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Are we to assume Charles feels the coin kill Shaw?

I'd just through Charles was pleading with Erik not to kill again, but damn, that adds a whole new horrifying layer to this!

He needs to stay connected to Shaw because otherwise Shaw will immediately kill Erik, and Charles can't live with that. So he pleads with Erik, even though he knows he can't hear him.

And I'd misread this as it getting harder for Charles to keep Shaw still when he was fighting for his life, but nooooo... he's psyching himself up to endure what's coming.

But nothing can prepare him for what it feels like to have a coin slice through the mind he is linked with.

Damn that's dark! I mean what the hell must that feel like. And he has to keep holding on to Shaw until he's dead - he can't let go.

And he had to, through Shaw's eyes, watch his friend do it to him.

Invaders #4 - “War Ghosts IV” (2019) |  Fantastic Four #4 - “The Coming of… Sub-Mariner!“ (1962)

History of the Marvel Universe #3 (2019)

Tales of the Marvels: Inner Demons (1996)

Fantastic Four: Season One (2012)

I feel like it's always a guarantee that Wally and iris would hate him but what about the rest? Who would want to throw him to the curb and who would want to keep him around to try and help him?

HATE as in "We don't kill, but for HIM that is an exception" - Iris 100%. The only thing Iris has ever felt for that boy is pure loathing and disgust and had zero remorse after learning what Wally did to him. If she wasn't absolutely terrified of changing history or altering the timeline she probably would have found a way to kill him in the tank before he was even born.

EXTREME dislike, hate, loathing, will NOT talk to or be friendly with in the slightest it is a FIGHT on sight - Jay, Wally and Bart. They won't murder him, but they will turn him into a living statue and break his legs before using him as a projectile weapon and not feel bad about it at all. But they won't kill him. They don't want to open their homes to him, they don't want to forgive him. The threshold for talking is done the second Thad actually succeeded in killing Bart. It's done.

Dislike, but is willing to open a dialogue - Max. He doesn't trust him and is extremely cautious of him. He tried hard to get him to abandon his quest for murder in the Speed Force, but there was no future Thad wanted with Max that also had Bart in it. Max knows what he is capable of, what he wants, and what he WILL do. Thad saw the alternative life he could have had and denied it. Still... Max is old, has seen things and done things himself, and while he is not a perfect man or a perfect mentor for teens, he knows when someone has been damaged so he's willing to talk to him if necessary.

Cautious, but willing to try to help him - Barry. Everyone hates him for it but Barry doesn't have any solid emotional ties to Bart (despite what Impulse 1995 implied and that is a "do with what you will" scenario), so knowing what he did doesn't impact him as much as the others. I know you hated reading that, but it is fact. He loves Bart but he just doesn't KNOW him or have a real bond with him. He's dealt with clones killing loves ones before, he's murdered before as a response to it, but Thad is a child soldier. This is going into headcanon territory but it wouldn't be unbelievable for Barry to believe that he is partially responsible for the feud the Thawne line carried into the 30th century because he murdered Eobard - thus he helped create Thad in the first place, and was unintentionally at fault for the murder of his own children. It's unfair and a lot to put on that blonde man but it's not unbelievable. So he takes on Thad, to redeem him, to redeem himself, because it might be the "right" thing to do for a person that had clearly been created without love or even a care for his autonomy. Everyone is unhappy, Iris is betrayed, Bart feels even more betrayed because why does his murderer get to bond more with Barry than he ever did? 🙃

Bonus

Total oblivious but takes the kid in and only puts two and two together years later and by then it's too late - John Fox. Look, he does have records of history but it's still pretty spotty. But he found this gremlin somewhere in the 4700s stranded and offered to take him home to the 853rd century and Thad just.... stayed there. It's pretty quiet and it's not at all bad being one of three speedsters and no one is trying to kill you on sight. When John finds out it's been years and he hasn't DONE anything other than snap at Impulse One Million, who snapped back at him. <- entirely headcanon

Note: this is for the COMICS and the comics alone, no other form of media. This is also taking into consideration current canon with FMA and Thad's ultimate goal in Mercury Falling - to kill Bart, specifically.

Reaching Enlightenment - Compy

I thought a Renaissance-ish composition for this would be funny. Mikey has to be held down lest he consume all.

Lines under the cut!

