1990 Saki: thoughts on his backstory?

[ToTheNines]

Alright, everyone put your fanfic hats on. I just got back from a Flashback Cinema screening, had a great time. Haven’t watched this one in like 5 years and it was amazing to see on the big screen for the first time.

Anyway: What does everyone think was going on with Shredder?

The main thing that stuck out to me was that while the Foot was successful as a gang of theives, they didn’t seem like particularly skilled fighters, other than Tatsu. I never got the sense that anyone was fighting to kill until Shredder came out. I guess they did beat Raph into a coma, but no one was able to slit his throat while he was incapacitated? (Obviously there was a limit to how violent they could go, but bear with me).

What else is interesting, is there appears to be very few Japanese Foot soliders. Most of them are American, at least the new recruits. Also judging from April’s report at the beginning, they just started operating in NYC recently.

So what did Saki do for 15 years? Was he disgraced and ran out of Japan for some reason? Was he sent by the Foot to kill Yoshi for abandoning the Foot or was that a condemned action? He didn’t seem to have any resources from the Japanese Foot, why else recruit young kids off the street?

Obviously it was left mysterious on purpose. I don’t know if they would have got into this if there was ever a true sequel to 1990, but it’s fun to think about.