Slashuur is a samurai-esque mercenary whose name is known throughout the universe. His first, and only appearance to date, is in the video game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2: Battle Nexus.
History[]
The Turtles first encounter him while safeguarding the Fugitoid. Slashuur was hired by the Triceratons to capture the Fugitoid, but the Turtles bested him. He promised to meet them again some day.
Later, Shredder had hired Slashuur to kill the Turtles. The Turtles are drawn to a strange portal in the sewers, which takes them to a post-apocalyptic New York. There, amidst hundreds of Foot Ninja, they encounter Slashuur once more. Fighting in a magical mandala in the sky, the Turtles once again beat Slashuur. Upon conversing about Hamato Yoshi and Splinter, who Slashuur seems familiar with, the Turtles reveal to him that it was The Shredder who murdered Yoshi. This jogs Slashuur's memory, and he reveals that he is an Utrom. Back on his home planet, Ch’rell, who would later be known as The Shredder, slew all of his friends and family, leaving him heavily scarred. Slashuur also realized that he could move across time and space at will, but at the cost of his memory.
Slashuur reveals his true form
Slashuur returns the Turtles to their own time, once again promising to meet again. This occurrence would be when the Turtles took siege to the Foot Clan's freighter ship, the Kuraiyama. Slashuur, along with Splinter and Zog, hold off the massive army of Foot Mechs while the Turtles take care of Shredder. As the flaming Kuraiyama begins to sink, Slashuur teleports the Turtles to safety on a nearby dock. True to his nature, Slashuur indicates that he will meet the Turtles again - this time at the Battle Nexus. When the Turtles do venture to this dimension, they do indeed meet him, and best him in a tournament. It is during the tournament that it is revealed that Slashuur entered a previous Battle Nexus tournament and made his way to the finals, where he lost to Hamato Yoshi.
Slashuur's weapon is a large scythe, Gengetsu, which is capable of draining his opponent's life force and using it as his own.
Playability[]
After certain conditions are met, he is made playable on the Blue Team, in place of Leonardo. It is possible to unlock Slashuur as soon as after clearing the first two stages of the game, long predating his first encounter as a boss much later on.
Notably, the playable version of Slashuur possesses a white colored armor. Aside from unlockable concept art and menu icons (which use the concept art), the only other time this color armor is shown is on a collectible Antique (alongside a separate unlockable Antique featuring the blue amrored variant of Slashuur). The playable Slashuur possesses the usual set of combos as other players would have unlocked. He can also fire Shurikens as normal but not his energy projectile from the boss battles. He is also unable to absorb projectiles but can still block as normal. As with other playable characters, he has his own unique set of stage MVP victory poses depending on the stage rank achieved when cleared.
His weapon is the Gengetsu, which has a long reach especially when performing a running attack. The Gengetsu is able to slice down certain parts of the environment with the Strong Attack button. Unlike the boss Slashuur, the playable Slashuur will not absorb life with the Gengetsu. Some of his Gengetsu's attacks, most notably the running attack, can inflict paralysis on certain opponents. His charging attack is a Gengetsu spin that produces a large cloud of red energy surrounding him for a second. When used at close range, this is widely considered to be the most powerful attack in the game, able to deplete a lot of health from enemies and bosses if not instantly eliminating them. Using it will cause him to scream "Slash attack!". A useful strategy is to paralyze an opponent first (if possible) before charging up for as long as possible, then releasing the attack at close-range before the opponent recovers. Coincidentally, one of his voice clips mentions finishing off enemies in one blast, which may reference this powerful attack.
The playable Slashuur's voice clips are generally more energetic than the "Boss" Slashuur's own voice. The playable Slashuur may also comment on the Boss Slashuur if the two engage in a battle.
Trivia[]
- According to the Japanese text on the concept art, the white armored Slashuur is simply called Slashuur while the blue armored art has the additional text "(Boss Time)".