History Characters / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003FootClan

* MythologyGag: He looks like the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987]] human Baxter Stockman, sharing the same wardrobe, with the only difference being his hair color being red, which is derived from the 1987 toyline version of his fly form (with his hair remaining blonde in the show itself).

* MythologyGag: He looks like the [[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 1987]] human Baxter Stockman, sharing the same wardrobe, with the only difference being his hair color being red, but that's derived from Baxter's eventual mutation into a fly.

* DudeMagnet: She's won the hearts of many for her beauty and fierce fighting skills, the nerdy AbhorrentAdmirer Dr. Chaplin, and the conventionally stoic Agent Bishop, who can't help but send lecherous comments her way when they interact.

* DudeMagnet: She's won the hearts of many for her beauty and fierce fighting skills, including Leo, the nerdy AbhorrentAdmirer Dr. Chaplin, and the conventionally stoic Agent Bishop, who can't help but send lecherous comments her way when they interact.

* DiminishingVillainThreat: In the first season, they're deadly fighters who destroy Leo in a fight and are possibly second only to the Shredder in threat level. From the second season onwards, they're still capable fighters but never inflict another defeat on the Turtles again and sometimes they receive an EliteMook equivalent of TheWorfEffect against people like Bishop or the Tengu Shredder to emphasize how [[SortingAlgorithmOfEvil skilled or dangerous the later enemies are]].

* WeaponOfChoice: All of them carry a specific weapon: [[AnAxeToGrind a battle axe]], [[DoubleWeapon a double bladed sword]], [[BladeOnAStick a spear]] and [[ProngsOfPoseidon a trident]].

* BreakingTheFellowship: Over the course of the series, many members begin to leave the Foot. At the end of Season 3, both Hun and Baxter Stockman leave the Foot and proceed to work with the Purple Dragons and Earth Protection Force respectively. After Season 5, it's also implied that Karai and Chaplin also leave the Foot as they are no longer present in ''Back to the Sewers'' and even ''fight'' against TheRemnant forces of the Cyber Shredder. Subverted in ''Turtles Forever'', where Karai and Hun rejoin the Foot when Ch'rell gets freed from his imprisonment. And the leave it again...

* BreakingTheFellowship: Over the course of the series, many members begin to leave the Foot. At the end of Season 3, both Hun and Baxter Stockman leave the Foot and proceed to work with the Purple Dragons and Earth Protection Force respectively. After Season 5, it's also implied that Karai and Chaplin also leave the Foot as they are no longer present in ''Back to the Sewers'' and even ''fight'' against TheRemnant forces of the Cyber Shredder. Subverted in ''Turtles Forever'', where Karai and Hun rejoin the Foot when Ch'rell gets freed from his imprisonment.

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Creator/SamRiegel

* NiceHat: They all wear conical hats. Even the Turtles commented how great their headgear was, except for Leo who was beaten up.

* UndyingLoyalty: They are blindly loyal to the Shredder. This is taken UpToEleven, as after his apparent dead, they fight against everyone, including Karai, who came in order to stabilize the Foot and become its new leader before Shredder's resurrection. They only became loyal to her after she kicked her asses in a fight.

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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: The tall one has purple hair.

!!!'''Voiced by:''' Scottie Ray

!!! '''Voiced by:''' Scott Williams

An ancient order of ''shinobi'', assassains and spies dating back to medieval Japan. In present day, they have semi-independent chapters all over the world, overseen by the Japanese head council.

