Thread:KaijuHero/@comment-995426-20151009001625/@comment-995426-20151010021833

First of all, I'm not the final arbiter of this on the wiki. I can offer an opinion, but the highest authority on this wiki is The S, who is only here once every several days. Sometimes I go to Trigger for his opinions, but he also defers the final decisions to The S if he doesn't know the answer.

And here's my opinion: I'm not really sure. It sounds to me like the "future" you refer to involves some kind of time travel or time skip. However, this distinction would almost have to comfortably presume that an entire "main" story takes place in a relatively short time period where characters do not appreciably age. But this is not always the case with TMNT. Mirage TMNT's main story allowed the characters to age normally into adulthood. In particular, Mirage Volume 4 takes place in the early 2000s, when the original Mirage turtles are already in their 30s and Shadow Jones is a teenager&mdash;and yet this is not a "future" story, but a "present" story. And though Volume 1 took place when the turtles were still teenagers, that was also a "present" story at the time it was published.

To put it in perspective: I'm 35. When I was 15, I might have thought of being 35 as feeling like I'm "in the future." But now that I am 35, it is only "the present." And when I was 15, that was also "the present." Every one of those years between when I was 15 and when I was 35 was also "the present." I know enough about myself to know that when I'm 55, I'll also feel like I'm "in the present." When it comes down to it, the only difference between 1 month later and 20 years later, is one that is further in the future than the other, but they are both future. It seems absurd to think of 20 years later as "the future" but 1 month later as not "the future" just because we don't expect much to change in 1 month.

Does...that make sense?