Carter, the forgotten sidekick

[Prowler]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

I disagree. He did have a reason for being there- seeking Splinter's teaching and finding a cure for his mutation. He may be forgettable to some, but I found his very "average" personality a refreshing change to some of the more over-the-top characters. And he was basically the replacement for some of the other characters who had already fallen by the wayside, like Irma. With April off trying to get away from the turtles and all the chaos, they needed someone to keep the group grounded and connected to the world- Carter was that link. And he worked well in that role. I've been watching those very episodes over the past few days (one of the posters mentioned having inspiration for a story from a bit of Dregg's dialog in Beginning of the End) and the more I see of the last dozen episodes or so, the more I like Carter. He could have been a much more memorable character if he'd been introduced sooner. That he wasn't is kind of a loss. Other than Dregg himself, he's my favorite "new" character from those seasons.

Well Carter came in by the time the show got more "serious" and less campy, so it made sense for the writers to give him that kind of personality.

It was interesting to see April trying to break away from the Turtles, from a professional POV, at least. I mean, April's top stories for most of her career usually involved the Turtles, but maybe she just wanted to try covering something different for once?

As for the cure to his mutation, he only became a mutant after joining the Turtles. The reason he joined them was to learn martial arts from Splinter. This raises another question: Why did Splinter and the Turtles warm up to the idea of a "stalker" joining them so fast? I know there was a 2 year time-skip since they beat Shredder and Krang, but the Turtles kept on fighting criminals and such, so they must have made some new enemies since then. Letting a stranger join them was quite risky.