Here's your April O'Neil, bro

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/GoAa3t9.png

[Ekco]

Nope.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/29/ef/4c/29ef4c8e70fb16304440265b237825dc.jpg

[Trexller]

Here's your April O'Neil, bro

April O'Neil

https://i.imgur.com/bfbDhfD.jpg

[Ekco]

/thread.

5 stars.

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/exJzidr.gif

[unsunghero]

Jesus Christ I hadn’t even zoomed in the pic and sarcastically asked “can we make her fat and black?” then I saw the pic…

[Trexller]

Jesus Christ I hadn’t even zoomed in the pic and sarcastically asked “can we make her fat and black?” then I saw the pic…

oh shit i didn't even notice this

so which of the turtle brothers are trans and gay with each other?

[aussenseiter]

Jesus Christ I hadn’t even zoomed in the pic and sarcastically asked “can we make her fat and black?” then I saw the pic…

Black is ok.

[Trexller]

Black is ok.

April O'Negro is not TMNT canon

https://i.imgur.com/apRp7TQ.gif

[wuanahto]

and fuck that artstyle change for ballmasterz and story focus shift

[aussenseiter]

April O'Negro is not TMNT canon

https://i.imgur.com/apRp7TQ.gif

It's better than fat April.

[goblinmob]

This is no surprise, bros. We're getting old is what it is

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/F3GWV38.gif

[Swish]

Maybe they could go back to the 90s and adjust her appearance/voice too? Can we make that happen?

[Jimjam]

April O'Neil

https://i.imgur.com/bfbDhfD.jpg

I knew a lady who looked exactly like April O Neil despite her family originating from the SH continent. Well played to her husband!

[Jimjam]

*indian sub continent. Not enough blood flow to type.

[mcoy]

https://i.imgur.com/exJzidr.gif

I worship your gifs.

-Mcoy

[Patrece]

April O'Neil

https://i.imgur.com/bfbDhfD.jpg

April O'Steal

[Chortles Snortles]

stomach tattoo
>dropped

[loramin]

April O'Negro is not TMNT canon

In the original comics (that came long before the TV show) she was mixed race, based off a girlfriend the cartoonist had:

While the comic books’ black and white interior makes April’s ethnicity hard to discern, the cover of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #11 depicts O’Neil as a light-skinned woman of color with black curly hair. Co-creator Kevin Eastman admitted that O’Neil’s appearance was based on his then-girlfriend April Fisher, herself a woman of mixed-race.

Here's her first appearance ever:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k9TF7RNDrnw/WnYfYFPJQSI/AAAAAAAATHE/PqevdQ9SoUUd00WpXKvgfGnduGWEqX_IQCLcBGAs/s1600/02-2.jpg

And here's a later (color) comic cover:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ArAm13_sz-k/WnYh2qSmRWI/AAAAAAAATIA/pedms7mvpnsP3QYD6kkKJYQ1H-csARn4gCLcBGAs/s1600/TMNT11-01.jpg

But keep pearl-clutching about how it's not canon for her to be anything but white.

[Chortles Snortles]

In the original comics (that came long before the TV show) she was mixed race, based off a girlfriend the cartoonist had:



Here's her first appearance ever:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k9TF7RNDrnw/WnYfYFPJQSI/AAAAAAAATHE/PqevdQ9SoUUd00WpXKvgfGnduGWEqX_IQCLcBGAs/s1600/02-2.jpg

And here's a later (color) comic cover:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ArAm13_sz-k/WnYh2qSmRWI/AAAAAAAATIA/pedms7mvpnsP3QYD6kkKJYQ1H-csARn4gCLcBGAs/s1600/TMNT11-01.jpg

But keep pearl-clutching about how it's not canon for her to be anything but white.

