Master Splinter | TMNT Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia Splinter is both the adoptive father and sensei of all four of the Turtles . He is wise, mature, and highly trained in the art of Ninjutsu . Honorable Rat Sensei of the Ninja Turtles Contents [ show ] Official Description "For many years I have lived in the shadows, training my adopted sons in the ways of Ninjutsu. I have tried to prepare them for the worst that the world has to offer - hoping it would never come. But we are running out of time. Our family is strong. I only hope that we are strong enough." - Splinter Description Master Splinter is the teacher and adoptive father of the Ninja Turtles. He has trained the Turtles in the art of Ninjitsu, but they are not ninja masters yet. Splinter is mature, serious, and protective. He fights with various ninja weapons and fights with many ninja skills. Any villain wishing to harm his sons will have to go through him first.

History As Human Born in 1962 in Osaka, Japan into a peacekeeping ninja clan called the Hamatos , Hamato Yoshi enrolled into a Martial Arts school before he could inherit his father's role as clan leader. His skills were only rivaled by fellow student Oroku Saki , who was Yoshi's adoptive brother, originally from one of the wiped out rival clans, the Foot . Not only were they rivals in Martial Arts but also for the love of a beautiful woman named Tang Shen , who eventually chose to marry Yoshi. Saki could not accept this and once insulted Yoshi in front of her. Yoshi lost his temper and struck Saki to the ground. This attack solidified Saki's hatred for Yoshi and he vowed revenge. During this time, Saki learned of his true heritage and rebuilt the Foot Clan, rechristening himself as "the Shredder". One night, he came to Yoshi's home armed with razor sharp claw weapons and challenged him to a duel to the death. Yoshi accepted, and the two tore through Yoshi's home, catching it on fire. Just as Saki was about to kill Yoshi, Shen interfered and took the fatal blow for herself.

Yoshi escaped without knowing the fate of his baby daughter Miwa , who Shredder secretly raised as his daughter, Karai. Yoshi made his way to America and attempted to make a new life in New York City. One day, out of loneliness, he visited a pet store and purchased four baby turtles . Walking home, he bumped into a man and felt off about him, so he decided to follow. He came into an alley and overheard a conversation between two strange men, later shown to be members of the Kraang . His foot spooked a rat hiding in the alley, causing the villains to spot him and attempt to kill him. Yoshi fought back but accidentally broke a canister of Mutagen they were holding in the process, spilling it all over himself and the turtles. Yoshi escaped down a sewer drain, now mutated into a humanoid rat. The turtles also mutated, gaining humanoid bodies and intelligence. Yoshi, knowing that they would be persecuted by humans, adopted these turtles as his sons and students and has raised them in the sewers of New York ever since.

He started training them in his Ninjutsu techniques because he knew that, one day, his sons would want to explore the surface, but he knew it would also be dangerous. He took on the name of Splinter and gave the turtles names of painters and sculptors from a book of Renaissance Art that he found in a storm drain. Appearance As Hamato Yoshi: Yoshi is tall, lean, and muscular, with dark brown eyes and black hair. He wears a red kimoto with his clan's symbol when he lived in Japan. During the time that he resided in America, he wears a whitish blue polo shirt, along with brown pants. As Splinter: Splinter has black, brown and white fur, with a droopy white beard, whiskers, a pink tail and a pink nose. He still wears the red kimoto that he wore in Japan. Unlike all of his past incarnations, Splinter is considerably taller than all of the Turtles. Personality Splinter is many things to the Turtles - A wise sensei, protective parent, loving father, stern disciplinarian, quirky master and Zen philosopher. He is determined to train and protect his new family at all costs.

The fact that he has gone through decades of ninja training does not only mean that he is always fierce when he fights, but that he's also remarkably in tune with the universe. Splinter can be very strict when it comes to training and letting his sons venture up to the surface, as seen in many episodes. At certain times, he may use harsh methods in order for them to learn a lesson, as seen in " The Pulverizer Returns! ", in which he took away his sons' weapons so they could learn to fight outside of their typical environment. Nonetheless, Splinter is a loving father who only wants what is best for his sons, and will do anything that he can to protect them from harm's way. Splinter seems to dislike anyone that lays a hand on the Turtles. This is emphasized in " It Came From The Depths ", as he battled Leatherhead because the alligator threatened to harm the Turtles. Splinter's absolute worst fear is losing his family all over again to the Shredder, as seen in " Panic In The Sewers ".

