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Agreed. Not gonna lie, I was initially hoping for that too. Would have been an interesting aspect of the story, but it still can be done just as good without the burns. She's half snake now, that's not going away anytime soon, especially when she is incurable even with retro mutagen. I mean, she can't even kiss anyone anymore without potentially killing them. That seems like it would be more potent and life-changing than the burn scars she suffered.

And for the record, Shredder wasn't betrayed by his clan. Hamato Yuta took him in as an infant instead of leaving him to die with the rest of the Foot Clan. And Shredder kind of ended up betraying the clan he became a part of.