History Headscratchers / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012

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* What is it about mutagen that seems to automatically bestow human level skill? Take Season 3's ''The Croaking''. Those frogs were mutated in the episode ''Buried Secrets''. They've been human level intelligence for somewhere between a few days and a few month at the absolute most which the likely answer being less than a month. Yet they've got names a fairly functioning society complete with a dislike for humans that required what at that point would have been unmutated frogs to understand the situation they were in, they speak English. They are if not completely on par with the formally trained ninja they are still dozens of times better than beings who should still be mastering bipedal movement. This isn't the first time this has happened either. Slash instantly masters these things as well to the point of sneaking up on trained ninjas despite being a hulking brute.It doesn't happen every time though, ice cream kitty and the squirelnoids don't seem to get it.

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* In "The Gauntlet" how did nobody notice Pete? He's a giant Pigeon Man in broad daylight! He crashed into a bank window with people inside for [[IncrediblyLamePun Pete's]] sake!

*** Pete's a bit of a [[IncrediblyLamePun Bird brain]]?

** 1.) It hasn't been confirmed yet that the Kraang have been defeated. If anything the Earth Protective Forces was an unexpected entry into the playing field, and possibly deterred the Kraang's spread. However, it's still likely they're causing chaos in NY and maybe even the surrounding states. 2.) While you would expect the invasion to be on the TV you have to remember it's been going on for three months, and that it has seemed to be contained mostly to NY. It's understandable that by then they would be reporting things happening in their own community. It should also be noted that they're probably reporting about updates on what's going in NY, but for the plot of "Race with The Demon" it wasn't mentioned. We'll likely see it in a later episode. 3.) Leo isn't fully healed. While capable of still preforming physical feats he's shown multiple times that his injuries are still affecting him. 4.) They don't know that Splinter is alive. The last time they saw him he got thrown into a whirlpool of sewage. Mikey's words were just to calm Raph down from his UnstoppableRage. And again, he was thrown into a whirlpool of sewage, looking for him would be hopeless. Should they in 1/1,000 chance find him his body would most likely be unrecognizable. By all means the fact that they're still at the farm is understandable given the circumstances.

* So is Timothy dead? We didn't see him when they went back to the lair.

* What happened to Steranko's clothes when he mutated? I'd accept that the tanktop was on under his shirt, but where did the belts on top of it come from? Also, his pants completely changed and his coat, shirt, tie and shoes vanished. His coat couldn't have come off in the tank since its epaulettes are fused to his shoulders.

* I found [[http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/File:Tumblr_mg1dnfXDpU1rkw2szo1_500.jpg this]] on [[TheWikiRule TurtlePedia]]. Is that canon!?

** The season one finale reveals that [[spoiler:Karai is actually's Splinter's daughter Miwa, kidnapped and raised by Shredder after the fight/fire that killed Tang Shen]].

* Why is the show kind of inconsistent with how serious the events are sometimes? For example, the end of ''The Kraang Conspiracy'', [[spoiler: April discovers she's a human/kraang mutant hybrid and she's disoriented by the news]], and the next episode, April acts as though it never happened.

* How does one tell the dfference between a female Kraang/Utrom and a male one, Kraang Prime is a '''[[{{Pun}} prime]]''' example of this, before season 4 when the Utrom Queen called Kraang Prime a "him" the fandom assumed he was female based of his voice (Everybody else before then just referred to Kraang Prime as "it" & "Kraang Prime"). Seriously, anyone can tell any species males from their females if they know what to look for. For all we know the Kraang/Utroms could just be a hermaphroditical race using gender pronouns for the convenience of Earthlings.[[spoiler:.. Wait, what does that mean for April?]]

* In Cockroach Terminator, After [[spoiler: the Roach is liquified]], there is a an [[spoiler: egg With a mutant embryo in it]]. This would imply that, Don, in all his intellegence, either A) [[spoiler: failed to notice the cockroach he was using was pregnant, which seems to be a massive oversight]], or B) [[spoiler: knew that the roach was pregnant and he just didn't care, which seems very much out of line with his characterization]]. Either way, what the hell, Donny?
** It's possible that [[spoiler: the egg was a result of the mutagen and that the cockroach was not pregnant at all beforehand]]. Many real-life mutagens are also carcinogens (they cause cancer), so perhaps [[spoiler:the egg was just some sort of bizarre, living tumor?]]

