Talk:Hamato Splinter (alternate) (Mirage)/@comment-93957-20180413190115/@comment-995426-20180414071525

......That hadn't actually occurred to me. I assumed AU versions because Leonardo's visit to the Battle Nexus seemed to be foreshadowing characters meeting their AU alternates&mdash;Soowiiksaa/E'ro'chk met and killed hers, and then there was Oroku Yoshi. I suppose a different extremely radical cloning plot twist is possible, but original Splinter's reveal as the daimyō seemed to clinch it. But you're right&mdash;we can't yet know that for an absolute certainty.

I also don't recall whether or not the Splinter who died is ever called a dopplegänger&mdash;I may have encountered that word on TMNTEntity or another fan analysis site.

...This is another reason why transcripts are so useful in the end. XD I've been moving steadily down the timeline, but I might have transcribe stuff like these volume 4 issues in question sooner rather than later just to clear up stuff like this.

For now, this article is still mostly good&mdash;it can be renamed (perhaps to Hamato Splinter (Alternate) (Mirage)), and the assumptions about alternate universe swapping reduced to a trivia bullet in light of everything else the Battle Nexus scenes keep revealing.