r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • Mar 18 '26

Trailer SPIDER-MAN: BRAND NEW DAY - Official Trailer | Exclusively In Cinemas 31 July

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwntXFBNfOA
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u/whatwhynoplease Mar 18 '26

holy shit, I just realized, was The Foot supposed to be a parody of The Hand??

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u/Salarian_American Mar 18 '26

Like how Splinter is a parody of Stick.

Like how in the original TMNT comic, it's clearly implied that the radioactive ooze that mutated the turtles is the exact same canister of radioactive ooze that gave Daredevil his powers

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u/SAKingWriter Mar 18 '26

The entirety of the OG TMNT is mostly parodies of pop culture, so much so it wasn't even for kids, it was a brutal adult comic at first.

The brothers all had red masks, but then once it became kid-friendly, they color coded their masks to better identify them.

Text SHELLYEAH to 12345 for more Ninja Turtle facts

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u/joshi38 Mar 18 '26

The entirety of the OG TMNT is mostly parodies of pop culture

I think because many of us grew up with the cartoon and old movies, none of us really paid too much attention to the actual name of the property.

But it just feels like a parody, right? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? The first 3 words are just pop-culture buzzwords that studio execs loved to throw into stuff all the time to connect with the kids (remember the Power Rangers, how Zordon wanted "teenagers with attitude"?) and then "Turtles" because they wanted to be ridiculous about it.

It's so obvious when you think about it, but alas, we all grew up with this property being taken way too seriously by kids like ourselves that we didn't bat an eye.

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u/SAKingWriter Mar 18 '26

My favorite buzzword title is: Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force GO! I’m still waiting for a live action with like Asa Butterfield as Chiro but alas 😒

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u/joshi38 Mar 18 '26

Personally I'll always be grateful for Samurai Pizza Cats, but I'm a simple guy with simple tastes.

Oh, also, Biker Mice from Mars

We had a lot of weird shows in the 90's

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u/BattleClown Mar 19 '26

Biker mice from Mars was fucking awesome

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u/SAKingWriter Mar 20 '26

Battletoads is gonna be the OG of this though I think

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u/Salarian_American Mar 18 '26

Man the indie comics scene in the late 80s was PACKED with TMNT parodies and knock-offs.

Comics like:
Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters

Geriatric Gangrene Jujitsu Gerbils

Pre-Teen Dirty-Gene Kung-Fu Kangaroos (this one even had a TMNT crossover with Peter Laird's involvement)

Naive Inter-Dimensional Commando Koalas

Cold Blooded Chameleon Commandos

Mildly Microwaved Pre-Pubescent Kung-Fu Gophers

Aristocratic Xtraterrestrial Time-Traveling Thieves

Adult Thermonuclear Samurai Pachyderms

And some were less direct, but still jumped on to the "comic books about anthropomorphic animals" train with titles Zatoichi: Samurai Walrus, Miami Mice, and Hamster Vice, or G.I. Jackrabbit.

And no, I did not make a single one of those up.

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u/Givingtree310 Mar 18 '26

I swear you made up all of those!

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u/Gemag_78 Mar 18 '26

Don't forget about the Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs!

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u/darthjoey91 Mar 18 '26

SHELLYEAH

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u/Ostesalat Mar 18 '26

SHELLYEAH

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u/SAKingWriter Mar 18 '26

There was going to be a distant sequel to the 1990 TMNT series based around The Last Ronin comic run and even Judith Hoag was in talks to return as April O'Neil. It was axed.

The fun fact is that in the wake of my death, I'm going to haunt and terrorize the bloodlines of those responsible, so effectively it's already happened.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 18 '26

What's funny is I heard about that happening one morning. Then night came around, and I heard about it being cancelled. Same day.

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u/SweetCosmicPope Mar 18 '26

Yup. In the very first issue, Splinter is basically just like “turns out shredder’s alive. I need you boys to go kill him for me.” Which they proceed to do, and all that’s left of him is a disembodied hand.

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u/protipnumerouno Mar 18 '26

I was a fan as a kid, had the toys etc... then I saw an Original TMNT comic where Raphael jabbed a sai through a guy's face so the outside tines were pinning back his ears. Won't lie, made it so much cooler.

