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Originally Posted by Roger Rambo
What I didn't get(not that I was to worked up about it) was why you NEEDED to change the Turtles background. It sounds like you have to spend more time on exposition to explain alien origins than it would be to say "aliens, get over it".
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I didn't keep up much with the Turtles comics, but from what I recall the Turtles version of the future was one where Earth became an intergalactic hub in which aliens and humans lived together. The Turtles didn't need to hide at that point and lived out in the open with everyone else.
All of the cartoons also used some variation of the comics space travels (although the Triceratons weren't used much for some reason), but the origin of the Turtles as being mutations of Earth turtles never changed. So no, they were never aliens, and Bay is an idiot for thinking it was a good idea to change it. The whole point of the origin is that they are unusual creations who weren't meant to exist.