Shredder

**Oroku saki aka The Shredder**, was the leader of the New York City Foot Clan and a major enemy of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.He also revived in some way as a clone that also mutated into a shark.

## History

A pair of ninja members of the Foot Clan, Oroku Nagi and Hamato Yoshi, both competed for the love of a woman named Tang Shen. However, Shen only loved Yoshi, which enraged Nagi. Nagi attacked Shen, and in her defense, Yoshi attacked and killed Nagi.

Shamed for killing another member of the Foot Clan, Hamato Yoshi fled from Japanto the United States with Tang Shen and his pet rat, Splinter. However, Nagi's younger brother, Oroku Saki, swore a vendetta on his brother's murderer. He eventually tracked down and killed both Hamato Yoshi and Tang Shen. Joining the Foot Clan himself and trained to be a ninja, Saki quickly rose through the ranks, and was put in charge of the American branch of the Clan. Under Saki's leadership, The Foot participated in a variety of criminal activities, including drug smuggling, arms running, and assassination. This also allowed him to finally move to New York City to avenge his brother’s death by killing Yoshi and Shen; however, Yoshi’s pet rat Splinter escaped and later mutated into an anthropomorphic form, and spent years training the four turtles to avenge Yoshi and Shen.

Fifteen years later Oroku Saki was seen now running a protection racket. When Splinter felt the Turtles were ready, he asked them to challenge and kill Oroku Saki. This first fight took place at night on a rooftop in New York City. After a bloody rooftop battle, Leonardo managed to run him through with his sword. Allowing Shredder to commit Seppuku, thus dying an honorable death, he instead in an attempt to take them with him to his death, opted for throwing a thermite grenade at them, which Donatello would bat back at his face. The explosion as well as Shredder falling off the roof would be the end of him. With their leader dead, the Foot would continue to hunt for Splinter and his turtles in revenge.

Some time after the death of Saki, Shredder and the Foot Clan would attack Leonardo during a training session on a rooftop. It was revealed later that this was a worm colony clone of Saki.It retains all of Saki's memories , due to the foot mystics attempts to revive Shredder.Sometime later the clone became a shark mutant with vengeance against the turtles,who eventually ended the Shredder for good.

Due to Shredder's death, the Foot would still be after the turtles. The Elite Foot in particular were after Leo's head. The TMNT would be forced to help Karai (leader of the Japanese branch of the Foot who came to New York) kill off the Foot factions that were battling each other in exchange for a truce. And sure enough, after they defeated the Elite, Karai and the Foot promised to leave the Turtles alone.

So even after Shredder was only fought with and killed off in one day, his shadow continued to haunt the Turtles for years to come, be it in the form of worm clones, the rest of his clan or Karai.

This version of The Shredder had a brief cameo in Turtles Forever, playing the same role he did in Volume 1 #1. He appeared to the Mirage Turtles to challenge them when the 1988 and 2003 Turtles threw trash cans at him making him fall. This is a reference to the general weakness of this incarnation's Shredder in comparison to some of the others. He was voiced by David Wills.

## Powers & Abilities

### Known Superhuman Powers

Prior to his resurrection by the Foot Clan’s mystics, Oroku Saki had no known superhuman abilities. After his resurrection, he possessed a limited healing factor , which allowed him to recover rapidly from near-fatal wounds.

### Abilities

Through intense training and nearly fanatical zeal, Oroku Saki achieved a level of martial arts mastery unseen before within the Foot Clan. By the time he reached his 18 year, he had become a deadly assassin and master of the art of ninjutsu.

Saki’s skill, when combined with his superb physical conditioning, made him a fearsome opponent in one on one combat.

### Weapons

When expecting combat, Oroku Saki would don his “Shredder” armour. The armor was made up of individual metal plates which were covered in razor sharp blades. The plates were strategically placed over his face, shoulders, forearms and shins.

Beyond this armour, Saki wielded a pair of katanas when he duelled Leonardo.

## Description

Oroku Saki was a relatively nondescript Japanese male. He wasn’t overly tall or large, though he had an impressively muscled and defined frame. Prior to his resurrection, his hair was cut relatively short and styled into an unruly mop that sat directly on top of his head.

After his resurrection, he had grown his hair to a much longer length (at least to his shoulders) and he wore it tied into a small bun at the top of his head.

After his resurrection, one would only have to take a single look at Saki unclothed flesh to see that he was no longer human. His flesh was pock marked, and seemingly made up of millions of tiny worms.

As the Shredder, Saki wore a nondescript blue or red cloth body suit that covered him from neck to foot. He strapped pieces of metal plates to the forearms, shins and shoulders of the costume. Each plate was covered in razor sharp blades which Saki used to deadly effect in combat.

Finally, he wore a metal helmet which protected his head and obscured his identity.

## Personality

Saki was a brutal, violent, power-hungry man. His overriding personality trait seemed to be a thirst for vengeance. He was unwavering in his pursuit of this goal, and was willing to literally plan and/or wait for years to achieve it.

Despite his obsessive nature, Saki was a competent leader of the Foot Clan and understood the ins and outs of business (well… at least the professional crime side of business). He was able to build the Foot Clan’s American influence from nothing to being major players in the New York underworld in a few short years.

His men followed him with a nearly religious zeal and were willing to die for him. They went so far as to resurrect him, rather than replace him after his death.

## Quotes

“Who can this challenge come from ? What fool would pit his minions against the might of the Shredder ?”

“Now you must face a **teacher. A Master !!** Come… one at a time or all at once, I don’t care. For only I will leave here **alive** !”

“Your luck has ended here, fool… now you shall be the first to **DIE** !”

“Outsiders — our time has elapsed, my ninja… vanish. But this war is far from over… the phoenix has risen… my destiny is true !”

Leonardo: “Oroku Saki — face me !”
 Shredder: “Gladly… Leonardo. I’ve been waiting a long time.”

“I stood… grotesque… alive !! My lust for vengeance, my hatred for you — stronger than before !! Long I’ve waited… but now… the waiting is over.”

“I cannot die !”