The original Splinter, the most gifted rat in history - TMNT Comics 

It’s awesome! I learn so many cool things, keep it up!

Not so unrealistic. Which makes it interesting.

It's funny that you forgot that the Michael Bay Splinter was also a rat. I forget about that whole universe sometimes too. 😛

Splinter/Yoshi is honestly better and makes more sense. A pet rat that learned the arts of ninjitsu is less believable

It’s fiction, I don’t think it’s meant to be believable in a world of mutants, aliens, and time travelers.

@@daltonhead4572 it’s not meant to be 100% realistic for sure, but it’s way more logical anyways.

In what way? All you essentially get is Hamato Yoshi as a rat, no splinter at all.

So you're saying Splinter was born and adopted by Homato Yoshi shortly before Shredder killed Yoshi, and when he was mutated, he was given false memories?

@@jakeproven256 That's my theory. Though I'd imagine he got splinter shortly after moving to New York, so he would have had him for a while when Oroku Saki shows up.

@@AustynSN I guess that works.

Yeah

Exactly

I love it as a pet owner. Damn my pet would train four ninjas to honor and avenge me. It’s cute and badass. It also makes the turtles even more underdogs. I like the family as mutant animals

How? it’s not realistic

@@rockmanmix6242 tmnt ain't realistic its a spoof parody on frank Miller samurai and ninja tropes that changed the land scape of comics such as introducing batman as karate Practitioner and changed his lore and gear into ninja culture same with his villain ras al ghul originally most likely an homage to berber moors of north africa with scimitars are now changed cause of the nolan movies into a ninja cult in tibet whos a huge white washed arab weeabo retcon combined with one of bats teachers ducard daredevil as a zatoichi ninja rather than a acrobatic boxer whos self taught with the same t.c.r.i ooze that made the rat and his adopted surrogate turtle sons and loyal swords at his hand to kill his owners killer amd clan anthropromorphsized givej the chance to do so and gave matt his sonar sense and abilities of gymnatic acrobatics parkour free running and tech to turn his walking stick into nunchaku escrima sticks bo staff and a grapple gun wolverine as a ninja samurai constantly involved in traveling back and forth the pacific theater rather than them just being boxer brawlers in tights and cheesy canon ninja samurai flicks of the 80s and the concept of turtles having the agility of Bruce Lee was just silly to kevin eastman and peter laird laughing at the western weeabo obsession with Japanese culture and was absurd to companies eastman and laird pitched their comic to for turtle mania to even occur because the stereotype that the lowly aquatic turtle are velocity challenged like the tortoise being violent trained assassins with the speed of slicing a guy inhalf with a sword was so it was rejected as such.

@@andagean also its making fun at the bushido samurai code and ninja tropes in eastern and western media with the cycle of revenge and that the turtles aren't clearly "the heroes in a half shell" the cartoon incarnation made them out to be censoring the violent spy assassin they are raised and known for the turtles are but just child soldiers drafted in a war with their only purpose is to full fill splinters selfish vendetta to fule the senseless cycle of revenge by killing oroku saki grieving over his rapist brother nagi And in a rudimentary way that's Japanese customs of bushido where you obey your masters wishes cause at that point foot ninja are just slaves to their lord/ retainer and must only serve as their clans sword which hamato yoshi violated the clans rule over nagi asserting his dominance over the clans kunoich/ concubines even tho yoshi was morally in the right we are talking about the politics of how the foot clan operates in criminal elements so trivial things as sexism descriminitory means nothing to a band of ninja Thieves drugs and arms dealers espionage and assassinators for hier.

….yep, that makes more sense. The Mutated Ninja Animals is wild enough..

@@thepoeticbutcher3370 it's not supposed to make sense cause it's a goofy parody

@@tyronleung5276 ….it’s supposed to make sense in the universe.

@@thepoeticbutcher3370 in a world of dark ninja magic combined with science to ressurect a guy from a pile of worms that eat your chared exploded remains a guy opening up his own skull removing his own brain out his head and somehow putting said brain in a cyborg body time travelers vampires retired super heores and aliens that resemble brains and resemble earths styracodon and triceratop dinosaurs should not be taken seriously second rats are intelligent creatures and you must read tmnt odyssey and tmnt origin graphic novels to learn what splinter is

​@@thepoeticbutcher3370 yea fiction doesn't need to be realistic, this series has always been full of wacky highjacks from its premise, but we suspend are disbelief anyways because its fun. A rat coming to fuck up his masters murderer sounds awesome.

I will, but not sure when... In the meantime, the rest of November will be about IDW stories.

I have a video in mind for it, but it will require a lot of research (the video won't be specifically about Odyssey, but about its context).

I colored those panels myself (digitally) when I did the Rat King video, as I felt black and white wasn't clear enough to depict certain moments.

It's hard to tell when I will make that video. But it is in the list.

Probably killed off.

Rat DNA is closer to human DNA in real life (that is why he said it). Yeah, I heard about Kevin Conroy's passing. He will be missed.

@@TheTurtleNexus I thought apes were closer to humans?

@@srstriker6420 Rats and Mice have lived with humans long enough to be genetically closer (they eat what we eat and they tend to live near us).

@@TheTurtleNexus well I know that but could you say the same for cats and dogs?

@@srstriker6420 I am not sure. But there is a reason we experiment mostly with rats (unless it's something that comes from apes).

It is very likely that the original Splinter is in the Battle Nexus. But maybe one day it will get confirmed.

Pet rat seems more logical to me because the turtles weren't taken seriously in their first comic because it's satire to ronin daredevil cerebus Howard the duck and you're not supposed to take the turtles seriously because eastman and laird thought of them as silly jokes from bad television and love for jack kirby

I disagree, I see it as lazy and a disservice to Splinter as a character. Don’t get me wrong, I love the 87 and 2012 versions of splinter, but the way I see it they are just Hamato Yoshi as a rat, not Splinter.

Who is your favorite narrator in this channel?

@@TheTurtleNexus the guy with the raspy voice, that sounds like Dave from the channel "Order of the Greenhand"! Definitely the best!

@@TheTurtleNexus the Japanese guy

@@TheTurtleNexus yall ought to do dramatic reading audio motion comics of the mirage books one day please