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I mean, I can see where they're coming from - if Shredder wasn't around, Splinter wouldn't have that whole traumatic backstory as his motive and he likely wouldn't be as intense and could become lazy. But that wouldn't make him an awful person. Just because he didn't have his wife/sons/self/owner (depending on the incarnation) murdered by a crazy ninja doesn't mean he's going to become a terrible person who doesn't even care about his own children. Splinter is just a totally different person in Rise. And even if I think of him as a parody, I don't really find him funny. Splinter is really my only big issue with Rise.