Transfomers Movie Autobots

I decided to split my Transformers article about the live-action movies love for obscured characters. The 1st part was about the main villains.

The later parts will go over the other characters. I should let you guys know that Hasbro(the company that runs Transformers) has recycle character names. You can see a character in the Unicron Trilogy or Animated that has the exact name as a G1 character but there is barely a resemblance to the G1 character. It doesn't mean they're a re-imagined character, they're simple a name that Hasbro has a copyright to and recycle the name. This was common before and after the TF movies. Half the cast in the movies were simply original characters whose name was reused from an earlier source.

The 2007 Autobot cast is Optimus, Bumblebee, Ratchet, Ironhide and Jazz. These are well known G1 characters and their personalities are similar.

Believe it or not, the 2007 movie was actually the closest we got to G1 at the time. All the other shows at the time mainly had Optimus, Megatron, Starscream, and a whole bunch of original characters. There may of been one or two that was a re-imagined character, but for the most part, it's a cast of orginals. So yes, a Micheal Bay movie was the most faithfully to G1 at the time. Otherwise the cast be Optimus, Hot Shot, Red Alert, Rhinox, and Rapid Run.

Now for the 2nd movie Autobots, starting with is the three Acrees.

Acree is based on the token female good bot of the original show. She was intended to be in 1st movie as a single character but scrapped late in development. She reappeared with two others. Some say she's one bot whose conscience is split into three. Others say it's three separate bots who mind were linked due to an experiment.

There's Sideswipe. Sideswipe was the cool lambo in G1 with little screentime to the cool car on roller skates with little screentime.

Wheelie was an annoying rhymer in G1, who have no resemblance to Megan Fox's leg humper. G1 Wheelie was the most hated character at the time. So this horny guy is kinda of an upgrade.

One character is Jolt. For those wonder who Jolt was, he was the guy that help Optimus and Jetfire combine at the end of the movie. 

This is all you see of Jolt in the entire movie. He didn't even have a line.

 Jetfire was a former Decepticon turned Autobot in the original, in the movie, more or less the same thing but re-imagined as an old geezer.

The idea of Jetfire and Optimus combining is actually from the 2002-03 series called Armada.(The Jetfire in that series is also different from G1)

Their combined form

The twins were original characters that Micheal Bay made up. So yes, you guys can blame it on him. Skids and Mudflap are actual reused names from previous series but that doesn't matter.

Discussing the 3rd movie now. The Autobots have Que, Dino, and the Wreckers. 

The Wreckers(the Nascars) are a special forces/commando unit in the comics.  In the movies, they got beer bellies, caps, mullets, and sunglasses. Yes, they were designed to look like the stereotype of Nascar fans.

Que/Wheeljack

Dino/Mirage

Que and Dino are sort of G1 characters. They were called Wheeljack and Mirage in development but a last minute change cause their names to be changed. Que/Wheeljack is the inventor of the group which is fitting but they made him look like Einstein. Dino/Mirage didn't have a Italian accent in G1.

This is Brains and he isn't based on anyone.

Now with the 4th movie, Crosshairs is originally made character.  There's technically a G1 character with the same name but it's a very lesser known one and from what little I know of him, he's not really connected to this guy.

Hound is in G1 and he was a nature lover army jeep. In the movie, he is an overweight cigar smoking redneck voice by John Goodman. Big difference there.

Drift, the samurai bot is technically a G1 character, just not from the 80s. He was made in the late 2000s in the comics.

G1 Drift wields samurai blades and has colors of the rising sun. I don't think you can accuse Bay on this one for making ethnic stereotypes

The Dinobots are a popular group of characters. They are the Autobot's muscle. In some versions, they are the dumb comic relief. In others, they oppose Optimus' rules and make their own when battling Decepticons. Sadly they don't show up till the last 10 minutes of the 4th movie and they have even less screentime in the 5th one.

Now the 5th movie

Hot Rod is this young punk kid with end's up with Optimus' Matrix and turns into Rodimus Prime and becomes the leader of the Autobots after Optimus' passing,...or until Optimus comes back from the dead next season.

The movie's version gives him a French accent and he's not a major character in any sort of way. I seriously doubt he's going to be the leader of the Autobots.

This Ninja Robo Butler named Cogman is an original character. He's says he's a Headmaster. Basically he transforms into a head that connects to a Transformers body.

Sqweeks is an original character.

Version 2.0 of Obscured Transformers characters.