* AdaptationOriginConnection: He's one of the main reasons the ship carrying him crashed on Earth, and thus ended up playing an indirect part in creating the Turtles and Splinter, his greatest enemies.
* AdaptationalBadass: He's capable of defeating the Turtles with ease, to the point they stay out of his league for a long while, in which he finally starts relying on augmented armors in fights, which help him against Splinter. He's also the one with the title that lives the longest.
* AdaptationalVillainy: While the Shredder is not a good guy by any stretch in any continuity, the Utrom Shredder is by far and away the most vile incarnation of the character in the history of the entire franchise -- after all, no Shredder can ever top ''nearly destroying all of reality itself''.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: The only incarnation of the Shredder, as far being the Shredder that the Turtles consider their ArchEnemy, who was never human.
* ApocalypseHow: In ''Turtles Forever'', he accidentally starts an Omniversal Annihilation when he tries to erase the Turtles from existence by destroying the "prime" team. He's actually breaking apart the whole multiverse due to destroying the genesis point of the franchise itself - the original 1984 Mirage comic book. Of course, by this point he's so obsessed with revenge that he just doesn't care.
* ArchEnemy: He's the one that has most actively attempted to murder the Turtles, being part of the reason they came into existence to begin with. When he returns in ''Turtles Forever'', his hatred for them has become so strong that he can't even stand the idea of different versions of the Turtles existing in other dimensions.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: In ''Turtles Forever'', thanks to the technology from the Technodrome, he turns into a giant.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: He is a leader of the Foot Clan and he is the most dangerous of them.
* AxCrazy: He is a crazy intergalactic terrorist who is responsible for millions of lives lost across the universe.
* BadassBaritone: Thanks to Scottie Ray's voice acting. God bless you Mr. Ray.
* BadassBoast: Quite a few, honestly, and that's not just the above quote:
-->'''Shredder''': "Like the Phoenix, I have risen from the ashes! And into my fire, you shall fall."\\
[later]\\
'''Shredder''': Ahh, the power... I had almost forgotten. The Sword of Tengu! The sword with which I laid villages to waste, brought castles to ground, vanquished armies! The sword that I used to conquer Japan, and give power to the Tokugawa clan! IT IS MINE ONCE MORE!!
* BadBoss: His first on-screen action is murdering a Purple Dragon for failing him, and frequently maimed Baxter Stockman for his repeated failures (and attempted betrayals) until nothing is left of him but his brain and eye.
* BatmanGambit: In ''Turtles Forever'', he uses the Turtles' attachment to Splinter in order to lure the Turtles into the Technodrome, where he is able to capture them and obtain the location to Turtle Prime.
* BlackSheep: Of the race of the Utrom. Unlike [[TheSociopath Ch'rell]], they're generally benevolent and peaceful. Suffice it to say, the other Utrom hate him even more than the turtles do.
* BigBad: Specifically of Season 1, due to most of the criminal organizations in it being connected to him, but he still provides a lot of the action in Seasons 2 and 3. He is also the most recurring villain in the series.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Bishop for Season 3.
* BigNO: His last words.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: He initially pretends to be a good guy to get Leonardo on his side, but after Master Splinter reveals his true identity to the Turtles, he drops the charade.
* BecomingTheMask: Stole the identity of Oroku Saki/The Shredder to gain followers, but years of going by that name have made it so he refers to himself as "the one true Shredder".
* BeenThereShapedHistory: In "Return to New York, Part 3", he claims to have conquered Japan for the Tokugawa Clan. [[{{Foreshadowing}} This was the first hint]].
* BerserkButton: He has two:
** Using "his name" in vain. He was unconscious when his 1987 doppelganger and Krang found him. What woke him up was his doppelganger referring to himself as "The Shredder". He then attacked them.
** He also doesn't like being called a coward. Shown in ''Turtles Forever'' when Mirage Raphael accuses him of being afraid to face them in person.
* BoomerangBigot: Despite being an Utrom himself, he expresses to Mortu in "Secret Origins, Part 3" his desire to [[FinalSolution wipe out all of the Utroms]] when he takes over their homeworld, all just to spite him.
* CatchPhrase: "None of you will leave here/this place alive!"
* CoolSword: The Sword of Tengu.
* CombatPragmatist: Even though he has his villainous ego, in virtually every fight in the series he also brings his underlings with him no matter who he's fighting, and also he doesn't hesitate to use the weakness of the enemy to win.
-->'''Splinter''': You strike a wounded warrior. You have no honor.
-->'''Shredder''': I fight to win.
* TheComicallySerious: ''Very'' rarely. A shining example occurs in "Exodus" when Chaplin is gushing over how cool it is to learn that he's actually a grotesque brain-ish alien, Ch'rell just has a blank, unresponsive and unamused look on his face.
* CompositeCharacter: The Shredder actually being the Utrom Ch'rell in some ways makes him this series' answer to Krang, as well as Oroku Saki. While WordOfGod says they tried to keep that similarity to a minimum throughout the show's run, ''Turtles Forever'' takes the idea and runs with it when they merge Dimension X technology with Utrom technology, giving him a powerful molecular amplification exoskeleton that can grow to skyscraper size and transform into various weapons.
* CorruptPolitician: In his Oroku Saki persona.
* DarkLordOnLifeSupport:
** In his true form, he is a barely mobile brain-like creature inside a very capable robotic body.
** For an added example, following his fourth battle with the Turtles in which he was caught in the implosion of the TCRI building, Ch'rell had to stay in a HealingVat while alien bacteria healed his wounds, with Karai having to manage the Foot till his return.
* DarthVaderClone: His suit of armor covers him completely and gives him a borderline VoiceOfTheLegion. He is eventually revealed to be a tiny alien in a MobileSuitHuman, which can be seen as an analogue to Vader's actually being a limbless wreck in PoweredArmor.
