That's right — they misgendered Scumbug. And director Jeff Rowe wasn't very happy about it. "That was a marketing mistake, and we were furious about it," the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" director explained. "They put that out, I don't know who did that or how that happened, but we were immediately like, 'That's not true. Don't put that in the world,' and that will now be on the internet forever. But that was never the intention. That was never the character. We always imagined her to be a female cockroach. And that one poster was a slip up."
And so, a particularly silly internet controversy churned up by possibly even sillier people who would get upset if the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' mentor turned out to be gay was born, despite the fact that it all came from a basic marketing mix-up. And fans eager to see Splinter's first queer romance in "TMNT: Mutant Mayhem" will just have to wait for the sequel.
"Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem" is in theaters now.
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