The Shredder appeared in many of the video games mainly based on the 1987 TV series and TMNT Adventures comics, usually, but not always, as the final boss. He usually executes some plan to provoke the Ninja Turtles into retaliating and defeat them; these include kidnapping April O'Neil and Splinter and stealing the Statue of Liberty.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 home game)[]
The Shredder appears as the final boss at the end of the Technodrome level. He wears a red costume similar to his Mirage counterpart and fights using the Life Transformer Gun, which de-mutates and instantly kills the Turtle that the player controls. He also takes away roughly half of the player's health if he is touched. After he is defeated, the Shredder turns into a pile of ash and the Retromutagen Ray Generator is used to turn Splinter back into Hamato Yoshi.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 arcade game)[]
The Shredder first appears at the end of the first level after the players defeat Rocksteady, kidnapping April O'Neil and escaping. The third level features the Shredder appearing on several monitors while exclaiming "Tonight I dine on turtle soup". He also appeared in the preceding cutscene guarding the captive April with Bebop and Rocksteady (Baxter Stockman in the NES port).
Ultimately, the Shredder appears at the end of the game in the Technodrome level as the final boss, faced immediately after Krang. He attacks with a sword and lightning bolts from a device on his helmet, that de-mutates the Turtles, killing them instantly. He is also able to create clones of himself (the exact number of clones is one more than the number of Turtles attacking him in the arcade version). When the Shredder or one of his clones nears defeat, his helmet falls off, a unique occurrence in the game series..
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Fall of the Foot Clan (1990)[]
This game was the first one not to feature the Shredder as the final boss. Instead, the Shredder appears as the next-to-last boss in the river level, armed with a sword and able to teleport when hit. It is also the first game in which the Shredder doesn't have the ability to de-mutate the Turtles. Krang is the final boss.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Manhattan Missions (1991)[]
In this game for the DOS computer system, the Shredder is the final boss in his Manhattan hideout, decorated in a Japanese style. He also appears in the ending being turned over to the police by the Turtles. His appearance is based on the Mirage comic version.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: The Manhattan Project (1992)[]
This game is the first to feature both a battle against the Shredder and a second one against a mutated Super Shredder. The Shredder first appears as the boss of level six, the Technodrome level, attacking with a sword. He later returns as the final boss on the stage set in Krang's spacecraft and assumes the form of Super Shredder much as he did in the second movie which had been released earlier the same year (1991). As Super Shredder, the Shredder can summon lightning and shoot fireballs that temporarily de-mutate the Turtles, taking some of their energy.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Back from the Sewers (1991)[]
A sequel to Fall of the Foot Clan, this game also features the Shredder as a regular level boss and Krang as the final boss. He does not have the ability to de-mutate the Turtles, but he does have a wider variety of attacks than in the previous Game Boy game. The Shredder first appears as a regular stage boss, attacking the Turtles by punching, kicking, and running from side to side. He later returns as the penultimate boss of the final Technodrome level in the mutated form of Super Shredder. However, in this incarnation, his only super-power is the ability to teleport elsewhere on the screen. Super Shredder attacks with a sword and occasionally teleports and kicks the Turtles. Krang is once again the final boss.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time (1991)[]
In the arcade version, The Shredder is again the final boss of the game found in the Technodrome level and attacks with a sword, fire hand shots and eye beams. However, this time, he is not preceded by a Technodrome level. Instead, the Turtles fight through a Starbase level in the future (2100 AD) with Krang as boss, then teleport to the Technodrome in the present (1991 in the arcade game and 1992 in the SNES version) for the final confrontation. In the SNES version, an earlier Technodrome level was added that featured a regular Shredder. In this battle, the Shredder is in a kind of battle tank armed with a machine gun and claws as the main stage boss, being defeated by throwing the never-ending waves of Foot Soldiers toward the screen at him. The player views the action over the Shredder's shoulder inside the tank. In the same version, the final boss has the Shredder become Super Shredder and has the added superpowers of super-speed movement, and randomly attacks with three different attacks: Red that create a trail of flame in front of him, blue that fires upward and freezes the Turtles, and green fireballs that de-mutate the Turtles costing them a life.
In the Re-Shelled remake, the Shredder is once more the final boss and uses a sword, fireballs and eye beams.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Hyperstone Heist (1992)[]
This Sega Genesis game featured a Super Shredder similar to the one in the SNES version of Turtles in Time as the final boss. His attacks are roughly the same with the exception of his blue attack not freeing the Turtles.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Radical Rescue (1993)[]
Unlike the previous Game Boy games, Fall of the Foot Clan and Back from the Sewers, the Shredder is the final boss. He attacks by kicking and throwing fireballs. After he is defeated once, his health bar instantly refills and he fights again, this time with more vicious attacks. He is the only boss in the game with two life meters, He is called Cyber Shredder, half-man and half-machine in the game's credits and box.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tournament Fighters (1993)[]
This is the first game in which the Shredder is not a boss but instead a regular playable character. Furthermore, his costume is based on the Mirage comics version. The Shredder is a fully playable character in the NES and SNES versions of the game. He is called Cyber-Shredder in the SNES game, and the Japanese manual states he has cybernetically enhanced himself as part of his desire to grow stronger.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Madness (2020)[]
The Shredder is an unlockable 3-star character, classified as a Brawler/Trickster. Kongregate offered the character as a pre-registration incentive for early downloads of their 2020 mobile game. He is equipped with Kuro Kabuto and his special techniques include: Shred, Claw Furry, Bladed Armor, Foot Clan Usurper, and Get Them!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge (2022)[]
The Shredder makes several appearances throughout the game. He first makes a brief appearance in the first Episode: "Jaw-Breaking News." He arrives via Module in the Channel 6 Building, laughing at the heroes arrive, then disappearing with a smoke bomb. He is seen watching the heroes' progress after Episode 3: "Mutants Over Broadway," where he commands his followers to destroy the turtles. His next appearance is in Episode 6, "Mall Meltdown," where he uses a remote to summon Tempestra to battle the heroes. He then appears in Episode 10, "A Few Screws Loose," where he reprograms Metalhead to attack the heroes. After Metalhead's defeat, he crushes the remote and declares his infamous catchphrase, "Tonight I dine on turtle soup!"
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He awaits the heroes in Episode 15, "Outworld Strangeoids," as the final boss of the Episode. After Krang is defeated in his android body, the Shredder engages the heroes, vowing to show them how a true ninja fights. He attacks with flying attacks, can generate an electrical field to knock away enemies that get too close, and can create doppelgangers to distract the heroes. After his defeat, he disappears once again with a smoke bomb.
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He returns as the final boss of Episode 16, "Wrath of the Lady," descending after Krang is defeated in the Statue of Tyranny, and using a vial of mutagen to transform into the powerful, but unstable, Super Shredder. In this powerful form, he dashes around the arena, leaving trails of green fire in his wake, then unleashes waves of the green fire at the heroes. He can also create shadow images of himself to attack the heroes. He is invulnerable to damage until his power overloads, which causes him to temporarily slump and leaves him vulnerable. After his defeat, his unstable body explodes, and he collapses, his fate left uncertain.
Trivia[]
- Despite being named in the title of two Konami LCD handheld games, the Shredder does not appear in either Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3: Shredder's Last Stand or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder Gets Shelled!.
- The manual of the Famicom version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1989 video game) writes "Oroku Saki" as "尾碌沙鬼" and provides the furigana "おろくさき".
See also[]
- Character gallery: Shredder
- Animation gallery: Shredder
- Appearances of Shredder