Why did this happen? Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Review

It is often remembered as one of the lowest points of the franchise, but why did it happen? I will explore the question in this review of "Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation".

✍🏻 WRITTEN AND EDITED BY
Javier S. Montano

🎙️NARRATED BY
Hayden Clark

🔖 Why did this happen? Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation Review - CHAPTERS
00:00 Necessary backstory on creative ownership
02:09 The rise and fall of Turtlemania
04:34 Origins of "Ninja Turtles: The next Mutation"
07:25 Plot and villains
15:23 Is it that terrible? Could it be improved?
17:06 Power Rangers in Space crossover
17:43 Life after cancellation
20:18 So why did this happen?

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[TheTurtleNexus]

Thanks for watching! Do you watch this show just for fun?

[SharpDesign]

Venus could have worked as a character if she had been treated like a sister instead of oh, we're not really brothers and the boys hitting on her when they weren't hating on her. She didnt have to be a love interest.

[PowerPackers]

Power Rangers even took a dig at the Next Mutation years later. During Power Rangers Ninja Steel. When fighting a Turtle themed monster. The Red Ranger says something like "A Ranger fighting a Turtle. That's a silly idea".

[srstriker]

I wonder why they cut out April in this show and underuse the Shredder, I think that most characters would have been perfect here like the Triceratons, Slash, Baxter Stockman, Rat king and Leatherhead.

[EJsGameplay]

Man, I must have been peak target demographic for something like this cause I loved it has a kid. The crossover with Power Rangers blew my mind.

[jagtech]

I gotta disagree with this being the Batman 66 of tmnt media because Batman 66 was actually good unlike this show. Batman ‘66 revitalized the Riddler and gave him many of tropes we see now for him. Can ya even say the same for NM ?

[acsaudiodramas]

That was an awesome look at the background and development of Next Mutation. It is a shame, that so many of the better original concepts went down the drain and that people made all these bad decisons for the show. Never before I heard about any of this.

[itsjayden]

I don’t understand why parents complained about the violence of the 1st film, but then complained that the turtles were too annoying in the sequels. What was even the point?!? This TMNT property is the definition of a guilty pleasure. It’s so ridiculously stupid and bad, but it’s also really entertaining. I genuinely like Bonesteel, though.

[wallygator]

It's weird that they were interested in making a toyline based on an underground comic in the first place.

[Thomasscoopbobsonic]

6:21 I need to see a full version of this poster dude

[shadowkick]

If they remade this as a cartoon, put April, Casey, Romance, and a few more things, it could have been better.

[TheSegaStoner]

I vividly remember when this show aired, I grew up during the whole of Turtlemania, and I gotta say that everyone at the time LOVED the next mutation. It gets a horrible rap now, and I get it, it's aged a bit rough compared to other ninja turtles outings, but when it aired it was amazing. If memory serves me, the reason it got cancelled is because it was expensive to produce at the time, at like a million dollars an episode, which was unheard of for a kids show in the 90s.

[matthieud]

I always liked Tmnt Next Mutation, because it had potential, with interesting new characters, but the TV series was still a bit sloppy. The humor wasn't always great, the characters weren't always very well used, and the fights were sometimes ridiculous. Aside from the new characters ( including Venus ), the five-part pilot episode and the crossover with the Power Rangers, there wasn't much to salvage. I think that with better development, a better storyline, a more mature treatment, and perhaps Venus presented as an antagonist, then an ally, the series would have been even better. I think it deserves a reboot, in the style of the 2003 and 2012 TV series. It deserves it.

[HolTiger]

It's been rumored that Saban intentionally sabotaged this show in order to avoid another Live Action Turtles Show from competing with Power Rangers once they lost the TMNT rights.

[jeffwolcott]

I wonder how Peter Laird feels about Jennika and Lita in the IDW comics now. I am glad that Venus is getting another chance, though, she was the best part of Next Mutation to me.

[skRapKlan]

Never watched the show, but now I kinda want to..!

[xcmet]

When I first saw the next mutation, I wasn't very impressed with the shows plot, especially with it being a less interesting story when compared to other kid shows such as power rangers in space, mystic knights etc.

As for Venus, I felt she was just a stereotypical product of feminism based on her foster brothers initial antagonistic behavior towards her, and having to prove herself to be the more competent character when things got serious. Venus character and her interaction with the other turtles, just came off to me as a subtle representation of a women in the workforce trying to feel accepted by her male peers who chastise her because of unique talents which threatened their masculinity.

I would have liked Venus more is she didn't feel like a forced character trying to prove herself, which is one of the reason I can agree with why one of the writers of the TMNT did not accept her.

[tyronleung]

Next mutation is a guilty pleasure of mine

[countpicula]

“Why did this show happen?”
Cause they wanted to have a gUrL pOwEr turtle. And remove April cause she’s “oBjEcTiFiEd”

[srstriker]

9:23 didn’t they do that in the 1987 series because I recall that in Splinter vanishes Leatherhead says to Raphael, Mikey and Donnie that Leo is their friend not their brother is taking a deep fall and in Turtles Forever 87 Leo questions his 2003 counterpart when he calls his splinter father while his relationship with his splinter is more of a pet and owner later turn mentor and student relationship rather than a father and son relationship?
Also if there was females turtles, It wouldn’t be like seven brides for seven brothers and the Bride of Frankenstein combined
Also I thought that crazy Hunter was inspired by Kraven the Hunter.