His fear of losing the Turtles to the Shredder caused him to push their training to the point where they become exhausted, stressed, and antsy; though he does eventually apologize for it. It is very possible that Splinter fears the fact that the Turtles will leave him someday, as this was one of the notions that the Rat King (in " I, Monster ") used against him in an attempt to control his mind. Bio Protective, precise, and mutated from un-matched Ninjutsu master and Zen philosopher Hamato Yoshi, Splinter has a playful and deep spirit that probably comes in handy raising his mutant sons: Leonardo , Raphael , Donatello , and Michelangelo ! He has continued his tradition of teaching Ninjutsu and fighting the evil Foot Clan . Abilities, Skills and Powers As human, he was great powerful fighter of Ninjitsu as a master. He was training for his entire life when he was very young. He has mastered many skills and has great abilities such as great strength, acrobatics, speed, stamina, and endurance greater than any athlete. Ninjutsu: As a master of Ninjutsu, Splinter is knowledgeable, speedy and has greater strength.

He can take down larger opponents without a whole lot of effort, as demonstrated in "It Came from the Depths". His strength was shown that he was able to slap his hand against Dogpound and toss him into the air by a back hand and use his anger to take off the heavy pillars of his back for revenge for Leo and Leatherhead. In Return to New York , he easily defeated three Shredder mutants in a very short battle. Jaw Strength: His jaws are powerful enough to break some forms of metal like Shredder's weapon, like a sword. Fighting Skills: His skills of Ninjutsu are so remarkably high that even Rahzar (back when he was still Dogpound) referred to him as "one of the best" and claimed that "he's as skilled as Master Shredder, but he doesn't have the stomach to finish the fight". Though the Shredder's skills of Ninjutsu often seem to be to be higher due to his knowledge of forbidden techniques (even surprising Yoshi), he has been defeated by Splinter twice (once in Japan just before the fire that burned the Hamato home and again in Showdown ).

Teaching: He is a great teacher to those who will like to train as he train his four sons for 15 years of their lives. He even trains April well enough to defend herself from enemies. He even told them that weapons usual chose their owner not the other way around. Enemy Detection: He can easily detect when an enemy is coming. This is either do to excellent hearing that he got when he mutated or his "balanced mind" but this type of power or ability when he was human couldn't hear the noise that April was hearing. Similarly to April, he appears to possess a rare sensitivity gift. Enhanced Strength: He has a very special skill that is powerful but could be even be much stronger for being a mutant to use his fingers to push away his enemies as shown on the Shredder to be able to injure his arm. Enhanced Speed: He is shown to have a lot of abilities that ordinary rats possess - namely running on all fours. His speed is capable for him to get behind Dogpound. Senses: He probably can see in the dark like regular rats do. He had shown in his feral state that he was able to smell cheese outside of his cage from Baxter Stockman glass.

Weaponry: Splinter is skilled with the usage of many weapons as well as showing he is able to adept to all weapons that he can find that is around even a magazine. Stealth: His stealth is a combination of his speed to get pass his enemies like Dogpound. Leap: He can even jump very well to Shredder's window. Intelligence: He shows amazing wisdom to give to anyone as for his fighting intelligence he can ways for his sons to escape when being hold tight they can escape from their enemies by making then loose focus as shown that he was able to escape the strength of Raph by licking him. Stamina and Endurance: Both are great for a mutant of his age (50) he seems to be very well to fight. This is shown that he is well enough to take attacks from Shredder as he was able to go toe-to-toe with him. He was able to defeat Foot Ninjas, Fishface, and Dogpound with absolute ease before he fought against the Shredder in a long brutal fight. Even when countless heavy pillars fell on him during another fight with Shredder, he was still more than capable of fighting competently against his opponent.

He was able to endure the attack from the Mind Controlled Slash mace. Interactions With Other Characters See: Master Splinter (Relationships) Trivia Splinter's name is a spoof on the Marvel Comics character Daredevil. Matt Murdock, after being blinded by spilled radioactive waste, is trained in martial arts by a master call The Stick. "Splinter" is a spoof from this name. Quotes "The choice of leader is a very important decision. I will meditate on this." *Closes door* *two second pause* *Opens door* "It's Leonardo." (To the turtles after allowing them to go to the surface) "Make sure you go before you leave. The restrooms up there are filthy." Turtles: *embarrassed* "Sensei!" "Oh, I did not realize he said mean things. Of course, you had no choice but to jeopardize your mission." "Spike. Chew on your leaf if you're in the mood for a story." Splinter:"You see? Mikey does not think" (Mikey): Thank You! (Splinter): Your Welcome!

(Trips Mikey with his tail) "Seek victory, not fairness." RED VIC MOVIE HOUSE•Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Dir. Steve Barron US 1990 Cowabunga! The turtles are here, in their live-action feature debut. Based on a comic series following the adventures of mutated amphibians, this quartet of turtles is trained in the ninja way by a rat named Splinter. Aside from fighting crime with their fiery comrade, reporter April Oï¿½Neil, the teenagers love scarfing pie, getting tubular, and being generally bodacious. That is until the evil Shredder hatches a plan to thwart them. Bummer! (93m) Master Splinter (Character) - Comic Vine Master Splinter Character » Master Splinter appears in 404 issues . A rat mutated by exposure to toxic ooze, Splinter raised the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and trained them in the art of ninjutsu. He is also the mortal enemy of Shredder. He is a father figure to the turtles and is easily able to fight them all at once.

