Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1255374-20150930020647/@comment-26066301-20151023021458

Finally, here's one reason killing off Splinter for good wouldn't be good for this show. It would mean Shredder would lose his character! Now that he's killed Splinter, what is he gonna do now? It's like Splinter said in the season one finale, if Shredder killed Splinter, he would have nothing left to live for! Except maybe Miwa, but she would never go back to him, especially when she finds out what he's done to her real father! He did try to kill the turtles, but that was only so he can get Splinter to face him!

Long story short, if we have no Splinter, we have no Shredder.