Why not a mix of both? Have him have a similar arc where he keeps losing his body and becomes a cyborg and when he tries to become a human again like in the 2k3 show instead of his body rotting away he starts becoming like a fly.
I like both versions but I do think the fly is a little bit neater.
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Was there even any payoff to making Baxter a fly in the Fred Wolf cartoon? Seemed like just something random they decided to do to him. Like they just saw Jeff Goldblum in "The Fly" and went "That's so cool, let's do something like that" only without the "cool" part.
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OK... but I mean, no payoff for specifically making him a fly and not... say, a moose or a hippo or something equally random?
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Well they very likely made him a fly for that exact reason but I do think there was a payoff, instead of being one of many generic mad scientists or robot villains the OT had instead we had another mutant which early in the OT there really weren't that many, he could fly and his "fly" personality was interesting, he kept getting dumber/losing his mind through out the series and man each episode of Baxter you just feel terrible for him and his appearances were always memorable in some way. If he had been a moose or hippo who knows but it's easier to accept that the more time as a fly he became more stupid like a fly.
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I would have liked to see him demutate back into a human at least once in the old toon. I felt sorry for him for being a fly for too long.
I felt really sorry for him in the new toon after what happened in Insane In The Membrane, he seemed so close to getting a real human body, and it wasn't even done in 2105.
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Well it would have been a nice final episode, you do feel sorry for him the entire show, especially when re-watching Season 1 and you realize he didn't really do anything wrong besides being tricked and landed up in Jail. And all the times he was a villain in the OT as a fly it was because he couldn't tell the difference anymore as a fly for what was happening, he was confused. It's only S2 where he is more of a villain as a human but even then he seems to be following orders from Shredder like he is threatened or brainwashed.
At least Baxter in 2k3 was a villain all along, it wasn't until later that you start feeling sorry for him but even then he made plenty of evil actions he couldn't justify unlike OT Baxter. And Baxter did get a feel good ending in Fast Forward even if he had been a bad guy all along.