Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Splinter (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) Splinter, by his students often called Master Splinter, is a fictional character from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media. In both the original comics and the live-action movies, Splinter is the pet rat of a ninja named Hamato Yoshi in Japan. Intelligent for his species, Splinter is able to learn ninjutsu art by mimicking his master's movements while he practiced. Yoshi becomes embroiled in a dispute with a fellow ninja by the name of Oroku Nagi, and is eventually murdered by Nagi's brother, Oroku Saki, who is seeking revenge for his
Splinter (band) about how Mal Evans discovered Splinter and 'Lonely Man' in this the last APPLE film (1974)", Tom Brennan's Splinter Library, 26 November 2011 (retrieved 25 October 2012).</ref> Harrison was impressed with one of their songs, "Lonely Man", which he felt would be ideal for a film he was producing, based on the stage play "Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs". Harrison and his then bride of two weeks Patti Boyd attended the play's opening in 1966. Harrison initially intended to sign Splinter to Apple Records and held sessions at Apple Studio in central London to work on the