Lies and slander! Turtles are wokists, at least in 2003.
In the 2003 version of TMNT, the Turtles’ only human friends besides April and Casey are
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the homeless people who live in the dump and are “led” by an old black man only referred to as “the doctor.” Casey is ambiguously brown and his mother wears (somewhat stereotypical) nativecoded clothes. April is the most oppressed minority (Irish)
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There’s an entire ep focused on the turtles catching and beating “the trash man” who kidnaps homeless folks and forces them into slavery in his trash mine. (The cops refuse to help!) Besides April and Casey, the homeless people and black superman are the only humans invited to their christmas party in s2.
There’s also another episode
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where raph gives a fuckton of money he stole from the big crime gang to an old, blind woman who’s about to be evicted by the bank after her husband died.
In another episode, the gang
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prevents local far right militia H.A.T.E (Humans Against The Extraterrestials) from detonating a nuke
Less related to the turtles politics, but there’s also an ep of 2003 turtles where
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the gang find out theres an eldritch abomination underneath wallstreet that makes it the centre of all evil and takes over people’s minds
It’s absolutely amazing, especially for the first 3 seasons. It starts tapering off in quality from s4 bc of exec meddling though. Still GOOD, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of the earlier seasons (s5 is the worst of 'em)
Lies and slander! Turtles are wokists, at least in 2003.
In the 2003 version of TMNT, the Turtles’ only human friends besides April and Casey are
spoiler
the homeless people who live in the dump and are “led” by an old black man only referred to as “the doctor.” Casey is ambiguously brown and his mother wears (somewhat stereotypical) nativecoded clothes. April is the most oppressed minority (Irish)
spoiler
There’s an entire ep focused on the turtles catching and beating “the trash man” who kidnaps homeless folks and forces them into slavery in his trash mine. (The cops refuse to help!) Besides April and Casey, the homeless people and black superman are the only humans invited to their christmas party in s2.
There’s also another episode
spoiler
where raph gives a fuckton of money he stole from the big crime gang to an old, blind woman who’s about to be evicted by the bank after her husband died.
In another episode, the gang
spoiler
prevents local far right militia H.A.T.E (Humans Against The Extraterrestials) from detonating a nuke
Less related to the turtles politics, but there’s also an ep of 2003 turtles where
spoiler
the gang find out theres an eldritch abomination underneath wallstreet that makes it the centre of all evil and takes over people’s minds
ok shit I guess I gotta watch it now
It’s absolutely amazing, especially for the first 3 seasons. It starts tapering off in quality from s4 bc of exec meddling though. Still GOOD, but doesn’t quite reach the heights of the earlier seasons (s5 is the worst of 'em)