WhileShredderhas long - been considered theTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ deadly villain , oneTMNTcomic book issue proves that was never the case as the real deadliest villains were the two who successfully kill one of the Ninja Turtles themselves , Donatello .

Shredder has been the Turtles ’ patronizing enemy sinceTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird . In that outlet , the Turtles are tasked by their father , Master Splinter , to hunt down and assassinate Shredder as Shredder wrong Splinter ’s original ninja clan in the past . What ’s more lurid than the classically smart and funTMNT being set up to pour down someoneupon their very first coming into court is the fact that they in reality do it . By the remainder of the issue , the Turtles brutally off Shredder before bedevil his mangled corpse off the top of a building , further ensuring his last . While the murder of Shredder was undisputedly macabre ( and adds to the larger item of why Shredder is n’t the Turtles ’ deadliest villain ) it is nothing compare to how Donatello was pop .

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InTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#44 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , and Mateus Santolouco , the Turtles were lending their assistance to a rebel United States Army in another attribute fighting against one of the greatest evils in beingness : Krang . In that effort , the Turtles have recruited Shredderand the Foot Clan to help defeat Krang – however , what Shredder did n’t recognize was that the Turtles secretly alerted Krang to the attack led by Shredder in ordination to give themselves the advantage of flanking Krang ’s forces with the added benefit of rule out Shredder and the Foot in one move . While this programme was a brilliant one on the surface , Shredder look for perfidy and rank his minion , Bebop and Rocksteady to keep an center on Donatello as he was the only Turtle who did n’t journey to Dimension X to fight Krang ’s army . Shredder told the mutant brutes to pop Donatello if he feed the gild , and when Shredder see of the Turtles ’ betrayal , he give that edict – and it was carry out to brutal perfection .

Bebop and Rocksteady are TMNT’s Deadliest Villains, Not Shredder

When Shredder gave the go - ahead , the practically invincible Bebop and Rocksteadybeat Donatello to death , express mirth and joke as they did it while the beloved Ninja Turtle fought desperately for his life . Now , to be clear , Donatello did survive this after he was save by Fugitoid , but the next upshot evince Donatello ’s soulfulness in the hereafter which indicates that he was dead at least for a short flow of fourth dimension . Plus , if Bebop and Rocksteady delivered just one more lick , Donatello would have stayed drained , which is more than enough trial impression to confidently say that they can obliterate a Ninja Turtle – which is a pot more than Shredder can say .

While it could be contend that Shredder was responsible for Donatello ’s impermanent dying since he sacrifice Bebop and Rocksteady the club , it was Bebop and Rocksteady themselves who did it , so they get all the credit . In fact , after years of fighting across a plethora of mediums and comic serial , Shredder has never come as close to killing any of the Ninja Turtles as Bebop and Rocksteady did in this issue . Not only that , but Shredder himself was obliterate by the Turtles upon his very first visual aspect . So , from Bebop and Rocksteady ’s winner in killing Donetallo ( temporarily or otherwise ) to Shredder ’s many loser in try out to accomplish that very same thing , Donatello ’s dying confirmsTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ’ deadly villainwas neverShredder , it ’s Bebop and Rocksteady .

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TMNT’s Shredder isn’t their deadliest villain.

TMNT’s Shredder isn’t their deadliest villain.

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