So I just realized that at least throughout the 20th Century spiders were more likely to be portrayed positivly in Pop Culture than snakes, think about it, there's Charlotte from Charotte's Web there's Spiderman, Anansi varries depending on adaptaion in the most kid friendly adaptations he's mostly just a harmless rascal who's worst crime is stealing other peoples' food in other tellings closer to the source material he's often an unrepentant jerk in some tales killing his own neighbors so he can eat them (Circle of Life) though even these stories are darkly humourous and end with Anansi falling into his own trap and becoming a meal for someone else, and that's just West African mythology Navajo has the benevolent Grandmother Spider who taught Humanity weaving in European folklore destroying a spider web is bad luck, seems on the whole most spiders are easier for humans to deal with becaue they tend to stick to their webs and catch insects and it is their web weaving abilaties that draw human admieration becoming symbols of skill and artistry and finally Spiders may be venomous but no real life spider is large enough to prey on humans some snakes are.

Splinter took Vanessa to his room and explained her, his red banded son, Raphael, has always had a fear of insects and seemed to particurally dislike spiders. Splinter recalled a time that when Raphael got drunk and bragged he didn't fear anything, his other brothers strapped him to a chair and forced him to watch the movie Arachniphobia to prove that wasn't true.

He noticed that Vanessa seemed more anxious after revealing that information.

"Don't worry." Splinter said "The rest of us will make sure you he will not harm you."

"Yeah..." Vanessa sighed "...But...I did just have a dream that I was in school as a spider and in the dream the school bullies made fun of me and...The dream ended with me trying to eat their faces off and woke up biting the blanket."

"I see." Splinter said "Do you...Often have dreams about these bullies?"

"Yes." Vanessa said

"And in these dreams to you often attempt the revnege you can not have in the waking world?" Splinter asked

"Yes." Vanessa said

"I think then you are safe." Splinter said "Even if some new instinct was influncing your specific dream action, in dreams we often lose the inhibitions we have in out wakeful lives so I wouldn't worry about it my sons and I still sometimes struggle with our animal instincts but through discipline we are not slaves to them."

"Thank you Splinter." Vanessa said "But I'm also worried that you might not be able to keep feeding me before you can find a cure."

Splinter chuckled "Well let's see." He said "We're still not sure if you can only eat meat or not as you still have a lot of things that normal spiders do not."

Meanwhile in the city above, the three rogues Jonathan 'Scarecrow' Crane, Edward 'Riddler' Nygma and Jervis 'Mad Hatter' Tetch had just met a pack of Mutant Dogs all of them wore clothes and could speak fluent English, admitattly some spoke like typical teenage boys but there was no doubt that these creatures had intelligence on par with the typical human being.

"Well Gentlemen?" Said they're employer, esteemed scientist Judith Noble

"All right!" Edward exclaimed "We believe you!"

Edward and Jonathan were both pretty shook up by the fact that mere animals could become as intelligent as humans, Jervis after the initial shock wore off actually seemed, partially charmed by the dogs and even tried to engage them in friendly conversation.

"Professor Crane." Judith said "We want you to try and crack the secret of the Goop, Mr. Nygma, Mr. Tetch your expertise with computers can serve us well elsewhere.

Back in the sewers, Don was leading his brothers to Vanessa's apartment complex in hopes of finding whatever mutagen had caused her mutation.

Don and even Mikey waved friendly good byes Raph was just trying to avoid looking at her...

So Mutants in the Next, the sequel to Mutants in the Now has added humans turned zoomorphic as player character options, just gonna have to wait to see how that works but I admit the rules set up by the original 80s cartoon, 'you turn into the last animal you touched' is good because it's simple and easy to understand, whereareas Micheal Bay's wishy washy 'excess some animal deep in a human's genetic code' is a real stretch sounds too much like the concept of totem animals