Pick one "good guy" to turn
 

If you could pick one turtle/turtle allies to turn bad who would it be?

I'd go april getting turnt by the Rat king into Rat Queen.

Discuss below.

Not sure how that would happen, but an evil Usagi would be interesting. :teek:

I would say Splinter, but only if done right

Casey Jones. He's already on the fence in some iterations, especially Mirage. IDW Casey could fall, too.

Mikey. Dark Mike was so cool in Deviations.

On the flip side, I think it would be interesting to see Stockman become an ally of the Turtles, even though that role of "oddball scientist guy who invents stuff and occasionally gives Donatello a hard time" has basically been filled by Harold in the IDW comics.

Evil Casey Jones wouldn't be somebody I'd take seriously as a threat, as he's not exactly a "master plan" kind of guy and is essentially just a brawler with an entertaining gimmick.

An evil April would actually hold interesting story possibilities, as she would be more likely to oppose the Turtles with her brain instead of her power (Nick Toon version notwithstanding), and it would surely be emotionally difficult for the Turtles to be betrayed by their first and closest human companion. Since April has had so many different roles throughout the various TMNT media, she could undercut the Turtles in very different ways depending on the continuity. If production art is any clue, the never-produced 4th live-action movie was even going to experiment with the concept... probably solely on account of Kevin Eastman's nepotism.

I think a good question would be "Why this character turns bad?"

It's easy to use the mind control/brainwash/brain swap excuse. Finding a good reason for Casey/April/Splinter/Turtles to turn bad "for real" is harder.

a death could be a good trigger. Remember when Flash dies in Justice League Animated Serie and then all Justice League turn bad?

They could do the same with Michealangelo.

Or we could use the Leo/Raph rivality, and then for some reason Raph crosses the line and do something terrible.

Of all the seven main good guys, Raphael would be the easiest to turn bad, because of his anger problem.

Or, we could learn after all these years than Splinter was a double agent from Hydra.

It's easier to imagine all four turtles turning bad together for some reason (April dies and they turn again humanity) then having one turning on his brothers.

Casey Jones kills his father, driven over the edge by guilt, and becomes that which he himself hated. Escapes into alcohol; begins killing street punks; too extreme, the Turtles now oppose him.

It could be done.

And yeah, I agree with that last point. I believe in the Turtles as a family; live or die, all four together.

Maybe this is a terrible idea, but going off of that it might be an interesting turn for Casey, after the turtles put him in his place, to become kind of like Paulie from Rocky. Kind of a meandering, sorrowful drunkard who only survives because people love him for some reason.

I don't think IDW will take it that far, but you can see that the artist in #53-55 has already deliberately drawn Casey and Hun so that their angry faces look exactly the same. Exactly. Go back and take a look.

They're obviously showing, since Rat King messed with Casey, that Casey is so terrified of becoming like his father and terrified of losing the people he cares about, that he WILL become like his father and he WILL (temporarily) lose the people he cares about.

This "Chasing Phantoms" arc is apparently going to further this... but we'll see.

Not sure why but I think Don going bad could be interesting (maybe be as of Lexington in the Future Tense episode of Gargoyles).

Hamato Yoshi. Turns out he faked his death the whole time, and he was the Shredder/Oroku Saki's right hand man from the very beginning.

Splinter would have a very hard time believing this, that's for sure. It could lead to have conflicting loyalty; hisbold master, or the friends and family he's met since leaving him?

Contrived? Yes.

That sounds like it could have interesting potential. Why would Hamato Yoshi do that in the first place? And in front of the rat? What would that mean for the Tang Shen feud? Why go into hiding for all those years?

Ok so we all know April is becoming an evil psychic in the Nicktoon, though I see her taking the Tetsuo Shima route while others seem to think of Dark Phoenix. Then there's also IDW's take on Leatherhead which is a heel turn I like since he's still Leatherhead, not this "Hohohoho, ah'm gonna turn you into gumbo, ah guarantee!" horsecrap the FW cartoon went with.

As for what I could see happen? Maybe some of the Mutanimals fully embrace their role as terrorists in the IDW series?

Contrived? Yes. AMAZING if done well? Absolutely. I like it.