Face it, this was the best April

Based!

let's split the difference

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Love this one more
Appreciate the appeal of this

Remember when she got turned into a canzone that was great hehe

brb gonna request in drawthread

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Why is that chipmunk girl a human?

Yeah, but that's not saying much.

In Mirage the turtles saved this human woman, and fans loved the idea of the boys hanging out with a hot(ish) human woman, so she stuck around. But Eastman and Laird had no idea what the fuck to do with her, so she just stood on the sidelines, letting the boys absolutely destroy her life bit by bit, failing at walking by falling into lake, going "they're my family!" because they saved her life once before dumping all their troubles on her doorstep. When she finally was given a relationship with Casey it was a trainwreck. Of course it was. He'd literally been designed to be a crazy person that had watched too many cop movies.

2003 was the same thing, a doormat with no life outside of what the boys wanted from her. She'd been a good enough programmer to impress Stockman, and that just got dropped so she could run the antique store, because that was what happened in the books so it had to happen in the show. She apparently remembered she was a pro scientist at some point and founded O'Neil Tech, but that was a plot point "in the past" for the timeskip so it didn't really benefit her. It's easy to like a doormat that will give the heroes whatever they ask, but that's not a good character.

1987 April was the nice mother-figure who needed constant attention or she would probably walk into ropes and tie herself up. youtube.com/watch?v=GJdKUxzn1Mw

2012 April is the best simply because she had her own goals and motivations, and could get seriously angry with the boys over all the shit that had come into her life after meeting them. That's not always a likable character, but it's a better character.

Original Movie April would be the best except she's also the April from the 2007 movie. See, movie April was great in big part because the movies were so short there wasn't enough time for the thinness of the character to come through. By 2007, writers were frantically trying to make her a swordfighting archaeologist.

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The tights under the jean shorts do things for me

Wrong.

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>tfw no bluray release ever

It hurts

>Baby's first waifu version

Pathetic. May as well marry your mom.

>MUH STRONG FEMINIST CHARACTER
Get the fuck out of here with that shit.

We need a version where these two are mother and daughter.

>strong
>feminist
Used neither of those words. 2012 April isn't particularly strong, it's just that the Mirage version is especially terrible, 2003 tried to make the best out of bad source material but stuck with it too much (IDW handled that better), and 1987 April was too dumb to live. As were most characters in the show, to be fair. youtube.com/watch?v=2ogP0QPF7Nw

I look forward to a multiverse ep where all the other Aprils are just staring at Rise April.

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>one of these chimps is not like the others

Yeah, the only one that's a reporter does stick out like a sore thumb.

Wow....

I mean she was the hottest but other than that she was really realy bad

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Her eyes are black! Does she have no soul?

April is the best written character.
She wasn't perfect but she was at least realistic.

>Original Movie April would be the best except she's also the April from the 2007 movie. See, movie April was great in big part because the movies were so short there wasn't enough time for the thinness of the character to come through. By 2007, writers were frantically trying to make her a swordfighting archaeologist.
That's a load of horse shit. The 2007 has more in common with the 2003 series than the 90's movie.

It's the movie continuity - they make a couple references to the first movie, and there's a scene where Splinter visits his trophy nook and it has shit like Shredder's helmet and the Time Scepter from Turtles III.

I will agree that in terms of feel it has more to do with the 2003 series, but that's my point. The longer the story goes on, the harder it is to keep around April as the only girl with her contribution to the team being that theoretically she can report things, but of course she won't report anything of real significance to the world. They got silly in their efforts to give her more to do, slapping on martial arts training and archaeology, but the problem was that they didn't have a ton to work with for April in the first place.

It's a tie. The amount of ass shots this April got was surprising, though. What a slut.

People taking pictures of your ass doesn't make you a slut. Just means you have a nice ass that people like to hover the camera around.

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>A large part of the 2012 April porn is drawn by Freako.

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...Yeah, we need to fix that shit.

Move aside little girl.

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She was meh casey was kino in the 2003 show

The punching bag had more personality.

t. pedo

I like aspects of her character. I like that Donnie had a crush on her, although her returning those feelings kinda ruined it.

I like the fact that she slowly trained with Splinter, although that’s been a thing for years already.

I like the fact that she’s in the Turtle’s age group.

