Thread:Gilgameshkun/@comment-33286111-20190128061658/@comment-995426-20190128123020

It's not an easy call, and ultimately, we are not a ratings bureau. Enviromental justice is not a teen-level issue. It comes down not only to violence, but to unfiltered adult jokes (like the very unsubtly-named Vulvana) and implied adult intimate relationships (with Mezcaal naked in bed with her husband Raphael) and such. And though content like this is admittedly sparse in Archie, it's still there. Unlike the 1987 TV series that inspired it (which consistently targeted 7-year-olds year after year so they could help Playmates sell toys), the Archie continuity's content gradually matured as its readers aged, so that by the end, most of the readers were teenagers and young adults closer to the Mirage TMNT target audience. Also, the most violent and explicit panels in the Archie continuity are actually in Ninjara: Seed of Destruction, which was specifically for adults.

What you have to understand is, years ago, we on the wiki had some concerns that parents of younger children reading this wiki might complain about the kid-unfriendly stuff they can find here, which is why we adopted the content advisories in the first place&mdash;to keep the complaints off our back. And since so much TMNT content was never for children to begin with, it helped for the advisories to sound friendly and not resemble badges of shame. But where a certain continuity is full of interconnected topics, some of which may be inappropriate for 7-year-olds, we habitually give every article for that continuity at least a minimum advisory.

As much as some TV episodes probably should be considered kid-unfriendly, it's still understood that, right or wrong, they virtually all secured TV-Y7 content ratings. And frankly...making value judgments about content suitability is not something we want to do or really should be doing. So we evaluate the bigger series instead of the individual episodes or issues.