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[ToTheNines]

Originally Posted by neatoman

Well, it's certainly fine for what it is. Not entirely sure why they felt the need to retcon the crackhead from being the official Casey to just being his mom but whatever.

I think that was the better choice.

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

And it would make 0 sense. Karai would come to New York to challenge Raphael for the mantle of Shredder? Why would she need to do that, or WANT to do that? She's already in charge of the Japanese Foot and above everybody... so let's come to New York and assert leadership over the New York Foot? Which she already oversees? Why would she want to seek a demotion?

For Gary, it was always going to be Karai's (apparently) murdered daughter from CAW as Lady Shredder. Gary set this up slightly earlier in the volume with the Foot council mentioning Karai had been missing of late. This was because she was tending to her daughter.

Though I admit as a kid, when I first read those comics I assumed Lady Shredder was Karai. Even though that wouldn't make any sense.

Right. The dialogue about Raph not recognizing her made me suspect that too, but it’s clearly a misdirect.

[TheLabRat]

Most of the time, Karai being Shredder's descendant or adopted daughter was just give her a better excuse to be the turtles wavering ally. No matter how many times that she is their enemy, the turtles(especially Leo) still need her help.

The only thing that would make this idea more sense is that she plan to betray Shredder and take over Foot Clan, just like IDW Karai is doing now.