Donald Duck Came Up To Me And Told Me That The Reason The World Is Such A Mess Is Because We Have Gotten

learning that splinter used to be an attractive young action star who dated multiple women, went racing and enjoyed his youthful celebrity life

finding out splinter later found love with some random woman he had never met before, developing a strong and sensual relationship, and later planning to propose to her only for her to betray him and trap him in a death arena forcing him to fight for years. and then said death arena getting to be so taxing and exhausting for Splinter that he swore off fighting and later grew to understand the value of protecting those who are innocent only to once again see his body and DNA used to create violent experiments that will most likely endure the same pain and hardships he did, so he breaks out and saves them only to be mutated at the last minute thanks to an explosion he had no control over. and how the series makes it explicitly obvious that he still misses his human days of being loved and adored to the point where even the battle nexus can sometimes be a pleasant memory for him and he still misses the woman who trapped him in the battle nexus for years and refused to let him leave and enjoy life once more. and yet despite all of this he’s still loving and supportive of his family and feels no ill towards his children, often trying to do what he can to make him happy and making self sacrificial choices for their happiness and safety because he loves them that much and rottmnt splinter is just so good guys

Splinter: Purple is a monster!

can i just say one thing i really really love about Rise that isnt talked about enough is how the turtles never bully each other for their interests. there’s playful teasing or calling out bad behavior (like refusing to drop idols despite being bad people) but it never reaches a mean-spirited point.

they get to cosplay, dance, meet their fave celebs, etc… its all great stuff

Dead

I don’t belong; I’ve never belonged; I want to die

3 y/o Mikey: papa’s tea hot?

Master Splinter: yes, very hot, don’t touch it.

Mikey: me blow the tea for papa???

Master Spliter: thank you baby :) yes you may blow the tea :)

Mikey: *attempt to blow the tea *

Mikey: *half munched chicken nugget falls straight into it*

The entire "The Greatest Showman" where everything is the same, but P. T. Barnum is replaced with Jim Carrey as the Grinch in a Santa Costume.

I love these moments when Donatello is trying to be a grumpy emotionally unavailable boi, yet he can’t help but smile because he loves his brothers so much.