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"My name is Danny Pennington, I'm 48 years old, and between 1988 and 1995 I was a ninja in the Foot Clan."
(Sorry. I'll shut up. I get that it's a bit and it is funny. Just a weird point to start from.)
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:24 PM on October 10 [1 favorite]
posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:24 PM on October 10 [1 favorite]
He was a 12 year-old ninja?
That's kind of the point. If my memories of the 1990 movie serve me, the Foot Clan ninjas were mostly youths who Shredder recruited and trained.
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:37 PM on October 10 [6 favorites]
That's kind of the point. If my memories of the 1990 movie serve me, the Foot Clan ninjas were mostly youths who Shredder recruited and trained.
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:37 PM on October 10 [6 favorites]
Not gonna lie they did make that Foot Clan hangout look pretty sweet. Better than a sewer.
posted by downtohisturtles at 6:09 PM on October 10 [8 favorites]
posted by downtohisturtles at 6:09 PM on October 10 [8 favorites]
brilliant
posted by glonous keming at 6:20 PM on October 10
posted by glonous keming at 6:20 PM on October 10
Cute!
posted by praemunire at 7:00 PM on October 10
posted by praemunire at 7:00 PM on October 10
I agree with one of the comments there. If there was a series of these for different hench-folk, I would watch the hell out of it.
posted by BustedCatalyzer at 8:33 PM on October 10 [4 favorites]
posted by BustedCatalyzer at 8:33 PM on October 10 [4 favorites]
Not gonna lie they did make that Foot Clan hangout look pretty sweet. Better than a sewer.Complete with a very young Sam Rockwell providing cigarettes of your choice.
posted by Strutter Cane - United Planets Stilt Patrol at 12:57 AM on October 11 [5 favorites]
xeternalflamebryx's Henchmen Group Therapy with Dr. Katz
posted by mikelieman at 4:20 AM on October 11
posted by mikelieman at 4:20 AM on October 11
That was brilliant. I'd completely forgotten about the Foot Clan hangout in the film. I wonder if the space was repurposed by the hackers in the early 90s after the fall of the Foot clan. The two spaces look similar in aesthetic.
I haven't watched much in the way of kids movies or cartoons lately, but is anything blunt still portrayed as non-lethal? The line about the bo staff made me think about just how nasty a wound from a staff or nunchuck would be, even without a cutting edge. (The nunchucks were edited out the of the TMNT cartoon show in the UK, but the swords weren't. They're mostly illegal in the UK as far as I can tell.)
posted by Hactar at 5:38 AM on October 11
I haven't watched much in the way of kids movies or cartoons lately, but is anything blunt still portrayed as non-lethal? The line about the bo staff made me think about just how nasty a wound from a staff or nunchuck would be, even without a cutting edge. (The nunchucks were edited out the of the TMNT cartoon show in the UK, but the swords weren't. They're mostly illegal in the UK as far as I can tell.)
posted by Hactar at 5:38 AM on October 11
I'm going to call BS on this guy's story. Everyone knows the Foot Soldiers were robots.
I was never into TMNT as a kid, but I do appreciate how much the series has embraced it's own numerous iterations as a multiverse. Turtles Forever came out waayyyy back in 2009 just a year after Iron Man started the MCU. And I only just recently became aware of the 2012 animated series ending with it's own crossover with the 1987 universe. (1987 Shredder and Krang sitting in a diner booth doing interviews for henchmen is just *chefs kiss*)
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:45 AM on October 11 [1 favorite]
I was never into TMNT as a kid, but I do appreciate how much the series has embraced it's own numerous iterations as a multiverse. Turtles Forever came out waayyyy back in 2009 just a year after Iron Man started the MCU. And I only just recently became aware of the 2012 animated series ending with it's own crossover with the 1987 universe. (1987 Shredder and Krang sitting in a diner booth doing interviews for henchmen is just *chefs kiss*)
posted by RonButNotStupid at 5:45 AM on October 11 [1 favorite]
I'm going to call BS on this guy's story. Everyone knows the Foot Soldiers were robots.
On the cartoons, they couldn't really hurt/kill other people due to regulations, but obvious robots weren't given the same limitations, so many cartoons switched to robot villains so the heroes could wail on them.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:41 AM on October 11
On the cartoons, they couldn't really hurt/kill other people due to regulations, but obvious robots weren't given the same limitations, so many cartoons switched to robot villains so the heroes could wail on them.
posted by The_Vegetables at 7:41 AM on October 11
I was never into TMNT as a kid, but I do appreciate how much the series has embraced it's own numerous iterations as a multiverse.
I don't know if it's unique to TMNT, but it's a huge example of how worries about 'diluting a property' are somewhat unfounded -- they started as dark and gritty Frank Milleresque comic, then kid's cartoon, then dark and gritty kid's movie, then cute kids comic through Archie comics of all places, somewhere in there they had a rock band and toured the US, then more movies and cartoons and comics of varying dark and grittiness vs kid-friendliness, and at every step the TMNT rightsholders were just like "just toss the money on that big pile of money over there". It may be magic that they succeeded like this, or maybe they never cultivated the insane canon-insistent fans that Star Wars or Marvel did (although Star Trek does somewhat follow TMNT's path by having a "whatever, just try to be good" goal).
posted by AzraelBrown at 8:12 AM on October 11 [2 favorites]
I don't know if it's unique to TMNT, but it's a huge example of how worries about 'diluting a property' are somewhat unfounded -- they started as dark and gritty Frank Milleresque comic, then kid's cartoon, then dark and gritty kid's movie, then cute kids comic through Archie comics of all places, somewhere in there they had a rock band and toured the US, then more movies and cartoons and comics of varying dark and grittiness vs kid-friendliness, and at every step the TMNT rightsholders were just like "just toss the money on that big pile of money over there". It may be magic that they succeeded like this, or maybe they never cultivated the insane canon-insistent fans that Star Wars or Marvel did (although Star Trek does somewhat follow TMNT's path by having a "whatever, just try to be good" goal).
posted by AzraelBrown at 8:12 AM on October 11 [2 favorites]
That was pretty great. Really left me wanting to hear from some of the other survivors.
posted by Dalekdad at 10:26 AM on October 11
posted by Dalekdad at 10:26 AM on October 11
The nunchucks were edited out the of the TMNT cartoon show in the UK
going to imagine they just replaced them with glowsticks and made Mikey into an obsessive raver so they didn't have to otherwise change the animation
posted by cortex at 11:13 AM on October 11
going to imagine they just replaced them with glowsticks and made Mikey into an obsessive raver so they didn't have to otherwise change the animation
posted by cortex at 11:13 AM on October 11
going to imagine they just replaced them with glowsticks and made Mikey into an obsessive raver
Foot ninjas found it especially humiliating to be beaten up by "Mollyangelo"
posted by BetaRayBiff at 3:16 PM on October 11 [4 favorites]
Foot ninjas found it especially humiliating to be beaten up by "Mollyangelo"
posted by BetaRayBiff at 3:16 PM on October 11 [4 favorites]
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posted by DirtyOldTown at 5:16 PM on October 10