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Day 21: Favorite Shredder

It was a fight trying to figure out which Shredder to draw and an even bigger one just trying to figure out a pose for him. Nonetheless he has arrived.

You know something? We don’t really have much of a backstory on Ch’rell.

I mean I know most 2000s villains, especially animated villains, don’t have a backstory and sometimes they don’t need one, some of them are just straight up mean just because they can be. (Have you seen the narcissists in the world? Some of them are just build that way.)

However I would like to know what made Ch’rell here such a big threat to the Utroms in the first place. Like I’ve noticed on different occasions that he’s intelligent as hell, smart enough to figure out how to operate a whole exo suit before one of the inventors of the exo suit did so. He’s able to be charismatic enough to pass as a human for centuries, definitely gaslit a whole lot of people to his whim (and April’s poor shop), and then there’s the special case of Karai. What did he see in her to keep her? Was it a publicity stunt to adopt Karai in order to maintain a good reputation or did he actually see something in her that he felt kindred to and decided to have her as a safeguard for his legacy on Earth while he conquered the stars?

This Ch’rell character honestly needs some unpacking just as much as the 2012 and 87 versions of Shredder do.

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Day 21: Favorite Shredder

It was a fight trying to figure out which Shredder to draw and an even bigger one just trying to figure out a pose for him. Nonetheless he has arrived.

You know something? We don’t really have much of a backstory on Ch’rell.

I mean I know most 2000s villains, especially animated villains, don’t have a backstory and sometimes they don’t need one, some of them are just straight up mean just because they can be. (Have you seen the narcissists in the world? Some of them are just build that way.)

However I would like to know what made Ch’rell here such a big threat to the Utroms in the first place. Like I’ve noticed on different occasions that he’s intelligent as hell, smart enough to figure out how to operate a whole exo suit before one of the inventors of the exo suit did so. He’s able to be charismatic enough to pass as a human for centuries, definitely gaslit a whole lot of people to his whim (and April’s poor shop), and then there’s the special case of Karai. What did he see in her to keep her? Was it a publicity stunt to adopt Karai in order to maintain a good reputation or did he actually see something in her that he felt kindred to and decided to have her as a safeguard for his legacy on Earth while he conquered the stars?

This Ch’rell character honestly needs some unpacking just as much as the 2012 and 87 versions of Shredder do.