Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11016223-20130904052318/@comment-6028837-20130904215021

Ryu-amio wrote: Technically they are related. When the turtles mutated to become anthropomorphic they needed some source of human DNA, otherwise they would just have been oversized, mutated turtles. The human DNA that allowed them to become semi-human was that of Hamato Yoshi (Splinter before he himself mutated) Therefore the turtles are 'technically related' to Splinter and thus also 'technically related' to Karai as well. Just stating the facts. did you click the link that FrostXxBitex posted, cuz the link explains alot. and besides the turtles are splinters adopted sons and karia/Miwa is his flesh and blood daugther the turtles grew up with splinter and love him like a father but Karai/Miwa did not. she was raised by shredder and has had no interaction with splinter other than the fight in the season finale.