WARNING ! Spoilers for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles # 6Master sliver has been dead for some sentence in the currentTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtlescontinuity , but the Turtle brother ’ father may not be alone gone . The newTMNTseries , which began last year , saw Leo , Raph , Donnie , and Mike distinguish before a novel plan from the Foot brought them together again , but it appear that Splinter may be joining them sooner than later on - perhaps from beyond the grave .

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#6 by Jason Aaron and Juan Ferreyra sees all four brother reunited and working together again after their time aside . The reunion is anything but happy , however , as Raph and Mike are immediately at each other ’s throats .

Perhaps worst of all , Donatellofinds himself hard emaciated after being lost in meter due to a magical spell . His idea seems shatter , as well , as Donnie seems convinced that adead rat he ’s been carrying is actually a reincarnated Splinter .

Comic book art: The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles stare out of Casey Jones' facemask

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#6 by Jason Aaron, Juan Ferreyra, and Shawn Lee

Wanting to be tender to his current state , the other three brothers go along with Donnie ’s delusion . In a minute of frustration , Mike state Donnie the truth : the rat he ’s been carrying around is n’t their father , but merely a random gnawer that Don launch on his traveling . The story then takes an interesting turn , as Donnie fink that he ’s been hearing a spokesperson inside his head - andif it ’s not Master Splinter , fans have to wonder who is communicating with Donatello in this fashion . Perhaps even more intriguingly , therunning narration throughout the issue is revealed to be Splinter .

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“ I beg you will discover my voice , from beyond the veil between human race , ” Splinter say to his four sons , knowing the destiny of New York City is at stake . Now that lover know that Splinter is render to reach his Son from beyond the tomb , it would be leisurely to feign that Donnie has in fact been in tangency with their Father of the Church in some way . But perhaps the God Almighty have something more sinister in thinker , as it ’s potential that thevoice Donnie ’s been hearing does n’t belong to to Splinter , after all , but someone simply pretending to be the Turtles ’ father .

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Who Is the Voice in Donatello’s Head?

Panels fromTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#4 by Jason Aaron, Chris Burnham, Brian Reber, and Shawn Lee

sliver ’s death has stand for a while in the current persistence , since all the way back in 2019’sTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#100 by Kevin Eastman , Tom Waltz , Dave Wachter , Ronda Pattison , and more . Sincethe new era seems to be takinga “ back to basics ” approach by assembling all the classic TMNT bit together in novel , exciting ways , it will be very interesting to see how Splinter will join the unexampled series . It ’s potential that the voice in Donnie ’s head will be unwrap to be Splinter after all , with the Turtles ’ beginner resurrect in coming result . It ’s an challenging enigma presently playing out in the pages ofTeenage Mutant Ninja Turtles .

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles#6is available now from IDW Publishing .

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( TMNT ) is a multi - media enfranchisement that began with Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird ’s cartoon strip in the 1980s . Throughout the years , their comic Quran expanded to movies , TV shows , video games , and toys . Most notably , the animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ran for nearly a decade and has become a nostalgic staple of the ‘ 80s and ‘ 90s . Several other movies have featured the four anthropomorphic turtle buddy ( Leonardo , Michelangelo , Donatello , and Raphael ) , including the trilogy of springy - action films in the ‘ ninety and the more late movies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles : Out of the Shadows .

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TMNT’s Splinter looking evil.

Comic book panels: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles walk through a sewer together while bickering.

Comic book panels: the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles bicker as Donatello speaks to a rat he thinks is Splinter.

Comic book panels: Donatello tells a rat he mistakes for Master Splinter to send a message to his brothers in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #4

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