Talk:Leatherhead (1987 TV series)/@comment-44256337-20191027230324/@comment-995426-20191029124250

Leatherhead (IDW) is a clear-cut anti-villain, always portrayed sympathetically. Practically everyone who knows him has sympathy for him, even if they're fighting against him. The Turtles, Hob, the Neutrinos, perhaps even some of the more compassionate Utroms. Lots of IDW characters have a ton of PTSD baggage, but Leatherhead's puts most of theirs to shame. Given the chance, he's still capable of his own random acts of kindness, but he's only ever shown this kindness to non-mutant animals.

1987 Leatherhead is a cheap knockoff of Leatherhead (Archie), lazily rewritten as a villain. 1987 did the same thing with, , and , also lazily rewritten knockoffs of Archie's original versions of , ,  and , though in fairness 1987 Mondo was only villainous at first, and Archie Slash also initially started as a villain but at least was never so lazily written as one. When 1987 also wanted to adapt Archie's, Archie TMNT's creative team, who were actually with Mirage Studios itself, forbade 1987 from adapting Ray, too. So what did 1987 do? They developed a mutant fish character named anyway, probably because they were already too far into development, but they were forced to drastically change his appearance so he didn't resemble the Archie version anymore. Again, 1987 Ray was also lazily written as a villain.