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I was completely horrified at what Shredder did. If there's one thing I like about this episode, it's expand on Shredder's character a little. His act of killing Splinter and dooming the world (including Miwa) to oblivion proves that whatever love he has for his daughter, (who isn't his daughter and is too stubborn to accept that), it will always come second to his quest for vengeance.

Though in my opinion, I don't think Shredder loves her at all. He seems to love her, but it's not actually love. True love is wanting someone you care about to be happy, like the kind of love Splinter shows to the Turtles and Miwa. So, Shredder doesn't actually love her. He just sees her as property that he can use in whatever way he wants in his feud against her real father.

If he actually did love her, then he would have just let her go and move on. Like he should have done with Tang Shen all those years ago.