I'm tired of Leo and Raph always having a major fight in the movies. They need to come up with something else.
I guess the writers always go for Leo vs. Raph because they have the strongest personalities and presence on screen and it’s inevitable that two such dominant personalities will clash. However, it would be nice to see something different for a change. I know the IDW comics are showing some consternation between Leo and Donnie, which is a nice change of pace.
Still, I think Leo vs. Raph is inevitable, mostly because Raph feels things really strongly and shows those feelings but Leo, although he is compassionate and kind, doesn’t really feel things to that extreme and he also doesn’t express himself like Raph does. Raph and Leo are alike in many ways, but how they express themselves emotionally is where I think they majorly differ and where a lot of the irritation between them stems from.
Leo is a very orderly, by-the-book guy; he would sacrifice his own feelings in order to get the job done. Raph is chaotic and impulsive; he would sacrifice the job in order to save someone he loves. That’s the big difference between them, what they are individually willing to sacrifice. They hold different levels of worth; Leo considers Splinter’s orders/the mission more important whereas Raph considers his feelings/friends more important. That is NOT to say Leo doesn’t value those things—he does, but in a different way than Raph. Leo can separate his feelings from his duty, which is something Raph just can’t do. Raph is more easily hurt/offended by things than Leo is. Leo is the type to brush things off and not let them affect him, but Raph is like an open wound, and when he hurts, he hurts. And that’s just how some people are. Some are more sensitive, some are hard as stone. And I think that’s something neither Raph nor Leo can understand about one another—why doesn’t this affect him like it’s affecting me, why can’t he see how important this is, etc.
So I guess what I’m getting at is, even though I also think their fighting has been way overdone, it’s something that’s true to their characters and something that feels out of place when it’s gone, or at least it does to me.
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