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| “ | And you believe such a thing could contain my hate? My hate is what kept me going. As I tore my way from the belly of the Kraathatrogon. As I battled through the armies of the Kraang, across alien worlds that would drive lesser men mad. Finally, back here. Back to my enemies! I would have my revenge against Splinter, against his hideous reptiles, and against those who trapped me in that wretched worm's belly. | „ |
| ~ Tiger Claw explaining his return to Shredder and Karai, and seeking revenge on the Turtles and their allies. |
| “ | Tiger Claw helped us. He left, declaring a truce. | „ |
| ~ Leatherhead stating that Tiger claw has made a truce with the Turtles. |
Takeshi, also known as Tiger Claw, is the secondary antagonist of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series.
He is a fearsome and wrathful mutant Bengal tiger assassin and bounty hunter from Japan, who was employed by the Shredder as his second-in-command of the Foot Clan. Following the Shredder's death, he would take over as the Foot Clan's new leader, plotting to revive him with the help of the Demodragon, Kavaxas, before ultimately abandoning his plans and calling a truce with the Turtles.
He was voiced by Eric Bauza, who also voiced Hun in the same series, as well as Foop in The Fairly Odd Parents, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Marvin the Martian and George P. Dog in the Looney Tunes franchise, Jack Spicer in Xiaolin Chronicles, Storm Shadow in the animated miniseries G.I. Joe Resolute, Chairman Drek in Ratchet and Clank (2016), Storm Shadow (G.I. Joe Resolute) In the 2009 animated miniseries G.I. Joe Resolute, Master Frown in Unikitty!, Arcade, Swarm and Scorpion in Ultimate Spider-Man, Fleegle, Drooper and Bingo in The Banana Splits, Dr. Psychobos and Albedo in the Ben 10 franchise, Ezekiel Stane in Iron Man: Rise of Technovore, Stingray in Superjail! and Lord Takagami in Dick Figures: The Movie.
Biography[]
Past[]
Tiger Claw's tail is severed by Alopex.
Years ago, Tiger Claw was originally a Japanese boy named Takeshi who lived a simple life. One day, he and his sister decided to walk into a portal created by The Kraang and were experimented on and mutated into a humanoid tiger and fox as a result. After escaping the Kraang, he and his sister, who would later be known as Alopex, were mocked and rejected by their friends and family for becoming freaks and they both ran away, never to return home.
They initially used their mutant abilities to become circus performers, but later decided to become highly skilled mercenaries. At some point in time (according to him), Alopex went crazy and tried to kill him, but only succeeded in cutting off his tail while sustaining several injuries. Tiger Claw believed that her injuries would have finished her off, but she survived and he had been hunting her since. Tiger Claw was later recruited by Shredder into the Foot Clan.
The Manhattan Project/Wormquake![]
Tiger Claw's first appearance in the series.
In the beginning of the episode, after finally returning to his lair, Shredder introduces Tiger Claw to his minions, who immediately inspires fear into all of them, especially Fishface. Karai is instantly dismissive of him, and her feelings toward him turn even more sour when Shredder tells her that he will be replacing her with Tiger Claw as his second-in-command.
Later, Tiger Claw finds and captures Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael and orders them to call their Master so he can finish him off. Growing impatient, Tiger Claw prepares to throw the turtles off the building, only for Splinter to arrive and fight him. Tiger Claw and Splinter engage in a long fight that results in Splinter's victory, but he is later forced to fight him again when he is captured by the Foot Clan.
Tiger Claw is later eaten by one of the Kraathatrogon worms and ends up in the dimension of the 1987 Ninja Turtles.
The Wrath of Tiger Claw[]
Tiger Claw returns from a very long journey.
While Tiger Claw was trapped in the 1980's alternate reality, he eventually came across that version of the Turtles. It's unknown if he defeated them or the other way around. He made his way through other dimensions fighting off hordes of Kraang. During all of this, Tiger Claw lost his left eye, and his right ear was torn. Eventually, Tiger Claw managed to find the dimensional gateway to get to his reality.
As soon as he returned, Tiger Claw went straight to Shredder's lair to inform Shredder of his return. Shredder then pairs him and Karai on a mission to destroy the Turtles by targeting their friends. Tiger Claw goes after Casey Jones and, after a short fight, tosses him off a building to his supposed death, but he is saved by Raphael. After Karai infiltrates the Turtle's Lair, intent on using a tracking beacon to lead Tiger Claw there, she realizes that the Turtles were telling the truth about Splinter being her real father and helps the Turtles lead Tiger Claw to a butcher shop to throw off his sense of smell.
