Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20151111163045/@comment-995426-20160316071025

Anyway, neither downplaying nor negating elements of family is something TMNT should ever be doing. It's too disrespectful to the spirit of TMNT. "We're unusual, but we're a family, and we love each other." TMNT should never shy away from that dynamic. The turtles are not friends, not roommates, not classmates&mdash;they're brothers, and April is (usually) their (adoptive) big sister, and Splinter is their father, and the turtles are Splinter's sons. The 1987 TV series did a terrible thing in consistently refusing to confirm that on-screen.