(lol)

https://i.imgur.com/Q66nvJo.jpg

[Ekco]

In the original comics (that came long before the TV show) she was mixed race, based off a girlfriend the cartoonist had:



Here's her first appearance ever:

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-k9TF7RNDrnw/WnYfYFPJQSI/AAAAAAAATHE/PqevdQ9SoUUd00WpXKvgfGnduGWEqX_IQCLcBGAs/s1600/02-2.jpg

And here's a later (color) comic cover:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ArAm13_sz-k/WnYh2qSmRWI/AAAAAAAATIA/pedms7mvpnsP3QYD6kkKJYQ1H-csARn4gCLcBGAs/s1600/TMNT11-01.jpg

But keep pearl-clutching about how it's not canon for her to be anything but white.

thanks for the history lesson, still doesn't change the fact that's not the April 99.9% of 30+ years olds know or quite literally care about.

i knew it was from a comic book but i sure as fuck didn't read any of them.

[unsunghero]

It’s by Seth Rogan so it’s going to be woke garbage like his shitty Christmas movie that bombed

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIeZlDjVLc

[Ekco]

i'm not even mad anymore tbh, like i get it. it's a business and they are targeting a different demographic. i can't get mad every time they take something from my childhood and ruin it.

i wasn't alive for new hope and empire strikes back, "my" star wars were the stupid prequels that sucked. but as i got older i realized my star wars blew and even return of the jedi was about stupid teddy bears and sucked also.

idk my point is i think the non weirdo kids are gonna be fine and will watch decent movies eventually.

thanks for coming to my ted talk
(lol)

[Toxigen]

imagine april from TMNT being fat

[unsunghero]

i'm not even mad anymore tbh, like i get it. it's a business and they are targeting a different demographic. i can't get mad every time they take something from my childhood and ruin it.

i wasn't alive for new hope and empire strikes back, "my" star wars were the stupid prequels that sucked. but as i got older i realized my star wars blew and even return of the jedi was about stupid teddy bears and sucked also.

idk my point is i think the non weirdo kids are gonna be fine and will watch decent movies eventually.

thanks for coming to my ted talk
(lol)

Not even a smart business decision if we’re using his past mini-series (sorry I called it a movie before, Santa Inc was a mini series) as an example of what might be coming

And of course after this new one bombs like his last dumpster fire did, he’ll go blaming the evil white nazis for giving bad material bad reviews

I wouldn’t expect much more from the guy who literally bragged about how many times he got robbed in LA. “You can be mad about being robbed, but I’m not because I’m a rich woke douchebag lol”

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/rm948qo.gif

[Trexller]

In the original comics (that came long before the TV show) she was mixed race, based off a girlfriend the cartoonist had

huh how about that

i was never a huge TMNT fan

turtles would make horrible ninjas and even worse teenagers

[Ekco]

huh how about that

i was never a huge TMNT fan

turtles would make horrible ninjas and even worse teenagers

we have scientific proof now thanks to Loramin's book report for why the cool kids preferred ghostbusters. i legit always wondered that...

[Skarne]

Why isn’t April O’Neil a hottie

[Toxigen]

Why isn’t April O’Neil a hottie

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymore

[Skarne]

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymore

You should write Seth Rogan a letter

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/L1QUE8C.png

[Trexller]

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymore

im pretty sure that it's just the pear shaped, shrapnel ridden, lost a fight in a paint store women that don't want women to be hot anymore.

https://i.imgur.com/uG8ZiuR.jpg

everyone else loves hot women, including most women

[Toxigen]

https://i.imgur.com/T84039G.gif

[unsunghero]

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymore

Makes them feel jealous and insecure about being fat

[Trexller]

https://i.imgur.com/T84039G.gif

got anymore, or a source?

[Patrece]

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymore

Same reason why trannies are put in women's sports

[Swish]

They could have made her asian or hispanic (variety)

[Basanos]

because woke libshits dont want women to be hot anymorefirst they came for the hot ninja turtles characters

[Trexller]

first they came for the hot ninja turtles characters

https://i.imgur.com/OpXUnzD.jpg

then they fell asleep.