I went ahead and updated an old article I did about Transformers movies and it's weird love for obscured characters.

I added new characters from The Last Knight and clean up a few things. I wanted to mostly focus on the main villains in each film and took away all the side characters. I may make another article of the side characters at some point.


Here's the link to the old article. Enjoy!!!

You Will Cry!!! 2016 Part 2

Here's a list of me poking fun at movies from the later half of 2016. I joked to friends who annoy me and I said back to them I'm going to drag them to the theaters and torture them into seeing these. Sometimes it's because the movie is bad, sometimes to poke fun at the noobish reactions, sometimes it's something else. Enjoy

I'm going to make you watch the new Ghostbusters...

Note- This movie is very controversial for a dozen reasons. If you like the movie, that's fine. You don't like the movie, that's fine, it's your opinion. Some people hate it because it's not the Ghostbusters 3 that people wanted over the decades. Some say it ruins the original movie. People mention the trailer is full of unfunny jokes. Some hate it because it's a cast full of females. People say that SJWs are running the movie and don't care about the actual quality of the movie. Some defend it because it's a cast of females and those who attack it are misogynist. Others don't care if the leads are female or not, a bad movie is simply a bad movie, regardless what the gender of the main cast is.

I really don't care. I barely remember when I saw the original movie when I was young and I have little to no interest in this one. All I know is this movie started a war all over the internet.

I'm fine with females having bigger roles in movies but if it's bad, it's simply a bad movie and I'm not going to defend just because who the main cast is. I don't hate Legend of Chun-Li because the lead is female, I don't like it because it's a boring movie that does the dark and gritty reboot all wrong and it barely resembles the game everyone loves.

Here's the trailer if anyone wants to see

1. You will Cry...That's it's a fast paced mindless action movie that sings to Beastie Boys' Sabotage. Well according to the 1st trailer.

2. That Sulu is gay.

3. That they are ripping off of Doctor Who...Seriously the joke of modern pop in the distance future being called "classical music" been done before. It's bad enough the Borg are ripoffs of the Cybermen. For shame Star Trek..For shame.

Note#1- The very 1st trailer looked very Un-Star Trek. It was widely hated by everyone. The actors in the movies say they didn't like the trailer either and said the movie is nothing like the trailer. Later trailers aired and didn't play like anything like the 1st one.

Fears completed faded once fans actually saw the movie in theaters.

Note#2- George Takei, the actor that played Sulu in the original series is gay. There been jokes over the years that Sulu is gay like the actor.

The new movie had him met up with his husband and daughter in one scene. 

George Takei wasn't happy and said that the creator of the franchise has never envision Sulu as gay. He said he rather have a new character to be gay rather than rewriting a pre-existing character. However the Sulu in the original universe is still straight, he's only gay in the new movies' universe.

Note#3- The song Sabotage was heard within the movie and the crew called it "Classical music". Doctor Who did it a joke several times. In the year 5 Billion, they called Britney Spears' Toxic as classical. Even in the Black and White era of Doctor Who, someone from centuries later called the Beatles music as classical.

Here's the 1st trailer if anyone wants to see

1. You will cry...That Will Smith had sex with Harley. Oh boy, Joker is going to be jealous.

2. That they killed off Slipknot.

Man, he was the best character in the movie. Why they kill him off.

3. That you barely saw Batman or the Flash.

4. Trying to figure out who is Incubus.

5. Joker is not the main villain/that he didn't have enough screentime/that he wasn't good enough

Note#1- Will Smith's character having sex with Harley is kinda true....but from a different movie. I only said that to my friends to tricking them thinking I was referring to the live-action one. There is an animated Suicide Squad movie that came out a few years before the actual live-action movie. The animated movie was a sort-of tie-in to the Batman Arkham games.

If you like, or hated the live-action movie. I still recommend this animated one. For those disappointed on the minimal screentime of both Batman and Joker, don't worry, they have a ton more.

Note#2- Soon they got the gang together, they introduce a guy called Slipknot. They say "He can climb anything." A few minutes later, one of the members of the squad told him that the bomb in his head is a fake. Slipknot automatically believes him and runs away, however the military in control of the squad activated his headbomb and he dies.

Slipknot is nothing more than a throwaway character to show how these bombs in their heads are real. Even in the comics, Slipknot is a minor forgettable character, so killing him off is no big deal.

However I do play up like he could of been the greatest character in the movie. If you didn't like Suicide Squad, I joke, "Well he could of been the one character that made the movie worth watching." I google some jokes of this guy and the internet jokes like he could take an army of Supermans.


