As much as I enjoyed mocking Scott Neitlich's "professional writing", he HAD a great idea of making an amalgamation of all MOTU continuities into a single storyline that allows characters from ALL versions coexist. Render unto DragonCaesar salad and all thar.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, NEEDS something like that.
We have a theoretically great antagonist in Draxum, a being who went to "the dark side" and made horrible experiments in order to "protect his people". We have Null, the
Equivalent of TMNT Satan, relegated to Archie.
The C.R.A.P. guys. They had Skonk die on the Mirage comic. He could be used on the toyline, first as a member of CRAP or HATE, then as a random evil Mutant Skunk... it's right there! Heck I'd mutate the rest of the team.
The point is to have these characters converge at a single continuity. We could even have "conflicting" versions of the characters coexist.
For example: SHREDDER!
Let me wear a purple gimp suit and figure this out:
We have:
Oroku Saki
Erich Sachs
Christopher Bradford
Ch'rell
They can all be in a single line, but in a convoluted way:
Oroku Saki is killed after his first encounter with the Turtles.
Sachs, who was raised by the Oroku, makes a deal with the Utrom Warlord Krang in an attempt to use alien science to revive Saki (worm clones) and keep the Foot "within the family". Dissatisfied with the results, he creates an exosuit, based on Utrom Tech and becomes the Cybershredder.
Tatsu, Shredder's right hand man disagreed with Sachs and his Krang alliance, so he took the Foot and used Christopher Bradford, Saki's Handpicked student as the new Shredder.
When Sachs was defeated and Bradford Mutated, Ch'rell, Krang's right tentacle warrior took the guise of Shredder to fight the Japanese Foot Shredder, Oroku Karai, Saki's niece. (Daughter of Nagi)
Yes, there are similarities to DC's own Batman: Battle for the Cowl. They were not intentional.
Toy wise, here's the theoretical figures:
Oroku Saki:
Based on his Mirage Look and red outfit
Oroku Saki clones:
Based on Mirage looks, but each clone would have a different colored outfit for toy's sake.
Flawless Worm Clone would be Secret of the Ooze colors with alternate SOTO Head.
The Claw clone would be Orange because Lobster/crab colors
The Multi-Arm Shredder can be Green because I'm running out of colors and
Mini Shredder should be Blue.
Erich Sachs:
He would be heavily inspired by the Kenner Batman Returns Bruce Wayne figure:
Using a combination of slip on and strap on pieces to turn Sachs into an 87 series inspired Shredder, but with long black sleeves.
The other figure is the Cybershredder, which would be inspired by the first Bay Shredder.
Bradford:
He would get 3 figures:
Actor
As Shredder
Dogpound
The actor would be Bradford in civilian clothes, the "mask" so to speak.
Him as Shredder would be heavily inspired by the 2012 Shredder look with the maroon suit and boxy armor.
Karai as Shredder is essentially, Karai dressed as Shredder.
Thing is that Battle for the Cowl allowed us to have multiple Shredders. But it's not the only thing it can do.
Using Walker and a time Scepter we can have characters from various continuities facing each other. Ie Mutant Mayhem April and 2012 April meeting, because wobbly wobbly timey wimey changes to the timeline. This can also allow for a handwaving of continuity hiccups.
But it also allows us to bring Characters from other continuities and use them as "different" characters.
For example: Burne Thompson and Bernadette Thompson (87 toon and Bay Turdles movies)
Bernadette can be Burne's Ex-wife who kept the last name as a jab at her ex-husband.
But that's not the main example I wanted to use. That's a continuation on the "bringing multiple versions" of a character. The example I wanted to use is 2012 Mutagen Man.
In most continuities, he's Seymour Gutz. I would probably spell it as Seymour Gütz. In 2012, he's Timothy the Pulverizer. A bumbling teen who ends up consuming Mutagen and becoming Mutagen Man.
I would keep Seymour Gütz as Mutagen Man, while Timothy is a brand new character.
How would I do It?
He'd be a college aged teen, kinda like Carter or Keno. More like a college dropout. After hearing about the Turtles, he decided to learn Martial Arts at Smash's dojo (hence the fake Ninja Turtle Gang styled outfit) but he gets kicked out after he accidentally informed the cops of Smash's criminal activity. After dubbing himself the Pulverizer, he decided to fight crime and get his butt kicked until he met other teens who had become vigilantes themselves. Not that hard.
The real hard part would be making a timeline for the continuity to work. I just want an excuse to have figures from all versions under a cohesive style
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