Shredder (2012 TMNT)

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Shredder is the primary antagonist in the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon on Nickelodeon. Like the comics, his real name is Oroku Saki. He and Hamato Yoshi (Splinter) used to be friends until the love of a woman tore them apart. During the fight, Yoshi's wife was killed and his baby daughter was lost. At the end of the pilot episode, Rise of the Turtles, he watches the news in Tokyo, Japan after the turtles have made themselves known. He concludes that Hamato Yoshi was building his own army and is headed to New York City to exact his revenge.In the 2-part season finale "Showdown", he had April kidnapped just so he could fight Splinter once and for all. When Splinter arrived, he learns that she was a hollagram and then Shredder appeared. He learns that after all those years, Splinter was a rat. After the battle, Karai apperared to help her "father" and tried to fight Splinter, but he refused, because Splinter instantly realized that Karai was actually his real daughter Miwa, and that Shredder didn't kill her along with her mother, but instead he abducted her and raised her as his own "daughter", and that she's been used by Shredder the whole time. In the end, after Splinter fled, Shredder vowed to kill him one day. He has three main henchmen, an apprentice and martial arts master named Chris Bradford, his "adopted" daughter, Karai and a street thug named Xever.  At the end of Pulverizer Returns, he allied himself with The Kraang to destroy the Turtles. He is voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson, who also voiced Captain Gantu from Lilo & Stitch and Goro from the Mortal Kombat Movie.