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#29200

Tutuu the both of us could be Michelangelo

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#29201

I always thought the purple one was lame everyone has a cool weapon and they just have a stick

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#29202

two sticks with a chain in the middle > one stick

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#29203

ok tbh me too ngl

now i feel bad lol

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#29204

as penance for my sins hereā€™s a gift

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#29205

It goes a tad further than that. The weapons donā€™t just contrast their personalities; just using them forces them to learn in ways which contradict with their own personal methods.

Rafaelā€™s aggression is necessarily tempered by using weapons which canā€™t be used aggressively.

Michelangelo is not the dumbest of the group, heā€™s just carefree but is the most naturally talented of the four (think Spiderman), so heā€™s given a complex weapon and forced to practice how to use it.

Donatello specifically wields the bo staff, which is a weapon requiring complete strength to utilise effectively, so he canā€™t just think his way out of exploiting a weapon and sidestep learning it at all.

And Leonardo, as the leader of the four, is taught discipline with his katanas (the only one of the four weapons which can actually be fatal) so that he learns when it is right to hold back and when itā€™s needed to close out a fight.

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#29206

@jarek happy birthday

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#29207

Happy birthday @Jarek

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#29208

woah its been 6 years since the beginning of covid

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#29209

THANK YOU

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#29210

THANK YOU AS WELL

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#29211

happy jarek day!!!

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#29212

Hbd Jarek!

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#29213

My bones are creaking how dare yiu

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#29214

Happy birfday

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#29215

Happy birthday Jarek!

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#29216

Thanks for the post I enjoyed it :heart:

I think that the authors underestimated the lethality of the bo staff. I donā€™t know if Rafaelloā€™s sai are pointed or dull, and I donā€™t know if nunchako can be lethal, but Iā€™m confident a wooden staff is a lethal weapon (it can shatter a skull). Wooden training swords, for example, are considered more dangerous than metal ones, because metal ones are flexible, wooden ones are rigid and they can kill you

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#29217

There is this famous story of that samurai Musashi who was fighting with two katanas, he was headed to a duel with the other most famous samurai at the time who was using an extra long nodachi, and he didnā€™t like his chances because his reach was shorter, so he simply carved a wooden katana that was longer than his and killed him

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#29218

Itā€™s similar to how Gandalf was sent to fight Sauron, even though Gandalf didnā€™t want to face Sauron.

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#29219

The classical villain turned into a misunderstood anti-hero in new films is an overly saturated modern trope and it tires me. The first time it was done it was probably great fun, but now itā€™s just getting old, to me. Examples include:

  • Venom
  • Cruella de Ville
  • Maleficent
  • Predator

This year they will be releasing a film about one of Cinderellaā€™s sisters, Lilith, being a misunderstood anti-hero

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