[Trexller]

shit.

https://i.imgur.com/OpXUnzD.jpg

[aussenseiter]

shit.

https://i.imgur.com/OpXUnzD.jpg

You can tell they're uneven. :(

[Trexller]

You can tell they're uneven. :(

all breasts are uneven... there are not 2 identical breasts on planet earth.

most women have a slightly larger left breast than right, it's also common to have full cup sized differences between breasts.

you never heard a woman refer to her left breast as her "BLT"? or never heard a woman complain about how they don't make left/right cup sized bras?

i find this difficult to believe, you said you're married right?

https://i.imgur.com/Z2BcaAo.gif

[unsunghero]

first they came for the hot ninja turtles characters

Realistically using attractive sprites is not much different than casting attractive actors, which is prepping the kids for real life

I hear online influencer is close to or is the number 1 dream job kids report in surveys, and most if not all of the successful ones of either gender are usually good looking

There is a very real halo effect that says that if two people had identical skills, people would attribute more other (unearned btw) qualities to the attractive one

So saying you want fat ugly models to try to fight/change that reality is a more noble reason than doing it to piss off some pervy horny white nazis, but I don’t think the first goal is possible no matter how hard we try to social condition people. Good looks have always been an (again, unearned) indicator of good health

[Toxigen]

first they came for the hot ninja turtles characters

https://i.imgur.com/JpfGJX5.jpg

[Chortles Snortles]

you ve just committed a hate crime
i hope yuor happy

[Basanos]

https://i.imgur.com/JpfGJX5.jpgIf you think this is a real problem you're a bored reactionary idiot

Go outside

[Toxigen]

If you think this is a real problem you're a bored reactionary idiot

Go outside

If you don't think its a problem, you're part of the problem.

Hope this helps.

[Basanos]

Oh no

The billboards don't show me the women that I like as often as they used to

Society must be coming apart!! I'm a reasonable anti-semite!

[Lampolo]

The turtles look nonbinary

[Chortles Snortles]

shit.

https://i.imgur.com/OpXUnzD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Wx1JzSw.gif

[Swish]

https://i.imgur.com/JpfGJX5.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/dHRapy0.png

Does this translate to sales? Or are sales not as important as they used to be?

[Jimjam]

I remember a huge part of the push against traditional sub zero models was how unhealthy role models they were. Besides where is the point of an underwear model with no breasts or buttocks. By the same health logic the pendulum has swung too far - overweight causes its own slue health problems.

I suspect more than signalling ‘fat acceptance’ or whatever there may more reasons for use of large models - in an age of epidemic overweight using skinny models may be outgrouping one of your largest markets dissuading them from buying your models. Some kind of ‘one of us’ factor by using models which sadly match the population?

[loramin]

Y'all are overthinking this. Who is Victoria's Secret's market? Hint: not men.

Now, do you think the average woman in America (or the UK) looks more like the models on the left, or the ones on the right? They're not pushing any agenda, they're not deliberately trying to have ugly models, and they don't care about what's healthy or unhealthy: they just want to sell underwear.

[Patriam1066]

https://i.imgur.com/dHRapy0.png

Does this translate to sales? Or are sales not as important as they used to be?

I hope they paid DJ khaled a lot for this. Sheesh

[Patriam1066]

If you think this is a real problem you're a bored reactionary idiot

Go outside

Having low standards with anything isn’t great man. My kids had to get 98s in school. So did I

Pretending that mediocrity is acceptable is very, very dumb

[magnetaress]

https://i.imgur.com/sw9JcPP.gif

[magnetaress]

they need more babies for the machine so mebbe make her also fat black and pregnant out of wedlock?

[magnetaress]

and on weed! (and HIV drugs for her gay male lover who is not the daddy)

(do drugs responsibly ppl)

[Basanos]

Having low standards with anything isn’t great man. My kids had to get 98s in school. So did I

Pretending that mediocrity is acceptable is very, very dumbAcknowledging that not all women are supermodels isn't a graded test

I cannot believe anyone is stupid enough to pretend like it's the images on the billboards that are the problem and not to presence of the billboars that is the problem

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/1d8V4UH.gif

[Basanos]

Yeah, that, except you don't have to fight a guy in an alley for an unsually long amount of time because you don't need the glasses

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/53OWYSG.png

[BattleToad99]

https://imgur.com/a/ZmEAHaN

[unsunghero]

LOTR MT:G set card leak

Should have made the ranger Blackagorn be fat too. Not very body positive

I’m trademarking “Blackagorn” now btw, you can’t use it

[Ekco]

only mtg waifu that ever mattered.