Note#3- Well Batman and the Flash were nothing but cameos. Go watch Justice League if you want to see more of them. At least Flash's cameo isn't confusing like his unexplained time-travel visit to Bruce in Batman V Superman.

Note#4- I explain this in my other article, "DCEU's love for obscured characters." Incubus is obscurer than obscured. In all of the comics made by DC in all these decades, he only made 6 appearances ever. Even the most hardcore of hardcore DC fans didn't know who Incubus is.

Note#5- Well one of the most in anticipated things about the upcoming Suicide Squad movie was Joker being played by the famous singer, pretty boy, oscar winning actor known as Jared Leto. People wonder how he would hold up compare to Heath Ledger's famous take on the Joker.

He was featured in alot of trailers. Most people also thought the Joker would be the main villain in the actual movie but it was Enchantress and her bro. Aside from Harley Quinn's flashbacks of him, he only played a small part in the movie. The actor actually complain about about most of his scenes got cut, however even with extended cut released on DVD, he still had a small role in the movie.

Some people's opinions differ about the Joker. Some say he's great, some say he's terrible. Others said it doesn't matter because he didn't have enough screentime to left an impact.

Here's the trailer

I'm going to make you watch Max Steel. You will cry...when you see Max...is not a secret agent.


Note- In the 2000s there was a show called Max Steel. He was a extreme sports star/college kid who had a secret life as a nanobot-infused secret agent.

A decade later, the show was rebooted and aired on Disney XD. I only knew about it when I was channel surfing one day. I saw like 3 minutes of it. Max was different because he had a alien robot that fused with him as some sort of power armor during battle.

When trailer of the movie adaption came out, people of coursed complained. Saying it's unfaithful adaptation because it doesn't resemble the show they grew up with. Little did they know that the movie is based on the reboot they never heard of and not the original. I really don't care about the movie, I heard it wasn't good.

Here's the trailer

You will cry...That you barely saw or didn't notice that Johnny Depp or Ron Perlman were in the movie.

Note- It's uhh...The best I can come up with. Sorry readers but I'm not a hardcore Harry Potter fan. All I know is these two popular actors were barely in the movie.

Here's the trailer

I'm going to make you watch Star Wars: Rouge One...You will cry...That Kyle Katarn isn't in the movie.

Man, nobody came to see this to see these nobodies.

This is the guy that everyone wanted to see. So where is he?

You tell him Batman.

Note- The very 1st Star Wars movie's opening crawl said that Rebel spies have stolen the plans of the Death Star and gave them to Leia. This leads to the beginning of the movie of that flim.

The theft of the Death Star plans is an untold story that happen behind the scenes. At one point, there was a video game in the 90s called Dark Forces.

It was a Doom-clone with a Star Wars setting. The 1st mission for the game is Kyle Katarn is sent to steal the plans of the Death Star. Later missions happen some time after Episode 4 where he fights Dark Troopers. There been sequels where Kyle becomes a Jedi. Kyle Katarn wasn't exclusive to the games themselves, he appeared in novels, comics, etc. He was a member of Luke's Jedi Order and a major player in these events.

Then one day in 2012, George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney. Disney wanted to make new movies within a few years. However, there was a ton of stories that took place after Return of the Jedi. There be no way it would fit in it's timeline. So Disney decided that the entire Extended Universe(Every story outside of the 6 movies at the time and the TV show, Clone Wars), was wiped away and rebranded as Legends.

So the original timeline(that's outside of the movies) that was established was put into an alternate timeline while everything new be put into this brand new timeline.

When news that Rouge One is going to be the theft of the Death Star plans, people hope that Rouge One is a adaption of the classic video game.

Some fans were clinging to hope that the characters above were Kyle and his love interest, Jan Ors. The main heroine, Jyn Erso does sound similar to Jan Ors.

A month before the trailer of the movie came out, Grand Admiral Thrawn, who is a fan favorite from the original timeline, was now appearing in the TV show called Rebels. So if Thrawn is canon again, why not Kyle? However it was not the case. Rouge One is simply an original story that happens to be about the theft of the Death Star plans that happens behind the scenes before Episode 4.

Here's the trailer

1. You will cry...That the present day is the main focus and not Spanish Inquisition.

2. That it's not an adaptation and it's in the same canon of the games and that means you spoiled yourself of some Assassin's Creed game you have yet to play.

