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I definitely don't think it needs it but I think most people expect it, which is almost the same thing. Like it or not, but every time they do a Batman movie, other than who's playing the lead, the first question most people ask is, "Is the Joker in it?" Every time they do a Superman movie, same thing with Luthor. Obviously, as we've seen from those movies, you don't need those characters, but they're so connected with the main heroes that when they're not there, you have to work a little bit harder to sell the new bad guys to the audience, because subliminally, you know they're kind of a "secondary threat". You have to really make people believe that Scarecrow could possibly be as big a problem as Joker (which worked), or that Superman could take down General Zod and his minions, but a giant super-computer had the goods to bring him to his knees (oh, man, that didn't work).
I don't think the villains in TMNT III or 2K7 really had that kind of effect. I think they both should have used an existing villain that people actually wanted to see. Others have already mentioned some good ones, like Rat King, who I think could work really well in a movie with a really dark, twisted sort of representation. The Baxter and Mousers thing deserves a shot, also, it's literally the very first thing they went through after beating Shredder in almost every other version, and they never bothered with it on film, probably because of the cost. Well, CGI and even prop effects have never been better, so why not now? I'd even buy Baxter mutating into a giant fly in the third act, for a brief few minutes, long enough to look disgusting and creepy before losing to the Turtles in the final fight and getting banished to Dimension X (or killed, whichever kind of movie it is).
I'm sure we'll get some of that eventually, but I can't blame them for going back to Shredder. The last two movies didn't have him, and the last two movies made sh*t money compared to the first two, so you gotta understand their position.
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