* DeadPersonImpersonation: Ch'rell has replaced the real Oroku Saki. [[spoiler:Oroku Saki later turns out to be more alive than expected.]]
* TheDreaded: Even after defeating him several times, just hearing that Ch'rell is involved in something is enough to make the Turtles nervous about their chances of survival.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: His first on-screen action in the series is to ''personally execute'' a Purple Dragon who failed him.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: His ultimate goal in ''Turtles Forever'':
-->'''Shredder''': It seems like branches hanging off a single tree, each of these dimensions sprang from a common source, destroy the source, and you would set off a chain reaction that would destroy Ninja Turtles everywhere, Forevermore!
* EnemyMine: During the "Return to New York" arc in Season 1, when Baxter Stockman betrayed him and attacked both him and the Turtles, threatening everyone. The Turtles and Shredder briefly join forces to defeat him before resuming their battle.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He seems to hold genuine concern for his adoptive daughter Karai. Until she refused to let him kill the Turtles. A deleted scene in ''Turtles Forever'' showed him briefly hesitating when he turned to Karai's cry of pain, but any remaining love for her was outweighed by his hatred for the Turtles.
* EvilerThanThou: Predictably proved to be this to Krang and his 80s counterpart.
* EvilLaugh: Very prone to this.
* EvilMentor: To Karai.
* EvilSoundsDeep: He has a nice deep voice with a Japanese accent, which, while wearing his armor, sounds like it echoes robotically.
* EvilVersusEvil: In Season 3 against Bishop. The first episode of Season 7 has him fighting against the other Shredders.
* FamilyUnfriendlyViolence: Ch'rell holds nothing back in his fight with the Turtles. This is more noticeable in the final battle in Season 3. He electrocutes Splinter so badly that most of his fur burns, kicks Mikey’s leg out of place, delivers a serious chop to Donnie’s neck, and nearly breaks Raph’s back. He also kicks Leo into Karai’s sword, impaling him and causing permanent damage to his shell.
* FatalFlaw: No matter which universe Shredder is from, the one constant is his massive ego.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Mostly in his Oroku Saki persona he employs in Season 3. His efforts to charm the mayor and the city genuinely work to hide the fact he's an omnicidal maniac.
* FictionFiveHundred: There does not appear to be any limit to his or the Foot Clan's money. The only thing that raised any financial concerns was funding the reconstruction of New York City, which he didn't hold back due to it being a cover for his plan to leave Earth.
* FinalBoss: Serves as this for ''Turtles Forever'', the GrandFinale of the series.
* FlunkyBoss: This version almost always has some goons the Turtles have to fight through first before engaging him. In fact, almost every fight with him on his terms has him either using Foot ninjas to wear down the enemy before he arrives, or to distract them so he can launch surprise attacks.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Shredder's BeenThereShapedHistory speech and still being alive despite being decapitated by Leonardo hint that he's not exactly human.
* GalacticConqueror: In the bad future, Shredder has taken over the Earth and rules the planet with an iron fist. His next goal was to build a Transmat device so he can spread his dominion to the stars, enslaving one world after another.
* GoMadFromTheRevelation: He's never been a fully adequate person, but he fully goes insane after learning of the multiverse. Or more specifically, that each alternate universe is home to its own group of Ninja Turtles.
* HateSink: Even before he took on the identity of Oroku Saki, Ch'rell is responsible for millions of lives lost across the universe in his quest for being an intergalactic conqueror. As the Shredder, he murdered Hamato Yoshi, mutated innocent people into monsters to dig for the Utroms' hideout, then chose to abandon them when they find nothing, killed a member of the Purple Dragons for failure and eventually assaulting his adopted daughter for refusing to let him kill the Turtles. And when it came to his revenge in ''Turtles Forever'', he was willing to let all of creation die if it meant killing off every Ninja Turtle in the multiverses. There's a reason, even during his absence, he was the Turtles' most hated foe.
** And he's given absolutely ''no'' FreudianExcuse or StartOfDarkness to explain his actions, nor are the other Utrom anything like him. As far as is shown, he wants to conquer and dominate everyone [[ForTheEvulz just because]].
* HeroKiller: Peaked with his assassination of Hamato Yoshi.
* HijackedByGanon: If there's a large-scale conflict in the series, he's most likely going to take center stage by the end of it, usually resulting in a MeleeATrois.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: He is eventually killed by his own Technodrome's laser, courtesy of Bebop and Rocksteady, who he had allowed to serve him only because "they're amusing".
* HumanPopsicle: He was banished to the ice asteroid belt of Mor Gal Tal at the end of "Exodus, Part 2" after being found guilty by the Utrom council. And he was found frozen in ice and freed by 1987 Shredder in ''Turtles Forever''.
* {{Hypocrite}}: In ''Turtles Forever'', he complains about the 1987 Shredder using "[his] name" in vain, when Season 5 indicates that ''Ch'rell'' used the name and title of the real Oroku Saki.
* IHaveManyNames: Has taken various identities long before his arrival on Earth. Torrinon, Kako Naso, Duke Acureds, then Oroku Saki and The Shredder.
* ItsPersonal: This became such to the Turtles after they and Splinter help the Utroms escape:
-->'''Shredder''': You! You freaks have been little more than thorns in my side, but now, you have robbed me of my triumph! And for that, you shall pay with your lives!
* JokerImmunity: Is seemingly killed multiple times; first from Splinter dropping a water tower on him, then when Leonardo cut off his exo-suit head, then from being left behind in the TCRI building with a bomb that destroyed it without leaving a trace behind. Unlike his other appearances, this one didn't reveal his was still alive, but the Turtles still had doubts he was dead. Sure enough, he did survive and was just in hiding. Being stuck on a freighter that was blasted to pieces might have killed him if Karai hadn't fished him out of the sea. Even after "Exodus" when advertisements promised he would be PutOnABus for good after he was banished to an ice asteroid, he still returned in ''Turtles Forever''. While KilledOffForReal then thanks to it being the show's finale, there's still doubt among the Turtles that he's truly gone.
