The Last Ronin 

I still believe that the 2003 TMNT episode where Donatello traveled into the future where the Shredder took over the world where he met a one armed grizzled Michelangelo influence this comic.

Funny character being forced to be a depressed monster is my fav trope

TMNT is a lot like transformers, a weird silly idea that when given to people who care makes some of my favorite stories I’ve ever read

"Sometimes" in Spiderman is an understatement

I'd like to think that it's *just* New York that ended up turning into a dystopia. Like, Casey and the turtles go to Vermont in one issue and there's just nothing wrong there.

Honestly to me it makes a lot more sense that Michelangelo would be the last Ronin, since he’s the most optimistic of his brothers and is the one that keeps them together and the possibility of him losing his own family would definitely lead him down this dark path.🤔🐱

The first time i realized that Mikey was the last Ronin, legit brought me to tears. The one turtle who treasured his family more than anything is the one who has to deal with such soul-crushing loneliness, the one turtle who had a near limitless source of enthusiasm having to live such an unbearably painful existence...i can't imagine just how hellish it must have felt for him.

Bro, I completely understand you what it’s like not knowing that that the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had comics like, bro, I didn’t even know that sonic the hedgehog had comics

Ngl, the moment I got to the panel where we see the Last Ronin lockpicking his way into a place with the three ghost all explaining how he should do it, I IMMEDIATELY knew it was Mikey.

Mullets becoming my favorite RU-vidr and I love his videos and takes on everything

Michelangelo - Even in older issues he was often the "perfect pick" for the whole "Being alone" Trope. He's the most "childlike" of them, the one which can't take stuff seriously.

One of my fav superhero stories ever, alongside TDK Returns, All Star Superman or Spider-Man: Life Story. Like those stories, a perfect, symbolic endgame for the Turtles franchise. ❤

The Last Ronin aka Mikey is another great example of what trauma can do to a person. Other examples include Peni Parker, Sindri from God of War Ragnarok & Luz from The Owl House.

28:09 “senseless yapping” Out of all ways to phrase that, I was not expecting you to use the word “yapping” 💀

Fun fact, one of the original creators of tmnt returned to create those lsd flashbacks for this comic!

Dayum. I feel like I lost a part childhood knowing that the 4 greens are really canonically gone. No one lives forever. Sad to think that the turtles are are not a species and once they die, they have to create them manually again from an experiment. RIP turtles.

Mickey was always the lil brother so it makes sense for him to be the Ronin‼️🥷🏾

Believed it was Michelangelo because whenever a story like this comes out, they always go for the "subverting expectations" approach.

My mind was also blown when I found out my favorite cartoon action heroes had started in comics. Comic books being my favorite thing in the world growing up. I never heard about this Ronin story so I'm going to read it and come back to watch this as not to spoil it ❤

I would really love to see a movie or TV show adaptation of The last Ronin that would be awesome😩

The 2003 show was also my first exposure to the Turtles and is probably my favorite Turtles media. And you mentioning the ps2 movie game brought back memories of playing it a ton as well

Fr, the jokester/funny/soul of the group going through something so terrible that they are broken is such a good trope

This series is what , after 20 plus years, got me back into comics. I predicted it would be Mikey. For me it was easy, he was the only one who had some growing up to do. Raph, Leo and Donnie would all happily die in battle. Raph kinda ran toward that outcome, generally speaking of course. Great series.

loved this video, huge fan of your marvel and dc content but this was a really nice change of pace

Gave him the dark knight returns treatment. Even more heart breaking when you know the story behind the creators.

I cried when I read this comic, TMNT is my favorite childhood show from the 90's and it cut deep to see everyone dying 😢 THE MEMORY WILL LIVE ON! ❤

Please do more longer videos. They’re awesome. Great job man

dude you are on a role with these videos 10/10 👌

I recently watched the video "How did a violent indie comic become a $15,000,000,000 franchise?" by Matttt. It's about the ninja turtles, their creators and comic book origin (including "The last Ronin"). I can really recommend watching it if you haven't already. It also covers all their comic runs across time and what went on behind the scenes then.

