What would a Season 0 "Prequel" be like?
 

Sure we've discussed about Season 11 possibilities, there very well could be a good story that turned out to be a prequel to the OT if it got its own season/mini-series, and below I have just a few questions for discussion.

How would Hamato Yoshi's friends and students fall by the wayside? (remember that the origin story told in Turtle Tracks was a flashback)
How would Oroku Saki become The Shredder and start his Foot Soldier robots?
How would he encounter Krang?
How did the Technodrome get built in Dimension X and how did Krang get his Rock Soldiers?
How did the baby turtles get born and end up in the pet shop?
How did Shredder decide to create and release the mutagen into the sewers?
How did April O'Neil start her career at Channel 6?
How did Bebop & Rocksteady grow up and start their gang?

Now here's the thing (and I'm sure this has probably been debated before on these forums), I've always been under the assumption that the Technodrome was created on Earth. Cause if Krang already had the Technodrome, what would he need Shredder for? I've always assumed that Drakus created the designs for the Technodrome, and Krang stole them.

Even with the drome and shedder. Krang failed to get much accomplished.

Body
 

Create a body for Krang, as mentioned in season 1.

The Technodrome wasnt 100% ready, as Krang was hessitant to open the Dimensional Portal until he had a body. Shredder also had a crime ring and connections to the underworld, which gave Krang readily availible forces on Earth, and the same connections could attain vital technologies that could maintain The Technodrome and even arm it with defenses. It's one thing to have a battle station, it's a whole other kettle of fish to keep it operational and safe.

We should also see Krang's partnerships with Beserko and Shreeka. In Season 8 Berserko confirms that he designed the Technodrome.

We could also see some "toddler" Turtle stories. I know they mutated into their teenage forms immediately, but eps of them training before they went above ground.

Construction
 

And who built the Technodrome if it was created on Earth? I would say it was built in Dimension X, and Krang was sent away, opening a dimensional portal (not the Technodrome one) from Dimension X to the Milky Wat Galaxy. After drifting through interstellar space, it crashed on the Earth (in some deserted landscape) and Krang qucikly used to burrow it underground to be unnoticed.

Another concept would be if Krang was banished from Dimension X inside a small spacecraft, finally crashing on the Earth. However when arriving, he contacted General Tragg to send the Technodrome, built in Dimension X, to the Earth trhough a dimensional portal.

I actually did write a story, "The Shredder is Born", to answer several of the questions. Okay, maybe Shredder accidentally travelling to Poland may have been overdoing it.

Shredder
 

I always thought Shredder invented the mutagen, believing it was deadly, as Krang said it was Shredder who tried to kill Hamato Yoshi using it, but instead he became a rat mutant.

Shredder didnt invent the Mutagen, Krang had to give him instructions on how to make it in "Invasion of the Punk Frogs"

Ha, I read that story. Shredder grabbing the punks by the umm... private parts to make them listen was a little too much. Otherwise it was a fun story.

Thanks.

The idea was that Shredder did it to humiliate as well as torture the punk. Years ago I heard a British former soldier mention that during World War Two, two soldiers were caught by the Japanese, and they cut the soldiers' genitals off and sew them to the insides of their mouths, and it gave me the idea for the scene.

:o Woah. I heard the Japanese were cruel but I never heard anything like that. Well... I'm glad Shredder didn't do that!

Shredder presumably assumed that this was as far as he dared go if he expected the punk to continue working for him.

I can't remember which episode it was that he gives Shredder the formula...but leaves out an ingredient till the last, but it wasn't Punk Frogs. That mutagen wound up in the swamp via portal malfunction.

Just watched "Punk Frogs" earlier this week, Zarius is correct.

Lol he can create the ultimate weapon, but cant make himself a body???????:lol:

Then which one is it that has the mutagen being sent to parts unknown via portal malfunction? I could swear that was Punk Frogs...since it sends it to the Okefenokee Swamp.

Leatherhead's first episode? The Punk Frogs were in that one too.

Same episode. Shredder wanted to make more after he retrieved the frogs.