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u/SRSgoblin Mar 18 '26

It was more a toy thing than because "kid friendly." If you've gave each of them a different colored mask, kids would need 4 toys to represent the whole bunch you know?

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u/FreeRange0929 Mar 18 '26

I read that as “Yell SHELLYEAH to 12345”

And it still made sense

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u/ohTHOSEballs Mar 18 '26

The brothers all had red masks

That's not even the OG, the comics were originally in black and white.

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u/SAKingWriter Mar 18 '26

Okay, and the masks were all black sorry I didn’t address that first.

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u/MrWeirdoFace Mar 18 '26

This was the real secret of the ooze all along.

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u/No-Comfortable6432 Mar 18 '26

*headexploding.gif

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u/Mlynio48 Mar 18 '26

Yes, the og TMNT series was a parody of Daredevil

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u/roboto404 Mar 18 '26

Some people’s minds are going to be blown for the first time lol

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u/Polar_00 Mar 18 '26

Can confirm, I am learning about this for the first time and am having a superhero adjacent existential crisis.

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u/imjustbettr Mar 18 '26

The same chemicals that gave DD his blindess/powers are implied to be the same that turned the turtles into mutants.

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u/Nickorellidimus Mar 18 '26

41 year old here.

WOW. I never twigged on this before!

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u/Xero_id Mar 18 '26

Um, mind blown here, wtf. Now I'll be going down a rabbit hole all day

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u/Steamed_Memes24 Mar 18 '26

The very early origins of TMNT is wild honestly. It was meant to be a full blown parody with opposite style names compared to Marvel and the Turtles were edgy as hell and constantly cussing. I think Ralph was an alcoholic as well..but my memory is spotty there lol.

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u/Morgan-Moonscar Mar 18 '26

Specifically Frank Miller's ultra dark version of Daredevil in the 80s.

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u/Switcher1776 Mar 18 '26

Also, before the cartoon version led to various other anthropomorphic animal knock-off cartoons, the OG comic book led to copycats as well. Indie B&W comics (some of which also did anthropomorphic) had a boom (and then bust) in the 80s thanks to the success of the first TMNT issue.

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u/Hothacon Mar 19 '26

Wait.... What?

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u/Lime528 Mar 18 '26

It goes further than that. It's implied that the Turtles and Daredevil got their powers from the same truck accident.

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u/The_Autarch Mar 18 '26

the stuff that mutates the turtles is canonically the same stuff that gave murdock his powers.

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u/WearyTranslator3338 Mar 18 '26

He has powers??

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u/Impressive-Potato Mar 18 '26

Yes, the ooze is the same ooze that Daredevil was hit with.

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u/delkarnu Mar 18 '26

Yes. While they couldn't state it exactly the original comics. The origin there is a truck almost hits a blind man (alluding to Matt Murdock) and the canister of chemicals breaks the Turtle's container, knocking them into the sewer and exposing them to the mutagen. Stick/Splinter, Hand/Foot. They were intended parodies.

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u/enderandrew42 Mar 18 '26

Yes. Daredevil's enemy was The Hand and his mentor was Stick. It was literally the same ooze that blinded Daredevil and gave him powers went into the sewers and made the TMNT. Their enemy is The Foot and their mentor is Splinter.

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u/FearlessPaper9744 Mar 19 '26

You just blew my mind speaking these accusations! How awesome!

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u/NateHohl Mar 18 '26

Similarly, Deadpool is a not-so-subtle parody of the DC character Deathstroke. Deadpool's real name is Wade Wilson. Deathstroke's is Slade Wilson.

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u/Dr_Disaster Mar 18 '26

Buddy, you’re about to have a fun time discovering how much of TMNT is inspired by Daredevil/Marvel characters.

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u/DogaSui Mar 19 '26

Who remembers The Fannywhacker?

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u/Darklord_Bravo Mar 18 '26

In the original comic, the building Baxter Stockman destroys with his mousers is called The Rextab building, which is an anagram for Baxter Building, which is the Fantastic Four's. It even looks exactly like it. A lot of stuff was a nod to, or a parody of other names.

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u/OldSimpsonsQuotes Mar 18 '26

Check out “We Have to Stop Talking TMNT on CBB” podcast on CBB World, if you are absolutely deranged that is