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Originally Posted by CylonsKlingonsDaleksOhMy
Baxter Stockman is the most sympathetic.
Everything bad happens to him every time in every incarnation except IDW. He's the world's whipping boy.
Surgically removed his own brain to implant it into a cybernetic robot? Check.
Blown half up and left hanging on Donatello's dungeon wall for over a decade? Check.
Blinded, crippled, reduced to a head in a jar? Check.
Reduced further to a brain in a jar? Check.
Trapped in a rotting corpse-like body? Check.
Grafted into an alien squid thing? Check.
Mutated into a fly a ridiculous number of times? Check.
Checked into a mental institution for believing in giant talking turtles? Check.
My man Stockman better stay in IDW and keep Bobby Curnow on his good side... he's thoroughly screwed everywhere else.
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Too be fair Mirage Stockman is pretty unsympathetic, he put his brain into a cyborg on purpose, killed a bunch of people for petty revenge, infected April with nanobots, terrorized NYC for fun, etc. He deserved his fate. Most other versions of Stockman are sympathetic though.
Most versions of Karai are pretty sympathetic. The Nano monster from the 2003 cartoon was pretty sympathetic and Slash from the 2012 cartoon developed from a creepy villain to a hero over time. The 2012 version of Mutagen Man was pitiable, a shame nothing really happened with him.
Even the original Mirage Shredder is one of the more sympathetic versions of the character, really he became a villain to avenge his brother, that is a more sympathetic motive then Shredder usual gets.
In terms of truly evil TMNT villains, there are a fair amount: Utrom Shredder, Tengu Shredder, 87 Dregg, Mirage Skonk and Savanti Romero, Archie Mr. Null, the Nick versions of Rat King, Krang and Kavaxas are all define by ruthless cruelty in one way or another.