"But, now, you need to know who Saki, The Shredder, really is. He serves no great purpose, he fights no great evil. He is great evil. Any endeavor he undertakes, he does for his own selfish gain."
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles has been around since The '80s, and is a franchise full of wacky, comical evil-doers, or villains who have loved ones or morals. The following are not those kinds of villains.
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- Dr. Baxter Stockman is a megalomaniacal scientist who is far worse than many of his later iterations. Stockman creates the Mousers supposedly to hunt rodents in New York City, only for him to use them to commit crimes simply because he finds it fun. Stockman threatens to topple a variety of skyscrapers across New York if he isn't paid a hefty ransom, and when his assistant April discovers his villainy, Stockman tries to have her Eaten Alive by his Mousers. Though his plan is thwarted, Stockman later returns having transplanted his brain into a robot body, which he uses to slaughter dozens of people across New York in his quest for vengeance against April and the Turtles who helped stop him. When he is captured by Donatello, Stockman allows a part of his nanotechnology to split off and cause havoc and mass death across the city in an attempt to escape, and he reveals he infected April with a painful nanovirus that will slowly kill her as his final revenge. Though Donatello spends hours trying to appeal to Stockman's humanity, he comes to the conclusion that Stockman is utterly irredeemable and will never use his genius for anything but himself.
- Savanti Romero was once Lord Simultaneous's assistant who developed a lust for power, eventually trying to erase Simultaneous from existence. Banished to the 13th century, Savanti turns a village into his domain and attempts to use Simultaneous's time scepter to raise an army of the undead and have them slaughter all who oppose him. In the Cretaceous period, Savanti, consumed with revenge, lures Renet and the Turtles into a trap and attempts to sacrifice her as part of a spell that would cause the comet that killed the dinosaurs to miss, erasing countless lives. Savanti later appears in 12th century Japan, trying to build himself a new empire and wiping out anyone that opposes him, knowing that it would erase their descendants as well. Reappearing after a long absence, Savanti attempts to use an ancient artifact to allow him to become a god and remake creation in his own twisted image.
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- Issue #12—"Survivalists": Skonk is the leader of the far-right militia known as the "Committee to Rebuild American Patriotism". Disappointed that the Cold War hasn't resulted in a nuclear war, he plans to start one by setting off a nuke at a critical military facility just so his militia can prove their survival skills after such a event. He and his militia kidnap a nuclear physics student and force him to create a crude nuclear bomb, nearly killing him when he escapes and warns the Turtles of the attack. Thinking the Turtles are just people in costumes, Skonk orders his militia to kill them all to avoid having any witnesses to his plan. After his underlings are defeated, Skonk attempts to set off the nuke right away. When Splinter and the Turtles try to reason with Skonk, saying he will kill thousands of innocent people with his bomb, Skonk refuses to listen, saying there are no innocents and everyone is guilty of allowing America to fall from greatness.
- Issue #29—"Men of Shadow": Master Traquer is the leader of a vampire gang, who, after getting nostalgic about the "good old days" when vampires ruled humanity, freely killing them and draining them of their blood, allied himself with the Order of Dagon. Transforming several people into his undead zombie slaves, Traquer orders them and his gang to kidnap various ancient artifacts all around the world to use in the summoning of Dagon. Traquer intends to free Dagon to cause death and destruction all over the planet so that vampires could dominate the Earth once again, under Traquer's rule. When being told that Dagon could kill all vampires too, Traquer openly states that he doesn't care.
- Vol. 3 issues #10-14: Johnny Lee Raeburn, from Savage Dragon, appears in this series under his moniker of "Deathwatch". Raeburn returns to Earth as a cybernetic supervillain able to feast on the minds of his victims and make them experience the terror of those he's killed, making them die in absolute fear. Deathwatch slaughters several people connected to the trial that convicted him as a child killer before single-handedly massacring his entire hometown and killing his mother, even mentally torturing Donatello into brain death before he's foiled.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles X Stranger Things:
- The Mind Flayer is the abominable overseer of the Upside-Down, seeking to invade Earth and subsume its populace. Taking advantage of the Utrom dimensional experiments, the Mind Flayer enslaves the Utroms and forces them to begin opening portals throughout New York, allowing the Mind Flayer's "demogorgon" monsters to invade and kill civilians. After dozens have died, the Mind Flayer uses its forces to wrangle thousands of people into the middle of Times Square, plotting to open a massive portal directly beneath them and drag half of New York into the Upside-Down to be butchered.