The mind powers are kinda meh, but her being modified by the Krang is kinda cool, makes her more involved.

Personally, if you fused the 2012, the 2007, the 2003, and the 1980’s cartoon April’s together you’d have the perfect April.

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I would have liked to see her be against Donnie's crush at first then sloooowly lead to it being actually mutual after shit like her realizing she's a mutant too. They've been playing with the boys having crushes on April since the first cartoon, this was the best take on it but still pretty flawed.

>Personally, if you fused the 2012, the 2007, the 2003, and the 1980’s cartoon April’s together you’d have the perfect April.

This is why I'm so fucking furious with Rise. We still haven't done the BTAS of TMNT, but we were getting closer, and probably could have synthesized different versions into something amazing if we had 2D's ability to do as many character designs as needed.

Instead... Rise, being the Next Mutation of the new millennium.

This thread was doing so good and you had to go and drag that thing into it.

Raph has a designated Human best friend in Casey Jones

While Leo has a complicated relationship with Karai

So it’s kinda cool to see April and Donnie have a specific type of relationship, even if it was kinda ruined with all this stalker shit.

Fan art of '87 April breastfeeding '12 April when?

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Nah, the best one would be Archie.

>still a reporter, so she knows about trouble
>trained by/training with Splinter, so she can fight
>still a normal human the Turtles can rely on and be the "grounded" aspect
>is fucking a dragon
>hottest

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i want the blonde april from the tmnt 2012 artbook her punk look would have been perfect for rise of the tmnt

When did she fuck a dragon?

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When she started dating Warrior Dragon (or if you prefer the toy name, Hothead).

That's just Ariel

Ehhhh... she got to the "can use a sword, can do independent reporting" stage, was missing for several major arcs, got a mini, and then Archie didn't bother renewing the license. A very good take that they didn't do a lot with.

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>stalker
Hey. He didn't stalk. He just hung out with her as a friend while wishing he had the confidence to ask her out. Not the same thing!

>Master Splinter I'm trying to escape my bonds but I'm dummy thicc and the ropes keeping me tied up.

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First movie's the best as far as execution.

IMO she's better when she doesn't have any personal weirdness going on before meeting the main cast, like being a drawing/psychic.

Trouble with that is, 100% normal human's ability to be useful burns out quickly.

Even based IDW April is only useful for as long as Stockman is a threat that she can spy on. As soon as that bridge gets burned, she's going to be useless.

Why are you guys acting like an April who swordfights is better than April who gets bound and gagged regularly and has to be rescued?

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MY DICK

Working my way through volume 4 of the IDW Collection right now, and my impression so far is that this version of April has taken more of a back seat to Casey

>Come to mommy, April Jr.

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You'd be correct. Even her parents have a bigger impact.

Exponentially so.

But her getting tied up isn't something fun for the guys, it's just hard work for them. If you're okay with cleaning up other people's messes the whole time... aim higher.

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I get you, but I also think it makes her more compelling.

IDW April is an assistant scientist, right? If she's not all that helpful, then it seems like the biggest problem by far is that she can't actually fight.

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looks like a granny wearing kid's clothes

She was an intern at Baxter's company. Problem is that with Donatello, Lindsey and Harold around she's still fighting to find a niche.

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April's big thing is usually that she's their tether to the human world and that she can handle things that their appearance doesn't allow them to do, and stuff like that- but when you have an abundance of other human characters in the cast at this point, what do you do with her when what she does is probably better handled by someone who can actually fight?

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>more compelling
That's long been the argument, and I agree that "the normal person roped into all this shit" has its appeal, but historically once any version of TMNT goes on for very long, the "normal person" just sorta... fades away into the background.

I would argue that 2012 had on paper the best approach. She initially stuck to the boys like glue because they were her best chance to find her dad, and that led to her forming a strong bond with them once she got to know them. Because her dad was on the line, she felt she couldn't stay on the sidelines. And the mutation at least initially provided a way for her to be useful without being OP... when it was first introduced, her psychic shit amounted to nothing more than a low-level spider sense, telling her "something is wrong," helping her twig to when people were up to no good. That at least gave a small basis for Splinter starting to train her, and gave her a way to be useful even when she wasn't as good as the others. Did they fuck it up? Boy howdy. Was it a better approach than having her be a scientist in a series that already has Donnie trying to be THE science guy, or a reporter out to "go places the guys can't" when the guys are literally experts at getting into ANYWHERE? Yeah.

