The original Wingnut and Screwloose - TMNT comics

[@TheTurtleNexus]

Thanks for watching! Leave a comment with your favorite version of Wingnut!

[@stefanbesendorfer1323]

5:58 it's kinda sad, but also heart-warming, that Mondo Gecko saw the bright side of being in heaven, accepting his fate.

[@MegaMan87]

Indeed so sad that they where Swept away by a Dark fate.... As we Pray to them on there Grave stone with all there Names on it, Including Slash. On There Memorial ground to Remember that day... I did loved Wingnut though.

[@cammy85]

Wingnut and Screwloose deserved better in the 1987 cartoon than to be showcased as villains brainwashing kids at a military school. Ray Fillet didn't appear in the cartoon, but there was a different mutant fish named Ray. He was in one episode as a villain who self-redeemed at the end of the episode since his "pop" was a mad scientiat; common in Season 4 and 5 episodes.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

The cartoon "Ray" confused the hell out of me when I was a kid. I later read that Ray's creator hated the cartoon script so much he refused to allow them to use the character, so the cartoon had to use a similar but legally distinct character.

[@ShinGallon]

The Archie comic is criminally underappreciated in the TMNT fandom, I feel like it was better than the cartoon by pretty much any measure you care to compare the two, and Wingnut and Screwloose are just one (two?) example.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

Wow, I feel stupid. I never picked up on the Batman parody aspect. (That original design made it more obvious, though.) Although I'd either forgotten or never read the part where his parents specifically were killed, so that's probably why I didn't pick up on it. I did remember that his race had been wiped out, but didn't remember the part about the females specifically, or the symbiotic relationship between Wingnut & Screwloose's species, or Wingnut needing Screwloose to SLEEP. Regarding Batmania, Usagi Yojimbo introduced a clan of bat ninjas (The Komori Ninja) who had blades on their wings. They would swoop down and kill people. Other than being bats and operating out of a cave, they didn't have much in common with Batman. But there was a gag where a security guard sees them approaching and says, "It's bats, man!"

[@kevintaylor3792]

I actually owned quite a few original pages from issue 8 (including the origin of Wingnut & Screwloose). In 2022, I donated them to the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum in Columbus, Ohio. They should be there if anyone wants to see the original pieces.

[@andagean]

Archie wingnut my beloved. He’ll always be my favorite. Wacky anti hero is my favorite take on him like tournament fighters or early in Archie. I also had the toy and still remember being very let down by his appearances since then like the cartoon. Tho mutant mayhem gives me hope for mutanimal ally wingnut becoming the default going forward.

[@johnpittsii7524]

Thanks for the amazing video ❤

[@AlphaProto]

The SNES Tournament Fighters Wingnut is my favorite. I can't stand seeing him as any color but blue.

[@JurassicRod]

It's a shame they never adapted the original version to screen. I didn't like what they did with him in the cartoons at all. In the original cartoon he was just a generic villain and in the 2012 series a Adam West parody.

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

I’m guessing their comic backstory is a bit too dark to your average TV network & toy companies that wants TMNT to sell toys.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@kaylemathewcomendador6964 I've only seen a couple episodes of the 2012 show, but it seemed to have some dark (for a kids show) stuff in it that network TV would not have allowed in the 80s cartoon. (It was on cable rather than over-the-air, so I don't think they are as restricted as a result.) But the 2003 cartoon got away with quite a bit that was darker than the Archie Wingnut & Screwloose backstory.

[@kaylemathewcomendador6964]

@@KasumiKenshirou I’m referring to how ending a kids show with main or recurring group of good guy characters dying like that wouldn’t be kid friendly for most studio executives. Killing off the bad guy or a mentor figure for story progressing reasons is one thing, but a whole group of them at once? Seems like a tough sell to your average studio executives if you ask me.

[@BenDaresAll]

Archie comics Wingnut is better than the cartoon

[@KasumiKenshirou]

That was usually the case. The cartoon would "waste" the characters from the toys and comics in lame one-off appearances, and then have a bunch of episodes with a bunch of lame 1920's gangster characters like Pinky McFingers and Don Turtelli. This is why I quit watching the show.

[@ShinGallon]

Archie comics TMNT is better than the cartoon.

[@BenDaresAll]

@@ShinGallon that's true, of course, hehe

[@eugenegodzilla946]

Wingnut

[@HeySamus33]

His very cool

[@fatfoxclown]

yeah I hear other turtle fans accuse murphey of being on a soap box preaching. playmates missed an oppurtuniuty that could have saved the tmnt toyline and maybe bought the show a few more years plus after captain planet this and toxic crusaders would have been a palette cleanser

[@MegaMan87]

Wingnut and Screwloose where Magnificent in the Air~ They where a heart warming Dynamic Duo always being Faithful to one Another... So sad... That fate was entirely cruel to the Duo and his fellow Mutanimals that it Declared the Huanians to be Entirely Extinct... So sad... I would've given all my Power To Resurrect his Race if they had some type of Super Dragon Balls to Revive the Inhabitants of Huanu and then would've have a chance for a better future and in fact would be Unionized for a better Breed of Alien Bat Races...

[@eugenegodzilla946]

Mutant bat

[@eugenegodzilla946]

Batman

[@BentonGrey]

Wingnut has always been one of my absolute favorite Turtles characters, so I enjoyed this video. This is a great and loving recap, really capturing the character well. I had never heard of the fan-made return. I'm looking forward to checking that out! In addition to being fun, this video was useful to me as shortcut for my research as I worked on my own video game project involving the character, so thanks!: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hIicf5mrj7CFZqc

[@DM006]

I also find it strange that DC Comics hasn't cried foul with lawsuits. For the rest, as for 90% of cases, I prefer the duo's version of the 2012 cartoon. Also because it is very similar to Adam West's Batman.

[@fatal-vice8145]

DC wouldn't have a case. No one(even someone that knows zero about TMNT) would confuse Wingnut with Batman. DC would be laughed out of the court room.

[@KasumiKenshirou]

@@fatal-vice8145 Yes, it's clearly a parody, which is protected under fair use.