#lagt feel free to ask me anything about 2003 omg i will GO OFF

[ritz-writes]

Ritz pls info dump to me about TMNT 2003

I was a huge fan of TMNT as a kid but now everyone talks only of 2013 onward!

Pls hit me with your opinions

LAGTTT U BEAUTIFUL RAY OF SUNSHINE

ask me anything u wanna know, but for now imma get into all the different kinds of shredders there are cuz oh boy theres a lot

1st Shredder: Oroku Saki He was a warrior in ancient japan but ended up making a deal with a demon that corrupted his mind (he wanted to rule the world. womp womp.) hes known as demon shredder, tengu shredder, the one true shredder--the list goes on. there ends up being a huge fight at the end of s5 where he turns into a dragon, then the turtles turn into dragons, so theres this huge dragon fight and its rlly rlly cool. even tho s5 is one of my least rewatched seasons, i fight tengu shredder very interesting

2nd Shredder: Utrom Shredder (utrom is an alien species) who is called Ch'rell. hes the one we see all the time. the one that never fucking dies. i mean, srsly, he always ends up finding a way to come back. he escaped utrom captivity (hes an intergalactic war criminal) and landed on earth, where he took the name of Oroku Saki. before we know hes an alien (hes piloting a human robot body) we legit see leo cut his head off, then later see him just get up, pick up his head, and walk away. then its revealed next season hes an alien. but when i tell u little me was very surprised he also came back for the movie, turtles forever (it ws a crossover between the 03 and 80's turtles). i havent watched it in forever so i cant remember if he died or not. i hope he did cuz omfg he cannot keep cheating death like that

3rd Shredder: Karai She's his adoptive daughter. shes... kind of a wild card. sometimes she helps the turtles, sometimes she doesnt, sometimes she'll stop her father's plans, sometimes she'll help. most of the time shes on her fathers side tho. but after he dies or is banished or whathaveyou then she takes up the mantel. i love her and i hate her. sometimes i wanna give her a hug and other times i want to wring her neck

5th Shredder: Cyber Shredder ch'rell was smart and put a copy of himself into a protected lil box in cyberspace and regularaly updated it in case anytihng happened to him. so when the turtles come back from the future (thats s6 my beloved. thats a whole other thing) Viral, a sentient virus (also a whole other thing) follows them to the past (she also blasts spinter into tiny cyber bits and they spend the season trying to gather them all up again. ALSO a whole other thing) and goes into cyber space to hide. finds shredders lil box, notices the power of it, and tries to break in. but shredder has firewalls so he kinda just absorbes her. and that activates him. so when the turltes go into cyberspace, they gotta fight him. he also ends up becomes real again during april and caseys wedding (ALSO A WHOLE OTHER THING) (splinter also comes back that epsidoes. surprise u have a body again, now put this suit on we r at a wedding) but they kick his ass and he goes bye bye

Special mentions!

Same As It Never Was (this was the best full body pic i could find rip) This is also utrom shredder, but its an alternate universe where donnie left his brothers and uhhh literally everything fell apart. and i mean everything. shredder took over the world, splinter died, casey died, mikey lost an arm, raph lost an eye, and leo lost his vision. this whole episode is SOOO messed up (and i havent even mentioned the amalgamation of hun and bishop being fused together... nightmare fuel). anyway, donnie kills him so its all good. if u count his brother dying before hes able to "all good"

Shredder clones these guys show up for one episode then get destroyed. they also arent technically clones. it was in a synopsis that said they weren't, which makes sense since if they were then they'd be utrom as well. best guess is ch'rell maybe did smth with og shredders dna, or maybe he just had stockman throw dna together until they got smth shredder-esque. either way, they're freaky

and thats all the shredders! anytime i go to explain 2003 to someone and i get on the topic of shredder, i have to go "okay so, this might get a lil confusing-"

2003 is so so important to me and i love how crazy they go with the stories <33