Shredder (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)

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The Shredder is a male comic character who features in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Biography

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Oroku Saki (Japanese: 小禄 咲) was a Japanese male born in the modern age as the younger brother of Oroku Nagi where both came to be members of the Foot Clan. His sibling had been killed by a fellow ninja named Hamato Yoshi over a feud over a woman named Tang Shen who both men had loved. The act resulted Yoshi being disgraced for killing a fellow clan member leading to him fleeing the country with Shen as they journeyed to the United States.

Following Saki's death, Karai travelled to New York City in order to unify the warring factions and place the Foot Clan under her leadership.

Several months after the death of Oroku Saki, the Shredder, on Christmas Eve, several members of the Foot, as well as the Shredder himself seemingly resurrected, would jump and beat Leonardo to the brink of death. They then throw his body through the window of the Turtles' ally April's Second Time Around store. Shredder and the Foot would attack the turtles and set the building on fire. With the help of Casey Jones, the Turtles, April and Hamato Splinter managed to escape to Casey's grandmother's old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts. After months of recuperation, the Turtles returned to New York City to settle the score with their enemies. With with the help of Zog, a Triceraton suffering from delusions due to breathing Earth's oxygen, they go to take down the Foot and the Shredder once and for all. During the fight, Zog gets hacked to death by the 3 deformed "Mutant Shredder clones". The other Turtles would face them and be taken down one by one, leaving Leonardo to face the 'real' Shredder himself. Leonardo faced off against the Shredder alone, in which Shredder revealed that he was a worm clone of the original Shredder, but still harbored the hatred of the original. The Foot employed some sort of mystic worms that ate the remains of the dead, and then grow into the form of what they ate. The malformed Shredder Elite were the first three experiments with the worms, and the Shredder now facing Leonardo was their fourth. Shredder and Leonardo fought it out and in the end, Leo would end up decapitating him finally killing him. Leonardo would then take Shredder's body and burn it at the Hudson River in a Viking funeral burning on a raft on a river. With the Shredder gone, chaos erupted in New York City among the leaderless Foot Clan.

Leonardo came to encounter Oroku Yoshi who was a Battle Nexus contestant wearing armor almost identical to that of the Shredder.

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In feudal Japan, Oroku Saki was a high-ranking member of the Foot Clan along with Hamato Yoshi. While Yoshi focused on his family, Saki surpassed him and was promoted to Jonin (leader) of the Foot.

Overview

Personality and attributes

As the masked leader of the Foot Clan, he came to operate under the alias of the Shredder (シュレッダー Shureddā).

Powers and abilities

Notes

• The Shredder was created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird where he made his first appearance in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles v1 #1 (May, 1984).
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Ultimate Collection, Vol. 2 (2012), Laird commented, "In truth, though many TMNT fans who became fans via the first animated series see Shredder as a REALLY important part of an ongoing, long-running battle with the Turtles, I don't think Kevin or I ever did. Yes, he was an important part of their history, and they probably would not have come into existence without his involvement in their world (or more accurately Splinter's world)... but that's about it. Other than bringing Shredder back for "Return to New York" (and the few issues preceding that set that arc up), I never missed him in any of the other TMNT books I worked on."

