TMNT’s Shredder Would Be The Perfect Alien Xenomorph Villain

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While the Shredderhas time and again proven to be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ worst enemy, he also proved that he would make the perfect Alienvillain while simultaneously being the Xenomorphspecies’ worst nightmare. The Shredder was killed off upon his debut in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#1 by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. However, when IDW Publishing relaunched the series, the Shredder found new life in this reworked version of the TMNT’s world. Within those pages, the new-and-improved Shredder has demonstrated his versatility and shown why he would make the perfect Alienvillain. 

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#2 by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, and Dan Duncan, fans are taken back in time to when the Ninja Turtles were just normal, non-mutant turtles. The story shows the animals being experimented on in a scientific laboratory funded by the villainous Krang in an effort to create a mutant army, which he can then use to rise to power. However, the Shredder hears of these experiments and sends a team of his Foot Clan ninjas to steal the scientific findings from the lab. While they don’t get everything they are after, the ninjas are successful in infiltrating the lab and getting a working sample of the mutagen serum. 

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Shredder’s mission in this issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtlesis reminiscent of one carried out by the main villain of an Aliencomic book series. In Aliens: Music of the Spearsby Chet Williamson and Tim Hamilton, an executive of a morally corrupt company hires a team of ninjas to break into a pharmaceutical company and steal from them a Xenomorph Facehugger egg. The pharmaceutical company has this egg — known as an