Talk:The Mighty Mutanimals (2021 Series)/@comment-169.231.50.123-20180511043047/@comment-1958304-20180511220513

Izo: Because the only other woman he ever cared for...was a Shanghai prostitute.

(As Izo speaks, we see his backstory told through the iconic comic art style.)

Izo: My mother first met Shredder when he and his friend Hamato Yoshi arrived in Shanghai for a friend's bachelor party. Something drew Shredder to my mother, and they fell in love. He spent 10 months with her, during which I was conceived. But my father, believing he couldn't be a good father, up and left me and my mother to fend for ourselves. I couldn't be afforded an education because no one in the brothel bothered to lend me some money. If being abandoned and left penniless wasn't enough, my mother died when I was only 10 and I was forced to become an accountant for my mother's pimp. He would beat me regularly for any typing error and one instance resulted in this scar on my cheek. One day, as I was working, I saw on the newspaper that New York had been taken over by these aliens called the "Kraang." Wanting to know what was going on, I stole from the pimp's vault and bought myself a ticket to New York.