Warning! This text accommodates spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin – The Misplaced Years #5 One of many coolest elements of Michelangelo’s Final Ronin transformation was his up to date costume that differed immensely from his unique Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles look. And now, followers know that Mikey’s post-apocalyptic fashion selection truly goes far past aesthetic, as there’s a darkish secret which means to Michelangelo’s Final Ronin costume.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin threw followers right into a world that had, itself, been thrown into chaos by the Foot Clan and their new chief, Oroku Hiroto aka the Shredder. When this new Shredder attacked New York, and the Turtles responded in type, he was profitable in slaughtering each single member of Michelangelo’s household, leaving solely the lone Turtle alive to wander the Earth with out route. Within the unique storyline, followers knew that Michelangelo bought his new outfit throughout that point between the demise of his household and the occasions of The Final Ronin, however they had been left to fill in these particulars themselves. Now, with the extra storyline that fills that narrative hole in Michelangelo’s life because the Final Ronin, followers lastly be taught the place the outfit change got here from: the homicide of Loss of life Worm.

Michelangelo Acquired His Final Ronin Coat By Killing Loss of life Worm

In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin – The Misplaced Years #5 by Kevin Eastman, Tom Waltz, SL Gallant, and Ben Bishop, Michelangelo is lastly dealing with the primary antagonist of this collection: Loss of life Worm. Loss of life Worm is a grasp martial artist who used his superior killing abilities to boost a military and conquer many various territories internationally. When Mikey bought wind of him, he knew he wanted to take him down. At first, Mikey fights and soundly defeats a brutish man who he initially believed to be Loss of life Worm. Nonetheless, after that fighter was rapidly killed by Mikey’s blade (or, extra precisely, Raphael’s), the actual Loss of life Worm offered himself, and provided a way more attention-grabbing and difficult battle. In the long run, Michelangelo was victorious, and as he was leaving, he claimed his prize: the coat worn by the primary ‘Loss of life Worm’.

This problem reveals that the decoy Loss of life Worm was the unique proprietor of the Final Ronin’s now-iconic coat, whereas additionally revealing that Mikey needed to kill him to get it. Whereas that clarification is darker than most tales involving an outfit change, the truth that Mikey took the coat off the corpse of an enemy isn’t even the tip of that proverbial iceberg. The actual darkness lies in what this coat represents, which is simply as necessary as the place the coat got here from. Michelangelo hunted Loss of life Worm internationally, and lots of people needed to die to ensure that Mikey to perform his vengeance-filled mission. When Loss of life Worm was crushed, Michelangelo realized that vengeance is ideal gasoline for victory, and it was at that second when Mikey started his actual quest for revenge: killing the Shredder.

Michelangelo’s Final Ronin coat represents his metamorphosis from a lone survivor of tragedy who longed for peace, to a person on a warpath of vengeance that would solely finish in his demise, whatever the final result. It’s for that cause that Michelangelo’s Final Ronin costume has a darkish secret which means in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles lore.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Final Ronin – The Misplaced Years #5 by IDW Publishing is out there now.