Tmnt 2003 - Blog Posts
I live for this content(((:
And I wanted to add a little something.
I've been literally obsessed with Leo's character since I was like 4 or 5.
And.. I felt a personal connection with Leo, although I am the youngest child, and my personality was closer to Mike overall.
After years of self-discovery , I came to the conclusion that the way leo copes with his low self-esteem issues is really relatable.
In each and every series, he has this same trait, just slightly different.
He needs to feel like he's worth it, as if he needs others' eyes on him just so that they can give his actions meaning. Otherwise, they wouldn't mean much to himself.
And that is the reason he blames himself for every little mistake, every little injury, and maybe that is why he pushes all the turtles away in the later seasons, (Leo having PTSD mentioned yay!) he doesn't deserve that kindness and familial bond, not when he cannot protect it.
And it's really tragic to me because when he gets hurt in season one is the only time I feel like everyone just genuinely stops having expectations towards him, they just want their brother back, their flashy, bossy yet honorable brother, nothing else.
That is kind of the same with ROTTMNT leo as well. He needs that affirmation, and in this case, he acts severely desperate, and when he finally gets some sort of validation (him becoming the leader), he pushes it away because... it wasn't given to him, he had to earn and take it, he had to prove himself worthy, all the other Leo's had to do that aswell, or at least they thought they had to, as if they couldn't just be adored and seen as valuable by just.. being themselves, there had to be something more.
And he sacrifices himself, honestly that's commen with leo, his life isn't worth much in his own eyes.
My boy is really tragic. God, T_T
2003 Leo is the second biggest show off in his family (after Mikey). He’s just not vocal about it. He uses so many unnecessary extra fancy or extra difficult moves it’s almost like he’s shouting “LOOK AT ME!! LOOK HOW GOOD MY NINJITSU IS.”
Oh Leo is such a giant ham in 2003. In the first season he friggen knows it too - he pulls off Splinter’s training exercise perfectly right in the first episode, then a few episodes later he’s showing off his split kick. I feel like he actually does this a lot in front of Splinter - you’re right, he doesn’t brag about it or anything, but he is Splinter Jr. He is the teacher’s pet and he takes a lot of pride in being the best and acing Splinter’s training exercises when his brothers don’t.
I actually find this tendency of Leo’s at its funniest when he’s around Raph, because while I think a lot of people perceive it as like, Raph being jealous of Leo’s abilities or leadership or whatever, there’s absolutely this angle where Leo is also competitive with Raph and enjoys showing him up at things. See again: the pilot where he not only bests the training exercise, but flicks the candle butt at Raph afterwards just to piss him off.
There’s also Samurai Tourist, which is overall a really sad episode (sorry, I’m incapable of talking about 03 Leo without at some point talking about his PTSD arc), but there’s this moment in the beginning where Leo’s training, and everyone’s sort of watching him and being judgmental/concerned about it - then Leo pretty deliberately stabs the hell out of Raph’s punching bag, to the latter’s rage. And again, it’s in this really sad context, but I have to admit it’s this sort of funny moment for me, because Leo just has this look on his face for a split-second where it’s like, “Yeah, I took a two-second break from being angsty and traumatized to do a ‘fuck you’ at Raph for no particular reason.”
And yeah, there are so many moments in the middle of fights where Leo just does these over-the-top moves, jumps on top of a bunch of foot ninjas’ heads or manages to repeatedly kick some giant dude down into a skylight or whatever. Like, he is a very flashy fighter. The guy has swords, it would be so easy for him to just like. Stab people, if he wanted to, but he goes in for all this elaborate combat instead, partially because he’s honourable like that, but also because, well, he likes being able to bust a move and show off his skills. Moreover, he probably views it as a good way to intimidate anyone else watching who might be considering trying to fight him next.
On top of that, Leo is loud as hell when he fights. That’s what I notice most of all with 03 Leo, actually. Of course he can be stealthy when he needs to be, but he yells and screams and makes so much damn noise most of the time when he fights. I actually just recently reblogged a clip from 03, where the boys and Splinter are fighting some dudes and losing, and Splinter says they have to “become shadows” (i.e. make like trees and get out of there), only for Leo to let out some almighty scream as he kicks a dude, before telling the others to start retreating too. Dude has no chill at all.
1..2…3..4..Turtles!
Happy 20th Anniversary to the 2003 boys
Let 👏 Donnie 👏 smoke 👏 a 👏 cigarette 👏
Tmnt : Krang
So I see a lot of 18 and 12 would beat 03 in a fight and I raise y'all: not tf they won't I'm sorry but have y'all seen what they've done?? Oh but what bout their shredders? 03 LITERALLY WOULD NOT STAY DEAD WTF Y'ALL MEAN 18 HAD THE WORST BITCH WTF?! Not only that 03 is so well written in my opinion like there's no unnecessary romance that felt force we see April and Casey slowly get together the characters aren't just one thing and they work well together 12 had force romance and wasn't written well 18 is kinda written well it's not perfect but it's good 87 would ruin them all tho I'm not joking
Redrawing some old art I never posted
Oh and a crossover too.
Full picture here:
Here are some doodles from my fic.
If you want to read it here it is
Taking a vacation in another world By ME ! : ]
But fore warning I update very slowly. And English is not my first language so if there's any criticism about my grammar pls tell me. THANK YOU!
Finally got the time to draw again! Hooray!!
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Been listening to this song a lot. So i decide to draw it out!
Mikey know how to play the piano???!!!
Has anyone know about this? Or is it just me?!
This is from fast forward ep 3 home invasion
And he can also play guitar too??!!!!
I found this on turtle pedia it's says to be from tmnt source book.
I'm just so shock about this!
Tmnt 2003 is just so good. ¦D
After seeing rise tmnt Mikey with hair, i thought it'll be nice to see what other version of mikey with hair would look like. :D
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I can still relate to him even after all these years, the oldest (and smartest) of four siblings yet I barely get any respect and still have moments of stupidity.
3 decades of Donatello.
I’m back with another one of my Ridiculous Collages. I like this one so much that I changed my profile pic for the first time!
Awkwardly cropped Dark Michelangelo transparent PNG I made. You can use it for whatever just tell me cause if someone uses something I made obviously I wanna see.
oh wow i definitely should have changed the background to dark when I was making this because I missed a LOT of spots I should have erased. Oh well it can just be a very poor quality image. It’s kinda low resolution to begin with.
Visual/narrative parallels in the TMNT 2003 series: season 3 episode 9: Hunted
I guess garishly maximalist Ninja Turtles photo collages are going to be a recurring thing now.
Her name is Quarry and I love her so much even though she’s only in like 3 episodes