Who the hell wanted Mondo Gecko back?

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Originally Posted by Raph's Girl

I didn't much like his OT appearance tho. Mostly because it retconned the turtle's origins a bit by having a lizard be in their bowl too and Splinter didn't notice him in the ooze?? Oh come on.

Mondo wasn't IN the bowl with them; he was in the sewer when they landed there. Probably flushed by some kid's well-meaning parents. Or he could have been a wild gecko living in the sewers from hatching. Geckos have been a common sight in urban areas for years. He just happened to crawl through the mutagen while the turtles were there.

Originally Posted by neatoman

Well it's mostly logical problems:

1. How did Hamato Yoshi make it NY without money?
2. Why crawl down a sewer instead of trying to get help?
3. Why would you touch glowing ooze with your bare hands?
4. If Hamato Yoshi touched the ooze at the same time as the turtles, why did he still turn into a rat?
5. When did he train the turtles? Either Shredder must have been sitting on the Technodrome for years or Splinter trained them in a day.

1. Illegal immigrant/stowaway. Nuff said.
2. homeless folks tend to fend for themselves, often due to pride. They'd rather survive on their own than ask for help. Also, ninja Master probably doesn't equal marketable job skills. Who would hire him? Did he even speak English then?
3. Not sure, but he might have thought it was the liquid from one of those glow-sticks that was busted open. It seems likely, anyway.
4. Key point- he touched the OOZE. Since he was already carrying residual rat DNA, it makes sense that he turned into a rat. He was probably already changing even before he touched any of the turtles!
5. Shredder met Krang BEFORE Yoshi changed (otherwise, there wouldn't have been any mutagen to begin with) but it probably took them YEARS to put their plans into motion. Plenty of time for Yoshi to train up his boys.

Originally Posted by CyberCubed

1. Yoshi was banned from the Foot Clan and since he likely lived there he was homeless and penniless. They said he fled to America.

3. Krang was banished to Earth. He had no army and no body. He obviously met Shredder and agreed to give him Dimension X technology if they worked together. Since both Shredder and Krang want world domination it's easy to see why.

4. The human Foot probably stayed in Japan after Saki went with Krang to the U.S.

I agree with the first two, Cubed. However, you missed a key point. The human Foot didn't stay in Japan- they were in New York in the first episode! They were running Shredder's "businesses", the security company, the pizzeria, and all those other "Ninja" business places. So he was running them like the Yakuza, is my guess- using them to run his "legitimate" ventures and make money for his operations with Krang.