I mean he:

Gets his home invaded by the Kraang

Has to abandon his Master Splinter to lead his brothers away from danger

Gets separated from his brothers during an alien invasion

Gets jumped by the footbots, Shredder’s henchmen men, and the Shredder himself while separated from his brothers.

Fights tooth and nail to get away, ends up slipping and taking a plunge into cold water, and then gets shredded by the shredder

Is finally flung through the window and is knocked out cold

Is in a coma for THREE MONTHS because of this incident

Wakes up with NYC effectively taken over by aliens, Master Splinter is MIA (possibly dead in his mind), has an absolutely shattered knee (F- the ‘it’s all in my head’ crap), and he can’t even recognize his own voice.

AND on top of ALL THAT. He has to go through all the creepy/weird stuff (which was basically just horror movie plot after horror movie plot) that happened during the farm arc while recovering from his injuries.

Did we even watch the same show? He’s not a caring, big brother? He’s a stick in the mud?

The only thing I’ll give you is that he’s full of himself… because he’s an idiot teenager with badass fighting skills and weapons. Of course he’s gonna be a cocky little shit. Most people with Leo’s skill would be.

I’m going to assume that you mean part of the time he’s full of himself. But if you mean all the time, then I’ll correct you there. More often than not, he is actually very insecure— a very common trait among the Leonardo’s.

“Maybe I shouldn’t be leading the team?”

“It’s all my fault. I let the guys down!”

“I don’t think I’ll ever be the same again”

“I’d just hold you back. You guys train, I’ll watch. It’s all I’m good for anyway…”

“I’m a liability to the whole team”

“I won’t be much help out there anyway”

Leo is a perfectionist and this shows in the way he leads— coming across as bossy or arrogant— and how he treats himself. The guy just got out of a three-month coma after he had the shit kicked out of him and what does he say when he’s by himself after everyone else went to look for Raph in the woods?

He holds himself to impossibly high standards— both placed by himself and some of the misguided lessons he was taught.

Alright, now for the stick in the mud part. Leo is a fucking dork (I mean this in the most affectionate sense). He loves Space Heroes to the point where he quotes it during missions. He likes puns, is fascinated by Japan culture, martial arts, meditation, etc. He trains very hard to excel at ninjutsu/martial arts— both so he can help his brothers in combat and because it’s a passion of his. That doesn’t make him boring in the slightest. He has some of the most ridiculous dialogue throughout the series:

“Alright guys. Let’s put Old Mother Hubbard back in her cupboard!”

“Hello!? Space Heroes!? Captain Ryan! Didn’t you see the episode where they fought the Cortexecons?!”

“Awesome! Oh, this is so rad! I feel like Van Helsing, but way cooler than him, actually. Way more rad than Van Helsing”

“Alright guys, prepare to dish out the mighty wrath of justice!”

“We don’t know he’s gonna do anything bad. He could be on his way… to… church!”

“I… don’t really have a pinky?”

He can’t lie for shit which leads to him saying silly things:

“Be cool. Be cool.” *answers phone* “uh.. hey man! What’s… what’s going down? *Raph says the better have not watched the Crognard finale without him and Leo laughs nervously* W-who, us?! Of course not! But I bet if we did watch it, we would have found it anti-climate… climactic!”

*gets asked by Chloe if there’s other turtles like him* “Nope! Uh-uh! Just me! Mr. Imaginary Talking Turtle!”

“He’s just kidding, Mrs. O’Neil. Kirby’s…uh.. on a.. safari! In Puerto Rico! And he won’t be back for a while.”

And he’s not the goody-two shoes and suck up people think of him as. He has gone behind Splinter’s back on several occasions, snuck out both willingly and unwillingly. The guy dressed and black and caused petty crime with his sister and her girlfriend Shinigami because he was pissed off at Shredder.

As for not being a caring brother. You mean this guy?! This Leo?! ⬇️

Couldn’t be this Leo, right? There’s no way he’s a mother hen— being both doting and getting after his brothers.

“Don’t talk with your mouth full!”

“Mikey, you never cease to amaze me”

“Leo never left your side” — April when Raph was reduced to a mere plant by The Creep

“I’m sorry about Spike, Raphael.”

“Donnie, don’t lose sight of who you are!”

“Nice job, D”

“Donnie, the go karts worked great. Nice job!”

“Mikey, come on! It’s not that bad! And Raph promises not to make fun of you anymore.”