[goblinmob]

LOTR MT:G set card leak

Should have made the ranger Blackagorn be fat too. Not very body positive

I’m trademarking “Blackagorn” now btw, you can’t use it

Even though, objectively, I couldn't find an argument against any fictional thing being one way of another. Ya know why they doin it. And it's insulting. When companies do this, I feel like I'm being told I'm stupid.

[unsunghero]

Even though, objectively, I couldn't find an argument against any fictional thing being one way of another. Ya know why they doin it. And it's insulting. When companies do this, I feel like I'm being told I'm stupid.

100% they gonna do a Frodo and Sam gay lovers card

But they were giving off gay vibes in Jackson’s LOTR so that’s easy for me to wrap my head around

[unsunghero]

100% they gonna do a Frodo and Sam gay lovers card

But they were giving off gay vibes in Jackson’s LOTR so that’s easy for me to wrap my head around

They couldn’t call it “Gay lovers” though obviously. They’d have to imply it from the card text and pic

Something like “Artifact: Frodo and Sam’s Hairy Bois Oil” effect: 2 colorless mana: target hobbit is unblockable this turn
Flavor text: The hairy hobbit boys lube each other up so that they can penetrate the enemy defenses from behind

^
Something like that that might imply it

[Swish]

LOTR MT:G set card leak

Should have made the ranger Blackagorn be fat too. Not very body positive

I’m trademarking “Blackagorn” now btw, you can’t use it

I feel like they haven't been inclusive enough.

Shouldn't they have a character in a wheelchair or retcon some Marxism/defund the city guards into the text? Arwen could at least have dyed her hair omg :rolleyes:

[Duik]

They couldn’t call it “Gay lovers” though obviously. They’d have to imply it from the card text and pic

Something like “Artifact: Frodo and Sam’s Hairy Bois Oil” effect: 2 colorless mana: target hobbit is unblockable this turn
Flavor text: The hairy hobbit boys lube each other up so that they can penetrate the enemy defenses from behind

^
Something like that that might imply it

You have thought about this WAAAY too much.

[loramin]

Ya know why they doin it.

You mean because one race has dominated all popular media for decades in America, and now media producers want to let people who don't look like that race see themselves represented in the media they consume?

[Evia]

You mean because one race has dominated all popular media for decades in America, and now media producers want to let people who don't look like that race see themselves represented in the media they consume?

Yeah, agreed. But the response has been an over correction. Now it's considered a negative thing to just be white and straight. This isn't "inclusion" it's just flipping the script the other direction. Still a bad thing to be hyper focused on race.

[Trexller]

You mean because one race has dominated all popular media for decades in America, and now media producers want to let people who don't look like that race see themselves represented in the media they consume?

oh its all about the money, inclusion is good for business. marketing a product to all races and genders is a simple and smart thing to do. this is why the couples in every ad are interracial.

really don't understand why this is a new thing, black people were buying pepsi and diapers 40 years ago.

[Trexller]

Yeah, agreed. But the response has been an over correction. Now it's considered a negative thing to just be white and straight. This isn't "inclusion" it's just flipping the script the other direction. Still a bad thing to be hyper focused on race.

humans don't really understand moderation, at all

whatever we do, we're going to do it too much.

[Basanos]

Yeah, agreed. But the response has been an over correction. Now it's considered a negative thing to just be white and straight. This isn't "inclusion" it's just flipping the script the other direction. Still a bad thing to be hyper focused on race.He said, as he hyper focused on race. The average person in the world is not a white.

Representation in media is just supply and demand. You're being critical of capitalism, you just don't seem to know it.

[Chortles Snortles]

https://i.imgur.com/fEeiZtg.jpg

[unsunghero]

You have thought about this WAAAY too much.

I had fun writing it

I should be a gay fanfic writer

[unsunghero]

Yeah, agreed. But the response has been an over correction. Now it's considered a negative thing to just be white and straight. This isn't "inclusion" it's just flipping the script the other direction. Still a bad thing to be hyper focused on race.

It’S OuR TiMe NoW, WhItEs bEgOnE!

