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Several months after the death of Oroku Saki, the Shredder, on Christmas Eve, several members of the Foot, as well as the Shredder himself seemingly resurrected, would jump and beat Leonardo to the brink of death. They then throw his body through the window of the Turtles' ally April's Second Time Around store. Shredder and the Foot would attack the turtles and set the building on fire. With the help of Casey Jones, the Turtles, April and Hamato Splinter managed to escape to Casey's grandmother's old farmhouse in Northampton, Massachusetts.
After months of recuperation, a year on in the story "Return to New York" the Turtles returned to New York City to settle the score with their enemies. With with the help of Zog, a Triceraton suffering from delusions due to breathing Earth's oxygen, they go to take down the Foot and the Shredder once and for all. During the fight, Zog gets hacked to death by the 3 deformed "Mutant Shredder clones". The other Turtles would face them and be taken down one by one, leaving Leonardo to face the "real" Shredder himself.
Leonardo faced off against the Shredder alone, in which Shredder revealed that he was a worm clone of the original Shredder, but still harbored the hatred of the original. The Foot employed some sort of mystic worms that ate the remains of the dead, and then grow into the form of what they ate. The malformed Shredder Elite were the first three experiments with the worms, and the Shredder now facing Leonardo was their fourth. Shredder and Leonardo fought it out and in the end, Leo would end up decapitating him finally killing him. Leonardo would then take Shredder's body and burn it at the Hudson River in a Viking funeral (burning on a raft on a river). With the Shredder gone, chaos erupted in New York City among the leaderless Foot Clan.
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles[]
In issue #3 and #4 of Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Vol. 2, it is shown that a few weeks after Leonardo defeated the Shredder, he had yet another resurrection of a sort. A Foot Mystic named Mashima would find the remains and use the mysterious worms that created Shredder's clone body again, which had gained sentience. The worms then went out to find a new body, but this time they'd also eat the remains of a shark. This shark monster retained Saki's memories and considered himself the real Oroku Saki. This creature had wasted no time and started his revenge against the Turtles and Hamato Splinter by kidnapping him. Facing the Turtles, who defeated it, after a long struggle, in which, by the mysterious abilities of this new creature, the personalities of the Turtles were turned upside down. By severing it's connection to the mystic, he realized he was just a clone and escaped, also eating the Foot Mystic. Sometime later, the monster returned in issue #33, however, and had the Foot kidnap Casey's stepdaughter Shadow to lure the Turtles into a trap. With the Turtles away this Shark/Worm/Shredder monster would face Splinter and Casey Jones. They managed to defeat this incarnation of Shredder with the help of the Foot Mystic Mashima, who had meanwhile merged with the Shredder Shark clone, and rescued Shadow finally killing the creature.
Trivia[]
- Peter Laird got the idea of mystic worms reviving Shredder from a science experiment by Dr. James V. McConnell where trained tapeworms were ground up and fed to other tapeworms, and some of the training seemed to transfer to the tapeworms who ate their ground-up brethren.