[Mr. Marshmallow]

Any change that results in either a gender or species change is quite a BIG change. The Doom Patrol in Titans were shallow cardboards. All it did was waste Judge Reinhold's talent in a few lines, made Mento look like a jack ass, and proved to me that just because it's from a comic, doesn't mean it's going to be entertaining to watch.

No matter what source material Turtles or anyone draws from, if I am not entertained it could be a carbon copy of the character from A to Z, still wouldn't mean I found it "fun". Turtles may have been a goofy kids show in the 80s but considering people who saw it WERE kids, it's hard not to see why they did it at the time.

Kiddie shows I used to watch don't seem silly to me at all because I knew at that place in time that is what I wanted to watch. I didn't even appreciate Rita and Runt from Animaniacs until I saw them at my current age, back then I scoffed them off. So naturally something like 80s Turtles would seem amusing to a kid because it was made for kids.

Shredder may have been a bit comical, but he was still a villain and a villain I liked. The new Shredder was totally bad ass....until I found out he was a Men in Black alien essentially. I'm sorry but I will never forgive that image of Shredder. That'd be like if I found out Slade from Teen Titans was just a robot and the human being Slade NEVER existed.

And yes while I KNOW Slade used robot doubles on the Titans many, many times, I always took comfort knowing the real human being Slade still existed and that his image was not a false one (false being a robot in this case). Shredder to me is a bad ass human who was able to hold his own, control, and prove his "metal" against freaks of nature. And to me, seeing him reduced to an alien in a robo-jumpsuit is just soiling, down right soiling. But that's me.