to see them be a couple, but also because Mona got to established herself as a character first before being Raph’s girlfriend.

Many of us can agree that TMNT 2012 failed greatly in the romance department, but they at least did one couple right with the relationship of Raphael and Mona Lisa. So I thank them for that <3

When you're in trouble, don't give in and turn sour!

Try to rely on your Turtle Power!

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Happy 40th to #TMNT!! Cowabunga!!

The other one I choose another background 😔

Maybe it's not so bad 👾💫, the four turtles turned out well hahahahaha

Chibi turtles of Mutant Mayhem