Talk:Foot Recruit (Rise of the TMNT)/@comment-31077815-20190811175619

To me it's obvious the new episodes are setting her up to be Oroku Saki. With the Shredder armor seemingly having to be worn by someone, and Baron planning to dawn it upon it's completion and all. I think there will be a plot twist, Baron stabbed the Foot Recruit in the back, so maybe she'll stab him back and dawn the armor herself and become Shredder.

Plus it fits with all the themes of characters being reinventions, and starting at Ground Zero. As an example, Baxter Stockman being a child (Stockboy) the Foot not having a Shredder yet, Splinter being lazy and not training the Turtles yet, them not being real Ninjas yet...

It'd fit really well for the Shredder's human form to not be powerful yet either, for him (or her in this case) to grow as the Turtles do. And with her being a Recruit, it'd make sense.

The gender swap might seem like a stretch, but if they were trying to hide the Saki's identity early on swapping his gender would make it a lot easier to do so.