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Originally Posted by ToTheNines
Pointless thread, sorry. But rewatching SotO in theaters got me thinking about this. What an odd choice.
Also occurred to me that this show established the pronunciation as Rah-zar (which April does day just once in the movie), instead of the old pronunciation of Ray-zar.
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My issues with the 2012 series is how they create new characters, and then slap the names of the classic characters over them, For example Rahzar and Tokka are nothing like the original. Rahzar got the name after the mutant who was originally named Dogpound double mutated, and Mikey just decided to call him Rahzar for some reason, and then we have a giant space kaija type monster that was named Tokka for some reason. Again nothing like the original.
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Originally Posted by neatoman
I have said it before but I'm not sure if I've said it in this way, Tokka and Rahzar were likely not paired up because the show didn't really seem to care that much about what characters were "intended to be" so to speak. If anything, it's a little more concerning that Tokka is presented as an alien Gamera than being paired up with Rahzar, and that Rahzar in turn started out as a potentially more interesting character than the two mutant identities they gave him.
The show did this a lot, which is why changing Bebop and Rocksteady from a pair of American punks to a cat burglar and a Russian arms dealer barely registers, because it's somehow a small change compared to so much else they did. Making Mona Lisa an alien warrior, the Neutrinos microscopic golems, Wyrm into a genie and (what's essentially) Klunk into a horrifying pile of mewling ice cream are all really strange decisions that I don't really get because they might as well be original characters at that point. It really does not surprise that the people who made this show only seemed to think all Tokka and Rahzar needed to be was "Turtle and Wolf" with literally nothing else attached.
Anyway, it is honestly a little sadder to me that they even bothered with Bradford and his backstory/gimmick if they were just going to turn him into a monster after a few episodes, even sadder that decided he should be turned into a different monster later on. Not sure if "secretly evil karate instructor who looks like Norris" is the best idea for a character but clearly better than some beast who can't do anything other than action scenes. This part I know I have said before but it wasn't like making Bradford and Dogpound/Rahzar different characters would have been more expensive or anything, they could have easily had the more interesting character and the brutish beast at the same time since they needed to make both character models anyway. And it's not like Dogpound needed to be the same character either just because they were both dogs, they piled up the mutant henchmen and monsters anyway, literally dropping a countless amount of ooze canisters all over the city at the start of season 2 just so they could do that endlessly.
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They did the same with Hun. For some reason the 2012 series made him to look like Bruce Lee.