Foot Clan (IDW)

In the IDW Comics the Foot Clan existed since the time of feudal Japan, where it was founded by a ronin by the name of Tatsuo Takeshi, who had been betrayed by his master. The sorceress Kitsune helped Tatsuo, to recover from the severe wounds he had suffered in the assassination attempt; the name of the clan was created by the bloody footprint of Tatsuo's, whose leg was completely healed by Kitsune Mini Trat ions.

Finally, Tatsuo was betrayed by his clan, when it became known that he made ​​a pact with a magician, but his mind was born again in the son of his murderer, Oroku Saki, the uprooting of the reawakening of his old memories powered over the communities and with Kitsune's counsel the Foot was revived in modern times.

In more recent times, the clan under the leadership Saki - now known as the Shredder - tried to expand its supremacy in New York City. Its ninja were therefore often sent to amass any science that could help the Foot, and also to find new test subjects; in this way it lead, to the creation of the mutant Alopex.

In this endeavor, the Foot Clan came the extradimensional warlord General Krang in the way, who also wanted to create a mutant army to meet its objectives. A slump in the Foot in the laboratory of Krangs allies Baxter Stockman led by a combination of circumstances to the creation of the Turtles and their father Splinter, in a previous life had himself belongs to the Foot Clan.