Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5071448-20131231211400/@comment-1639863-20140101222638

I think the fact that Toad doesn't have a back story is exactly what they want. They can experiment with him. From what I understand, they didn't want just another Batman show. They wanted to tell a new story. If they're constantly being brought down by the same old Joker story, it wouldn't be as fresh as they want it to be. With characters like Pyg and Toad, they can completely screw around with them.

If they screw up a Joker story, everyone will be up in arms. "That's a terrible version of the Joker!" "RIP Heath Ledger. He wuz da besssst." "What? No Mark Hamill?"

If they screw up a Pyg and Toad story, there's not quite as much backlash. They can give them a whole new back story (which the creators kinda did by making them ecoterrorists), and the only people who would notice are fans like us.