He does not carry a signature weapon however he is well known to walk around with a wooden cane and also seems to be a incredible marksman with the bow and arrow. The Master Splinter wiki last edited by Guru_Crack on 09/04/16 05:04AM View full history Biography Origin Splinter and Hamato Yoshi Splinter was the pet rat of Hamato Yoshi, one of best warriors in Japan's Foot Clan . Yoshi kept Splinter in a cage in and it amused Yoshi to watch his pet rat observe and try and mimic his movements as he practiced Ninjitsu. When Yoshi killed a member his clan in a feud over the love of the lady Tang Shen, Yoshi took Shen and his pet rat to begin a new life in America, opening a small martial arts school in New York. Years later Oroku Sak i , the brother of the man he had killed came to the city to found a western branch of the Foot and in his new guise of the Shredder tracked down and killed both Yoshi and Shen in cold blood. In the fight Splinter's cage was damaged and he was left alone. Wandering the streets he saw a road accident involving a truck carrying toxic waste.

Out of the truck came a canister which struck and shattered a young boy's glass bowl carrying four baby turtles. The rat followed the canister and the turtles down into an open manhole and observed how the turtles were crawling through the substance oozing out of the now broken canister. Not knowing exactly why he gathered them up getting ooze on himself. He awoke the next morning to the see that both he and the turtles had doubled in size, all of them were also growing intellect soon learning to walk upright. The turtles followed him everywhere except to the surface but one day he received a shock, one of the turtles spoke the word "Splinter" and in doing so named him. In turn, out of battered renaissance art book he found in a storm drain gave them the names Leonardo , Michelangelo , Donatello and Raphael . He decided to train the turtles in the art of ninjitsu with the intention of one day charging them with the mission to avenge his master's death. When the turtles were thirteen years of age Splinter told his sons of his master Yoshi and of their true origin. Now that he was old and believed not long for the world he asked that the turtles track down and kill the Shredder.

T.C.R.I. Splinter and the TMNT Not long after the death of the Shredder Splinter became concerned when watching a news broadcast about a scientist named Baxter Stockman who promised to rid the city of it's rat problem using his robotic Mousers. These fears were proved to justified as while the turtles were off with their new found human friend April O'Neil confronting Stockman the Mousers raided the lair. Badly wounded in a fight with the robots and fleeing he was found by two workmen working for an organization known as Techno Cosmic Research Institute (TCRI) and they took the rat back to their building. Waking up in a bed he wandered the adjoining corridors and was shocked by the site of TCRI workers as brain-like aliens inside the stomach cavity of robotic human bodies. Thankfully these aliens called the Utroms were peaceful, not only that but they were the ones involved in the road accidents which caused the canister of toxic waste by their technology to mutant him and his sons. Exile in Northampton After being reunited with his sons he briefly moved to April O'Neil's apartment with them. On Christmas Eve however the apartment was raided and burned down by the resurrected Shredder and the Foot Clan.

Moving to a farmhouse in Northampton which used to belong to Casey Jones 's grandmother. Splinter noticed their loss at the hands of their enemies weighed heavily on April and his sons and so as Spring set in he took the turtles on intense training in the woods of Northampton to purge them of the inner demons they'd picked up. Shades of Grey & City at War Splinter was not devoid of demons of his own, after years on the farm Splinter would be distant and blunt with those around him. On one occasion April poured her heart out to Splinter about her feelings of isolation, asking his advice he coarsely answered "leave" before slamming the door behind him. After the turtles, April and Casey had left the farm Splinter was left alone but this did not temper him. In the woods he finds himself continually unable to focus his thoughts and meditate, out of frustration he lashed out at his surroundings. Splinter ventures to an old abandoned factory. Climbing to the top a silo the bricks give way and falls inside and awakes with a broken leg. Splinting his leg but unable to stand he worries that with winter approaching and no food he can't afford the time for his leg to heal and escape.

