Is it a bad sign that we keep assuming human characters will mutate?

[neatoman]

So I'm a little worried that we keep assuming that human will mutate and probably into previously established characters.

Now it's not like the show doesn't typically live up to that expectation, several human characters get less than five episodes of being human before they become a mutant. Sometimes they may not mutate but are still revealed not to really be human. I'm pretty sure the only somewhat relevant human characters at this point are Casey Jones, Shredder, the Purple Dragons and Kirby who has spent most of his episodes as one of two types of mutants.

It makes me worried when I keep seeing threads like "Will Hun become Tokka?" or people arguing about what mutant that fat mob boss will turn into, because it just doesn't seem unlikely given the show's track record. It's kind of sad to think that this show doesn't seem to care about having it's characters just stand on their character traits without turning into random monsters for no good reason.

Let's be honest here, Xever didn't need to become Fishface to be an interesting character, he already was. The same goes for Karai, Bradford, Baxter, Zeck and Steranko, none of them needed to become mutants to be interesting characters.

And if this show feels so damned compelled to have as few normal human characters as possible they should at least be more creative than "Let's pour some ooze on them and they'll turn into animals". Make them cyborgs or aliens or demons or something.

Sorry, that was a bit of a rant...