History Headscratchers / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012

* Chompy's adoption doesn't sit well with me. First off, he's an alien species they know nothing about and since his parent Tokka was a giant fire breathing monster, how are they supposed to keep him under control or at least in secrecy when he grows up?

* Why do Triceritons where space helmets with holes for their horns? You can either breathe in space or you can't!

** For what it's worth, Bradford's primary inspiration, Creator/ChuckNorris, hasn't really aged noticeably since [[{{TheEighties}} The 80s]] either.

** For what it's worth, Bradford's primary inspiration, Creator/ChuckNorris, hasn't really aged noticeably since The80s either.

** The animators probably just didn't want to update Bradford's character model for that one scene, so let's just say he's aged well.

* In season four, the new cartoon Mikey gets into is an 80's show revolving around Chris Bradford. Bradford even appears in "live-action" segments, looking no different than his human self did before mutating in the present. That would mean Bradford would have to at least be in his fifties in the present, yet his human form looked just the same as it did back then. How is that possible?

* In "The Arena of Carnage" the turtles get one part of the black hole generator. Than they state their goal to find the next part. Why? If they just destroy the part they have (throwing it into a star or something like that) the whole thing would be useless for the Triceratons anyway.

** When they moved back into the lair after the invasion, they were under the impression that they had defeated the Kraang for good, so assumed it wouldn't matter. It wasn't until late Season 3 that the clan had any reason to think the Kraang were still a threat to them.

* What made the turtles and Splinter think it was a good idea to move back into the lair? Even if Shredder doesn't know where the lair is, the Kraang clearly do.

** The hypercube only kept Wyrm in place. His powers still worked, but he couldn't use them unless he either heard a wish or if he was let out. So when Casey wished for excitement, he was still able to grant it but couldn't do anything else but wait until Casey let him out. Otherwise he'd have had to have waited for two more wishes to be made before he could free himself. Hence why at the end April told Casey not to make the wish (even if she didn't know why due to the time reversal) since without it while in the cube, Wyrm is powerless.

* How was Wyrm able to grant Casey's "I wish for something exciting" wish if he hadn't been released from his hypercube yet?

** [[YugiohTheAbridgedSeries Because the writers hadn't though of it yet.]] In a more serious answer, it's possible the other Kraang didn't consider Shredder a threat to the Kraang entirety enough to call down a Kraang invasion on the foot castle just to rescue 1 kraang. After all, Kraang is skilled in many things, but the thing called stealth was way more the turtle's thing. As for Plan 10, perhaps they just got confused by the differing signals that was coming from what seemed like a normal kraang.

*** Yes, and two Aprils and two Caseys. The past versions are still on Earth, while the future versions are out in space. So everything up to "Annihilation Earth!", or until the future versions get back to Earth, will still happen.

* How did Bradford and Xever mutate into a dog and fish when the last animal like beings they came into contact with were the turtles?
** They are both shown touching a dog and a fish earlier. The dog bit Bradford, so some of its DNA could have gotten into his bloodstream. As for Xever, he probably bought that fish so he could eat it and would have been touching it a lot. Also, we know now that the Kraang have been trying to modify their mutagen, so its also possible that the ooze Bradford and Xever got covered with would work somewhat differently than it has before.

** Does that make two sets of Turtles?

** Their past selves are probably still there, still playing out the events of Season 3, unaware that their future selves are out in space.

* 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?

* 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]].

* In ''Attack of the Mega Shredder'', 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)[/spoiler}.

** [[YugiohTheAbridgedSeries Because the writers hadn't though of it yet.]] In a more serious answer, it's possible the other Kraang didn't consider Shredder a threat to the Kraang entirety enough to call down a Kraang invasion on the foot castle just to rescue 1 kraang. After all, Kraang is skilled in many things, but the thing called stealth was way more the turtle's thing. As for Plan 10, perhaps they just got confused by the differing signals that was coming from what seemed like a normal kraang.

* Considering that two seconds ago the turtles had finally defeated Bradford and Xever in a clean fight by using combination attacks instead of attacking one after the other. Why against Shredder did they resort to the one after the other tactics that hadn't been enough to put down Bradford or Xever separately let alone together? Shredder is clearly enough better than them that it would rapidly have turned into a "stop hitting yourself" situation but they didn't even TRY what had just been proven to be there most effective technique against superior fighters.

* People keep saying that Pulverizer turned into a pile of slime because he didn't touch anything nor did anything touch him. But that's not true, the turtles have touched him a few times and in the first episode, a rat touched Splinter's shoe, not his skin, but he was mutated into Splinter anyway. So what gives? Albeit I know there's still the "mutant animals probably don't count" theory in Xever and Bradford's entries, but I thought it was still worth pointint out.

* How is it neither Shredder nor his minions have figured out that the trick to using the mutagen is touching an animal first? Don't Bradford and Xever remember touching a dog and a fish?
** It could be that the Shredder is too stubborn to listen to Bradford and Xever, the same way he was too stubborn to listen to Karai about the Kraang at first.

** It may be an intentional slight. Dogpound is meaner to him than Xever is. I can't recall 100%, but I think Xever only ever threatens him if he has something to gain, whereas Bradford is a jerk just because he's a jerk. Plus, Xever is more AxCrazy than Bradford is.

* Why didn't they recruit Malachi? He's a mutant who presumably has no home to return to. It's a security risk because he knows the location of the lair, is incredibly powerful (the amount of time it would take Razar, Karai and Fishface to realize they are fighting fake ninja turtles is at least twice as long as it would take real, presumably invisible, ninja turtles to beat them into submission and his mutant power also means he's effectively a walking training simulator. Sure they need to get him off fantasy setting DND and instead get him hooked on that Voltron Expy they watch complete with monster of the week but he's entirely too valuable to the turtles and too dangerous to have wandering about unchecked (the Foot know they live in the sewers, even if they aren't actively searching constantly presumably they'd violently question any mutant they found wandering the sewers.)

* Why did it take until season 2 for Donnie to come up with the idea of a retro-mutagen when there were plenty of mutants who should've been turned back in season 1? Dr. Rockwell, an innocent scientist mutated into a psychic monkey, Bradford and Xever became more dangerous as Dogpound and Fishface, Snakeweed and Spider Bytez would've also been less dangerous as humans, and while not necessary he could've used retro mutagen to allow Splinter to relive life as a human again, (if only temporary, like the first cartoon). Granted, he did vow to turn Pulverizer back to normal, but no mention of retro-mutagen was made yet.
** Ignoring that Bradford and Xever have better track records than Dogpound and Fishface it simply wasn't a priority for the Turtles until the mutant problem started getting out of hand and Timothy and Mr. O'neal were mutated. It's also possible Donnie quickly considered the risk/reward ratio and for all the good retro-mutagen can do for humans mutated it would essentially kill the Turtles. They aren't humans turned into hideous freaks. They are pet store turtles turned very nearly human.

** It's possible that this is part of that thing that some shows use to not overly complicate things for kids: PoliceAreUseless. That the show is in a world where there's a lot less of an ability for military to fight or launch nuclear weapons or air squadrons or what have you in time. If at all. I mean, if they didn't respond to a Kraang invasion a season ago, or a giant technodrome 2 season ago, what makes you think 2 motherships would be enough to bring them in? Or they were trying, but kept getting shot down in the crossfire.

* Its confirmed that the Kraang share a hive mind, so why couldn't the Kraang kidnapped by Shredder "call" the others for help in '' Karai's Vendetta'' and ''The Pulverizer Returns'' or see through Raph's ruse in ''Plan 10''?