3. That Ezio Auditore da Firenze could of easily been in the movie but instead you get Arno from the glitchy AC game for a cameo.

4. That some characters from the AC games only had a cameo in a deleted scene.



Note#1- One problem of the movie is most of the movie is set in the present. The games story is a man gets hooked up to a machine to see his ancestors memories. Most of the present day events happens at the beginning and end of the game as well some minor breaks in the middle of the game after you complete a major story event. Majority of the games takes place in the past where you explore his ancestors and visit the Holy Land during the Crusades, Renaissance Italy, Colonial America, Caribbean in the age of pirates, etc.

Only a few scenes here and there are during the Spanish Inquisition while most of the movie focus on modern day. Can you imagine if the 90% of a game that focus on Desmond rather than his ancestors, fans would not be happy.


Note#2- I swear, I honesty thought this movie was an adaption of the games and this was an original story separate from the games. I only found out after I saw the movie that this is in the same timeline as the games. I didn't had an PS4 for the longest time, so I didn't play on any of the AC games that wasn't available on the PS3. For all I known, Jeremy Irons and his daughter may of referenced some event that happened to the Assassins in the Victorian England game or say that the recurring characters in present era, Rebecca and Shaun got killed or something.

Note#3- The games let you play an Assassin from different eras in history. The most popular character in the entire series is Ezio Auditore da Firenze.

Assassin's Creed 1 may of started the series but the one that kicked the series in high popularly was the 2nd game. Ezio was so popular that he got 2 more games about him, well more like the star of three major games. Ezio did have a lesser known 4th game that's actually important to explain why he could of been in the movie. There's the main games, and then there's the lesser known games. The lesser known games are on portable or cell phones. You can easily ignore those games and stick to main series without worrying what happens in those games.

There is a game on Nintendo DS called Assassin's Creed: Discovery. From what I heard, Ezio did visit Spain in 1492 during the Spain Inquisition and met up with Columbus. He could easily been in the movie.

And yet Arno, the guy from the infamous game called Unity makes a cameo. The game that started with hundreds of bugs. Sorry Ezio.

Note#4- There is a deleted scene where the main character looks at the prison inmates and they started to look like their ancestors. These ancestors are actual characters from the previous games.
Here's the deleted scene if you want to watch.

Here's the trailer if you want to watch

You will cry!!! 2016 Part 1

Here's a list of me poking fun at movies from 2016. I joked to friends who annoy me and I said back to them I'm going to drag them to the theaters and torture them into seeing these. Sometimes it's because the movie is bad, sometimes to poke fun at the noobish reactions, sometimes it's something else. Enjoy

No it's not an actual Valentine's movie.

But what are you talking about Chris. Look at this Banner. Check it.

I don't know who's hotter. Me or her. 

Anyways, it was a movie that simply aired near Valentine's Day that did had a romance subplot.

1.You will cry...when you see... Ryan Reynold's butt. Great, it's bad enough I had to see Hugh Jackman's in the other X-Men movies.

Now what's wrong with my butt. You know my fans want to see it.

You know my viewers on a piece of this.

2.That he killed Mario.
He deserved it.
Oh by the way viewers, he's not talking about a certain video game mascot.

3.Trying to figure out who the heck is Negasonic Teenage Warhead is
Let me guess, is she going to be on "Love for obscured characters" articles.
I doubt it.

4.That you took your kid to the movie. What!? You didn't see it's rated R. Shame on you.
Yeah, shame on you.



Let me guess, Chris is going to write his notes section like he does in all his You Will Cry articles.

Note#1-If you seen my other You Will Cry articles I did a running joke about Hugh Jackman's butt showing up alot. Now Ryan is doing it.

Yeah, Hugh is a nice guy but I didn't like his character's origin movie sewed my fudging mouth shut. Hey Chris, why I'm saying fudge instead of the other f-word?
Not on my blog.

Note#2- There was an April Fools joke that Mario Lopez was interviewing Ryan Reynolds and they are discussing that the movie is rated PG-13. Out of nowhere, Deadpool kills him.

Check out my drawing I did after I smash his head. Don't worry Jessie, Slater won't mess with you anymore.

Note#3-Negasonic Teenage Warhead is a very obscured character. The people behind the Deadpool movie like the name of the character so much, that they made her as one of the main characters of that movie.

No kidding. That's coolest name ever.

