Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20150831022901/@comment-995426-20151015003321

Anyway, I'm sorry if I got so annoyed. I just hope you realize that an audience cannot live without its perceptions. However it happened, and whether or not you think it happened, this particular genie was let out of the bottle long ago. Maybe Raph and Slash shippers aren't quite as totally in vogue (play on words not intended) as Leo and Usagi shippers or Bebop and Rocksteady shippers (or Leo and Raph shippers for that matter, as weird as they are), but Raph and Slash still made a real dent, if you search deviantART and such. (There was also that one YouTube AMV, since deleted, that had scenes of Slash and Destroy set to Agnes's turbulent love song "Release Me".) I also appreciate that Raphael and Mona Lisa made a dent in 1987, or else people wouldn't be clamoring for it today. I just didn't like the ungraceful way the entrenched interests ended up colliding the way they did. Similarly, not every Raphael in every universe can have a significant other that people liked in every other universe, so it would be absurd for one Raphael to be dating Mona Lisa, Ninjara and Pimiko at the same time. (Raphael and Alopex are currently in a proverbial holding pattern, and I'm increasingly wondering whether Alopex is still interested in him at all. Raph and Slash had been in a mutual angst-and-heartache pattern that was never quite resolved by the time the series started dropping the ball on everyone's character development.  As much as I am thoroughly convinced they loved each other, the show started forgetting about them altogether by the time they had a chance to reunite.)

Anyway, I actually did see Rush Hour (forgot the characters' names), but Anton Zeck was no Chris Tucker. Anton Zeck was more like Hollywood Montrose from the Mannequin films (played by Meshach Taylor), complete with the loud colors, gaudy shades and flamboyant personality like a force of nature. The Mannequin films as 1980s camp classics, great for a bad-movie-night. :D Ivan Steranko was...generic ex-Soviet Russian arms dealer mobster whose character development moments were nonexistent outside of his interactions with Zeck.