Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25614818-20150410170303/@comment-995426-20150413154709

To be honest, I'd like Mikey to stick with Leatherhead. I know that people almost never end up with their first young loves. But Mikey and LH are just so good for each other. These are the only ways I could see Mikey finding a new lady love:
 * 1) LH could die or be otherwise somehow lost forever.  Perhaps he'd even die of old age, having already aged many decades in Dimension X.
 * 2) Mikey and LH could end their relationship, hopefully while remaining dear friends.  The show has shown us that they continue to love each other even after very long absences, so it seems less likely they'd simply drift apart.  That said, neither Mikey nor LH's hearts have faced any real romantic challenges from anyone else yet, and one or both of them could decide it's time to move on.
 * 3) And here come the decidedly more morally ambiguous options.  Mikey's relationship with LH may not change, but Mikey becomes infatuated with the new girl, and acts impulsively.  This would be fitting of other versions of Michelangelo, who have rushed into love with the wrong people or people totally out of their league, sometimes with life-wrecking consequences.  It's just hard to see 2K12 Mikey doing that in a show targeted at 7 year olds.  If the show actually were targeted at 15 year olds, they could probably get away with it (not to mention the show might actually be a lot more interesting in a "guilty pleasure" kind of way).
 * 4) Alternatively, LH could be the unfaithful one (perhaps falling in love with Slash), and their relationship ends, freeing up Mikey to find someone new.  But to me this would seem very out-of-character for LH, who always seems like an expy of Ron Perlman's Vincent from the 1980s Beauty and the Beast TV series.  Face of a demon, soul of an angel.  Fierce but sensitive.  Practices mental discipline to calm his volatile emotions.  Almost always soft-spoken in half-whispers, but can be scary when he shouts.  Has a big romantic heart, and never stops loving people, even after long separations or permanently losing them.  Finds his refuge far beneath the streets of New York City.  You know the formula. :P LH hasn't been tested in all these areas, but so far has been nothing less than Vincent with scales, and he's so lovable for it.  I just can't see LH betraying Mikey in any serious way.
 * 5) Mikey could juggle both LH and Renet the way April juggles Donnie and Casey.  This option seems relatively unlikely, because Mikey and LH are already very much in love and have reciprocated this love time and again.  If Mikey forms new relationships while he already has one with someone else, he would really seem more like Mako, who came off as kinda trashy for it.  And if Mikey did that and LH proved to be okay with it, it would effectively be an open relationship on a kid's show, which seems no more likely to happen this century than in the last.
 * 6) A rather specific scenario that ship-teases Mikey with Renet without risking his relationship with LH.  Mikey could feel genuine attraction and infatuation for Renet, but feel reluctant to form a romantic relationship with her, and may not even fully understand his own reluctance.  And Renet could complicate it by being even more interested in Mikey.  Cue a lot of romantic comedy moments with real chemistry, and Mikey having to do some serious soul-searching in ways he's never had to do before, and ultimately deciding he feels most at home and most at peace in the arms of his big green buddy.  I call this the "Mindy Simmons" scenario. :) If Mikey and LH hadn't formalized their relationship yet (Mikey is innocent enough that their entire relationship may be based on chemistry and instinct and they never saw fit to define it), they may formalize it then.

And now for something random. :) It fit better with my previous post draft, but I lost most of it when I accidentally hit "Back" on my browser. I decided to write a different post this time, but here's the bonus material anyway: "Leatherhead visits the lair."