** As of the Season 2 Finale the Kraang and the Foot are working together. It's possible that their alliance was renewed after [[spoiler: Karai was mutated and Shredder needed their expertise.]]
* Why did Tigerclaw retreat after [[spoiler: he defeated Karai]]? You'd think he'd continue his attack on the turtles what with mikey down and his revenge close at hand, so why did he leave?
** His priority changed when [[spoiler: Karai turned on him]]. He felt it was more important to bring the traitor back to his master than continue a battle he may not win at that point.

* So what exactly [[spoiler: about Splinter showing Karai the pictures of her mother and her as a baby make her finally convinced? Had she seen a picture of her mother before? If so, that would make sense but I don't think that was established, unless I'm forgetting something. Otherwise it's just a picture of a random Japanese family as far as she would be concerned, given that despite overhearing the Turtles talk amongst themselves about her parentage, she still thought they were lying? And if she was having doubts about whether or not it was true, why so trigger happy with the tracking device? Why not wait to see what Splinter had to say before activating it?]]

* If Irma was really [[spoiler: a Kraang droid]] how did she eat pizza?
** The same way [[spoiler: Ch'rell]] drank tea in the 2003 version. In all seriousness, [[spoiler: it's possible that Kraang Sub Prime makes "Irma" eat, but any food he puts in "her" mouth is redirected to a separate storage compartment or something]].
*** Or [[spoiler: his own mouth]].
* How were the Kraang disguised as [[spoiler: Irma, Kraang Sub-Prime, and the cops]] able to speak English fluently?

** Either [[spoiler: Kraang Sub-Prime and Kraang Prime]] are actually different in ways other than their size or more likely the average Kraang simply doesn't care. They rarely communicate with humans and if you've ever spoken with someone in their second language they often have, obviously not as comical, but very specific word choices. Either way it pisses [[spoiler: Kraang Sub-Prime off]] that after thousands of years they apparently just aren't putting in the effort.
* So we're supposed to believe that the Kraang somehow [[spoiler: got Irma/Kraang Subprime enrolled in a high school when "she" has no history prior to that?]]
** [[spoiler: The Kraang have been on Earth for hundreds of years. I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few of them on the school board.]]
* Why make [[spoiler: the Irma droid short-sighted and in need of glasses?]]

* How could April not sense that [[spoiler: Irma was really a

* In "The Invasion" it's revealed that [[spoiler: Irma was really Kraang Subprime.]] But in "Mousers Attack" [[spoiler: April was already friends with Irma and at that point the Kraang still didn't know where she was.]]
** That just adds to the [[spoiler: "there was a real Irma and she was kidnapped"]] theory.
* Why do the Kraang even need to invade? Kraang Prime reveals that [[spoiler: they created the human race]] and Kurtzman's files showed that they've been living among us ever since. They've basically had the Earth in their pocket the whole time.
* So it took SufficientlyAdvancedAliens like the Kraang the entire existence of the human race to do things like [[spoiler: create the HalfHumanHybrid April]] or finally perfect the mutagen?

* Maybe I've missed something, but I don't really understand why Karai [[spoiler:can seemingly switch between her mutant and her human form. Is that some kind of snake thing or what?]]
** [[spoiler: Baxter accidentally spills something into the container that he later poured into the mutagen.]]

* Okay, after the newest episode 'Buried Secrets' I'm like totally confused about April's whole past. Could someone give me a cronological list of what happened to her family? Can we even trust what [[spoiler: the Mom-thing]] said? I mean, she seemingly had all the memories of the real [[spoiler: Mrs O'Neil.]] Did the Kraang ship really land there and they unkowingly build their farm house there? And why would the Kraang be in some kind of sleeping state anyway? How did April's greatgrandfather not notice an alien spaceship in his basement? Heck, why would whoever build the farm house not notice that?! Why would the O'Neils come back to this place when they were experimented on there? Why would the Kraang allow them to leave? And then what about the things Mr. Kurtzman said? This whole scenario makes like no sense at all...

