Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II - Re-Evolution #3!TheTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtleshave always been a team of heroes, despite the fact that they are mutants who live in the sewers of New York City, and are generally regarded as pariahs in human society. Being mutant outcasts never stopped them from doing everything in their power to save people from the forces of evil. And now, the new TMNT are doing the exact same thing, only this time, they might end up deviating from being the mutant heroes their predecessors were, and become mutant monsters.
InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II - Re-Evolution#3 by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, Ben Bishop, and Esau and Isaac Escorza, one ofthe members of the new TMNT, Yi, exhibits a new superpower associated with her mutation. Yi has the ability to create electric fields, which she uses to make an energy shield around herself and her family during a battle. While this is the first time she’s displayed this power in public, it’s not the first time Yi has ever used this ability.
When Yi was many years younger, she first developed the power to create electric fields. Rather than being filled with wonder, Yi was filled only with dread. In fact, Yi had a vision tied directly to her newfound ability, one where her and her siblings’ mutations evolved out of control. In the vision,TMNT’s Yi, Uno, Moja, and Odyngrew to the size of kaijus, and each of them were destroying New York City with their unique powers. One mutated into a giant scorpion monster, another’s body became encased in crystal, and the two others had laser-vision and acid-vomit, respectively.
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Even though Yi’s powers are real, the vision she had of her and her siblings transforming into kaiju-sized monsters was just that, a vision. However, it’s very possible that the vision was prophetic, meaningthe new TMNT could continue to evolveuntil they are literal monsters, transforming them into vicious villains in a world where they should be the greatest heroes. In fact, readers are already seeing signs of that in the series, as Yi isn’t the only member of the new Ninja Turtles that has developed superpowers.
Yi’s brother, Odyn, was shown in the very first issue to have the power to harden his skin to be as strong as stone. And, in this issue, it’s revealed that he can do that at will, just as Yi learned to control her electric field-generating power. Right now, these powers are benefiting the team’s heroic cause in this post-apocalyptic society as it continues to rebuild. But, who knows, these powers could just be the first stops of Yi’s vision coming true, which would be a grimfuture for the new TMNT.
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The fact that the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are developing superpowers at all is a huge deviation from the original series. The first-gen Turtles never had superhuman abilities (except when they briefly wielded magic, but that was a learned practice, not a result of their mutations). They were just anthropomorphic turtles, and that was the extent of their mutations. But now, the newNinja Turtles are becoming more likeX-Men’s mutantsthan those consistent with theTMNTfranchise, and that’s an exciting development for the series.
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What’s even more exciting (and admittedly terrifying) than the fact that the new TMNT are getting mutant powers akin to the X-Men is that their mutations could continue to evolve to the point where they end up transforming into giant monsters. Right now, that outcome is nothing more than a mere possibility derived from a vision, but if that vision was, indeed, a prophecy, then the newTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlescould unleash their ultimate forms for real, and become giant, city-crushing monsters.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin II - Re-Evolution #3by IDW Publishing is available now.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT) is a multi-media franchise that began with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird’s comics in the 1980s. Throughout the years, their comic books expanded to movies, TV shows, video games, and toys. Most notably, the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ran for nearly a decade and has become a nostalgic staple of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Several other movies have featured the four anthropomorphic turtle brothers (Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Raphael), including the trilogy of live-action films in the ‘90s and the more recent movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.
