Thread:Ms.HamatoAlexander/@comment-36015352-20190609174838/@comment-995426-20190610072636

I'm not 100% sure myself&mdash;User:The S) would have the last word in clarifying these things&mdash;but I do think unnecessary profanity is frowned upon on the site, though mature character quotes and media images are acceptable in appropriate context.

That said, I only recall one F-word in an official TMNT continuity, and that was in Ninjara: Seed of Destruction, and only because it was about Ninjara's story after her time with the Archie, and Dean Clarrain and Chris Allan had the permission to continue her story separately in other publications, so it fell under neither Archie nor Mirage's purview to moderate its content. I don't know if there are F-words in Bodycount, but I find its extreme gore far more adult than strong language anyway. I think a large part of this relative scarcity of strong language in TMNT is that, while the various comics could contain a lot of violence and some undeniably adult themes (and even some extremely scarce scenes of frontal nudity like a certain memorable Triceraton), Peter Laird himself seemed to have an even stronger dislike of swearing, which is why scenes like this one from Tales of Leonardo: Blind Sight are so weird in having such startling physical violence combined with an onlooker saying such a cheesy minced oath like "holy spit." (Don't worry, that scene was only Leonardo imagining his own death and its consequences.) But even scenes as gory as these were relatively rare, and most of the Mirage continuity remained accessible to a teen audience. The majority of both the Mirage and IDW continuities have some spoken profanity, but mostly limited to tame swearing like "bastard," "crap," "damn," "hell," "screw you," etc., and maybe the rare "bitch." Certainly nothing you couldn't hear on The Simpsons.

Turtlepedia used to host most of the material that is now at the Mutant Ninja Turtles Gaiden Wiki, and MNT Gaiden has a lot more strong language. It was never a licensed TMNT work, though, which is why it now falls outside of Turtlepedia's purview. But I have kept a panel from that series as a reaction image for comments here on Turtlepedia: To lessen the impact of the expletive, I used a mosaic effect so you only see "s__t," the visual equivalent of a bleep.