Teenage Mutant Ninja Thugs

Before the rant commences, let me state my history with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle culture: I loved them, collected every toy, searched for them in sewers and even put green hair gel on my pet turtle in hopes it would grow into the 5th brother which I affectionately named John Kruk Jr.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s begin.

They lived in sewers, had no jobs, ordered pizza (how do you get a signal in a sewer pipe, I cant even get it on my driveway), and once in a while they surfaced to beat the living shit out of New Yorkers.

Now I know they were defeating the Foot Clan, but come on who do you think composed of the gang? Your average teenage New Yorker who needed some stability in his life, that’s who. So should we be supporting a bunch of reptilian thugs who crawl out of a hole in the ground to beat up civilians?

Now let’s focus on Shredder, who is perceived to be the "bad guy" throughout the history of the turtle productions.

Shredder, or Oroku Saki, is providing a safe haven for many young men by developing this Foot Clan, and he should be applauded for his community service. Now, an easy argument to make is that he is much like Osama Bin Laden, recruiting young, vulnerable men and promising to improve their lives by giving them something to be proud of.

Since that is an easy argument, I'm not even going to touch it. You can just brush it off and continue on with the article because quiet frankly, I choose not to go there.

Has anyone noticed that the reptilians who are beating the shit out of the kids are also teenagers? These are kids between the ages of 12-18 going out on the street in the middle of the night getting in gang fights.

Do we really want our children supporting a gang of reptilians led by a rodent (Splinter)?

If we want that we might as well get them involved in politics too.