10 Ways To Make Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 Not Suck
2. No More Origin
Origin stories have gotten pretty old, and there have been a slew of them lately, whether they're necessary or not. Everyone knows that Superman was rocketed from a doomed planet and raised by a kindly farmer and his wife, and that Batman swore to fight crime after watching his parents gunned down Likewise it's well known that Spider-Man learned that with great power comes great responsibility after inadvertently having a part in the death of his uncle, and that the Turtles were transformed by mutagen and trained in the martial arts by Splinter.
So no more origin.
Especially the awful one that the filmmakers came up with for this reboot. Gone is Hamato Yoshi and instead, Splinter taught the Turtles how to be ninja masters from a book someone flushed down the toilet. Yes the notion of Splinter learning ninjutsu by mimicking Yoshis movements from his cage is a bit unrealistic, but teaching the Turtles how to be ninja masters from a book stretches the suspension of disbelief.
The new origin adds fixes that were never necessary. Throughout the Turtles entire thirty-year history, not once did anyone ever say, this would make so much more sense if April were connected to the Turtles origin. Just do everyone a favor and forget you ever established this origin, ignore it and move on.