Note#4- There are parents out there thinking this movie should be for kids since he is a costumed hero. They tried to asked the studio to make a PG-13 version. It didn't work

Well see ya Chris. Good luck with the rest of the article. Oh by way, I heard in one of your Dodgeball Universe stories that you killed off a knockoff of my DC comic counterpart in that Magic Mike parody. It's funny that he's undercover as a male stripper.

Here's the trailer of the movie if you want to see

You will cry...That's it's full of white people. Since when were the ancient Egyptians looked this white.

Note-This movie is very controversial due to the lack of Egyptian actors.

I'm surprised no one complain about Brendan Fraser's Mummy.

Here's the trailer if anyone wants to see

1. Oh great. It's going to be bad as the other one.

2. You will cry...That it's not connected to the other Cloverfield.

*Warning Major Spoilers!! Skip to the next entry.*

3.That you don't see the aliens till the last 10 minutes.



Note#1-My opinion on this movie is greatly different compare to the original Cloverfield. I have mention on the "Another Prequel" on the "You Will Cry" series about the original one. 15 long minutes of watching kids getting drunk and worry about relationship drama with no build up of the actual monster. It can set people off.

The 2nd Cloverfield isn't about a Kaiju(Giant Monster) attacking a city. It's about a woman who got abducted and imprisoned in a cellar.


Note#2- It's not a sequel/prequel/sidequel to the other Cloverfield, it takes place in a different universe. However it does have some minor connections. Cloverfield woke up because a satellite fell on his head. John Goodman said he works on satellites and he is part of the same company that the jealous loverboy who got a job in Japan. The two different Cloverfields do have similar mythos.


Note#3-*Spoiler warning* When I saw the last 10 minutes, I joked, "Yep, it's a Cloverfield movie. You don't see the aliens till after waiting a long hour." However the movie isn't about the main character fighting aliens. It's about escaping the cellar. John Goodman imprisoned her to protect her from whatever is attacking. He was kinda right but he is a monster that isn't safe to be around.


Here's the trailer

1. Seriously, them fighting? That's the stupidest concept ever. Is Hollywood trying to be lazy and make a movie like Freddy vs Jason. Also Batman would die easily if he fought him.


2. That Ben Affleck is cast as Bruce Wayne/Batman.

Seriously, Ben Affleck is a terrible choice. I mean voice sounds nothing like Christian Bale. It's not funny enough. Imagine this line done by Bale shouting.
He has the power to wipe out the entire human race, and if we believe there's even a one percent chance that he is out enemy we have to take it as an absolute certainty... and we have to destroy him.

3. Jesse Eiserburg as Lex Luthor.

And we're not saying that because he's the only one in the pic with hair

4. That Batman kills.

5. That Batman and Superman suddenly stop fighting and become friends, simply because their mothers have the same name.

Even Deadpool did a parody of that scene while fighting the Punisher.

6. That Jimmy Olsen dies

7. Seeing the Death of Batman's parents for the 8345th time. This is annoying why we have to see his parents dies again. This is ..*Sees the parents are Negan and Maggie from the Walking Dead* LOL You know what, I forgive this.



Note#1- This is a complaint from casual viewers. Those whose only familiar with the old movies.

If you look at the history of Batman and Superman, they butted heads before. There is a famous story in the 80s called, The Dark Knight Returns(It got an animated adaptaion as well). Superman been tasked by the government to bring down Batman. However Batman prep himself to fight Superman and he was actually a match against the Man of Steel. Batman is one of the few members of the Justice League that has no powers but he has looked up every member's weakness and set up plans if any of them go rouge.

Note#2- When news of Ben Affleck was cast as Batman. The internet went into fan rage. Most people remember him played another costume vigilante, Daredevil. Not many people liked the movie. However when Batman v Superman was out. Complains died down and many people who bash Affleck all of sudden praised him. History repeats itself.

Note#3- Lex Luthor is suppose to be a smart, calm, calculating evil multi-billionaire business man. Jesse Eisenburg's version is goofy and crazy. It's like a mix of the Riddler and Joker with the name of Lex Luthor. So why are people's opinions of Micheal Keaton, Heath Ledger, Anne Hathaway, and Ben Affleck changed once they saw the final product but not Jesse Eisenburg? Simple, he's a Superman character, not a Batman character. :p

Note#4- Batman brands criminals to put them in the death chair. He was also willing to kill Superman. Most versions of Batman supposed to have this do not kill rule. The director based this Batman from Dark Knight Returns and complete misinterpreted some scenes in the comics and think he kills people.

