>80's corporate toyslop>is still more popular than all the newer incarnations
They're the most popular black animated characters probably
>>147134059They're green weeaboo turtles, every single race in the world can identify with them, get off with this "black" nonsense.
>>147134255??? They're very clearly black coded
>>147134326They're teenage boys who like teenage boy things and live in a sewer.
>>147134016That's because all the later incarnations just keep trying to be the original 80s cartoon, and forget the comedy bits.
>>147134326Only Raphael is black coded. Donatello is white, Leo is Asian, Mickey is white/hispanic
>>147134535Raphael is Wolverine, Donatello is Forge, Leonardo is Cyclops, and Michaelangelo is Iceman.
>>147134586Donatello is Beast you fucking retard son of bitch
>>147134705Donatello isn’t nearly as much a dick as Beast
>>147134535There's nothing specifically black about Raph in either his '87 cartoon or other incarnations.
>>147134059>t.IDW fag
>>147134724Yeah okay Timmy
>>147134724Doo rag
>>147134732It's canon just like Piccolo
Is “coded” a modern day media literacy thing or was it a concept being applied in the 80’s”
>>147134741>>147134753That is not exclusive to black people.
>>147134804I mean you’d had stands in for minorities for a while but I don’t think the term was used until recently
>>147134804It was definitely not being applied in the 80s. All the voice actors were white. The rubber masks the Turtles would put on to disguise themselves were white.
>>147134764This is what human Michelangelo looked like in the 87 cartoon. Someone should make fanart of all the human turtles hanging out.
>>147134893Aaaand the Nick short
>>147134741I always wondered why Raph was the least attractive Turtle to me now I know why
>>147134016Toyslop's always fun to watch.
I feel that isn’t a better argument to point out how retard “coding” is as a concept then to point out how most of these discussions devolve to a fight why multiple groups apply a race to a non human character based on racial stenotypes
>>147134838>>147134904Leo’s looking awfully Mexican
>>147135168He is pretty latinx coded tbqh
Its actually terrible at being a toy commercial, a bunch of the cooler/funkier toys from the line never got a featured episode. They were focussed more on the show OCs and making up bad guys like uuuh mafioso who tickles people
