Replacement characters for April?

[neatoman]

So it seems that the topic of wheter or not April is interesting or really important enough to appear as the human friend of the Turtles in every iteration. An argument brought up is that franchises where the human characters are not really as important as the non-humans around them, the prime example of that being Transformers. Now when it comes to Transformers iterations we tend to get the same robot characters but new human characters every time, the human sidekicks could easily have been Spike, Carly and Chip from the G1 cartoon most of the time but what we have now are about twenty different sidekick characters in Transformers.

And it appears that some people feel the same, now I don't really agree with them but I see where they are coming from. If the April from the Nickelodeon series was called Jenny or something instead, would you really think that she was originally intended to be April? Maybe out of tradition you would think that but then she does deviate from how April is typically potrayed. Hell, even the April in the Fred Wolf cartoon is remarkably different from the one we see in the Mirage comics. There has even been attempts to replace, such as in the case with Cody.

So what do you think? Could April be replaced by another character?