What If......

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Ok, so hear me out on this. Please keep an open mind. We all know that in the 2003 TMNT cartoon, the Shredder was revealed in season two to have been an utrom. Well I'm gonna put a different spin on things. To start off with, everything in the first season stays the same until the third episode of "Return To New York." However in my version, a human Shredder stays dead after having his head cut off by Leonardo. Everything about the following eight episodes remains the same.

Then we arrive at "Secret Origins." In this story we learn that the human Shredder was a former guardian, and basically had the role of Yukio Mashimi in "Tale Of Master Yoshi." Saki became a member of the Foot, same as Mashimi, and eventually became leader of the Foot. In my version, the TCRI building is still destroyed by an utrom's implosion device. However, the utroms eliminate the building themselves for their own safety and to keep the Earthlings from using utrom technology for military purposes.

Continuing through season two, we make our way to "City At War." Rather than having an utrom Shredder regenerated by the worms, the worms recreate the human Shredder. Basically the Shredder's story remains the same up until "Exodus." In Exodus, the Shredder is still having a dinner at his place. However, the dinner is simply just to honor the Shredder for all that he has done for New York. For whatever reason, it still ends up being the final battle between the Shredder and the turtles. The Shredder still defeats all four turtles in battle, only to have Master Splinter kill the Shredder in battle.

Season four remains pretty much exactly the same. Leo still goes through his struggles about not being able to defeat the Shredder in battle. We still get the “Tale Of Master Yoshi” episode in which we learn about Tang Shen. Bishop still has the story with the fake aliens and all. And the turtles still go and steal the pendant from Karai. And we move on to season five.

In season five the turtles are still recruited by the Ninja Tribunal to fight against the original Shredder. The only difference is that this original Shredder was not Oroku Saki. This original Shredder still has basically the exact same story as before. However, this Shredder founded the Foot. And every leader of the Foot since then has been given the mantle of the Shredder, thus establishing the connection that Karai had that allowed her to weaken the Shredder.

Thus concludes my version of the Shredder. What was my point in all of this? Basically all that I did was make just a few small changes, and the 2003 TMNT cartoon features a human Shredder rather than an utrom Shredder. So why did the creators even bother to make the Shredder an utrom? It didn’t add anything to the character, it didn’t make the character more appealing. If not for just a few select episodes, the Shredder basically was a human. The audience wouldn’t have even known that the Shredder was secretly an utrom. So, any thoughts/opinions?