The story of the Utrom Shredder/Ch'rell from the 2003 TMNT TV series.
Past[]
Ch'rell sabotaging the transport ship.
Ch'rell is a member of peaceful alien race named the Utroms. However, unlike the rest of his kind, Ch'rell is anything but peaceful. He went from planet to planet, starting wars and causing chaos and destruction. He was eventually captured by the other Utroms, but some time after being taken into custody, he somehow managed to free himself and caused the transport ship to crash on Earth in 11th century Japan. Ch'rell survived the crash and went into hiding. After the Utroms managed to create exo-suits to adapt with humanity, Ch'rell stole one. Later, he became an incarnation of the Shredder, inspired by the legends he heard about the Tengu Shredder. Ch'rell also proceeded to form the Foot Clan to aid his plans and also created the Sword of Tengu, but he lost it at some time in the past.
At some point in modern times, Ch'rell, as Shredder, adopted and trained an orphan named Karai, to whom he left the duty of watching over the Foot Clan's Japanese branch. He went to New York, where Shredder established himself as Oroku Saki, a billionaire businessman and took over the criminal underworld. One of very few people who could oppose Shredder was Hamato Yoshi, who protected the Utroms but refused to give up their location, and was killed.
First Battle with the Turtles[]
Ch'rell as Oroku Saki talking with Leonardo.
Years later, Shredder continued to rule New York's underworld until the Ninja Turtles stopped a group of Purple Dragons who tried to steal an armored car full of money. Next they stopped Baxter Stockman's Mousers from robbing banks in New York. Finally, Shredder managed to retrieve the Sword of Tengu, along with one of the Utrom's exo-suits, so he knew that they were still around.
But then the Turtles got their hands on it and Shredder decided to get rid of them, assigning Hun and Stockman to find some way to deal with them. Hun managed to capture Raphael, then let him go so Stockman's Foot Tech Ninjas could follow him. The plan failed, but from what Hun found out from Raphael, Shredder learned that the Turtles are unaware about the Utrom, so they could be useful to him.
He invited Leonardo to his home as Oroku Saki, telling him that there was a great evil that his Foot Clan fought and that they should join forces to stop it. However, Splinter revealed to Leonardo and the other Turtles that Shredder is an old enemy who killed his master, Hamato Yoshi.
As the ninja turtles confronted the Foot Clan on the rooftops to deliver the news that they refused to join the Shredder, a fight started and though the turtles managed to fight off his Foot Ninjas and Hun, Shredder was able to send them running.
Splinter managed to help them regroup and they faced the Foot Clan again, but Shredder defeated them one by one. However, Splinter tricked him into cutting the support for a water tower, which was then knocked onto him. The water swept Shredder off the building, before the water tower itself fell on top of him.
Ch'rell facing Leonardo from the future.
Believing that they heard the last of him, the Ninja Turtles left with Splinter, but Shredder was very far from done. However immediately afterwards, Leonardo, who'd accidentally ended up in the past, came across Shredder, but beat him. Shredder and the Foot Clan followed Leonardo through time portals, ending up on Sh'Okanabo’s spaceship. They tried to take the technology, but with Sh'Okanabo and the Turtles to deal with, Shredder and his Foot Clan were defeated, ending up in their normal time.
Second Round[]
Ch'rell dropping a fire bomb.
Months later, Leonardo was attacked and almost beaten to death by the Foot Elite, and Shredder snapped his swords in half. After tossing Leonardo through the window of April's Second Time Around shop, Shredder led the Foot Clan to attack it. Eventually, the Turtles, along with Casey and April were forced into a walk-in freezer (since the store used to be a supermarket). As the police showed up, Shredder barred the door, cut a gas pipe, and dropped a fire bomb, which caused a explosion. However, the Turtles, Splinter, Casey, and April escaped the explosion and retreated to a farmhouse in North Hampton that belonged to Casey's grandmother.
They returned to New York, before storming the Foot Clan's headquarters and fought their way through the Foot Ninjas, Hun, mutated Shredder clones, and the Foot Mystics.
Ch'rell being confronted by Stockman.
The Turtles finally reached Shredder's location, where they faced the Foot Elite and Hun again, before Stockman appeared, now in cyborg armor that he reverse engineered from the Utrom exo-suit Shredder left him to study. Shredder and the Turtles were forced to team up to fight him and after he was defeated, they took the fight out to the balcony of the building.
However, the Guardians showed up to help the Turtles and though the Shredder managed to reclaim the Sword of Tengu, Leonardo took it from him. With the Sword of Tengu, Leo faced off against Shredder, who was using the Turtle's katanas, in one final clash.
