So apparently there are hundreds of TMNT characters according to Nick

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Originally Posted by sdp

More interesting would be to know which characters they can't use, so this podcast had fan questions? someone should ask him about The Next Mutation characters and whether Viacom or Saban owns them..
What were other characters we used to debate about? I remember some of the characters in the TMNT videogames, especifically Aska who was popular with the fandom, but there were others like the mutant panda from TMNT II. Have there even been other game exclusive characters in other games?
Also some of the TMNT Adventures characters were debated right? I remember Ninjara being one of them.

I know that they can't use Usagi and kin, and going by that, any Indy comic character bar Flaming Carrot, but I doubt Flaming Carrot will do much. A lot of mirage characters, like Bloodsucker, are creator owned. The 2k3 games had a few exclusives like Slashurr and the Black Gators. The Pallidium characters are owned by Pallidium, or perhaps their designers. Maybe Usub isn't, as he was in Manhattan Missions. Dheeraj and the other DW characters might be Dreamwave's property, the Fleetway-only ones are all creator owned, Fred Wolf might own some of the more obscure OT characters, and then there's all the guys who never made it...