Some time later after erecting a crude shelter he is awaken in pain to a voice which taunting him. Begging for help, the voice tells him that the means for his survival is within is reach but not yet within his grasp. Splinter becomes convinced that the voice is death, the voice answers that he is not death but he knows death, stepping out of the shadows he reveals himself to be the Rat King . Over the period of a couple days to a week, the Rat King belittles Splinter. Eventually, he convinces Splinter to turn on his brethren out of desperation for food; Splinter grabs a Rat, breaks it's neck, and eats it. The Rat King stresses that sometimes one's beliefs blind yourself from seeing all possibilities. The Rat King also states that they will meet again. After recovering from his broken leg and his deranged state, Splinter discovers the corpse of the Rat King in tatters and obviously there for a long time. Splinter manages to muster enough strength to climb out of the silo. Post City at War and Onwards After the fallout from the battle with the Elite Foot, the turtles venture to Northampton to meet up with Casey, April, and Shadow.

At this point, Donatello admits that he will stay behind to go on a mental pilgrimage with Master Splinter. Before anyone can say their goodbyes to him, Master Splinter disappears. He later shows himself to April and says "Daughter" before hugging her and returning to the woods. Splinter remains in Northampton and never returns to New York City. His days are spent at the farmhouse often enjoying the quiet moments in life and meditating. At one point, he discovers Shadow's boyfriend spying on the house and asks Mr. Braunze to erase the boy's memories. While making tea, Splinter has a heart attack. A flash of the Rat King silently appears before Splinter. Splinter crawls into his room and falls to the floor of the closet. With his last breath he whispers "...sons..." Other Media 1987 TV Series In this series, Master Splinter, instead of portraying the Mirage Studios Idea of Splinter being a pet of Hamato Yoshi, Splinter was Hamato Yoshi. Before meeting the turtles, back when Yoshi lived in Japan, there was a Ninja Clan known as The Foot , which was led by Hamato Yoshi.

One of his students, Oroku Saki constantly challenged him in an effort to usurp his leadership, finally causing him to be banished from the Clan. Yoshi fled to the United States in poverty. He was forced to live in the sewers, where he befriended the rats. One day, a small child was returning from a pet store, carrying four baby turtles in a fish bowl, when he tripped and fell, causing the bowl to crash on the street and the turtles fall into a drain. Yoshi had found four new friends. One day, Yoshi discovers the turtles are covered in "goo", which he later realizes was actually some kind of mutagen that caused whoever touched it to take the form of the animal it most recently came in contact with. The turtles became humanized, with their recent contact with Yoshi (with his attempt to clean them up), and Yoshi becomes a mutant rat with his recent contact with rats. Since then, Yoshi raised the Turtles by himself, and gave them the names of his favorite Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michaelangelo, who were to be distinguished by personality and headband color.

He also taught them the art of Ninjitsu in order to protect themselves better, since people above ground would not accept them. Hamato was given the nickname "Splinter" by his students, due to his proficiency at breaking wooden boards. On one occasion Donatello was able to use the remnants of the Ooze that transformed them to restore Yoshi's human self, but the process was only temporary and soon wore off; however, Splinter, having seen how humans could treat each other at times, concluded that he preferred his new state, particularly due to the relationship he had with his students. He was voiced by Peter Renaday. Abilities Splinter represents the emotional stronghold for the Ninja Turtle family. He is a strict father to the turtles but loves them dearly. He emphasizes meditation, deep thought, honor, and the virtues of Bushido to his sons. Splinter is often depicted with a wooden cane, but it is used for more than just an aide to walking. He is a master of ninjutsu and skilled in multiple areas of weaponry. However, his primary abilities lie in psychic activity. Often, Splinter has waged mental battles and struggles with Foot Mystics or some other similar threat.

These often take a physical toll on Splinter, but it deepens his knowledge in the mystic arts. He is such a master of the arts, he has gained the ability to float while meditating. Latest Images Thanks, we're checking your submission. Whoah, whoah... slow down there. Thanks! Your changes are live! Some of your changes are live Because you're new to wiki editing, we sent your submission off to our moderators to check it over. Most changes are approved within a few hours. We'll send an email when it is. Once you've earned over points you'll be able to bypass this step and make live edits to our system. Until then, gain points by continuing to edit pages. You are currently banned from editing the wiki. Wiki submissions are currently disabled. No changes were submitted, nothing was done! Please make changes to the wiki! Thanks for continuing to improve the site. Some of your changes are now live. However, some of your changes were sent to moderation because you do not have enough points to make those live edits. You need points to live edit the changes you commited. For the changes that went through, our robot math gave you points for this submission. Thanks for continuing to improve the site.

Your changes are now live. Our robot math gave you points for this submission. Splinter Biography Edit Delete Edit Cancel . . . Biography Master Splinter, as he is called, is the Sensei and paternal figure of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. He is a giant anthropomorphic rat whose origin is clouded in mystery. One version of the story is that he was once a man named Hamato Yoshi. The other tale states that he was the pet rat of a ninja called Hamato Yoshi, and learned ninjutsu by mimicking the man’s training movements. He admits that both and neither are true. Splinter is an excellent martial artist and ninja, who was forced to live in the sewers. He raised the four baby turtles when they, including Splinter, were mutated by green ooze that dripped into Splinter’s home. He named the turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo, after seeing names of four Renaissance artists on a book he found in the sewers. Splinter trained the turtles in the arts of ninjutsu, which is a lethal combination of physical and metaphysical expertise. Splinter has practiced the art for years, finding the balance between the light and darkness that it holds.

