Something I really like about Raph and Leo’s relationship is that Raph noticeably doesn’t hold back with Leo nearly as much as he does with Donnie and Mikey, and it’s really nice to see that from him.
Leo too would frequently fall into a natural strategist and second-in-command role of sorts, often actually giving his worries and thoughts to Raph where he wouldn’t normally.
Then the Shredder happens and this dynamic is thrown into a loop where they both stay solidly in their own camps of “we’re heroes, it’s our duty” and “we’re teens, who cares?” And during this, Raph not holding back from Leo is cranked up to an eleven and Leo flips around to mask more with Raph than he ever had before and deliberately riles Raph up so that fights are all but guaranteed.
Post-invasion, it’s clear they’re (mostly) back to how they were before for the most part, with an added level of respect and maturity (and trauma) there too, and it’s great to see because they’re an amazing duo when they’re on the same wavelength.
I can so see nancy dragging them into high-risk situations that her instincts lead her too (and robin is fully aware it’s a bad idea and is simultaneously intrigued and terrified for nancy) and robin both complaining and still deliberating and building off of nancy’s ideas and throwing them back to her with a new, fresh set of details, making them even stronger.
They complete each other. Nancy has the base of the plan and the idea, and Robin seems to meet her halfway, challenging and providing another perspective without refuting her base concept. They’re both so smart but in different ways.
the bechdel test was invented so that you can be just as mad as i am that this scene somehow does not end with sophie pinning parker against the pillar of the gazebo and making out with her while parker grabs her ponytail. like i know that sophie's last line is alluding to hardison but are you FUCKING kidding me