Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20160509012936/@comment-995426-20160511044419

I decidedly wouldn't be in favor of such a scenario. I can understand a scenario that allows a certain level of public exposure, like what Mirage Volume 4 created. But a scenario where the turtles themselves become famous? I really don't like public enemy #1 or celebrity scenarios, because then it permanently ruins one of the most appealing aspects of their character&mdash;their discretion. That was one of the things I disliked the most about the 1987 TV series&mdash;they had become famous as super star ninja turtles. Even in Mirage Volume 4, their exposure coincided with a public contact with the Utroms and a peaceful mass arrival of aliens, and suddenly the turtles could walk in public and still not garner excess attention because they were "just more aliens." Most notably, it didn't affect their effectiveness as ninja, because their species was no longer that conspicuous a component, and they were still allowed to begin to live fairly ordinary surface lives, getting jobs, buying groceries, all of that, without constant celebrity recognition and attention. If one of the turtles were to attract celebrity status, I would prefer it be more like Chris Bradford who keeps his human identity's Foot Clan affiliation strictly confidential; even then, Chris Bradford is more famous for what he can do, rather than for what he is.