Headscratchers / Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

• Though the show itself hasn't address it, in some online articles Leonardo and Donatello are referred to as twins. This change normally wouldn't be that noticeable, but in this version of the turtles they are specifically stated to be different species. So biologically speaking they could not have come from the same mother. Are they called twins because their ages are that close together, or they just look that similar to others?
  • Online articles are not to be taken as concrete fact regardless of credibility unless they're official, since anyone can write them. It could be a case of word misuse or insufficient knowledge (there are people who are unaware of boy girl twins because one is a boy and one is a girl). Apply that to the turtles and there you go.
  • They aren't literal twins. People joke that they're twins because they're both 14, while Raph is 15, and Mikey is 13.
• Given Splinter typically only calls the turtles by their mask color, how did they get their names? Did they name themselves?
  • Just because he uses nicknames that go by their mask colors does not mean he ONLY ever called them that. He obviously gave and called them by their real names when they were younger.
  • Splinter uses Raphael’s name in “Mrs. Cuddles,” and uses Donatello’s in “Turtle-dega Nights: The Ballad of Rat Man.”
  • As someone with multiple siblings, your parents tend to either get you mixed up with each other or simply say “you”, and only seldom get your name right. It doesn’t mean they don’t care or didn’t give you a name, they simply get you mixed up with each other.
  • Fridge Brilliance: It’s possible that Splinter gets the Turtles mixed up and gave them the masks to tell them apart in the first place. He knows their names, it’s just easier to say “Orange” than “Michelangelo.”
  • This is a trait he had as Lou Jitsu. In "Goyles, Goyles, Goyles" he called pre-mutated Leo and Raph "Green #1" and "Green #2" before he asked how to tell them apart.
• I can understand why Foot Recruit wasn't allowed to compete in the Battle Nexus with the other villains, given how quickly she recognized "Shadow Fiend" as the Shredder, but that just raises the question of why she was taken in the first place.
  • There are a few possibilities. A: She would put Foot Recruit in the fight later on to spice things up, which is why she was taken, and was put in the human cruise ship because Big Mama was trying to keep her occupied, or B: Big Mama simply wanted to collect as many fighters as she could for the Battle Nexus in general, not just for this specific fight, and was going to simply let Foot Recruit sit on the sidelines in the meantime. If she didn't use Foot Recruit in this battle, she'd probably use her in another. After all, unlike all of the villains the turtles were paired with, Foot Recruit is entirely human and not exceptionally skilled like, say, Lou Jitsu, outside of her Foot training.
• In "The Evil League of Mutants" Repo Mantis once mentioned repossessing a Birthday Cake. First off, that is needlessly cruel; second, it's food, and food is perishable, so it's impractical; and finally, in what gods-forsaken universe is that even allowed, let alone required!?
  • I assumed that it meant that he had simply stolen someone’s birthday cake just to be a jerk.
    • He made it sound like it hadn't been done already.
  • Could be shorthand for "steal" or "go get"—as a repo man, he might have started using "repossess" as a more multi-purpose word as a joke and then legitimate slang. Like saying you have to "run" to the store when you just mean you're going there.
  • It’s a Noodle Incident. The whole joke is that it makes no sense and you’re supposed to come up with your own ideas on why and how it happened.
• How does Splinter have any items from his life as Lou Jitsu particularly the teapot that was really Shredder's helmet? Proposing to Big Mama led to him getting kidnapped for her Battle Nexus and after a significant amount of time, went straight to Draxum mutating him where he and the freshly mutated baby turtles are hobos. He didn't have these items with him when he was captured and given the amount of time he was gone, they would've been considered "lost luggage".
  • Well, not necessarily. There are a few things to keep in mind; Lou was a celebrity, and he likely had some pretty luxurious stuff. It's likely that at least some of it couldn't just be thrown it all out, especially since he was presumed a missing person. All of his belongings were likely either kept in his home or kept in police storage as potential evidence (If any investigation of Lou's whereabouts were still ongoing, and Lou owned the property) or on the line to be auctioned off (If he was presumed dead, since the expensive items of a missing or dead celebrity probably have a ton of value). And in any of these scenarios, Splinter could have broken in and stolen some of his old stuff (considering that he's a ninja and all).
• I'd like to know where Mrs. Cuddles came from and how she came to be. Did she come to be through mystical means or what?
  • Word of God says she’s a rabbit yokai whose life force comes from people’s screams.
• How did Kendra even know that Othello Von Ryan was Donnie and his brothers? Cause in her first appearance in “The Purple Jacket”, she barely even became suspicious about him.