Talk:Michelangelo (1987 TV series)/@comment-25652270-20160220052042/@comment-995426-20160220065527

Around the same time, in real life, New York City banned nunchaku. Also, the show was getting complaints from parents of young children that it was too violent, so all the turtles were eventually prohibited from using their weapons against people. Compare Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze where all the turtles carried weapons but never used them, instead using surrounding objects to improvise as weapons.