who the heck learned you
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何が起こっている?! (nani ga okotte iru) - What is happening?! / What's going on?!
それはスコルピオントレッドミル!! (sore wa sokorupion toreddomiru) - It's the Scorpion Treadmill!!
この二人に乗せてのトレッドミルです. (kono futari ni nosete no toreddomiru desu) - It's the treadmill for these two (people). / Put these two (people) on the treadmill.
"The boys' accents suggest that they probably learned English first and speak it best, and Splints has been pretty clear that he doesn't really want anything to do with his roots as a Hamato, so I don't imagine he spoke to them in Japanese very much as a way of distancing them from all that. But the reality shows seem to always be on--I wonder how much of the language the boys picked up just because of the background ambience? Like, maybe they can understand Japanese better than they can speak it, and their lexicon is just… the weirdest friggin' shit, because of all that reality TV. They don't know how to ask "where's the bathroom?" they know how to say "I can't believe that man on the treadmill got eaten to death by scorpions""
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I’ve seen around theories about ninpo being connected with emotions, but I found something I haven’t seen lots of people talk about!
(It’s fairly long so continue after cut lol)
So Mikey is a staple to this argument, since he’s the most connected to his emotions from his brothers and he’s the one who figures out his mystical weapon first. Also he becomes something short of a god in the apocalypse
This connection has also been seen how Ralph tends to use his powers to protect his brothers and how Donnie, a logic driven character, uses ninpo to create the entirety of the U.S arsenal
But I haven’t seen much of Leo?
And yet he has a specific scene that just ENHANCES this whole thing!
Remember in the movie when he’s trying to explain to Casey that he messed up?
His marks are glowing
Just as they glow when using ninpo or other mystic abilities
Also notice how no other character is glowing
He’s also VERY distressed, in a way we haven’t seen much of until now, AND lots- I mean LOTS- of character analysis reference the movie as one of the biggest evidences of Leo’s insecurities
A commonly made point is his rapid change from face-man-as-a-joke to ignorant-even-when-in-a-HUGE-argument-with-Ralph
In this scene we also see his facade crack, as his facial expression alternates LOTS
So if we’re merging the ideas of ninpo with Leo’s struggle with his emotions, it helps explain why it is his marks glow. It’s becoming harder to hide his true feelings, and one of the ways they’re showing is through ninpo. And as his feelings are a mess, his ninpo in battle can be a bit uncoordinated, which can ALSO explain lots of his blunders in the movie (lack of plan and insecurity of ability to execute it directly affecting his ninpo use)
☆Suppressed emotions>sudden realizations>burst or just fail to continue to cover emotions☆
Even though in the series we don’t get him blatantly admitting to all of this, I feel it’s more so because of the show being cut off rather than disproving this point
I’m not sure if I’m REALLY onto something or if someone already covered it, but I just thought it was really cool and wanted to put it out there!
P.S. all of the Leo-centric ideas (AND THE SCREENSHOTS) I got from THIS wonderful video I think EVERYONE should watch just bc it’s so in depth and one of the most thoughtful ROTTMNT analysis I’ve seen in a hot sec
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