What motive does Shredder have that we DON'T know about yet?
 

Am I the only one who thinks there must be more to the story than just "I had a crush on my best friend's wife, so, in a fit of jealousy, I torched their house,got badly burned by my own fault, kidnapped their daughter, then poisoned her mind against her actual father for the following decade and a half or so"? O_o His 'revenge' seems a scoch overkill IMO.

Wrong series guy

No, I don't think there's any more to Shredder's story than that, but I actually like how it's played out thus far. There's a lot more potential for this feud in future seasons, and we all know it's far from over from that last fight.

I'm sure eventually he'll have world domination on his mind.

Pretty much what Cybercubed said, especially when he's directly working with the Kraang. There might be more to the story though, only time will tell.

Um....what?

If you think that's overkill, you've probably never danced around with love too much. It can drive you insane.

It was on the 4kids page

I'm sure there's a little more to it. As shown in "Turtle Temper", it was a long build up to Saki's breaking point when he finally attacked Yoshi.

But, at his root, Shredder does seem to be a jealous punk.

I was wondering if there was more to it also, but admittedly I'm not convinced this is the case. I'd be interested if they did decide to add a bit more to the story, but I won't be disappointed if they don't.

It's a revenge story. There are often not too much more depth added to character fueled by rage and focused on revenge.

BUT... I would like to know what happened in that time for Saki to become Shredder and what we was doing in Japan before establishing base in New York after that news report in the first episode.
What was he up to as Shredder before?

Maybe he ran criminal activity in Japan, that would be interesting.

How should we know?


Come on gobo, you knew someone was gonna go there?

Never underestimate the power of...well...:roll:

I am curious to know why Hamato Yoshi has the name Splinter. For Shredder was referring to him as that in the series long before he found out he was a rat.

Kenny confirmed from his tumblr it's their codenames from each other back then.

For the show so far, I think there hasn't been an explanation for his facial scar yet.

I don't understand how no one gets it, but it's quite evident from even the first episode that his face was burned in the fire that started up during his fight at Yoshi's house.

I have enjoyed Shredder's one track mind up until this point, I'm hoping that there isn't some cliché plot for world domination in his plans.

Splinter had said during their fight that if Shredder succeeds in Killing him, he'll have nothing. I believe Shredder just wants to Kill Splinter out of a combination of revenge, and to prove that he's always been better than him. With that and the satisfaction that he gets to raise his enemies daughter to hate her true Father. (He Might also want to off the Turtles, In order to make Splinter just a little more miserable.)

It's a pretty Good Motive already. Adding too much would only dilute it.

Here's what I want to know. Did Shredder know the Kraang's plan involves making the earth uninhabitable to humans when he decided to work with them? Is he so obsessed with wiping out Splinter and the Turtles that he's willing to knowingly aid creatures who are working to essentially cause the extinction of all life on the planet in order to do so?

Yup, I say he knew, sound like ol'Shred Head.