* TheJuggernaut: After becoming a giant in ''Turtles Forever'', nothing short of the Technodrome's laser can do any real damage to him.
* KilledOffForReal: After many returns, he finally dies in ''Turtles Forever'', courtesy of Bebop and Rocksteady. Bebop. And. Rocksteady. No, seriously. Given his track record, only the fact that this is the GrandFinale gives it any weight — even Splinter and Karai note that they don't doubt the possibility of him surviving.
* KingpinInHisGym: He gets a training scene in the episode "Darkness at the Edge of Town".
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: While he'll never admit it openly, the Shredder enjoys Japanese culture. He is seen sipping tea even if he doesn't need to. He also keep various memorabilia from Feudal Japan.
* KnightOfCerebus: A clear sign that an episode will get darker? Seeing the Shredder get involved personally.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: In "Exodus", after his spaceship is done being built, he plans on just leaving Earth to get his revenge on the Utroms, without even attempting to tie up his loose ends with the Turtles. He does, however, [[ImpliedDeathThreat hint that he'll come back]] after his business with the Utroms are finished.
* LargeHam: Especially when he wears his armor.
* LegacyCharacter: Ch'rell based both of his identities on ancient Japanese legends of a Tengu demon called the Shredder and the warrior Oroku Saki who defeated him (but in reality, he fell into evil and they merged, and the Turtles later face this Shredder). Ch'rell's Shredder was one to the Tengu Shredder (albeit unknown to the latter), and later after he's exiled off Earth, he becomes one himself to the remaining Foot.
* {{Leitmotif}}: A dramatic orchestral piece tended to signal his arrival, while a more low-key and sinister theme would be used in non-action contexts. Both themes often made use of a stock Kabuki yell for the climax.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: In ''Turtles Forever'', he grows to an incredible size in order to wipe out The turtles of the Mirage universe; Krang then enlarges himself and his robot as well, in order to fight this Shredder on equal footing, but is cut down in no time.
* MakeSureHesDead: In "Tales of Leo", the Foot attack April's apartment, which leads to the building burning down. Recalling that the Turtles had automatically assumed him dead without bothering to be sure, Shredder is unwilling to make the same mistake and sends Stockman to the remains of the building to find proof that the Turtles died in the blaze; Stockman is unable to find any evidence, since the Turtles managed to escape, but fearing the consequences of returning empty-handed, he forges some.
* MobileSuitHuman: He's almost always in one of these.
* MotiveDecay: In most of his appearances in series after TheReveal, including all of Season 3, his goals are to get back to space to rebuild his empire and get revenge on the Utroms who imprisoned him. He considered the Turtles little more than an inconvenience and was willing to leave Earth in his space ship without even finishing them off. However in ''Turtles Forever'', he learns that there are Ninja Turtles in every universe. And the entire purpose of his entire existence is to be foiled by those Turtles. This leads him to conclude that so long as there exists a team of Ninja Turtles, they will always disrupt his plans. So in the end he decided to kill all Ninja Turtles in all worlds, even if it will be at the cost of ''his own existence''.
* MultiLayerFacade: He's got a public identity which is Oroku Saki, the rich and well respected Japanese businessman. Then he's the Shredder, a warlord who is using his public persona to gain power. And then his true identity originally only known by his adoptive daughter Karai is Ch'rell, an Utrom criminal who has been on Earth for over a millennium.
* MultiversalConqueror: The Shredder's original plan before learning of the Ninja Turtles in each and every universe. Eventually turns him into an OmnicidalManiac.
* NearVillainVictory: Several times but closest in ''Turtles Forever'' when he almost kills the 1984 Turtles, thereby insuring Universe wide Turtlecide, but he's done in by Exploding Throwing Stars, his ego, and Bebop and Rocksteady.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: In his Utrom form, he is colored blood-red (as opposed to his species' normal pink appearance, except for a yellow one), has a purple scar over his left eye and three horn-like protrusions on each side and the center of his head. This is to distinguish him from the other Utroms.
* OffingTheOffspring: He tried to kill Karai for refusing to let him kill Splinter and the Turtles.
* OffWithHisHead: He gets this treatment after the Turtles storm his headquarters. He lives, because it's a robot suit.
* OmnicidalManiac: ''Turtles Forever'', where he's willing to destroy the entire multiverse, including himself, if it meant killing all existing Ninja Turtles. That includes his own daughter.
* OutOfTheInferno: The Shredder literally walks through fire after the building he's been fighting with the Turtles on collapses during their first fight, causing Michelangelo to remark:
-->'''Michelangelo''': "He's like the Shreddernator or something."
* PetTheDog: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. While he can throw it away at a moments notice, he seems to have ''some'' level of affection toward his higher level lieutenants; he personally raised Karai, trained Hun, rarely ever significantly punished them, and they're the only ones he listens to. He also respected the power of the Foot Mystics, which they reciprocated to some extent, even when they thought he was an "abomination".
* PutOnABus: He gets imprisoned on an asteroid in the endgame of Season 3, and doesn't show up again aside from cameos in ''Fast Forward'' and ''Back to the Sewers'', until ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever''.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: Due to being an alien.
* RevengeBeforeReason: He comes to hate the Turtles so much that he'd rather destroy them and destroy the ''entire multiverse'', including himself and his daughter Karai, than let them live.
* SecretTest: He sets his Foot Ninja on Leo when he arrives to test Leo's skill first hand.
