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hatterladz · 3 months

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Fuck it deranged "I just woke up" character analysis

I think it's interesting that in the movie it feels like Leo is more determined to NOT be serious whereas in the series, despite being lazy, he was also (mostly) the most reasonable

A lot of ppl believe Leo was doing this to shirk responsibilities of being a leader (which while I do think is VERY possible, don't think was what was happening)

Considering how much at the beginning Leo pushes "we defeated the Shredder" I believe it was moreso "We just underwent a very traumatic event the last thing I wanna do is start training and getting strict with things"

Rise Leo shirking responsibility? Possibly, but with how much he prevents his brothers from biting off more then they can chew and how integral "why does nobody trust me?" is apart of his character? Harder for me to believe

Him avoiding serious "hero" work bc he went through a traumatic event and as he does so it's repeated "its not about you" when he decides to be selfish and tries to just have fun instead? Far more likely, it's also interesting that Raph never tells Leo "when are you going to be a leader" leadership isn't really ever mentioned in the movie

Just Raph saying "when are you going to take things seriously", I also think Mikey and Donnie aren't really on anyone's side, afterall they're participating in Leo's shenanigans at the beginning, they're the ones participating in the "you said heroes" game, breaking the pizza record

But at the same time now Donnie has Donnie Pods, which is assumably after Shredder's attack (unfortunately we don't have a clue what Mikey might've been doing before the Kraang, but I'm assuming since Leo is the one getting bitched at the most, Mikey was doing some training as well), they have taken some things seriously, more then Leo, but not to the degree Raph is

Anyway but imagine trying to avoid thinking about how everyone you love nearly died and trying to just enjoy time with them while you can and prove that things are going to be okay, there won't be another Shredder only to fuck up so badly that there's something worse then Shredder, and so you go "I can fix it look this future guy says I can fix it he's supporting me" *falls in a hole* *gets told he sucks* "Nvm I guess I don't got this!"

I think this also supported by how Raph mentions trying to prevent your team from getting hurt and the change of Leo's face only to IMMEDIATELY goad Raph into a fight

#rottmnt #rottmnt leonardo #character analysis #rottmnt movie #Anyway I also think Casey did Leo a little dirty #Mostly bc ya Leo was being a shit but Casey was 100% supporting him the whole time #Not a doubt in that kid's mind #He never showed doubt about listening to his team when it ACTUALLY mattered #Instead he blows up and screams at him after they got chased and fell and things went horribly #He was apart of the problem but he blamed Leo #Also kinda bugs me that Leo immediately checks on Casey to see if he's okay and if he's injured #But when Leo's ribs are presumably fucked Casey just yells at him #Yes Leo needed that talk but 1. Ur part of the problem you've been actively encouraging it the whole movie #And 2. Not the time dude he can't even get up properly bc of whatever injury he has #But ya let's yell at him that he's self centered and that his brothers die NOW #That's a diff rant tho #Anyway tl;dr I think Leo's dealing with a bad case of “I don't wanna look at that messed up thing again”

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