However, Tiger Claw still manages to use his other senses to detect the Turtles and Karai and effortlessly defeats all of them at once. Tiger Claw then kidnaps Karai and brings her back to Shredder's lair.
Annihilation: Earth! Part 2[]
"Shredder, what have you done?!!"
When Splinter and April enter Shredder's lair to convince Shredder to have the Foot Clan help with the fight against the Triceratons, Tiger Claw, Rocksteady and Bebop attack them before their master stops them. When he has Splinter cornered, he asks why he would risk his life to invade Shredder's lair. Splinter and April speak with Shredder in order to convince him to stop the Triceraton in takes part in a combined to rescue operation the turtle's allies and to stop the Triceratons from activating the Heart of Darkness and destroying the Earth in a black hole.
While fighting the Triceratons he saves April and Casey from a Triceraton after April frees Casey but is told by the Mutanimals to not free them as well with time running out. Splinter realized he is the only person in the position to stop the device in time, but just before he can reach it, he is murdered in cold blood from behind by the Shredder, whose treacherous action dooms the entire planet. Tiger Claw angrily condemns his master's actions, only for the Shredder to make it clear to Tiger Claw that he doesn't care about the Earth, its inhabitants or his own life — the only thing he ever cared about was killing Hamato Yoshi, and he's finally satisfied to have done it. It is too late for Tiger Claw to do anything about it, as both he and the Shredder are soon devoured by the black hole along with the rest of the planet.
Trans-Dimensional Turtles[]
Tiger Claw appears at the end of the episode when he was trapped in worm in "Wormquake!" while fighting with the 1987 turtles after finding his way out.
Earth's Last Stand[]
Tiger Claw after Shredder is beaten by Splinter.
Tiger Claw appears after Shredder was defeated by Master Splinter while blaming him that Karai has escaped of her own free will after spitting out the brain worm. Tiger Claw then tells Splinter that they have won this round, but to not count the Foot out for long.
City at War[]
Tiger Claw, along with Fishface and Rahzar, follow Karai and her friend Shinigami to a martial arts store where Shredder keeps a large number of illegal weapons. Tiger Claw uses his feline senses to discover that the brain worm controlling Karai is gone and she's their enemy once more. The girls plan a surprise attack by turning off the lights, and they engage the three mutants in a fight. While battling Shinigami, Tiger Claw is hypnotized by her to let his guard down and she starts attacking him and proves to be extremely fast as she dodges all Tiger Claw's attacks, but she still gets defeated by him as he uses his jet-pack to slam her in the ceiling. Tiger Claw then orders Karai to surrender or her friend would perish and Karai, with no other choice agrees, but texts the Turtles first.
Tiger Claw figures out what she did a few minutes later that and destroys Karai's phone with his claws. Karai frees herself, but is still overpowered by the tiger and he prepares to kill her, but the Turtles and April arrive in time to stop him. Leo, Raph and Karai fight Tiger Claw, but he overpowers them all and Karai lets her mutant self surface and wraps Tiger Claw with her arms, but he overpowers her. However, before he could shoot Leo and Karai with his blaster, April uses a dust bomb to blind him and delivers The Dragon's Tail kick directly into his groin, causing him to fall to his knees while Turtles and their allies escape. When they realize the building has been rigged with explosives, the mutants try to escape but they accidentally get stuck in the door and get caught in the explosion. Having survived, Tiger Claw goes to see Shredder, who's being hospitalized, and tells him that Karai wants to take down his empire piece by piece as she destroyed their weapons cache and he believes she's not going to stop there.
The Super Shredder[]
After Shredder orders Baxter Stockman to give him the rest of the mutagen, Tiger Claw enters Shredder's room to see his master is now a mutant. He starts blaming Stockman for transforming him before Shredder replies that this is what he wanted and says its time to bait a trap for Splinter. He and Rahzar invade Shredder's old lair where Karai was now stationed with her own Foot Clan before letting his master in. He offers to help Shredder defeat Karai and Shinigami, but Shredder tells him that he will beat them himself before overpowering them and taking Karai prisoner. A little later, he and Rahzar use a train to separate the Turtles and April from Splinter. When Rahzar is thrown off the train by April and Donnie, Tiger Claw also gets thrown out off the train by Raph but uses his jet-pack to move back and almost makes Raph get hit by another train, although Leo gets Tiger Claw to be hit by the train instead.
