Thread:Farceface/@comment-16581186-20160913122920/@comment-16581186-20160913153645

Farceface wrote: I have not seen the episode because I do not watch the show. But this is what I am think.

Comic characters does not seem like species name. They still are what they are from their own "world". So if they are from another world they are aliens. They still have a "home" where they are from.

Robot could be considered a species if in real world there were sentient ones. Spirit is not species in real world because spirit do not exist.

But when Wingnut and Screwloose go back to the comic, they still have their own life, I would say. Like if it turned out your life were comic book, and you were stuck in the now "real world" would you still not be human from Earth? Would you want people call you Sentient Comic Book Character?

Maybe you can amend below alien with parenthesis telling they are from comic. Like this

Alien Bat

(Comic Character)

But i would not classify that as species, because it does not make sense to. 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 letter as well.