Splinter FORCED To Eat a Rat in Dark TMNT Story (Mirage Comics Moments)

[@THEOLDTURTLEDEN]

[@LeonardoTMNT444]

Your time is up Shredder

[@jesusjuice7401]

I know it's not really TMNT. But are you gonna review or discuss the Samurai Rabbit show?

[@hettyscetty9785]

The rat king is the creepiest villain the entire extended turtle-verse. I know that there are creepier things than the rat king, but every time he shows up there are an inordinate amount of rats involved and that amount of rats that aren't Splinter or the tiny little ones that are clean and used as house pets are just a big nope.

[@srstriker6420]

Yeah he deserves more attention

[@teucer915]

I love the folkloric motif of the rat king. This was a great take on it; for some outside this property, see "King Rat" by China Miéville and "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" by Terry Pratchett, both of which also use the concept of the rat king having some mental power over rats and maybe not only rats. (You see a less dark take on it in the Nutcracker, of course, but I've never been a fan of ballet.)

[@axceros2939]

Tbh I only knew him because of the new tmnt game

[@bellsroselps9548]

This exact thing happened in the 2012 show, but splinter fell after a fight with the super shredder in a "we both die" moment And in the end splinter doesn't cave and he defeats the rat king only to see his remains from when he plummeted there from his last fight with splinter and Donnie and Mikey end up finding him and saving him

[@TheDragonstorm1993YT]

That's crazy people sleep on the 2012 adaptation

[@bellsroselps9548]

@@TheDragonstorm1993YT it's actually the one that introduced me to the series, 9 years strong as a fan

[@TheDragonstorm1993YT]

@@bellsroselps9548 that's what's up

[@Falcovsleon21]

@@TheDragonstorm1993YT Wait they do? That’s news to me. Everyone I know who grew up on TMNT was watching it at the time.

[@TheDragonstorm1993YT]

@@Falcovsleon21 people say the 2003 is superior and dismissed the 2012 version

[@johnwright9049]

The 2012 cgi animated series did a nice job referencing and reenacting this scene.

[@PlatinumKnight-je3vy]

Literally this moment is much darker than its 2012 counterpart, would be very terrifying if he had eaten a rat in the show!

[@johnpittsii7524]

Thanks for the amazing content as always. Much ❤

[@tyronleung5276]

Another dark moment is splinter just trains the turtles to be child soldiers in the ways of bushido instead of as surrogate sons and splinter not once fought against orroku saki shredder in the mirage books

[@christianvenson1563]

Love these dark moments

[@milestrombley1466]

If Splinter was a human, would it be semi-cannibalism?

[@pacecory1]

whoa... that is epic. And the skeleton thing sent a shiver down my spine. Im gonna have to find these comics

[@omegaus817]

Like I am so shocking and gross when The Rat-King tell Splinter eat a rat. Biggest dark moments ever like wow.

[@nebuchadnezzar8683]

*IT'S THE CIRCLE OF LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!*

[@EdgardoJCruz-dk5kv]

So it's some kind of representation of what Splinter tries to reject based on prior experiences with the Rat King? Interesting despite being a villian he could not let one of "his subjects" let themselves wallow away in such a manner.

[@AlphaProto]

TMNT has some really messed up stories. They really went there.

[@tyronleung5276]

Mirage tmnt needs a remaster

[@justtheguywiththewavecheck6244]

Reminds me of 2012's take on it

[@EtaYorius]

Meh, Rats eat each other regularly... specially when stuck in a narrow space.

[@seanhart4251]

I just finished "City at War" yesterday. I was kind of surprised that the Rat King died, but I guess there was no way out of the silo. Still, I'm surprised that he discovered he had super powers (the rats were friendly with him when they were all trying to kill the Turtles) and disappointed that he's dead. Oh well, he's alive in lots of other iterations.

[@subhrajyotisinghdeo707]

The same thing was recreated in the 2012 show except the part where he ate the rat

[@dqham]

They Incorporated this story in the 2012 version on tmnt 🤗

[@jacobbaranowski]

Cowabunga Yo 😊 Happy 4/20

[@alexlemonds2838]

Considering where they live, how poor they are, hunting rats seems inevitable.

[@tyronleung5276]

They dumpster dive and they fish cause the tmnt are mutated red eared sliders

[@tyronleung5276]

They might or they steal off Bodega and food trucks too

[@alexlemonds2838]

@@tyronleung5276 That too.

[@Spider-Complexion]

You mean they don’t just eat pizza everyday with wild toppings ??? I mean where would they get the money for that huh

[@tyronleung5276]

@@Spider-Complexion pizza is not healthy for real turtles and even ninja turtles to eat even tho real turtles dont have human chompers some species of slider turtles like the cooter turtle possess teeth but how turtles instinctively eat they have to submerge their entire head and food in water and scarf it down they can't digest cheese/ dairy and nuts and turtles can eat meat but not often eat meat or their make chirping noises that indicates asthma most likely if the tmnt were grounded theyprobably eat water bugs stink bugs earthworms discared half eaten trash mostly vegetables and fruits stolen off a street open Bodega they probably swim in dirty sewage water and new York ponds and lakes to hunt for fish.

[@catspaw3092]

I would like to know not only how the Rat King perished but his origins as well.

[@mr.o2342]

The Splinterknight Rises??? 🤔

[@RrowdyBeast]

This arc was actually published a year before Batman: Knightfall

[@sugamamaproud9810]

Not trying being mean that is extremely dark for tmnt comic.😦😳

[@mariapaula.5572]

😲.

[@birdwatchingwithdrrajasaur4410]

A similar scene happened in the 2012 series

[@faisalp7563]

That’s what happened in TMNT 2012. Kinda.

[@LeonardoTMNT444]

MASTER SPLINTER NO!!!

[@nazishhussain2712]

Monster rat king remind me of oozaru

[@andraescott1862]

Rats eat other rats 🐀 all of the time it's natural for them 😆

[@Edsomthing]

Bruh these videos gettin a little too intense