He has been called a ninja master, but decides to spend his time in meditation more often. He prefers to read and cook, giving advice and telling stories to the turtles most of the time. Splinter is portrayed as an elderly rat in ragged grey robes, usually remaining behind when the Turtles fight. He does not have a weapon, or uses anything as a weapon, because it is in his nature as a ninja. This does not stop him from being a skilled combatant. He is always calm and is always seen as a wise and intelligent teacher. In TMNT, he orders Leonardo to continue training in Central America, while he and the other Turtles stay behind. When Leonardo returns to New York, Splinter tells him to find Raphael. He is voiced by Mako, or Mako Iwamatsu, which is his last film. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Origins and Real Ninja History What do real ninjas have to do with Ninja Turtles? + READ ARTICLE This weekend, moviegoers will shell out for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows , the latest incarnation of the comic book, toy, cartoon and film franchise that introduced the world to a quartet of teenage crime-stopping turtles.

As any fan of the characters will know, they became mutants after a truck carrying a canister of radioactive goo spilled the chemicals onto baby turtles that had been accidentally dropped into a New York City sewer. There, they were found by the rat Splinter, who trained them in ninja-fighting skills, so they could protect innocents from a gang of evil ninjas led by an enemy dubbed Shredder. So they’re pretty much as fictional as fictional characters can get. TIME explained how the story’s creators Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman came up with the concept when the first Ninja Turtles movie came out in 1990: One night in 1983 — and neither can remember why — inspiration struck. Eastman drew a humanized turtle wearing a ninja mask and carrying a katana blade. The idea of a slowpokey turtle as a swift and wily ninja cracked them up. By the end of the evening the artists had created four tortoises.

Eastman quickly christened them the Ninja Turtles, but then, in an absurdist wink at two of the most popular themes in comic books at the time, Laird lengthened the name to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles… Though the comics were an instant hit, Turtlemania did not reach the big time until New York licensing agent Mark Freedman offered to market the heroes…Freedman cut the deal with Playmates Toys, who, in turn, sponsored the first TV episodes. But that doesn’t mean the Ninja Turtles aren’t part of real history—both a decades-long American pop-cultural history and a centuries-long military history. Most directly, the Turtles were influenced by the visions of ninjas in Frank Miller comics, like Daredevil and Ronin, and by the movies that, starting in the 1960s, popularized the figures of the specially trained martial artist. That Hollywood version of the ninja took off after the 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice ; in fact, dictionaries often trace the first popular use of the word ninja in the West to the book version by Bond creator Ian Fleming.

John Man, author of Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior, argues that the TMNT gang is also influenced by the ninja concept parodied by Burt Kwouk in the Pink Panther films. “That image dominates everything everyone ‘knows’ about ninjas,” he says, and most of it is myth. “The image of the ninja is a man in black whose aim in life is to break, enter, steal and kill, for which one also has to be a martial arts expert… Teachers claim to have inherited authority and skills through generations. It’s rubbish.” Historians argue that the Hollywood fantasy is based on folk tales and legends passed down through the years, which are in fact based on a real tradition in medieval Japan. TMNT Master Splinter Biography | TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.com TMNT Master Splinter Biography Weapon: Cane/Staff, All Ninja Weapons Named After: The Stick (Daredevil’s mentor, Marvel Comics) Meaning: Thin, Sharp Fragment PORTRAYAL After finding four baby turtles swimming in a puddle of ooze, Master Splinter adopted the soon-to-be mutants as his own sons.

He gave them the names of the great Renaissance artists, taught them the essence of ninjutsu, and protected them from the human world. Under his tutelage, the turtles became fierce warriors capable of defending everyone who relies on them. Protection from the unknown has always been the master’s overriding concern, but that fear and distrust hasn’t dampened his kind heart. He takes in the boys’ friends from the surface, and treats them like his own when he learns to trust them. But if anyone threatens his family, Splinter won’t hesitate to fight. In the beginning, Splinter mutated from the same ooze that his sons were found in. Once belonging to the Foot Clan’s Hamato Yoshi, this pet rat mimicked ninjutsu from its master. But Yoshi was often at odds with the man Oroku Nagi over Tang Shen’s heart. One particularly heated argument ended in Nagi’s death, and his brother, Oroku Saki, killed Yoshi in revenge. During his master’s last battle, however, Splinter was able to scratch Saki, sending the man on a quest for revenge against the rat, as well.

