Baxter became a disembodied brain inside a robot in Mirage because he could then pose a physical threat to the Turtles as well as begin the plot point with the nanobots inside April that began in Vol. 2 and paid off in Vol. 4.
Baxter became a mutant fly in Fred Wolf because toys. And the Goldblum movie.
Baxter became a lot of cyborg incarnations in 4Kids because that's what Mirage did.
Baxter became a mutant fly in Nick because Fred Wolf.
Baxter almost became a fly in IDW but didn't because Nick beat them to the punch and stole their thunder (probably).
Baxter probably would have become a fly in the PD movies if they'd been given another movie. Because Fred Wolf.
|