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Gilgameshkun wrote: To be honest, I hope he doesn't get new henchmen. The henchmen he's got aren't getting enough character development between them as it is. It's not just heroes that should be interesting&mdash;villains should be interesting too.

I mean, remember how much they built up Bradford in season 1? Oroku Saki's most promising discipline, who the Shredder did as much as possible to shape in his own image. Then how much all the repeat failures weighed on him. Bradford was a villain who angsted, and that made him sympathetic (though still evil). But now in season 3, Bradford may was well be "mook #4" or something. Becoming Rahzar made him a better ninja, but a flatter character.

Same with Steranko and Zeck. They were interesting when they had an agenda of their own. Since they became Shredder's eager new henchmen within minutes of mutating, they've become incredibly uninteresting. The mutation was okay, but now they have nothing really going for them in the character development department.

The only henchman whose character development I've liked this season, has been Xever, and only because Meet Mondo Gecko made him more complex and strangely easier to "hate" without actually being easier to hate as a plot character, if that makes sense. He's not just the run-of-the-mill criminal jerk&mdash;he exploits children. That's a whole new level of evil for him, and it actually made him more interesting (in a gritty unsavory way).

I'm not as disappointed with Baxter's lack of character development this season, mainly because he was never that interesting a character to begin with. He's been more the comic relief of villains in this series&mdash;a huge change from the darkly sociopathic terrorist he was in Mirage.

Tiger Claw started out totally dangerous and badass. And...he's about the same as he was when he was introduced. With him, it's just going to be hard to make him seem more dangerous and more badass than he already was to begin with. The only way to make him more interesting, I think, is to give him an agenda of his own that will conflict with Shredder's.

I respect your opinion and I think an look back and think that now, Rahzar should have been a different character and I think because he Double Mutated, the creators thought there was no need to give him focus (Which is obviously what WE want like what they did with Fishface in Meet Mondo Gecko and Baxter in The Lonely Mutation of Baxter Stockman) and if Bradford had stayed as Dogpound, he may have had an episode like Meet Mondo Gecko!