Darkest Plight[]
Tiger Claw ordered by Super Shredder to destroy April, but spare Karai and Leo, so he can kill the latter himself.
Tiger Claw, having survived being hit by the train, helps Shredder get out of the pit he and Splinter fell into. Shredder's arm starts to look weak as Tiger Claw tells him that the mutagen he used was unstable and then helps his master walk to his lair so he can recover. Once Shredder has recovered, they return to the sewers to look for Splinter's followers. They find Karai, April and Leo as they were searching for Master Splinter and Shredder orders Tiger Claw to bring Leonardo to him to destroy and kill April, but bring Karai back to him alive. However, Karai manages to defeat Tiger Claw by using her serpent form's tail to throw him into some power lines and he gets electrocuted Tiger Claw later rescues Shredder from April, Karai, and Leo when Karai was about to finish him. In his mansion, Tiger Claw tries to prevent Shredder from taking more mutagen, saying it could destroy him, but Shredder doesn't listen to him and forces Stockman to give him more of the mutagen. Tiger Claw watches in horror as his master screams in both pain fury as he receives the mutagen and becomes even more powerful at the cost of his mental state.
Tale of Tiger Claw[]
Tiger Claw screams in agonizing pain after Alopex slices his right forearm off.
After listening to a message from Shredder, Tiger Claw feels the presence of his old enemy Alopex and decides to settle accounts with his old rival. Finally face to face with her, the fight begins and he manages to escape. He takes the time to tell his story to Bebop and Rocksteady: how he became a mutant and how Alopex became his worst enemy. Later, he patiently waits on a trapped roof to compete with the incredible speed of the vixen. He manages to trap her inside a cage and prepare to finish her off, but the Turtles, April and Casey show up, free Alopex and begin to fight him, Bebop and Rocksteady.
Alopex manages to put Tiger Claw on the ground and almost decapitates him, but she finally decides to spare him, although warning him not to cross her path again because she would no longer have mercy. Despite this, Tiger Claw grabs one of his guns and prepares to shoot Alopex, but she avoids the shot and severs his right forearm in retaliation. Alopex tells Tiger Claw that she could have killed him right then and there and leaves while Bebop and Rocksteady help him to their van.
Owari[]
Due to losing his arm, Tiger Claw didn't have an appearance in "Requiem", but he does appear in Owari. When the Turtles, April adn Casey break into Shredder's mansion to kill him to prevent him from causing more damage, they enter Tiger Claw's room, where they battle him using his c bionic arm, changing his hand whenever he needs to use a weapon. When battling Leo, he taunts him using Splinter's death in Shredder's hands, to which Leo manages to remove the removable claws of Tiger Claw's bionic arm. Tiger Claw then sends his enemies in a pit to which he has them be eaten by his pet tigers. They then manage to defeat the tigers and try escaping, but Tiger Claw attaks them with his guns, but Leo shoots an arrow at his jet pack and making it go haywire, removing him from the fight.
Scroll of the Demodragon[]
Once learning of the Super Shredder's demise by Leonardo, furious, Tiger Claw goes underground, forming a cultist group to locate the Scroll of the Demodragons and a talisman known as the Seal of the Ancients , with which he is able to summon the powerful Kavaxas. Aided by seal that forces Kavaxas to obey his command, Tiger Claw plans on using Kavaxas' power to resurrect the Shredder from the dead.
The Forgotten Swordsman[]
Tiger Claw orders Kavaxas to resurrect Rahzar who was murdered by Leatherhead in Requiem. Kavaxas tells Tiger Claw that he can't resurrect Shredder yet as he needs the heart and Kuro Kabuto. Later on, Tiger Claw, Kavaxas and Rahzar attack Hattori Tatsu, who had the kabuto and killed him.