Post pics of your granny, dude. She sounds hot.

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This is an instance where her being a reporter would work to her benefit, I think. She could use her resources and connections to keep an eye on underworld movement the Turtles might miss and there's nobody else who does that afaik.

i won't do that you fucking weirdo

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shorts + black tights is an AMAZING combo

I just didn't think April was as likable in 2012 as the other versions.

Yeah, something like that. The issue is that you can't owe a LOT of time to a support character in a series chiefly about mutants beating each other up.

The issue is that there's a lot of stuff April CAN do that it just doesn't make sense for her to do as soon as you introduce other humans that can fight that could do it for her, like Casey.

That's consistently been the argument, but the thing is... they're ninjas. They can sneak better than anyone. There's nowhere she can get to with her "resources and connections" that they can't get into, and when they do it there's cooler shit involved. A good number of the original cartoon's episodes ended up accidentally highlighting that fact. April would say "I'll go there as a reporter, and get in!" she got caught snooping, she radioed for help, and the boys had to go in there anyway. It just doesn't work for longer than a movie.

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I was thinking less about sneaking and more about access to information, sources/informants, stuff like that.

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>I just didn't think April was as likable in 2012 as the other versions.

heh. I agree, but think that's to her favor as a character. The older versions were so impossibly nice it was like having a sitcom mom on the cast. No goals they wouldn't put aside for the guys, never angry at them... likable, but nothing really compelling there.

So:
>April's appeal is that she's an average jane sucked into this weird mutant ninja criminal conspiracy
>The reporter thing is an iconic look for her
But:
>Her main thing is being able to talk with people, which becomes less and less relevant as the series goes on, generally
>Because she can't fight, it makes less sense for her to be front and center as the stakes get higher and higher and as other humans like casey are introduced, to the point where she's relegated to the sidelines for the finale

How to you alleviate this?

So this is a thought that would probably make laird have an aneurysm, but I just had a thought:
what if you mutated her as the stakes got higher and her niche became less valuable, in the later stages of the series?

You could have a reversal of the usually cozy early parts of a series where April's helping them do human shit.

>How to you alleviate this?

The reporter thing is honestly the solution and why the earliest adaptations did it in the first place. It gave her a reason to tag along on all the world threatening adventures and put herself in the middle of them, if not as a participant than as an observer. It was her job and her passion, so she was going to insert herself into the action whether the Turtles approved or not.

The 87 cartoon may have been quality challenged to say the least, but the reporter idea was a genuinely good take. Even the Mirage comic had to admit very early on that April was irrelevant; she spends the original TCRI/space arc sitting in a fetal position and crying about how useless she is.

I guess you could always try to lower the stakes a bit so that while there's still plenty of danger, she wouldn't be as horribly out of place.

To be honest, I never liked the space arcs anyway.

*blocks your path*

Rise April is underappreciated
Shes feels like The Turtles little sister rather than their human friend

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>Teenage April
Not in my fucking house!

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You're right 2003 tmnt april isn't wearing a jacket or jumpsuit

Rise April is actually good. In a different sort of way than usual, but I like her more than 2012 and think she works better than most of the older versions.

Outside of being April she's just a good character also really love all the tidbits about her having a future as a News anchor

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Too bad she's so goddamn ugly. And no, it has nothing to do with her being black. She's just real fucking ugly.

The hairstyle they gave her is pretty terrible

>The hairstyle they gave her is pretty terrible

And the man-jaw.
And the problem glasses.

Black Girls are universally the UGLIEST ones in the human species. She is shit.

....Yeah, no. I've tried to not hate her, and I can't. She can't hold down a job for a single episode (that's the joke). Like everyone she's drawn in absurd over the top poses, but her role in the story is pretty much usually "boys are dumb and goofy, girls are dependable." There's no explanation for why she's with the guys; she just IS. And she charges into dangerous situations and survives despite being a total normie because the plot demands she not get a scratch.

Even when Casey was doing his "I'm too dumb to realize I'm way out of my league, which actually makes me very dangerous" shit, he usually got the crap kicked out of him.

