Slash (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
| Slash | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Archie Comics |
| First appearance | 1990 |
| Created by | Kevin Eastman |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Spike |
| Team affiliations |
Foot Clan Mighty Mutanimals Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
| Notable aliases | Fifth Turtle |
| Abilities | Superhuman breath, durability, hearing, sight, smell, speed, strength Incredible stamina and agility Master of stealth Expert in a variety of weapons Expert hand-to-hand combat High temper Highly skilled in ninjutsu |
Slash is a fictional character in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media. He was created by Kevin Eastman.
This version is Bebop's ordinary pet turtle that was mutated by Rocksteady to carry out the assignment that Shredder wanted them to do. In this incarnedation his obsession with palm trees was in particularly focused on the plastic tree in his bowl before mutation which he called his "Binky". When Bebop accidentally dropped it down an air duct, Slash went berserk and stole Shredder's Shaolin swords and then chased them through the Technodrome before going to Earth due to some quick thinking on Bebop's part. There, Slash ran into a corrupt businessman that wanted to build condos in the sewers. After being thwarted by the TMNT, the businessman decided to tarnish the Turtles' reputations, deciding to send Slash to smash the Freedom Bell (a patriotic landmark in the city), which would give the Turtles a bad name. The Turtles eventually found Slash, who was able to take on all four of them himself. He was eventually sent into space aboard a trash rocket, but the trash contained a small plastic palm tree, so he was content.
Slash returned in "Donatello Trashes Slash" where he ran into an alien race of super-intelligent beings that hooked Slash up to a machine that gave him genius level intelligence (gaining a British accent as prominent evidence). He returned to Earth with all sorts of fancy weaponry and equipment of his own design and planning to turn everyone on the planet into turtles so that he would be the number one supreme turtle. Slash managed to turn Vernon Fenwick and Burne Thompson into turtles and was planning to use the Channel 6 satellite dish to turn the entire city into turtles. Donatello tricked Slash by telling him that if he just turned the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles into humans, then Slash would be the only mutated turtle. When Slash tried to blast Don, the heroic turtle threw Vernon and Burne into the way to revert them to normal. As Slash fought the Ninja Turtles, he fell off the roof and onto the street, which reverted him back to his low-level (even more so) intelligence. The Ninja Turtles led him back to the trash rocket and sent him back to space.
In "Night of the Rogues," Slash (alongside Rat King, Leatherhead, Tempestra, Antrax, Scumbug, and Chrome Dome) is enlisted by Shredder to help defeat the Ninja Turtles. After their payment was destroyed, Slash and the other villains eventually ran off.
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