When TMNT Did Spider-Verse FIRST

Still upset that 2012 didn't do a threeway crossover with both the 1987 and 2003 Turtles.

Xavier finally escaped being known as a Spider-man channel, just for him to become a TMNT channel

Favorite joke in the movie: when 2000s Raphael sees the Mirage dimension's level of Frank Miller angst and thinks: "Finally, a universe that gets me."

It’s funny that 2003 shredder didn’t know or care that wiping out reality would kill him too

I just know we're gonna get a TMNT big multiverse thing in a couple years, regardless of whether or not they can get the '03 show rights.

“Finally Xavier uploads again after all these years!!!”

I love the concept of adaptations meeting the source material and I wish it was done a little more.

I remember the hype for this was pretty insane back in 2009. Like, we're all kind of checked out of multiverse stuff these days, but back then you just didn't really see it. You had like the one episode of the 90's Spider-Man show, but even then those weren't older versions of Spider-Man we knew, they were made-up ones specifically for that episode. As a finale to the 2003 show I think it's great. It gives all the characters a nice send-off and largely makes up for the lackluster last two seasons of the show. The depiction of the Mirage Turtles is also great, and I love their constant Frank Miller-style narration still being there. It's with the 87 Turtles that things get kind of wonky though. I get they were trying to have a '03 Turtles think the 87 ones are super lame, and then they got to the Mirage universe and the Mirage Turtles think the 03 ones are lame, so they learn to appreciate each other' kind of thing, but, they really do go too far some places. Like portraying the 87 Turtles as cowards is totally out of character and really lame. Some have attributed this to malice, but I think it's just a result of somewhat sloppy writing. Because the entire arc of the story is that the 03 and 87 Turtles learn to like eachother, so I do not think the intent ever was to make them look lame, it just kind of comes off that way.

Ah, Turtles Forever… The forgotten crossover of the 80’s Turtles and ‘03 Turtles made as the real Finale to the ‘03 series.

The 03 series is an amazing, it deserves more respect than it deserved

90s spider-man did it first and at the time it was the best

6:44 They also kinda did this in the 2012 crossover, but at least it made a little more sense. They were worse at fighting because they weren't able to lean on toonforce to back them up.

A problem I've had with crossovers for years now, is that they will have a bias towards one side, and the other gets shafted. I think the biggest example I have for this is Teen Titans vs Teen Titans Go. Where the "Go" titans literally get shit on the entire movie in some way. I found it really annoying because I was just like "OK WE GET IT THE OG'S ARE BETTER GOD. I FIGURED THAT OUT THE FIRST 97 TIMES, 2 through 5000 GOT A BIT TIRING." So yeah, I feel like recent crossovers have struggled with this a lot in some way or another.

Gotta love how 03 Shredder was killed by the characters the Mirage Comic creators despise

I love the prime turtles' voices. Just how they manage to capture the gritty seriousness of that first issue. I also just find it funny how they have the deepest and groughest voices even though they'd canonically be younger than the 80s and 2000s turtles

Personally, I choose to believe in Phelan Porteous' theory that the 1987 turtles in this movie are not the actual turtles from the 1987 series, but rather a much dumber and sillier version of them from a dimension separate from the real 87 dimension.

The 2003 series originally aired on FoxBox, who also dealt with 4Kids. That's where "Sonic X" premiered. I think TMNT wasnt on the 4KidsTV until "Back to the Sewers", but i didn't grow up with that Saturday morning block. I grew up with Kids WB.

Didn't the 90s Spiderman character still do it first or we not counting that

The 2003 series deserves more recognition.

Also due to Union laws , the 2012 TMNT can't crossover with the 2003 TMNT