Oh man, my thoughts exactly. Pretty much the only family TMNT focuses on is between the turtles and Splinter. And that's with a broad stroke.
I think that could have been improved a lot across all boards. I'm not going to go on another tirade about having more mothers and sisters in IDW. I feel like the villains having families to some capacity will give some rounding to their characters (Shredder only seemed to have biological family in Mirage and OT). Among other things, I like to think that 2003 Shredder could have been vastly improved in terms of character depth if he loved Karai as much as Splinter loved the turtles. It would fit into Karai's reluctance to betray him and maybe provide a lesson for Leo in his constant badgering for her to do so.
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