Karai or Pimiko?

[Usagi Miyamoto]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

Isn't he? In Vol. 3 we had Raphael taking on the mantle. In 4Kids there was different Shredders throughout history.

I said that he's not a mantle for the most part in all interpretations outside of the original(Image having the mantle effect in Mirage), where Karai fit in perfectly as a Foot member that needed no connection to Shredder. "For the most part" was in reference to 2K3, where the title of Shredder is tossed about a bit, but there's still Utrom Shredder present throughout the entirety of the series.

If a TMNT incarnation either downplayed Saki or had him die relatively early on Karai's role as a member of a more globally based Foot would work, imo. Then there'd be room for Pimiko without any redundancy as well.