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Quoted from Autobot_benz
Casey has never been mutated in turtles history why start now.
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That isn't a good enough reason not to ever. Not on its own at least.
I don't personally think Casey
'Should' be mutated, but lets play devil's advocate for a moment and go over some pros and cons:
Reasons why you could:
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It'd be very different. Like Autobot says, it
hasn't been done before, so there is a genuine 'what if' scenario to play around with there.
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It potentially adds a new dimension to his character Depending on how the mutation was approached and dealt with, Casey could become permanently affected by the experience (even if later retromutated). That kind of introspection is something we dont often get from him, and would help add to his character depth (imagine if he spent an episode as a werewolf for example and for every day after that he has to keep up certain medication or he risks mutating back into one - now imagine the plot twists that could result down the line from villains taking the meds from him, or Casey willingly risking his humanity to try and save others).
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An interesting scenario Regardless of whether it 'should' be done or not, it does provide scope for at minimum an interesting episode or two. In the extreme case of permanently mutating Casey (and I'm really stretching the devils advocate role here), it does provide an evolution of a character who should play second fiddle to the turtles themselves - potentially even mutating him into a villain and a fallen hero (similar to Harvey Dent's transition into Two Face in the Batman franchise)
Reasons not to:
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Precedent It hasn't been done before, or even hinted at (unless you count a brief stint of being blue in the Wyrm ep). Casey is a well established character in the franchise and has changed only a little throughout the various iterations. There is definitely a case here for 'if it isn't broken, don't fix it'
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Is it just a gimmick? I think almost everyone on Drome will agree, Nick's show has a bad habit of taking a good idea and then abandoning it after only an episode. The OT randomly mutated April into a cat briefly, but most iterations of the turtles have become progressively more dramatically serious. To mutate him for the sake of it would be wasteful and annoying because of it. This isn't to say that it shouldn't be done necessarily, but that it shouldn't be done just because it can be.
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Casey's role Casey - alongside April - provide the viewer something very important within the franchise. They are the human face of the show, the ones we are meant to be able to relate to - the everyman/woman/person. Recently April has been shifted away from that role, which means that Casey is now the only normal human fighting for good in a world dominated by aliens, mutants and ninjas. Mutating him removes him from that role, and leaves no one in its place (though I will admit, that potentially it could be replaced with characters like Shadow, Angel or Nobody - depending on the iteration)
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Attention seeking Depending on how its done, one of my biggest issues would be that Casey is NOT the focus of the show. Mutating him will inevitably draw focus to him. If its a one shot episode, this is actually less of an issue, but if it were something more long term, it potentially draws attention to a side character away from the Turtles - our main cast.
Now a lot of this depends on how its done. Casey mutating into a villain for example wouldn't suffer so much from this - because it would still allow the Turtles to take centre stage. Equally a one shot or even two parter episode wouldn't be long enough to make it an issue. But if it was a long term thing, it forces the show to then take the step of focusing on Casey to showcase his new powers and abilities - which WILL draw screentime and potentially make Casey the apparent 'hero' in place of the turtles.
Karai's arc has followed a similarly risky pattern, and did draw a lot of plot arc from Season 3, but it at least had the advantage that she was a villain and didn't need to be on screen much.
That's my 2 pence anyway
Personally I can see some appeal and some ideas for how you 'could' mutate Casey, but I think that overall its not worth it.