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The nick show has.... um....? I mean what new story arcs do they have to work with?
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Quoted from Coola Yagami
Well to name a few;
* April's development into a combat capable character - from her induction into Ninja training in Season 1 to the emergence of a 'Dark April' in Season 5.
(and I am well aware not everyone was a fan of this - but then I wasn't fond of the storyline that said she was a pencil drawing. Swings and roundabouts eh?)
* Ivan Steranko and Zeck Anton as criminal elements distinct from the Foot.
* Nicks take on Slash and the introduction of Pigeon Pete - both of whom have now been incorporated into IDW.
* Timothy/Pulverizer storyline (admittedly, not seen through to a satisfying conclusion - yet)
* New mutants including the Creep, Fishface, Dogpound, Snakeweed, Tigerclaw, Spiderbytez, Chimera, Speed Demon, Mushroom men, Parasitica wasp, Dr Rockwell, Newtralizer and Serpent Karai - to name a few. Plus human originals like Shinagami.
Now I'll admit a lot of those are just elements and not 'arcs' but Nick did successfully implement a blend of Shredder's revenge arcs with the Kraang (Utrom) Invasion - including the added surprise of Kraang Sub Prime (another series original).
Season 3 and 4 have been more focused on existing older story arcs - but 4 concluded the Dark april arc (a Nick original) and gave us a decent Super Shredder arc (which is original in inception, even if not in concept)
Plus its not always necessary to invent a completely new story arc to work with, when you can instead take a fresh look at an existing one.
The Kraang invasion of Earth is hardly a fresh concept, but Nick did provide a very different technodrome, very different Rock soldiers, the Kraang as a completely reinvented enslaved hive mind, and a good origin of the mutagen.
Shredder's vengeance arc is also very much not original, but I think its fair to say that Nick has put a unique variant of it out there.