Official Episode Discussion S2 #22 "Vengeance is Mine"

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Originally Posted by victory_angel

Another option would be Donnie and Leo getting the into the argument. Because if they seem to be playing up Leo's relationship with Karai as a juxtaposition of Donnie's relationship with April.

For example: The other Turtles for the most part are supportive of Donnie's feelings for April, but otherwise feel he is deluding himself into believing in something that will never happen

With Karai, none of the Turtles are supportive of Leo's companionship with her, and feel that nothing good would come from it.

April is an outsider, but the Turtles and Splinter have welcomed her into their home and have treated her like she is part of the family.

Karai on the other hand is their adoptive sister and by technicality biological sister. And the Turtles are all hesitant about welcoming her into their lair even after learning she is Splinter's daughter.

In Alien agenda, when Donnie learns about Karai's existence he says "I don't know who she is, but I KNOW I HATE HER!!" and for someone like Donnie to use a word like "Hate" towards someone is not a idle thing.

He was the only one of the Turtles who was visibly angry with Leo about not informing them about Karai. Raph was disappointed and Mikey was more confused as to what transpired. And his statement of "I'm surprised you didn't trust us enough to tell us. Could be interpreted as "I'm surprised you didn't trust *me* enough to tell me about this."

In Enemy of My Enemy Donnie is the one who leads Raph and Mikey away after Karai jumps into the water to save the Shredder. And he's later shown attempting to comfort Leo about the whole ordeal.

Donnie clearly has no trust for Karai and with good reason as Karai has hurt and tried to kill the girl he loves at least twice. However he does trust Leo enough to try and see things from Leo's point of view, or at least tries to believe that maybe Leo could be right about her. And because of that it is going against his better judgement regarding her.

he knows Karai is Splinter's missing daughter, and he knows she should be with her true family. But unlike April and her father, it's questionable as to whether Karai is trust worthy enough to reunite with her true father because she has been raised to think of Splinter has the man who murdered her family.

And now she is a creature that hunts and kills creatures like Splinter. While she was able to keep her mind enough to recognize Splinter as her father. She is other wise an unpredictable monster and her loss has hurt Splinter and their family greatly.

So even though he is able to create retromutagen, he knows a lot more **** will go down before he can create it. So he would have a hard time agreeing with Leo's actions based on faith alone and that would lead to contention between the two calmer brothers.

I don't find it too likely, but it would be nice. I really would like these two to have some legit conflict.