TMNT: Tournament Fighter Archie Heavy?

[Jester]

I was thinking today, as a fan of the Archie Comics, and going through the rosters from all 3 TMNT:TF games, gosh the roster is Archie heavy.

Of course you have the Turtles and Shredder in all 3 versions. Casey is in the NES and Genesis versions. Karai is also in 2 versions. April shows up on the Genesis, but look at the other playable characters:

NES:
The only other playable character is Hot Head, a character from the Playmates toy line, but also based more on the Warrior Dragon from Archie.

SNES:
War is one from an arc in the Archie comics, that also involved the Mutanimals. Wonder where Death, Famine, and Pestilence are? That makes 2 of Archie characters.
Aska was created just for the game...lets skip her.
Chrome Dome was a character from the series and the toy line. So heck the toy-line ties with Archie so far. 1 for the series.
Wingnut was in the Archie series, an episode of the show, and the toy-line. Maybe my original premise was off...3-3-2.
Armaggon was only in Archie! (Oh how I wanted a figure...curse you Playmates!! 4-3-2
Rat King is playable only with Game Genie...I think. He was in the Mirage Books, the OT and the toy-line, and Archie. 5-4-3-1.


Genesis:
Ray Fillet is an Archie and Toy character. 6-5-3-2 (NO, I don't count Ray from that one episode...)
Sisyphus was also a game exclusive...
Triceraton was in Mirage, the show in one episode, and even a toy! 6-6-4-3
Krang is in all but Mirage...well at least in canon.

Ok...so maybe I was wrong...it's not so Archie heavy. But then again the toy-line had 3 universes to pull from.

Any thoughts as to why there were so many Archie characters?