We have to ruin Bebop and Rocksteady?
https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/bebop-and-rocksteady-are-the-most-beautiful-love-story-ever-told
We have to ruin Bebop and Rocksteady? Why does everything have to be sexual? The world has taken this beautiful gift that God gave us smashed it, altered it, perverted it and is now trying to give it back to us saying “see, now its better”.
These two bad guys where part of the comic relief in the Teenage Ninja Turtles cartoon. They were so clumsy, oblivious and incompetent at their assigned tasks that it not only magnified the abilities of the Turtles but also showed the mostly child audience that bad guys are dumb.
This article also does something really scary. It normalizes this idea that everyone is indulging in sexual acts. The author can’t even comprehend the act of abstinence and feels the need to pervert a child’s cartoon by ruling out everyone on the Techodrome that they could have been intimate with.
One of the writes of the newer version of the cartoon even admits that he is all for people interpreting it as a gay relationship.
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but as for their mutant henchmen Bebop and Rocksteady, all they had was each other, and thebeautiful friendship (and possibly more?) that they shared.
Despite their mutations, Bebop and Rocksteady continued to fail the Shredder at every turn. Their clumsiness and dimwittedness no doubt contributed to their setbacks
Bebop and Rocksteady may also have suffered from a lack of motivation. Career advancement was clearly not an option; still, they didn’t seem too interested in their employers’ plans for global domination either. Sure, they liked busting heads and stealing magical crystals — that made for some cheap thrills — but in their leisure time, all Bebop and Rocksteady wanted to do was chill in their room, play video games and read comic books. Given all that, it makes one think that instead of being evil arch-villains, Bebop and Rocksteady were just two best buds with lousy jobs.
Bebop and Rocksteady were oddly supportive to one another, and their companionship was downright beautiful.
Whether or not their friendship extended into the romantic is just a matter of idle speculation, of course, but there’s noreason it shouldn’t be true. Despite occasional references to “past girlfriends” in various incarnations of the characters, following their mutations, Bebop and Rocksteady are monstrously stronger and larger than regular humans, so practically speaking, there wouldn’t be many options besides each other. Also, with all their time stranded in the Technodrome, they certainly weren’t getting busy with the abusive Shredder or the gelatinous Krang (whose only body opening is filled with jagged teeth). I mean, maybe a robotic Foot Soldier could have operated as a sex robot, but neither Rocksteady nor Bebopwould have the technical know-how to reprogram them for such purposes.
Peter Di Cicco, one of the writers on the 2012 cartoon, including this story arc, says, “It’s great how the fans have interpreted their friendship. On one hand, some see it as two guys with a great friendship, and others really want it to be a gay relationship, which I’m all for.”
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