Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-33790467-20190814010218/@comment-33165688-20191004191301

Gilgameshkun wrote: True, but anyone also needs to know what it is they're smelling if they're never smelt it before. Well, Splinter-starting-as-a-basic-brown-rat kind of requires a lot of suspension of disbelief, when you consider things like the rat's intellectual capacity (which is bright, but not bright enough to learn Japanese culture and ninjutsu) and its lifespan (he should have been dead several times over by the time he was mutated).