Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25684889-20141227095600/@comment-995426-20150104174821

Well, let's look at the Foot Clan as an organization. Led by Oroku Saki. It has Tigerclaw, Bradford and Xever, who are loyal only to him. It has Baxter Stockman, but he was coerced into it. They had Karai, but she's gone now. And it used to have a force of Foot Soldiers, and most of them have been defeated or quit, am I right? That's why they started using Foot Bots instead.

So, if you remove Oroku Saki from the equation, you basically have three loyal people, a hostage and some killing machines that amount to more of an armory than a membership. That doesn't seem like much of an organization. Tigerclaw doesn't like Karai, and the other two only obeyed her authority as Oroku Saki's second-in-command. And Bradford and Xever certainly don't like each other. Considering how top-heavy the organization is, I think those three would separate and become rogue elements&mdash;and unlike with the Foot Elites in the City at War scenario, they wouldn't necessarily have loyal soldiers of their own.

So if the Shredder was brought down, there's probably no chance Karai could lead three people with no personal loyalty to her unless she can successfully blackmail or enslave them. And Karai's upbringing has been dark, but now that she despises the Shredder and his entire legacy, I can't really see Karai enslaving anyone. Blackmail, maybe, but that's only if Tigerclaw, Bradford and Xever are more valuable under her authority than they are rotting in a cell somewhere or dead.