Thread:The S/@comment-16581186-20160912005752/@comment-16581186-20160912164001

Donatello and Screwloose described them as images brought to life from a page, and obviously, we saw them literally be removed from the page. Species is describes what they actually are (in the Turtle reality), not what the canon of the characters' comic book portrays them to be.

And to answer your question. No, if Mikey were suddenly zapped into our reality. He would not be a "Mutant Turtle" in our reality. He would be a fictional character created by CGI software technology.