- Dr. Baxter Stockman is a fiendish scientist planning to create perfect predators from the realm of the Upside-Down. Stockman fuses his robotic Mousers with the Upside-Down demodogs and unleashes them on the city, regardless of who gets hurt. Capturing Eleven, Stockman experiments on her, planning to have her open portals to the Upside-Down for his scientific studies regardless of the collateral damage. When facing off against Raphael and Eleven, Stockman tries to psychologically break them both, trying to win by mentally breaking them to think they're nothing but lab experiments.
Examples
- Krang is far darker then the animated version. Working with Shredder to defeat the Turtles, the Turtles' discover the depth of Krang's evil when they fight two aliens named Wingnut and Screwloose. After the Turtles defeat them, Screwloose explains that Krang's forces invaded their home planet of Huanu, killing most of the population. Krang's forces have been going around Dimension X, destroying all life on any planet they find, searching for a powerful crystal called the Turnstone. Another former warlord from Dimension X named Cherubae has possession of the Turnstone and is hiding on Earth. Krang, feeling he needs more powerful allies to defeat the Turtles and Cherubae, contacts the insect queen Maligna. In exchange for loaning him ten of her insect warriors, Krang promises to lead Maligna to Earth, so that her insect warriors can kill the human race and colonize Earth. Krang is ultimately defeated and Cherubae uses the Turnstone to banish him to the prison planet of Morbus. Krang eventually escapes from Morbus and returns to Earth, where he graphs himself on to Shredder's body and plans to kill the Turtles and then hunt down their loved ones, not caring how much damage Shredder's body takes while fighting the Turtles.
- Queen Maligna is the cruel leader of a race of alien insect warriors called the Malignoids. Maligna and her children seek out worlds teeming with life and consume them. Maligna is introduced when Krang contacts her, promising to lead her to Earth, if her warriors defeat the Turtles. After Krang's defeat, Maligna comes to Earth and begins her invasion. She sends eggs to Earth; these eggs contain larva which devour everything in their path. She also sends pods to Earth, containing more adult Malignoids, who will attack everything in sight when they hatch. Maligna also has a habit of eating her own children, devouring one of her Malignoid warriors after he successfully completed a task for her. Maligna captures Raphael and Mondo Gecko, planning to have them fattened and dipped in honey, so she can devour them in a feast later. After the Turtles and their allies defeat her children on Earth, Maligna sends her armada of space ships to destroy everyone on Earth. Maligna is eventually defeated and vows to leave Earth, but later says she will return when they least expect it. Maligna returns much later, after her ally Mr. Null kills the Mighty Mutanimals, removing several of the heroes who opposed her off the board, planning to finish what she started and destroy the human race.
- Mr. Null was introduced as an unseen tycoon, who enslaved a remote South American tribe to work in some of his mines and tries to dump toxic waste into the ocean. However, we soon discover that Null is actually a demon and has sold the Earth to Queen Maligna and her hordes of insectoid aliens, who plan to destroy humanity and colonize Earth. After the Turtles and their allies the Mighty Mutanimals thwart this alien invasion, Null seeks revenge on them. Null takes control of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and captures the two groups. Null is planning to make the female members of the Mutanimals into his harem, while the others will be slowly electrocuted to death. Null plans to force Kid Terra, one of Null's former underlings who turned against him, into pulling the switch that electrocutes his enemies, wanting to torment his former employee. After this scheme is thwarted, Null later returns and hires some cyborg assassins, who manage to kill most of the Mutanimals. Null decides to torment Candy Fine, who the girlfriend of Mutanimal Mondo Gecko, by showing her images of the Mutanimals burning in hell. Null then mind-controls her and makes her into his slave. Null had the Mutanimals killed so he can continue what he started, trying to help Maligna destroy the human race. When asked why he does what he does, he responds that death and destruction are his "favorite things, the things [he does] best".
- Issues #62-66: Crainiac is the main villain of the "Dreamland" arc, set in a future where the world has been ravaged by Global Warming. Crainiac, a mercenary who works for extradimensional aliens who cannot dream, heads to Earth to steal brains to sell to his alien clients to help them dream. Crainiac also knows that an asteroid is heading towards Earth, which would destroy all life on the planet, but has no intention of stopping it or warning anyone, taking pleasure in Earth's coming destruction. Crainiac teams up with another villain named Verminator-X and steals brains from dead bodies, turning them into zombies that he orders to gather more brains for him, not caring who the zombies kill in the process. It is later revealed that the zombies are in pain and wish for death, one begging the Turtles to kill him. Later Crainiac kidnaps Leonardo's students, planning to steal their brains.