* TheSociopath: Arrogant, remorseless, vengeful, cold and ruthless, he will do anything to destroy his enemies.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Especially in his latter bodies.
* StealthPun: In the bad future, the Shredder is destroyed by the Turtle Tunneler, that is to say, ''shredded''.
* SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum: This is what his ultimate doomsday plan in ''Turtles Forever'' boils down to; after discovering TheMultiverse and that there are Ninja Turtles everywhere, he decides to go straight to the source (the Mirage comics universe) and destroy all reality. Even after being explicitly told that he would die as well, he decides that it's WorthIt.
* TakingYouWithMe:
** After being robbed of his revenge to his fellow Utroms by the Turtles, Shredder would rather die in the building's implosion with the Turtles and Splinter than let them escape.
** It got worse in ''Turtles Forever'' when he was willing to destroy the entire Multiverse to get rid of every Turtle in existence, even at the cost of both his life and his daughter Karai's, something which he refused to relent or show remorse to.
* ThisCannotBe: Very very often:
** For example Shredder's reaction after Leo sends him flying with the Sword of Tengu:
-->'''Shredder''': "This cannot be happening. I cannot lose!"
** Another example, in the finale of Season 3, he gets a big shock when the Utrom council finds him guilty for all the crimes he had committed across the galaxy in his many aliases, including but not limited to his Oroku Saki and Shredder aliases. He screams, "NO! You are not fit to judge me! I am the Shredder! I am invincible!" just before the Utroms give him the punishment of banishing him to his new home on the ice asteroid belt surrounding the frozen planet Mor Tal, where he does very little but let loose a BigNO because he is not too thrilled to be trapped on his new home.
** In the episode "Timing is Everything", the Shredder gets a big shock when he sees for himself how much more skilled the Turtles have gotten since their first battle with him, as well as how powerful Sh'Okanabo is in overwhelming and sending his Foot Soldiers back to the Shredder's original time period.
-->'''Shredder''': Impossible! You are not this powerful!
-->'''Raph''': Dude, we put the ka-bosh on ya a long time ago. You're history! (he and Leonardo kick the Shredder back to his original time period)
* TinTyrant: While a few other Shredder incarnations come close (such as in the movies and the Nick cartoon), the armor and attitude of that one fit the trope better.
* TheUnfettered: He'll do anything to get what he wants. Even if for that need destroying ''reality itself''.
* VillainDecay: Inverted, the Shredder managed to stay a dangerous antagonist, growing more powerful to the point where the Turtles stopped being able to defeat him with martial arts alone, and always portrayed as both scarily competent and pure evil.
* VillainForgotToLevelGrind: After being defeated in Season 1. The Turtles keep getting stronger, to the extent that Leo is able to easily kick his ass ''by himself'' in Season 6, and in ''Turtles Forever'', the Turtles are able to defeat him in a straight fight within a few short seconds. Thus, Shredder usually resorts to such things as pointing his army and elite henchmen at the Turtles, or using specialized technology like more powerful suits of armor to get the upper hand. Partially justified during the first three seasons in that although Shredder hates the Turtles, his first goal above all else is finding a way to escape Earth and get revenge on the Utroms. It's played completely straight and justified by the time of ''Turtles Forever'' because by that point, the Turtles had gotten much more experience battling the Demon Shredder, fighting their way through the future, traveling through cyber-space, and bettered themselves in countless more adventures, whereas Ch'rell was frozen on an ice asteroid during all this time and couldn't have level-grinded even if he wanted to. [[spoiler: Plus he was holding back in order to lure the Turtles into a trap]].
* VillainWithGoodPublicity: As Oroku Saki, he's a rich and respected Japanese businessman, and became well-known as a hero and humanitarian after he singlehandedly funded the rebuilding of New York City after an alien invasion. It's to the extent that when he's finally defeated by the Turtles, the public builds a library in his honor.
* VillainousBreakdown: He suffers one after he discovers that Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles exist in all universes, meaning that no matter where he goes, he'll never escape them. This causes him to go from trying to conquer the multiverse to becoming an OmnicidalManiac and destroy it.
* VillainousValor: Ch'rell may be a total monster, but he is willing to go down fighting against the Turtles. Sometimes it ends in his defeat but other times it also ends with him standing victorious over the Turtles.
* WalkingSpoiler: His real identity.
* WeWait: Shredder acknowledges the gravity of the situation when the Earth's last effort to fight off the Triceratons fails, but decides to wait and see what arises.
* WithUsOrAgainstUs: This is the main reason the Shredder takes on the Turtles for the first time, with them having turned down his offer to join him after learning who he really was, he declared this.
-->'''Shredder''': "Those who are not with me are against me! And I'll crush anyone who opposes me."
* TheWorfEffect: His Season 1 self is easily defeated in the Season 6 episode "Timing is Everything", where he travels to 2105 and gets his ass kicked by Leonardo. It's implied that these events are part of a StableTimeLoop which caused the Shredder to become more ruthless in his hunt for the Turtles Post-Season 1 -- which would eventually lead to his final defeat. This is even subtly referenced in ''WesternAnimation/TurtlesForever'': when he goes up against the Turtles himself in his normal armor, he's defeated in a few short seconds, causing the '87 Turtles to wonder why their 2k3 counterparts even hyped him up as being so dangerous. For the most part, Shredder either points his army and elite henchmen at them or [[spoiler:enlarges his suit AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever-style, giving himself an unfair advantage]].
* WreckedWeapon: He literally shatters Leonardo's katana with his bare hands.
* YouHaveFailedMe: His usual reaction to failures of his subordinates.
-->'''Purple Dragon:''': I promise, sir, I won't fail you again.
-->'''Shredder''': I know. You won't fail me again. Ever!

