![]() Yoshi is given the nickname "Splinter", due to his proficiency at breaking wooden boards, and he teaches them the art of ninjutsu in order to protect themselves. Yoshi raises the turtles by himself and gives them the names of his favorite Renaissance artists: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo. Although, Master Splinter did get the chance to be human again in the episode "Splinter No More", but realizes he prefers being with the turtles and had no place as a human anymore. Yoshi, having been in contact with sewer rats, becomes a humanoid rat. Thus, the turtles, being in a pet store with people touching them, turn into young humanoid turtles. The mutagen combines the DNA of living beings who have been in contact. As a result, they are all affected by the leaking chemical, which is a mutagen. When he finds the turtles near some broken barrels that are oozing glowing pink, later retconned to green, chemical liquid, he tries to clean them with his bare hands. Splinter keeps them as pets and treats them like his children. One day, he comes across four baby turtles which were accidentally dropped by a boy through a sewer grate. Unable to prove his innocence and expelled from the Foot Clan, Splinter moves to New York City, where he lives as a hermit in its sewers and befriends the rats. ![]() Yoshi is framed by his rival, Oroku Saki, for trying to murder their common dojo master. He is a martial art instructor for the Foot Clan in Japan, and also has a passion for Renaissance art. In the 1987 TMNT cartoon, Splinter and Yoshi are the same person. Splinter is restored in the final episode and helps defeat the Cyber Shredder. While Splinter was not seen much in the "Back to the Sewers" season, the focus of those episodes is the Turtles' efforts to find Splinter's data bits by traveling all over cyberspace. ![]() In the episode "Tempus Fugit", Splinter and the Turtles, who time-traveled into the future, are sent back to the present time, but the villain, Viral, blasts Splinter with a decompiler ray that scatters his bits all over the internet. When the Turtles learn of the Battle Nexus, they participate as well, resulting in Splinter forfeiting when called upon to fight Michelangelo, as he wishes to allow his sons the opportunity to fight where he succeeded in the past. In the 2003 TMNT cartoon, he possesses a significant reputation as a ninja master in a multi-part episode, he is revealed to be a champion of the Battle Nexus, a multi-dimension-spanning contest where the greatest combatants of various dimensions come together to fight each other for the title of Battle Nexus Champion. Splinter names the four turtles Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo (after a book on Renaissance artists that he found in a storm drain) and trains them in the arts of ninjutsu so that they can avenge his dead master while raising them as his own sons, along educating them. The canister mutates both Splinter and the turtles it also enhances the former's already sophisticated intellect. Due to a traffic accident, four baby turtles and a canister of mutagenic ooze are sent down into the sewer. Without a home, Splinter is forced to run away and live in New York City's sewers. In contrast, in the 2003 TMNT cartoon series, it was Hun's face which Splinter clawed. It is suggested that this mutilation is the reason Saki took the Shredder disguise to hide the scars. Additionally, in the 1990 film, Splinter escapes from his cage during the murder, and attacks Saki, clawing at his face. ![]() However, in the 1990 film and 2003 TV series Nagi is removed entirely. Yoshi becomes embroiled in a dispute with a fellow ninja by the name of Oroku Nagi and is eventually murdered by Nagi's brother, Oroku Saki, who is seeking revenge for his brother's death. Intelligent for his species, Splinter is able to learn ninjutsu art by mimicking his master's movements while he practices. In both the original comics and the live-action movies, Splinter is the pet rat of a ninja named Hamato Yoshi in Japan. Mirage Comics, original films, 2003 cartoon ![]() The character was originally a parody of the Marvel Comics character Stick. In some incarnations-including the original comics-he was the pet rat of martial artist Hamato Yoshi (Japanese: 濱戸義), while in others he is a mutated or reincarnated Yoshi himself. A mutant rat, he is the grave and stoic sage of the Turtles, their ninjutsu and martial arts instructor, as well as their adoptive father. 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. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (May 1984) ![]()
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