So this is the animation style that makes people ignore shitty writing.

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Oh boy here comes the Autism

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what you've posted there isn't animation user.

unironically yes that's kind of the thing about it, every frame is a reaction pic and the show doens't have bad writing, i haven't seen any kind of pretentious garbage or any shoehorned sjw stuff just a bunch of extremely wacky adventures and action like all tmnt should be

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>animation style
Idiot

>get arguments on why she's """underappreciated"""
>lol here comes the autism

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The one with the titties

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Was bitching about the style in general, not just her.

>every frame is a reaction pic

Well, I'll agree that "let's make this memeable" is their strategy.

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She's the only April I like at all. There's a point to her being there besides being The Girl. She's a fun character.

>There's a point to her being there besides being The Girl

Huh. I'd say she's the version where that's least true. No useful job to be helpful, no explanation for how she met them and why she's with them, she's just The Girl they know.

Almost like she's just there because at this point it's tradition to have an April.

Fuck off, that thing isn't invited to the party. Real Aprils only.

t. non-fan

After 2007, 2012, and Rise we're not going to get a non-combatant April, so you're left with figuring out how to make that work.

2007 just said she trained. It was a bit weak.
2012 gave her a mutation. Could work, but probably better to dial it back from what they did. Maybe she's mutated to have combat-reflexes, or a danger sense
Or some Utrom tech accidentally infodumps "how to fight" into her noggin.

Alternatively you could go the Rise route of "I don't have to explain shit" and just put this human on the frontlines kicking ass, taking names, and never getting hurt much because you're not allowed hurt The Girl.

I can't say I think having her be much older works well any more... just seems odd for her to be friends with a bunch of teens several years younger than her. So I do think teen April is best, but having her be older isn't the end of the world.

No more Casey romances though. The guy that can't rub two braincells together and loves charging into battle is a bad match for any version of April.

Back to the Sewer was the best designed April.

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Am I the only one who wishes April would get DROPPED from the franchise? I never cared about this stupid worthless uninteresting and with each new series ever UN-sexy twat. I don't give a damn about her. I don't watch TMNT or read the comics because "I need April!" no. In fact I straight up skipped April and Casey's Mini-Series for IDW TMNT and going by fan responses I did the right thign as it's consistently called the worst part of IDW TMNT.

I'm of the belief that the turtles have never needed a "human contact" type of character and even if they did at first (usually to discover Stockman is a villain) I don't believe the human in question needs to linger around and become central to the franchise across many continuities. I mean in Rise there is NO Oroku Saki (Shredder) as the main nemesis. But they just HAD to have their shit April. April is garbage. She has no true role to play and no filling in the Tokenism because you need Token Twats in any given show is not a purpose. She's not like Karai who has strong ties to the Foot Clan who are enemies of the turtles and is usually one of their generals.

Going in circles here, but April is shit. She should stop being utilized in the franchise and it's even worse when they try to make her important to the origin of the turtles themselves. Guess even IDW TMNT realized that no one cares about April and she's boring so that's why they have her stuck in limbo babysitting Stockman for his presidency or some bullshit like that. A good excuse to keep her away from the main heroes and no longer truly involved.

I still think this could potentially work.

You have the noncombatant human April who's tied heavily to her outside life and career, whatever that is- and then as things heat up to the point where it might not make sense for her to stick around, she's mutated and dragged along as she doesn't really have a choice in her company anymore, gives her a reason to at least try to pick up some basics in self defense without taking her desire to focus on her career completely off the table.

Please tell us how you really feel, don't hold back on our account.

Die in a fire.

>Nothin' but tutti-fruity
>Get on the floor if you got that booty, booty

Nah. At this point all that's left is the idea that she's the turtles' human(ish) friend. They're not meddling with that.

is that shadman?

Well, I'm thinking she'd be human(ish) for most of the series, and get mutated at the point where she usually starts falling into the foreground.

The problem is it's hard to reconcile April as the average woman who has a life outside of the turtles she has to look out for and April actually having a good reason to adventure with them, so I think that could potentially work as a good middle ground, her not having a choice in the matter as her friends are looking to reverse her mutation on top of all the other shit going down and there's literally nothing else she can do as a [insert whatever kind of mutant]

I mean falling into the background.

