A Ninja Turtle Was Just Killed in the Comics!
Having grown up reading the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and watching the cartoon, it's hard for me to imagine that any of the four main characters could actually die. But that’s exactly what happened in a recent comic book, and it shocked the hell out of me to learn about it.
SPOILER warning for those of you who haven’t read the comic yet. But I’m about to reveal to you who died and who did him in.
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Donatello has always been one of my favorite Ninja Turtles, and I’m devastated to say that he’s dead. He was brutally taken out in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #44, and the villains responsible for murdering him were Bebop and Rocksteady.
The comic series is written by Tom Waltz and TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, and thanks to IGN we have some details to share with you on the moments leading up to his death.
"Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo were trying to stop Krang from terraforming the planet using the alien ‘Technodrome,’ leaving Donatello running command from their home base. Shredder had ordered Bebop and Rocksteady to kill Donatello if anything went wrong, and sure enough, something did. Donatello tried to fight them off, even getting some help from Metalhead (being controlled by scientist Harold Lillia), but the duo was too much. The killing blow came when Rocksteady smashed his shell with a sledgehammer."
I’ve included a couple of pages from the comic for you to go through below. It’s pretty heartbreaking, but it’s hard not to think that they won’t bring him back to life somehow. The Ninja Turtles just aren’t the Ninja Turtles without him, and comic books are known for bringing big characters back to life after they kill them off. But maybe there's a chance that Donetello is really dead, never to come back again.
What do you think about the way Donatello was killed? Do you think he’ll come back?