So what do you think happened to all the human Foot Soldiers?
 

In "The Pulverizer Returns" Shredder tells Bradford that "You promised me an army of the most lethal ninja you could find, but the Turtles have decimated them! The ones that are left are not even worthy of wearing the emblem of the Foot." Fast forward now to season 2, and all of the Foot Clan appears to haven been replaced by robots.

So what do you suppose happened to the "ones that are left"? Did they just abandoned the Foot and possible head back to Japan? Could the Turtles maybe have killed some of them off-screen?

What are some of your theories?

There's probably a Japan branch of the Foot Clan that's still active, but it does seem like the NY branch has been dissolved. I hope they play up this angle because in Mirage and 4kids there were both a Japan and NY branch of the Foot so we had two sets of them.

Hopefully after a while we see humans return or they go to Japan and see them.

I think Shredder pretty much orders that they be slaughtered for failure. He's certainly threatened Dogpound enough times, why would he need to threaten the cannon fodder.

I like to think they all commited Seppuku for shaming their master.

So they're all dead.

P/S: Would be nice if Timothy was still with the Foot, he could commit Seppuku too.

Shredder started making them into Groundchuck, Dirtbag, Scumbug, and the like.

they are doing other useful things....like cleaning....cooking XD

I've been thinking this myself, I assumed it was more so we could see the TMNT hacking the foot down without getting an R rating.
Happened in lots of shows before...

They died. The end. :D

Down the job center.

They either left or were killed by the Turtles or Shredder.

They went back to their job in the tollbooth.

I think a lot of them ended up leaving, but were sworn to secrecy by the Shredder. Any of the potential troublemakers however, were likely killed off by him instead.

Be a good storyline if the human foot disbanded into another group similarly like the savate in the IDW run

I think they were more likely killed by the Shredder or someone who is associated with the Shredder like Dogpound and Fishface.

The Turtles normally just knocked the Foot Soldiers out because they were taught to kill only as a last resort, not as a means of solving a problem.

They realized they were underpaid and working for a psycho and gtfo. Well, the smart ones. The others were probably killed, sold for illegal human experimentation, or are just rotting away in some dank, dark cell. Good question. Where are the guys?

Same place where the ones from 1987 went..

But, if i recall correctly, we do see The turtles kick sone of The Foot off The building Thea Shredder fightibg on in The Gauntlet.

They're probably on vacation in Florida.

Standing in the unemployment line.

I can just imagine...

Unemployment Rep: "Did you do ninja stuff last week?"

Foot Soldier: "No."

Unemployment Rep: "Did you try to do ninja stuff last week?"

Foot Soldier: "Yes."