Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26487118-20150611165357/@comment-6088446-20150612140007

Plantsiluv wrote: Jadepalacetrainee wrote: It's kinda funny that this whole war between Splinter and Karai and the Shredder and the Turtles and just about everyone else is all caused by Shredder being super jealous that Tang Shen chose Splinter instead of him and he was too stubborn to just let it go and move on with his life.

This whole jealousy story is complicated enough to put most dramatic romance films to shame! Wait a minute... So if Shredder didn't become a jealous douchebag, there may have no turtles, no mutated Karai, and no mutants? Yup. This is all because the Shredder chose to become a "jealous douchebag" instead of just moving on and forgetting about Splinter and Tang Shen. It's true that without the Shredder's jealousy, we wouldn't have the mutant heroes we love so much.

I've heard that people wished that the turtles would go back in time to stop the Shredder from killing Tang Shen, but if they did that, as terrible as it sounds, the turtles would most likely disappear from existence. Don't get me wrong, I would have loved it if Tang Shen had survived, but how would her living change the course of the future?