>Going in circles here
And frothing at the mouth a little.

>"Arguments"
You mean autism.

She would be better without those stupid fucking glasses. Literally my only beef with this design.

... idk, maybe. Shading doesn't seem like his usual style though.

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April is the hardest thing to do in any new take, especially since nobody wants to redo the source material damsel in distress version. Or the living drawing.

That makes her the part most likely to be surprising and interesting in each new take. I'd even go so far as to say she must be fun for the people working on it - it's a challenge to figure out. A puzzle.

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Irma got done dirty.

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Gilbert Gottfried no less.

YEEEEESH was she done dirty.

Good God no, what the fuck are you smoking? They had no idea what the hell they wanted to do with her so they threw virtually everything at the wall to see what stuck, and nothing did. She's easily the worst by a mile.

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She was the most inconsistent April.

>She's easily the worst by a mile.
Image was worse, Mirage was worse, Bayverse was worse, Rise is busy being worse...

Original April was a programmer. Then she ran an antique shop. Then she married Casey to raise An Orphan Girl. Then she became a superhero. Then she found out she was a drawing brought to life. Then she ran out on Casey and their kid.

In comparison, 2012 April was downright stable.

You can't have watched that in years. 2003 April was a joyless priss ready to rain on any parade and yell at warriors for not wiping their feet, ssying she'd just cleaned the floors.

I assemed we were talking about the cartoons here. And until the writers suddenly make her some alien psychic ninja Rise April is nowhere near 2012 April's shittyness.

As opposed to the idiotic bimbo who needs saving from giant bananas every episode in 87 or pedo bait mary stu in 12?

Close but no cigar.

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8 yr. old me would go to bat for Secret of the Ooze April.

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Yes, specifically opposed to those versions. 87 was a trap magnet and 12 hit major power creep. But 03 was the sort to try to lecture about table manners. Prim, prissy, and largely useless.

>There's no explanation for why she's with the guys; she just IS.
That's just the thing, there doesn't really need to be much of a reason. She's their friend, they hang out together. The lack of bullshit to justify them being together is a strength on its own.

>And she charges into dangerous situations and survives despite being a total normie because the plot demands she not get a scratch.
She mostly avoids them entirely if she can help it. There only a handful of episodes where she actually tried to fight.

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April could have been an actual black girl, but instead we got this shitty hipster with granny glasses.

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She should never have been any sort of black girl in my opinion. She should always be a redhead white girl (I know she was brunette in Mirage and some other things but that's the iconic look now).

>literally reskinned Irma

She's meant to be, like... 16? 17? And not from a very wealthy family? That's way too fancy with the clothes. Yes there ARE students that dress like that at 16, but their grades are shit.

Did she had any personnality other than being a walking fanservicy plot device stuck in a love triangle because "muh ratings"?

Based Hoag poaster.
Her approachable nature makes her hotter. Best actress in the role too.

A personal idea I've had--especially after the IDW comic briefly started doing things with the character including her trying to fight Bebop and Rocksteady with tech gear-- was for a future series to establish Metalhead similarly to how he was done in 2012 but eventually gets turned into a power suit or something April gets to pilot.

That feels pretty OP just picturing it, but by the time this would actually happen, the stakes more than likely get raised higher than ninjas beating up street thugs. Aliens. Demon Shredder, government agencies with laser guns or all of the above are on the loose.

She doesn't have to go on every adventure with the turtles but it keeps her relevant after she's helped the turtles acclimate to the human world, and the "Don't Hurt the Girl" rule can be stretched if the Metalhead suit gets wrecked once in awhile. Even if she's in it at the time the armor can cushion her from being actually hurt but she still gets taken out of a fight.

>That's just the thing, there doesn't really need to be much of a reason. She's their friend, they hang out together. The lack of bullshit to justify them being together is a strength on its own.

That is some weak ass bullshit and you know it. The complaint is that of all the Aprils she's the one that seems most like she's there just because it's traditional to have The Girl. Lack of an explanation for why she's with them is part of that.

April’s race has never been a defining trait of her character. There’s literally no reason why she can’t be black in a an instance from a multiverse.

How did 2012 April meet the turtles? I forget how that happened.