[Trexller]

https://i.imgur.com/fEeiZtg.jpg

honestly that casting choice is probably spot on

gosling's acting range is enormous, and if someone could pull off a white guy portrayal of obama, gosling is on the short list

[unsunghero]

honestly that casting choice is probably spot on

gosling's acting range is enormous, and if someone could pull off a white guy portrayal of obama, gosling is on the short list

What I like is how everyone was chill about blackface in both Tropic Thunder movie and Always Sunny show

Just goes to show comedy can and should be allowed to be edgy, especially when the material is good

[goblinmob]

You mean because one race has dominated all popular media for decades in America, and now media producers want to let people who don't look like that race see themselves represented in the media they consume?

Yes

[loramin]

What I like is how everyone was chill about blackface in both Tropic Thunder movie and Always Sunny show

Just goes to show comedy can and should be allowed to be edgy, especially when the material is good

I rarely agree with you but ...

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5bad5d982100000001c68e44.jpeg

Yes, that is Ken Jeong in blackface, as a dark elf ... in one of the best episodes of Community ever :D

Sadly, because of the blackface, the streaming networks have all removed that episode (despite the fact that all the other characters in the show clearly indicate how wrong it is).

[Ekco]

in one of the best episodes of Community ever :D


for people that like this episode, Dan Harmon of Community and Rick and Morty fam has a pretty badass D&D segment from his podcast Harmontown. and someone put them all into a playlist on youtube. a lot of guest appearances from people from Who's Line is it Anyway also.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjjzgwTZK8&list=PLVBE0UFchtTH2Ekc50_PEHnjvva1RlT22

[Ekco]

live play D&D segment*

[Olean]

April O'Neil

https://i.imgur.com/bfbDhfD.jpg

April O'Squeal amirite

[unsunghero]

I rarely agree with you but ...

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/5bad5d982100000001c68e44.jpeg

Yes, that is Ken Jeong in blackface, as a dark elf ... in one of the best episodes of Community ever :D

Sadly, because of the blackface, the streaming networks have all removed that episode (despite the fact that all the other characters in the show clearly indicate how wrong it is).

Sad :(

I went as Bob Marley for some themed Halloween party back in the day. It was meant to be a tribute, not a mockery. But if the pics of me in blackface (really it was brown makeup) ever got out, I could probably never be President

[Jobaber]

how is a darkelf blackface??

[Trexller]

how is a darkelf blackface??

yeah for real that's dark blue face

is the elderly population up in arms because he has white hair too?

[Basanos]

TIL there's a cancelled episode of Community. I came to it late, only watched through it this past year through Hulu and thought it was usually pretty funny. Now I'm gonna find it.

[Trexller]

What I like is how everyone was chill about blackface in both Tropic Thunder movie and Always Sunny show

Just goes to show comedy can and should be allowed to be edgy, especially when the material is good

RDJ had said that before he accepted the role, he consulted his black friends (jamie foxx) who gave the green light.

tropic thunder was approved by the bloverlords, after RDJ kissed the ring.

and sunny has always been woke in disguise, so the blackface passes.

[goblinmob]

She's gaining momentum, Chortles!

[Basanos]

Leftists, throw out your DVD of the 2004 classic "White Chicks"

Fuckin' gottem

[Basanos]

Sorry, I forgot it's part of the criterion collection now

[goblinmob]

"baa baa what sheep", mutherfucker?

[loramin]

TIL there's a cancelled episode of Community. I came to it late, only watched through it this past year through Hulu and thought it was usually pretty funny. Now I'm gonna find it.

You really should, it's a great episode. I think maybe one of the streaming services (Prime?) might have kept the episode, but I don't remember for sure.

[Jobaber]

yeah the republicans are banning books :rolleyes:

[Patrece]

I save hundreds a year not subscribing to woke streaming services

[loramin]

yeah the republicans are banning books :rolleyes:

This wasn't about Republicans or Democrats (or books) ... this was soulless corporations opting to avoid controversy in a mindless way.

Again, there were no groups (left or right-wing) protesting the episode and saying it should be removed, and there certainly weren't any laws passed (like, you know, the ones passed by Republicans in Florida). This was just some corporate hack saying "we we're worried about the financial risk to our brand, so we're making a bad decision to censor".