Talkback: Laird's 2k3 development notes!

[MikeandRaph87]

To further your point Moth, there is also the incident with Man Ray/Ray. Laird and Eastman stepped in again in 1991 when Man Ray was going to be the gnetic experiment stooge of a mad scientist in Rebel Without A Fin. They did not want the character depicted as evil but did not care when the less memorable Zack And The Alien Invaders made Wingnut was Screwloose's lacky hypnoizing boys as thier personal army. Leatherhead was the most diversely portrayed character and still is within the franchise best remembered for the cajun bully from the Florida swamp portrayal.

The problem with making Shredder a renagade utrom is it makes fans even if knowing better think Shredder and Krang melded into one character. Its far from intended but what it ultimatly comes across and makes me feel that we did not have an actual Shredder but variants of the character.