Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20170707062639/@comment-995426-20170707091257

Well, okay, I'll admit 2012 Shredder was designed pretty badass, and he fairly well encapsulated the character template's destructive single-minded obsession with revenge...but his dialogue and character development were as wooden as a fence post. It was even worse to be one of 2012 Shredder's henchmen&mdash;that's where character development went to die a one-dimensional death. IDW was...so-so&mdash;more supernaturally evil across multiple lifetimes rather than individually driven to revenge. The way Kitsune was actually trying to groom him to become a vessel of makes him interesting in an altogether different way. But 1987 Shredder is by far the single weakest-written version of the character&mdash;he's more like a cheap knockoff who was never threatening or badass, like a joke character.

As for Krang (who was never a Mirage character in his own right), the 1987 version was the weakest version of that character too. At least Archie was actually explicitly a warlord, and IDW  fleshed out the warlord formula even more, giving him drive and motivation and made him both sympathetic and a true monster. But overall, there are Utrom characters I like more, like Professor Obligado. I'm still waiting for more Obligado stories, and yet instead of that, we get multiple crossover stories involving the weakest-written version of Krang.