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[Refractive Reflections]

Originally Posted by Jester

Did you selectively read that?
* She's exceptionally talented in an implausibly wide variety of areas
- So...her psychic powers and being a seemingly quick learner in Ninjitsu is a "wide variety of areas"? That's 2...2 whole things...

Well she may not be in a "wide" variety of areas but with her psychic powers, she's easily able to defeat the Kraang in one quick mental blow all around her. Plus, at the rate she's learning (seeing her fight with her clones) she'll be able to learn more in a few years compared to the Turtles' 10+ years of expertise. Also, there's not a "wide variety of areas" that TMNT typically focuses on except with these three valuable skills: the fighting, mental concentration, and scientific knowledge. April's already accelerating in 2 of these 3 major areas.

Originally Posted by Jester

* may possess skills that are rare or nonexistent in the canon setting.
- I might give you this one...not sure who aside from April and maybe the Rat King have any psychic powers.

April never really had psychic powers in any other TMNT universe before Nick's right?

Originally Posted by Jester

* She has an unusual and dramatic Back Story.
- Not really unique to Nick April. Mirage April was a living drawing. And to be honest we're getting only hints of her back story. Not sure yet how dramatic it is.

Well with Mirage April, wasn't she just a product of the preternatural? In this Nick universe, not only is April a product of the preternatural (mother being alien abducted, and April being a mutant) but the episode is alluding to Nick April acquiring and having superpowers, which is unlike any other April TMNT has had before. So the backstory to how she is able to have these superpowers could most likely be a much more unusual and dramatic backstory.

Originally Posted by Jester

* quick to adopt her as one of their True Companions
- All Aprils and Caseys fall pretty hard into this one. Has there ever been a universe where those 2 aren't practically the 5th and 6th Turtle, with no real worry about whether or not they're reveal the Turtles? Well...maybe Fred Wolf Casey...

I guess I can give you this one, except within the OT universe (not only with Casey) because OT April was actually initially suspicious of Turtles in causing all of the crimes even after the Turtles saved her life, in fact they bargain with her in finding the ninja thieves to prove those crimes weren't caused by them.
A friendship doesn't really develop until the second season. In the first season OT April seems to be more concerned in finding the truth behind the crimes rather than protecting/befriending the Turtles. But that's another reason why I enjoy the OT more, April isn't initially attached to the Turtles from the get go, the trust and friendship is more gradual.

Originally Posted by Jester

* canon characters are quickly reduced to awestruck cheerleaders, watching from the sidelines as Mary Sue outstrips them in their areas of expertise
- I added a little to this, because it seems disprove April as a Mary Sue because she hasn't, as of now, out shined the boys. Don is awestruck because of the crush, not because April is out smarting or out ninjaing him...

Well in "The Kraang Conspiracy", and this is speculative though, April was able to defeat the Kraang and April Derp in one ferocious mental form of energy, read the mental thoughts of all the Kraang meditating (even knowing their plans), and sensing someone (Krutzman) was spying on them. A bit premature and unfair to say this happens all the time ("canon characters are quickly reduced to awestruck cheerleaders"), but it makes the viewer wonder especially when Raph complimented April on how she saved them all, if April can do all this being untrained and unfocused, how powerful can April become when she is focused? With so much of April's sensing, mind-reading, and destructive capabilities, it could almost make the Turtles' fighting ability obsolete (in fighting the Kraang at least) if April can train her mental abilities as fast as her fighting ability.

Originally Posted by Jester

Aside from those things she's not exotically beautiful and I'm pretty sure she's not the idealized Ciro....or whom ever else. She might be an idealized female so that girls have a strong capable character, but she's still in training...heck the Turtles flat tell her she's not ready several times, and she complicates the mission because she refuses to listen. Not a Mary Sue trait. They are generally perfect in all actions.

So Nick April is not exotically beautiful unless anyone does think so with Nick April now being a female mutant. But you forgot the whole love triangle crush thing April will supposedly have with Donnie and Casey... and that's unlike anything TMNT has had before, but is popular with Mary Sue characters in being the most desired.

So, as I was stating before, she may not fit the exact "gold standard" of being a Mary Sue, but there are some traits though. At the very least, Nick April is the most "Mary Sue"ish of the other Aprils though... right?