Ch'rell picking up his head.
It ended with Shredder being beheaded, but after the Ninja Turtles left, he picked up his head and walked away. After the battle, Splinter went missing and the Turtles found him at the T.C.R.I. building, with Shredder following them. He sent Stockman into the building to tamper with the VR technology that the Utroms used to show the Turtles a flashback of their history. This forced them to fight a feudal version of Shredder and the Foot Clan, but they managed to get back to reality, where the Shredder and the Foot had invaded the building and attacked them. However, Donatello managed to transport all the Utroms and Guardians to the Utrom Homeworld, much to the anger of Shredder who tried to attack the Turtles as a revenge and revealed his true self. The Turtles escaped the imploding building, leaving Shredder alone inside as the building imploded and he was presumed dead.
Ch'rell being restored.
With his supposed demise, the mob, the Purple Dragon, and the Foot, under the leadership of the Foot Elite, began a power struggle. Karai and the Foot, with help from the Turtles in exchange for a truce, managed to get back control of the city. However, it turned out that Ch'rell had survived and was placed in a capsule to heal him while Karai watched over him. After being fully healed, Shredder's first order of business was to have revenge on the Turtles. He found out that Hun had reduced Stockman to nothing more than a brain and recruited them again.
Ch'rell in his new armor.
At that point, Stockman had created the Foot Mechs, mainly in the form of armored ninja robots, along with versions of the U.S. President, English Prime Minister, and Splinter. However, Shredder lost again to the Turtles with help from the Triceraton, Zog, as well as the fact that Karai was questioning her loyalty. Shredder was defeated after Zog gave his life to keep him on his freighter when it exploded, but Karai rescued him on a helicopter. Soon afterwards, the Triceratons launched an invasion of Earth and Shredder used it to gain favor in the city. He did so through his Oroku Saki persona by paying to restore the city.
Hun finding out that Shredder is an Utrom.
Shredder would also make changes to the Foot Clan, such as Karai being his new second in command, above Hun, and Dr. Chaplin being hired as a replacement for Stockman. However, while Shredder was involved in the city's politics, at the same time he worked on a spaceship in the hopes that he could destroy the Utroms, as well as other planets. With his ship finished, Shredder left Karai in control of the Foot Clan, but Splinter, the Ninja Turtles, Leatherhead, and Agent Bishop interfered. During that battle, Hun discovered that Shredder was really an Utrom after his exo-suit was damaged again.
Despite numerous complications, including Baxter sabotaging his ship and attack by Agent Bishop and his men, Ch'rell managed to get onboard the ship with Karai and Chaplin.
Ch'rell's more powerful exo-suit.
As he entered a final battle with the Turtles, he used his more powerful exo-suit, easily defeating both them and Splinter. However, Shredder was forced to fall back after Bishop fired on his ship and the Turtles decided to use their last resort; they used the Fugitoid Program to overload the ship's core, which would destroy everything including themselves, so as to stop Shredder. Fortunately for the heroes, the Utroms, whom Honeycutt warned earlier as they entered the ship, arrived to their rescue at last moments by stopping the blast via. time stasis, evacuated everyone, and put Ch'rell on trial for his actions.
Later on the Utrom homeworld inside the chambers of the Utrom High Council, the Turtles (who have various injuries on them), Splinter (who has some burns on him), and Professor Honeycutt (in a new robot body) watch a group of seven Utrom judges on the Utrom High Council as the holographic heads of various sentient alien species are shown watching the trial. They hear testimony from several alien races regarding the heinous crimes of Ch'rell who has gone through various aliases like Torrinon, Kako Naso, Duke Acureds, Oroku Saki, and Shredder:
- Dolphette's testimony had mentioned that Ch'rell willingly launched an attack on the planet Enethone where over 1,000,000 innocent inhabitants perished.
- Wan-ran Otho's testimony had mentioned that Ch'rell incited and funded a civil war on Eno II in an effort to mine their raw minerals without restriction. 3,200,000 lives perished in the civil war.
- The final mentioning was that Ch'rell tried various attempts to take over the Utrom government through an illegal and violent coup.
As punishment for all the chaos and destruction he'd wrought throughout the universe, Ch'rell was banished to the ice planet, Mor Gal Tal, to freeze to death and is last seen on Mor Gal Tal yelling in rage and despair. With Shredder gone, Hun would turn the Purple Dragons into an organized crime syndicate and Karai would take over the Foot Clan as the new Shredder with Chaplin at her side.
