Sure enough, when the climactic rooftop confrontation rolls around, Shredder handily dismantles all four Turtles in embarrassingly short order just in time for Splinter to show up. They have a fierce exposition-laden staredown, an unspoken requirement of final ultimate battles, and then Shredder takes his mask off and charges at Splinter from the other side of the roof, bellowing like John Rhys-Davies getting his dick tattooed in a hurricane.
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We're expecting the two of them to collide in a 17-megaton karate-fist explosion powerful enough to spontaneously incinerate every single VHS copy of The Karate Kid on the planet. MC Hammer will probably have to write a whole other rap song just about their fight, in addition to the one he already contributed to the soundtrack, and this was back in 1990, when a statement like that meant adding another $200,000 to your film's budget, as opposed to the airport brunch and "Great Job, Hammer!" sticker it would cost today. However, rather than engage in a tornado of raw martial arts talent that would've reversed the Earth's rotation and sent us all back in time like in Superman: The Movie, Splinter just judo-flips the Shredder right over the lip of the brownstone, dropping him several stories down into a trash compactor where his probably-already-dead body is crushed into jellied oblivion.
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