History WMG / TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2014

** It isn't {{Jossed}} for just Eric beign Krang either. In fact, with him NOT being Shredder makes it work better. Now Eric isn't just a random guy created for the movie... he is secretly Krang, preparing for the Invasion.

[[WMG: The legendary hero was Hamoto Yoshi and the warlord was Oroku Saki, who is the Shredder seen in the first film. And as a previous WMG said, Splinter is the reincarnation of Hamoto ala IDW and they're just going for a slow reveal.]]

* A blink and you'll miss it visual references in the 2014 film of the 2012 Hamoto Crest on the Wall Scroll, it's on a Banner on the Hero's side.

A blink and you'll visual references in the 2014 film of the 2012 Hamoto Crest on the Wall Scroll, it's on a Banner on the Hero's side.
Sheddder explicitly saying that Karai's version of the foot are weaker and lack training compared to his, implying there's an older version of the foot but they're no longer around. Also that he'd have to have armor that needed to be retrofitted, meaning it's possibly his own.
The fact both this film and IDW have elements of Splinter suddenly gaining awareness of himself after experimented on.
The Ooze is said to be of alien origin and the Shedder seemingly knows how to use it for curative means which lines up with IDW where the Ooze is used in several situations as a cure for illnesses (Most noticeably April's father who is confined to a wheelchair at first) and was provided by that version of Krang.
The original 2 writers and the director of the first film had talked openly about a sequel, that includes the parts for Casey, Bebop & Rocksteady of before the first one was in the bag. Most likely meaning they had a vision on how they wanted to progress this series/not a saving throw like a previous WMG suggested.

I say this because several things:
1.A blink and you'll visual references in the 2014 film of the 2012 Hamoto Crest on the Wall Scroll.
2.Sheddder explicitly saying that Karai's version of the foot are weaker and lack training compared to his
3.The fact both this film and IDW have elements of Splinter suddenly gaining awareness of himself after experimented
4.The Ooze is said to be of alien origin and the shedder seemingly knows how to use it for curative means which lines up with IDW where Shedder has used the Ooze to keep himself healthy and was provide the IDW 's version of Krang.
5.The original 2 writers and the director had talked openly about a sequel, that includes the parts for Casey, Bebop & Rocksteady of before the first one was in the bag. Most likely meaning they had a vision on how they wanted to progress this series.

In the somewhat far future, Sacks' company buys / is bought out by Armadyne. Sacks uses the initial versions of the Med-Bays (which he pioneers with notes that he gathered from trying to recreate the mutagen) to restore himself to youth, and uses his company's research into power armor to create the autonomous robot police. Sacks takes over Armadyne and changes his identity, becoming John Carlyle and working on the technology to create Elysium.

For [=WMG=] regarding the entire franchise, go [[WMG/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles here]].

In the somewhat far future, Sacks' company buys / is bought out by Armadyne. Sacks uses the initial versions of the Med-Bays (which he pioneers with notes that he gathered from trying to recreate the mutagen) to restore himself to youth, and uses his company's research into power armor to create the autonomous robot police. Sacks takes over Armadyne and changes his identity, becoming John Carlyle and working on the technology to create Elysium.

[[WMG: Eric Sacks is John Carlyle from 'Film/Elysium']]

In the somewhat far future, Sacks' company buys / is bought out by Armadyne. Sacks uses the initial versions of the Med-Bays (which he pioneers with notes that he gathered from trying to recreate the mutagen) to restore himself to youth, and uses his company's research into power armor to create the autonomous robot police. Sacks takes over Armadyne and changes his identity, becoming John Carlyle and working on the technology to create [[Film/Elysium]].

[[WMG: Eric Sacks is John Carlyle from Elysium]]

Sacks' company buys / is bought out by Armadyne. Sacks uses the initial versions of the Med-Bays (which he pioneers with notes that he gathered from trying to recreate the mutagen) to restore himself to youth, and uses his company's research into power armor to create the robot police. Sacks takes over Armadyne and changes his identity, becoming John Carlyle and working on the technology to create Elysium.

The Shredder turned it from a noble clan to a terrorist organization. He's a descendant of the warlord from legends.

* Mikey saying "[[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles Can we keep her?]]"
** Jossed.

* Another Reason could be that Splinter is Yoshi's rat and after Yoshi's death TCRI adopted him and put him in the lab with his turtle friends.

[[WMG:Irma Langinstein will appear in the sequel and, in contrast to Bernadette and Vernon's niceness, will be more of a {{Jerkass}} than her '87 counterpart.]]

If you watch the movie, you may notice that un-armored Shredder is barely in the movie at all. He has a few scenes to show off how badass he is, but he's mostly interacting with Sacks. He's also completely unnecessary to the plot... if he was removed and Sacks alone had plotted the entire operation it would change nothing. Even in the 3DS version of the game, which was presumably based on an early script of the film, Sacks and Shredder are one and the same. But even within the movie the fact that Sacks was the Shredder along was likely a secret, so most of the dialogue treated them as separate characters. Due to overwhelmingly negative reaction to the idea it seems a few extra scenes were shot and hastily edited into the film to insert traditional Shredder into the story, even though the process did little more than reduce him to a large monster the Turtles have to fight.

* Another Reason could be that Splinter is Yoshi's rat and after Yoshi's death TCRI adopted him and put him in the lab with his turtle friends.

One of the trailers showed [[spoiler: Splinter lying on the ground after being defeated by the Shredder]]. However, it will later be revealed that Splinter survived. Why is this important? That way if they ever make a sequel with the Rat King as the BigBad, him taking control of Splinter will be part of the conflict.

Duh

This would be a brilliant AuthorsSavingThrow for fans who were disappointed about the removal of Hamato Yoshi, Shredder's feud with him, and the impact they had on the origins of Splinter and the Turtles.