Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-10693082-20130728090700/@comment-6028837-20130818022555

okay i can kindve make out what you are saying and heres an explaination about that.

in the original comics splinter was a rat owned by a ninja master named hamato yoshi who was killed by the shredder

now in the 80's cartoon they made hamato yoshi mutate into a rat and the turtles called him splinter

and thats what there doing now in the new series too so too sum up original splinter rat that got mutated, 80's cartoon hamato yoshi mutates into a rat, 2012 series same thing.