With no one left to turn to, Splinter wound up in the sewers of New York City, where he found the turtles and the ooze. Mutating into a humanoid rat, he adopted the reptiles and treated them as his own sons. Throughout his life, Splinter saw Oroku Saki’s fall and a restoration of honor to the Foot Clan. After years of dedication to his family, though, age caught up to him, and Master Splinter passed away. The first animated series took some liberties with Splinter’s origin, and gave much more noble beginnings. Splinter was Hamato Yoshi, having mutated from the man himself. Yoshi was again part of the Foot Clan in Japan, although this time as its leader. His leadership was usurped by upstart student Oroku Saki, who dishonored Yoshi and had him banished. The man made his way to NYC, where he came in contact with the mutagen and became the rat master of four baby turtles. The name “Splinter” came from his skill at breaking boards, and he adopted it for his new identity. Another major difference with this series was that Splinter was never explicitly called the boys’ father.

While there was a clearly paternal bond, the rat master was really only treated as just that – a ninja master. With TMNT: The Next Mutation, Master Splinter’s other aspects could be showcased a bit further. As a ninja master, Splinter has achieved a high level of spiritual proficiency as well, and he was often shown to be crossing over dimensional boundaries to the spirit and dream worlds. That ability was maintained in the 2003 animated series, and Splinter would often meditate and help his sons through the spirit world. However, there were some major differences with this version, as well, and Splinter’s origins became even more convoluted than before. Here, Splinter started as Tang Shen’s pet, and Shen was caught in a love triangle with Hamato Yoshi and Yukio Mashimi. Both men ultimately became guardians of the alien Utroms, but Mashimi’s jealousy led to murdering Shen and handing the Utroms over to the Shredder. Yoshi took the rat and left for New York, but he was ultimately killed by Shredder. With no one left, the rat wandered the sewers until he found four baby turtles and some ooze, becoming Master Splinter.

This Splinter also had an affinity for soap operas, getting very wrapped up in the stories. In the 2012 animated series, Splinter went back to being mutated from Yoshi himself. Again, Yoshi was in love with Tang Shen, and they had a daughter, Miwa. However, his friend Oroku Saki killed Shen, and took Miwa away from him to raise as his own daughter, Karai. Sad and defeated, Yoshi made his way to New York, where a chance encounter with two Kraang led to contact with mutagen, and being turned into a giant rat. He found the turtles and raised them as his own. Later, he would discover that Saki kept Miwa, and would continually fight to bring his daughter back from the side of evil to be with her real father once more. Similar to the last animated series, 2012 sees a strong father-son connection played up, as well as Splinter having monumental ninjutsu abilities beyond what he’s currently taught his boys. The four films play on the original comic origin of Splinter, and spend a great deal of focus on the familial relationship.

In the first movie, his loss sends the turtles into a deep well of grief, and they fight tooth and nail to get him back from Shredder’s clutches. However, beyond the first film, his role was as a supporting character only. He played almost no part in the third film, and was simply there because his presence was expected. However, he always supported his sons, no matter what. ANALYSIS It’s rather odd that for a character as prominent in a continuity as Master Splinter that his own origin has barely ever been maintained across incarnations. It took 15 years before the “rat mutated from human” one came back around, and after the first movie, it was 13 years before he was mutated from a rat again (although, even that origin in 2003 wasn’t the same as the original or the movie origin). It’s so strange that this was the character that liberties were taken with, too. Shredder is almost always the same. The turtles are always created in the same way. Karai is always Shredder’s “daughter”. April is always involved with news in some way, shape, or form. So why was Splinter given such diverging origins across incarnations?

Audiences may never actually know. The only problem with this is that now there’s a question about what the real origin story is. Obviously, the first choice would be the original story from the comics. However, mutating from Hamato Yoshi seems like the most appropriate fit. All the series deal with humans mutating, and while it’s cool if a rat can learn ninjutsu, it just seems to work out better if Hamato Yoshi was the first instance in TMNT of a human mutating. It also helps explain Splinter’s emotional and spiritual depth, as well as the breadth of his abilities. However, despite a lack of continuity in origin, Splinter did have something going for him: His personality was always the same, and with the same depth in each incarnation. No matter what Splinter it is, the rat master is always calm, kind, patient, and a supportive rock for his sons and their friends. The turtles were always subject to the writers picking and choosing what characteristics to use in every incarnation, but Splinter retained everything across time. Even when parts of his role weren’t defined (like his fatherly duties in the 1987 series), he still acted as that paternal supportive figure at all times.