* BigBad: Of the final season, prior to ''Turtles Forever''.
* ContrastingSequelAntagonist: To the previous Demon Shredder. That Shredder was a human who merged with a demon to gain powers, this Shredder was the digital copy of an alien's mind brought to life. Both are insanely powerful, but Cyber Shredder's powers were only great due to existing in Cyberspace. Furthermore, due to being a copy of Ch'rell, this one has personal enmity with the Turtles.
* ConvenientReplacementCharacter: He was more or less designed to be this InUniverse. In the case that Ch'rell would die or be unavailable, Cyber Shredder would be activated and act as his replacement.
* EvilKnockoff: A cybernetic copy of Ch'rell.
* FinalBoss: He is the final antagonist that the Turtles face in ''Back to the Sewers'', which is the final season of the entire series.
* FlatCharacter: This Shredder lacks any of notable personality traits that his predecessors did. This is justified due to him being a literal copy of Ch'rell.
* HandBlast: In Cyberspace, he can shoot beams from his arms.
* HealingFactor: In Cyberspace, he can get ''split in half'' but can quickly heal himself.
* RealityWarper: Only in Cyberspace. It’s a downplayed case in that his power’s seem to be limited to altering his own body, but he almost deleted Mikey when he got his hands on him.
* TheRemnant: He's the leader of a group of several Foot Ninjas that pales in comparison to the clan in previous seasons.
* SealedEvilInACan: Played with. For the most part in ''Back to the Sewers'', he is trapped in Cyberspace and searches for a way out, but he can still communicate with outsiders, for example Khan.
* SpikesOfVillainy: His spikes are more exaggerated than Ch'rell's.
* {{Teleportation}}: In Cyberspace.

* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: Due to the reveal that the Shredder in this series is an Utrom, why he has distinctly ''humanoid'' clones is never adequately explained.
* BigThinShortTrio: Shiva-Shredder is huge and hulking, Claws is thin and lean and Shrimp is short.
* BodyHorror: Downplayed, as we don't know what they look like under the armor, but they are still hideous: one of them has four arms, the other has large [[PowerPincers pincer-like hands]] with spikes, while the third one is unnaturally small.
* FragileSpeedster: Owing to his size, Shrimp is incredibly fast, but not as strong as the others.
* LeanAndMean: Claws is notably slimmer than his "brothers".
* MultiArmedAndDangerous: Shiva-Shredder has four arms, each equipped with Shredder claws.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Their armors are covered in spikes.
* UncertainDoom: Happens to the four-armed and small mutants: as they stalk the Turtles in an elevator, the heroes cut the elevator's wires, causing it to drop and explode. They are never seen again and whether the explosion killed them or not is unknown.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After their brief appearance in "Return to New York" parts 1 and 2, they are never seen again.

* TheBadGuyWins: "Scion of the Shredder" has Karai seemingly killing Master Splinter and all but one of the Turtles (Leo), as well as destroying their lair. By the next episode it's revealed that they all survived, however.

* BigBad: Specifically of Season 1, due to most of the criminal organizations in it being connected to him, but he still provides a lot of the action in Season 2 and 3. He is also the most recurring villain in the series.
* BigBadEnsemble: With Bishop for 3 Season.