That intro made me realize I need Mullet man to talk about Red Robin

I always kinda thought it was Mikey, I mean the turtles criticizing him in his head is something he would go through.

Fat content practically back to back bro!!!! Stoked!

I Burst out laughing when you brought up "the honored one" XD

Like you, my love for the turtles started with the 2003 series although I was born a month after the show was releasing. I still found a way to watch it and loved it also the 2012 series. I didn’t read the comics till 2020 I started with mirage then the last Ronin didn’t finish the Ronin till last year and boy that is one of the coolest comics I read. I’m happy it’s becoming popular and I need to read lost years. Also that ending with Mikey got me 😔.

I didn’t expect HIM to be HIM.. but after he got his ass kicked and overwhelmed I had a pretty good idea who IT had to be and considering the loss I could see it.

man... Love your content. Keep it up

one of the best comic i have by one of the best comic telling channel the story was incredible

The first live action movie from the 90’s still holds up pretty well.

"Life long exposure to the TMNT" yeah they definitely finished inside her multiple times

The first shot of this video being the cover of the first issue of Teen Titans: One Year Later is enough of a reason for me to subscribe

I love these longer videos keep it up

This is the first time I see a Mullet-Man video about a comic I actually read. So Finally I can tell how complete and accurate this videos are. Pretty complete and accurate, if you ask me. (and you didn't)

i heard him define crashout as somebody that goes from a walking ray of sunshine to baby kia 2.0 and i already knew who it was

"Know peace" Now that, is a strong scene

Please cover Batman Beyond! Been binging all your videos, best comic channel.

Mullet-Man: I won't spoil who the last ronin is 0:59 seconds into the video: zooms in giving obvious hint who's the last ronin 😂😂

this really needs to be a movie, it would be so good if the right amount of effort would be put into it.

If you like this, there are so many other more serious, darker stories they have that are awesome. Early Turtles, when they were inspired heavily by Ronin and Daredevil were really, really cool. They didn’t care who they were killing, and acted with the ideals of actual ninja. I really wish there was more grit in their modern representations. A darker animated series adapting one of those storylines is a must at some point. They deserve it.

Duuuuuudddde I've been wating for you to talk about this 🔥😂

Man I love this comic peak story telling

I honestly thought it was leonardo the one who follows splinters teachings the most my second guess being raph being a fan favorite honestly mike was my last guess but they made it work

I thought the last ronin was either mickey or leo because if donatello was the last ronin he would probably use some more sofisticated, and Raphaël being the most hot headed I would hardly see him surviving and not going crazy the moment one of his brother died

I have been reading the turtles since 1984 #1 at mirage studios when the turtles ALL wore red masks!

Never read the turtle comics but what a tremendous story.

If you couldn’t see that the Last Ronin was Mikey from the start, you either don’t know TMNT or you just don’t have brothers. The only reason why the story works is because who Mikey is, he is youngest, he loves to have fun, he doesn’t really take things seriously, he has a child like mindset compared to his brothers. Having him go down this path was literally the best option for Mikey as a character because it works best for him. We already seen Leo & Ralph in this type of manner & Donny just wouldn’t have hit the same if it was him besides Mikey. Mikey being the youngest & the “Most Free” out of his brothers is why him being the Last Ronin always made sense from the very beginning

I know you just made an amazing Red Hood video but could you cover Jasons story from the 80th anniversary Robin comic? It's called More time and it's really small, would work really well as a short!

I thought it was obvious it was Michaelangelo, partly because it would carry the most weight with his chill style, but also because he was supposed to have the most talent potential. Off chance it was Leonardo, who would have the worst survivor guilt of failing as the leader.

This comic was the only comic to make me tear up a little surprisingly.

For this who are wondering about the art change into black and white with some of the flashbacks in the last Ronin is those parts are written in the original style of the original tmnt Comics which are pretty great and have multiple cool other comics references especially the Daredevil References(the foot is based off of the hand in the daredevil comics.)

