Master Splinter
Master Splinter is a comic book character that first appeared in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1
A rat mutated by exposure to toxic goo, Master Splinter raised the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and trained them in the art of ninjitsu. He is also the father of the turtles.
Biography
Splinter and Hamato Yoshi
When Yoshi killed a member his clan in a feude 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 Saki, 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 cannister which struck and shattered a young boy's glass bowl carrying four baby turtles. The rat followed the cannister and the turtles down into an open manhole and observed how the turtles were crawling through the substance oozing out of the now broken cannister. 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 everywere except to the surface but one day he recieved a shock, one of the turtles spoke the word "Splinter" and in doing so named him. In turn, out of battered renaisance 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.
Splinter and the TMNT
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 ressurected 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.
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 coursely 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 continualy unable to focus his thoughts and meditate, out of frustration he lashed out at his surroundings.
Spinter 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.
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| Super Name: | Master Splinter |
| Real Name: | Hamato Yoshi |
| Aliases: | Sensi |
| Publisher: | Mirage |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 |
| Appears in: | 172 issues |
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