Is Mondo Gecko unnecessary?

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Originally Posted by Tarris Vaal

The problem here seems to be power creep though doesn't it?

I mean, if every introduced villain remained the massive threat that they were upon introduction then you would end up with the turtles being beaten senseless constantly - to the point where any victory seems almost impossible. Every bit of action would have such high stakes to it, that we'd swiftly grow jaded to it.

Well not necessarily you can still have villains who remained a threat and still have the characters beat them. Take ATLA for example, Ty Lee and Mai despite being decayed a little, still remained tough opponents for the heroes to defeat over the course of the series. Or in any Spiderman series where Spidy has to fight more powerhouses opponents like Rhino or Sandman instead of fighting some of the bigger guys head on have your characters use their environments to their advantage. Have the character use different strategies for each opponent so it would both feel like the characters are trying and each villain has a unique flair to them.

Originally Posted by Tarris Vaal

You could say that, in that case, the turtles would need to be shown to be getting progressively more powerful and skilled to match - but that IS what we have been getting. The turtles are regularly shown training and the support cast especially (April/Casey) have been shown to get new training, tricks and tech support (space pucks for example).

them to be 'upgraded' themselves.

We kinda got that with Baxter and certainly got that with Rahzar and Shredder.

I mean you can do that to the villains, Baxter is the resident tech expert so I don't see how he can give cybernetic upgrades to Shredder's enforcers or better yet Shredder has crap tons of Foot bots so maybe his enforcers could train with them until they get better. Or we can see them in separate missions and have them seem competent.

Originally Posted by Tarris Vaal

As for Mondo - I know a lot of people seem to want him to be a good fighter, but .... why? Does every character have to be? He seems to fulfill the scout role that Pete had for the Mutanimals. Is that not sufficient? Does every minor support character have to be a decent fighter as well?
In that case why are we not getting anyone here complaining that someone like Kirby is not ex navy seals and breaks buildings with his bare hands?

Mondo might be popular with some, but he is not - and never should be - considered a 'fighter'. He's a civilian who happened to get mutated, thats all.

Well we don't really see him fulfill the role and during said episode we see him act annoying and get captured. If the writers want Mondo to have non combat role thats fine but all we are asking for him is to be useful.