History Headscratchers / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles

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* How do they have pizza delivered without revealing the location of the lair? [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles I don't think they have the pizza guy hand it to a guy under the sewer grate every time.]] Eventually Shredder would catch on and discover where they are.

* How come Raphael is the only turtle with a New York accent?
** [[BrooklynRage 'Cause he's just that tough.]]
*** I just assumed it was because he seemed to be the one who spent the most time above ground, thus acquiring the accent from the people he observed, overheard, etc. The other turtles learned English from either TV or Splinter but never really mixed with citizens from New York as much as Raph.
*** That's the most likely explanation. Also makes sense for the others. Leonardo tends to speak clearly and properly, like someone who's deliberately avoiding using an accent... he probably wants to sound "mature" for Splinter or something. Michelangelo talks like a surfer dude because he spends a lot of time watching TV, he probably learned TotallyRadical speech patterns from that. And Donatello just speaks like someone who's intelligent enough to want to speak clearly without excessive slang or accent.
** The real life answer is that it was a spur of the moment idea made while filming the first live action movie, and everyone loved it.
*** This is exactly correct, Josh Pais (Raph's suit actor) was a New York native and they loved his thick Brooklyn accent. Michlean Sisti almost made it for the same reason but they wanted Mikey to sound younger.

* So in the fourth movie, Leonardo confronts Nightwatcher on the roof and demands he stop "this vigilante nonsense." Uh Leo? That guy in the hockey mask, you know, your friend Casey Jones? He's a vigilante too. Not to mention the fact that you and your brothers are hardly duly deputized agents of the law.
** Leo, like a lot of crime fighters, don't think of themselves as vigilantes. DoubleStandard ? Yes. However if you look at Batman when new heroes move into Gotham without his approval or the Turtles reaction to Casey Jones it seems clear that to Leo a vigilante is someone who is engages in unnecessary roughness.
** Also the Turtles are not explicitly crime fighters. If this movie is in continuity with the other they mostly fight defensively against the Foot. Their first battle was explicitly a test of their ninja combat and stealth skills, and the other time they're fighting ordinary street crime is when their pizza is in the building being robbed. The third film even has Raph and Mikey feeling like their life has little purpose since they have nothing to do with the Foot gone.

* In ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles III'', upon falling into a swamp, Donatello remarks: "I think I swallowed a frog. I hope it wasn't my ancestor." Now why would a frog be the ancestor of a turtle, and why would the "brains" of the quartet say something like that? AVGN included this in his top ten most nauseating quotes of the movie.
** This Troper thought Donnie was being sarcastic in that scene...
** And this Troper wonders when people stopped being able to recognize ''an in-character joke''.
** [[@/TitoMosquito This troper]] thinks he said "I hope it wasn't '''an''' ancestor." Meaning the frog he may have swallowed was supposed to mate.
*** What.
*** Or he believes in reincarnation and ancestor worship.
*** Or, as was previously stated, it was humor shot at the kiddies for a cheap chuckle/the gross-out factor.

* Why does the NES game's second level have such a reputation for being hard? I beat it on my ''second try''. ''Without losing any turtles''. Am I just really good at video games, or what?
** The timer has something to do with it - people panic more when the clock is ticking. Some people are just more cool under pressure.
** A lot of people who played this didn't think to switch turtles when one of them got too injured.
** And the game only gets harder after this stage.
** Same reason that some people will tell you that Air Man is the hardest boss in ''VideoGame/MegaMan2''. MemeticMutation. The NES game commits many sins, but SchizophrenicDifficulty isn't one of them; the dam level is the second easiest. But have you ever tried convincing people that a meme (or a CausticCritic) is ''wrong?''

* If they live in NYC, have access to some of the BEST pizza in the world, and are SO obsessed with how delicious it is, why would they order from a chain restaurant?