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I guess a more fair comparison for the tmnt is being trained in the army rather than high school.
There is none of this "Use your special talent" in the army. Rather, its "Everyone must meet a certain skill level and keep it that way otherwise you're pure trash."
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Being able to meet a certain skill level, and keep it that way, isn't the same thing as everyone having the exact same skill level in all things.
There's a reason those are minimum levels.
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Sure, there is some minor variation but the two soldiers will largely be the same at their jobs due to the nature of it. The Mirage tmnt in Issue 1 were trained to be assassins with the purpose of killing Shredder in the same way, under the same master for 15 years and their uniformity really showed when they worked as a team.
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So...taking your logic further, Raph can lead.
I mean, he's got the same skills as Leo does, and they've had the same training.
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Besides, if you have been following recent tmnt news, Raphael is gonna be the leader in the 2018 show.
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If they are as interchangeable as you and Andrew insist that they are, there's no reason for Leonardo to be the leader at all.
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Me and Andrew never suggested anything like that. They may have roughly the same level of fighting skills (atleast in earlier versions), but there are other differences between the turtles such as their personalities etc.
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The idea that the TMNT need a leader within themselves is as flawed as the idea that Splinter wouldn't be conditioning them in exactly the same ways, with exactly the same exercises. It's not like Splinter would be like, "You seem emotional today, Donatello-san... you may do 3 hours less on the free weights and 5 less katas. Papa loves you! Shredder will probably just seppuku himself one day, no worries."
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Or, Splinter would see where each Turtle excel beyond the standard training and expand each Turtle's skill set and hone their individual abilities as well. As a good Ninja would do.
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What makes Leo so special that he gets to be the On Deck leader?
They're either all exactly the same, or they're not.
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Well, it has to be somebody. Maybe he was the first one to speak or something, who knows.
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By your own words it doesn't have to be anybody.
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Yeah, he was Rocksteady's worst nightmare
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turtle privelige!
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I mean would't their personalties effect how much they train or excel, we all know Raph is the hot head so would't it make sense if he put more effort into close quarters. Or what about talent, we all accept the fact that Donnie is a natural when it comes to engineering and science so is it too far off to say Mikey is more talented than his brothers at stealth and its not to say his other brothers are terrible at stealth just that he is the best at it.
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The turtles are not carbon copies of each other, but not so different that they share very less in common in either. I personally prefer the turtles not having their personalities having major affects on their fighting skills, so we don't get things like Michelangelo becoming the worst fighter because of the writers dumping all the comic relief on him or Leonardo becoming overly important till the point where he overshadows the other turtles.
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The thread is about personal preference and not scoring each incarnation, though.
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