Are The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Getting An Origin Change After All?

There’s been a lot of debate and anger over where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles come from in the new “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” film. We still don’t know anything for certain, and likely won’t until the film is actually released in August, but we thought we’d try to piece together where exactly ninja turtles come from with the information we have avaiiable.Last year, internet fandom became furious when Michael Bay stated that the Turtles, in the new film, would be aliens. The furor got so bad that Bay eventually had to come back and say that he misspoke about the Turtle’s changed origin and that they were not, in fact, aliens. Of course, there are plenty who believe that he did not actually misspeak, but that the idea was scrapped following the negative reaction – the power of fandom and all of that – but judging by the new trailer, it seems he was likely being honest.The origin of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been retold and altered over the years, through various comic book and cartoon reboots and relaunches. The one common denominator they all have is mutagen, the strange chemical substance that mutated regular turtles in ninja turtles. The exact properties and makeup of the mutagen has varied over the years – sometimes it just makes you bigger, sometimes it turns you into whatever creature you were most recently close to, sometimes it gives you superpowers, etc. – but it has always been the catalyst for the Turtles’ existence. Presumably, the removal of this one, defining common denominator in the Turtles’ origin (since one assumes alien turtles are just born that way) is what set fandom off. Kind of like changing Batman’s origin so that his parents are still alive and well and he just runs around dressed like a bat at night for funsies (okay, not that bad).