Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-16581186-20151227004739/@comment-995426-20160124140258

Trigger and The S, sure.

You realize there are a variety of reasons they just didn't adapt Traximus directly.
 * 1) They could be taking a lot more liberties with this character, and wanted a clean new template.
 * 2) Traximus could belong to a writer and the rights to that character weren't part of the sale of TMNT to Viacom.
 * Or, more likely, they avoided Traximus himself because his name was a blatant play on Maximus from the movie Gladiator&mdash;Tr(iceraton) + (M)aximus. The 2003 TV series made frequent use of pop culture references, but have you noticed the 2012 TV series makes practically zero pop culture references of any kind?  Probably a difference with Nickelodeon's legal department going to even greater lengths not to get too close on anyone else's properties or risk having to pay actual royalties or court expenses (now or later) for referencing them.

So, it may very well be the case that Zeno is a reimagined version of the same character template as Traximus. But it's a different thing entirely to say he is Traximus. Traximus was a well-liked character in the 2003 TV series&mdash;if they went to the effort of completely avoiding that name, they almost surely had a reason for it.