However there were time Batman over the years in movies where he broke the rule. Micheal Keaton's Batman shove bombs into baddies belts while Christian Bale said, "I won't have to kill you but that doesn't mean I have save you."

Note#5- This is one moment of the entire movie that the entire internet makes fun of. Batman and Superman stop fighting because they found out their mothers have the same name.

Really, Batman saw Superman as a monster and was about to kill him when Superman mentions he needs to save his mother, Martha. Batman came to a realization that Superman is like a regular guy who grew up with a family who he cares for and not some world destroying alien.

Note#6. The 1st few minutes of the movie introduces Jimmy Olsen who is normally a photographer that works at the same job as Clark and Lois. They carelessly kill him off shortly right after because the makers wanted to shock the viewers and say he has no place in the movie.

Note#7. You seen one Batman origin story, you seen them all. It gets retold over and over in every version. Be happy that Captian America: Civil War didn't re-re-re-re-retold you the death of Spider-Man's Uncle Ben. The death of Bruce's parent in BvS is kinda funny because these two actors ended up on opposite sides on Walking Dead.

Here's the trailer

You will cry...when you see...that Elsa from Frozen is evil.


Note- Well Elsa is loosely based of a fairytale called the Snow Queen and she isn't the nicest person to be around. Alot of Disney animated movies do make alot changes from it's source material and that are far far more darker.

Here's the trailer

1. You will cry... that good guys are fighting each other.

2. I'm going to spoil who dies in the movie...it's Peggy Carter.



Note#1- a complaint from casual viewers. Even good guys will have strong disagreements that will make each other fight. The story is somewhat loosely based on a storyline in the Marvel comics.

Note#2- I wouldn't consider the death of Peggy Carter an actual spoiler. She was Captain America's love interest during WWII. His body was frozen at the end of the war and wasn't found till the early 2010s. When he woke up, his love interest was a 90 year old woman.

Here's the trailer

I'm going to make you watch Angry Birds.


Note- Title says it all. It surprised people there's is an actual Angry Birds movie.

Here's the trailer

1. You will cry that this movie is against women.

See, the billboard has a man choking a woman.

2. That the villain is God himself as well as Hindu gods.




Note#1- The billboard has stir up controversy and people complain, saying this movie promote violence towards women. Ok, the main villain is this powerful mutant who sees himself as a god who should destroy to world to rebuild it in his image. People will oppose him, including Mystique. You think an evil mutant with a god complex is going to be nice simply because she's a woman.

Note#2- Apocalypse was one of the earliest mutants in recorded history and one of the most powerful. He was basically a god to normal human. He could build a pyramid in seconds with his mind.

In some trailers he said he was referred to as Ra, Krishna, Yahweh, and several more. He mentions several ancient Hebrew names for God. I'm sure that several Christians/Jews and Hinduists weren't happy.

However he was declared a false god from ancient Egyptians and current times.

I have heard Apocalypse in comics was seen as several gods throughout history, however I don't think any of them were God or anyone from Hinduism.

Here's the trailer

You will cry...that the entire human cast has been replaced except for Megan Fox and Will Arnett. The two who we don't want to see.


Note- Megan Fox as April was not a popular choice. I actually didn't mind Will Arnett in the 2nd movie because he seem more like Vernon was in the original cartoon than he did in the 1st movie. In the 1st one, he was more a Casey-lite love-interest for April rather than a coward who likes to hog the spotlight and brags(and lie) how great he is.

It is true that the 90% percent human cast did greatly get replaced. However it's not a huge deal for many reasons.

1. In the 1st movie, Shredder was originally meant to be a white dude in a business suit but quickly recast at the last minute during reshoots due to fans complaining about a whitewashed Shredder. Eric Sacks was now an underling of the Japanese Shredder. However this led to alot of last minute rewrites.
Since we got a new movie built with a fresh start, there's no need for a white Shredder or last-minute casting Shredder.

2. Karai does have a very small role in 1st movie as the Shredder's 2nd-in-command and she didn't have a big impact. Same can be said for the 2nd one. I don't think anyone is going to notice and make a big deal about the change of casting.

3. You barely notice Baxter was in the 1st movie at all. His name is in the credits but you don't see him. I guessing he did had a bigger role before the reshoots of switching the Shredders and most of Eric Sacks screentime took over what was meant for Baxter.

If anything, I don't think anyone is going to complain about the change of actors for someone you didn't notice.

This is the best pic I can find of Baxter in the 2014 movie.

Here's the trailer