In a 1993 episode of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon program we all remember being so fond of, arch-nemesis Krang realizes, once and for all, that his underlings are too stupid to carry out his complex schemes of world domination.
So Krang—a squeaking, befanged, talking brain from an alternate dimension—simply clones himself. Soon there are six Krangs carrying out his bidding, and it's all going great until, for literally no goddamn reason at all, those clone Krangs grow enormous reptile bodies with shredded abs.
That's just how things were back in the day. To rewatch the TMNT cartoon at this late date is to bear witness to profligate liberties and perilous logical chasms (with dabs of late-20th-century racism sprinkled in). You begin to envision a life of leisure and ecstasy for the writing staff—concerned only with stuffing episodes with a requisite number of pratfalls and pizzas, and completely unburdened of any pressure to be good.
Give credit, then, to Josh Applebaum and André Nemec, the writing duo behind the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows. They've followed solidly in the footsteps of their forebears.