Thread:The S/@comment-16581186-20160912005752/@comment-16581186-20160913154445

Trigger009 wrote: Sorry about chiming in here but I believe that both The S and Farceface are correct, sentient comic character wouldn't be a species, sure they could come from a comic book or whatever but they would still be an alien bat/mosquito from a comic book/their world. Also it doesn't really matter if Farceface saw the episode or not you already told him the information that he needed to know in order to give you his response on his message wall. But that's the thing though, they're not from another world and they don't have their own life in the comics. They're literally pieces of a comic book page that came to life. I think you needed to see the episode.

It was stated (repeatedly) in the episode that they weren't real, and therefore had no life before April's Aeon Crystal brought them to life. And they came from pages in a comic book, which was not established to be anything more than regular old comic book, not a another dimension/universe that they're from.

And whether spirits are real or not is debatable, but I wasn't referring to that at all. They are considered real in the TMNT universe, so that's what I'm going by.

The literal definition of species is "any of a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding." Robots and spirits are not that, sentient or not. Now, I understand that sentient fictional comic book characters are not either, but if it goes for the former, it should go for the latter as well.

April's crystal created it with it's weird mystical power, they didn't come from any alternate world or such.