What is your favorite type of Foot Clan?
 

Robots or Ninjas? Discuss.

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Psh, youre really askin' this damndest? Robot, clearly.

Wanna ask a real one that'll tear TPWW into two factions?

choose one:
Bebop or Rocksteady

The first one aren't humans????

nah son, they were robots! Thats why they exploded...geeze

Thought they disappeared

Blinked into oblivion

i believe they exploded here and there in the cartoon.

We need youtube evidence

I prefer the human foot soldiers by quite a bit. This is because I like the whole ancient order/clan feeling of the group more, where they are like a cult that operates at night.
The motives and style of Shredder don't feel that way when he's manufacturing robots on a mass scale and staging world domination plots with the Technodrome.

It comes down to me preferring the ninja mythology story of Ninja Turtles to the science fiction injected into the cartoon.
This isn't to say that I don't love the cartoon elements though. The robots and gadgets, as well as the Dimension X stuff and Krang is all great.
I just think the feel of the first movie is a better story and world, when you strip away all of the awesome elements of a saturday morning cartoon and action figure toy line.

trying to find it...i found a review for a TMNT game on the gameboy where they clearly explode...

oh great, here come Jeritron to give us a two paragraph answer to a question about a fictional ninja clan.

Dont try to nerd it up, Dirt.

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Ninjas will always trump robots.

The robots fit with the more "campy" and "sci fi" version of Ninja Turtles.

But I always liked the more "real" movie version better, even as a kid. Ninjas win out. Plus they had this guy, this guy was Awesome:

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Hard to find videos on youtube. I couldn't find footage of the Foot Soldier slapping April O'Neil

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I rest my case for why I feel the movie version of Shredder and the Foot Clan are infinitely better

I'm providing some brief discussion

Jeri, the cartoon was clearly geared towards kids, while the movie was based more on the comic's grit. You cant really compare the two. Both are great, in their own ways.

I said I liked both, and I'm aware it's for kids. I liked it because I liked it as a kid. I'm saying that I like the humans more because I'm an adult now.

Also, you clearly can compare the two since that's the premise of this thread, Dirt.

You can pose the question, but a full blown comparison is just CRASY

You know what always bothered me about the cartoon? How they turned Slash into a retarded turtle :mad:

Why is it crazy? It's just discussion for shits and gigs. It's not really intellectually challenging to type a couple sentences highlighting which story elements you prefer. It's just entertaining.

god damn it Jeritron im just fucking with you here.

Comparing two different versions of the same thing and giving reasons for it is just crazy. That's why I like doing it though

Robots were cool because they'd short circuit if you hit the fire hydrant near them and sprayed them

Also prefer Cobra's android army to the living terrorist foot-soldiers.

Ninjas > Robots, but the cool thing with the robots is that the Turtles could cut loose. Leonardo wouldn't slash a ninja in half, but robots are fair game. :D

http://www.ninjaturtles.com/comics/mirage/one/pg06.jpg
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I like the ninja background more, especially now that I am an adult. But I brought up to Jeritron what Rammsteinmad brought up about weapon use and that's an important aspect. Otherwise Leo and Raph are just blocking blows with their swords and cutting things to fall into the attacker and knock them out. If they're living by the Batman maxim of "Do Not Kill" I suppose that's fine, but why bring a sword then? Why not everyone bring a bow? And for all they know some members of the Foot could have succumbed to their wounds off-camera, so they might as well have just stabbed them.

NINJA VANISH

Plus the robots in the games had weapons like boomerangs, dynamite, and comically sized bowling balls. Though coming in bright orange was probably not good for sneaking around.

In fact, they disappeared into a cloud of ninja smoke.

ROBOTS???? LET'S RAWK!!!!

Ninjas would be much better for going green though. Really cuts down on the emissions from exploding robots. I'll bet Shredder could apply for a green tax credit if he decided to use live workers.

Yeah, but I then he has to worry about labour laws and wages.....

What if the robots are solar pwoered? It'd explain why they were inferior.

Not to mention health care now. I'll bet they're expensive to insure since their primary job duty is getting beaten up by the Turtles.

I'm going to assume they are powered by some kind of Dimension X fuel cell. Though if Shredder just sold that he wouldn't even need to be in crime. He could take over the world through economic means.

Is there a union for ninjas? I mean, y'know whenever they get hurt etc...

The guy on the right is secretly listening to his iPod under his mask. :D