Alternate Future[]
- Main article: Utrom Shredder (Same As It Never Was)
Shredder War[]
In the future, the Utrom Shredder was seen locked in combat with the Tengu Shredder and Cyber Shredder. Around them, the Foot Ninja loyal to Utrom Shredder battled those loyal to the Cyber Shredder.
Turtles Forever[]
Ch'rell frozen.
After the Shredder from the universe of the 1987 TMNT show ended up in that of the 2003 show, he began looking for his counterpart. He eventually located Ch'rell, frozen and teleported him to the Technodrome, where he revived the Utrom (his original counterpart Tengu Shredder already perished and Karai had abandoned the mantle hence leaving Ch'rell as sole active Shredder). However, it didn't work out as the 1987 Shredder had hoped, since his Utrom counterpart proceeded to take de facto control of the Technodrome with help from Karai who had been monitoring his exile and tracked him to the Technodrome. He used technology from Krang's body to construct a more powerful exo-suit for himself and upgraded the Technodrome with Utrom technology. Bebop and Rocksteady two mutants who worked for the '87 Shredder now joined Ch'rell because he finds them amusing.
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Ch'rell's new Exo-Suit.
Ch'rell also created more advanced versions of the Foot Soldiers, as well as an army of mutants from his human soldiers. He proceeded to view all other dimensions using the Technodrome's dimensional portal, but what he saw shook him. Utrom Shredder saw that there were Ninja Turtles in every dimension and resolved to destroy each version. He used the Technodrome to attack New York along with his army of advanced Foot Soldiers and mutants. When the 1987 turtles and 2003 Turtles confronted Ch'rell, he managed to capture them and revealed his full plan.
Ch'rell swatting 1987 Shredder aside.
He told them that each dimension branched off of one original dimension, "Turtle Prime", which was the dimension of the original TMNT comics. Ch'rell proceeded to show the turtles their alternate selves across the Multiverse and reveals he is scanning both groups of Turtles for the DNA he needed to find Turtle Prime and destroy it, thus destroying Ninja Turtles in every dimension. He then located Turtle Prime and gloated they will be destroyed with the scan. With this done, Utrom Shredder headed to Turtle Prime to destroy it, but the 1987 and 2003 Turtles managed to follow him.
Ch'rell facing his enemies.
After meeting and joining forces with their comic book incarnations, they went to deal with Utrom Shredder in Technodrome as he continued destroying the dimension. The comic Turtles managed to taunt Utrom Shredder into coming out to face them, but he soon found himself confronted by three teams of Turtles, 1987 Shredder, Krang, 2003 Splinter, along with Karai, who'd realized that his actions would destroy them all.
Ch'rell's last moments.
However, Ch'rell grew his exo-suit to giant size and proceeded to overwhelm them all with his suit's new technology. Krang also uses his exo suit to grow bigger as well attempting to fight Ch'rell. However, Ch'rell easily defeats and immobilizes Krang and his exo suit. Ch'rell manages to grab hold of the Mirage Turtles almost killing them and everyone else including himself as the world is being erased. Ch'rell himself is almost erased but decides that he must destroy all Ninja Turtle life even if it destroys him, despite Karai telling him to stop his madness. However 1987 Donatello throws exploding throwing stars at Utrom Shredder's left leg which makes him let go of the Mirage Turtles. Ch'rell then mocks his attackers, until the laser from the Technodrome's laser fires right in front of Ch'rell's exo suit. The laser opened fire as Bebop and Rocksteady turned it back on in an attempt to help Ch'rell, thinking he will be pleased that they "fixed" the laser for him. The laser however strikes Ch'rell's exo suit at such a close range that it tears it apart. Meanwhile, Ch'rell tries to save himself but he cannot control his exo suit as the sheer power of the laserbeam rips his exo suit apart. Ch'rell screams that he is The Shredder and cannot be defeated, but his screams become quieter as he perishes in his dissolving exo suit, thus avenging the deaths of Hamato Yoshi, Zog and all of Ch'rell's countless victims that he had slaughtered over the centuries.
When '87 Donatello mused aloud if Ch'rell was gone for good this time, 2003 Splinter said that he is seldom gone for long and Karai agreed that he would return. It's unknown if Ch'rell survived this final defeat or not given his habit of always coming back, but even if he is still alive, Ch'rell is now stranded in "Turtle Prime" with no way to ever return back to his original dimension and zero resources, so it's unlikely he will pose a threat to all reality ever again.