* What happened to Steranko's clothes [[spoiler: when he mutated? I'd accept that the tanktop was on under his shirt, but where did the belts on top of it come from? Also, his pants completely changed and his coat, shirt, tie and shoes vanished. His coat couldn't have come off in the tank since its epaulettes are fused to his shoulders.]]
** Probably the same reason why people who are tied up are free of their restraints once dunked in mutagen. It's possible that [[spoiler: the belts and pants were hidden under the rest of his clothes, which probably disintegrated in the mutagen like ropes and chains do. The epaulettes likely fused to him as the coat disintegrated the same way that Karai's armor fuses with her when in snake mode.]]
* If time moves faster in Dimension X, [[spoiler: and most of the human kraang hybrids have been in there for at least of couple of Earth months, shouldn't they look significantly older?]]

* How the heck did Karai [[spoiler: expect Leo and/or the others to know what she meant when she pointed to the distance and said "Comet"?]] She was obviously under pressure, but that's a ridiculously vague clue to give.

* So, how do those mind-control worm things work? They seem to enter through the head (Stockman said the chemical had to go straight to the brain), but when [[spoiler: Raph, Slash and Rockwell]] are cured, they puke the worms up.

** Yes, [[spoiler:it knocked Shredder away from Splinter and happened because of how devestated seeing Splinter die made April. So it was pretty much the equivalent of forcing Shredder back.]]

* In ''Attack of the Mega Shredder'', [[spoiler: Karai is shown having at least a second brain worm injected]]. But in ''The Fourfold Trap'', [[spoiler: she's only shown coughing up one worm (courtesy of Splinter's healing hands]].
** Maybe the machine injecting the [[spoiler: second (or more) worm(s)]] removed the old ones too, so there was [[spoiler: only one in her head]] at a time?

* So, as of Beyond the Known Universe, [[spoiler: the Earth has gone back in time six months]]... But where does that leave everyone else? How much of [[spoiler: season 3]] has been undone? Are there now no ninja turtles on Earth?

** As it turns out, it wasn't the Kraang who built the BHG, but rather [[spoiler: Professor Honeycutt]] and it was designed to only be destroyed by a combination of dark matter and fusion.

* So, who's left of the Foot Clan post-Owari besides Tiger Claw and Baxter? [[spoiler: Raph clearly left Xever to die, and Bebop and Rocksteady stopped screaming whilst the training guns were still firing.]] Also,[[spoiler: Rahzar]] didn't resurface after Leatherhead dragged him underwater.

* Why does Timothy/Pulverizer's parents (if he has an parental guardian) as about his whereabouts? When Timothy first saw the turtles he was in his house, and it's safe to assume he's not adult, meaning that he would at at be living with some sort of legal guardian. How come when he got mutated and just "disappeared" to the sweet that no one who looking for him? At this point he has been missing for several months, so a family member should be trying to locate him.

*** This is more random trivia than an "answer", but nunchucks are apparently extremely complex to use - which makes sense, given, you know, the weighted chunks flying all over the place (even ''without'' learning how to throw them, use them to "catch" weapons or limbs, etc...). It's actually an element of HiddenDepths for Mikey in every TMNT iteration - he's the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and the laziest and most unfocused turtle, but he's the one who uses the most difficult and complicated weapons - ''two'' of them. Part of his whole BrilliantButLazy deal.

** The weapons thing might be a MythologyGag, or at least a reference, as the 2003 series (itself based closely on the original Mirage comics) had an episode where the Turtles had to swap weapons to defeat a robot that could mimic their individual fighting styles. In that episode, everyone adapts to the new weapons fairly easily (Donnie fumbles a bit with Raph's sais, but is still able to use them). But those Turtles were in general [[AdaptationalBadass far more skilled]] than in [[AdaptationalWimps this iteration]]. As the 2012 Turtles are generally portrayed as less mature than in previous iterations and still mastering ninjutsu in the first season, it makes sense that they struggle more with swapping out weapons.

* How could April not sense that [[spoiler: Irma was really a Kraang?]]

** UnusuallyUninterestingSight, maybe? New York ''is'' a CityOfWeirdos, after all.