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| “ | The Scepter of the Sands of Time - one the greatest power objects in the know universes! And I have it! Ha Ha Hah Ha Ah! With this force in my hands - what can't I do! | „ |
| ~ Savanti collecting the scepter. |
Savanti Romero is a major recurring villain in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise and the arch-enemy of Renet. He first appeared in the Mirage Comics and later appears in the IDW comics.
History[]
Mirage Comics[]
Savanti Romero is the wife of Savanti Juliet and apprentice of Lord Simultaneous, the Keeper of Timer, who holds the Time Scepter that contains the sacred sands of time. His lust for power greater rivalled by no other, Romero attempted to claim the Time Scepter to delete Lord Simultaneous from existence and rule over time itself as God. Unfortunately for Romero, Simultaneous found out about this and thwarted it, having him exiled to 14th century Europe while turning him into a goat demon. But Romero being Romero takes over a village to force under his tyrannical might. Having collected corpses from all around to be kept around his castle, Romero hopes through the power he has left the Time Scepter can be summoned here.
Simultaneous' new assistant, Renet, ends up stealing the Time Scepter to alleviate her boredom and go to New York 1986 where she meets the Turtles. There she ends up teleporting out to escape Simultaneous, accidentally ending up in the village Romero is. Discovering that the scepter is close by and thus has it stolen so he become the new master of the world. As the Turtles and Renet plot to steal it back, their arrival sparks a sense of rebellion from the villagers dissatisfied with Romero's tyranny and revolt. As the first step of using the Scepter to rule all there is, Romero revives the dead as undead soldiers to secure his reign over the village through a huge slaughter campaign to cow the village to submission and then move onto everything else. Attempting to kill the Turtles and Renet, Lord Simultaneous arrives to deal with Romero who reveals times had changed sicne he was banished and they are using high-grade technology when he renders Romero's attempt to use the Scepter against him null, and then banishes Romero to the Cretaceous period.
Brimming with revenge in what is easily his nastiest outing in his tenure, Romero enchants few dinosaurs so that he can deliver a cruel warning to the Turtles announcing their doom. Having expected Simultaneous to send in Renet again to deal with it and bring the Turtles. Bringing Renet to a structure he made entirely of fresh bone, there he reveals his ultimate plan, using the Time Scepter, he will use his power to call in Eldritch Spell to incinerate Renet, releasing a huge blast of magical energy that will disturb the Earth's molten core and lead to all the volcanoes in the Ring of Fire to erupt to slow the revolution of Earth, leading to the comet that wiped out the dinosaurs to miss entirely. With this, all life on Earth that had existed since the Earth's evolution will be deleted from existence so that the Turtles will never exist to foil his plans further. The Turtles defeat Romero and Romero is hit with the magic he intended to kill Renet, seemingly killing him as he falls to his watery grave. Hearing this, his wife, Savanti Juliet, attacks the Turtles for revenge
But his third appearance reveals he was instead put into a coma and in suspended animation in the lake. However in the 13th century Japan, Romero thaws and resurfaces, having decided to build his own feudal empire on Japan with the the dinosaur-like mutant Chote as a samurai serving him. Using Chote and his other men, he launches attacks on enemy clans, fully intending to slaughter them to the last man. Romero is actually expecting their descendants to slowly faze from time itself and cause a temporal crisis through that. One clan in particular he is targeting is the Gosei clan who he has been looking to alter history to take over its mindlink in hopes of freeing himself from feudal Japan. One of the Turtle friends, Gosei Hattori, is fazing from time slowly and they come with Renet to fix the temporal crisis. Sending Chote to capture Renet and bring the Scepter with him in hopes of escaping and once again reigning supreme. The Turtles defeat him and banish him once again.
After a long absence, Romero once again appears in the "Eye of Aga-Moo-Tou". Going on limbo so he can travel to the realm of Bov-Gamesh as the Eye of Aga-Moo-Tou arrives, Romero is overjoyed as he seeks to merge with it and absorb its power to become the "Master of the Multiverse" and rewrite reality to how he sees fit. Seeing this, the guardian of the eye, Tsou-T'an-Jin, summons the Turtles when Romero lures in the Cowboys of Moo Mesa and brainwashes them to do his bidding. Siccing the cowboys to kill the Turtles, when Jin frees the Cowboys, Romero instead transfers the binds to the Turtles. The heroes fail to stop Romero, but fortunately, the power is too great for Romero as it overwhelms him and is plunged into a coma.
IDW Comics[]
Savanti Romero appears in the IDW series in the Bebop and Rocksteady Mini-Series Destroy Everything where he fought the Turtles and Renet again but his plans were interrupted by Bebop and Rocksteady who stole the Time Speture for themselves. Savanti Romero also appears in the Bebop and Rocksteady Mini Series Hit the Road in a small cameo appearance.
2003 cartoon[]
- Main article: Savanti Romero (TMNT 2003)
2012 cartoon[]
- Main article: Savanti Romero (2012 TV Series)
Trivia[]
- He was created by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird.
External links[]
- Savanti Romero on the Pure Evil Wiki.