2003 TMNT looks really good I think because each turtle is a different shade alongside their bandana. I remember the stories being good and animation tickling my child brain

This kinda reminds me of the ending of the 2012 series where things devolved into straight up mad max with the only two remaining turtles being robot Donnie and raph

Mullet man, you read my mind. I was wanting tmnt when I woke up

2:25 first time I’ve ever heard an American say shite😭

I've heard about this story totally assumed it was Rafael. Never thought it was Michaelangelo that was a surprise 😳

W video by the way, but I always felt like it was Donnie. Because he feels like the most odd one out of the group, and being the smartest, it just feels like he would’ve been the last one standing

Let’s go he’s BACK

id love if you covered both parts of the "deadpool kills the marvel universe" comics or any hellboy comic. theyre 2 of my favourite comic book characters

thank you for the jjk warning ur the boss

Yeah given your intro, I kinda figured it was Mikey. Someone that carefree had the most to lose if he fell.

Much love ❤

what... a... story! I've never been one to read comics especially ones that are like official and are published in the US and I have to pay to read it but this makes me wanna buy the whole series!

you did it justice

Honey wake up Mullet-man comics posted a new video

I had NO clue TMNT got this dark 😂

You know I gotta watch a 30 minute long TMNT video

i love last ronin its really awesome series and badass in my opinion.

I love marvel comics and dc comics and the outerversal comic characters in here and not just that I truly love the hardest Heroes and the hardest villains to kill it's like anime if you ever hear someone say that they are the hardest hero to kill play see you and if you hear that they are the hardest villains to kill you know that it's no joke

This is such a cool comic.

I love ur eren impression

Initially I thought it was anyone but Donny. He was the only one I couldn’t see becoming the dark and gloomy protag

im crying right now😭

Best ending for TMNT honestly

Honestly I knew it was Michaelangelo because when you stop to think about it Leo and Raph are the heavy hitters. Donatello just like the other 2 would also defend Michaelangelo at the best of his abilities. All four of them are skillful but at the end Leo, Raph, and Donny were the most likely to die.

you have to watch 2010 tmnt it truly is so amazing and I've watched more than 3 times, hope you like it too!

When I first saw The Last Ronin drop, I believed it was either Raph, Or Donny. When I found out who it was my jaw hit the floor. It makes so much sense.

you should do a few hour long video specifically about the entirety of 616...

The Last Ronin feels like the secret ending on Cyberpunk 2077 where you, *literally*, storms into the least (most fucking secured) area from the front door basically power destroying even the *supposed* known strongest character *ALONE.* No help No friends (they could die) No regards of your own safety. Just like Mike: Your goal and you, but instead of failing and actually planning your way through you just stomp everyone praying that devil's luck is on your side.

My boy Mikey man so sad to see

i thought it would be mikey because seeing the carefree funny turtle turn dark and evil would be nice

Art reminds me of frank miller which makes sense because tmnt was inspired by his DD run

The 4 last original turtles dying and being reunited in the after life and waiting for Mikey like that was so sad man 😭 it was cool how she had 4 other replacement turtles, first time I’ve ever seen the original TMNT get replaced, but they’ll never be the same as the originals man. 🥲

I just bought a copy…it’s a really depressing book but soooo worth it🔥🔥🔥

The 2012 animated series was peak tho, you should watch it

Bruh my TMNT abstention start with the 2012 nickelodeon and this is how it going on good dam

Any possibility of a "The Crow" video??

Hey, have some of you heard of Energon universe/Transformers skybound?

*„PRETTY BOYS WITH PROBLEMS!”* - #BennettTheSage

Did think it was cannon that it was mikey, but i might be wrong. But then saying that i always did think it was him as i read the comic. And if you have not read the first comics then you got to, they are so good, from before they did think about kids reading the comic, so good.

Ok this is actually peel writing ✍️ 🔥

It's cool that a game is being made based on last ronin Skeptical about it but idc more people will learn about this book