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Gilgameshkun wrote: Okay, fun improbable idea time! :D Let's say 2K12's "City at War" did try to follow something resembling the Mirage story. These ideas spoil Mirage's version, so I'm continuing the spoiler tag.


 * The lair is totally destroyed, perhaps flooded by the storm surge of a hurricane, and the turtles with Splinter move temporarily into April's place, and then into a watertower to make April's place less of a target.
 * Raph runs off and moves in with his boyfriend. Chompy Picasso is not some damn replacement goldfish for Spike/Slash. Give us some more of that season 2 sexual tension, bro!
 * April and Donnie finally start dating, and Casey finds a young woman of his own named Gabrielle. Casey is already 18, and they get married.
 * We finally see April's never-seen aunt and Casey's never-seen dad and sister.
 * Tiger Claw overthrows the Shredder for trying to destroy the world. But Bradford, Xever, Steranko and Zeck won't accept Tiger Claw's leadership, and they go on their own and resume competing criminal enterprises of their own.
 * Casey and Gabrielle die horribly, and Gabrielle's new baby Shadow is adopted by April and Donnie to raise as their daughter.

Seriously though, half-joking aside, City at War is considered perhaps the finest of all TMNT storylines ever written. Any adaptation of it necessarily demands a very high standard of quality in writing and execution, and especially in drama (it was very much decidedly not a comedy). A 2K12 version of City at War would have to more than surpass the best stories 2K12 has already done, including The Alien Agenda, Karai's Vendetta and Slash and Destroy. And this announcement comes right after 2K12 had its half-season from hell, so bad I can't even rewatch the reruns of what I did see. The production team better be one hell of a houdini. Honestly though, I think the fact that she coughed up the brainworm may just be forshadowing that we may get a happy ending for Karai.