>That's just the thing, there doesn't really need to be much of a reason. She's their friend, they hang out together. The lack of bullshit to justify them being together is a strength on its own.
That´s pretty much what hurts nu-April. She was always the damsel in distress but also the motherly figure of the group. Freud could have a wonderful analysis from her figure in the show, even in her 2012 version, but nu-april is flat in every sense.

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I really like Rise April (Casey). Last TMNT show I watched was the one on 4kids years and years ago, but I don't recall her being nearly as fun in the fight scenes, if she ever participated in them.

see Gets kidnapped by kraang the minute the turtles first visit the surface. It's kismet.

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I really didn't like the way she said Kunoichi.

>How did 2012 April meet the turtles? I forget how that happened.

It was a pretty huge part of the plot. The Kraang were kidnapping her and her dad, the turtles intervened and rescued her but couldn't rescue her dad, so she stayed with them initially because they promised to help her find her dad.

A good chunk of the show was them trying to fulfill that promise, only for things to go wrong.

But Rise April isn't a fucking Alien/Ninja/Psychic?

>That is some weak ass bullshit and you know it.
Not really. It's like asking for Spider-Man's origin each time they make a new movie. We already know April usually runs into the turtles by accident, either while they're out crime-fighting or what not, and befriends them. It would be more traditional to just retread the same origin for tradition sake.

>But Rise April isn't a fucking Alien/Ninja/Psychic?

She jumps into battle armed with a baseball bat and fights monsters/mutants/ninjas/robots, and emerges unscathed (unlike Casey, who took his share of lumps whenever he did that shit).

She's far worse than a fucking Alien/Ninja/Psychic... she's a normal girl allowed fight way out of her league and get away with it without a scratch because You're Not Allowed Hurt The Girl.

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Did we watch the same show? Most of the episodes involved her she mostly ran away

Spider-Man has consistently basically the same origin.

Not only does April have a BUNCH of different stories for how she ended up friends with the turtles, NONE of them work for Rise April.

Some Aprils met the guys because she was a scientist at Stockgen Labs. Well Rise April's not a scientist, and there's no Stockgen Labs.

Some Aprils were a reporter that pissed off the Foot by snooping around. Rise Aprils' not a reporter. Maybe she will be one day, but she's not one now.

2012 April got roped in because her daddy was a scientist that got kidnapped by aliens for his science skills. It's theoretically possible that's what happened her... but when the guys meet Draxum in the first ep they seem to have never met anything "alienish" before, so that's highly unlikely.

It's not a "we've been here before, no need to explain" scenario, she's a completely different character from all the other Aprils, just sharing a name.

She gets involved pretty often? Sometimes the show sets up lower-level threats for her, but she'll take on the bigger ones too. Shit, they set the stage for her character in the pilot by having the boys spy on Baron D and go "we can't fight him without a plan, and homegirl just jumps right in to fight. That's where we're at now, a series that wants April to be a normie with no ninja training or powers or anything, but doesn't want her too sidelined either. And she can't get hurt even in a cartoony version where Looney Tune damage applies to the guys, because it's April. It's a mess.

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She's only got two or so fights where she actual fights though, so not really? And if she is fighter, it's always the weaker, smaller grunts. Any other time she's either assisting someone or catching someone off guard with a sneak attack. She doesn't have that many fights, like the other user said she mainly leaves it to the turtles most of the time.

She's never fought any of the major baddies head on before, so I don't really get why you're trying to make it seem like she portrayed as being on the same level as the other turtles when it comes to fighting prowess. In the very first episode she's the first to get captured.

2012 April suffers from the writers trying way too hard to make her 'catch-up' with the rest of the turtles by tacking on needless shit to her character. Don't even get me started on the love-triangle.

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This man makes a good argument.

Even in the pilot she wasn't really fighting, the obly other time she's seen fighting is the episode with stock boy and her kicking the turtles out of the apartment

>Shit, they set the stage for her character in the pilot by having the boys spy on Baron D and go "we can't fight him without a plan, and homegirl just jumps right in to fight.
And that was ONLY in the pilot. That hasn't actually happened since. Even when she ended up in a Foot Clan hideout by sheer accident she wasn't reckless, she tried to sneak away from it entirely.

Whether that's character development or a case of Early Installment Weirdness is up to you, but the show makes it clear that she's not a fighter nor is she even trying to be. She just gets roped into situations that she has to work her way out of.

