"Splinter’s Strikers:" TMNT Reveals Why Splinter Clan’s Membership Exploded After Raphael’s Death

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin – The Lost Day Special While Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans may understandably assume that the death of one of the original Turtles (in this case, Raphael) would only create a decrease in Splinter’s Hamato Clan membership, that wasn’t the case in The Last Ronin timeline. In fact, Splinter’s clan membership exploded after Raphael’s demise, as that’s when Hamato Yoshi created the brutal kill-squad, ‘Splinter’s Strikers’.