What happened to the kid that lost the turtles?, Chet Manley - TMNT comics

We all know how the turtles came to be... but what happened to their previous owner? In this video I explore the sad story of Chester Manley.

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Javier S. Montano

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Spencer Mayo

🔖 What happened to the kid that lost the turtles?, Chet Manley - TMNT comics - CHAPTERS
00:00 The incident
01:36 Fifteen years later
03:00 Behind the panels

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[TheTurtleNexus]

Thanks for watching!
What would you have done if you were Chet?

[PelleCreepy]

I like a lot of things about this story, including the implication of either a psychic link or a subconscious memory shared between Chet and the Turtles. Peter Laird's future-set story "Old Times" showed that an older Donatello named his computer AI "Chet" and I'd like to think he chose that random name because it was a memory lingering in his mind (also why the Turtles seem to "see" that name every in the form of those Easter eggs). That the AI "Chet" was the last character elderly Donatello speaks to in the Epilogue from the Tales of the TMNT TPB, and if you see that as being the night old Donatello died, then in a way it means Chet was there for the creation of the Turtles and their end. It's all up to interpretation, but that Mirage leaves so much up to the reader to piece together themselves is something I've always loved about that gang's storytelling approach.

[Isaac-ghku]

Really wish that Chet in future TMNT projects will become a supporting character, where after he learned that his pet turtles are alive and well, he goes to look for them and found their secret home.

He and his turtles are happily reunited.

[DM]

I never thought that one day they would dedicate a story to the boy who bought the turtles! He has always given me the idea of ​​being a superfluous character (so much so that in the animated transpositions he even disappeared).
Now I wonder if there's a story for Matt too. But I think it's just a reference to Daredevil as the two authors loved that superhero.

[tibi]

Interesting, didn't know Chet returned later on in one of the Turtle Soup comics. Also, fun fact, the boy who lost the turtles in the 2003 continuity was shown as an adult with a job as a cop before meeting the turtles after 15 years in the short-lived TMNT 2003 Dreamwave comic that like Mirage Chet's return as an adult is in a gray limbo of whether it's actually canon to that continuity or not.

Also, I would really love a Turtle Nexus video on that strange little anomaly known as the TMNT Dreamwave comics because I didn't see much discussion surrounding it in the TMNT fandom or in general and would love a video done in the same vein as your other videos.😁

[sonicskillz]

Great video! Chet seems cool, but I really wanna hear more about Matt. I bet he's had all sorts of daring probably not.

[khiclark]

I like this. It should be cannon just because it's a nice detail and doesn't rewrite turtles lore.

[CrashWeezerman]

I actually like that the turtles' bandanas were accidentally colored in the story. It makes it so that the story could take place in almost any TMNT continuity.

[flyingjay]

In the cannon in my mind, that boy was Matt Murdock

[bgt]

“Have you ever ever wonder what happened that boy?”
Not so you asked me that question right now no

[ethandoyle]

Okay now this is impressive, ever we ever get another tmnt reboot, one of the “need to do” things is to have Chet in the story and eventually possibly join the Hamaro clan /family with April and Casey

[ryzekiv]

Chet and Matt Murdock.
The REAL MVP’s of The NEXUS.

[jemboy]

In the og comics I believe the turtles origin was a reference to Daredevil's origin with the kid possibly being Matt Murdock. It was more of gag than anything

[stevenrobinson]

They say that the same mutagen that made the turtlwa what they are is the same mutagen that made Matt Murdoch Dare Devil.

[jackstrange]

One version was that their owner was Matt Murdock, Daredevil.

[zombiekillo]

If I had dropped them in the sewers and found them 15 years later, I would try to reconnect with them and be they're friend

[corbinowens]

I had no idea this existed, that’s awesome!

[srstriker]

It’s hard to believe that he would be the Archie Rat king and I wonder the same for the boy who used to own the cat who would become Old Hob in the IDW TMNT comics?

[AH-isyg]

There would have a great Turtle TV episode and give us an episode about the boy and he finally see the 4 baby turtles now grown up and become heroes. Chet would have realize these turtles were the 4 baby turtles.

[MegaJetty]

Chet Manley? I thought it was Matt Murdock who dropped the turtles down the drain as he was saving the old man in the accident that blinded him and transformed him and the turtles into...DAREDEVIL and the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES.