Original Characters (90's)

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Heh, absolutely! I love Warner in almost anything he does, actually. that's why I wanted a multi-vote on the poll, because I was going back and forth between him and Walker. Tatsu was cool, too, but just didn't have many lines, and I wanted to see more of who he really was. Although I DID like how he tried to take over the Foot in SotO.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

I saw no evidence of rewrites of the character, Casey-centered or otherwise.!!

Re-write the opening scene and the time when Keno meets the Turtles for the first time, and otherwise his role is exactly the same as Casey's.

Had Casey been in the movie instead, virtually everything would have been the same except the opening and the scene where Keno first meets the Turtles at April's apartment.

The Raph/Keno scenes with them going undercover to the Foot was Casey jones exact role.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Um, no, it wasn't. Keno's role encompassed nearly a third of the movie, and MOST of it dealt with either INTRODUCING him to them, or his infiltration of the Foot! As I said before, Casey could NOT have gone undercover to get recruited by the Foot. They already KNEW who he was! The minute he walked in there, they would have been all over him like flies on a turd, and the turtles never would have learned that Shredder was still alive- or else HE would have been the one captured instead of Raph. Having Casey in that situation makes no sense at all, because he couldn't pull it off. Not the fighting (he didn't know any martial arts, which is what they were looking for) he was too recognizable, and too old to be able to join. (They wanted mostly teenagers, which Keno EXPLICITLY stated to the turtles.)

Casey does NOT work in that movie, because he's all wrong for the infiltration, which was a major plot-point in the film. So was Keno's introduction to the turtles, for that matter. And his participation in the final fight in the club. "I learn that from a rat." Where does Casey even REMOTELY fit into that scenario? Just because he's friends with Raph??!! The only reason Raph was along was because he had agreed with Keno getting himself recruited, while Splinter had nixed it as too dangerous. But of course, Raph being the hot-head he is, has to go behind everyone's back. You'd have to rewrite HALF the friggin' movie for that to work, which would negate the entire infiltration, the backstory redux, and the intro(s)- not to mention Splinter telling Keno that he had the youth to fight but not the experience the turtles had. Casey wouldn't have needed that "lesson". There's NOTHING in the movie to suggest Casey could have taken that role- unless you rewrote the ENTIRE movie. And then it wouldn't be the same movie. They used a kid because the movie needed a "teen sidekick" to appeal to kids.

[pferreira]

I voted Jordan Perry because David Warner makes him quirky but sympathetic enough for us to like him.

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by MsMarvelDuckie

Um, no, it wasn't. Keno's role encompassed nearly a third of the movie, and MOST of it dealt with either INTRODUCING him to them, or his infiltration of the Foot! As I said before, Casey could NOT have gone undercover to get recruited by the Foot. They already KNEW who he was!

The Foot in the second movie were mostly new recruits. Its also not like everyone saw Casey's face in the first film.