The importance of that continuity lies in how he interacts with his sons. He needs to have a certain interaction with each, or else their own personalities don’t make sense. Splinter works with Donatello on an emotional level because of Donnie’s kind heart; he gives Leonardo the rigorous training that is expected of a ninja leader; he reprimands Raphael for his temper; and he tries to give Michelangelo the time and attention that the youngest brother deserves. If Splinter’s personality is off by even a hair, then these interactions don’t work. Which, interestingly enough, makes the rat master the most stable character through the franchise’s 30 years. Spliter’s struggle with Oroku Saki is very interesting in its dynamic. Even though he is either mad at Shredder for killing his master or his wife (depending on the series), Splinter rarely engages in battle himself. Instead, he lets the turtles take revenge for him, and keeps to the lair where it is safe. The 2012 series has shown him battling a bit more, fighting the Rat King twice and Tiger Claw once. But otherwise he just lets the boys go into battle alone.

It seems counterintuitive to the protection he’s given them, but also speaks to his trust in his sons. Either way, and despite his constant reimagining, Splinter has been a strong character that has aided the boys in whatever way he could throughout their adventures. The wouldn’t be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles without him, and his place as the heart of the team will never be forgotten. FUN FACTS Splinter was named after Matt Murdock’s (Daredevil) master, The Stick. Murdock was blinded by radioactive waste, and trained to be a powerful fighter, just like Splinter did with the turtles. Master Splinter has always been at one with mystic forces, mastering techniques such as astral projection and psychic ability. In the 2012 series, Splinter’s daughter is actually Karai, and whether she will come to the side of good is still unknown. In his current version, Splinter’s cane is made of crystallized mutagen, which he got when he and the turtles mutated. TMNT Fan I feel sorry for splinter for losing his family Rebecca but at least he got a new family, sort of.

Ghenesa Paulma The turtles are supposed to be Hamato Yoshi’s pets. But after being mutated, his name was changed to Splinter and raised the turtles as his own sons. breyer i had know idea that karai was his daughter mewa kaviyah me too. it is very shocking secretfan i knew that karai is his daughter, and for those who want to know what happens in the third season then ask me donniegirl i wonder how splinter found the kranng when he got mutated Follow Us TV ACRES: Reptiles > Turtles > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo_ Home > Index > Animals > Reptiles > Turtles > Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Turtles Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Group of humanoid sewer dwelling teenage turtles (Michaelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo) on the animated cartoon TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES/SYN/CBS/1987-96.

This team of crime fighting turtles consisted of : Michelangelo (orange face mask), the prankster of the group and an expert with the whirling Nunchukus (Japanese weapon of two wooden stick attached by a chain). The ultimate party animal, he loved rock n' roll, doing corny imitation of movie stars like Sylvester Stallone and James Cagney and really went bonkers over a good pizza (a food enjoyed by all of the turtles). Mike jokingly called himself the "Master of the Whirling Pizza." Donatello (purple face mask), the smartest of the Ninja turtles. Donatello was a mechanical whiz, who always read technical manuals and invented things like the Turtle Communicator and the Turtle Blimp. His weapon of choice was the Bo, a long wooden staff. Raphael (red face mask), a loner and a rebel who was the hot-headed member of the group. His favorite weapon was the Sai, a three pronged dagger. Leonardo (blue face mask), the oldest, (16 years old) most responsible and disciplined of the group. His taste in weapons leaned toward the Katana, a long sword (but he was proficient with all fighting tools).

The Turtles spoke in a surfer-dude language and used such phrases as "Radical," "Awesome," "Mondo," "Tubular, "No Problemo" and "Bummer." Their favorite catchphrase and battle cry was "Cowabunga." The teenage turtles were lead by a large rat called Splinter. Whereas the turtles loved pizza, Splinter enjoyed Sushi. Splinter was a master of the martial arts. He used to be a Japanese Ninja master named Hamato Yoshi "the greatest shadow warrior" who was betrayed by an evil disciple, Oroku Saki who took over his fighting clan (The Foot) and turned them towards evil ways. Hamato Yoshi then escaped to New York City and took shelter in the sewer system. While living beneath the city streets, a small boy carrying a bowl of pet turtles tripped and spilled its contents into the sewers below, where Hamato Yoshi found and adopted them as pets. He named the turtles for his favorite Italian Renaissance artisans. All went well until Oroku Saki (now called Shredder) discovered Hamato and poured a green ooze over him and the four turtles. This toxic waste instead mutated Hamato into a huge hairy rat and the turtles into humanoid-sized turtles.

