Headscratchers / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge

• I know that it would've been more expensive to bring back ALL of the surviving actors, but isn't it a bit weird that Jim Cummings wasn't brought in to voice Shredder (a role he reprised the same year in both Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)) despite the game being called Shredder's Revenge?
  • Simply put... voice actors have their personal lives, too. Maybe Jim Cummings had been busy with projects of his own at the time of development, or he simply decided to reject the offer. Also, Jim voiced Shredder only for several episodes of the original cartoon; he doesn't count by virtue of being a temporary substitution.
• So why is Krang's android body in an arcade machine at the mall?
  • My guess is so it could serve as a power source for Tempestra so she could appear in the “real world.”
• As TMNT fanbase knows, the classic-era mutagen transforms ordinary people into anthropomorphic beasts (based on the last animal that touched the person last, ala Splinter, Bebop and Rocksteady) or enhances the animals to the human level (all Turtles). And yet, Shredder suffers quite an unorthodox transformation... staying as human, growing in size, getting even more spiky armor, and just plain receiving "magical" powers (Super-Speed, conjuring clones, forming protective barriers, shaping the body in grotesque ways). Why the mutagen is working on good ol' Shredhead in such a different way?
  • Because his mutation is based on the last thing he touched: his own armor. He’s basically mutating into an enhanced version of his armor.
  • Its not impossible for it to be some kind of modified or special batch. But mostly its because they cared more about homaging the second live action movie (and Super Shred's various appearances in past Konami games) than sticking to canon. Rule of Cool above all else.
  • Another possibility: if the subject hasn't been in contact with another organism for a while (a pure organism, not something else that's mutated), their mutation will be some random effect, as seen with Muck Man and Joe Eyeball in the 1987 cartoon and in other continuities like 2012's Mutagen Man.