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

• In Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, the Shredder briefly appeared in the 1997 live-action television series where he was portrayed by actor Patrick Pon and voiced by actor Doug Parker. This time, however, Venus uses her powers to make the Oroku Saki from within taking control of Shredder's mind. After the Foot Clan disbands, he ends up living on the streets. Later, the Dragon Lord's rank warriors attack him to get a medallion that was in his possession. Splinter saves him and takes him to the Turtles' lair to protect him. It was hinted that Shredder might possibly go back to his old ways, but the show was canceled soon after that episode. In the show, Shredder wore a general attire similar to the one he wore in the second film, but with a heavily altered helmet/mask due to the lesser budget for the TV series as compared to the movies, which had allowed for more detailed props and costume pieces. Shredder appeared only a few times in the show, due to the main antagonist of the series being a draconic being from another dimension and thus supplanted Shredder as the Turtles' nemesis.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the identity of the Shredder appeared in the 2003 animated television series where it was primarily used by Ch'rell. It was revealed in the 5th season that thousands of years ago there was a demonic tengu known as the Shredder who plagued the lands of Japan. During this time, five warriors were gathered by the emperor to slay the beast with among them being Oroku Saki where they seemingly killed the tengu. However, before its defeat, it made a bargain with Oroku Saki where the two merged into a single being. Thus, the Shredder and Oroku Saki become one where they began a new reign of terror against the world. This was until their defeat against their former comrades who became the Ninja Tribunal who defeated Saki and imprisoned in the Shredder in a crypt where they kept vigil to prevent his return. By the modern age, the Utrom Ch'rell came to use the identity of the Shredder to inspire fear in his enemies and to gather the Foot Clan under his rule.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared in the 2012 animated television series where he was voiced by actor Kevin Michael Richardson.
• In Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared in the setting of the 2018 animated television series. This version was shown as being the identity of person who got taken over the demonic Kuroi Yoroi armor thus turning the wearer into the Shredder who was the beastial ruler of the Foot Clan. 500 years before the series, Oroku Saki was the leader of the peaceful Foot Clan and father of the Hamato Clan founder, Karai, whose soul was swallowed by the demonic and nigh-unstoppable Kuroi Yōroi armor after it was forged by a powerful Oni (in reality the alien Krang). After being transformed into the Shredder, Saki led the Foot down a path of darkness, unleashing unspeakable chaos across Japan in the process. With no other choice, Karai was forced to create her own clan, the Hamato Clan, to end the demon's reign of terror. Shredder continuted terrorized Japan until he was defeated by Karai using her mystic Hamato Ninpō energy (since no mortal weapon could harm Shredder) to send him into a dimension called the Twilight Realm, and the Kuroi Yōroi was scattered across the world to prevent his return. The side effect of Shredder's defeat had sent Karai into the Twilight Realm, along with Shredder's sapience being sealed away. In the aftermath, Karai's remaining followers made it their sworn duty to watch over the armor pieces and never allow the Foot to reclaim them.

Films

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared as the main antagonist in the 1990 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor James Saito. Oroku Saki and Hamato Yoshi were rival martial artists in Japan and both loved a woman named Tang Shen. Shen, who loved only Yoshi, persuaded him not to fight Saki honorably; instead, they fled for the United States. Saki followed them to New York City; when Yoshi returned home from his construction job he found his beloved Shen lying dead on the floor, he was ambushed and overpowered by Saki. Saki wasted no words and during the struggle, Splinter's cage was broken. Splinter leaped up onto Saki's face, biting and clawing, but the rogue ninja threw him to the floor and took one swipe with his katana, slicing Splinter's ear. After this incident, it was said that Saki is never heard from again. The comic book adaptation of the film retains the original comic book origin story, with Oroku Nagi being slain and Saki coming to America to seek vengeance. Saki, in his 'Shredder' persona, establishes an American branch of the Foot Clan. With the aid of his second-in-command Tatsu, he manipulates and recruits troubled teens as a brutal yet Machiavellian leader and father figure, teaching them ninjitsu to make them into skilled thieves and assassins. Shredder sends the Foot Clan to "silence" April O'Neil when she reports on the Foot Clan's connection to the recent crime wave, inadvertently leading them to the Turtles' hideout when Raphael saves April. Shredder had Splinter kidnapped and imprisoned him in his warehouse hideout, and has the Foot Clan hunt the Turtles. He beats Splinter while interrogating him about how the Turtles learned their fighting techniques. After the Turtles successfully defeat the Foot Clan in a final assault, Shredder confronts them on a rooftop. He defeats all of the Turtles with his superior skills and threatens Leonardo with his yari to force the others to toss away their weapons. Splinter, freed by Turtles' allies, Danny Pennington and Casey Jones, intervenes and reveals to Shredder that they met years ago, as he was Hamato Yoshi's pet. Shredder unmasks himself, revealing the scars that Splinter gave him, and charges Splinter to impale him. Splinter counters with Michelangelo's nunchaku to send him over the side of the roof. Shredder throws a tanto at Splinter. Splinter caught the knife, but had to let go of the nunchaku that was holding onto the spear, making Shredder fall into a parked garbage truck far below. Casey Jones then activates the crushing mechanism; the viewers are then shown a closeup of Shredder's helmet being crushed, implying his death.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secrets of the Ooze, the Shredder returned as the main antagonist in the 1991 live-action film where he was voiced by actor David McCharen.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared as the antagonist in the 2014 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Tohoru Masamune.
• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared as an antagonist in the 2016 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Brian Tee.
• In Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the Shredder appeared as an antagonist in the 2019 animated crossover film adaptation where he was voiced by actor Andrew Kishino.

Video games

• In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan, the Shredder appeared as the penultimate boss character in the setting of the 1990 Games Boy video game.

Appearances

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles:

External Link

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Wiki Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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