Would you like to see human Foot Soldiers return?
 

After watching the Yokai episode it reminded me how much more exciting it is to see the Turtles fight human foot soldiers rather than just robots all the time. I think the robot Foot have pretty much wore out their welcome.

It would be nice to see the human Foot Clan return, maybe late in Season 4 after the Turtles return from space.

Either way works for me. Having robotic Foot soldiers rather than human isn't an issue for me.

Id rather have human foot soldiers, but then we would probably have the "one kick and he's down" move. At least with RFS we can have them hacked and slashed to a pulp with no blood

The human Foot weren't even that much of a threat in this series, so no thanks.

Niether are the robotic ones but they're less thematically fitting than the human ones.

Guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

Not at this point, no. If they were of any use, they'd be there now. I don't wanna see Shredder bust out his elites or something after all this time spent wasting resources/fighters knowing he had a team of assassins on speed dial. It'd be too much of a plot convenience, & I say that as a big fan of the traditional ninjas.

Could be neat to see other kinds, though, like Foot Tech bots, mystics, or that giant mech from the Archie books.

It wouldn't make much sense, and probably wouldn't be a very interesting plot point.

But, I can't stand the monkey noises the robots make. I thought it was clever and funny to have the mousers sound like cats, but the Foot monkeys are annoying.

Id say yes!

They can't use robots forever if the turtles keep destroy them all

Yeah...with the Kraang temporarily gone, how is Shredder able to maintain them? Baxter can only do so much.

Kraang are gone but Baxtrer knows how to create robots and now it is him who creates thm. In the 87 cartoon it was Krang that created the robot foot soliders and they lasted from episode 1 till the end. I dont have any reason to use humans solider anymore because they are too weak compared to robots.

I'm not even going to bother... *closes door*

But the robots are even weaker than the humans.

With robots, the turtles can go all out "ninjas", something FW never exploited. So I'm good with the change from human Foot to robotic Foot.

Why not just imply they killed the ninjas? That way there's no blood.

In 2003 series there was no blood buy there was only human foot ninjas from the begining till the end. There were only 2 episodes in season 2 ehere robot foot ninajs appear.

You can't stab something sharp through a human's neck in a children's cartoon.

No, but you can do it off-screen.

Of-screen is boring and redundant. We got plenty off that in 2k3 and in Nick when the NY Foot where humans.

Well is it really that much more intersting to see wires fall out?

Actually seeing the action and Leo can finally use his swords, I can survive with Robots. It worked just fine for Samurai Jack

Yeah, and I thought that was the whole point of having non human robot that don't bleed blood.

It would make sense to have both, otherwise how does Saki think The Foot Clan will continue once he is gone if there are not humans to continue the legacy? I assume he intended for Karai to take leadership of The Foot, but the likely-hood of that happening is up in the air at this point. The hench-mutants can't do it, none of them are properly trained in the ways of The Foot. The only other possibility would be Yoshi or one of the turtles.

Regardless, the Foot-bots could use an upgrade. They are neither intelligent nor skilled enough to pose any real threat to the turtles. They're all destined to be small piles of scrap metal any time they show up. The Norman Kraang Droids pose more of a threat than the Foot-Bots.

Where did the human Foot GO anyway? Was Shredder just like "Ummmm yeah.... so I got these robot ninja guys now, so if you guys could just go ahead and go back to Japan that'd be great, mmmk? Good talk, Peter."

I'd imagine the Foot in Japan still is fully human and have multiple members that run the organization while Shredder is driving the funds and the whole Clan fortune to the ground on his personal vendetta.

I am sure that he would have use for human ninjas since killing and fighting are small parts of what ninjas. Maybe he use rest for espionage back in Japan and since he doesn't any problem with teaching outsiders like Bradford, he probably has some that are non Japanese that can blend in and be use as informants in mafias like Don Vizioso's.

I think Timothy mention on that how he was recruit into the foot through the dojo so I wouldn't past Shredder on using Bradford's dojo as a recruitment center/human cannon fodder dispenser.

Then again how practical is it to recruit kids through a dojo?

I thought Bradford was...

Now that the Kraang are gone, I think Shredder should mix in human Foot with Robot Foot. Maybe we should get some individual human Foot characters that get developed, to solve the human problem.

I prefer the Robots, simply because we then get to see the Turtles use their actual weapons and slash them and cut them up. When fighting humans their weapons are simply used as reactionary and defensive, and the only actual blows they deliver then are kicks.

I prefer the robot carnage.

That said, I would like to see them diversify their robot ninja foot clan member offering. I'm a biased sucker for the Mahattan Projects video game, and always loved that as you got deeper into the game you fought more and more different colored Foot Clan Ninjas that had different powers. I'd like to see that here, have different bands of Robo-Foot Clan Ninjas, that each specialize in something or have a different weapon. You'd think Playmates would be all over that as a way for them to sell more toys by simply repainting the existing molds. If Hasbro had the toyline, we'd have about 15 different colored variants of foot ninjas right now.

Thinking about it, I'm surprised the OT didn't do this. Seems Playmates would've been all over that.

Kraang will return.