I feel like Splinter is like one of the most underrated characters when it comes to angst. I can get Leo's popularity(and especially f!leo) with painful fics cuz he kinda caused the apocalypse and he has severe self-image issues.
But Splinter has layers to his angst like an onion. Guy literally moves to America when he's seven or so, watches his mom "disappear" forever and then forth decided that he will no longer be a ninja because of it, ignores his grandpa's teachings(which could be said to be a metaphor for his culture also), becomes a young actor where he has to fake an American accent when he's on set(definitely experienced racism in the film industry), dates a pretty lady who he wants to marry but as soon as he proposes she reveals that she is a spider lady who doesn't want to marry him but instead wants to use him for her business(the Battle Nexus). He's stuck fighting for god-knows how long until he finally gives up and makes a vow to never fight again. And then, at the lowest of his luck, he gets kidnapped(albeit willingly), captured, and TURNED INTO A RAT. Forever. Did I mention that now he also has kids??? Four of them??? And though, at first, he wanted to take care of these turtles, maybe a few years go by and he just can't. It could be for a multiple of reasons, but soon enough he becomes more and more distant to his sons. And he starts getting, like, really addicted to T.V. commercials(which he used to cope with.... well, everything).
Now he's a pathetic rat man with no culture, no bitches, no friends, the guy is kinda a shell of his old self.
You could pull so many character analyses with this guy because literally anything and everything that has happened to him could be the reason why he's the man you see in the show. He's just such a cool character in that way.
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My 2023 New-to-Me Media Wrap-Up
Movies
History of the World, Part 1 (★★★)
A Man Called Otto (★★★★)
The Beguiled (★★★★)
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (★★★★★)
Everything Everywhere All at Once (★★★★)
Oppenheimer (★★★★★)
Barbie (★★★★★)
Bullet Train (★★★)
Other People (★★★)
A Haunting in Venice (★★★★)
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (★★★★)
Death on the Nile – 2022 (★★★)
Death on the Nile – 2004 (★★★)
The Woman in Black (★★★)
Worth (★★★★)
The Woman in White (★★★★)
Murder on the Orient Express (★★★★★)
Santa Claus is Coming to Town (★★★)
Happiest Season (★★★)
The Other Boleyn Girl (★★★)
Maggie Moore(s) (★★★★★)
T.V. Shows
Ghosts S4-S5 (★★★★★)
Suits S1-S8 (★★★)
The Great S2-S3 (★★★)
The Bear S2 (★★★★★)
Mildred Pierce – Mini-series (★★★)
Fisk S1 (★★★★★)
Call the Midwife S12 (★★★★)
Over the Garden Wall (★★★★★)
Wolf Hall (★★★★★)
Books
Nobody is Ever Missing by Catherin Lacey (★★)
Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman (★★★★)
Beowulf (★★★★)
Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala (★★)
This One Summer by Jillian & Mariko Tamaki (★★★)
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (★★★★)
Zami by Audre Lorde (★★★)
Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (★★★)
Fun Home by Alison Bechdel (★★★)
Othello by William Shakespeare (★★★★)
Dawn by Elie Wiesel (★★★)
Oroonoko by Aphra Behn (★★★)
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston (★★★)
Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen (★★★★)
Clover by Dori Sanders (★★)
Passing by Nella Larson (★★★★)
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow (★★★)
Daisy Miller by Henry James (★★★★)
The Turn of the Screw x2 by Henry James (★★★★)
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde x2 by Robert Louis Stevenson (★★★★)
To a God Unknown by John Steinbeck (★★★)
The Yellow Wallpaper & Other Writings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (★★★★)
How to Stop Time by Matt Haig (★★)
The Living by Annie Dillard (★★★)
Heartstones by Ruth Rendell (★★★)
The Law & the Lady by Wilkie Collins (★★★)
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (★★★★)
Cane by Jean Toomer (★★★★)
Our Dark Academia by Adrienne Raphel (★★)
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie (★★★)
Wieland by Charles Brockden Brown (★★★★★)
The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammet (★★★★)
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler (★★★)
E is for Evidence by Sue Grafton (★)
Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley (★★)
Podcasts
Rehash (★)
Normal Gossip (★★)
Noble Blood (★★★★★)
Lore (★★★)
Fuckbois of Literature (★★★)
Stuff You Missed in History Class (★★★★)
If Books Could Kill (★★★★)
Wilder by Glynnis MacNicol (★★★★★)
Documentaries
Anna Nicole: You Don’t Know Me (★★★)
Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (★★★★)
Defending My Life (★★★★★)
Plays
The Last Living Gun (★★★)
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