The Triceratons eventually captured the Fugitoid during a brawl in an alien bar, but the Turtles gave hot pursuit. In doing so, they soon find themselves targeted by the evil General Blanque of the interplanetary government known simply as the Federation, as well as the dinosaur like creatures known as the Triceratons. The Turtles battled their way out of the building they were in and quickly allied themselves with the Fugitoid. The turtles battle and defeat the gunmen, unaware that they were after a small robot, the Fugitoid, that was standing in their midst the moment they arrived. During a fight between the Turtles and the Utrom, Donatello accidentally teleports the Turtles to another planet (Plebak), where they find themselves confronted by alien gunmen. The Turtles hunt Splinter and discover he's been taken to the TCRI building (a company which produced the mutagen that transformed the Turtles and Splinter) by members of an alien race called the Utrom. The turtles returned home from their adventure with the Mousers only to discover it almost destroyed and with no signs of Master Splinter. After the fight, April gave the teens her phone number and promised to help them out whenever they needed help. April escaped Stockman after discovering his plan and she and the Turtles worked together to stop the machines and defeat Stockman. After taking April to their lair, she revealed that she was once the lab assistant to Baxter Stockman, the creator of the Mousers and that the Mousers were actually designed to rob banks and blackmail the city by threatening its infrastructure. On another occasion, the Turtles found themselves rescuing a woman named April O'Neil from the Mousers, small robots designed to catch rats and solve New York City's vermin problem. Though Raphael disapproved of his rage, he begrudgingly teamed up with him, forging an important (if often uneasy) alliance between Casey Jones and the Turtles. They allowed him to live, but the Shredder tried to kill them with a thermite bomb, only to be knocked off the roof with the bomb, seemingly killing himself.Īfter the defeat of the Shredder, Raphael encountered a crazy vigilante named Casey Jones who attacks criminals with sports equipment. They challenged the Shredder to a duel and after a pitched battle against him and his soldiers, defeating him after a pitched battle. Splinter later revealed his history to the Turtles and after watching them defeat the Purple Dragon street gang, he decides they were ready to battle the Shredder. When they turned 13, they decided to use their considerable fighting abilities to battle crime in New York City, emerging under cover of darkness, so as not to be discovered. He also named them after four Renaissance artists that Splinter found influential in his life: Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michaelangelo. He raised them as his own children and taught them all he knew about being a ninja, including fighting, stealth, and strategy. After Yoshi was murdered by the Shredder, Splinter fled and after a time ended up in the sewers of New York City.Īfter a traffic accident caused four pet turtles and a container of radioactive ooze to fall into the sewer, both Splinter and the young turtles were mutated into humanoids with human-level intelligence.
Eventually, Shredder found and murdered both Yoshi and Shen. He then wore an armor covered in blades and referred to himself as the Shredder. Meanwhile, Nagi's brother Saki vowed revenge and joined the Foot Clan, rising in it's ranks and eventually becoming the leader of the American branch. Yoshi chose exile and moved to New York City along with Splinter. The Foot Clan then forced him to make a decision for his crime: exile or suicide. Shen was later beaten brutally by Nagi, who insisted that she love him, and upon discovering this, Yoshi murdered Nagi for revenge. Though both tried to win her heart, only Yoshi was able to win it. Hamato Yoshi and another clan member, Oroku Nagi, were rivals, particularly over the love of the Chinese woman Tang Shen. In Japan in 1964, Splinter was the pet rat of skilled ninja Hamato Yoshi, a member of the Foot Clan, where (being an unusually smart rat) he learned ninja skills simply by watching his master. The origin story differs partly between different versions. After being dumped into the sewer after being exposed to a powerful mutagen, four pet turtles were transformed into mutants and were trained by a mutated rat to be superior martial artists with a sense of justice.