It doesn't define her personality but it does define her visually. And comics and cartoons are visual mediums to visuals matter. I don't want blonde Peter Parker, I don't want white Ancient One, and I don't want black April.

*so visuals matter

Yeah, no. She's not IN most episodes (lucky girl), but she only pulled the run and hide schtick when the entire school was hypnotized and trying to get her.

Remember The Gumbus? She was thrilled to go and investigate the possible ghost, and when they were fighting it she was grinning like she was having string orgasms while to her left and right Donnie and Mikey were freaking out. Then she got to finish the robot off.

She's allowed be pretty OP. But the show is retarded in general so whatever.

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Man they loved to show her ass so much in this show and I loved that they loved it

She's having a stroke.

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People don't clap when they have strokes

They do if they welcome death.

Well, they were celebrating having blown up a ship full of aliens.

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>Then she got to finish the robot off.
She caught the robot off guard and cut the string that was holding it up. I don't know if I'd consider that being OP, user.

Nice ass.

Not that bit specifically, but in the eps where she shows up (as more than just a walk-in cameo) she has a pretty good ratio of doing damage without damage being done to her. She took out Donnie's hacked spider-backpack in the first Purple Dragons ep, off the top of my head, held her own against the pizza robots, etc.

Not as blatantly overpowered as 2012 April was by the end, but I think she might actually be doing more damage than 2012 April was this far into a season 1.

Based Cabs bro

>I don't want blonde Peter Parker
Well we got one in Spider-Verse anyway.

can i have white black panther you bigot

>implying Black Panther's race wasn't kinda a significant part of his character

Eastman based O'Neil on his first wife April Fisher, who was of mixed heritage. Usually people adapted the character leaning into the white side of the Mirage character's background... this time they went the other direction.

The source material is not your friend in this windmill-tilt.

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Is that April or a different character?

It's April, but black. At least they seem to have not gone full retard with her recolor like some cases of blackwashing

No, I meant literally, was that a drawing of the new April or did someone alter a picture of that Persona character.

You can't fucking tell me that the animators and character modelers didn't know exactly what the fuck they were doing.

She's the only April who has a bit of a life and personality outside of just wanting to do whatever the guys want her to do. She's not always likable, she can be headstrong, and at one point she lashes out at the guys, wrongly blaming them for the shitpile her life had become.

Yes, she's the best April, because she's the most fleshed out as a character, flaws and all.

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I can agree that she was the best right up to her getting that alien crystal. Things got stupid after that

>wrongly blaming them for the shitpile her life had become.
When her dad mutated? That was actually their fault, at least somewhat. And didn't help that Mikey acted like it was no big deal. Of course, the turtles often had moments of going full retard when you least expected it for some bizarre reason.

It was a little bit their fault, but way more blame belongs to the bsd guys... but it's understandable that she didn't see it that way and wanted nothing more to do with them.

Honestly one of the best things done with any version of the character. April's life goes through the shredder whenever she meets the guys, we needed a version that got fucking pissed about it.

Still, Mikey should have apologized for making light of the situation, especially when April was really hurting after basically losing her dad yet again. And while the boys didn't mean to spill the ooze, they could have handled the fight with the Kraang on the ship better to avoid such an incident.

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Well that's just excessive.

The ass isn't too bad, but the tits feel too big and make her look like some doll

These styles do not mingle well.

>face it, what I liked when I was twe–
kys

Looks like just one style, but with a certain character's design so heavily altered that she might as well be an entirely different character simply wearing the clothes of a preexisting one.

I hate when that happens.

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They should go full Eliza Maza with the next incarnation of April.

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So I hear. I don't like it though, and if they made a Spider-man movie where the main character Peter was blonde a lot of people would be annoyed. Same thing with April. Even when they hired Daniel Craig to be James Bond people were annoyed, because he's blonde and Bond had always had dark hair in the movies (even though apparently he was blonde in the Ian Flemming books). Appearance matters for characters, it's good to keep some visual cues persistent across all reboots so each version is familiar in some ways.

Wah! What are we going to do on the filthy sewer floor?

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>Karai
Mirage Karai > other incarnations

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>mommy Karai
Heh
I wonder what happend to her in vol.3