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Easol1: What you seem to be failing to understand is that the suggestion does not imply that the characters as they currently exist are in any way "broken." Every rebooted version of a character has differences from their previous incarnations who are all fundamentally separate individuals. In the IDW TMNT continuity, when male Tatsu was rebooted as female Natsu, it did not mean that Tatsu was "broken"&mdash;it just meant that Natsu was a reimagined version of him as a woman. And gender flipped character reboots are not that uncommon: Starbuck and Boomer in Battlestar Galactica, Wilson and Moriarty in Elementary, and a woman (a woman of color, no less) has even recently been announced to be the next 007 in the James Bond series. If a character is rebooted as a different gender, then that character is not being changed or "fixed" in the new universe&mdash;it's how they are designed to be in that universe from the start. Though their design draws from a preexisting template, they are also a new and separate person.