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Splinter
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Real Name
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Splinter
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First Appearance
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (May, 1984)
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Creators
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Kevin Eastman, Peter Laird
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Team Affiliations
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Aliases
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Sensei [as referred to as by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]
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Base of Operations
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New York City
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Powers
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Mutant Rat Physiology
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Skills and Abilities
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High level ninja
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Paraphernalia
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Cane
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Splinter is the adoptive father and mentor to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Origin[]
Splinter was a pet rat who was owned by a martial arts master who was assassinated. The rat was exposed to a mutagen that transformed him into a half-human/half-rat and met similarly mutated turtles that he raised as his own children. He taught them martial arts and they became the superhero team The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Biography[]
Splinter was born a rat in Japan, his parentage unrevealed and likely considered unimportant as they were likely average rats. Unusually intelligent for his species, he became the pet of the ninja Hamato Yoshi.