Main Continuity
- Madame Null is an interdimensional businesswoman intent on creating mutant slaves and selling them across dimensions. In the past, Null and her cousin tried to take the power of the mystical Turnstone. When the stone's caretaker Cherubae escaped, Null had Cherubae's captured brethren, The Four Winds, subjected to years of torture in an attempt to break them into servitude. Null comes to Earth and creates the Null Group, attempting to create mutants, which results in most of them dying, while an attempt to create mutants from the DNA in many animals ends in the deformed Seymour Gutz, whom she has isolated and experimented upon. Null has Dr. Lindsey Baker kidnapped and threatens her to make her help them create mutants. Null has animals across New York stolen from pet shops to mutate them and tricks a former child soldier into being experimented upon, eventually planning to mutate and enslave the entire population of New York. When the detonation of a mutagen bomb turns many people into mutants, Null has the inhabitants of Mutant Town infected with serum that turns them into monsters and endangers the town because mutants being recognised as sapient beings would be bad for her business. Null joins the Rat King's Armageddon Game, even suggesting they take it beyond Earth, and hires Jasper Barlow to create turtle doppelgangers for the plan, intent on letting most of Earth burn as long as she gets mutants to enslave.
- Rat King is the most vicious and evil member of the Pantheon. Over the course of history, he has delighted in causing chaos and manipulating humanity into mayhem. Making his debut, he psychologically tortures Leonardo and Master Splinter into going against each other. Rat King later attempts to mind control a group of orphans into killing themselves. After his father Dragon's death, Rat King decides to initiate an event called Armageddon Game, where he teams up with Madame Null, Krang, and Baxter Stockman to end the world. Rat King has Dr. Jasper Barlow painfully experiment on people to create turtle doppelgangers to frame the Turtles for attacks on Mutant Town, which Rat King hopes gets engulfed in violence. Planning to activate an Utrom weapon, Rat King intends to use it to turn the world to cinders and later plots with Madame Null to take the carnage to other worlds. Attacking and murdering his siblings, Rat King reveals himself to be ultimately a sadistic monster devoted only to killing for fun.
- Dragon himself is the father of the Pantheon and the Greater-Scope Villain for most of the story. He is one of two children of Lord Brahma, meant to personify destruction while his sister Dreamer maintains creation. Together the two create life on Earth, but Dragon is never satisfied and constantly destroys what they create, eventually creating the Pantheon as his ultimate project. When his sister's dreams give birth to humanity, Dragon refuses to accept them having the ability to create and destroy on their own and spends countless millennia infiltrating the dreams of his sister and corrupting human souls into evil—including the Nazis. Eventually, the Dreamer creates a mortal soul to imprison Dragon and put a stop to his evil. However, Dragon corrupts the soul, Takeshi Tatsuo, into evil and, with his daughter Kistune, founding the Foot Clan and throwing Japan into a century of bloodshed. The two work on freeing Dragon, but when Takeshi is slain by Oroku Maji and reincarnated as Maji's son Saki, Dragon corrupts him to evil as well, including killing his own father. When Shredder realises his mistakes and commits seppuku, Dragon has Takeshi attempt to combine their souls so Dragon would be free to destroy humanity and conquer all realms. Seemingly convincing Saki to merge with him, Dragon orders Kistsune to sacrifice her granddaughter Karai to him so his resurrection will be complete.
- Takeshi Tatsuo is a Japanese warlord and the founder of the Foot Clan. After annihilating his own clan, Takeshi began a campaign of violence that engulfed Japan for a century, with not even children spared. The original "Dragon Warrior", Takeshi intends to release Dragon and combine with him to end the world. After being killed, Takeshi reincarnates as Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder. After Saki's death, Takeshi begins to haunt a remorseful Saki and plans to forcefully turn him into a host for Dragon to end the world.
- Doctor Jasper Barlow was a world-famous surgeon whom the mutagen bomb turned into a rat mutant. Determined to regain his human looks and fame, Barlow tricks many inhabitants of Mutant Town into coming to his clinic, promising to make them more human while using them as guinea pigs for his surgeries. Many mutants end up dying, to Barlow's complete apathy. Barlow is hired by Madame Null to make turtle doppelgangers, resulting in him performing surgeries on dozens of mutants. Barlow's favorite test subject is Bonnie, a member of the Punk Frogs, on whom he used Dragon's scale to revive her after his surgeries killed her, renaming her Venus and continuing experiments that resulted in her losing memories of her old life. Initially befriending Donatello because of the latter's respect for his work, Barlow tries to have him, Alopex, and Sheena Murphy dissected after they learn his true nature. After his clinic is destroyed, Barlow helps Rat King to separate Krang from Leatherhead as long as he gets the latter as his test subject. Barlow uses Dragon's scale to painfully control Leatherhead and have him kidnap mutants for his surgeries. When the Turtles and their allies venture to save young mutant who he kidnapped, Barlow uses powers given to him by the scale to show them their greatest fears, before attempting to kill them.
Other Continuities (includes crossovers); by publication date
- Batman/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Crisis in a Half Shell: Krang is an Utrom warlord and one of the sworn enemies of the Turtles. Discovering the existence of the Omniverse, a collection of different multiverses, Krang decides to destroy it and create his own multiverse out of its parts. To this end he tracked down the Anti-Monitor from Batman's multiverse, killed him and used him as his new body. Creating his Ultra-Technodrome from the parts of Batman's universe, Krang finds the original versions of Batman and the Turtles and captures them, using them to forcefully merge the entire Omniverse into two universes, Dimension X and New Earth, erasing all the rest. When the Turtles and Batman find out about this and started thwarting Krang's schemes by trying to separate their multiverses once again and restore the Omniverse, an angry Krang tries to destroy the whole Earth, so he could rebuild it again, only without the heroes.
- The Last Ronin:
- Oroku Hiroto, also known as Shredder 2.0, is the grandson of Oroku Saki and the latest to bear the title of Shredder. A treacherous, cruel tyrant who helped to annihilate the Hamato clan, Hiroto frequently maims, tortures, and kills his own men, as well as innocent civilians who are subjected to Martial Law with the threat of mass execution. Seeking to annihilate the last shreds of hope, Hiroto gives orders to slaughter any in the city who disobey his edicts, before revealing he kept his mother alive in cryogenic stasis simply to prove his superiority over her. Hiroto then murders her, before attempting to kill Michelangelo as well.
- Baxter Stockman is an utter sociopath who is just as responsible as Hiroto for the Bad Future. In his mad quest to capture Professor Honeycutt and experiment on him, Stockman killed several of the Turtles' allies before using bombs to murder Leonardo and Casey, crippling April in the process. Allying with Hiroto to serve his own ends, Stockman creates the "Synjas", horrifying human-robot creations enslaved to Hiroto's will, and further outfits Hiroto's army with advanced weapons and technology. Stockman is happy to empower Hiroto's awful dystopia so long as he can run his experiments, and when the freedom fighters try to shut down Stockman's tech across the city, he attempts to massacre them all with smug satisfaction.
- The Lost Years: Olgoi-Khorkhoi—"Death Worm"—is a callous warlord described by one of his dying victims as "all things evil". Taking advantage of the circumstances in Asia and his self-proclaimed lineage to Genghis Khan, Olgoi-Khorkhoi amassed a large army of thugs to terrorize entire continents in various forms, from rape to mass murder, including the killing of children. Additionally profiting on unwilling humans and mutants fighting for their lives, Olgoi-Khorkhoi's subordinates keep them in line via explosive body implants. When Michelangelo finally confronts Olgoi-Khorkhoi, the latter mocks his vengeance as non-beneficial and admits that he barely remembers ransacking the Japanese village that instigated Michelangelo's hunt for him. Viewing all lives as he would a grain of sand, Olgoi-Khorkhoi kills those that are not useful to his purposes.
- Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: General Krang is a vicious alien warlord seeking control of Earth. Before the series, Krang is responsible for wiping out the world of Dimension X, turning it into a barren wasteland and later killing the Power Rangers of Dimension X when they rose up against him. Krang casts out his long-time ally in Shredder to ally with Rita Repulsa in a Big Bad Duumvirate. Krang tortures Casey Jones to try and get him to comply to his will. Retrieving the members of both the Rangers' and Turtles' Rogues Galleries, Krang and Rita use them to attack Angel Cove and enslave the populace to build machines to conquer the world. Destroying the Rangers' Zords, Krang transforms the remains into a mech suit for himself to render the Earth extinct, admitting that ultimately the planet is of no true importance to him, he just wants to defeat the heroes for daring to stand up to him.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles vs. Street Fighter: M. Bison is the tyrannical head of the Shadaloo crime syndicate, which desires to rule the world. To this end, Bison, with the help of Dr. Baxter Stockman, creates a powerful weapon called the Psycho Bomb from the energies of martial artists. Bison kidnaps various fighters for his tournament, planning to collect their energy to create Psycho Bombs. To prove the destructive potential of the Psycho Bombs, Bison reveals he intends to detonate one in New York and kill all 20 million people within it as a show of force. Bison plans to mass produce the Psycho Bombs to blackmail the world into giving control to him.
Animated Works
1987 series- Seasons 9 & 10: Lord Dregg is an alien warlord who, losing power after a rebellion, wants to conquer Earth and make it his new base of operations. Dregg comes to Earth and pretends to be a friendly alien who wants to improve the human race, making people see him as a hero. Despite this, the Turtles manage to thwart several of Dregg's destructive schemes, such as overloading a death ray Dregg was building to start destroying cities until the Earth bowed to him. Dregg's true intentions are later revealed when confronted by a more powerful warlord named Doomquest. Beaten, but not defeated, Dregg launches his main henchman HiTech into space in a shuttlecraft for failing him. Dregg tries to turn Leonardo into a walking nuclear bomb and having him blow up NYC; plans to teleport parts of the Sun to Earth if they do not accept his rule; and tries to suck the Earth into a wormhole and teleport it to a solar system he still controls. Dregg disposes of Mung and hires 5 powerful mercenaries to help defeat the Turtles, but uses a powerful exoskeleton to absorb the mercenaries, taking their powers and killing them in the process.
Examples
- Various incarnations of the Shredder are among the worst in the entire franchise:
- Ch'rell is a villainous Utrom, responsible for various crimes throughout the galaxy, including causing war on other planets which resulted in millions of lives lost. Captured by his normally-peaceful people, he caused their ship to crash on Earth, stealing the identity of the late Oroku Saki, aka The Shredder. Founding the Foot Clan, Shredder spent ages hunting down the Utroms and continuing his plans for galactic conquest. Upon finding the home of the Utrom's guardian, Hamato Yoshi, Shredder personally murdered him for refusing to give their location. Shredder's further crimes in the series include kidnapping random citizens to be turned into monsters for slave labor; executing a Purple Dragon member for failure; and stealing the anti-gravity generator left in Beijing from the Triceraton invasion, ignoring Karai's protests that doing so will result in millions of deaths. Constructing a ship that will help him find the Utroms, he assaulted the Turtles and Splinter to near death for continuously interfering with his plans, then assaulted Karai for trying to stop him. After being imprisoned for his crimes, Shredder is eventually freed by an alternate world counterpart. Taking control of the Technodrome from his saviors, Shredder learns of The Multiverse and goes mad at learning of other Ninja Turtles. He decides to find the Prime Universe to kill those Turtles, believing that will erase all Turtles from existence. His assault on that universe world erase all others from existence, but he does not care that this would include his own daughter—or even himself—deciding his revenge is more important.
- "Same As It Never Was": Ch'rell proves to be worse than ever. Taking over his own homeworld and brainwashing all Utroms to be his slaves, Ch'rell leads his army to conquering Earth, building an oppressive regime there, as he forces people to work 18 hours per day and kills anyone who dares to rebel against him. Having murdered countless members of the resistance, Ch'rell plans to use a colossal teleportation device to send his armies to many worlds, intending to spread his rule across the galaxy.
- Season 5: The Tengu/Demon Shredder is the original Oroku Saki, the master of the Foot Mystics, and is regarded by the Turtles as one of the greatest evils they've ever faced. Once a great warrior who betrayed the Dragons to merge with a powerful demon, Oroku Saki became the Tengu Shredder as he wreaked havoc on Japan and killed countless people. Though he was sealed away before he could wage war on the entire planet, Tengu Shredder's influence leads the Foot Mystics to further crimes as they work to resurrect their master. Upon being freed by the Mystics—whose loyalty he repays with regular torture and abuse—Tengu Shredder carves a path of destruction through New York simply to soak in the destruction and agony of citizens. Tengu Shredder's ultimate goal is to cover the world with his demonic magic and bring Hell on Earth where nothing but chaos, pain, and suffering exist as the undead roam the planet. Tengu Shredder tries to solidify his reign by attacking Karai for being a pretender to his name, and though he entertains the idea of making her his slave, he instead brutally beats and seemingly kills her in front of Dr. Chaplin simply because he knows they have affection for one another.
- "H.A.T.E.": Skonk is a xenophobic leader of a small terrorist group called Humans Against The Extraterrestrials, or H.A.T.E. Thinking that New York is a source of alien activity, Skonk created a thermonuclear bomb and plans to smuggle it in to the middle of New York City, so that Skonk can detonate it there and destroy a large portion of the city, along with hundreds if not thousands of innocent people in it. When one of the members of his group started having troubles with the plan and tries to quit, Skonk ordered the rest of the group to hunt him down.
- "The Darkness Within": The "Necro Monster" is a creature who arrived on a meteor and proceeded to act as The Corrupter. Among those corrupted was a C.F. Volpehart, who the creature used to wipe out a native tribe who couldn't be corrupted; Volpehart was forced to be the creature's immortal servant. The creature has been doing this for centuries. In the present, when the Turtles must rescue their young friend Angel's older brother, they see thousands of pods of the creature's victims. The creature also tries to use his methods of Mind Rape and I Know What You Fear on the Turtles, before Leo manages to defeat the creature.
- "Time Travails" & "Return of Savanti" two-parter: Savanti Romero is a former apprentice of Lord Simultaneous, who was turned into a demon for attempting to steal the Time Scepter and imprisoned in medieval ages. Plotting to take control of the Time Scepter, Savanti managed to lure the current apprentice of Lord Simultaneous, Renet, and intended to take away the Time Scepter from her, so that he could kill Lord Simultaneous and take over the universe. After being defeated by the Turtles and Renet, Savanti was imprisoned in prehistoric times, where he planned his revenge. Managing to once again lure the Turtles and Renet to him, Savanti plans to use Renet's life as a power source, so that he could change history and destroy the Turtle's timeline, erasing humanity from existence and the Turtles along with them.
- "Trouble with Augie": The Councilor is the leader of the lizard race known as the Brotherhood, a race of interdimensional conquerors known for eating entire species. Years ago, the Councilor led his people in the complete slaughter of the Zodats. After the Zodats destroyed their teleporter as a last resort to stop the Brotherhood, the Councilor tricks Professor August "Augie" O'Neil into repairing it under the illusion of being a peaceful race. When April and Donatello reveal it's an act, the Councilor forces Augie to finish fixing the teleporter, with plans to do to the human race what he did to the Zodats. The Councilor's final act is to abandon his army to die and try to escape his impending death.
- General Aguila is one of the Stone Generals and the film's true main villain. The brother of the warlord Yaotl, Aguila aided his brother in his destructive conquest to conquer the planet, where they killed many and attempted to use the Stars of Kicaan to gain more power, only to be turned into stone with his other siblings as his brother becomes immortal. As shown in the tie-in comics, Aguila would be worshipped by those who came to him as a god with immense power, being influenced by his presence and causing mass amount of bloodshed as part of a sacrifice to him. In the present, Aguila would be brought back by Max Winters, Yaotl in the modern times, to help him find all 13 monsters released by the portal and undo their curse of immortality. Aguila lacks his brother's desire to atone for his actions and desires to remain immortal. He convinces the other generals to betray Yaotl and sabotage his efforts, revealing his plans to unleash hordes of monsters for him to bring utter destruction upon the Earth and conquer what's left.
Examples
- Kraang Prime is a demented, relentless Utrom scientist and the main antagonist for the first three seasons. After being exposed to mutagen, Kraang Prime developed psychic powers and used said powers to brainwash millions of peaceful Utroms, renaming them all "The Kraang". Seeking to conquer the universe, Kraang Prime used the Kraang to invade or destroy planets before targeting Earth. Kraang Prime then spent thousands of years experimenting on and torturing human beings in an attempt to terraform Earth into another Dimension X. Using New York City as a petri dish, Kraang Prime repeatedly attacked and tried to turn the city into a giant colony of mutants, and eventually succeeded and transported millions of mutated citizens to Dimension X. Kraang Prime later tried to mutate the entire planet with a giant missile full of mutagen; after this attempt failed, Kraang Prime tried one final time to Take Over the World with the remaining Kraang soldiers.
- "The Outlaw Armaggon!": Overmind is a malicious AI convinced of his own superiority, who overthrew and killed off most of his factory's crew upon gaining sapience. When reactivated by the Bounty Hunter Armaggon, Overmind immediately overrides Professor Honeycutt's mind to assume control of his body and attempts to forcibly roboticize the Turtles and their friends. Eventually, Overmind betrays even Armaggon, revealing his plan to use an army of Warbots to wipe out all organic life across the galaxy and pave the way for Overmind's own technological rule, trying to simply kill Honeycutt and the Turtles when they stand in his way.
Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Examples
- The Shredder, unlike most incarnations, is actually a demon residing inside of the Kuroi Yōroi. After Oroku Saki made a deal with an oni and was given indestructible armor, the demon within the Kuroi Yōroi possessed Saki, corrupted his body, and trapped his soul within the armor while the demon used its new body to cause wanton destruction throughout Japan. After being dormant for hundreds of years, the Shredder returns in the present after the armor is reconstructed; the Shredder wastes no time attacking various public venues and nearly killing countless civilians. When the Shredder gains full sapience in the finale, the Shredder immediately goes after Karai, mortally wounding her and stealing her power in an attempt to become immortal. Having only gained a fraction of the power, the Shredder later takes Baron Draxum and Master Splinter captive, forcing the former into exposing his stash of Empyrean so the Shredder can use the substance to achieve full power and unleash its fury across the world.
- The Movie: Krang One is the brutal, unfettered leader of an alien race that assimilates and destroys planets. Krang One was exiled from Earth before the series began by a group of warriors who stopped his plans for Earth. Released in the present, Krang One sets about trying to transform and assimilate the Earth into his domain, even succeeding in a Bad Future. Forcefully and painfully transforming his minions, the Foot Clan, into mindless soldiers, Krang One uses them to begin a wave of destruction and death all across New York. Krang One mentally tortures Raphael and later molds him into his pet soldier to have him fight his brothers. Krang One later reveals that his ultimate goal is to spread across and assimilate the entire universe to make it his kingdom. Taking immense glee in others suffering, with the belief that the strong exist to devour the weak, Krang One stands as one of the Turtles' darkest and most serious foes.
Batman vs. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
- Shredder and Ra's al Ghul are the leaders of the Foot Clan and League of Assassins, respectively, who struck a deal in the past. Shredder would help Ra's build a machine, capable of spreading dangerous mutagen across Gotham City, while Ra's in return would provide Shredder with the location of the Lazarus Pit, which would grant Shredder immortality. Shredder, invading various corporations and killing the staff who happened to be there and stealing technology, was able to nearly complete the machine, only failing to acquire the Cloud Seeder. Hearing about the failure, Ra's Al Ghul changed their plans and took Shredder with him to invade Arkham Asylum, killing all the guards there and freeing prisoners, but not before taking the formula for Joker Venom from The Joker and giving him mutagen, so that he could mutate the inmates to distract Batman and the Turtles. After Ra's hired The Penguin to steal the Cloud Seeder, he and Shredder take it away, killing all of Penguin's henchmen and threatening to kill him as well when he demanded a payment. Hoping to combine Joker Venom with mutagen and create a far more dangerous virus, that would not only painfully mutate people, but make them homicidal and extremely aggressive, Ra's and Shredder prepare to spread this to thousands of citizens of Gotham, to create chaos and destruction, before repeating this process around the world.
Video Games
Examples
- 2003 game, Battle Nexus, & Mutant Nightmare: Ch'rell is a dangerous Utrom criminal who is responsible for many atrocities across the galaxy. Starting his rampage from burning down his hometown on his own planet and killing everyone in it, Ch'rell acquires an army and starts launching attacks on several planets. First he attacked the planet Enethone, killing over a million people, before inciting and funding a civil war on Eno II in an effort to mine their raw minerals without restriction, resulting in the deaths of over three million people. When he got captured and was sent to a spaceship for trial, Ch'rell sabotaged this ship, forcing it to land on Earth, where Ch'rell, with the help of an exoskeleton, blended in with the human population and started to build his own criminal empire by burning villages in feudal Japan and terrorizing the locals. In the present, Ch'rell, authorizing painful experiments on dozens of innocent people, hoped to build his own spaceship, solely so he could hunt down every Utrom on his own homeworld.
- Mutants in Manhattan:
- General Krang is a ruthless Utrom from another dimension who is bent on the genocidal conquest of Earth. Planning to free his whole army from another dimension to cause death and destruction all over the planet, Krang enters in an alliance with Shredder, hoping that Shredder will distract the attention of the Turtles long enough for him to build the giant portal to his dimension on Earth. Succeeding in building a portal and freeing his army, Krang enters his giant robotic body and calls himself Mega Krang, as he commands his forces to kill and destroy everything they see, setting the whole of New York City on fire.
- Oroku Saki, better known as the Shredder, is the leader of the powerful ninja Foot Clan, who enters in an alliance with Krang, in reality having his own goals in mind. Distracting Turtles from Krang, Shredder has his clan set bombs at several location in New York city, endangering countless innocent lives. When the Turtles manage to defeat Krang and banish him back to his own dimension, along with his army, Shredder uses his technology to keep the portal open and turns it in to his own weapon of mass destruction. Revealing that this was his plan all along, Shredder plans to destroy New York City with his new weapon, solely to intimidate the world into bending to his will.
Live-Action Films & Unproduced Scripts
Examples
- 1990 film & The Secret of the Ooze: Oroku Saki, the Shredder, is the mysterious, hateful leader of the Foot Clan, using it to satisfy his own greed and vengeful goals. Years ago murdering the object of his affections, Tang Shen, and the man she loved to sate his own jealous rage, Shredder lured dozens of troubled youths to join his Foot Clan by preying on their need for a family and turning them into criminals, all while uncaring of their well-being and subjecting them to harsh beatings as part of their daily lives. Capturing and torturing Master Splinter to gain info on the Ninja Turtles, Shredder orders the rat killed before trying to murder his surrogate turtle sons as well, claiming he will spare one of their number if the rest surrender, only to try to kill them all anyway. Returning in the sequel, Shredder forces Professor Perry to create the mutant beasts Tokka and Rahzar, threatening to execute all three of them for failure when the monsters have the minds of "stupid infants" before bragging plans to unleash Tokka and Rahzar onto Central Park and endanger countless people. When his plans are foiled, Shredder takes an innocent woman as a hostage, threatening to douse her in mutagen and monstrously transform her while he makes his escape.
- 2014 film & Out of the Shadows:
- Oroku Saki, aka the Shredder, is a powerful leader of the mysterious organization called the Foot Clan, who terrorized the streets of New York City for many years. Having killed at least 32 people, Shredder, along with his adopted son/subordinate Eric Sacks, comes up with a scheme of developing a mutagen, which is capable of curing all toxins, solely so Shredder could infect the whole New York City with a flesh-eating toxin and kill countless people, while Eric Sacks would cure New York for a price. When the Turtles started meddling with his schemes, Shredder ordered Karai to take the entire subway tunnel worth of people as hostages and put bombs in it, solely to draw the Turtles out of the shadows. As the Turtles managed to stop the mechanism from releasing the toxin, Shredder tries to throw the toxins in the streets manually, on the heads of hundreds of people below the tower. After escaping from prison and making an alliance with Krang, Shredder helped him build the giant teleportation device, willing to sell out all Earth and humanity in exchange for power.
- 2014 film only: Eric Sacks is a successful businessman in public and a high-ranking member of the Foot Clan in secret. Helping Shredder to develop a mutagen for their plan, Eric killed the father of April O'Neil, which Eric gloated about to April herself several years later, when he set the lab on fire. Discovering the existence of the Turtles and their lair, Eric notified Shredder, and after getting his hands on the Turtles, he tries to drain all the mutagen from the Turtles, slowly killing them. Revealing to the Turtles their Poison and Cure Gambit, which would kill thousands, Eric gloats about becoming "stupid rich" selling a cure and then has one of the Foot Soldiers infected with these toxins, solely to show their effect to the Turtles.
- Out of the Shadows only: Commander Krang is an alien warlord from another dimension, who allied with Shredder to help him build a powerful teleportation device, so he could bring his Technodrome to Earth to cause death and destruction all over the planet. When Shredder succeeded, Krang with glee revealed to him that he never planned on sharing power and then freezes Shredder to add to his "collection" of dozens of creatures. Preparing to obliterate New York with his powerful weapons, Krang intends to raze the whole world, viewing Earth as nothing more than his toy to play with.
- The Blue Door:
- Colonel Schrader is an alien from Dimension X who serves Krang. Masquerading as the human leader of the Foot, Schrader, knowing that the Turtles are destined to defeat Krang, starts Project Aries with the goal of killing them. With Project Aries, he has humans kidnapped and turned into mutants for Krang's army, having done so for 17 years, ordering his test subjects killed when he feels he's finished. Later kidnapping the Turtles and torturing them, Schrader hunts down the Turtles once they escape. Making sure Krang's plan to merge both Dimension X and Earth comes to fruition, Schrader turns on his human superiors and guns them down while the Technodrome charges up.
- Krang is the dictator of Dimension X, and Schrader's master. Ruling the dimension for 20 years and crushing anybody who tries to stop him with his army, Krang, after hearing that the Turtles are destined to kill him, murders their parents in retaliation. Preparing the Technodrome to annihilate the rebel fighters, Krang sets out to merge Dimension X and Earth together to power up his weapon, sending his men out to acquire four orbs across the world by killing their guardians. The portal ends up creating countless natural disasters around Earth that kill thousands, Krang uncaring for the lives lost. Successfully merging the two worlds together, he later brags to Leo about murdering his father before trying to kill the Turtles himself.
