Is Za-Naron really defeated

[victory_angel]

I was reading one of the aftermath fics that have been written as closure to the "Power Inside Her" episode.

As I was reading the comments for this fic, I noticed one of the commenters brought up an interesting possibility. And that possibility is that Za-Naron while defeated isn't actually gone. But rather when April was restoring Donatello, some of Za-Noron's bits didn't vanish into the ether as everyone thought. Instead those parts blended in with Donnie's particles and are waiting for their next opportunity.

This theory does have some weight

In Riddle of the Ancient Aeon's the Turtles did have a lot of problems fighting the corrupted Aeons when the Turtle's encountered them.

Yes, there are factors such as there were more of them, the Turtles were on a corrupt planet that was also harnessing their negative emotions. And everyone including April have improved in skill since then.

And yes, just because a character is given a name doesn't always mean they aren't a one-shot character. I'm quite sure people here can quite happily prove this by listing of named characters we've only seen once and they have never been seen since.

However, I do agree with this person that it did feel like Za-Naron's defeat was played off as too easy. And it also seemed convenient that April would see some sparkles by the remains of the crystal and automatically believe it's Donnie.

It's likely April sensed it was Donnie, but yet if Donnie was blown to particles and not destroyed, why didn't the Aeon sense them unless she/it could have decided to have a contingency plan in place.