Realizing the green ooze bestowed intelligence onto the turtles, Hamato trained the mutant turtles in the ways of the Ninja. (According to the comic book origins, Splinter was the name of Hamato Yoshi's pet rat who was transformed by the Retromutagen Ooze). Shredder employed other mutant animals like Rocksteady (a grey rhino cross-mutated with a street thug) Bebop (a warthog crossed with a dim-witted mobster) continued to be the Turtles main nemesis. In future episodes additional evil doers crossed path with the Turtles, including: Krang, an evil bodiless brain-shaped entity from Dimension X General Traag, the leader of Krang's Rock Soldier Army Baxter Stockman, an absent-minded professor mutated into a fly creature Rat King, a sewer based criminal dressed in rags who controlled the rats beneath the streets of New York City (a la the Pied Piper) Foot Clan soldiers (purple-hooded robots/teenagers who did the evil bidding of Shredder and his accomplices).

The good-guys who assisted the turtles in their fight against Shredder were: April O'Neil, a human female TV news reporter Casey Jones, a human who wore a hockey mask and fought criminals vigilante style with a hockey stick Ace Duck, a famous test pilot who mutated into a duck creature Genghis Frog, a tadpole mutated into a five-foot tall intelligent frog Metalhead, a robotic turtle built by Krang but reprogrammed by Donatello to be their butler Danny Pennington, the lonely son of April's Boss who joined forces with the turtles Usagi Yojimbo, a white rabbit who cross-mutated with an ancient Samurai warrior Wingnut, a vampire bat from the planet Huanu Screwloose, a mutated mosquito buddy of Wingnut. NINJA TURTLES: THE NEXT MUTATION/FOX/1997 continued the adventures of the Turtles in a live-action TV-movie with full-bodied characters similar to the theatrical film versions. TRIVIA NOTE: The idea for the Ninja Turtles was created in 1983 in the kitchen of a New England farmhouse by the cartoonist team of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird from Northhampton, Massachusetts.

After unsuccessfully trying to sell their concept to Marvel Comics, the two borrowed $500 from Kevin's uncle and printed 3000 black and white Mirage Studios comics in April 1984 which sold out immediately. The next issue sold 15,000 copies and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soon became one of the most profitable merchandising schemes in history (with the assistance of entrepreneur Mark Freedman). The popularity of the Ninja turtles inspired video games, toy figurines, and the successful live-action Golden Harvest film adaptations Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) and its sequels Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993). In 2007 a computer-animated reproduction called TMNT was produced by Peter Laird. External Links Splinter | Brickipedia | Fandom powered by Wikia Splinter is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles minifigure released in 2013 . He is the sensei of the turtles. Contents [ show ] Appearance Splinter has a new head mould made for his figure.

It has two brown ears sticking up with the insides being dark cream-coloured. His eyebrows are white as well as his beard and the bridge of his nose. The top of his head is black as well, as is his beard that stretches along each side of his face. Splinter's dark red torso piece has printing on both sides, with the front bearing a long collar and lapel that is bound up in a brown belt. The reverse side of the torso has the back of his belt and a black flower in a circle of the same colour. Instead of legs, Splinter has a sloping brick to depict a kimono. It is dark red with black flowers in a vertical pattern on the left side. Background Born in 1962 in the outskirts of Tokyo, Hamato Yoshi was heir to his father Yūta's place as leader of the peacekeeping Hamato Clan, whose conflict with the infamous Foot Clan came to an end when he was 2 years old. It was this victory that welcomed Oroku Saki , the Foot Clan leader Oroku Kaiji's infant son, into the Hamato family, and the two grew up as close brothers and very good friends, maintaining a peaceful intelect throughout their ninjutsu training.

One day, however, their brotherhood suffered a huge strain when both men fell for a young woman of Chinese ancestry named Tang Shen, whose decision to marry Yoshi drove Saki into learning his true heritage and turn against the entire clan, corrupting few of it ninja into defecting as his first Foot ninja and attacking his adoptive brother in the house of Hamato. Their battle was long and hard. In their rage, they destroyed several buildings and accidentally caused the death of Tang Shen. Saki, now called the Shredder , moved to Tokyo, taking Yoshi's daughter Miwa with him and renaming her Karai . Believing his daughter to be dead, Yoshi, now an outcast called Splinter, moved to New York City to start a new life. One day, Hamato became lonely, living alone, so he bought four baby turtles at a pet store. On his way home, a man accidentally bumped into him. Hamato thought something was "off" about the person, so he decided to investigate. While listening to the man have a conversation with another one, he stepped on a rat, causing the men (who are later revealed to be disguised Kraang ) to hear him. The men then fought Yoshi.

One of them dropped a canister of mutagen, which spilled. Yoshi lost balance during the fight, causing him to fall and drop the baby turtles. All 5 of them fell into the mutagen. Splinter mutated into a large humanoid rat because of his recent contact with one. The baby turtles became more humanoid and intelligent, due to having Splinter's human DNA on them prior to the mutation. Splinter raised the turtles as sons and trained them in the art of Ninjutsu as their sensei. Gallery of Variations

Question: A rat called Splinter trained which quartet?
Answer: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles