Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20150831022901/@comment-26066301-20151010162958

No, Gilgameshan is right. Shredder only sees Miwa as a trophy, he just wants to keep her to himself, use her anyway he wants, and to make sure Splinter doesn't have her. He's reluctant to let her go, because he knows she'll go back to Splinter, and that would make Splinter happy, and the one thing he doesn't want is for Splinter to be happy.

Shredder only cares about his own self interests, and therefore he doesn't actually love her.

Plus, I'll say this again. If Shredder actually loved Tang Shen, then he would have just let her go and move on. And as we can see in Tales of the Yokai, he was still reluctant to let her go. He even tried to persuade her into leaving Yoshi and going with him! He didn't love her, he was obsessed with her!