User blog comment:TMNTInsider/I'm Hoping Tiger Claw Will Join the Mutanimals Later Because.../@comment-995426-20151212182315

This has long already been noticed. In fact, I suspect they changed his name to "Tiger Claw" because: I honestly don't know what the showrunners intend to do with Tiger Claw. For the most part in season 3, he's been a wasted character. It may end up being that the introduce yet another minion of the Shredder, and the existing minions will fade even more into the background as Bradford and Xever have already done long ago.
 * 1) "Old Hob" is another word for "the devil."  Considering the show has already conspicuously tried to avoid demonic themes by rewriting Savanti Romero from a  to a, it makes sense they'd consider it a safer bet to avoid other demonic themes that bible belt parents might complain about.
 * 2) When they made him a tiger, the name "Hob" could have been considered too close to "Hobbes," and they may have wanted to avoid brushing up too close to the owners of .  This is also why the Terror Bears became the Dream Beavers&mdash;because of the Terror Bears were more blatant evil parodies of the .   From what I understand, they don't necessarily make these decisions because someone would have sued&mdash;it's mainly on the advice of lawyers, again as a safer bet to avoid the possibility of a lawsuit, and to bring less complication to merchandising, future syndication, etc.  It seems Playmates tends not to make toys of comic book and RPG characters.

However, I'm really liking the kinds of character development IDW has been investing in Amazing Adventures. They've already been revisiting past characters and developing them more, including Slash, Pigeon Pete and even the tea-drinking little girl. This makes it more hopeful the comic will revisit other characters the TV show has largely forgotten or neglected, including Tiger Claw. And it would also certainly be nice if Timothy finally stopped being a piece of furniture.