Originally, Splinter was a vengeance-consumed rat who gained human-level sentience through accidental mutation, and when he found the four mutant turtles, he didn't raise them with love as his adopted sons, he raised them to be killers.

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Turtles-wise, The Last Ronin line will lean into the flashback scenes to make figures of Mikey, Donnie, Splinter, Leo, and Casey. Meanwhile, the Mirage Comics line will add Rat King, Baxter Stockman, a gigantic Leatherhead, and Casey with red shirt and white shoes.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Pizza Hut And Dominos) In MTV's article on the history of pizza product placement in TMNT movies, they bring up that Pizza Hut had a tie-in with the VHS of the movie where a coupon would come with it and an advert would play before the movie starts.

While the 1987 cartoon adaptation that rocketed the Turtles et al. to stardom took the horrifically dark turn of having Splinter be a human man mutated into a rat monster, the film remains true to the comic's origin story of Splinter having always been a rat, the beloved pet of the ninjitsu master Hamato Yoshi.

Leonardo By the end of the battle, Leonardo decapitates The Shredder when they strike each other in one final clash. Not knowing that he is an Utrom, the Turtles believe him to be finally killed for good. After they leave, the Shredder is seen to be getting up and walking away carrying his severed head.

Co-written by Tom Waltz and original TMNT co-creator Kevin Eastman, the series is set in a dystopian alternate timeline where all but one of the heroes in a half-shell have perished, leaving Michelangelo the sole survivor.

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The turtles' comics continue to sell extremely well, especially these rare variants that have since become goldmines for hardcore collectors.

1. 1 Turtlemania Special #1 Variant Gold Cover (1986)
2. 2 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (1984) 1st Print.
3. 3 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #3 (1985) - Color Error Variant.

1988 In signing with Murakami-Wolf-Swenson Productions, Eastman and Laird saw the production of the first TMNT cartoon in December 1987. Playmates held up their end of the deal and produced the first series of TMNT action figures in the summer of 1988.

mutant rat Splinter, often referred to as Master Splinter or Sensei by his students/sons, is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media. A mutant rat, he is the grave and stoic sage of the Turtles, their ninjutsu and martial arts instructor, and their adoptive father.

Each gofu gives the Turtles new powers, tethers them to the spirit world, and allows them to sense one another. The five elements are fire, water, wood, metal, and earth, and each plays off the other, generating one another, and having both opposing and complementary effects.

Leonardo By the end of the battle, Leonardo decapitates The Shredder when they strike each other in one final clash. Not knowing that he is an Utrom, the Turtles believe him to be finally killed for good. After they leave, the Shredder is seen to be getting up and walking away carrying his severed head.

pet rat In both the original comics and the live-action movies, Splinter is the pet rat of a ninja named Hamato Yoshi in Japan.

The only reason Shredder won in the Leo one shot? Strength in numbers. Leonardo took out clone (worm) Shredder by himself, but it was established in issue 10 he was essentially a perfect copy of Shredder by his fighting style and prowess.

Oroku Saki The Shredder is usually depicted as the alter ego of Oroku Saki, the ruthless leader of a criminal ninja organization known as the Foot Clan. A suit of armor equipped with metal blades and tekko-kagi, loosely based on that of a samurai, serves as the Shredder's visual motif.