Are the Mousers enough of a threat for a movie?

[Cipher]

Absolutely, I think (with Baxter in tow).

1) They're one of the more iconic opponents for the TMNT. It's not Shredder right out of the gate, but enough people can look at a Mouser and think, "Oh, TMNT," to make it work.

2) Given the right conditions, the Mousers are scary fucks. We've seen them raze buildings and, lest we forget, Baxter sends them after April in their origin issue with the full expectation that they will eat her or tear her to shreds. Yikes.

[odupianist]

I imagine the mousers could work, but you'd need a decent story leading up to the final battle with them. I could see the mousers being a chitauri kind of villain in a TMNT movie, just some mindless minions but A LOT of them for the turtles to battle.

[poprob]

The Mousers are essentially "metal zombies"...

Manageable in small doses, but in hordes - terrifying and deadly.

Proper CGI work could do wonders with sewer-lurking Mousers in a live-action setting.

[Coola Yagami]

The bad thing about Mousers is that they're not really allowed to do anything.... We NEVER see them eat anything except a random rat for their first test run. We need to see a couple or random bystanders actually get torn to shreds by these things (at least off screen with some screams or something). If not, then they're as usually as Leo pulling out his swords... and then starting to kick everything.

[Ninja Tiptup]

All I can say is I wish it was Baxter and the Mousers as the threat in the 2007 TMNT movie instead of the stone generals.

Baxter could be the big bad of a movie with the Mousers as his legion of robots but he's gotta have some bigger guns than that as well.

[Toby Barrett]

Originally Posted by Ninja Tiptup

All I can say is I wish it was Baxter and the Mousers as the threat in the 2007 TMNT movie instead of the stone generals.

Absolutely. I wish to this day that they had done that for TMNT. Would have been so much more awesome.

[Lampy]

Originally Posted by poprob

The Mousers are essentially "metal zombies"...

Manageable in small doses, but in hordes - terrifying and deadly.

Proper CGI work could do wonders with sewer-lurking Mousers in a live-action setting.

that's what i said. a crazy horde of mousers would be so much of a threat... not only to the Turtles. but to everyone else. these mousers are bound to run into people too. and a sea of mousers sounds terrifying and all... but the turtles running and slashing into this ocean of mousers is definitely something i'd love to watch.

[Allio]

I could see The mousers lead up to the appearance of the Utroms

[Lampy]

Originally Posted by Allio

I could see The mousers lead up to the appearance of the Utroms

yea if baxter himself was an utrom. though... you would think that money's corruption would be ineffective against utrom tech and intelligence. i guess being stuck on an alien [primitive] planet for centuries would do that to you.

[shuriken]

I don't think Baxter and the Mousers alone are enough to support a movie. If anything get some Purple Dragons into the mix. It's be cool to see on the big screen but not as the biggest threat in the film. I don't mind Baxter being a main villain, just as long as more than Mousers are used.

[Garfield]

Originally Posted by saul

How would you like to see them incorporated?
Do you think Rat King and Baxter should confront one another?

I think they are the 2 best villains/antagonists after Shredder, and could have an interesting connection with the whole rat/mouser thing. Maybe Baxter's mousers killing rats could turn Rat King from a neutral character to siding with the Turtles and begging for their help.

I don't think the Mousers would be enough. Might get a little boring to see the turtles swat a tiny robatic creatures and nothing. Not to take a way from the mousers, I'd love to see them in the movie. But with Rat King generic thugs and Baxter in some kind of large Robot contraption, I think that it could be enough along with the Mousers.

I would love to see a TMNT movie with Rat King and Baxter.

[Filespit]

Originally Posted by chrisdude

The mousers could be developed and released because of some havoc the Rat King is already causing.
The mousers innocently taking Splinter could be what initially brings the turtles to the surface. Never having earned Splinter's blessing to go above ground, they'd find themselves with no teacher and no leader.
Leo-Raph power struggle ensues.
Come together, fight as brothers, blah blah, find Splinter.
Stockman works for the company that created the ooze, so the turtles discover their origin (or just part of it, depending on whether you go the Utrom route)
Splinter's history could be talked about, and Shredder comes to America after the turtles earn a little publicity for themselves, ala Nickelodeon.

Eh?

This idea I like. New York could be victim of an increasing rat problem lead by the Rat King, so Baxter and his company "offers" their help by building the mousers. However, Baxter is actually planning on robbing NY's largets banks using the mousers. April, his assistant, eventually discovers his plot and he sends a few mousers after her. April flees into the sewers and meets up with the turtles, who tell her their story of origin etc. Together they work to take down Baxter. They seek out where the mousers were last seen, which was at Rat King's territory. The Rat King spots the turtles and follows them to their lair, where he finds out about Splinter. He later kidnaps Splinter when the turtles go after Baxter, which the turtles later discover and are forced to seek out the Rat King with Baxter's help (or something like that). They find Rat King and a fight starts. It ends with Leo beating Rat King by knocking him into the pit where he dies in the comics (thus leading to a ghost cameo in the threequal!). Baxter's plan ultimately fails, and he is forced to report to his master, the Shredder, who decides to go to New York and seek out the turtles...

That way we get Shredder in the sequel, where he is knocked into the garbage truck and killed, thus leading to his Elite Guards seeking vengeance on the turtles in the threequel.