She seems extraordinarily confident in Jenny's chances overall, for whatever that is worth.
I think Game Mill having some sway over character choices does generally increase the odds of getting some more mainstream stuff in the game and I especially feel like the odds have slightly increase for Star Trek Prodigy content.... for whatever that is worth; I have heard literally nothing about that show since it premiered. Is it good? Is it bad? Idk. I guess maybe no news is good news, but Lower Decks at least got people talking...
In any case, when/if DLC officially starts dipping more into some of Nick's more modern shows (the big pre-00s ones are almost all covered so far, regardless if some main characters are missing), all hell is going to break loose in the fanbase. They're gonna have to try and accept that the staff is willing to go into uncharted territory for the sake of trying to make an interesting Nick fighting game, even if Nick would not have wanted to otherwise. Game Mill/Ludosity can only double-dip so much before covering more unrepresented series.
or a reference to a time in the comics he did it
Technically speaking, Caught In The Act did obliquely reference Garfield: His 9 Lives in its concept (which itself is inspired by a Fritz the Cat movie, of all things, but that's neither here nor there). One segment had a prehistoric Garfield.
Also, the Friends show did apparently have its own prehistoric Garfield too in Legend of the Lake.
I told you all that this leak would do nothing but good for this game's publicity. This clinches it.
That being said, leaks usually don't cause DLC to be cancelled. I mean, isn't the point of buying something is for it to get publicity for that to happen? There are companies whose security are wet paper tissue and their DLC stuff still managed to sell regardless, so this fear/concern may have been a tad bit of overreacting.
I doubt it's from the internet, gotta be way funnier than "internet baaaad".
I'm willing to bet it's just some Nick execs forgetting that the show existed or not feeling like wanting to do anything for it anymore. I mean, the staffers for this game had to push for months to get folks like Oblina and PTM in here.
Not even TMNT is safe from that.
They seem to have more bias for the 2012 version overall (since it was the first and most successful of the in-house Nick Turtles), but Game Mill and Ludosity went against the grain. I bet that they didn't expect Dotemu and Tribute Games to ask for a new '87 game at all, either (still no details on how the negotiations went since it was done by e-mail, according to the Tribute Discord).