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word of advice ! This clause comprise spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin - The mazed daytime SpecialWhileTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesfans may understandably assume that the death of one of the original Turtles ( in this shell , Raphael ) would only produce a decrease in Splinter ’s Hamato Clan rank , that was n’t the case inThe Last Ronintimeline . In fact , Splinter ’s clan membership exploded after Raphael ’s demise , as that ’s when Hamato Yoshi created the brutal killing - police squad , ‘ sliver ’s Strikers ’ .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Roninchronicles the tragic final chapter of theTMNT , admit and especiallyMichelangelo as he takes the role of the Last Roninfollowing the death of his brothers , protagonist , and father . In the original five - issue story arc , the corking fallout from the deaths of most of the original Turtles was that the Modern Shredder , Oroku Hiroto , and his Foot Clan did n’t get all of them , head to the scoundrel ’s ultimate fall by the helping hand of Michelangelo . However , as the story is currently expanding and the chain of upshot within this separate reality inTMNT ’s ever - grow multiverse is becoming more clear , it seems the unparalleled anger of Michelangelo as the Last Ronin was n’t the only affair that happened once the original Turtle brothers started to fall . After Raphael was kill , Splinter promptly joined with the one - time foe of the TMNT , a street gang called the Purple Dragons , who were trained by the ninja headmaster to become the aforementioned Splinter ’s Strikers .
TMNT’s Splinter Turned The Purple Dragons Into Splinter’s Strikers
InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin - The Lost Day Specialby Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , Ben Bishop , Esau and Isaac Escorza , and Freddie E. Williams II , readers stick with April O’Neil years after the case of the originalLast Ronin , as she lam a few errands with her grandchildrenYi , Uno , Moja , and Odyn . In this borderline post - apocalyptical future , those errand are a bit more dangerous than they would have been in the mod clock time , as everything they need to survive is deal on the black grocery , meaning most goods and necessities are guarded by criminal syndicate . One such mob is the Purple Dragons , and while they regress to being enemy of the TMNT , April ’s dealings with them in this issue made her call up back to a meter when they fought side - by - side . When the TMNT agitate against the Shredder and his Foot Clan - a fighting that result in Raphael ’s death - the Ninja Turtles realise they could n’t vex him alone , and Splinter convinced the Purple Dragons of the same . So , they came to a armistice , and while it clearly did n’t last , that truce was in reality more significant toTMNTlore than many buff might realize .
Splinter’s Strikers Made TMNT’s Successors Possible
As unveil in one of April ’s flashback in this egress , Splinter ’s Strikers in reality saved her life after she was believed to have been kill by the Foot Clan . This is immensely significant to the hereafter of the franchise , as April was pregnant with Casey at the fourth dimension , who would raise up to be the warriorlike artwork master for the next generation of TMNT : Yi , Uno , Odyn , and Moja . Not only that , but April efficaciously yield biography to the Modern Turtles . So ( for more reason than one ) , if Splinter ’s Strikers did n’t save her , then the newfangled four Turtles might have never hail to be , meaning theTMNTlegacy would have died with the original four , and fans would have been robbed of attend these new desperate Turtles cleaning up the metropolis the same way as their predecessors .
So , not only did the armistice with the Purple Dragons make the rank for Splinter ’s Hamato Clan absolutely explode with the inclusion of an entire army that would become know as ‘ sliver ’s striker ’ , this truce was , in fact , necessary for the continuation of storey within this fan - favorite corner of theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesmultiverse - and it was only possible by the tragical demise of Raphael .
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : The Last Ronin - The Lost Day Specialby IDW Publishing is useable now .
