What are some things in the story that would be different if slash didn’t die?
The Mutanimals would still be a team…
Rockwell and Pete wouldn’t be missing. Leatherhead would still be able to walk and help fight the good fight. Mona would still have the team who accepted her when she relocated to Earth and wouldn’t feel so alone. (she values her friendship with Terri, but still she misses how things were.) Muckman wouldn’t be hiding away in The Slums with the other Feral Mutants down there.
And Mondo would still have them as a family.
But it wouldn’t have been ALL good.
After Casey, Leo, and Mikey were captured and sold, The Mutanimals would have helped search for them, leading to Raph avoiding his whole “Mercenary” Arc. Leo and Casey would have been saved sooner…
But with Mikey it would’ve been different. After all he was pretty unrecognizable after what happened, and his powers? The Mutanimals would suddenly be a lot more wary around him and start to drift away from the Turtles because of that. Dr. Rockwell would especially have argued Mikey was now too unstable and dangerous, leading to the Turtles snapping back at him and the Mutanimals that agreed with the chimp that they didn’t know what they were talking about and that was their little brother. Then shit would have REALLY hit the fan and the Mutanimal team would have started to tear each other apart from what to do about this young turtle who once loved pizza and parties…but now was an emotionless entity with unpredictable powers and little hesitation to kill people.
In the end, the story would have led to the Mutanimals and the Turtles severing their alliance and the relationship being strained at best. Mona would eventually choose Raph over her team and leave the team, along with Leatherhead, (because cmon, there’s no way Leatherhead would tolerate his teammates treating Mikey like a monster like how he had been treated by others.) but with Mondo it would definitely be more of a challenging scenario for him. Mikey is his best friend who saved his life, but what he saw about Mikey’s powers were true, and he deeply trusts Slash and what he has to say, so who knows how that would go…
