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I'm sure that whenever he gets any inkling at all at just HOW bad things have gotten - and no matter how deep his head has been in the sand since 2009, at least SOME of it has to have crossed his eyes at various points - a part of him wishes he still had the authority to try and "fix" everything. But at the same time, "What's done is done" and all that.
Like, the worst of it has to be that knowing for a fact whatever he truly intended TMNT to be or represent is gone forever, and the true potential of the characters and their stories will never, ever, ever be realized, because all anyone wants is wacky mutants and pizza puns. People THINK that was the point, they WANT that to be the point, but that was NEVER the point. All the stuff about "misfits" and "outcasts" and "family is what you make of it" and "life, at best, is bittersweet" stuff... it's all only ever going to be paid lip service to, briefly, in-between goofy gags and bad puns.
He intended for TMNT to be "about" something. It's not anymore, and it never will be again. And what's more, nobody even wants it to be. They're fine with the slapstick and bad jokes. They're fine with the pizza obsession and dimwitted villains and nonsensical mutant sidekicks. It's what they WANT, even though none of it was ever the point.
THAT has to f*cking hurt the most.
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