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To be honest, I hope he doesn't get new henchmen. The henchmen he's got aren't getting enough character development between them as it is. It's not just heroes that should be interesting&mdash;villains should be interesting too.

I mean, remember how much they built up Bradford in season 1? Oroku Saki's most promising discipline, who the Shredder did as much as possible to shape in his own image. Then how much all the repeat failures weighed on him. Bradford was a villain who angsted, and that made him sympathetic (though still evil). But now in season 3, Bradford may was well be "mook #4" or something. Becoming Rahzar made him a better ninja, but a flatter character.

Same with Steranko and Zeck. They were interesting when they had an agenda of their own. Since they became Shredder's eager new henchmen within minutes of mutating, they've become incredibly uninteresting. The mutation was okay, but now they have nothing really going for them in the character development department.

The only henchman whose character development I've liked this season, has been Xever, and only because Meet Mondo Gecko made him more complex and strangely easier to "hate" without actually being easier to hate as a plot character, if that makes sense. He's not just the run-of-the-mill criminal jerk&mdash;he exploits children. That's a whole new level of evil for him, and it actually made him more interesting (in a gritty unsavory way).

I'm not as disappointed with Baxter's lack of character development this season, mainly because he was never that interesting a character to begin with. He's been more the comic relief of villains in this series&mdash;a huge change from the darkly sociopathic terrorist he was in Mirage.