Talk:Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles issue 85 (IDW)/@comment-995426-20180825150844

Leatherhead's exchange with a nonexistent Krang in this story actually isn't all that strange. Leatherhead's psyche still has the memory of all his years spent with Krang, and that memory naturally retains a personality and can speak, because Leatherhead knew Krang so well for centuries. It's like people who still have bitter arguments inside their head with people they otherwise have not seen or spoken to in person for years. He escaped Krang, he killed and ate Krang, but Krang is still always there&mdash;for better or for worse, Krang remains a part of him. But I also don't think Raphael's outburst was all that helpful&mdash;trauma like that isn't something you just suck up and get over, and I think Raph was projecting his own unresolved baggage which we know he has a lot of himself.