Heart of Evil[]
Having acquired the mutated Kuro Kabuto from Tatsu, Tiger Claw now only needs the mutated heart of Super Shredder to resurrect him. Sending Bebop and Rocksteady to investigate, they soon learn that the heart is in the possession of Don Vizioso. After Bebop and Rocksteady fail to attain it and Vizioso escapes to his secondary hotel hideout, Tiger Claw and Kavaxas personally attack the hideout and Vizioso's Mafiosi. During the struggle, the Seal of the Ancients that Tiger Claw uses to command Kavaxas trades hands between him and the Turtles several times before Tiger Claw regains control of it, and acquires the heart. With the heart in his possession, Tiger Claw returns to the lair of the Foot Cultists and Kavaxas resurrects the Super Shredder.
End times[]
With the Super Shredder resurrected as a zombie, Tiger Claw believes his plan is a success. However, after scaring off the Turtles when they attack after learning of Shredder's revival by Fishface, Tiger Claw is shocked when Shredder names Kavaxas as his new second-in-command, and then asks for the Seal of the Ancients. Suspecting trouble, Tiger Claw refuses, only to then be attacked by the revived Rahzar, disarming him of the Seal, which Shredder crushes under his foot, breaking it into three pieces. It is then that Kavaxas reveals that this was all part of his master plan to unleash the spirits of the Netherworld on the surface world, and Shredder and Rahzar actually are under his command. Tiger Claw is horrified at the apocalypse he has brought on NYC out of wanting revenge on the Turtles for Shredder's demise. As a result, while Bebop and Rocksteady turn chicken and run for their lives, Tiger Claw stands his ground in an attempt to make amends for his actions. He manages to knock Rahzar into the Netherworld, but it takes the support of Leo, Mikey, Karai, and Leatherhead, for Tiger Claw to overpower Kavaxas and send him back to the Netherworld along with Shredder, personally seeing to sending both of them back as they don't belong in the living world, ending Kavaxas and Shredder's threat, and finally finishing the long lasting conflict between him and splinter once and for all.
As a result of what happened, Leatherhead states that Tiger Claw has agreed to call a truce between the Hamato and Foot Clans, thereby ensuring peace between them for the time being, as Donatello thinks that miracles can happen.
Appearance[]
Tiger Claw is a mutant humanoid tiger with short orange and white fur striped with black, pink and black skin, yellow eyes, and a huge, muscular body. He has four fingers and three toes on each hand and foot, as well as black claws, white whiskers on his nose, and a docked tail. Following the loss of his right arm to Alopex in Tale of Tiger Claw, he now has a mechanical hand that allows him to transform his hand into a rifle, a claw, or a rocket launcher. He's dressed in a cyan shirt with rolled-up sleeves, a brown shirt vest, a double chain bullet bandolier with a jetpack, an azure scarf around his neck, a double chain bullet belt around his waist, and brown pants with gun pouches on his thighs and belted bottoms that come to his ankles. He has an eye patch over his left eye and his right ear is significantly wounded as prior the events of "The Wrath of Tiger Claw".
Personality[]
Tiger Claw is shown to be a loyal, steadfast, and unquestioning servant towards the Shredder. He's also shown to have some instincts of a tiger, as he's had thoughts of eating Fishface. Despite all this, he really does care about his own home planet. When Shredder sacrifices the Earth just to finish his vendetta, Tiger Claw loses faith in his master and condemns the latter. This however was undone due to the timeline change. Tiger Claw is still loyal to his master and swears revenge on Splinter, probably because he was unaware of what his master was going to do or that he was too loyal to turn on him. That said, his loyalty to Shredder still has limits as he turned against him after he planned on helping Kavaxas destroy the world.
Powers and Abilities[]
Tiger Claw is a formidable opponent. Due to being part tiger, Tiger Claw has the strength, speed, agility, reflexes, razor sharp claws and fangs, sight, an acute sense of smell, and hearing of a tiger. He's also a skilled martial artist as he's able to fend off against the Turtles and rival Karai and Splinter with ease. Tiger Claw is also an expert marksman, skilled swordsman, and trap expert.
As for weapons, Tiger Claw possesses a large sword, two modified guns that can shoot either a red laser, or freeze ray. He also uses nets to capture his enemies, throwing knives and uses a jetpack for flight.
Trivia[]
- Following the end of the 2012 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series, Tiger Claw's voice actor, Eric Buaza, would ironically go on to voice Splinter in Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Leonardo in Batman vs TMNT.
- His fall into mouth of the Kraathatrogon was a parody of Boba Fett's fall into the Sarlacc.
- From the dialogue exchanged between him and Alopex, it is implied that Tiger Claw had killed both their parents.
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