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No one thinks this is official LOL, just a fan poll

You do realise that storywise the movie is going to be based on the Mirage comics so characters created for the 80's cartoon, toyline and Archie colour comic have zero chance of being in the movie. I don't see the point of pining for something that's never going to happen.

If we get a sequel to the 2011 film comes about and is about the TCRI stuff then I would love to see Leatherhead. I could see Karai playing a small role in the movie as well as Hun.

Cool heads prevail over the hot heads, and for all Don's tech, he's the designated geek in the series. I wouldn't mind seeing the turtles as when they first came out, when Raphael was a jokester like Mikey, and much less of the hot-head."

If anyone has read the Road Hogs story story set in the "After the Bomb"  continuity were in the future a nuclear war has killed off most of America and the survivors have turned into mutants you see a school of mutant turtles led by an old age Raphael who is suffering from dementia and thinks they're his his brothers. I'd vote for one of those guys.

Slash from the Archie comic series was cool, he's was like the Venom of TMNT but seeing as he first appeared in the 'tweener period were they were slowly moving away from lighter stories to darker he was given a comedic edge of just wanting his palm tree. Sadlyby the time the book did go darker they'd made Slash a hero. I would've kept him as a bad guy longer just to see if he was all talk or whether he really wanted to eat the the turtles.  The cartoon version wasn't really much, even though "Slash the Evil Turtle from Dimenion-X" is a good episode the cartoon Slash just wasn't as good. Subsequent episodes he appeared in weren't much. They should have also kept his look like the Archie comic and action figure version too.

The less said about Venus the better.

Egan, the link you posted was to one of Archie's specials after Clarrain and Allen left the book. The turtle in question is actualy April temporarily changed into a turtle.

The gameplan for the Live Action movies is that it would follow the storyline of the original black and white Mirage comics while borrowing elements from cartoon like the surfer slang and an obsession with pizza but mainly kept in check. For various reasons the suits wanted the sequel to follow the cartoon more including adding Bebop and Rocksteady. Eastman and Laird both disagreed with this, they created the characters for specificaly for the cartoon and toyline the felt that the they were and as bufoons and used what little creative leverage they had to keep them out. So two new mutants were created to take their place. After many rewrites, the film become more comedy based and Tokka and Rahzar turned out just as dumb as Bebop and Rocksteady.

Secret of the Ooze did use elements from the comic such as the TCRI (renamed TGRI) part of the story. It was going to be revealed that Professor Perry was an Utrom but it written out for fear that kids would jump to the conclusion that he was Krang, another character that would never be in a film.

The third film was based on a comic storyline "Masks". I kinda feel that it was a bad choice to adapt as the comic storyline used a time travelling villain which the turtles had faced many times before, the movie had to give them a contrived rescue plot to get them back to feudal Japan. The biggest hit though is that Henson wouldn't do the costumes due not wanting to ascociated with TMNT. I do think the film gets judged harshly but I guess fans wanted more along the lines of the mainstream version with Shredder etc.

The 2007 film is pastiche of all the different TMNT universes taking inspiration from both of the cartoons, the original comics and even the Archie version. I was a bit disapointed as the first season of the new cartoon proved you could adapt the comics for kid audience without losing too much but there's a lot there to like if you're a fan of TMNT in general. The characters are spot on and the Leo and Raph fight is a definite highlight of all the films. Even if you're bothered by no Shredder he's mentioned and alluded to being in a sequel. Probably the second best film of the series.

Mirage and Imagi arn't seeing eye to eye on a sequel direction though. The rumours are that they go elsewhere and it may be a complete retooling from the beginning, possibly a live action with cgi turtles.