Karai "replacing" April?
 

April seems to be making few appearances in the show while Karai is being shown more. Is this Nick trying to find a character to relate to girls?

If they really wanted girls attention April and Karai should be cat fighting all the time. Then girls could gossip about the one they dislike.

April has been in both episodes that Karai has been in, so no.

Oh for God's sake. It's a new character. They want to use her.

Honestly not trying to start a war. I just think Nick is reaching to the female crowd. April's figure sold so poorly they aren't even packing her now.

They only have about 24 mins each episode, some charaters are going to get the shaft. I think we'll see more April centric episodes soon, definitely.

In fact, as unrealistic as it may seem for April to train into a competent martial artist in such a short amount of time, I have a feeling we will see some Karai vs. April in the future, too. They may not be equals but I think April has some spark in her :P Look at her already showing some moves to defend herself. Soon it will be offensive.

April's a pivotal character in every single incarnation of TMNT. If April's figure didn't sell well, then Nick shouldn't expect Karai's to sell well either. With 20 min. per episode, they don't have time to include all the things I'm sure they'd like to (such as April screen time). Being a writer for a cartoon means you have to know how to tell a beginning, middle, and end quickly.

Karai currently has an arch to go through and was essential to the plots going on, she had a function in the plots.

April does not has as an essential part to the plot currently, so it's a bit harder to incorporate her.

How-ever she will probably soon get her lamp-light to, and while April is a main cast member and is sure to be at least present in most episodes, Karai is not that, she is an antagonist and a secondary character. So well, she only appears when she is important and have some sort of function, but then she is also being used.

Silly thread considering season 1 was conceived a long time ago. This could be the case in later seasons but it's not right now.

You said that Karai's been appearing more, but April has been in every episode Karai was in.

This topic made me realize that a Karai vs April fight later down the line should be a must. April's got to become a full blown kunoichi at some point, right? Let her at Karai!

I am a woman and I kind of find this comment offensive and stupid.

Karai is a brand new character and they needed a little extra time with her in the last few episodes to get her set up. Unless Karai at some point finds out shes Miwa and decides to jump sides and fight with Splinter and the boys I never see her being as important as April.

I didn't mean it offensively. I was thinking back on the Team Edward and Team Jacob thing.

I want girls to be interested in the show.

I was thinking the same thing!

Uh yeah a pivital character in every incarnation except for Next Mutation where she didn't show up at all... :P

That's precisely why it's offensive; it reduces a gender down to narrow interests. It's like if Hasbro said, "Hey; our My Little Pony show has a lot of male fans, so let's entertain them with a lot of toilet humor and explosions!" Primarily we're people, not males and females, and we have brains.

What kind of thread is this? Karai has appeared in a grand total of 2 EPISODES so far. ONLY TWO EPISODES.

You shut your Goddamned mouth Mister "When will we get a Donatello themed episode though it's only been like 4 f*cking episodes".

I just think Karai is getting a lot of air time. I'm excited to think of April and Karai having a rivalry. It would be a lot of fun.

Team April vs Team Karai! (see, boys can do it too).

Callllled out. Less than a week ago he was crying about The Alien Agenda saying it was gonna suck and Ms. Campbell should be a ****ing demon instead of a Kraang robot...

I don't think Karai is replacing April at all. I think both characters have had screen time and that April will still be able to shine as well. Karai has only be in two episodes so far, and we don't know if she'll be in every episode after those two or not.

I would enjoy seeing April being a bit more on the "missions" so that we start seeing her interact with Karai.