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Originally Posted by ToTheNines
Good point about Arena of Carnage. I remember a bunch of us were asking Peter DiCicco wtf about Zeno not just being named Traximus since they’re literally the same character.
He claimed they weren’t aware of Traximus and it was just parallel thinking and that ALL of their Triceraton’s had to have a “Z” in their name lol
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I do seriously doubt that they hadn't seen the 4Kids version of that story before. The 2012 episode features scenes that resemble the new scenes the 4Kids episode added, while weirdly enough having fewer similarities to the Mirage story than the 4Kids episode. It's not just that the characters Traximus and Zeno are similar in concept, but the scenes they're in and the backstories they have are very similar too. There are also other changes that they share, like the Turtles fighting the Spasmosaur instead of it being the opponent for other combatant. Not to mention that the 2012 omits parts like the commentators and Monza Ram, which the 4Kids version did. With all of that mind, not only is the 4Kids one the more accurate adaptation but the 2012 version really does look more like it's directly based on it instead.
While it is technically possible to do that by accident, it's pretty weird that they would make virtually identical changes and additions, while also omitting various details from the comic that the other one did include and not really including anything the other adaptation may have missed. So, I do strongly suspect they watched the 4Kids version and based the script on that because it was just easier to a TV episode and take notes instead of reading the comic, then were embarrassed to admit that's what they actually did and renamed the added character in attempt to gain plausible deniability.